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10 One-Season TV Shows From the 1970s You Might Actually Remember

They came, they disappeared, but somehow we never completely forgot them. From Search and The Magician to Kolchak: The Night Stalker and…

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The Detective Shows That Took Over Television in the 1970s

From Columbo’s rumpled raincoat and Kojak’s lollipop to Jim Rockford’s Firebird and Barnaby Jones’ quiet determination, detectives seemed to be everywhere on…

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Before Reality TV: The Wild World of 1970s Game Shows

Before reality TV, there were game shows—colorful, unpredictable and sometimes wonderfully chaotic. From *Match Game* and *The Price Is Right* to *Let’s…

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“Walking Distance”: The Twilight Zone Episode That Understood Our Longing for the Past

What if you could walk back into the town of your childhood and find everything exactly as you remembered it? In The…

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Search: The Forgotten 1970s Spy Series That Predicted the Future

Long before smartphones, wireless earbuds and wearable cameras, Search imagined secret agents connected to a futuristic command center that could see and…

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Land of the Lost: The Saturday Morning Adventure That Was Stranger Than We Remember

Step back into Saturday mornings of the 1970s with Land of the Lost, the unforgettable adventure filled with dinosaurs, Sleestaks, mysterious pylons…

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10 Greatest TV Theme Songs of the 1980s

From Knight Rider and Miami Vice to Cheers, The A-Team and The Golden Girls, the 1980s gave us TV theme songs we…

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The Weirdest Saturday Morning Shows of the 1970s

Saturday mornings in the 1970s could get wonderfully weird. From talking hats and friendly sea monsters to superhero dune buggies, accidental astronauts…

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The Twilight Zone’s “The Howling Man”: One of Television’s Greatest Gothic Horror Stories

A stranded traveler. A mysterious monastery. A prisoner the monks insist is the Devil himself. The Howling Man remains one of the…

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The 10 Greatest Sci-Fi Heroes of the 1960s

From fearless starship captains to brilliant scientists and determined explorers, these unforgettable characters defined the golden age of sci-fi television. Join us…