Now you have 5 networks and several cable channels like AMC and HBO that have television stars that are sometimes bigger than what’s on the network. The television climate was different in the 1970’s when there were only 3 networks and less than 20% of homes had cable television. Why won’t you see this again? Several reasons. By the way, have you ever been to a sporting competition that included Simon Says and a dunk tank as athletic events? It was such a slice of the 1970’s because they would have slow motion video of some buxom actresses like Cheryl Ladd and Adrienne Barbeau, which was memorialized in the Saturday Night Live spoof ad for “Network Battle of the T’s & A’s”. It was a ratings bonanza for 13 years with semi-annual competitions and it was kind of odd for ABC to advertise the televisions stars of competing networks. My knock in the 1970’s is dealing with the fashion (leisure suits and ruffled tuxedo shirts never came back in style) and the décoretwr (too much love for brown and yellow)/ There are just many pop culture moments that are germane to the 1970’s and can’t be effectively replicated again and one of those moments is Battle of The Network Stars.įor those born after 1980, Battle of the Network Stars was an athletic competition where television stars from ABC, CBS, and NBC would compete for network “supremacy”. Music in the 1970’s is a mix bag because it’s the decade that gave us disco.
It’s not a knock on TV in the 70’s as it gave us All in The Family, M*A*S*H, The Rockford Files, and Dallas. That’s not a knock on cinema in the 70’s because it’s the decade that gave us The Godfather I & II, The French Connection, Star Wars, Jaws, and The Deer Hunter. I always refer that the 1970’s is the decade where good taste went to die. This is going to be the first in a series of articles regarding pop culture moments that you won’t see again and why.
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