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The Seventies
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Television Gets Real

  • Episode aired Jun 11, 2015
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The Seventies (2015)
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The 1970s were known for extremes, perhaps nowhere more than on television. PBS and C-SPAN launched, but so did "The Love Boat" and "Three's Company."The 1970s were known for extremes, perhaps nowhere more than on television. PBS and C-SPAN launched, but so did "The Love Boat" and "Three's Company."The 1970s were known for extremes, perhaps nowhere more than on television. PBS and C-SPAN launched, but so did "The Love Boat" and "Three's Company."

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    • Muhammad Ali
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    For the most part, I can handle myself in any conversation about the '70s; except TV, which is why 'Television Gets Real' is a great to kick-off the miniseries. It was the real start of our spin off culture, and this was enlightening for so many shows, but it also has time to cover alternative television (PBS, Monty Python, HBO). Even the analysis of the birth of Monday Night Football is interesting (and I don't give a rip about football). That's saying something.

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