U.S. TELEVISION: 1970-1975
<1960s  |  1976-1979>



"Doin' It For Themselves: Gay Shows on Early Cable TV"

"Power Play: The Gay Media Task Force Becomes Hollywood's GLBT Script Consultant"

"A Small Step Forward: 1970s Coming-Out Episodes"

"Killers, Pedophiles, Rapists and 'Sickoes': GLBT Roles in Mid-1970s Dramas"

"A Faceless Abstraction: GLBT Youth on Pre-1990s Television"

"But They Sure Seem Gay!  (or, Why Doesn't That Nice Miss Hathaway Have a Boyfriend?)"


The Phil Donahue Show / Donahue (1967-1996, achieved broad distribution in early 1970s - Syndicated) 

The Corner Bar (1972 - ABC)

An American Family (1973 - PBS)

Hot l Baltimore (1975 - ABC)

Barney Miller (1975-1982 - ABC)

Saturday Night Live (1975+ - NBC)

All in the Family (character seen 1975-1977)
 

AND MORE OF...

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-1973 - NBC)


Medical Center: "Undercurrent" (September 23, 1970 - CBS)

Dan August: "Dead Witness to a Killing" (January 28, 1971 - ABC)

All in the Family: "Judging Books by Covers" (February 9, 1971 - CBS)

Room 222: "What Is a Man?" (December 3, 1971 - ABC)

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law: "Words of Summer" (September 14, 1972 - ABC)

That Certain Summer (TV movie) (November 1, 1972 - ABC)

Hawaii Five-0: "V for Vashon: The Patriarch" (November 28, 1972, CBS)

Marcus Welby, M.D.: "The Other Martin Loring" (February 20, 1973 - ABC)

Born Innocent (TV movie) (September 10, 1974 - NBC)

Police Woman: "Flowers of Evil" (November 8, 1974 - NBC)

Cage Without a Key (TV movie) (March 14, 1975 - CBS)

 

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