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Old 06-18-2012, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Keosauqua, Iowa
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Makin' It - Starring David Naughton. I'm not sure if anyone may remember this late 70's dud as it only lasted for nine episodes.
I don't remember the show at all, but I can still hum the theme song and pick out a few of the lyrics.

"I'm solid gold, I've got the goods...."

In fact, I remember liking it so much that I taped it off the TV using a portable cassette recorder so I could listen to it on the school bus.
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Old 06-18-2012, 03:51 PM
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Location: Tall Building down by the river
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I don't remember the show at all, but I can still hum the theme song and pick out a few of the lyrics.

"I'm solid gold, I've got the goods...."

In fact, I remember liking it so much that I taped it off the TV using a portable cassette recorder so I could listen to it on the school bus.

Have a little gift for you


Makin it opening credits 1979 - YouTube
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Old 06-18-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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I recall seeing an episode of a sitcom that probably nobody remembers: "Struck By Lightning":

Struck by Lightning (TV Series 1979) - IMDb


It was one of those "here and gone" series.
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Old 06-18-2012, 04:57 PM
 
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Makin' It - Starring David Naughton. I'm not sure if anyone may remember this late 70's dud as it only lasted for nine episodes.
I have heard the song Makin It, but I didn't know there was a tv show.
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Old 06-18-2012, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Virginia
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Ah yes, tv shows with the word "Makin'" were big in the 70s. Does anyone remember "Makin' a Living"? It was about 4 waitresses who worked in downtown LA. Formulaic-a-mundo and awful awful awful. Catchy theme song, though.

Speaking about theme songs.... try getting this little ditty out of your head


The facts of life : Opening theme song from season 1 - YouTube
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Old 06-18-2012, 06:56 PM
 
Location: Virginia
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So.... what about the Partridge Family? Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Old 06-18-2012, 06:57 PM
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Ah yes, tv shows with the word "Makin'" were big in the 70s. Does anyone remember "Makin' a Living"? It was about 4 waitresses who worked in downtown LA. Formulaic-a-mundo and awful awful awful. Catchy theme song, though.

Speaking about theme songs.... try getting this little ditty out of your head


The facts of life : Opening theme song from season 1 - YouTube

Makin a Living was a sneaky ripoff of Alice on CBS
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Old 06-18-2012, 07:00 PM
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So.... what about the Partridge Family? Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Wasn't it kind of similar to the Brady Bunch?
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Old 06-18-2012, 07:09 PM
 
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^Yes, but groovier! With a much cooler family car (the bus), and Shirley Jones wore hot pants!! Also, the episodes focused much more on the band touring the country, not as much on stories about the kids growing up in suburbia. The Partridges also had a fair amount of topical humor, but it was mostly pop culture references, not anything that was especially clever.

The Partridge Family had a godawful spinoff, BTW. Bobby Sherman appeared in the last episode of the first season as a struggling songwriter. This episode led into a short-lived spinoff series on ABC, Getting Together. Wes Stern was also in it as Bobby Sherman's business partner.
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Old 06-18-2012, 07:19 PM
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^Yes, but groovier! With a much cooler family car (the bus), and Shirley Jones wore hot pants!! Also, the episodes focused much more on the band touring the country, not as much on stories about the kids growing up in suburbia. The Partridges also had a fair amount of topical humor, but it was mostly pop culture references, not anything that was especially clever.

The Partridge Family had a godawful spinoff, BTW. Bobby Sherman appeared in the last episode of the first season as a struggling songwriter. This episode led into a short-lived spinoff series on ABC, Getting Together. Wes Stern was also in it as Bobby Sherman's business partner.
I see it only lasted 5 months.
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