1971 ABC Promo

This "Everybody's-Talkin"-inspired promo was just the mellow taste for world-weary TV watchers in 1971.

Because everything boils down to TV, we pan down from the cosmos and New York City (including The World Trade Center) to a "typical" American house, just like the kind you n' me live in if we have trust funds.

The promo knows that we stare like zombies into a color console, hypnotized by the ABC logo.

Soft rock and clips of beloved ABC prime-time characters, like the Partridges, The Bradys and the overly intelligent cast of Room 222 remind us that they are our friends, our real imaginary friends, and it's been a long, desperate, lonely, painful, empty summer without them.

The singers remind us that "come this September, this is the place to be," and there is absolutely no arguing with that.

The ultimate strangeness here are the clips of the "new" shows for the fall, with beloved characters and stars that we will never like and, therefore, never know. You'll not know them when you see them.