Buffalo in the 70s: ‘The Mod Squad’ a TV favorite

By Steve Cichon
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TV’s Southern California hippie undercover cops were on the cover of TV Topics – and therefore likely on many Western New York coffee tables – this week 45 years ago.

The show, starring Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III and Peggy Lipton, ran from 1968-73, but had its highest ratings in the 1970-71 season.

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives-- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.