📺 Telefilm
In Italia “telefilm” è il nome diventato popolare soprattutto tra gli anni ’60 e ’90 per indicare produzioni televisive di finzione a episodi, spesso autoconclusivi o con una continuità narrativa leggera.
Storie, personaggi e appuntamenti televisivi di Anni 70.
In Italia “telefilm” è il nome diventato popolare soprattutto tra gli anni ’60 e ’90 per indicare produzioni televisive di finzione a episodi, spesso autoconclusivi o con una continuità narrativa leggera.
“Serie TV” è il termine moderno e generale: comprende sia episodi autonomi sia storie serializzate che continuano da una puntata all’altra. Molti classici chiamati telefilm sono quindi, tecnicamente, serie TV.
Rete: Syndication
All That Glitters is an American sitcom by producer Norman Lear. It consisted of 65 episodes, running five nights a week between April 18 and July 15, 1977, in broadcast syndication. The show, a spoof of the soap opera format, depicted the trials and tribulations of a group of executives at the Globatron corporation.
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Soap (TV series)
Rete: ABC
Soap is an American sitcom television series that originally ran on ABC for four seasons, from September 13, 1977, until April 20, 1981. The show was created as a nighttime parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format, and featured melodramatic plotlines including alien abduction, demonic possession, extramarital affairs, murder, kidnapping, unknown diseases, amnesia, cults, organized crime, a communist revolution, and teacher-student relationships.
Protagonisti: Katherine Helmond, Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, Robert Mandan, Diana Canova
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: ABC
Carter Country is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 15, 1977, to August 23, 1979. It starred Victor French and Kene Holliday. A young Melanie Griffith appeared in two episodes.
Protagonisti: Victor French
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: BBC One
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. The main character's name comes from Winston Smith in Orwell's '1984' (claims that it was an alias of Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone whilst living in Paris are an internet urban legend with no foundation), with the first name being a reference to German poet and dissident Wolf Biermann's 1973 song "(Hasta Siempre) Commandante Che Guevara".
Protagonisti: Robert Lindsay, Mike Grady, Cheryl Hall, Hilda Braid, Peter Vaughan
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: ABC
Fish is an American sitcom and a spin-off of Barney Miller that aired on ABC from February 5, 1977 to May 18, 1978. The series starred Abe Vigoda as New York City Police Department Detective Phil Fish and Florence Stanley as his wife Bernice.
Protagonisti: Abe Vigoda, Florence Stanley, Barry Gordon
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Lou Grant (TV series)
Rete: CBS
Lou Grant is an American drama television series starring Ed Asner in the title role as a newspaper editor that aired on CBS from September 20, 1977, to September 13, 1982. The third spin-off (after Rhoda and Phyllis) of the American sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant was created by James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, and Gene Reynolds.
Protagonisti: Ed Asner, Robert Walden, Linda Kelsey, Mason Adams, Jack Bannon
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: ABC
Operation Petticoat is an American sitcom that was based on the 1959 film by the same name. It was broadcast on ABC for two seasons, from September 17, 1977, until June 29, 1979. The first season starred John Astin as the skipper of the submarine, as well as Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father Tony Curtis had starred in the 1959 film.
Protagonisti: John Astin
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: NBC
Quark is a 1977 American science fiction sitcom starring Richard Benjamin. Broadcast on Friday nights at 8:00–8:30 p.m. on NBC, the pilot aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978.
Protagonisti: Richard Benjamin
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Three's Company
Rete: ABC
Three's Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. Developed by Don Nicholl, Michael Ross and Bernie West, it is based on the British sitcom Man About the House created by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The story revolves around three single roommates: Jack Tripper, Janet Wood, and Chrissy Snow, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California, apartment complex owned by Stanley and Helen Roper.
Protagonisti: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1977.
Rete: PBS
¿Qué Pasa, USA? (Spanish: What's Happening, USA?) is an American situation comedy. It was the first US sitcom to be bilingual, and the first to be produced for PBS.
Protagonisti: Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1976.
Alice (American TV series)
Rete: CBS
Alice is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from August 31, 1976, to March 19, 1985. The series is based on director Martin Scorsese's 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin as Alice Hyatt, a widow who moves with her young son to start life over again and finds a job working at a roadside diner in Phoenix, Arizona.
Protagonisti: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon, Polly Holliday
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1976.
Rete: ITV
George and Mildred is a British sitcom produced by Thames Television and first aired between 1976 and 1979. It is a spin-off from Man About the House, and starred Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce as constantly-sparring married couple George and Mildred Roper. The premise of the series had George and Mildred leaving their flat as depicted in Man About the House and moving to a modern, upmarket housing estate in Hampton Wick.
Protagonisti: Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Norman Eshley, Sheila Fearn, Roy Kinnear
Curiosità: Titolo verificato tramite Wikipedia e Wikidata. Debutto collocato nel 1976.