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* ''[[The Goodies]]'', which was made throughout the entirety of the 70's in England. Graeme Garden, one of the writers, actors, and creators, has said that the clothes and trends now qualify as "quaint period pieces", and that you can get a pretty good idea of the trends, celebrities and government around the time by watching.

=== 1970s Music ===

* ''Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels)'' was written by Jim Croce in 1972. The line "Operator, well let's forget about this call / There's no one there I really wanted to talk to / Thank you for your time, ah, you've been so much more than kind / And you can keep the dime" dates this. [[Pay Phone]]s were common in the 20th century (but harder to find today) and a call for ten cents was possible (for local calls) from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Operator assistance was necessary for trunk calls from coin phones and most international calls in that era; it's now getting harder to find than a still-working [[Phone Booth]] in the wi-fi era.

=== 1970s Standup Comedy ===

* [[Robin Williams]]' 1970 album ''Reality... What a Concept'' is littered with cultural and social references that rapidly faded out of living memory, sometimes by the 1980s. Some are so obscure these days that even with Wikipedia's help they are incomprehensible (“Hello, [[Gore Vidal]] for Thunderbird wine.”), and at least one reviewer who went back to the album after Williams' 2014 suicide has suggested that future releases come with an extensive set of footnotes to explain just what he's talking about half the time. A large fraction of his performance is built around two topics which are not nearly as fertile a ground for comedy as they were in the 1970s -- drug humor and the Soviet Union.

=== 1970s Theatre ===