rightwinger
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70s had some amazing showsSimpler or just more basic? Those 5 TV stations had more stuff on than 30 channels do now. It was GOOD programming, original ideas, comedy, variety shows not reality TV, and they only showed things ONCE.
Are you fucking kidding me? Television in the 1970's was largely CRAP!
And, no, frankly, all you really had on most of these channels were reruns of stuff that was cancelled in the 1950's and 1960's. It's how Star Trek got so popular.
Using a slide rule rather than an electronic calculator that just gives you the answer, watching The Big Valley and Perry Mason over 'America Can Dance' and 'Cops,' and having to actually find and research in books, understanding and putting things in your own words rather than clicking, copying and pasting and having everything right at your fingertips BUILT CHARACTER.
No, it just took longer. Heck, in my previous career, I had to do math pretty much all day. I'd never get anything done without a calculator and a computer spreadsheet.
All in the Family
MASH
Taxi
Barney Miller
Rockford Files
Columbo
And the debut of Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street
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