The Seventies: Difference between revisions

Media Technology reaches a turning point, as 8-track audio cassettes and VCRs appear for the first time, however the LP and Film are both still king. Movies such as ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' and ''[[The Godfather]]'' begin to deal with subjects once considered taboo due to the loosening censorship laws, and pornographic film becomes legal. The world learns the meaning of Kung Fu thanks to a tough little guy from Hong Kong named [[Bruce Lee]]. Television is changed forever by such ground breaking shows as ''[[All in The Family]]'', ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|MashM*A*S*H]]'', ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Meanwhile gentle family shows like ''[[The Waltons]]'', ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' and ''[[The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams]]'' found their own audience while The Fonz was ruling the kid's imagination while giving [[Robin Williams]] his big time start as the master comedian in ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. Meanwhile, ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' is [[Vindicated by Cable]] and develops a sizable fanbase, spawning a juggernaut franchise that would not die for... well, ever. While the kids have made the best of the [[Dark Age of Animation]] with [[Saturday Morning Cartoon|Saturday Morning Cartoons]] like ''[[Superfriends]]'' and ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'', they at least had [[PBS]]'s breakthrough kids shows, ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]'' in their vibrant glory of its youth before they graduated to ''[[The Electric Company]]'', ''[[Zoom (TV series)|Zoom]]'' and ''[[The Big Blue Marble]]''.

Punk Rock and Disco, two genres of music which continue to influence music to this day come out during this decade, as does the first primitive electronic music under such bands as the German [[Kraftwerk]] and [[Suicide (band)|Suicide]] from [[New York City]]. Comics enter the [[Bronze Age]], featuring death, politics, and ethnic superheroes for the first time ever. The [[Cold War]] slows down as American and Soviet relations improve for the first time since 1945. American distrust for authority reaches a high point with the Watergate scandal.