That '70s Show 

A comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin.

Creators:

Mark Brazill, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner

Stars:

Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 13 wins & 77 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Mila Kunis	...	Jackie Burkhart 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Danny Masterson	...	Steven Hyde 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Laura Prepon	...	Donna Pinciotti 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Wilmer Valderrama	...	Fez 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Debra Jo Rupp	...	Kitty Forman 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Kurtwood Smith	...	Reginald "Red" Forman / ... 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Don Stark	...	Bob Pinciotti 200 episodes, 1998-2006
Ashton Kutcher	...	Michael Kelso 183 episodes, 1998-2006
Topher Grace	...	Eric Forman 179 episodes, 1998-2006
Tanya Roberts	...	Midge Pinciotti 81 episodes, 1998-2004

Storyline

Eric Forman is a typical high school student growing up in Wisconsin in 1976 with his family and his friends. Together, they have the same kind of joys and sorrows that just about every teenager has while growing up. This show parodied many of the attitudes, events and fads of the 70s, along with those who grew up at the time.

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Plot Keywords:

wisconsin | rascal | basement | teenager | suburb | 

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Taglines:

Be Groovy. Be Very Groovy.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Official Sites:

Carsey Werner site Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 August 1998 (USA)

Also Known As:

Feelin' All Right

Filming Locations:

CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions,20th Century Fox Television,Carsey-Werner Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min (200 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mila Kunis was only fourteen when she auditioned for the show. When producers asked her age, she misled them by saying, "Well, I'll be eighteen on my birthday." and neglected to say what year.

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Goofs

In one episode, Kitty offers Fez and Hyde Snack Packs; when it shows the them open their Snack Packs, they are the modern plastic ones, when in the 70s, Snack Packs came in little tin cans.

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Quotes

[Jackie just got a job]
Michael Kelso: You got money? Cool. Let's go buy me that transformer.
Jackie Burkhardt: No, Michael. Money doesn't grow on trees. Ohh... Money DOESN'T grow on trees...

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Crazy Credits

During the opening credits of the episode where Fez dreams about the cast singing and dancing to some of the 70's most well known songs, the names of the cast members are in silver and two searchlights go across each name. Also, two searchlights go across the license plate at the end of the opening.

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Alternate Versions

During the original FOX run, the episodes featured a lot of music from that time-line. However, in order to avoid paying royalties, most of the music was changed with generic music starting with syndication airings, and these changes remained on the DVD and Blu-ray releases.

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Connections

Referenced in That '70s Show Special: The Final Goodbye (2006)

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Soundtracks

In the Street
(uncredited)
by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell
Sung by Todd Griffin
(Season 1)

User Reviews

What eighth season?

Over the years, we've seen a lot of preposterous things done by writers when the show just had to go on no matter what, keeping "8 Simple Rules" going after John Ritter died comes to mind, but this is probably the first time I cared. The idea of having "That 70's Show" without Eric or to a lesser extent Kelso is ridiculous. They tried to cover it up with a comeback of Leo and increasingly outrageous story lines, but it always felt like why bother when you don't have a main character anymore. It just didn't really connect, it was a bunch of unrelated stuff happening that most of the time wasn't even funny. The last season felt like the season too much for every single character, simply because Eric used to take a lot of screen time and now we'd be smashed in the face by how stale and repetitive the rest of the characters were. Focusing on the gimmick that is Fez was thoroughly uninteresting and the character would simply stop working, because the whole deal was that he'd say something weird from out of nowhere, and you can't say stuff from out of nowhere when every second line is yours. They also brought in the standard cousin Oliver, only this time it just wasn't a kid. Whenever you heard somebody knock on the door, you started praying it wasn't Randy, please let it not be Randy. The deal with Randy was that he'd do really awful jokes, usually as Red would say, smiling like an ass and totally screwing up delivery and Donna would be in stitches. I think more than half of the last season was Donna pretending to be amused. The problems had started earlier though: what once was a truly great show with an equally great concept that for once wasn't about a dysfunctional family slowly got into the territory of soap opera. Everybody started being in love with everybody, emotional scenes were dragged out at nausea, with just one usually lame joke placed somewhere to divert attention that we were watching "As The World Turns". I'm guessing this was character development, but come on that was written almost as clumsily as the moral lessons from "Family Matters". To be fair, the last episode, also because it had a cameo by Topher Grace (a cameo in his own show), was really good, even if not that funny either.

By the way, yet more criticism on Season 8: what the hell was with the opening theme? Not only did they use the same joke twice (a character not singing), Fez scared the hell out of me. Dude, don't open your eyes that far. But the first five seasons or so,among the best comedy ever broadcast.