New Series 1975

the Vinnie Barbarino song

Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979) Stand up comedian Gabe Kaplan created and starred in this classroom farce from characters in his own life going to school in Brooklyn. He plays remedial teacher Gabe Kaplan who must keep his room of Sweathogs out of trouble. Ron Palilo played class clown Arnold Horshach, Robert Hegyes the hard Puerto Rican Epstein, with John Travolta stealing the show as the Italian pretty boy Vinnie Barbarino who immortalized the line "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" Also staring Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs. Welcome back page

The Jeffersons (1975-1985) A week after a a tearful Edith Bunker said goodbye to her neighbor friend Louise Jefferson one of the most popular sitcom spinoffs aired the following week, Starring Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley it went on to become the longest running television show with a black cast. The Jeffersons.at Wiki

Barney Miller (1975-1982) A police sitcom starring Hal Linden as Captain Miller who played the straight man keeping his weird group of New York Cops in line. Remembered mostly for the dead pan acting of Abe Vigoda and hothead dummy Wojciehowicz played by Max Gail. The squad was culturally diverse with Japanese actor Jack Soo and African American Ron Glass. A Barney Miller Blog

One Day at a Time intro theme song

One Day at a Time (1975-1984) This Norman Lear sitcom did as well as All in the Family and the Jeffersons. It starred Bonnie Franklin as the single mother to a good daughter played by Valerie Bertinelli and a bad daughter played by Mackenzie Phillips. The show tackled women's issues of the day with comic relief provided by macho apartment super Pat Harrington Jr. One Day at a Time at museum tv

Baretta (1975-1978) The show as a calmer extension of the 1974 success called Toma which got nixed for excessive realism. Robert Blake plays New Jersey undercover cop Tony Baretta, Fred his talking Cockatoo and a closet full of disguises. The Baretta Gallery

Phyllis (1975-1977)

Space: 1999 (1975-1977)

Most Watched 1975 - 1976

1 All in the Family
2 Rich Man Poor Man
3 Laverne and Shirley
4 Maude
5 The Bionic Woman
6 Phyllis
7 Sanford and Son
8 Rhoda
9 The Six-Million-Dollar Man
10 The ABC Monday Night Movie
11 Happy Days
12 One Day at a Time
13 The ABC Sunday Night Movie
14 The Waltons
15 M*A*S*H
16 Starsky and Hutch
17 Good Heavens
18 Welcome Back Kotter
19 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
20 Kojak

Series End 1975

Ironside (1967-1975)
The Odd Couple (1970-1975)
Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
Mannix (1967-1975)
How to Survive a Marriage (1974-1975)
Kung Fu (1972-1975)