In the 70's Soap was excellent, couldn't wait to watch it every week. Besides launching Billy Crystal's career, the father played by Richard Mulligan was hilarious and went on to get his own show, only to die too young. Also it got Robert Guillaume his own show as the butler.
I had two more favorites in the 70's, already mentioned was Taxi and I liked Mary Tyler Moore, primarily for Ted Knight, who got his own show as well and once again, died way too young. Who can forget Ted from Caddyshack. They ran several episodes MTM back at Christmas a year ago on Hallmark and I recorded them and watched them for months.
