Monday, January 23, 2012
1975: Meet Barney Miller
There's a new ABC sitcom starting tonight 1975, and it appears it's going to be a delightfully romantic romp about an Erma Bombeckish housewife and her droll police-officer husband.
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Eric, if they had gotten a more charismatic and likeable woman to play the wife, do you think that show would have gone in a different direction?
ReplyDeleteI think Barbara Barrie is so totally hot.
ReplyDeleteLet's see if that sentence gets the HP some traffic from the Barbara Barrie fan sites!
ReplyDeleteStamping Ground!
ReplyDeleteThe creators moved the show in the right direction. Do you want to compete with Bob Newhart or do something that is completely different.
ReplyDeleteThe Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld are two others that look dramatically different in their stride than they did in Episode 1.
DeleteI thought she was just terrible -- one of the worst actresses I ever saw in a major part.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, this conversation that reminds me that I spent most of the 1990's listening to WTEM, and that I probably heard Andy Pollan make at least six or seven references to the fact that he found Gabe Kaplan's wife on "Welcome Back, Kotter" to be very attractive.
You're whacked. Barbara Barrie is a stone-cold delight.
ReplyDeleteI was totally correct here.
DeleteLiving Jim Rockford's life would be so unnerving.
ReplyDeleteJanuary 1975 marks the one-year anniversary of work on Born to Run at the Record Plant in Blauvelt, N.Y. Only six more months to go ...
ReplyDeleteI knew nothing of Suki Lahav before today.
On Saturday, January 25, 1975, Kentucky rolled over Florida 87-65 behind 26 points from Kevin Grevey. The 1975 Cats are 13-2 overall and 6-1 in the SEC. Up next, the number 11 Cats travel to Nashville to take on the Dores.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that game pre-empted the Jan. 25, 1975, Police Woman, in which Angie Dickinson goes undercover as go-go dancer "Flaxee Dupree," or if Channel 6 showed it on delayed telecast after the 10:30 news ("if you're planning to watch the game, please turn away from the screen").
ReplyDeleteSince it was a Saturday game, it was almost certainly played in the daytime.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, per that day's Middlesboro Daily News, it was an evening tip that Lexington's WKYT Channel 13, a CBS affiliate, would be showing on tape delay. The NBC affiliate available to local viewers, WLEX 8 also out of Lexington, appears to be showing a live basketball game this Saturday evening (instead of Angie Dickinson's Flaxee Dupree performance), but it doesn't indicate whether it was the UK game.
ReplyDeleteChannel 6 rolled with Flaxee Dupree in prime time and Joe B. and Grevey on tape delay.
DeleteYeah, now that I think about it, I was totally wrong. They used to play a lot of Saturday games at night unless they were on network or regional TV.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, January 27th, the Cats played a humdinger of a game down in Nashville. The Commodores, who were the defending SEC champs, benefited from their usual home-cooking -- Vandy shot 39 free throws while UK shot 18. But the Cats out-rebounded Vandy 50-40 and won 91-90 behind 27 points from Kevin Grevey and 18 points from Jimmy Dan Conner.
ReplyDeleteThe Cats' record improved to 14-2 overall and 7-1 in the SEC. When the next AP Poll came out, UK was all the way up to number 5 in the country.
In delaying the UK-Florida game on Saturday night, Jan. 25, 1975, WKYT viewers got to watch the second Jeffersons episode, "George's Family Tree," something of a sitcom take on Roots, two years before the ABC miniseries.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, on Jan. 24, 1975, ABC debuted another sitcom. Does Norman Lear have another edgy winner on his hands?
ReplyDeleteIn January 1975, we're getting very close to the point where the culture is going to start tipping from 1960's-style liberalism to 1980's-style conservatism. I think the failure of "Hot L Baltimore" was a sign that at that time, the culture was not yet ready to go any further to the left.
ReplyDeleteJan. 25, 1975: I would so love to watch the Three Stooges on an episode of "Celebrity Soccer."
ReplyDeleteThe HP needs to be doing some commercials on YouTube like these for The Sun from February 1975.
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