And college football is ready to roll ...
And baseball is approaching its playoffs ...
And Wes Parker is on tonight 1970's Brady Bunch ...
And Dan Issel is in town ...
But the big deal this freakin' weekend for Hoptown 1970 me is that the new TV Guide has the 411 on the very, very promising slate of new shows for the fall season:
-- The Don Knotts Show, NBC Sept. 15 debut;
-- Four-In-One, NBC, Sept. 16 debut;
-- Storefront Lawyers, CBS, Sept. 16 debut;
-- The Flip Wilson Show, NBC, Sept. 17 debut;
-- Nancy, NBC, Sept. 17 debut;
-- Headmaster, CBS, Sept. 18 debut;
-- Arnie, CBS, Sept. 19 debut;
-- The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS, Sept. 19 debut;
-- The Young Rebels, ABC, Sept. 20 debut;
-- The Tim Conway Show, CBS, Sept. 20 debut;
-- NFL Monday Night Football, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- The Young Lawyers, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- The Silent Force, ABC, Sept. 21 debut;
-- Dan August, ABC, Sept. 23 debut;
-- Make Room for Granddaddy, ABC, Sept. 23 debut;
-- The Odd Couple, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- Matt Lincoln, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- Barefoot in the Park, ABC, Sept. 24 debut;
-- The Immortal, CBS, Sept. 24 debut;
-- The Partridge Family, ABC, Sept. 25 debut, and
-- The Most Deadly Game, ABC, Oct. 10 debut.
ABC looks especially strong!
I wonder what the circumstances were in which Elton John ended up writing the last verse of "Border Song," and I wonder what Bernie Taupin thought when he got back from lunch or whatever and heard it:
ReplyDeleteHoly Moses I have been removed
I have seen the spectre he has been here too
Distant cousin from down the line
Brand of people who ain't my kind
Holy Moses I have been removed
Holy Moses I have been deceived
Now the wind has changed direction and I'll have to leave
Won't you please excuse my frankness but it's not my cup of tea
Holy Moses I have been deceived
I'm going back to the border
Where my affairs, my affairs ain't abused
I can't take any more bad water
Been poisoned from my head down to my shoes
Holy Moses I have been deceived
Holy Moses let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there
What's his colour I don't care
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
He's my brother let us live in peace
A simply mesmerizing dance performance to live James Brown "Super Bad," on a presumably pre-syndication Soul Train on Chicago's WCIU on a late-1970 weekday afternoon.
ReplyDeleteYou might think I stay stuck in the past, my head buried in the sand of 1970 on YouTube. But I'll have you know that, at this very moment, I'm working to something that's on real TV in the right here right now. The 1972 Imogene Coca episode has kicked off today's Hallmark Channel Brady Bunch triple play.
ReplyDeleteWell, that was refreshing.
DeleteGetting together
ReplyDeleteAll that you could ask
The kick of adventure
A quiet moment
to share a song
That's part, part of the fun
of li-i-ife!
We've got a lot to share
Let's get together
Let's get together
We've got a lot to share
These are the lyrics for the ABC fall 1970 preview reel.
DeleteI've been driving my wife and daughter nuts singing and dancing to this song around the house all week. "Let's get to-geeeeeeeee-ther/let's get to-geeeeeeee-ther ..."
DeleteOK, the new Monday nights on ABC ... The Young Lawyers, The Silent Force and NFL Monday Night Football ... not much here except the big ... "the greatest teams in the newly combined in the AFL/NFL National Football League will be playing regularly scheduled games under the lights every Monday night" ... man, that is exciting!
ReplyDeleteDebuting Sept. 19, 1970 ...
ReplyDeleteI really wonder if the Mary Tyler Moore writers named Mary's boyfriend "Bill," because of "Wedding Bell Blues," the Laura Nyro song that the Fifth Dimension had crooned to No. 1 in fall 1969.
ReplyDeleteThe Young Rebels ...
ReplyDeleteHere's the charming Arnie Christmas episode. Herschel Bernardi is HUGE in 1970.
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