Category Archives: Television 1970s

‘The Persuaders!’ debuts on ABC 40 years ago today

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'The Persuaders' debuts (2:46 clip from 'Overture')

(Saturday, September 18, 1971, 10:00 p.m. ET)The Persuaders!, an action/adventure TV series starring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore as wealthy playboys teamed together to investigate crimes which the police can’t solve, debuts on ABC. Continue reading ‘The Persuaders!’ debuts on ABC 40 years ago today

‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ airs ‘The Birds . . . and . . . um . . . Bees’ 40 years ago today

(Saturday, September 18, 1971, 9:30 p.m. ET) — After Mary produces a “What’s Your Sexual IQ?” documentary for the Six O’Clock News, Phyllis calls on Mary to teach Bess the facts of life on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

‘Columbo’ debuts as a regular series on NBC 40 years ago this hour

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Columbo - Murder by the Book (1971) (TV)

(Wednesday, September 15, 1971, 8:30 p.m.) — After two pilot episodes, the crime fiction TV series Columbo, starring Peter Falk in the title role, debuted tonight as one of the rotating programs of the “NBC Mystery Movie.”  Tonight’s episode, “Murder by the Book,” was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Bochco.

‘Hawaii-Five-0’ presents ‘Highest Castle Deepest Grave’ 40 years ago this hour

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Hawaii Five-O "Highest Castle Deepest Grave" 1971 (Pt 1) HD

(Tuesday, September 14, 1971, 8:30 p.m. ET) — A ten-year-old case is reopened when an archaeological dig unearths the skeletons of two murder victims on tonight’s season 4 premiere of the CBS police procedural drama Hawaii Five-0. Continue reading ‘Hawaii-Five-0’ presents ‘Highest Castle Deepest Grave’ 40 years ago this hour

Tonight on TV: ‘Green Acres’ finale

(Tuesday, April 27, 1971, 8 p.m. ET) — Oliver contacts Carol, his one-time secretary, to find out where she’d had his watch repaired years earlier on the final episode of Green Acres. the American sitcom TV series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm.  It aired for six seasons on CBS-TV.

TV series finale: ‘Hogan’s Heroes’

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(Sunday, April 4, 1971, 7:30 p.m. ET) — In the final episode of Hogan’s Heroes, an American television sitcom set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second World War, Hogan becomes the partner of a beautiful underground agent when he and his men team up with the underground to destroy a guided missile battery.