The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski. Intended as a series of "personal view" documentaries in t...
Rating: 8.8
Genres: Documentary
Cast: Jacob Bronowski, Joss Ackland, Roy Dotrice, Stefan Bor-Grajewicz
Ogami Itto is a master swordsman who holds a position of high power in the Tokugawa Shogunate. Highly trusted by the Shogun, he serves as the official decapitator, assisting lords and samurai who have been ordered by the Shogun to com...
Rating: 8.2
Genres: Action & Adventure
Cast:
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin...
Rating: 5.3
Genres: Soap, Drama
Cast: Eric Braeden, Doug Davidson, Peter Bergman, Joshua Morrow, Melody Thomas Scott, Sharon Case
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up a...
Rating: 7.1
Genres: Comedy
Cast: Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Robert Fyfe, Juliette Kaplan, Jean Fergusson
First transmitted in 1972, Alistair Cooke's America was a series of thirteen, fifty-minute films in colour, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke. The programmes trace the history of the United States from the early voyages of discov...
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Alistair Cooke
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu....
Rating: 7.6
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Cast: David Carradine, Radames Pera, Keye Luke, Philip Ahn, James Hong, Tad Horino
Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudu...
Rating: 7.8
Genres: News
Cast: Erica Johnson, Wendy Mesley, David Common, Bill Paul, Charlsie Agro, Jacquie Perrin
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contempora...
Rating: 6.6
Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama
Cast: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt, Yasuko Nagazumi, Anthony Chinn, Michael Da Costa
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of de...
Rating: 7.3
Genres: Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure
Cast: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Reuben Collins, Richard Hatch, Stephen Bradley, Lee Harris
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctor...
Rating: 8.5
Genres: War & Politics, Drama, Comedy
Cast: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Harry Morgan
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his...
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz, Jack Riley
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II....
Genres: Drama
Cast: Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Kami Cotler, Judy Norton, David W. Harper
Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several...
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cast: George Peppard, Ralph Manza, Murray Matheson, Christine Belford, George Murdock, Linden Chiles
Well-educated and upper middle class, Maude Findlay is the archetypal feminist of her generation. She lives in suburban Tuckahoe, New York, with her fourth husband, Walter, their divorced daughter, Carol, and grandson Phillip....
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Cast: Bea Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Adrienne Barbeau, Rue McClanahan, Hermione Baddeley
Josie and the gang are accidentally launched into space....
Rating: 6.8
Genres: Animation, Family, Kids
Cast: Jackie Joseph, Casey Kasem, Janet Waldo, Don Messick, Sherry Alberoni, Jerry Dexter
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the se...
Rating: 6.7
Genres: Animation, Comedy
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan is a 1972 TV series made by Australia's Eric Porter Studios for American Hanna-Barbera Studios and CBS. It premiered shortly after what would have been Charlie Chan creator Earl Derr Biggers' 88th bi...
Rating: 6.3
Genres: Animation
Cast: Keye Luke, Cynthia Adler, Gene Andrusco, Jodie Foster, Lisa Gerritsen, John Gunn
Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its predecessor in the addition of a rotating special guest star slot; each episode featured real-life celebrities or well known fictional charact...
Genres: Animation, Mystery, Comedy, Kids, Family
Cast: Nicole Jaffe, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North, Frank Welker, John Stephenson
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's...
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith, Trevor Bannister
"Come on down!" The Price Is Right features a wide variety of games and contests with the same basic challenge: Guess the prices of everyday (or not-quite-everyday) retail items. ...
Rating: 7.5
Genres: Reality
Cast: Bob Barker, Janice Pennington, Dian Parkinson, Holly Hallstrom, Rod Roddy, Johnny Olson
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