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The Don Knotts Show

NBC (ended 1971)

The Don Knotts Show hosted by Don Knotts was a short-lived variety show lasting one season. One of the regular segments of the show was called "The Front Porch" in which Don and his guest star would sit in rocking chairs and exchange "life changing philosophies". Executive produced by Nick Vanoff and produced by William O Harbach, Don was able to showcase his comedic talent with a list of regulars including Kenneth Mars, Gary Burghoff and Elaine Joyce. Conducted by Nick Perito and his Orchestra, Don's guest list was a who's who in the entertainment industry.moreless
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The Huntley-Brinkley Report

NBC (ended 1970)

"Good night, Chet." "Good night, David." "And good night, for NBC News."

Anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, The Huntley-Brinkley Report was NBC's evening news program, watched by millions of Americans every night. The Huntley-Brinkley Report was renamed NBC Nightly News in 1970 when Chet Huntley retired.moreless
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The Partners (1971)

NBC (ended 1972)

In a 2004 interview Don Adams described his 1971 creation The Partners as having been Lethal Weapon before there was Lethal Weapon. The series centered on the exploits of a pair of bumbling police detectives, Lennie Crooke and George Robinson - one white, one black. Don Adams himself played Crooke while Oscar nominee Rupert Crosse was cast as Robinson. Other regular characters were their volatile boss Captain Andrews, played by John Doucette, and his punctilious assistant (and Lennie's nemesis) Sgt Higgenbottom, played by Dick Van Patten. The recurring role of compulsive confessor Freddie Butler was played by Don Adams's cousin Robert Karvelas. Adams had intended to use the show as a vehicle for exploring serious social issues but the studio and network insisted on a safer approach thereby condemning it to being dismissed as a copy of Get Smart, the 1965-70 series in which Adams had portrayed Maxwell Smart, a bumbing secret agent. The Partners was cancelled after only 20 episodes had been produced having been soundly beaten in the ratings by the biting All In The Family, suggesting that Adams's original vision had been the correct one. Made by Universal Studios in association with 'don/lee productions' Broadcast History: Sep 1971 - Jan 1972 NBC Sat 8:00-8:30 Jul 1972 - Sep 1972 NBC Fri 8:00-8:30 20 Color Episodes On Film A TV movie, "Confessions of a Top Crimebuster", was compiled from episodes of the series.moreless
184
Gibbsville

NBC (ended 1976)

Jim Malloy is a reporter in a small town in Pennsylvania. Gibbsville, the name of the town and the newspaper Jim works for is a mining town with not a lot going on. Things get interesting when the paper hires a hometown boy who climbed the ladder to stardom as a foreign correspondent with a famous new organization, only to slide all the way back down because of booze.moreless
185
Diana

NBC (ended 1974)

In this half hour comedy, Diana Rigg stars as Diana Smythe, a recent divorcee who left London for New York, where she moved into the apartment of her brother, Roger (he was out of the country) and got a job as a fashion co-ordinator at Buckley's Department Store. In the pilot, the show was originally titled "The Diana Rigg Show" but was then changed to just Diana. Also featured were David Sheiner as Norman Brodnik, her boss: Nanette Fabray as Norman's wife Norma Brodnik in the pilot & then Barbara Barrie in the series, head of the merchandising department: Richard B Shull as co-worker Howard Tolbrook, a copywriter: Robert Moore as window dresser Marshall Tyler: and Carol Androsky as Diana's neighbor Holly Green, a model. Executive producer Leonard Stern from "Get Smart" fame.moreless
186
Hot Dog

NBC (ended 1971)

Saturday morning variety show (originally aired 1970-1971) showed children how things were made, using famous personalities, such as Woody Allen and Jonathan Winters, to make witty and comical remarks about the given subject, such as toothpaste, bowling balls, baseball gloves, etc.moreless
187
Roman Holidays

NBC (ended 1973)

The Roman Holidays tries to do with Bread and Circuses what The Flintstones did with the Stone Age or The Jetsons did with the Space Age (not surprising since Hanna-Barbera is behind the show).

The Holidays are a typical 63 A.D. family--family man Augustus, his wife Laurel, daughter Precocia, son Happius (Happy for short--Happy Holiday...get it?) and their slap-happy pet lion Brutus. They live in the Venus de Milo apartments where landlord Evictus (voiced by Dom DeLuise) tries to get rid of them for having a lion in the house, violating the lease's oft-broken "no pets" clause.

Dave Willock, voice of Augustus, was the narrator on Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races four years earlier. The Roman Holidays ran only one season on NBC's Saturday morning line-up (it was moved to 8:30 AM at mid-season), then re-appeared in replays in 1982 on USA's Cartoon Express on cable. Gold Key published four issues of The Roman Holidays as a comic book, with art by H-B staffers Pete Alvarado and Jack Manning.moreless
188
The Rich Little Show

NBC (ended 1976)

Impressionist Rich Little was the host and star of this comedy variety series. Each episode contained monologues, a number of comedy sketches, and performances by the week's guest stars.
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The Oregon Trail

NBC (ended 1977)

The Oregon Trail was a U.S. western drama series on NBC that was cancelled after only six episodes. All thirteen episodes would eventually be aired on BBC 2 in the U.K.moreless
190
Joe Forrester

NBC (ended 1976)

Joe Forrester looked at the life of a regular cop on the beat, a patrolman who had been working the same district for many years. He felt friendships and information sources he had cultivated were worth more than the comfort of a patrol car or detective status. He occasionally overlooked minor infractions of the law, but was known and respected and trusted by everyone. His girlfriend Georgia Cameron and good buddy Bernie Vincent were always bailing him out of trouble when he chose to help those in dire need.moreless
191
Grady

NBC (ended 1976)

"Grady" was the first of three spin-offs from the highly successful "Sanford and Son" franchise. Grady Wilson, Fred's longtime friend, moves out of his old home in Watts and into his daughter's home in Westwood. Redd Foxx makes a special guest appearance in the second episode. Unfortunately, the series never caught on. After twelve episodes, it was cancelled. Whitman Mayo returned to "Sanford and Son" and would go on to guest star in the revival series "Sanford". Spin-off of: "Sanford and Son"moreless
192
Stop Susan Williams

NBC (ended 1979)

News photographer Susan Williams ventures all over the world on the trail of the conspirators responsible for her brother's murder. This was one of the three segments of the "Cliffhangers" series, so she ends up in deadly peril at the end of each episode.moreless
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Supertrain

NBC (ended 1979)

Considered one of the biggest, most expensive failures in network history, Supertrain was sort of a landlocked version of "The Love Boat." It was an anthology series that followed passengers on an atomic-powered transcontinental train that could go from New York to Los Angeles in 36 hours, with weekly appearances from the crew of the train. The superluxury train offered all of the amenities of an ocean liner, including nightclub, beauty salon, doctor on staff and gymnasium. NBC wanted it to be their big hit of the 1979 spring TV season, but audiences declined quickly despite extensive promotion. It was quickly revamped twice within the show's eight episodes, changing its theme from drama-comedy to mysteries by the end. However, that was not enough to stave off cancellation.moreless
194
The Paul Williams Comedy Show

NBC (ended 1979)

The Paul Williams Comedy Show is a children's variety show from NBC that turns an actor and Academy Award-winning composer into a Martian for about thirty-minutes. It's 1978, and NASA's Viking spaceship has set down on Mars. The National Broadcasting Company reports that aliens landed on earth. Children flock to the NBC studios to see a real-live Martian, but when they get there, what they find is Paul Williams in a poorly made costume. Once the gig is up, Paul sheds his outfit and spends the rest of the half-hour talking to kids about the earth and other interesting science topics. Paul has help from his Martian crew, fictional female astronauts Barbara (Sandra Kerns), Debbie (Dana Hill) and Victoria (Amanda McBroom) and the show's goofy janitor, Virgil Weeks (Earl Doen). Together, the group and the kids discuss photosynthesis, space travel, why the planets have different colors and the difference between the moon and the stars. Paul uses comical sketches to present his science subjects, which always seem to put Virgil's IQ on the spot.moreless
195
Thunder

NBC (ended 1978)

Adventures of the black stallion 'Thunder' and his two young companions Cindy and Willie Williams who, "get into tight spots caused by others' misdeeds and thoughtlessness." The opening show found the three facing a forest fire started by a prankster. Over the next few weeks the kids and their amazingly intelligent horse were held hostage by escaped criminals, meet a kindly prospector who poisoned Cindy's dog, tangled with a rodeo stage mom, made friends with an angry lioness and Willie got hit with a stray bullet.moreless
196
The Psychiatrist

NBC (ended 1971)

Roy Thinnes was appealing and convincing as a serious young psychiatrist in the six episodes of this 1971 series. Luther Adler played Thinnes' mentor. "The Psychiatrist" was one of four hour-long series making up "Four in One". The other series were "McCloud" with Dennis Weaver, "Rod Serling's Night Gallery", and "San Francisco International Airport" with Lloyd Bridges and Clu Gulager. Roy Thinnes was thirty-two years old when this series was made. This was his third prime time series after playing Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer" (1965-66) and David Vincent in Quinn Martin's "The Invaders" (1967-68). Executive producer Norman Felton ("Dr. Kildare", "The Man From Uncle") was updating his previous superb psychiatry series "The Eleventh Hour" (1962-64). Roy Thinnes had guest starred in a strong episode of "The Eleventh Hour" about family therapy along with Angela Lansbury, Martin Balsam, Tuesday Weld, and Don Grady. Twenty-eight year old Jerrold Freedman was the ambitious producer of "The Psychiatrist". Freedman now writes novels under the name J. F. Freedman, and is hoping to have one of his detective novels turned into a TV movie. The creators of "The Psychiatrist" were Richard Levinson and William LInk ("Columbo"). Steven Spielberg (at 24) brilliantly directed two of the six episodes. One of Spielberg's episodes was about a troubled 12-year old boy and the other was about a young golfer (Clu Gulager) dying of cancer. It would be a fine footnote to film history if Spielberg's two dazzling episodes of "The Psychiatrist" were captured on DVD. The other four episodes of "The Psychiatrist" also had talented directors: Daryl Duke ("Payday", "The Thorn Birds"), Jeff Corey, Douglas Day Stewart, and producer Jerrold Freedman ("A Cold Night's Death"). Joe Alves, Jr. was the art director of "The Psychiatrist". Alves went on to be art director of "The Sugarland Express" and production designer of "Jaws" and "Close Enounters of the Third Kind".moreless
197
Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

NBC (ended 1978)

Richie Brockelman, Private Eye was a spinoff of "The Rockford Files" that focused on Richard "Richie" Brockelman, a young, wet-behind-the-ears detective. After some guidance from Jim Rockford, he heads for his hometown of Miami to solve cases.moreless
198
Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers

NBC (ended 1970)

Weekly hour-long summer replacement series for "The Dean Martin Show" that first premiered in 1968, aired again in Dean's Thursday night time slot in 1969, and once more in 1970 under the title "Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers In London", reflecting the program's shift of locales from Burbank, California to England, and the fact that the 1970 incarnation of the series was broadcast not only in the U.S.A. on NBC, but also in shorter episodic form in the U.K.moreless
199
Grandpa Goes to Washington

NBC (ended 1979)

Joe Kelley was a popular and outspoken professor of political science at a California university who, at age 66, was forced to retire. When a pair of candidates for the U.S. Senate were tarnished by scandal, Kelley jumped into the race--despite his lack of political experience--and won the election. Moving to Washington, D.C., Senator Kelley used his particularly honest and down-to-earth style to make his country a better place, despite the interference of his bumbling son Kevin, an Air Force general.moreless
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The McLean Stevenson Show

NBC (ended 1977)

Short-lived sitcom starring McLean Stevenson as Mac Ferguson, a hardware store owner living with his wife, Peggy; Peggy's mother; his adult son, Chris; his divorced daughter, Janet; and Janet's sons, David and Jason.

Cancelled after 13 episodes.moreless
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