Back To The 70's

[Jay P. Mercado]

TV viewing habits back then:

 

Mondays - Mekanda Robot (Ch. 7), CHiPS, Man From Atlantis (Ch. 13), Hawaii Five-O (Ch. 9), Rich Man Poor Man mini series (Ch. 7), Hill Street Blues (Ch. 7)

Tuesdays - Daimos (Ch. 7), James at 15 (Ch. 7), Streets of San Francisco (Ch. 9)

Wednesdays - Love Boat (Ch. 7), Mazinger Z (Ch. 7)

Thursdays - Eight Is Enough (Ch. 7), UFO Grendaizer (Ch. 9)

Fridays - Starsky & Hutch (Ch. 7), Voltes V (Ch. 7)

Saturdays - Combat (Ch. 7), Little House on the Prairie (Ch. 7), Soap (Ch. 7), Benson (Ch. 7), Sealab 2020 (Ch. 2)

Sundays - Six Million Dollar Man (Ch. 9), Three's Company (Ch. 7), The Ropers (Ch. 7), Mork and Mindy (Ch. 7), The Muppet Show (Ch. 7)

[maxiev]

TV viewing habits back then:

 

Mondays - Mekanda Robot (Ch. 7), CHiPS, Man From Atlantis (Ch. 13), Hawaii Five-O (Ch. 9), Rich Man Poor Man mini series (Ch. 7), Hill Street Blues (Ch. 7)

Tuesdays - Daimos (Ch. 7), James at 15 (Ch. 7), Streets of San Francisco (Ch. 9)

Wednesdays - Love Boat (Ch. 7), Mazinger Z (Ch. 7)

Thursdays - Eight Is Enough (Ch. 7), UFO Grendaizer (Ch. 9)

Fridays - Starsky & Hutch (Ch. 7), Voltes V (Ch. 7)

Saturdays - Combat (Ch. 7), Little House on the Prairie (Ch. 7), Soap (Ch. 7), Benson (Ch. 7), Sealab 2020 (Ch. 2)

Sundays - Six Million Dollar Man (Ch. 9), Three's Company (Ch. 7), The Ropers (Ch. 7), Mork and Mindy (Ch. 7), The Muppet Show (Ch. 7)

Wow you have a great memory. I remember these tv programs but I don't remember which channels these programs aired. Much less remember which days. Thanks for sharing. Will save this one for posterity.

Edited March 30, 2013 by maxiev

[maxiev]

TV viewing habits back then:

 

Mondays - Mekanda Robot (Ch. 7), CHiPS, Man From Atlantis (Ch. 13), Hawaii Five-O (Ch. 9), Rich Man Poor Man mini series (Ch. 7), Hill Street Blues (Ch. 7)

Tuesdays - Daimos (Ch. 7), James at 15 (Ch. 7), Streets of San Francisco (Ch. 9)

Wednesdays - Love Boat (Ch. 7), Mazinger Z (Ch. 7)

Thursdays - Eight Is Enough (Ch. 7), UFO Grendaizer (Ch. 9)

Fridays - Starsky & Hutch (Ch. 7), Voltes V (Ch. 7)

Saturdays - Combat (Ch. 7), Little House on the Prairie (Ch. 7), Soap (Ch. 7), Benson (Ch. 7), Sealab 2020 (Ch. 2)

Sundays - Six Million Dollar Man (Ch. 9), Three's Company (Ch. 7), The Ropers (Ch. 7), Mork and Mindy (Ch. 7), The Muppet Show (Ch. 7)

Now I know why Channel 7 was my all time favorite channel decades ago. Many tv programs in the 70's and 80's were American. Today I can't think of a single American tv program that airs on off-the air programming. You need cable tv to watch American television programs.

[Bugatti Veyron]

I remember this was in Channel 9 but if I'm not mistaken, it was shown in the early 80s.

You're right. The first episode aired in 1982 if I'm not mistaken.

[KayaK]

You're right. The first episode aired in 1982 if I'm not mistaken.

 

 

Tom Selleck and the Ferrari Testarossa

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

Tom Selleck and the Ferrari Testarossa

I think the Testarossa was featured in MIami Vice, another tv hit off the 80's. The one in Magnum PI was a Ferrari 308 GTS

[Jay P. Mercado]

I think Starsky and Hutch also aired in Channel 13 if memory serves me right. I remember Hill Street Blues but wasn't this shown in the 80s?

 

We both have sharp memories in terms of robot cartoons. I still recall the schedule of those like it was yesterday. Haha!

 

Yes, Hills Street Blues was shown on GMA 7 at 9PM on GMA7. I just needed to include my all-time favorite show in the list.

 

GMA7 showed Mekanda Robot on Mondays at 6PM, just before Anna Liza, the soap. It was one of the more horrible robot shows ever made. I forgot the Thursday cartoon show of GMA7 back then though.

 

Not sure about Starsky and Hutch shown on IBC13. What I do recall is Patrick Duffy and Elizabeth Montgomery of Man From Atlantis at 8PM on Mondays.

 

M*A*S*H, I think, was also shown on Monday late nights on GMA7. Charlie's Angels was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM, while IBC had Bonanza on Tuesdays. KBS9 had Diff'rent Strokes every early Sunday night, The Facts of Life and Mickey Mouse Club were shown on BBC2 every Sunday.

 

Other shows like WKRP In Cincinnati was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM. That was the time when GMA was known as the TV network full of canned shows. Sundays were comedy nights - starting with The Muppet Show, then WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company / The Ropers, etc. RPN9 was the network with the second most canned shows - airing The Waltons (can't recall what day though) and Welcome Back Kotter every Saturdays back to back with Happy Days, featuring Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

Yes, Hills Street Blues was shown on GMA 7 at 9PM on GMA7. I just needed to include my all-time favorite show in the list.

 

GMA7 showed Mekanda Robot on Mondays at 6PM, just before Anna Liza, the soap. It was one of the more horrible robot shows ever made. I forgot the Thursday cartoon show of GMA7 back then though.

 

Not sure about Starsky and Hutch shown on IBC13. What I do recall is Patrick Duffy and Elizabeth Montgomery of Man From Atlantis at 8PM on Mondays.

 

M*A*S*H, I think, was also shown on Monday late nights on GMA7. Charlie's Angels was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM, while IBC had Bonanza on Tuesdays. KBS9 had Diff'rent Strokes every early Sunday night, The Facts of Life and Mickey Mouse Club were shown on BBC2 every Sunday.

 

Other shows like WKRP In Cincinnati was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM. That was the time when GMA was known as the TV network full of canned shows. Sundays were comedy nights - starting with The Muppet Show, then WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company / The Ropers, etc. RPN9 was the network with the second most canned shows - airing The Waltons (can't recall what day though) and Welcome Back Kotter every Saturdays back to back with Happy Days, featuring Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.

I remember all these programs. The golden age of television. Today the main tv content is the tele novella. Started with Mexican Soaps (eg. Marimar), then Chinese, and now Korean.

[harmless0810]

dallas started in the late 70's. imho, they had the best looking women on tv. who can beat a line-up of victoria principal, priscilla presley, charlene tilton, etc? am too young to watch it then.

[Bugatti Veyron]

Yes, Hills Street Blues was shown on GMA 7 at 9PM on GMA7. I just needed to include my all-time favorite show in the list.

 

GMA7 showed Mekanda Robot on Mondays at 6PM, just before Anna Liza, the soap. It was one of the more horrible robot shows ever made. I forgot the Thursday cartoon show of GMA7 back then though.

 

Not sure about Starsky and Hutch shown on IBC13. What I do recall is Patrick Duffy and Elizabeth Montgomery of Man From Atlantis at 8PM on Mondays.

 

M*A*S*H, I think, was also shown on Monday late nights on GMA7. Charlie's Angels was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM, while IBC had Bonanza on Tuesdays. KBS9 had Diff'rent Strokes every early Sunday night, The Facts of Life and Mickey Mouse Club were shown on BBC2 every Sunday.

 

Other shows like WKRP In Cincinnati was shown on GMA7 every Sunday at 8PM. That was the time when GMA was known as the TV network full of canned shows. Sundays were comedy nights - starting with The Muppet Show, then WKRP In Cincinnati, Mork & Mindy, Three's Company / The Ropers, etc. RPN9 was the network with the second most canned shows - airing The Waltons (can't recall what day though) and Welcome Back Kotter every Saturdays back to back with Happy Days, featuring Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.

 

Many of these old tv programs are available on dvd. Unfortunately these aren't available locally. You can order these on-line. If you happen to be in the US you could try visiting Best Buy or FYE. In HK you could try HMV.

[oscartamaguchiblackface]

What is indelibly etched on my mind is when martial law was declared in 1972. I remember how scared my parents were when PD1081 was declared. At that time, I had no idea what martial law entailed. It's only after Marcos was ousted in 1986 that the full horror of martial law was revealed. We knew abuses were being done during the period 1972-1986 but we didn't know the extent of the abuses.

[Jay P. Mercado]

Golden era of Philippine cinema. After the "bomba" films of Divina Valencia, Merle Fernandez, Rossana Ortiz, etc, the film industry surged with classic films like Lino Brocka's "Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang (1974), Maynila (1975) and Insiang (1976), Mike De Leon's Itim (1975) and Kung Mangarap Ka't Magising (1977), Eddie Romero's "Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon (1976), Maria Montelibano's Minsa'y ISang Gamu-Gamo (1976), among others . As a matter of fact, in the 1977 Metro Manila Film Festival, it was a battle royale among perhaps the greatest Filipino film directors of all time. Competing in the event included names like Brocka, De Leon, Bernal, Romero, O' Hara, and Castillo. Castillo's "Burlesk Queen" won practically all the major awards and catapulted Vilma Santos to superstardom.

 

As Motown became a household byword with all the African-American musical artists being churned out (The Jacksons, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, etc), disco music became the funk in the mid to late 70's. Saturday Night Fever became the highest-grossing album of all time until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" surpassed it in the mid 80's.Those were the days when soundtrack albums were worthy to collect - as after SNF, there was also Grease, TGIF, among others.

 

I remember Raffy Mejia and Caloy Prieto doing the broadcast coverage for KBS 9 of the 1976 Montreal Olympics - the same Games where a 14-year old Romanian gymnast captured the hearts of many people around the world. Other worthy shows to watch back then were athletes from different fields competing against each other in various sporting events called "Superstars" and of course, the monumental "Battle of the Network Stars" featuring the actors and actresses of US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC.

[sonnyt111]

Golden era of Philippine cinema. After the "bomba" films of Divina Valencia, Merle Fernandez, Rossana Ortiz, etc, the film industry surged with classic films like Lino Brocka's "Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang (1974), Maynila (1975) and Insiang (1976), Mike De Leon's Itim (1975) and Kung Mangarap Ka't Magising (1977), Eddie Romero's "Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon (1976), Maria Montelibano's Minsa'y ISang Gamu-Gamo (1976), among others . As a matter of fact, in the 1977 Metro Manila Film Festival, it was a battle royale among perhaps the greatest Filipino film directors of all time. Competing in the event included names like Brocka, De Leon, Bernal, Romero, O' Hara, and Castillo. Castillo's "Burlesk Queen" won practically all the major awards and catapulted Vilma Santos to superstardom.

I remember watching "Tinimbang Ka Nguni't Kulang" as a requirement for school. We had to do a movie review. Even went to the extent of interviewing Christopher de Leon and Mario O' Hara to get their views on that movie. That was one of the great Filipino movies of all time.

 

As Motown became a household byword with all the African-American musical artists being churned out (The Jacksons, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, The Commodores, etc), disco music became the funk in the mid to late 70's. Saturday Night Fever became the highest-grossing album of all time until Michael Jackson's "Thriller" surpassed it in the mid 80's.Those were the days when soundtrack albums were worthy to collect - as after SNF, there was also Grease, TGIF, among others.

Those were the golden days of discos immortalized by Saturday Night Fever. I first watched that movie in Oahu, Hawaii, of all places. Back then, disco music was available on vinyl records. There weren't any compact discs back then. I remember buying tons of vinyl records at Tower Records and Werehouse in California.

 

I remember Raffy Mejia and Caloy Prieto doing the broadcast coverage for KBS 9 of the 1976 Montreal Olympics - the same Games where a 14-year old Romanian gymnast captured the hearts of many people around the world. Other worthy shows to watch back then were athletes from different fields competing against each other in various sporting events called "Superstars" and of course, the monumental "Battle of the Network Stars" featuring the actors and actresses of US television networks ABC, CBS and NBC.

The memory of the 1972 Munich Olympics is indelibly seared in my mind. What I recall most about that time was the hostage taking of the Israeli contingent by members of the Black September Movement, a faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. I remember the subsequent bloodbath that ensued as the hostages were murdered by their captors even as they themselves were gunned down by German police.

 

Another episode of the 1972 Olympics that I distincly recall was the US-USSR basketball championship. The US had already won the game by one point courtesy of two charity shots by Doug Collins (former NBA star of the Philadelphia 76ers). For some reason that still isn't clear to me, the USSR protested that there were still 3 seconds remaining in the game. The Soviets' demand was granted and the shot clock was re-set to 3 seconds.

 

A Soviet player made a full court pass to another Soviet player waiting at the other end. The latter caught the pass and made an easy shot as time ran out for the Americans. The Soviets won that championship by just one point.

 

And to think this was at the height of the Cold War.

 

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Edited April 9, 2013 by sonnyt111

[maxiev]

Who could forget the Ali-Frazier, Thrilla in Manila in 1975? I also remember this NBA team Washington Bullets (before they were called the Supersonics) that visited. Among the players for that NBA team were the legendary Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld. Point guard was Kevin Porter.

 

The NBA team defeated (or rather demolished) PBA teams. Representing the Philippines then were Sonny Jaworski, Francis Arnaiz, Atoy Co, William Adornado, and a host of other players I cannot remember.

 

Sometime in the 1970's the NCAA Division 1 champion basketball team North Carolina Wolfpack led by David Thompson also visited the Philippines and also demolished several PBA selection. Point guard for the North Carolina was a 5'7 guy named Monte Towe whom I got to talk with in the locker room after the game. I also spoke briefly with David Thompson, the 6'4 phenomenon who pre-dates Michael Jordan. Thompson was actually one of Jordan's idols when he was growing up since he (Thomposon) could catch the ball (ally oop) and slam dunk the ball with one hand which is done routinely today by the likes of Lebron James. But this was in the 70's when such moves were unheard off. And to think Thompson was only 6'4.

 

Everyone was in awe of David Thompson until he was surpassed by Michael Jordan a decade later.

[Bugatti Veyron]

Going on my first date. May chaperone pa!!