Forgotten TV From the 1970s Trivia
By Sarah Norman | April 14, 2024
How Many 70s Shows Can You Name?
Get ready to embark on a groovy journey down memory lane as we dive into a captivating slideshow gallery and quiz dedicated to the unforgettable TV shows of the 1970s. Brace yourselves for a nostalgic ride filled with laughter, drama, and memorable moments that shaped a generation. From the groundbreaking humor of All in the Family to the hilarious escapades of Three's Company, and the heartfelt camaraderie of MASH, this quiz will test your knowledge and bring back the familiar faces and catchy theme songs that once lit up your TV screens. So, dust off your bell-bottoms, turn up the disco tunes, and join us on this exciting trip through television history. Can you guess the shows from their iconic moments? Let's find out! Keep reading, and let the trivia challenge begin!
Correct Answer: Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Perry Mason or All in the Family?
Correct Answer: All in the Family
All in the Family was a sitcom TV series that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network for nine seasons, from January 1971 to April 1979. It starred Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers, and Rob Reiner.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Columbo or Barnaby Jones?
Correct Answer: Barnaby Jones
Barnaby Jones was a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as a father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, California. The show was introduced as a midseason replacement on the CBS network and broadcast from 1973 to 1980.
Name This '70s Show!
Is It MASH or Dragnet?
Correct Answer: MASH
MASH was a war comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983. The television series is the best-known of the MASH works and one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television history.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Happy Days or The Addams Family?
Correct Answer: Happy Days
Happy Days was a television sitcom that aired first-run from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. The series presented an idealized vision of life in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s Midwestern United States. It became one of the biggest hits in television history.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Star Search or The Carol Burnett Show?
Correct Answer: The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show was a variety sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. The show originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in the fall of 1991.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Get Smart or Columbo?
Correct Answer: Columbo
Columbo was a television series starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The character and show, created by Richard Levinson and William Link, popularized the inverted detective story format.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Mary Tyler Moore Show or Rescue 911?
Correct Answer: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. Its central character is a never-married, independent career woman, a rarity in American television in the early 1970s.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Barney Miller or St. Elsewhere?
Correct Answer: Barney Miller
Barney Miller was a sitcom set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village. The series was broadcast from January 23, 1975, to May 20, 1982, on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Dynasty or WKRP in Cincinnati?
Correct Answer: WKRP in Cincinnati
WKRP in Cincinnati was a sitcom that featured the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Taxi or Kate & Allie?
Correct Answer: Taxi
Taxi was a sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1978 to May 6, 1982 and on NBC from September 30, 1982 to June 15, 1983. It focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Bob Newhart Show or China Beach?
Correct Answer: The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show was a sitcom produced by MTM Enterprises that aired on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his wife, friends, patients, and fellow office workers.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Fame or The Odd Couple?
Correct Answer: The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple, formally titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, was a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC. It stars Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Cops or The Waltons?
Correct Answer: The Waltons
The Waltons was a television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain and a 1963 film of the same name, about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning in September 1972, the series subsequently aired on CBS for nine seasons.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Cheers or Saturday Night Live
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Three's Company or Cheers?
Correct Answer: Three's Company
Three's Company was a sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. The story revolves around three single roommates: Janet Wood, Chrissy Snow, and Jack Tripper, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The A-Team or The Brady Bunch?
Correct Answer: The Brady Bunch
The Brady Bunch was a sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC. The series revolves around a large blended family with six children.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Charles in Charge or The Love Boat?
Correct Answer: The Love Boat
The Love Boat was a comedy television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from May 5, 1977, until May 24, 1986. The series revolves around the ship's captain and a handful of its crew, with several passengers—played by various guest actors for each episode—having romantic and humorous adventures.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Sanford and Son or The Twilight Zone?
Correct Answer: Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son was a sitcom that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977. Known for its edgy racial humor, running gags and catchphrases, the series was adapted by Norman Lear and considered NBC's answer to CBS's All in the Family.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Six Million Dollar Man or Hogan's Heroes?
Correct Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man
The Six Million Dollar Man was a science fiction and action television series about a former astronaut, Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by American actor Lee Majors. It aired on the ABC network as a regular episodic series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Rockford Files or Hawaii Five-O?
Correct Answer: Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O was an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Welcome Back, Kotter or Highway to Heaven?
Correct Answer: Welcome Back, Kotter
Welcome Back, Kotter was a sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a sardonic high school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial class called the "Sweathogs". It originally aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, to May 17, 1979.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Rockford Files or The Monkees?
Correct Answer: The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files was a television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery Jr., a retired truck driver nicknamed "Rocky".
Name this 70s Show!
Is it L.A. Law or Fantasy Island?
Correct Answer: Fantasy Island
Fantasy Island was a television series that originally aired on the ABC network from 1977 to 1984. It starred Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke who grants the fantasies of visitors to the titular island for a price. The series was created by Gene Levitt.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Quincy, M.E. or Murder, She Wrote?
Correct Answer: Quincy, M.E.
Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) was a medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. Jack Klugman stars in the title role, as a Los Angeles County medical examiner.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Charlie's Angels or 21 Jump Street?
Correct Answer: Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels was a crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 110 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aaron Spelling.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Laverne & Shirley or Moonlighting?
Correct Answer: Laverne & Shirley
Laverne & Shirley was a television sitcom that ran for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983. It followed the lives of Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it ALF or Mork & Mindy?
Correct Answer: Mork & Mindy
Mork & Mindy was a sitcom that aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982. It starred Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Seinfeld or Soap?
Correct Answer: Soap
Soap was a sitcom that originally ran on ABC from September 13, 1977 until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Emergency! or Gunsmoke?
Correct Answer: Emergency!
Emergency! was a television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It debuted on NBC as a midseason replacement on January 15, 1972, and ran until May 28, 1977. It was created and produced by Jack Webb and Robert A. Cinader.
Name This '70s Show!
Is it Married...with Children or One Day at a Time?
Correct Answer: One Day at a Time
One Day at a Time was a sitcom that aired on CBS from December 16, 1975, until May 28, 1984. It starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother raising two teenage daughters in Indianapolis. The daughters were played by Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Roots or MacGyver?
Correct Answer: Roots
Roots was a television miniseries. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977. It was produced on a budget of $6.6 million. The series introduced LeVar Burton in the role of Kunta Kinte.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Family Ties or The Jeffersons?
Correct Answer: The Jeffersons
The Jeffersons was a sitcom that was broadcast on CBS on January 18, 1975. It is the second-longest-running American series with a primarily African American cast and the first to prominently feature a married interracial couple.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Sesame Street or The Jetsons?
Correct Answer: Sesame Street
Sesame Street was an educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation, and puppetry. It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The series premiered on November 10, 1969. It has aired on the U.S.'s national public television provider PBS since its debut.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Who's the Boss? or Gunsmoke?
Correct Answer: Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke was a radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Wonder Woman or Bionic Woman?
Correct Answer: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman was a television series based on the DC Comics comic book superhero of the same name. The show stars Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor Sr. & Jr. It originally aired for three seasons from 1975 to 1979.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Starsky and Hutch or Saved by the Bell?
Correct Answer: Starsky and Hutch
Starsky & Hutch was an action television series. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast from April 1975 to May 1979 on the ABC network.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Fall Guy or The Partridge Family?
Correct Answer: The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family was a musical sitcom starring Shirley Jones and featuring David Cassidy. Jones played a widowed mother, and Cassidy played the oldest of her five children who embarked on a music career. It ran from September 25, 1970, until March 23, 1974, on the ABC network as part of a Friday-night lineup.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Midnight Special or The Flip Wilson Show?
Correct Answer: The Midnight Special
The Midnight Special was a late-night musical variety series originally broadcast on NBC during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Burt Sugarman. It premiered as a special on August 19, 1972, then began its run as a regular series on February 2, 1973; its last episode was on May 1, 1981.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Little House on the Prairie or Roseanne?
Correct Answer: Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie was a western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle, and Melissa Sue Anderson, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The series premiered on the NBC network on September 11, 1974, and last aired on May 10, 1982.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Adam-12 or The Greatest American Hero?
Correct Answer: Adam-12
Adam-12 was a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit 1-Adam-12. The show ran from September 21, 1968 through May 20, 1975.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Newhart or Bonanza?
Correct Answer: Bonanza
Bonanza was an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973. The show is set in the 1860s and it centers on the wealthy Cartwright family that live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Full House or The Scooby-Doo Show?
Correct Answer: The Scooby-Doo Show
The Scooby-Doo Show was an animated mystery comedy series. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC, marking the first Scooby series to appear on the network.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Good Times or Perfect Strangers?
Correct Answer: Good Times
Good Times was a sitcom that aired on CBS from February 8, 1974, to August 1, 1979. Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer, it was television's first African American two-parent family sitcom.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Remington Steele or Rhoda?
Correct Answer: Rhoda
Rhoda was a sitcom starring Valerie Harper which aired from September 9, 1974, to December 9, 1978. Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards' best friend.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Muppet Show or Fraggle Rock?
Correct Answer: The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show was a family-oriented comedy-variety television series that was produced by puppeteer Jim Henson and features The Muppets. The show lasted for five series consisting of 120 episodes which were first broadcast in Britain between September 5, 1976 and March 15, 1981 on ATV.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Dallas or Matlock?
Correct Answer: Dallas
Dallas was a prime-time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978 to May 3, 1991. The series revolves around a wealthy and feuding Texas family, the Ewings, who own the independent oil company Ewing Oil and the cattle-ranching land of Southfork.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it The Dukes of Hazzard or Daniel Boone?
Correct Answer: The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard was an action-comedy television series that aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985. The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Alice or Green Acres?
Correct Answer: Alice
Alice was a sitcom that aired on CBS from August 31, 1976, to March 19, 1985. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Hart to Hart or Baretta?
Correct Answer: Baretta
Baretta was a detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975–78. The show was a revised milder version of a 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
Name this 70s Show!
Is it Gimme a Break! or Night Gallery?
Correct Answer: Night Gallery
Night Gallery was an anthology series that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts.
