Barney Miller was a situation comedy TV series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast on ABC-TV until May 20, 1982.
Decades after its cancellation, Barney Miller retains a devoted following among real-life police officers, who appreciate the show’s emphasis on dialogue and believably quirky characters, and its low-key portrayal of cops going about their jobs.

The King Family Show was a  musical variety  which featured The King Sisters and their extended musical family. The series  aired on ABC-TV until January 1966. The series was revived for a second time airing from March to September 1969.
After an appearance on The Hollywood Palace in August 1964 drew a reported 53,000 letters, ABC decided to give the Kings their own hour-long weekly series replacing The Outer Limits. The show starred the four King Sisters, Donna, Yvonne, Luise and Alyce. It also featured Alyce’s husband, actor Robert Clarke, and her sons. In all, some thirty-seven members of the King family, ranging in age from seven months to 79 years, were seen on the show.

        
                                      The big band era four King Sisters

Hollywood-based KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles, was the first commercially licensed television station west of the Mississippi. It first aired a 30-minute variety show from the Paramount TV theatre starring Bob Hope , Dorothy Lamour, William Bendix and Jerry Colonna. It was estimated that 322 television receivers were in use in Los Angeles at the time.

                                  The KTLA studios in 1949

Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In was a sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC-TV. It originally aired as a one-time special on September 9, 1967 and was such a success that it was brought back as a series, replacing The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. on Mondays at 8 pm (EST).

The title, Laugh-In, came out of events of the 1960s hippie culture, such as "love-ins" or "be-ins."

Robby Benson was born Robin David Segal in Dallas, Texas. Benson was raised in New York City and took his mother’s maiden name as his stage name when he was 10.

Robby made his Broadway debut in The Rothschilds (1970). He had an early role on the CBS-TV daytime soap Search for Tomorrow (1971-72). As a film star, Benson was popular for roles of teens in coming−of–age films, such as in 1972′s Jory (his screen debut), in Jeremy (1973), and as Billy Joe McAllister in Ode to Billy Joe(1976).

Benson was listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976" in John Willis’ Screen World, and auditioned for the role of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars (1977), but lost the role to Mark Hamill. He received critical acclaim for his role as the hockey player, Nick Peterson, in Ice Castles (1978).

                          A 2 year old Robby Benson