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Can you guess the genre of forgotten 1970s TV shows?
Western or sci-fi? Cartoon or crime drama?
Some of the most influential shows of all time debuted in the 1970s. The decade is iconic for giving us characters like George Jefferson, Greg Brady, Hawkeye Pierce and all of Charlie's Angels.
But what about all those shows that history tends to forget? The decade debuted many short-lived series; some lasted a couple seasons and others just a few episodes.
Still, with names like Buck Rogers and Hec Ramsey, we think anyone familiar with the era will have a knack for sorting even the most forgotten shows into the correct TV genre.
Or is this quiz perhaps much harder than you might think? Let's find out!
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Alias Smith and Jones
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: B.J. and the Bear
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Barbary Coast
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Harry O
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Big Shamus, Little Shamus
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: The Barkleys
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: The Dumplings
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: The Fantastic Journey
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Hec Ramsey
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Monty Nash
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Dorothy
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Devlin
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Pick the correct genre for this Seventies show: Sam
Can you guess the genre of forgotten 1970s TV shows?
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That was kind of hard. 10/14. A few lucky guesses.
9/14
11/14
13 out of 14. Missed on BJ and the Bear. Yes, it could be funny sometimes, but they did do some dead serious episodes, which is why I said it was a drama and not a comedy.
Definitely could go either way on that one. I vacillated but chose comedy but it was like a dramady like many of the shows of that time. Just imagine if they had The Fall Guy on the list. Would that be crime, drama, or comedy?
You got 10 out of 14
You got 12 out of 14
Groovy! You hit just about every target we gave you! I've never heard of "Sam" and Big John, Little John was probably an NBC show and I was an ABC fan because they had my favorite shows on. Those are the two I got wrong.
Groovy! You hit just about every target we gave you! I've never heard of "Sam" and Big John, Little John was probably an NBC show and I was an ABC fan because they had my favorite shows on. Those are the two I got wrong.
You got 8 out of 14
Uh-oh, looks like this quiz took you for a ride!
NEVER thought of BJ & The Bear as a comedy (only watched it once, thought it was a crime show)
No, it was a comedy. It had a chimp in it, do you think that they could pull off a crime drama with a chimp and a big rig?
8/14 which surprised me (that I got so many, lol!). Some of us are scratching our heads over the "comedy" classification of BJ & The Bear; I wonder of the writer was thinking of the utterly execrable Me & The Chimp which starred Ted Bessel?
Also, I noticed no mention of Alias Smith & Jones being inspired by (Hell, it was a total rip-off) of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
Also, I noticed no mention of Alias Smith & Jones being inspired by (Hell, it was a total rip-off) of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.
One show that they could have used to swerve most people with would have been Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kids.
Some of the most irrelevant, obscure shows I've NEVER heard of....
9 out of 14
And you're right.
And you're right.
Sam, Dorothy and The Dumplings were shows that I can't remember ever hearing of before, so I guessed wrong on those, but the rest I got right.
I'd never heard of the either, but I got 2/3 right by guessing they were comedies. I thought Sam was a comedy too, but I got that wrong.
You got 11 out of 14
Groovy! You hit just about every target we gave you! Devlin was basically Evel Knievel without the license for it to be Evel Knievel. Good show from the early 70s though.
Groovy! You hit just about every target we gave you! Devlin was basically Evel Knievel without the license for it to be Evel Knievel. Good show from the early 70s though.
The difference was the kids and that it was set in a circus.
7 out of 13.
13 out of 14
Fantastic Voyage was about a 'medical team' shrunken to enter the human body in a submarine, to perform brain surgery.
You're right, but the clue was "Fantastic JOURNEY"
"Fantastic Voyage" was written by the late great sci-fi author Isaac Asimov.
4 right, hard quiz