14 Far Out Photos That Could Only Have Been Taken in the ‘70s

The late actor David Cassidy played Keith Partridge in the hit show The Partridge Family before transitioning into a successful solo singing career. Cassidy's on-screen mom, Shirley Jones, was actually his step-mother in real life.

Only during the '70s would you have seen the original SNL cast: (Back row L to R) Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Michael O'Donoghue, (Middle L to R) Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, and (front) Garrett Morris. (George Coe, the last original cast member is not pictured.)

Angie Dickinson played the title character in NBC's Police Woman, which ran for four seasons. The show made history as it was one of the earliest successful hour-long dramas with a female lead, with Dickinson winning a Golden Globe. Police stations around the US saw an increase in applications from women during the show's run.

Cotton Candy, also known as Ron Howard's Cotton Candy, was a made-for-TV movie starring Clint Howard, the director's brother. The drama focused on George Smalley, a high school senior who recruits his friends to join his band and perform in the town's Battle of the Bands competition. 

The Midnight Special was a musical variety show that ran in the early '70s from 1 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. on NBC. It featured many big-name musical acts, like Tina Turner, ABBA, The Beach Boys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin, Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, and Fleetwood Mac. 

Barbara Walters has anchored dozens of news programs before she retired from full-time hosting in 2015. One of her earliest gigs was at the TODAY Show, though her co-host Frank McGee (right) refused to go on air with Walters unless he was allowed to ask the first three questions. It wasn't until McGee died in 1974 at age 52 that NBC officially announced Walters as the TODAY Show's first female co-host. 

Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda dated during the '70s, starring together in the movie Klute. They also collaborated on anti-Vietnam War show Free the Army Tour. 

Lindsay Wagner played Jamie Sommers for three seasons on The Bionic Woman, a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man. Wagner earned an Emmy in 1977 for her performance. 

Make Your Own Kind of Music was The Carpenter's TV show, and ran during the summer of 1971. The series started with the letter A and featured a guest performance from musician Herb Alpert. Different celebrity guests, including Don Knotts, Mark Lindsay, and the Doodletown Pipers, would appear to introduce subsequent letters of the alphabet. The show ended once it reached Z.

Flip Wilson hosted his own variety show, The Flip Wilson Show, from 1970 to 1974. One of his most memorable characters was Geraldine Jones, a sassy Southern flit with a boyfriend named Killer. Loudmouth Geraldine popularized sayings like "When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not," "The Devil made me do it," and "What you see is what you get."

The game show Shoot for the Stars had a short-lived run on NBC. Geoff Edwards hosted the show, which required teams of two (one celebrity and one non-celebrity) to choose from 24 numbered boxes. Within each box was money in varying amounts. Teams also had to complete challenges to add money to their total. The first team to reach $1,500 won. Shoot for the Stars flopped in large part to scheduling. Viewers could also tune in to Happy Days reruns, Love of Life, and The Young and the Restless at the time Shoot for the Stars was on. 

The Land of the Lost was a children's adventure show that aired from 1974 to 1976. It featured the Marshall family — father Rick and his kids, Will and Holly — as they navigated an alternate universe that was inhabited by dinosaurs, primate-like people called Pakuni, and combative lizard humanoids called Sleestak. 

Before his stint as the host of Jeopardy, Alex Trebek anchored the game show High Rollers for three seasons. Contestants aimed to remove numbers one through nine by rolling a pair of dice. Control of the dice went to the contestant who correctly answered Trebek's questions. 

A young Olivia Newton-John shows of the fashion trends of the '70s as she poses in a three quarter-length shearling coat and leather boots.