30 Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Have All Been Given Some Serious Sepia Tones

Yellowish, smokey facts that are somehow easy on the eyes
30 Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Have All Been Given Some Serious Sepia Tones

Well, we learned something today. Did you guys know that life in the ‘70s wasn’t all yellowish and hazy? Just like life in the ‘30s wasn’t in black and white. Humans have always seen colors like we see them now, but sepia tones in the ‘70s gave everything on screen that yellowish ‘70s vibe. Isn’t that crazy?

Keep that in mind when checking out these tinted classic TV facts.

Blansky’s Beauties

Happy Days BLANSKY'S BEAUTIES CRACKED.COM If they could turn a single appearance by an oddly hairy alien into the wildly successful Mork & Mindy, they should have been able to turn an appearance by Howard's hot cousin, Nancy Blansky, into a successful series about a bunch of showgirls. Alas, they could not.

Laugh-In

Richard Nixon LAUGH-IN CRACKED.COM If Jimmy Fallon's infamous hair toussle humanized the current legally entangled Republican president, Nixon's weird pronunciation of sock it to meeEEE? made him seem more robotic (and clammier) than ever before.

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H After MASH CRACKED.COM AfterMASH was supposed to let America keep up with its favorite soldiers after the Korean War. But by 1983, Americans had, tragically, gotten pretty good at ignoring Korean War vets altogether.

Joe Namath

Joe Namath THE BRADY BUNCH CRACKED.COM Bobby hatches an elaborate scheme to bait Joe Namath into his bedroom by faking a terminal illness. Think Make A Wish Foundation meets To Catch A Predator.

The Harlem Globetrotters

The Harlem Globetrotters GILLIGAN'S ISLAND CRACKED.COM Gilligan & CO. had jumped so many sharks by this point, they needed to give the 'trotters an entire TV movie to up the campy ante enough for anyone to notice.

The Flintstones

The Flintstones THE PEBBLES AND BAMM-BAMM SHOW CRACKED.COM As you can tell from Pebbles' hair bone and Bamm's turtle fedora, this show was all about putting hats on hats: beloved prehistoric babies, except they're in high school now, and also they're rockstars.

The Golden Palace

The Golden Girls THE GOLDEN PALACE CRACKED.COM The Girls (minus Dorothy) get duped into buying a failing Miami hotel, and end up having to, ugh, work. They tried replacing Bea Arthur with Don Cheadle and Cheech, but it only lasted a season.

The Incredible Hulk

CRACKED.COM Jaws from James Bond was almost the Hulk. Richard Kiel was the first actor to be painted green for the pilot of The Incredible Hulk. Не was replaced by bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno after a few days, as Kiel, big as he was, wasn't bulky enough to make a good Hulk.

The A-Team

30 Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Have All Been Given Some Serious Sepia Tones

Star Trek

Star Trek used The Andy Griffith Show's set (while it was still on air). BARTLETT STABLE REFLE In 1966's Miri, Kirk and Spock beam to an alien planet that just happens to look like a 1960s Earth - and, coincidentally, exactly like the town of Mayberry, where The Andy Griffith Show takes place. CRACKED.COM

The Brady Brides

The Brady Bunch THE BRADY BRIDES CRACKED.COM As they were developing a TV movie called The Brady Girls Get Married, they decided it should in fact be a long, long pilot for a whole new show! Marcia and Jan get married in a t ceremony, they all move in together, and then oops nevermind it's already cancelled.

I Love Lucy

The First Live Studio Audience SHARP I Love Lucy beat All In The Family to the punch by 20 years. CRACKED.COM

Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan's Island is based on the seven deadly sins. Each one of the castaways symbolizes a sin: Skipper is Anger, Professor is Pride, Ginger is Lust, and so on. That's not a fan theory or anything, it's how creator Sherwood Schwartz conceived of the characters. CRACKED.COM

Happy Days

Ауууууу! TIMELESSLY COOL HENRY WINKLER CRACKED COM This was the catchphrase of his defining role, The Fonz, and Winkler got it from a sport he loved: horse riding.

Battlestar Gallactica

The goal of Battlestar Gallactica is to get back to Earth, somehow. The original series ends with them almost making . In the final scene, Apollo and Starbuck are looking for signals from Earth. They leave the observation room, and the second they do, a transmission from Neil Armstrong flickers across the monitor. D'oh! CRACKED.COM

All My Children

On All My Children, little Bobby went up to the attic. And was never seen again. When the show started Dr. Joe Martin was struggling to care for three children: Jeff, Tara, and Bobby. Bobby just appeared once, and then disappeared. The writers have referenced him since, though. In one episode there's a skeleton in the attic with a nametag that says Bobby. In another, Jeff refers to a plastic skeleton as my brother. CRACKED.COM

Mork & Mindy

Mork & Mindy wound down with a 3-part story. Yet the pair still wound up stranded for eternity. It starts with the title characters running from a gun-wielding alien. Mork decides to use time-travel shoes to escape into the past. The shoes malfunction, first dropping them in a prehistoric cave, then throwing them into a time vortex. Roll credits. CRACKED.COM

Chuck Cunningham

On Happy Days, Richie had an older brother named Chuck. Or he did, until season 2. Chuck was away at college for much of the first season. Не didn't just disappear- he completely ceased to exist. In later seasons Howard Cunningham would claim that he had just two children. CRACKED.COM

Robert Reed

Robert Reed, AKA Mike Brady, thought The Brady Bunch was a waste of his talents. He was a Shakespearean actor, and thought TV as such was beneath him, and sitcoms were beneath TV.

Source: ABC

The Brady Bunch

THE BRADY BUNCH The Bradys' back door has no glass. Producers needed to avoid glare, SO they the old glasses-with-no-lenses trick.

Johnny Carson v. Joan Rivers

COMEDY DE NERD When Joan Rivers got her own show, Johnny Carson instantly wrote her off. He refused to take her calls, or even to talk with her in person - she had gotten her start on his show, and she thinks he felt he owned her. CRACKED.COM

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David Wise

WHO WAS DAVID WISE? HE ALSO DID LIVE ACTION. While most of Wise's work was in animation, he did write a few scripts to be performed by actors in front of cameras. These include one episode each of Wonder Woman and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (both in the '70s) - as well as, um, Beastmaster III. Well, not everything can be a winner.

Source: IMDb

The Dukes of Hazzard

The DUKES OF HAZZARD are based on JERRY RUSHING. Bo Duke is a fictional version of Jerry Elijah Rushing, who ran illegal moonshine from his car, Traveller (named after General Lee's horse).

Source: Outsider

Welcome Back, Kotter

Welcome Back, Kotter MR. T AND TINA CRACKED COM Before he played the iconic Mr. Miyagi, Pat Morita played two Takahashis at the same time. He was Arno

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30 Bits of Classic TV Trivia That Have All Been Given Some Serious Sepia Tones

Daniel Striped Tiger

DANIEL STRIPED TIGER WAS CREATED WHEN A CHEAP STRIP OF FILM BROKE AND LEFT MR. ROGERS' FIRST SHOW WITH DEAD AIR. During the live airing of an episode

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