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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1976

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade. ()

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Candy Candy(1976-1979)

NR
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama
4.3/5 (with 292 votes)

This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Ann. And she met the "handsome boy on the hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage. She was adopted by the Loka's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Leo and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "handsome boy on the hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Antony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins.

The Muppet Show(1976-1981)

TV-G
| 26min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 131 votes)

Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

The Bionic Woman(1976-1978)

TV-PG
| 48min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.5/5 (with 117 votes)

After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.

Charlie's Angels(1976-1981)

TV-PG
| 50min per episode | Action & Adventure
3.3/5 (with 94 votes)

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour(1976-1977)

3.9/5 (with 81 votes)

The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour is a 60-minute package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1976 for ABC Saturday mornings. It marked the first new installments of the cowardly canine since 1973, and contained the following segments: The Scooby-Doo Show and Dynomutt, Dog Wonder.

Directed by Ray Patterson

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother(1976)

25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.9/5 (with 65 votes)

Italy is in a deep depression, so to support her family, Marco's mother goes to Argentina to work as a domestic. But after she writes to her family that she is sick, her letters stop coming. So Marco decides to go to Argentina to look for her. He travels across Argentina to find her, meeting many wonderful people, and having many adventures during his journey.

Directed by Isao Takahata

Quincy, M.E.(1976-1983)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 47 votes)

Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.

Laverne & Shirley(1976-1983)

TV-G
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery." The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline started in approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with Happy Days, it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall, and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller.

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder(1976-1977)

4.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show centers around a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who can produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origins for the characters are ever provided. Dynomutt was originally broadcast as a half-hour segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and its later expanded forms Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars; it would later be rerun and syndicated on its own from 1978 on. The cast of The Scooby-Doo Show appeared as a recurring characters on Dynomutt, assisting the Daring Duo in cracking their crimes. Originally distributed by Hanna-Barbera's then-parent company Taft Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Television currently holds the television distribution to the series.

Sybil(1976)

TV-14
| 1h 39min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.

Alice(1976-1985)

NR
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.

Open All Hours(1976-1985)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 25 votes)

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Baa Baa Black Sheep(1976-1978)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, War & Politics
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron.

Directed by Robert Conrad

The New Avengers(1976-1977)

50min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

Sandokan(1976)

1h per episode | Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.

Directed by Sergio Sollima - With Kabir Bedi

Pat & Mat(1976-)

4.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat. It was created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek.

Directed by Lubomír Beneš, Marek Beneš, Ladislav Pálka, Vlasta Pospíšilová, Milan Sebesta, Josef Lamka, ...

Dino Mech Gaiking(1976-2016)

4.3/5 (with 17 votes)

This story chronicles the crew of the transformable carrier Daikū Maryū and the Super Robot Gaiking's battle against an invading race of aliens called the Dark Horror Army, whose home planet is facing destruction by a black hole. Notable aspects of the series include the dinosaur-based designs of the Daikū Maryū and its support machines and the use of part of the carrier to form the main robot. The Gaiking robot is helmed by former baseball star Sanshiro Tsuwabuki, whose latent psychic powers make him the only one capable of piloting the giant robot.

George and Mildred(1976-1979)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

A middle-aged housewife feels frustrated with her mean and miserable husband, the married couple adapting to life in an up-market housing estate.

Jabberjaw(1976)

30min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Jabberjaw (a 15-foot air-breathing great white shark) and The Neptunes (a rock group made up of four teenagers — Biff, Shelly, Bubbles and Clamhead) travel to various underwater cities where they encounter and deal with assorted megalomaniacs and supervillains who want to conquer the undersea world.

What's Happening!!(1976-1979)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Rich Man, Poor Man(1976)

1h per episode | Drama
3.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Based on the best-selling 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw, the series follows the divergent career courses of the impoverished German American Jordache brothers.

Second City Television(1976-1984)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

Paddington Bear(1976-1980)

30min per episode | Animation
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

Paddington Bear is a series of British animated shorts based on the Paddington Bear book series by Michael Bond produced by FilmFair. This was the first television series based on the popular children's book Paddington Bear. In the United States it was usually shown on pay television as filler in between programs. Its narrator was actor Michael Hordern. It was one of the few television programmes to combine a puppet show with cartoon - Paddington himself was a puppet, but other characters in the series were depicted as cartoon characters. The series has a very distinctive art style. Paddington himself is a stop-motion animated puppet who moves within a 3-dimensional space and interacts with 2-dimensional animated drawings of the human characters, buildings, etc. The series, along with all other FilmFair productions is currently owned by DHX Media of Canada.

Directed by Ivor Wood

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin(1976-1996)

30min per episode | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Disillusioned after a long career at Sunshine Desserts, Perrin goes through a mid-life crisis and fakes his own death. Returning in disguise after various attempts at finding a 'new life', he gets his old job back and finds nothing has changed. He is eventually found out, and in the second series has success with a chain of shops selling useless junk. That becomes so successful that he feels he has created a monster and decides to destroy it. In the third and final series he has a dream of forming a commune which his long suffering colleagues help bring to reality. Unfortunately that also fails and he finds himself back in a job not unlike the one he originally had at Sunshine Desserts.

Ripping Yarns(1976-1979)

45min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Escrava Isaura(1976-1977)

36min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

The difficulties faced by a young, sweet-hearted white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial time period.

Magnos The Robot(1976-1977)

4.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Dr. Kazuki, who perceived of an invasion of Earth by the Izaru people builds a robot based on the science of magnetism and sphere joint theory. Undergoing a dangerous augmentation process, Dr. Kazuki's daughter Mai becomes the pilot of "Mighty" or "Magnetman Minus". Takeshi Houjou becomes the pilot of "Puraiza" or "Magnetman Plus". The pilots would hold each other and then physically trasform their joint bodies in a metallic plate locking itself on the Gakeen (Short for "Gathering Keen") robot's frame thus enabling the super robot to move and fight. This sequence was notable, to an adult's eye, for its almost-sexual connotation.

Family(1976-1980)

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman(1976-1977)

NR
| 30min per episode | Drama, Soap / Telenovela, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

In the fictional town of Fernwood, Ohio, suburban housewife Mary Hartman seeks the kind of domestic perfection promised by Reader’s Digest and TV commercials. Instead she finds herself suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune: mass murders, low-flying airplanes and waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor.

07 zgłoś się(1976-1987)

1h per episode | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.

Directed by Krzysztof Szmagier - With Bronisław Cieślak
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