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The TV Shows of 1975
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TV Show: Saturday Night Live ( 1975 )
Saturday Night Live is an Emmy Award-winning late-night comedy showcase.Since its inception in 1975, "SNL" has launched the careers of many of the brightest comedy performers of their generation. As The New York Times noted on the occasion of the show's Emmy-winning 25th Anniversary special in 1999, "in defiance of both time and show business convention, 'SNL' is still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." At the close of the century, "Saturday Night Live" placed seventh on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 100 Entertainers of the past fifty years.
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TV Show: Wonder Woman ( 1975 )
A colorful spin on Charles Moulton's comic about the Amazon goddess battling evil during World War II and later, in more recent times, against new enemies. The change came after the series jumped from ABC to CBS, with the heroine joining a covert military agency. Wonder Woman began as two TV-movies (the first in 1974 with Cathy Lee Crosby) and several specials before finding a regular prime-time home in late 1976. Debra Winger appeared occasionally as Drusilla, Wonder Woman's kid sister.
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TV Show: One Day at a Time ( 1975 )
The struggles of a 1970s single mother raising two teenage daughters gets its first TV slot with this instant hit sitcom.
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TV Show: Starsky & Hutch ( 1975 )
Produced by Aaron Spelling, Starsky & Hutch roared onto small screens in 1975 to become one of the most popular, iconic series of the decade. This was TV's coolest buddy cop show, fueled by full-throttle car chases, offbeat humor, colorful characters and a hip vibe.
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TV Show: Space: 1999 ( 1975 )
It's 1999 and Moonbase Alpha has been built on the Moon to safeguard the nuclear waste shipped from Earth. On September 13, 1999, disaster strikes and the nuclear waste explodes, causing a chain reaction that hurls the Moon out of Earth's orbit and into deep space.
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TV Show: The Jeffersons ( 1975 )
Set in a high-rise apartment building in the heart of New York City, the show spun around George, a classic character portrait of vanity, arrogance, and petty prejudice. Balanced by the more level-headed but just as strong-willed Weezy, George's self-serving abrasiveness struck comic gold, particularly in the second season, when the show's style had been set but was still fresh. Episodes tackled subjects trivial (George and Tom wear the same tacky dinner jacket to a party) and trenchant (a country club invites George to join, but only so that a newspaper reporter will think the club is open to minorities). The black and white mix of the cast allowed for a sharply satirical take on race relations, which managed to have a genuine sense of hope while never glossing over the complexity of racial tension--and was consistently funny. In fact, it's striking how well the show's humor holds up; The Jeffersons turned a series of half-hour farces into a sly examination of marriage, race, class, and the battle of the sexes; it's sad that so few contemporary sitcoms have this kind of intelligence, courage, and sheer talent.
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TV Show: Welcome Back, Kotter ( 1975 )
A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.
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TV Show: Fawlty Towers ( 1975 )
Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.
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TV Show: The Good Life ( 1975 )
Tom and Barbara Good are a middle class suburban couple who on Tom's 40th birthday decide to turn their Surbiton home into a self-sufficient allotment. They grow their own food, keep farm animals and have sold or bartered all of their electrical appliances as they have no electricity. This creates friction with their best friends and next door neighbours, Jerry and Margo Leadbetter. But even though the Goods have lowered the tone of the neighbourhood in the Leadbetter's eyes they still can't help but be best of friends.
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TV Show: S.W.A.T. ( 1975 )
Featuring the missions of the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons and Tactics team, a team of highly trained and heavily armed police officers whose purpose is to make coordinated assaults on armed and dangerous criminals in sensitive situations and defensible locations.
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TV Show: Phyllis ( 1975 )
Phyllis was an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1975-1977.
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TV Show: Poldark ( 1975 )
Romantic TV drama series set in 1780s Cornwall. The story begins when Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to claim his inheritance and marry his fiancée, Elizabeth. However, during his two year absence, false reports of Poldark's death have been circulated, and Elizabeth has found comfort in the arms of another.
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TV Show: Good Morning America ( 1975 )
Good Morning America is a two-hour, live program anchored by Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan. Lara Spencer is the entertainmnt anchor, and Ginger Zee is the chief meteorologist. 
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TV Show: Ryan's Hope ( 1975 )
Ryan's Hope was a weekday soap opera that aired on ABC from 1975-1989. The series follows a large Irish-American family in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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TV Show: Baretta ( 1975 )
Baretta is an undercover cop in the Serpico mode. Like your standard TV-issue rule-bending loner cop, he butts heads with his excitable superior (veteran character actor Dana Elcar of MacGuyver and Baa Baa Black Sheep fame). He lives in the run-down King Edwards Motel with his scene-stealing pet cockatoo. With its ersatz funky score, Baretta is time-capsule '70s television. And, as Baretta was fond of saying, you can take that to the bank.
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TV Show: Ellery Queen ( 1975 )
In this adaptation of the mystery novels of the authors who wrote under the pen name Ellery Queen, 1940s amateur sleuth Ellery Queen helps his father, the chief of police, to solve baffling crimes. Each episode concludes with a "challenge to the viewers" presented by Ellery himself, asking who they think that the killer is. Ellery then gathers all the suspects and presents his case, and identifies the killer.
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TV Show: Survivors ( 1975 )
A handful of survivors struggle to stay alive in the wake of a global disaster.
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TV Show: The Secrets of ISIS ( 1975 )
The Secrets of ISIS, originally broadcast as Isis, was an American live-action superhero television series that aired from 1975 to 1977 for CBS's Saturday morning lineup. In the series, Isis (Joanna Cameron) is the alter ego of Andrea Thomas, a seemingly normal schoolteacher, who transforms into the Egyptian goddess when presented with crises a mere mortal cannot resolve.
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TV Show: Switch ( 1975 )
Pete Ryan is a smooth-talking con man, and bunco cop Frank MacBride is the man who put him away. When Pete gets out and Frank retires, they decide to form a detective agency using their knowledge of crime and cons to take down the bad guys. Helping them are their secretary Maggie and Pete's shady acquaintance, Malcolm.
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TV Show: Matt Helm ( 1975 )
Matt Helm, a retired spy, opens a private detective business.
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TV Show: The Invisible Man ( 1975 )
1970s sci-fi adventure, inspired by the H.G. Wells story The Invisible Man. It starred David McCallum as Dr. Daniel Westin, who after finding out that his experiments into invisiblity were going to be used for military purposes, he destroys his lab and records - leaving him permanantly invisible and on the run.
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TV Show: Angels ( 1975 )
Angels was a British television drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was once described as the "Z-Cars of nursing".It was the one of the first medical soaps to concentrate more or less exclusively on the nurses rather than the doctors, and is now seen as the direct predecessor to shows such as Casualty and Holby City.
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TV Show: Swiss Family Robinson ( 1975 )
In this adaptation of the famous novel, the Robinsons are stranded on a deserted island in the Pacific. They must create a new life for themselves with little hope of rescue, and deal with pirates and hostile natives.
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TV Show: The New Tom & Jerry Show ( 1975 )
After years of fighting, and continuously trying to do each other in, Tom & Jerry have called truce, and are now best friends in this new installment, The New Tom & Jerry Show. This cartoon is a more gentle, and non-violent show. Jerry had a new look, with his red bow tie on. They go on new adventures together through the world of sports, villains, and more. Like in the original show, Tom & Jerry don't speak in this one. The show was cut up in three short 10-minute episodes. It wasn't as popular as its predecessor, but it is still remembered by its creators, and, of course, its fans. The New Tom & Jerry Show was a cartoon comedy that was first telecast on September 6, 1975. Its last first-run telecast was December 13, 1975. Sixteen color episodes were aired. THEME SONG Set your dial for a while! Have a laugh, wear a smile! It's The Tom & Jerry Show! You'll begin with a grin When
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TV Show: Barbary Coast ( 1975 )
Jeff Cable is an undercover agent patrolling the wild streets of 1880s San Francisco. Filled with casinos and saloons, this bustling slice of post–Gold Rush California runs on corruption, greed, and violence. It's Agent Cable's job to crack down on the numerous criminals who have made a home there.
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TV Show: Far Out Space Nuts ( 1975 )
Junior and Barney are a couple of NASA Food Specialists, whose job is to load the astronauts' food in the correct compartment on the spacecraft. But when Junior presses the ‘Launch' button instead of the ‘Lunch' button, the two bumbling heroes blast off into space and the universe will never be the same.
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TV Show: Donny & Marie ( 1976 )
A variety show featuring the Donny and Marie Osmond.
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TV Show: Wheel of Fortune ( 1983 )
Contestants guess hidden phrases by guessing letters one at a time. Contestants win money or prizes, as determined by a spin of the wheel, for each correct consonant they guess. But they have to pay to see what vowels are in a puzzle. The contestant that has amassed the most winnings at the end of a game goes on to play the bonus round, in which the player can win even more -- prizes frequently seen in the bonus round include automobiles, vacations and more cash.