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The TV Shows of 1969
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TV Show: The Brady Bunch ( 1969 )
The Brady Bunch tells the story of Carol, a single mother of three girls – Marcia, Jan and Cindy and architect Mike Brady, a single father of three boys – Greg, Peter and Bobby who get married and blend the two families into one. Added to the mix are housekeeper Alice and dog Tiger. The Bradys' experience the same obstacles as any family, from adjusting to their new extended family, to sibling rivalry.
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TV Show: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! ( 1969 )
Brainiac Velma, jock Fred, fashionista Daphne, hippie Shaggy, and Shaggy's highstrung, talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, climb into their green van, the Mystery Machine, and hit the road in search of weird phenomena to solve. And even when Scooby and the gang aren't actively searching for them, mysteries just have a way of falling into their laps. Ruh-roh!
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TV Show: Sesame Street ( 1969 )
Sesame Street is a widely recognized and perpetually daring experiment in educational children's programming. This show has taken popular-culture and turned it upside-down. The fast-paced advertisements that had parents of the new era worrying for their children were the basis for the original format of this show. The show has often satirized pop culture, and made itself easier for parents to watch along too. And thus, the positive impact this show has had on modern society is beyond another. No show is more recognized the world over by as many generations and walks of life. Shown in its original format or with changes to reflect a regional education focus, Sesame Street is now seen in over 140 countries. The show that Entertainment Weekly named the "20th Best Ever Show" has changed the education scene to focus on "entertainment". This has turned out to be a valuable theory that not only...
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TV Show: Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 )
And now for something completely different: Monty Python's Flying Circus was simply the most influential comedy program television has ever seen. Five Englishmen, all working under the constraints of conventional TV shows such as The Frost Report (for which the five Englishmen wrote), gathered together with an expatriate American in the spring of 1969 to break the rules. The result, first airing on BBC-1 on October 5, 1969, has influenced countless future men and women in the media and comedy since.
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TV Show: Room 222 ( 1969 )
Room 222 chronicles the lives of teachers and students at Walt Whitman High School, in Los Angeles. Pete Dixon is an easy-going American History teacher who attempts to help out his colleagues and students. Besides his girlfriend and school counselor Liz McIntyre, he has the help of fellow teacher Alice Johnson, and the occasional interference of cynical principal Seymour Kaufman.
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TV Show: Night Gallery ( 1969 )
Rod Serling returns to anthology television as the host of Night Gallery, a three-season show where each story revolves around a mysterious and ominous painting hanging in an empty gallery. Mr. Serling provides the opening and closing narration to these stories, typically tales of horror and the supernatural. During the first season, the hour-long series features several shorter stories, some of which are comedic blackout sketches. The show was subsequently cut down to a half-hour, and in syndication was mixed with episodes of the TV series The Sixth Sense.
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TV Show: Love, American Style ( 1969 )
Love, American Style is a comedic television anthology. Each week, the show featured unrelated stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin. Episodes featured different characters, stories, and locations. The show often featured the same actors playing different characters in many episodes. In addition, a large, ornate brass bed was a recurring prop in many episodes. Charles Fox's delicate yet hip music score, featuring flutes, harp, and flugelhorn set to a contemporary pop beat, provided the "love" ambiance which tied the stories together as a multifaceted romantic comedy each week.
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TV Show: Hee Haw ( 1969 )
Buck Owens and Roy Clark host this long-running syndicated variety show featuring country western music and comedy.
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TV Show: H.R. Pufnstuf ( 1969 )
H.R. Pufnstuf is the story of Jimmy, a boy with a talking golden flute, whose adventure begins when he climbs into an abandoned sailboat on the shore of a lake. But it is Witchiepoo's trick to capture the boy to get his magic flute. He and the flute are rescued by a kindly dragon named H.R. Pufnstuf on Living Island where almost everything talks. All would be happy–what with dancing trees, singing frogs and a lollipop that owns a candy store–if it wasn't for that mean ol' Witchiepoo who keeps coming after the flute.
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TV Show: Marcus Welby, M.D. ( 1969 )
Dr. Marcus Welby is a middle-aged general practitioner who struggles to provide good old-fashioned medicine and caring in an age when hospitals and specialists are all the rage. Assisting him are Dr. Steven Kiley and Consuelo Lopez. Kiley is a young hotshot physician, and Consuelo is Welby's caring nurse and receptionist.
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TV Show: The Benny Hill Show ( 1969 )
The Benny Hill Show was an English sketch comedy show, starring the man himself, Benny Hill. The show is famous for its perverted comedy, and its theme song "Yakety Sax".
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TV Show: On the Buses ( 1969 )
Stan Butler works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Bus Company. He lives at home with his overbearing mother, his frumpy sister Olive and his lazy brother in law Arthur. Stan's route is the number 11 to the Cemetary Gates which he works with his conductor Jack. Stan and Jack have an eye for the ladies and are often found chatting up either the female bus conductors or the canteen staff. The bane of Stan's life is Inspector 'Blakey' Blake who is often checking up of them and threatening them with the sack for lateness and untidyness.
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TV Show: The Courtship of Eddie's Father ( 1969 )
The Courtship of Eddie's Father is an American television sitcom based on the 1963 movie of the same name, which was based on a novel by Mark Toby (edited by Dorothy Wilson).The series is about a widower, Tom Corbett, who is a magazine publisher, and his young son, Eddie. Eddie believes his father should remarry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in.
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TV Show: Pippi Långstrump ( 1969 )
The adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet, and her best friends Tommy and Annika, based upon the famous books by Astrid Lindgren.
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TV Show: Then Came Bronson ( 1969 )
The story of Jim Bronson, a young newspaperman who sets out on a cross-country quest by motorcycle to discover the meaning of life after his friend commits suicide.
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TV Show: Medical Center ( 1969 )
Medical Center follows surgeons working in an otherwise unnamed university hospital in Los Angeles. The show focuses both on the lives of the doctors as well as the patients showcased each week. At the core of the series is the tension between youth and experience, as seen between Drs. Lochner and Gannon. Besides his work as a surgeon, Gannon, because of his age, also works as the head of the Student Health Department at the University. Helping the doctors was the very efficient Nurse Eve Wilcox.
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Movie: Frosty the Snowman (TV Short 1969) ( 1969 )
A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.
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TV Show: The Bill Cosby Show ( 1969 )
Bill Cosby plays Chet Kincaid, a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles high school who gets involved in various comedic adventures with his students and fellow teachers.
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TV Show: Special Branch ( 1969 )
Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974.Special Branch was a police drama series, centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
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TV Show: Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines ( 1969 )
Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS.Originally the series was broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show's theme song "Stop the Pigeon"). The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron-era Snoopy, Wacky Races (which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races), and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
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TV Show: The Johnny Cash Show ( 1969 )
The Johnny Cash Show is an American television music variety show hosted by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June 7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970. Cash opened each show, invariably preceding the first number with his customary "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" greeting, and its regulars included members of his touring troupe, June Carter Cash (his wife) and the Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, and The Tennessee Three, with Australian-born musical director-arranger-conductor Bill Walker. The Statler Brothers performed brief comic interludes. An instrumental version of "Folsom Prison Blues" was used for the opening credits. It featured many folk-country musicians, such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Mickey Newbury, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, James Taylor and Tammy Wynette. It also featured other musicians such as jazz great Louis Armstrong, who died eight months after appearing on the show.
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TV Show: The Ant and the Aardvark ( 1969 )
This comical cartoon is centered around an aardvark who is desperately trying to catch a clever ant for food.
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TV Show: Clangers ( 1969 )
The Clangers are strange, long-nosed, pink, woolly creatures that live inside a small blue planet, which lies far, far away in space. Under the dustbin-lidded craters that cover the planet's surface is the cave system where the these strange yet cuddly extraterrestrials live. They share their world with the bizarre Soup Dragon, who lives in a soup well and provides them with their staple diet of green soup and blue string pudding; the Glow Buzzers, which supply light and tasty glow honey; and the tiny orange Froglets, magical creatures that live inside a travelling top-hat. Other beings encountered by the Clangers are the Iron Chicken, originally found in pieces and who, once reconstructed by the little planet's inhabitants, now lives in a nest in the sky; the large, odd, blue-skinned Skymoos; and the water-providing Cloud.