Quincy at times sounded like a carry-over of the preachy scenes from the 1960s Dragnet series, with punks replacing hippies. Both shows were about an older generation having trouble reacting to social change, but there was at least an earnestness in Joe Friday, perhaps because the views expressed were often his own.…

The A Team! Da da da da, da da da…

Amazing Stories on Sunday nights…anyone remember that show? Also Moonlighting, and Simon & Simon (which I dug because I lived in San Diego back then.)

Quantum Leap apparently wanted to do a Magnum PI crossover episode with Sam leaping into Magnum.

And beg for it the rest of the time, along with some of Robin's high-end (for the time) camera equipment…

If you can find them, there are early clips of Selleck on The Dating Game sans mustache, he looks totally unrecognizable.

The mid to late Seventies were a transitional time. The Sixties were over and already relatively ancient history except that at the time people weren't nostalgic for them ("The Radical," another Miller episode, touches on this.) My memories include a bean bag chair, dark kitchen with avocado fridge, plastic stickers…

The best part of the episode was when Murphy made her speech at the end and introduced the families-America was (and is) a different place than Bush and Quayle wanted it to be. The two made a series of out-of-touch missteps in the '92 race that ensured their downfall, and this was only one of them.