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All in the Family - I love that show. :lol:

 

Although I don't remember it all that much when I was a kid.  I think my parents watched it though...  Thank goodness for TV Land. :D

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I remember the first show. Archie tells Edith a a black man at work is a "Black beauty". He said he got that from the guy's bumper sticker-"Black is Beautiful". Meathead starts complaining to Archie about putting down people. Edith says "It's a lot better than when he called them coons."

My father calls my mother into the room and says see this show- they actually called a black guy a coon! We knew this show was different from the start.

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How come none of you he-men has mentioned The Mary Tyler Moore Show (the great Paul Williams) or Rhoda it's spinoff? Now those were catchy tunes.

 

Who can turn the world on with her smile?

Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Well it's you girl, and you should know it

With each glance and every little movement you show it

 

Love is all around, no need to waste it

You can have a town, why don't you take it

You're gonna make it after all

You're gonna make it after all

 

 

How will you make it on your own?

This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone

But it's time you started living

It's time you let someone else do some giving

 

Love is all around, no need to waste it

You can have a town, why don't you take it

You're gonna make it after all

You're gonna make it after all

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About 10 years ago, Shredd & Ragan did a TV theme song CD for charity. Buffalo bands did their favorite theme songs. I have it lying around somewhere.

 

Songs on it I remember:

 

Unkown Stuntman (Fall Guy)

I'll be There for You (Friends); Goo Goo Dolls did this one

Theme from Maude

Movin' on Up (The Jeffersons); This one is on there a couple of times

Those Were The Days (All in the Family); John Valby and Edge DJ Kit Missle

Theme from The Banana Splits

Both themes from WKRP in Cincinnati

Cheers

Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard

Instumental Theme from Barney Miller

 

 

There's a bunch more that I'm forgetting.

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I was about 18, and I was walking through the living room. All of a sudden I hear this rough voice on the TV say something about the coloreds and the kikes. I stopped dead in my tracks to see what show this was!

 

You could not say anything remotely like this on the air around 1970. That was surely a show that really pushed the limits.

 

All in the Family - I love that show. :doh:

 

Although I don't remember it all that much when I was a kid.  I think my parents watched it though...  Thank goodness for TV Land. :w00t:

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1) The Banana Splits. I've seen it ONCE in the last 30 years, but the dang song sticks in my head from childhood.

 

Tra La-La, La-La-La-Laaaaaa,

 

One banana, two banana, three banana four,

four bananas make a bunch and so do many more,

Over hill and highway the banana buggies go,

Comin' on to bring you the Banana Splits Show.

Makin' up a mess of fun, lots of fun for ev'ry one,

 

Tra La-La, La-La-La-La, Tra La-La, La-La-La-La.

Tra La-La, La-La-La-La, Tra La-La, La-La-La-La.

 

Four banana, three banana, two banana, one.

All bananas playin' in the bright warm sun.

Flippin' like a pancake, poppin' like a cork,

Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper an' Snork.

 

Tra La-La, La-La-La-La, Tra La-La, La-La-La-La.

 

2) WKRP (and a close second, at that)

3) Beverly Hillbillies

4) Cheers

5) Family Ties (I'm an 80's kid at heart, and no one mentioned this one).

 

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There was a reggae song that used the La-La La part of the Banana Splits song. Someone I worked with who was born in the 70s didn't believe me that it was from the cartoon until I found a web site with the sound file on it.

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There was a reggae song that used the La-La La part of the Banana Splits song.  Someone I worked with who was born in the 70s  didn't believe me that it was from the cartoon until I found a web site with the sound file on it.

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It's a Bob Marley song. I forget the title.

 

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Probably there are a lot of posters on here who don't know what this is from.....in which case I'll have another example of how I'm starting to feel old at 33 lol

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well, I ought to make you feel better, I am closing in on 35. Although that's nothing like BiB though. I hear he's ancient!

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Marshall, Will, and Holly

On a routine expedition

Met the greatest earthquake ever known.

High on the rapids

It struck their tiny raft.

And plunged them down a thousand feet below.

 

To the Land of the Lost.

To the Land of the Lost.

To the Land of the Lost.

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well, I ought to make you feel better, I am closing in on 35.  Although that's nothing like BiB though.  I hear he's ancient!

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LOL

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Everybody is talking about TV shows and nobody mentioned the BEST Thanksgiving  episode of all time:

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

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So true... That is one episode that keeps you rolling.

 

Millbank posted the WKRP sound file earlier in the thread. It would be great to find Les Nessman's "on air" account during that episode on a sound file!

 

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