I miss 70's Variety Shows

[Mikey]

What was your top fav 70's variety shows ?

Mine was

Tony Orlando and Dawn

Bobby Vinton

Sha-Na-Na


how about you ?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I wish they'd make a comeback, if nothing more than to get rid of the reality shows.

I remember them, but I was really young. Donny and Marie sticks out in my mind.

Chris

[GordoCrisp]

At the time, I would have said "The Donny & Marie Show."

Now, for sheer weirdness and 70's wackiness: "The Gong Show."

[Mego Magyar]

Hands down - Carol Burnett.

[Mikey]

Hands down - Carol Burnett.

I think i'm the only person in the whole world that don't care for the Carol Burnett show.

My family would die laughing when Tim Conway would do his baby steps walk but i'd sit there thinking - that isn't funny

[Earth 2 Chris]

I consider Carol Burnett more of a skit comedy show. That was a must watch at our house.

Mikey, first Cathy Lee Crosby is hotter than Lynda Carter, and now this. Are you from Bizarro World?

Chris

[EMCE Hammer]

I think Harvey Korman is one of the funniest people who ever lived.

No love for Dean Martin?

[Mikey]

We never really watched the Dean Martin show

We did watch the Glen Campbell show

edited to add -- we watched the Johnny Cash show too

[LonnieFisher]

Hee-Haw?

[GordoCrisp]

Hee-Haw?

Y'all redneckinize!

[Earth 2 Chris]

I think Harvey Korman is one of the funniest people who ever lived.

Yes. Even withou Carol Burnett, there's Blazing Saddles...

edited to add -- we watched the Johnny Cash show too

Too young to have seen Johnny's show, although I would have loved it. I have the lone DVD they released. Fantastic stuff.

Hee-Haw?

I guess Hee-Haw would be a variety show. I tend to think of it just as a country music show. In that case, it wins. That was must-watch TV for a good chunk of my childhood. Every Saturday night. One of the few programs my Dad would stop to watch without fail.

Chris

[jimsmegos]

Hee Haw was king around our house. The Rodney Dangerfield specials also took top spots. And of course Dean Martin. To this day no other past entertainer mesmerizes me more than Dean. All around entertainer. And with that said, there is a prime reason as to why the variety show doesn't have a shot ( one of many really) but there aren't that many well rounded entertainers. Most of the folks we've put in the spotlight these days are one trick ponies. Not knocking them when I say that, but it is what it is.

[jwyblejr]

Lawrence Welk. Nah. I miss game shows more than I miss variety shows.

[Hector]

My sister and I had various different tastes in TV programming (we still do), but one show we both religiously watched together back in the day was The Donny and Marie Show, she was definitely a little bit country, and I was a little bit rock n' roll, lol.

[Mikey]

Anybody else remember Shields and Yarnell ?

They had a variety show and their thing was acting like robots.