I Love the 70s

I Love the 70s is a television mini-series originally produced by the BBC, and later for American audiences by VH-1 which is the sister series to I Love the 80s and explains such stories about the 1970s. I Love 1970 premiered on 22 July 2000 in the UK, with the final part I Love 1979 premiering on 23 September 2000. In the United States, the series premiered on August 18, 2003.

Partial list of featured ideas and happenings of the 70s

Movies

• 10
• Alien
• Animal House
• Annie Hall
• Apocalypse Now
• The Bad News Bears
• Ben
• Benji
• Blazing Saddles
• Carrie
• Car Wash
• Charlotte's Web
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Death Wish
• Debbie Does Dallas
• Deep Throat
• Deliverance
• Dirty Harry
• The Exorcist
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Foxy Brown
• The Godfather
• Grease
• Halloween
• Jaws
• The Jerk
• Live and Let Die
• Love Story
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Muppet Movie
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Rocky
• Saturday Night Fever
• Shaft
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Star Wars
• Superman
• Taxi Driver
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• The Towering Inferno
• Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
• The Warriors
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• The Wiz
• Young Frankenstein

Music

• ABBA
• Barry Manilow
• The Bee Gees
• Black Sabbath
• Bread
• The Captain and Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together"
• The Carpenters
• The Commodores' "Brick House"
• David Bowie
• Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life"
• Donna Summer
• Earth, Wind and Fire
• Elton John
• Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy"
• Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"
• The Jackson Five
• KISS
• Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie"
• The Knack's "My Sharona"
• Led Zeppelin
• Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"
• Liberace
• Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird"
• Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Morris Albert's "Feelings"
• Neil Diamond
• Peter Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do"
• Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
• Punk music
• Queen
• Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
• Steve Miller Band's "The Joker"
• Stevie Wonder
• Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World"
• Tom Jones
• Tony Orlando
• The Village People
• The Who

Television

• All in the Family
• Baretta
• Battle of the Network Stars
• B.J. and the Bear
• The Brady Bunch
• Captain Caveman
• Captain Kangaroo
• The Carol Burnett Show
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• Charlie's Angels
• CHiPs
• The Dating Game
• Donny and Marie
• The Electric Company
• Family Feud
• Fantasy Island
• Fat Albert
• The Gong Show
• Good Times
• Grizzly Adams
• Happy Days
• Hee Haw
• Hogan's Heroes
• Hong Kong Phooey
• H.R. Pufnstuf
• The Incredible Hulk
• Josie and the Pussycats
• Kojak
• Land of the Lost
• Let's Make a Deal
• Little House on the Prairie
• Love, American Style
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• The Mod Squad
• Monday Night Football/Howard Cosell
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• The Muppet Show
• The Newlywed Game
• The Odd Couple
• One Day at a Time
• The Partridge Family
• The Price Is Right
• Roots
• Sanford and Son
• Saturday Night Live
• Schoolhouse Rock
• Scooby-Doo
• Sesame Street
• The Shazam!/Isis Hour
• Shields and Yarnell
• The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
• Soul Train
• Starsky and Hutch
• Superfriends
• Taxi
• Three's Company
• The Waltons
• Welcome Back, Kotter
• What's Happening!!
• WKRP in Cincinnati
• Wild Kingdom
• Wonder Woman
• ZOOM

Fads

• The afro
• Bell bottoms
• Candie's shoes
• Days of the Week panties
• Gaucho pants
• Hot pants
• Leisure suits
• Underalls
• Baby Alive
• Big Wheel
• Blythe
• Clackers
• Connect Four
• Easy Bake Oven
• Lite Brite
• The magic 8-ball
• Operation
• The Ouija board
• Pong
• Shrinky Dinks
• Simon
• Slip n' Slide
• Stretch Armstrong
• Weebles

People and events

• Bobby Riggs vs. Billie Jean King
• Julius Erving
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Mark Spitz
• Pelé
• Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Pirates become champions in 1979
• Reggie Jackson and the 1977 World Series
• Roller derby
• The Rumble in the Jungle
• The Beatles break up
• Elvis Presley meets Richard Nixon
• John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-host The Mike Douglas Show
• Jimmy Carter is attacked by a giant swimming rabbit
• Louise Brown, the first test tube baby
• New York City blackout of 1977
• Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Son of Sam
• The two attempted assassinations of Gerald Ford
• United States Bicentennial
• The United States tries and fails to convert to the metric system
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
• The Bermuda Triangle
• Bigfoot/The Loch Ness Monster
• Chippendale's dancers
• CB radios
• Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
• Est seminars
• Feminism
• The Ford Pinto
• I'd like to buy the world a Coke
• The Joy of Sex
• Jumbo Jets
• Keep America Beautiful public service announcement, starring Iron Eyes Cody
• Kung fu/Bruce Lee
• Mood ring
• Oscar Mayer wieners
• Pet rocks
• Pop Rocks
• Sea Monkeys
• The Secret Lives of Plants
• Slime
• Streaking
• Studio 54
• Swinging
• Waterbeds
• Wonder Bread, Twinkies, Lunch boxes, Devil Dogs