Best TV Shows of 1974
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Best TV Shows of 1974
TOP TV Shows: Little House on the Prairie (1974), The Rockford Files (1974), Happy Days (1974), Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), Porridge (1974), Good Times (1974), Rhoda (1974), Police Woman (1974), Rising Damp (1974), Planet of the Apes (1974), Petrocelli (1974), The Pallisers (1974), QB VII (1974), Land of the Lost (1974), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974), Chico and the Man (1974), Hong Kong Phooey (1974), Sandburg's Lincoln (1974), Bagpuss (1974).
List of Best TV Shows
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place:
minnesota, kansas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based ...
Style:
detective, retro, neo noir, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, trailer home, beach, father son relationship, private investigator, ex convict, police, cop, police detective, fbi agent, parents, gentleman ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
malibu california, los angeles, california
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974 to September 24, 1984 on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s United States.
The series ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
friendship, youth, love and romance, teenage love, family life, coming of age, buddies, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, father son relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1958, 60s
Place:
usa, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter—Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin—who investigated mysterious crimes with ...
Style:
gothic, scary, retro, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
monster, reporter, supernatural ability, paranormal investigation, supernatural, ordinary person, mummy, danger, who done it, imaginary, journalism, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, chicago, las vegas, nevada, illinois
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for a fictional government office known as OSI. The series is based on the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg, which was the series's ...
Style:
serious, retro, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
undercover, investigation, escapades, chases and races, androids and robots, surgery, government agency, danger, cyborgs, boss, u.s. air force, superhero ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard ...
Style:
sitcom, talky, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prison, warden, christmas, convict, imprisonment, judge, sketch, theft, security guard, manipulation, friends, rules and policies ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, young lovers, black, family relations, family life, urban, parents and children, love and romance, suburban life, social differences, workplace romance ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, florida, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, realistic, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dating, female protagonist, women, irreverent, strong female presence, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, thirtysomething life, couples, protective parent, stewardess ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Style:
retro, detective, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
cop, investigation, police officer, women, woman with a gun, car chase, lapd, undercover, undercover agent, partner, tough law enforcer, partners against crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. ITV originally broadcast the programme from 1974 through 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play The Banana Box The series ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty
Audience:
kids
Plot:
womanizer, racist, conservative, liberal, social differences, couples, social misfits, wooing, bachelor, slum, roommate, landlord ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, africa, northern england, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes.
Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot:
time travel, ape, planet of the apes, astronaut, survival, danger, dystopian future, on the run, escapades, chases and races, switching roles, society ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976.
Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life ...
Style:
vintage
Plot:
lawyer, small town, ex cop, investigation, police, private detective, cop, prosecutor, trial, courtroom drama, customer, courtroom ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
tucson arizona, arizona
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
Style:
historical drama, spiritual, costume drama, soap opera, period drama ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, victorian england, spirituality, aristocrat, greed, government, cousin cousin relationship, politics, prime minister, member of parliament, aristocracy, scandal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 390 min.
TV show
Story:
A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, war crime, lawsuit, polish, courtroom, post war, courtroom drama, writers, reflection, expatriate, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, 60s
Place:
europe, england, london
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, stylized, epic fantasy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, lost civilization, uncle niece relationship, caveman, lizard, time portal, raft, waterfall, civilization, temple, cave ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
Style:
sitcom, entertaining, controversial
Plot:
world war two, army, military, colonel, satire, singer, coward, captain, native, colony, pianist, jungle ...
Time:
1940s, future
Place:
southeast asia, india, asia, burma
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze ...
Style:
sitcom, lighthearted, buddy comedy, feel good, multicultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intergenerational friendship, neighborhood, mechanic, blue collar, culture clash, social commentary, community, slice of life, urban, small business, social realism, auto repair ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Hong Kong Phooey is a 16-episode Hanna-Barbera animated series that first aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 7, 1974 to December 21, 1974. It was a parody of kung fu shows and movies of the time.
The main character Hong Kong Phooey is a ...
Style:
anime
Audience:
kids
Plot:
superhero, dog, kung fu classic, anthropomorphic animal, female police officer, police, master warrior, heroes, kung fu fighting, kung fu, animal that acts human, janitor ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Style:
costume drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
aristocracy, british history, female protagonist, character study, family drama, motherhood, wooing, dialogue, social climbing, class conflict, gilded age, intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A miniseries about President Abraham Lincoln.
Style:
serious, educational, reflective, historically accurate, epic ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, abraham lincoln, president, leadership, emancipation, biopic, slavery, character study, politics, bravery, grief ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
illinois, washington d.c.
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Classic Children's Animation
Style:
sentimental, educational, children's program, folk tale, whimsical
Audience:
kids, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
toy comes to life, stop motion, storytelling, imagination, friendship, curiosity, recovery, magic realism, community, mouse, store, cat ...
Time:
70s, turn of the century, victorian era
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
Style:
detective, costume drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
amateur detective, religion, british police, catholic, priest, police, interwar period, danger, good versus evil, clergy, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
united kingdom, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Paper Moon is a short-lived situation comedy which aired on ABC during the fall of 1974, starring Christopher Connelly and Jodie Foster in the roles of Moses Pray and his presumed daughter, Addie. The series is based on the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich ...
Style:
period piece, comedy drama, heartfelt, melancholic, black comedy ...
Plot:
con artists, great depression, father daughter relationship, road trip, family bonds, traveling salesman, coming of age, moral ambiguity, child prodigy, american midwest, short haired female
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Tattletales is an American game show which first aired on the CBS daytime schedule on February 18, 1974. It was hosted by Bert Convy, with several announcers, including Jack Clark, Gene Wood, Johnny Olson and John Harlan, providing the voiceover at ...
Style:
game show, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
quiz, couples, multiple contestants, disagreement, luck, couple relations, contests and competitions, love and romance, engaged couple, host, friendship, engagement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Run, Joe, Run was a Saturday morning television program that aired on NBC from 1974 to 1976. It centered around Joe, a German Shepherd in the military's K-9 Corp., and his master, Sergeant Will Corey. One day, during training, Joe was falsely ...
Plot:
german shepherd, fugitives, dog, on the run, fugitive, human dog relationship, girl dog relationship, death sentence, dog training, american soldier, u.s. army, false accusation ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of two married game wardens in Kenya. George Adamson and Diana Muldaur live with their adopted lioness Elsa the Lioness, where they protect the animals in the surrounding area from all sorts of danger, both natural and human.
Style:
emotional, educational, uplifting, period piece, tense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
lion, jungle, wildlife, environmentalism, animal rescue, biopic, poaching, marriage, companionship, safari, family drama, heartwarming ...
Place:
africa, kenya, south africa
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
These Are the Days is an animated television series from Hanna-Barbera, originally broadcast on ABC from September 7, 1974, to September 27, 1975. The series, although critically acclaimed, only lasted 16 total episodes. Each episode had a run time ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, educational, cult classic
Plot:
family relations, nostalgia, family drama, slice of life, everyday life, family values, small town, heartwarming, childhood, coming of age, community, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, turn of the century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style:
sentimental, lyrical, historical drama, period drama, wistful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, literary, family conflict, social class, character study, friendship, english countryside, bittersweet, resilience, empathy, dialogue ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Korg: 70,000 B.C. is a live-action television show on Saturday morning in the 1974 season, produced by Hanna-Barbera.
It featured the adventures of a family of Neanderthals during the Ice Age. It was intended to be educational, and was based on the ...
Style:
prehistoric, educational, informative, period drama
Plot:
neanderthal, survival, ice age, family drama, youth, anthropology, narration, caveman, hunting, wildlife, tribe, cave woman ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder ...
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, police, german culture, investigation, cop, partner, superior officer, partners against crime, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
munich germany, europe, germany
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