QUIZ: Do You Know ’70s TV As Well As You Think?

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The ’70s were full of tremendous TV shows. From Three’s Company to Good Times, you could always count on finding a good show on the tube. Now go through this fun quiz and see if you can identify these ’70s TV shows.

Which show is this?

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Retry Correct Incorrect The answer is Alice. The series was based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and starred Linda Lavin as a young widow and mother who works at a roadside diner in Phoenix, Arizona

CBS

Which show is this?

Charlie’s Angels
The Love Boat
Alice
Happy Days

These guys mean business.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Miami Vice? Wrong, the answer is Chips. The series, which ran for six seasons, is about two motorcycle officers with the California Highway Patrol (CHP). It starred Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada.

NBC

These guys mean business.

Fantasy Island
Miami Vice
Chips
Law and Order

The family was big so they needed her.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Did you get it right? It’s The Brady Bunch! Ann B. Davis played the housekeeper Alice on the beloved sitcom, which is about a large blended family with six children.

ABC

The family was big so they needed her.

All in the Family
The Partridge Family
Happy Days
The Brady Bunch

We wonder what they are plotting.

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Retry Correct Incorrect They’re trying to find a new roommate! The answer is Three’s Company. Based on a British sitcom, Three’s Company revolves around three roommates who live together in Santa Monica. The show starred John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, and more.

The Brady Bunch
M*A*S*H
Maude
Three’s Company

Every stereotype was believed in this show.

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Retry Correct Incorrect It might have been a sitcom but All In The Family took on issues like racism, homosexuality, religion, the Vietnam War, and more. Many look back on it as one of the most influential television programs of the decade.

Tandem Productions

Every stereotype was believed in this show.

Barnaby Jones
All in the Family
Emergency!
Scandal

What family is this?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Premiering on September 25, 1970, The Partridge Family was about a family pop music group. It starred Shirley Jones as a widowed mother. The show ran for four seasons, until March 23, 1974.

The Partridge Family
The Carol Burnett Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
All in the Family

This show is iconic.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Happy Days is one of the most iconic shows of the ’70s. Rickie Cunningham and The Fonz made for a hilarious pair. The show ran for 11 seasons and inspired five different spin-offs!

Good Times
I Dream of Jeannie
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Happy Days

Don’t mess with these ladies.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The original Charlie’s Angels television series aired from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981. The show was so popular that it spawned subsequent television shows and a film franchise.

ABC

Don’t mess with these ladies.

The Bionic Woman
Bewitched
Three’s Company
Charlie’s Angels

Tattoo was a central character in this show.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Fantasy Island, created by Gene Levitt, is a fantasy drama series that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1984. Mr. Roarke was played by actor Ricardo Montalbán, and his sidekick “Tattoo” was portrayed by Hervé Villechaize.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Fantasy Island
The Dean Martin Show
McMilan and Wife

They sure are dressed nicely. Must be a special dinner.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Airing on ABC from 1977 to 1986, The Love Boat was a romantic comedy/drama television series set aboard a luxury passenger cruise ship. It was part of the network’s hit Saturday-night lineup.

The Love Boat
WKRP in Cincinnati
Rhoda
Columbo

If the outfits give it away, we’re sorry.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Little House on the Prairie centered around the Ingalls family as they grew up on a small farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. The show is known for being a coming-of-age series.

Baretta
Green Acres
Bonanza
Little House on the Prairie

This series showed a different side of war.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The television series M*A*S*H was actually a spin-off of the 1970 feature film, which was in turn inspired by a 1968 novel. The show followed a group of characters stationed in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.

Kojak
One Day at a Time
Good Times
M*A*S*H

She wasn’t Wonder Woman, but sure was close.

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Retry Correct Incorrect A spin-off from the Six Million Dollar Man sci-fi action series, The Bionic Woman starred Lindsay Wagner as the professional tennis player Jaime Sommers. A remake of the series was produced in 2007.

ABC

She wasn’t Wonder Woman, but sure was close.

The Bionic Woman
Maude
Bewitched
The Mary Moore Show

Which show would you tune into to watch Jim?

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Retry Correct Incorrect The detective drama The Rockford Files aired on NBC from 1974 to 1980 for a total of six seasons. James Garner played a Los Angeles–based private investigator named Jim Rockford.

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Which show would you tune into to watch Jim?

Bonanza
Barney Miller
Baretta
The Rockford Files

Two divorced men lived together in this show.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Starring Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison, the sitcom follows two divorced men as they live and work in Manhattan. The Odd Couple aired from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975.

The Streets of San Francisco
Benson
Mannix
The Odd Couple

Watch out, you big dummy.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The answer is Sanford and Son. The edgy show featured Redd Foxx as the cranky but lovable Fred G. Sanford and Demond Wilson as Fred’s son Lamont, as well as their hilarious friends and family.

NBC

Watch out, you big dummy.

The Jeffersons
Sanford and Son
Good Times
Happy Days

Something major is about to go down here.

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Retry Correct Incorrect This sitcom was set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village. Barney Miller aired from from January 23, 1975, to May 20, 1982.

Welcome Back, Kotter
Barney Miller
Columbo
Fantasy Island

Who could forget the antics from this show?

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Retry Correct Incorrect The Jeffersons was the second series spin-off of All in the Family. It focused on a prosperous couple George and Louise Jefferson, who had previously been neighbors to Archie and Edith Bunker.

The Jeffersons
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Family Matters
Good Times

This was a sitcom that was as real as it gets.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Maude was the first spin-off of All in the Family, and followed Edith’s cousin Maude Findlay. Maude is an outspoken, Democrat, liberal, feminist woman and the show touched on many of these issues.

Vega$
One Day at a Time
Rhoda
Maude

Looks like they’re getting a serious scolding.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Reporting from Planet Ork, the answer is Mork and Mindy. The popular show was a spin-off of Happy Days and starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial being, and Pam Dawber as Mindy McConnell.

Mork and Mindy
Adam -12
M*A*S*H
All in the Family

We have another crime drama here. Let’s see if you know your stuff.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The Mod Squad starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews. The crime drama series aired for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973.

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We have another crime drama here. Let’s see if you know your stuff.

How the West Was Won
Barnaby Jones
The Mod Squad
Room 222

The struggle to raise the kids was real.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Good Times followed Florida and James Evans as they raise their family in inner-city Chicago. The show is actually a spin-off of a spin-off, as Florida Evans was a housekeeper on the show Maude.

Stranger Things
Good Times
Full house
Family Matters

Everyone wished they had a friend like this.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The television series Lassie premiered in 1954 and lasted all the way into 1973! The dog stole our hearts and always saved the day. Notably, the show transitioned into color in 1964.

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Everyone wished they had a friend like this.

Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
Lassie
Hogan’s Heroes
Green Acres

He was a New York detective and had no fear of bending the rules.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Kojak was a police drama that was much more gritty than the ’70s had previously seen. Detective Lt. Theo Kojak was tough, incorruptible, and had a bald head we could never forget.

Kojak
Taxi
Emergency!
Baretta

The were polar opposites but it worked.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Another spin-off of Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley was about two polar opposite best friends and roommates. The actresses were praised for their use of physical comedy in the ’70s show.

13 Reasons Why
Good Times
Master of None
Laverne and Shirley

Another one based in New York… here, they were just trying to make it to their chosen profession.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Premiering in 1978, Taxi was a sitcom that followed a group of every day taxi drivers who got into trouble and tried to avoid their abusive boss. The series only last 5 seasons but won 18 Emmy Awards during its time on the air.

One Day at a Time
The Dukes of Hazzard
Rhoda
Taxi

It was a parody of sorts…

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Retry Correct Incorrect If you couldn’t tell by the name, Soap was a parody of daytime soap operas that became increasingly popular in the ’70s. The show chose outrageous parody plots like alien abductions and demonic possession.

The Midnight Special
Soap
Dallas
Kung Fu

LeVar Burton debuted as an actor in this mini-series.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Roots was an eight-part mini-series that followed the character Kunta Kinte and his descendants. The show and the novel it was based on are credited with driving interest and appreciated for African-American history and genealogy.

Hogan’s Heroes
Roots
What’s Happening!
Saturday Night Live

He was based in Los Angeles and the show was based on a book.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Jack Klugman starred in the title role as a Los Angeles County medical examiner who participates in police investigations. Quincy M.E. aired on NBC from October 3, 1976, to May 11, 1983.

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He was based in Los Angeles and the show was based on a book.

Marcus Welby, M.D.
Quincy, M.E.
McCloud
Emergency!

Riding through the streets of L.A., this drama was loved.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Adam- 12 tried to be as realistic as possible. The police procedural drama follows (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they cruise the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam–12

Dukes of Hazzard
Adam- 12
Welcome Back, Kotter
Night Gallery

Romance is brewing between these two, but which show are they from?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Set in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II, The Waltons is one of the most beloved shows of all time. The show was produced by Lorimar Productions.

CBS

Romance is brewing between these two, but which show are they from?

The Bob Newhart Show
The Waltons
Taxi
Gunsmoke

This show was a comedy drama about a newspaper columnist.

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Retry Correct Incorrect This popular comedy-drama series aired on ABC from March 15, 1977, until May 23, 1981. It was based on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Tom Braden, a real-life parent with eight children.

The Dean Martin Show
Maude
Chico and the Man
Eight is Enough

The protagonist was a widower.

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Retry Correct Incorrect My Three Sons is the story about a widower that originally ran from 1960 through 1965, and then it moved to CBS through the end of its run on April 13, 1972.

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The protagonist was a widower.

Vega$
Lou Grant
Knots Landing
My Three Sons

This was the first sitcom with a never-married, independent career woman as the main character.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Mary Tyler Moore starred as Mary Richards who was the first unmarried, independent working woman. The show is looked back as being groundbreaking for the ’70s and received 29 Primetime Emmy Awards during its time on the air.

Petticoat Junction
Maude
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
WKRP in Cincinnati

He was a consultant in the city of San Francisco.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Raymond Burr played the title character of Robert T. Ironside, who was paralyzed after being shot on vacation. The show lasted from 1967-1975, and in 2013 a remake of the show aired on NBC.

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He was a consultant in the city of San Francisco.

Maude
Mannix
Family
Ironside

They were a special team.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Long before Tom Cruise was doing the impossible, this team led by Steven Hill and Peter Graves was doing it. Mission: Impossible first aired from 1966-1973 and followed the team of five secret government agents.

McMillan and Wife
Kung Fu
Mission: Impossible
The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour

In which TV show can you find Natalie Green?

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Retry Correct Incorrect Played by Mindy Cohn, the character Natalie Green lives in a dormitory at the fictional Eastland School, a private all-girls school. The Facts of Life first aired on NBC on August 24, 1979.

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In which TV show can you find Natalie Green?

The Odd Couple
The Facts of Life
Get Smart
Petticoat Junction

This show led to a spin-off for one of the answers mentioned earlier..

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Retry Correct Incorrect The spinoff was the Bionic Woman and the answer is The Six Million Dollar Man

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This show led to a spin-off for one of the answers mentioned earlier..

Welcome Back, Kotter
Maude
Benson
The Six Million Dollar Man

They moved from the Big Apple to a much smaller place.

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Retry Correct Incorrect They moved to a country farm hence the name, Green Acres.

Knots Landing
Green Acres
The Odd Couple
Hogan’s Heroes

It was a long-running private eye series.

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Retry Correct Incorrect If you chose Mannix, then you are right.

Mannix
Mayberry R.F.D
S.W.A.T.
Cannon

This one focused on an American History class.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Might have been obvious, but the answer is Room 222.

Room 222
Ellery Queen
Vega$
Hee Haw

He worked with his daughter-in-law.

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Retry Correct Incorrect The correct answer is Barnaby Jones

Ellery Queen
Barnaby Jones
Family
Mayberry R.F.D.

He taught his alma mater, the Sweathogs.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Mr. Kotter returned to his alma mater.

WkRP in Cincinnati
Welcome Back, Kotter
Maude
Petticoat Junction

He was a mystery writer.

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Retry Correct Incorrect Ellery Queen was a mystery writer that deciphered clues.

The Dean Martin Show
Ellery Queen
Hong Kong Phooey
Night Gallery

The show took place in North Carolina

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Retry Correct Incorrect Sam Jones lived life in Mayberry, North Carolina.

Family
Cannon
Mayberry R.F.D.
Benson

Things were handled with these two on the case

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Retry Correct Incorrect The Streets of San Francisco is the correct answer.

Bad Boys
Miami Vice
S.W.A.T.
The Streets of San Francisco

A system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals is?

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Retry Correct Incorrect That question is the term Dragnet which was also the name of this show.

Eight is Enough
Dragnet
Hawaii Five-O
One Time

It appears as if he is about to undergo a change…

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Retry Correct Incorrect Marvel’s own, The Incredible Hulk.

The Incredible Hulk
Gunsmoke
Kung Fu
Barney Miller

Congrats, you finished! Here are your results:

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Retry Well, you must have been born in the ’90s! You know a couple, but not good enough… Okay, you tuned in a little bit. That’s what we’re talking about, great job!

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