1971-72 Short-Lived TV Shows

This video is a compilation of most of the shows that were new, and (quickly) cancelled, from the 1971-72 prime time TV schedule; may include mid and summer replacements. A couple of the intros have been altered/shortened in length by design due to certain limitations.
This follows the days of the week, and specific time slot that these shows would have fallen on.
Please note, I had to remove the previous version of this video. It showed the intro of "The Marty Feldman Machine", which is copyright protected.

[@waynetech10]

What I love about these old openings, besides the music, are the sweeping shots, of either landscape, or the city streets. A lot of shows, of the era, showed you a lot of the settings, while the credits rolled. I don't know. I just love that.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Well said Wayne, I couldn't agree more!

[@jonirving5606]

I love watching these. And it is a reminder of just how difficult it was to produce a hit tv series that lasted 2 or more years.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you Jon!

[@karenhickson8848]

Longstreet was the first detective series that I became interested in watching as a young teen. As I remember it, Bruce Lee was a semi regular and it was a pretty good show.

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Thank you for sharing Karen!

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

Loved that song "when you're hot, you're hot" by Jerry Reed!✌️

[@jons.105]

Sandy Duncan may have projected too large for TV (and the movies!). Stage was her forte, where she could reach the back rows with her effervescent personality.

[@HAL9000s3]

@23:04: Sandy Duncan was impossible not to like.

[@ckstaff]

I was disappointed when Cades county was ended. I really liked that show. I also liked Bearcats. O'Hara wasn't to bad of a show either. Some of these I think they gave up on a little to quick. Most were really that bad though.

[@Quartzquiz333]

The owners of The Marty Feldman Show were so embarrassed that the show finished last in the Nielsens that they reported the clip on the original video! 😂

[@fromthesidelines]

ABC president Martin Starger was *VERY* close friends with ITC executive Lew Grade- who provided several shows for the network, all produced in England- including "SHIRLEY'S WORLD", "THE KOPYKATS", "THE MARTY FELDMAN COMEDY MACHINE" and "THE PERSUADERS". Michael Eisner, who worked for ABC at ther time, recalled, "We always had on the books a few of these strange thngs we had to get on the air. ABC just loved the big mistake. {Starger} would buy shows that made no rhyme or reason and put them on in the middle of the year and the whole {night's schedule} would fall apart. There was nothing illegal or immoral about them.They were bought for the wrong reasons. When Americans would go to England to do these shows [as in the case of Tony Curtis in "THE PERSUADERS"], they would get off the airplane, put on bowler hats, and be more English than the English. The shows weren't highbrow. They were boring."

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I didn't know that Cindy Williams was on a series before Laverne and Shirley!😳

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"We're here on ABC for just one -reason- season ..."

[@Quartzquiz333]

Let's all be happy Nichols flopped, otherwise James Garner and Stuart Margolin would more than likely have never done The Rockford Files.

[@fromthesidelines]

James Garner thought "NICHOLS" was a very offbeat Western {as was 'MAVERICK"}, and a perfect vehicle for him. He was already thinking about a possible second season at the end of the first. However, he and his producers decided a change in the format was necessary- so Nichols was killed off in the final episode of the season......and his *twin brother* {"Jim Nichols"} arrived to avenge his murder.....and rode off into the sunset at the end, promising the town he MIGHT return. He never did, as the series was cancelled.
He, Stuart, and executive producer Meta Rosenberg- and "Cherokee Productions"- returned for 'THE ROCKFORD FILES".
Great theme by Bernado Segall.

[@patmischel6883]

I don't remember any of these shows.

[@nationalist818]

got anything from the 80s lined up?

[@robertsretrorewind5853]

Yes, once I get past the wars of 1978-79 and 1979-80, I'll be tackling that and the 1960s.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@robertsretrorewind5853 Can't wait to see _Peaceable Kingdom_ !