'70s Flashcards
What syndicated daytime television series, an influential soap opera spoof that ran for two seasons and 325 episodes in the mid-1970s, featured Louise Lasser as the show’s title heroine, heroine?
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte were the title characters of what successful and influential television miniseries, based on a novel by Irwin Shaw, that first aired in early 1976 (and had a sequel which began later that year)?
Rich Man, Poor Man
Two locations in New York City’s 12th Precinct in Greenwich Village—the detectives’ squad room and the titular captain’s office—are the only sets for most episodes of what television sitcom that aired from 1974 to 1982?
Barney Miller
According to the theme to The Jeffersons, fish don’t fry in the kitchen, while what don’t burn on the grill?
Beans
Working-class Tory supporter and generally rude misogynist Alf Garnett, a fictional character on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, was an inspiration for the creation of what American sitcom character, who appeared on television throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s?
Archie Bunker
What TV dad of the 1970s and 1980s owned a namesake chain of seven dry-cleaners in Manhattan and Queens?
George Jefferson
Before The Golden Girls began in 1985, two of the four lead actresses had starred together in what other TV series?
From 1972 to 1978, Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan played neighbors and best friends on Maude.
This comedy writer became famous as a song parodist in the ’70s. His biggest single was “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli’s Dance of the Hours.
Allan Sherman
What TV show, the #1 American comedy of 1979-80, was based on the British sitcom Man About the House?
Three’s Company
The first in a series of highly anticipated 90-minute programs that aired over four consecutive weeks in May 1977 became the highest-rated news interview program in television history at the time. Name either the interviewer or the interviewee in this historic series.
David Frost, Richard Nixon
Itself the progenitor of many television spin-offs like “Laverne & Shirley” and “Mork & Mindy,” “Happy Days” is a spin-off from what TV sketch show that aired from 1969 to 1974?
Love, American Style
The Cowsills, a singing group from Rhode Island composed of six siblings (and, eventually, their mother), along with their road manager Richard Korn, inspired what early-1970s television series?
The Partridge Family
Jim: What does a yellow light mean?
Bobby: Slow down.
Jim: Ok. What…does…a…yellow…light…mean?
This sequence (which continues like this for awhile) comes from a September 1979 episode of what classic sitcom?
Taxi
What current ABC News program debuted in 1979 initially to cover the Iran Hostage Crisis (and was in fact titled The Iran Crisis—America Held Hostage), and was anchored from 1980 until 2005 by English-born journalist Ted Koppel?
Nightline
