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the first 5 years of All In The Family was the best combination of acting, casting, writing, directing, i've ever seen.
some others:
three's company: jack tripper was so good at being a clown
sanford and son: redd foxx was so good at being redd foxx
different strokes: great show
mash: great show, great cast, etc.
the jeffersons: great cast, great acting, etc.
maude: gotta love maude and adrienne's bodacious ta ta's
chico and the man: this show had potential
tell me yours, lane
DallasEast
06-24-2005, 10:19 PM
the first 5 years of All In The Family was the best combination of acting, casting, writing, directing, i've ever seen.
some others:
three's company: jack tripper was so good at being a clown
sanford and son: redd foxx was so good at being redd foxx
different strokes: great show
mash: great show, great cast, etc.
the jeffersons: great cast, great acting, etc.
maude: gotta love maude and adrienne's bodacious ta ta's
chico and the man: this show had potential
tell me yours, lane
Good Times.
Dy-no-mite!!!
CowboysFan02
06-24-2005, 10:22 PM
the first 5 years of All In The Family was the best combination of acting, casting, writing, directing, i've ever seen.
some others:
three's company: jack tripper was so good at being a clown
sanford and son: redd foxx was so good at being redd foxx
different strokes: great show
mash: great show, great cast, etc.
the jeffersons: great cast, great acting, etc.
maude: gotta love maude and adrienne's bodacious ta ta's
chico and the man: this show had potential
tell me yours, lane
Weeeelll I wasnt alive back then. :cool: But just going by reruns and the DVD Mash would have to be may favorite. Well post Trapper, I liked BJ but not Trapper.
Good Times.
Dy-no-mite!!!
yes indeed, good times was great. i loved john amos. hell yea!
Weeeelll I wasnt alive back then. :cool: But just going by reruns and the DVD Mash would have to be may favorite. Well post Trapper, I liked BJ but not Trapper.
you lucky i like you.
:wink2:
ROMOSAPIEN9
06-24-2005, 10:47 PM
All in The Family
What's Happening
Good Times
Happy Days
The Jefferson's
Bob Newhart
Mary Tyler Moore
Phyllis
Rhoda
Welcome Back Kotter
The White Shadow
Just a few of my faves, as I was just a wee lad.
All in The Family
What's Happening
Good Times
Happy Days
The Jefferson's
Bob Newhart
Mary Tyler Moore
Phyllis
Rhoda
Welcome Back Kotter
The White Shadow
Just a few of my faves, as I was just a wee lad.
how in the F did i forget Happy Days?
how in the F did i forget Welcome Back Kotter?
Duane
06-24-2005, 11:03 PM
Soap
Taxi
blindzebra
06-24-2005, 11:04 PM
Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy the spin offs from Happy Days.
The Dukes of Hazzard and BJ and the Bear.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
ROMOSAPIEN9
06-24-2005, 11:05 PM
Soap
Taxi
Plus one!
ROMOSAPIEN9
06-24-2005, 11:07 PM
Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy the spin offs from Happy Days.
The Dukes of Hazzard and BJ and the Bear.
I used to LOVE Mork & Mindy......I remember hating football practise only because I was missing Mork & Mindy....UUUUGH!
DLK150
06-24-2005, 11:47 PM
All In the Family
Maude
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Good Times
The Bob Newhart Show
The Odd Couple
Sanford and Son
WKRP In Cincinnati
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Mork and Mindy
Though not a sitcom, the Carol Burnett Show had some of the best comedy on tv.
ROMOSAPIEN9
06-24-2005, 11:50 PM
WKRP = UNDERATED!
Good call DLK!
All In the Family
Maude
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MASH
Good Times
The Bob Newhart Show
The Odd Couple
Sanford and Son
WKRP In Cincinnati
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Mork and Mindy
Though not a sitcom, the Carol Burnett Show had some of the best comedy on tv.
the carol burnett show indeed was hilarious. watching tim and harvey try to not break face was priceless.
jamez25
06-25-2005, 01:07 AM
no show ever made me laugh more then "The Jeffersons"......others on my list would be:
WKRP - the turkey episode is an absolute classic
Alice
One Day At A Time- I still have a huge crush on Valerie Bertinelli
Family Ties-dun know if it is in the 70's but Alex P. Keaton was funny as hell
silverbear
06-25-2005, 01:56 AM
Taxi... the show where they took Reverend Jim down to get his hack license contained the funniest 3 minutes in the history of television:
Rev Jim (whispering): "What does a yellow light mean??"
Bobby: "Slow down"
Rev Jim: "Whaaat... does... aaaa... yel-low... light... meaan?"
Bobby: "Slow down"
Rev Jim (looking exasperated): "Whaaaaaaat... doeeeeessss... aaaaaa... yell-looow... liiiiiighhhtttt... meaaaaaannnn??"
About the 4th time they repeated this schtick, with Ignatowski REALLY drawing it out, I was on the floor...
WKRP in Cincinnati... I agreed with Johnny Fever, I had a huge crush on Bailey...
Mork and Mindy... their first ever episode just destroyed me, I'd never heard of Robin Williams, and his improvisational insanity broke me up...
MASH... one of the better "dramedies" in television history... not as howlingly funny as either the book or the movie, but it was better overall...
Soap... that show made TV stars out of a lot of different folks... it was pretty risque for its time...
The Mary Tyler Moore Show... a great ensemble cast... Ed Asner as Lou Grant always broke me up:
Lou: "You've got spunk"
Mary: "Gee, thanks"
Lou: "I hate spunk"...
Those might have been six of the best sitcoms ever...
SkinsandTerps
06-25-2005, 02:27 AM
I am actually more interested in a list from the '80's.
Although I do remember changing the channel whenever MASH came on, along with WKRP.
Taxi had its moments.
Alice was great for the times.
Three's Company was cutting edge for the times.
Mork and Mindy was great.
MTM was very funny.
Soap was kinda like 3rd Rock for the times. Never watched either much.
Alice. Flo - "Kiss my Grits". Great.
Happy Days was very good, even Pat Morita was on it.
The Jefferson was funny but started to get a little stale.
Good Times was very funny until the tried to get dramatic all the time.
Sanford and Son, Red Foxx enough said.
I watched the Odd Couple religiously.
I remember Maude being on just never really watched it.
The Brady Bunch was great, reminds me for some reason though of watching Leave it to Beaver in the afternoon.
Welcome Back Kotter - Vinnie Barbarino.
Laverne and Shirley . Eh, Okay.
Duke of Hazzard always reminded me of Smokey and the Bandit in a good way.
Diff'rent Strokes, Whatchu Talkin' 'Bout Willis
Some other that I may or may not have watched....
Silver Spoons.
Eight is enough (Or is that 80's)
The show is Rerun, Raj, Dwayne and Big Shirley ?
Yeagermeister
06-25-2005, 07:09 AM
Taxi
Soap
Carol Burnett - I still laugh when I watch it
The Jeffersons
Sanford and Son
Three's Company - Mr Roper mugging in to the camera was always classic
MTM
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Mork and Mindy
The so called sitcoms of today can't hold a candle to these classics.
Chief
06-25-2005, 08:07 AM
There were only three that I liked during that decade:
1. MASH: Has to be the old episodes. Henry Blake, Trapper and Frank Burns were funny. BJ, Potter and Winchester were not. It was like night and day. The series pretty much ended for me when Blake died in the plane crash.
2. All in the Family: Just a classic, ground-breaking show.
3. Taxi: The prelude to Cheers and the other clever, well-written sitcoms that were to come in the 1980s.
Yeagermeister
06-25-2005, 08:37 AM
1. MASH: Has to be the old episodes. Henry Blake, Trapper and Frank Burns were funny. BJ, Potter and Winchester were not. It was like night and day. The series pretty much ended for me when Blake died in the plane crash.
For me it's the opposite. I couldn't stand Blake and love Potter.
DallasEast
06-25-2005, 09:07 AM
One Day At A Time- I still have a huge crush on Valerie BertinelliI hate to admit it, but I still do to. I remember seeing her on Touched By An Angel and she had gained a lot of weight, but the feeling was still there. So, it must be real! :p:
blindzebra
06-25-2005, 12:09 PM
For me it's the opposite. I couldn't stand Blake and love Potter.
The problem with the later shows was they lost their edge, and ran out of story lines.
Early you had the silliness of Blake.
The dual bad guys in Frank and Hot Lips.
The bit parts of Klinger and the Padre.
The bond of Trapper and Hawkeye.
The heart and soul of the show, in Radar.
The later shows had a fatherly Potter.
A pompous Winchester and a lame Hot Lips.
A major role for Klinger.
An almost parody of a friendship between BJ and Hawkeye.
No Radar.
It sadly went on far too long, Potter for Blake or BJ for Trapper it could have survived, but not having Frank, the softening of Hot Lips, and swapping Radar for Klinger killed it, IMO.
StonetheCrow77
06-25-2005, 02:28 PM
I wasn't born until 77, so I don't have a clue about some of these...
as far as reruns...
Mash
Sanford and Sons
Three's Company
Charlie's Angels
and maybe not 70's, but The Fall Guy...
Hostile
06-25-2005, 02:50 PM
M*A*S*H was one of my all time favorite shows. It had everything.
Taxi was just hysterical. Silverbear, I remember that scene and agree, it was great.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Ted Baxter is one of the all time great TV characters.
The Carol Burnett Show was the funniest.
The Dean Martin celebrity roasts were hilarious.
All in the Family was classic.
The Red Skelton Show was always fun.
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson is still the king of talk shows.
Irving Cowboy
06-26-2005, 02:03 AM
Taxi was just hysterical. Silverbear, I remember that scene and agree, it was great.
That episode that was mentioned above and the one where Louie picked up some kid who took all his money by betting him on different things... finally the kid made a bet with him and if he won the bet he could drive the cab. Well of course the kid won and scoots over to Louie's seat and the first thing he does is pulls out the pillow that Louie had been sitting on saying "I don't need this pillow" and the look on Louie's face...
All in the Family was classic.
By far my favorite... my wife just sent me season 4 to watch out here. Every day I try and watch a new episode out of the first three seasons I have already. I was dying the other day when Archie explained how and why God cursed women with menstruation... or, as Gloria called it, God's "mistake". Archie says "Hey, HEY! God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God...". Then he goes on to say "Adam and Eve, they had it pretty soft there in paradise, they didn't even know they was naked... then one day, Even told poor Adam to eat that apple, God got sore at 'em, told them to put their clothes on and get the hell out of his garden... "
Qwickdraw
06-26-2005, 03:25 AM
No doubt...
Sanford and Son
"Whattaya want, ya big dummy?!"
jterrell
06-26-2005, 06:44 AM
Different Strokes and Good Times.
I was too young to get Archie Bunker but family watched it.
Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were 60's shows that just stretched into the 70's right? I watched a ton of epidsodes of each but it seems they were all reruns.
Hostile
06-26-2005, 08:09 AM
That episode that was mentioned above and the one where Louie picked up some kid who took all his money by betting him on different things... finally the kid made a bet with him and if he won the bet he could drive the cab. Well of course the kid won and scoots over to Louie's seat and the first thing he does is pulls out the pillow that Louie had been sitting on saying "I don't need this pillow" and the look on Louie's face...
By far my favorite... my wife just sent me season 4 to watch out here. Every day I try and watch a new episode out of the first three seasons I have already. I was dying the other day when Archie explained how and why God cursed women with menstruation... or, as Gloria called it, God's "mistake". Archie says "Hey, HEY! God don't make no mistakes, that's how he got to be God...". Then he goes on to say "Adam and Eve, they had it pretty soft there in paradise, they didn't even know they was naked... then one day, Even told poor Adam to eat that apple, God got sore at 'em, told them to put their clothes on and get the hell out of his garden... "I watched the episode with Sammy Davis Jr. last night and laughed just as hard as the first time I saw it. The look on Archie's face when Sammy kisses him on the cheek is priceless.
Irving Cowboy
06-26-2005, 09:50 AM
I watched the episode with Sammy Davis Jr. last night and laughed just as hard as the first time I saw it. The look on Archie's face when Sammy kisses him on the cheek is priceless.
Yep... did you know that episode is in the Guiness Book of World Records as the longest continuous laugh of a live studio audience in television history??
"Excuse me, Mr. Davis... but do you take cream & sugar in your eye?" :)
Irving Cowboy
06-26-2005, 09:59 AM
Different Strokes and Good Times.
I was too young to get Archie Bunker but family watched it.
Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley were 60's shows that just stretched into the 70's right? I watched a ton of epidsodes of each but it seems they were all reruns.
No, Happy Days started up in the early 70's... I used to like that show but not as much as I liked Taxi and All in the Family...
I know this is about sitcoms, but my favorite all time shows during the 70's where Emergency! (which just happens to come out on DVD on August 23, my birthday) and the Six Million Dollar Man. How many of us ran around making those silly bionic sounds every time we lifted a rock or broke a pencil?
Yeagermeister
06-26-2005, 10:41 AM
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson is still the king of talk shows
And will always be the best
Kangaroo
06-26-2005, 04:01 PM
Man you guys left off Starky and Hutch :bang2:
Sitting Bull
06-26-2005, 06:29 PM
Mark me down for the old Bob Newhart Show. Howard Borden (and his brother, Warden Gordon Borden) killed me on that show. When it's my deal on poker night, I always call out at least one game of 5-card Sneeho...
TruBlueCowboy
06-27-2005, 08:38 AM
There were only three that I liked during that decade:
3. Taxi: The prelude to Cheers and the other clever, well-written sitcoms that were to come in the 1980s.
I agree with that. As someone whose TV memories start in the 80's, I always thought Taxi was one of those timeless sitcoms that reminded me more of the comedy revolution that began with SNL.
jackrussell
06-27-2005, 07:48 PM
The dual bad guys in Frank and Hot Lips.
Hot Lips cons everyone into throwing a surprise party for Frank.
Hot Lips- "You see Frank, they all LOVE you!!!!"
Frank- It was their hate that fooled me."
Soap- when Burt thought he could make himself invisible.
Taxi- MariLu Henner :gent: o yeah
Hostile
06-27-2005, 08:20 PM
I forgot one of my favorites. I loved Barney Miller.
One of my favorite episodes was when Wojo's girlfriend made hash laced brownies and Yamana was high as a kite.
Barney comes over and asks him how many he ate and he motions him in close then whispers in his ear, "mushi, mushi."
I also loved how Fish talked about feeling good for the 1st time in years.
DLK150
06-27-2005, 11:20 PM
I forgot one of my favorites. I loved Barney Miller.
One of my favorite episodes was when Wojo's girlfriend made hash laced brownies and Yamana was high as a kite.
Barney comes over and asks him how many he ate and he motions him in close then whispers in his ear, "mushi, mushi."
I also loved how Fish talked about feeling good for the 1st time in years.
I had forgotten about Barney Miller, but I remember that episode as well. I can see Yemana when he was saying that, with his lips pursed up when he said it. :)
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