70s: The Decade that Changed Television

• 2000
• Documentary

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Mike Farrell, Melissa Gilbert and Peter Falk are among the hosts for this clip-filled look at TV's "coming of age" in the 1970s and how the era's political and social strife colored the worlds of sitcoms, family and police dramas, variety shows and news programming. Interviewees include Alan Alda, Gloria Steinem, Aaron Spelling, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, Tom Fontana, Bea Arthur, Garry Marshall, Lynda Carter, Kate Jackson, Mike Wallace, Bob Costas, Suzanne Somers and Phil Donahue.