History UnintentionalPeriodPiece / The70s

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Timeless for the most part, except for occasional references to Prime Minister Brian Wilson and General UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco.
** The Prime Minister was Harold Wilson. Brian Wilson was with the Beach Boys.

* ''[[{{Halloween1978}} Halloween]]'' mostly averts this, but some of the fashions, particularly Laurie's and Lynda's main outfits, are stereotypically 70s complete with bell-bottom pants. Also the use of rotary-dial phones.

* From the dated special effects to some of the slang used to the technology and pop culture depicted (with a fair amount of psychedelic surrealism thrown in) ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' certainly evokes its 1971 origins. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the DVDCommentary, watching the psychedelic Scanimate effects during a segment of an Oompa-Loompa song:

* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolHouseRock'' - Especially Money Rock, where Becky Sue appears to borrow money at an interest rate of ''only'' 10%, and where the narrator of another song mentions two dollars being a lot of money for food - and being able to get it for only $0.50 across the street.

* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'': The clothes, hair styles (especially the afros), subject matter and [[ValuesDissonance some of the things Fred Sanford says]] make the show a product of black culture in the early seventies.

* ''Series/SanfordAndSon'': The clothes, hair styles (especially the afros), and [[ValuesDissonance some of the things Fred Sanford says]] obviously date it back to the early seventies.

* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' and ''Film/FlashGordon'', both early 1980s {{HBO}} staples, could ''only'' have been made in 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.

* From the dated special effects to some of the slang used to the technology and pop culture depicted (with a fair amount of psychedelic surrealism thrown in) ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' certainly evokes its 1971 origins. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the DVDCommentary, watching the psychedelic effects during a segment of an Oompa-Loompa song:

* From the dated special effects to some of the slang used to the technology and pop culture depicted (with a fair amount of psychedelic surrealism thrown in) ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' certainly evokes its 1971 origins. {{LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the DVDCommentary, watching the psychedelic effects during a segment of an Oompa-Loompa song:

-->''Denise Nickerson'': "C'mon, that was pretty good for 1971!"
-->''Paris Themmen'' *[[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]]* "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny I'm freakin' out.]]"

* From the dated special effects to some of the slang used to the technology and pop culture depicted (with a fair amount of psychedelic surrealism thrown in) ''WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' certainly evokes its 1971 origins.

* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Timeless for the most part, except for occasional references to Prime Minister Brian Wilson and General FranciscoFranco.

* ''Film/TaxiDriver'', and not just because of the fashions. At the time it was filmed, [[BigApplesauce New York City]] was America's [[BigRottenApple crime capital]], the city was effectively bankrupt, and [[{{Scandalgate}} Watergate]] was still fresh on the public mind. Not to mention there's a brief scene in a porno cinema.

%%* ''Film/SaturdayNightFever''.

* Plenty of rock/pop musicals of the time ''scream'' the 1970s. It's a part of their NarmCharm: ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'', ''JesusChristSuperstar'', ''{{Tommy}}'', ''SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'', and ''TheWiz'' all qualify. The final run of such musicals in 1980 (''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', ''Can't Stop the Music'', and ''TheApple'') come off as the final gasp of disco.

* ''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah''. So grounded in the very early '70s it hurts, with hippies all throughout the film, a very groovy score, and bar scenes that are said by WordOfGod to be inspired by {{Woodstock}}.

* ''TheBadNewsBears'': so very mid-'70s, and a fine example of what a PG-rated film could get away with before the PG-13 rating came along. Just listen to 7-year-olds toss out four-letter words, racial epithets and ethnic slurs like there's no tomorrow and try to keep your head from exploding. Also watch as the kids douse each other in beer and see a then 14-year-old JackieEarleHaley smoke like a chimney.

%%* Burt Reynolds. Anything with Burt Reynolds.

* ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus And Now for Something Completely Different]]'' features sketches about fear of a Chinese communist takeover, ''incredibly'' [=1970s=] hairstyles, and most of all a considerable amount of poking fun at the British upper class. The old upper-class was on its way out by the [=1970s=], but it still had much more of a presence than it does now.

%%* ''GeminiMan''.
%%* ''BarneyMiller''.
%%* ''AllInTheFamily'', along with [[{{Maude}} its]] [[TheJeffersons many]] [[GoodTimes spin-offs]].

%%* ''MatchGame'', in the Creator/{{CBS}} era.

* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' not just for for its references to '70s-era celebrities and TV shows (one episode was a episode-length parody of ''FantasyIsland'' ) but for the concept of the titular network being a local, small-town TV network. The show would then do early-'80s references as well once Creator/{{NBC}} picked it up.

* Music/LegalizeIt'' (1976) by Music/PeterTosh in which he advocates the legalization of marijuana is dated since 2014, when the drug was finally made legal in Jamaica.

%%* ''JosieAndThePussycats''.
%%* ''{{Jabberjaw}}''.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat''.
%%* ''Disney/TheRescuers'', mostly due to its soundtrack.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyTraffic'' looks like a conscious reconstruction of the early 1970s counterculture, with its fashions, its pre-gentrified depiction of Brooklyn, and, of course, pinball.

* JimmyBuffett's songs, especially his later ones. The [[CoolVersusAwesome country-meets-calypso genre mashup]] he perfected itself mirrors the '70s, which was when "world" music and popular music really started to mix. But "Volcano" is the ultimate example: ''anyone'' can tell it's from 1979, thanks to pointed (but funny) references to the Iranian hostage crisis and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.

* And even without Burt Reynolds, ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'' would qualify for this trope thanks to the rampant CB radio usage.

* The 1976 Creator/BrianDePalma adaptation of ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', with its epic SeventiesHair, teen heartthrob Creator/JohnTravolta, and a soundtrack by Pino Donaggio that combines PsychoStrings with funkadelic '70s cues. All of those pale in comparison, though, to the fact that absolutely ''everybody'' ignores the horrific bullying that Carrie goes through, with at least one of her teachers even joining in on it in one scene. In today's social climate, where youth bullying is seen as a national crisis, such behavior by Carrie's classmates would be cause for scandal. It's not for nothing that the 2013 remake placed a much greater focus on its anti-bullying message.

* ''Film/BreakerBreaker'', starring a young, facial hair-less ChuckNorris. Truckers, CB lingo, vans with custom paint jobs, distressingly tight denim jeans and EverybodyWasKungFuFighting.

* ''Franchise/{{Emergency}}'' comes off as almost a time capsule of public service announcements of the mid-'70s, with its 70sHair, at the time up-to-the-minute accurate medical techniques and the skepticism with which the paramedics are treated in the early episodes. At the time they really were a new concept and faced a stigma of being (truthfully) "less than real doctors."

* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'' and ''Film/FlashGordon'', both early 1980s HBO staples, could ''only'' have been made in 1980, at the end of the "maverick" era of filmmaking and 1970s excess.