Best TV Shows of 1970
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Best TV Shows of 1970
TOP TV Shows: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), The Odd Couple (1970), All My Children (1970), UFO (1970), The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), McCloud (1970), The Partridge Family (1970), The Goodies (1970), The Flip Wilson Show (1970), Scene of the Crime (1970), Catweazle (1970), Nanny and the Professor (1970), Josie and the Pussycats (1970), Doomwatch (1970), Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp (1970), Here Come the Double Deckers (1970), Groovie Goolies (1970), Tomorrow's Joe (1970), The Spoils of Poynton (1970), Little Women (1970).
List of Best TV Shows
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. The program was a television breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as the ...
Style:
sitcom, retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
dating, female protagonist, friendship, producer, women, unmarried woman, single, single woman, journalism, anchorman, career, humour ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to March 7, 1975 on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, and was the first of several developed by Garry Marshall for Paramount ...
Style:
sitcom, retro, realistic, not serious, witty ...
Plot:
odd couple, buddy, mental health, humour, friendship, screwball, slacker, friends, workplace, obsession, buddies, love and romance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children ...
Style:
soap opera, saga, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
lesbian, women, gender, culture, family relations, betrayal, love triangle, rapist, childhood sweetheart, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
In the year 1980 the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization is named ...
Style:
spooky, apocalyptic, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien contact, alien invasion, alien, evil alien, spaceship, battles, post apocalypse, space opera, extraterrestrial, space program, aviation, magic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, near future, year 1980
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
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Story:
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII recalls how he wooed and wed his six wives - and disposed of five of them - in a bid to secure the succession to the throne with a male heir.
Despite his many marriages and the crowded court, Henry remains ...
Style:
historical drama, fairy tale, costume drama, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot:
tudors, monarch, royalty, queen, king, biopic, royal family, monarchy, intrigue, serial killer, maniac, brutality ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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McCloud is an American television police drama that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1977. The title role is played by Dennis Weaver as Marshal Sam McCloud, a law officer from Taos, New Mexico, on semi-permanent "special assignment" with the New ...
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, neo western ...
Plot:
u.s. marshal, uncover truth, who done it, working undercover, law enforcement, criminal heroes, investigation, police officer, criminal, cop, modern western, indians ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, new mexico, usa, san francisco, arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom series about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup, and ...
Style:
sitcom, retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
childhood love, youth, christmas, humour, family relations, music industry, music band, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, teenage life, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, north carolina, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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The Goodies is a British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 until 1980 — and was then broadcast by the ITV company LWT for a ...
Style:
sketch comedy, slapstick, sitcom, light hearted, fast paced ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
sketch, satire, friendship, irreverent, absurdism, surrealism, british, comedy team, trio, bike, farce, bicycle ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Flip Wilson Show is an hour long variety show that aired in the U.S. on NBC from September 17, 1970 to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black ...
Style:
sketch comedy, sitcom, parody, realistic, not serious ...
Plot:
variety show, sketch, cross dressing, black, talk show, disorder, friends, artists and showbiz, music, impersonation, entertainment, joke ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
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Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on ...
Style:
witty, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, crime investigation, murder, riddles and clues, police protagonist, interrogation, sidekick, suspicion, police inspector, fighting crime, danger, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
west germany, europe, austria, germany, switzerland
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Catweazle is a British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 ...
Style:
light hearted, sitcom, surreal
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
time travel, medieval, wizard, magic, travel, fish out of water, english countryside, friendship, sorcerer, serial killer, community, small town ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During pre-production, the proposed title was Nanny Will Do.
Style:
sitcom, retro, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids
Plot:
domestic servant, babysitting, single parent, family relations, disorder, supernatural, youth, supernatural ability, mischievous children, family life, german shepherd, widower ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Josie and the Pussycats is an American animated television series, based upon the Archie Comics comic book series of the same name created by Dan DeCarlo. Produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions, sixteen episodes of ...
Style:
anime, not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
fictional band, teenage boy, rock music, teenage girl, television, girl band, rock band, childhood, best friend, friendship, musical tour, rock ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, ...
Style:
suspenseful, cerebral, tense, sinister, dark ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
contamination, genetic mutation, man versus nature, government agency, corporate conspiracy, toxic waste, moral dilemma, research facility, technophobia, laboratory, monster, scientist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
britain
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A member of pop band Evolution Revolution, Lancelot Link is called upon by the Agency to Prevent Evil (APE), in their ongoing fight against CHUMP.
Style:
parody, anthropomorphic, lighthearted, retro, action adventure ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
spy, secret agent, television, monkey, espionage, satire, camp, children, ape, spy spoof, james bond spoof, animal actor ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Family, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Here Come the Double Deckers was a 17-part British children's TV series from 1970-71 revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in an unused works yard.
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, retro, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
friendship, imagination, urban, junkyard, light comedy, community, youth culture, problem solving, boy girl relationship, tiger, children, little girl ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, britain
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1972. Produced by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff of Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show. Like most Saturday morning ...
Style:
spooky, gothic, retro, horror comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, horror for children
Plot:
werewolf, vampire, frankenstein, children, supernatural, teenage protagonist, rock band, lycanthropy, dracula, superhero, friendship, monster ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Joe Yabuki is a troubled youth, whose only solution to problems is throwing punches at them. What he lacks in manners and discipline, he makes up for with his self-taught fighting skills.
One day, while wandering the slums of Doya, Joe gets into a ...
Style:
anime, emotional, melancholic, cult classic, depressing ...
Plot:
boxing, determination, resilience, underdog, violence, perseverance, coming of age, redemption, rivalry, ambition, male protagonist, tragic hero ...
Time:
70s, year 1970
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
TV show
Story:
Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Freda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
Style:
melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, country house, domestic drama, materialism, intimate, inheritance, legacy, adaptation, relic, literary, obsession, class differences ...
Time:
victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
Style:
family saga, heartfelt, sentimental, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
coming of age, sisters, sisterhood, domestic drama, literary, civil war, gender roles, independent woman, mother and daughter, intimate, autobiography, bittersweet ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1860s
Place:
new england, massachusetts
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary, France
TV show
Story:
Every night Aladár visits a different inhabited planet using an inflatable interstellar cosmic ship with his talking dog Blöki. The series satirised various human and societal vices.
Style:
retro, lighthearted, slapstick, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
travel, alien technology, fish out of water, children, child protagonist, satire, social commentary, quest, generation, travelogue, language barrier, time machine ...
Time:
70s
Place:
budapest
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Nancy is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1970-1971 television season. The series stars Renne Jarrett in the title role.
Style:
sitcom, romantic comedy, lighthearted
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
secret service, young love, wedding, surveillance, chaperone, usa president, veterinarian, fish out of water, conservative, dating, true love, u.s. president ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to ...
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, slapstick, surreal, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
magic realism, heartwarming, unhappiness, mysterious man, magician, trick, sorcerer, puppetry, silent man, mute character, grandfather granddaughter relationship, prank ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 377 min.
TV show
Story:
Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva
Style:
historical drama, suspense, tension, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
counter intelligence, russian civil war, spy, spy thriller, undercover agent, espionage, subterfuge, political intrigue, character study, moral ambiguity, patriotism, capture ...
Time:
year 1919, 1910s
Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ukraine, russia, kiev ukraine ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
Les Galapiats is a French-Belgian-Swiss-Canadian television series, composed of eight episodes lasting 26 minutes each, directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit broadcast in 1970 on the second channel of the ORTF and December 1969 in the RTB, Belgium.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective, intercultural ...
Plot:
teenager, treasure hunt, exploration, danger, macabre, investigation, summer camp, courage, coming of age, teamwork, friendship, castle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Mahō no Mako-chan is a Japanese anime series by Toei Animation. The story is loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. The series has been dubbed into various languages including French, Spanish, Polish and Italian. It ...
Style:
anime, retro, sentimental, light hearted, mahou shoujo ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mermaid, transformation, fish out of water, magical girl, adaptation, identity, family drama, coming of age, sacrifice, landscape, slice of life, puppy love ...
Time:
70s
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