November 1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Light Up Your Life with November 1977! 

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in November 1977 was 'You Light Up My Life' by Debby Boone.  This song held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for ten consecutive weeks and topped Record World magazine's Top 100 Singles Chart for a record thirteen weeks.

November 3 - Pete's Dragon movie premieres.

November 4 - Heroes movie premieres.

November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

November 8 – San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.

November 8 - Ed Koch is elected mayor of New York City.

November 13 – The comic strip Li'l Abner ends a 43-year run in newspapers.

November 14 - The Turning Point movie premieres.

November 16 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind movie premieres.

November 18 - Semi-Tough movie premieres.

November 22 – British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

November 27 – The Rankin/Bass animated film The Hobbit premieres on NBC.

November 30 - Commentator Eric Sevareid completed his final two-minute segment on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, after 48 years at CBS News.

November 30 - The Goodbye Girl movie premieres.

1977 Mercedes Benz 450SL:

Avengers comic for November:

Hardy Boys wristwatch (released 1977):

Playboy playmate of the month, Rita Lee, and Playgirl man for November, Paul Vonderlin:

Nielsen top shows for the week ending November 13th: Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Love Boat, Three's Company, Big Event "The Godfather" Sunday installment, Little House on the Prairie, Eight is Enough, 60 Minutes, NBC Monday Movie "Aspen", Rhoda, Welcome Back, Kotter, Big Event "The Godfather" Saturdav installment, All in the Family, NFL Monday Night Football, What's Happening, On Our Own, Soap, ABC Sunday Movie "The Poseidon Adventure", Donny and Marie. 

Albums released in November (album / artist):
Foot Loose and Fancy Free / Rod Stewart
Rocket to Russia / The Ramones
I'm Glad You're Here with Me Tonight / Neil Diamond
Death of a Ladies' Man / Leonard Cohen
Saturday Night Fever / Bee Gees et al.
Thankful / Natalie Cole
Broken Blossom / Bette Midler
All 'n All / Earth, Wind and Fire
Chic / Chic
Slowhand / Eric Clapton

Better Homes and Gardens for November:

National Lampoon for November:

Sport magazine for November:

Peanuts comic strip from November 1977:

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October 1977 - New York Yankees, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Don't Space Out, Enjoy October 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in October 1977 was 'Star Wars Theme' by Meco.

October 1 - We've Got Each Other tv show debuts on CBS.

October 2 - Julia movie premieres.

October 3 - Knockout and To Say the Least game shows debut on NBC.

October 6 – Irish American mobster Danny Greene is murdered with a car bomb by the Cleveland crime family in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

October 7 - Oh, God! movie premieres.  This movie briefly ended Star Wars' 15 week reign as #1 at the box office, before Star Wars returned to the top spot the following week.

October 9 - On Our Own tv show debuts on CBS.

October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, actress, dies. (b. 1895)

October 14 – Bing Crosby, singer and actor, dies. (b. 1903)

October 14 – Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. This event resulted from her anti-gay activism.

October 14 - Starship Invasions movie premieres.

October 18 – Reggie Jackson hits three home runs to lead the New York Yankees to victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series in six games.

October 19 - Equus movie premieres.

October 20 – Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash:
Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948)
Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948)
Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b. 1949)

October 23 - Paleontologists make a discovery that pushes back the timeline for Earth's earliest life. They find 3.4 to 3.5-billion-year-old single-celled fossils in African chert rocks. 

October 27 - James at 15 debuts on NBC.

1977 Ford Ranchero:

Speed Burners toy (released 1977):

McDonald's Happy Meal was created in October 1977.

Star Wars comic for October:

Playboy playmate of the month, Kristine Winder, and Playgirl man for October, Richard Burke Davis:

Nielsen top 10 shows for the week ending Oct 16th:  1 World Series Game 2;  2 World Series Game 1; 3 World Series Game 3; 4 Three's Company; 5 All in the Family; 6 Big Event "Good Old Days"; 7 White Line Fever (NBC Sunday Movie); 8 60 Minutes; 9 What's Happening; 10 Big Event "79 Park Avenue"

Albums released in October (album / artist):

Waitin' for the Night / The Runaways

Elvis in Concert / Elvis Presley

Out of the Blue / Electric Light Orchestra

Midnight Wind / The Charlie Daniels Band

Goin' Places / The Jacksons

Send It / Ashford and Simpson

Point of Know Return / Kansas

Heroes / David Bowie

Street Survivors / Lynyrd Skynyrd

Bat Out of Hell / Meat Loaf

Seconds Out / Genesis

Once Upon a Time / Donna Summer

Watermark / Art Garfunkel

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols / Sex Pistols

News of the World / Queen

Here You Come Again / Dolly Parton

McCall's magazine for October:

New Yorker magazine for October 3rd:

Soap Opera Digest magazine for October:

'The Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien moves to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.

Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip from October 1977:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in October 1977, check out this really good site:  ultimate70s.com

September 1977 - Voyager, Panama Canal, Ted Turner

Don't Stop Thinking About...September 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in September 1977 was 'Don't Stop' by Fleetwood Mac.

September 1 – Ethel Waters, singer and actress, dies. (b. 1896)

September 4 – The Golden Dragon Massacre, a gang related shooting killing 5, took place in San Francisco, California at the Gold Dragon Restaurant.  The perpetrators, members of the Joe Boys, a Chinese youth gang, were attempting to kill leaders of the Wah Ching, a rival Chinatown gang. The attack also left 11 injured, none of whom were gang members. Seven perpetrators were later convicted and sentenced in connection with the murders. 

September 5 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.

September 5 - The Fitzpatricks debuts on CBS.

September 7 – Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

September 8 – Zero Mostel, actor, dies. (b. 1915)

September 10 - Several TV series debut:
 - Baggy Pants and the Nitwits on NBC
 - CB Bears, I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali, The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, The Red Hand Gang, Search and Rescue, Space Sentinels, Thunder and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics on ABC
 - The Skatebirds and Space Academy on CBS

September 11 - The Haunting of Julia movie premieres.

September 11 - The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held.  Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) won best comedy series.  Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS) won best drama series.  Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family) won best comedy actor, Bea Arthur (Maude) won best comedy actress, James Garner (Rockford Files) won best drama actor and Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) won best drama actress.

September 12 - The Betty White Show, Young Dan'l Boone and Lucan tv shows debut on ABC.

September 13 - Soap, The Richard Pryor Show and Mulligan's Stew tv shows debut on NBC.

September 14 - Inside the NFL debuts on HBO.

September 15 - Carter Country debuts on ABC.  CHiPs debuts on NBC.

September 16 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano, dies. (b. 1923)

September 16 - Sanford Arms and Logan's Run debut on CBS.

September 17 - Operation Petticoat debuts on ABC.

September 18 – Courageous, skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps Australia in the 24th America's Cup.

September 19 - Under pressure from the Carter administration, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.

September 19 - The San Pedro Beach Bums debuts on ABC.  The Amazing Spider-Man debuts on CBS.

September 20 - Lou Grant debuts on CBS.

September 21 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

September 21 - The Oregon Trail debuts on NBC.

September 22 - Man from Atlantis debuts on NBC.

September 24 - The Love Boat debuts on ABC.

September 26 – Ernie Lombardi American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, dies. (b. 1908)

September 30 - A Little Night Music movie premieres.

Great YouTube video of intros to the new shows of fall 1977:
New Shows of Fall 1977

Batman Mego playset (released 1977):

1977 Chrysler Cordoba Coupe:

Fantastic Four comic for September:

Montgomery Ward Fall and Winter 1977 catalog:

Chairman, manager and hostesses for the Tennessee State Fair, September 1:

Playboy playmate of the month (and later playmate of the year), Debra Jo Fondren and Playgirl man for September, John Alexander:

The Nielsen top 20 shows for the week ending September 18th: 1 Charlie's Angels; 2 Happy Days; 3 Three’s Company; 4 Soap; 5 Welcome Back, Kotter; 6 Young Joe The Forgotten Kennedy (ABC movie); 7 Betty White Show; 8 Best of All in the Family; 9 Barney Miller; 10 Eight is Enough; 11 Carter Country; 12 Maude; 13 60 Minutes; 14 Sex and the Married Woman (NBC Tuesday movie); 15 Rooster Cogburn (NBC Saturday movie); 16 Billy, Portrait of a Street Kid (NBC Monday movie); 17 Judge Roy Bean (CBS Sunday movie); 18 The Redd Foxx Show; 19 Little House on the Prairie; 20 Rafferty.  

Albums released in September (album / artist):

A Farewell to Kings / Rush

Bad Reputation / Thin Lizzy

Dance Band on the Titanic / Harry Chapin

Chicago XI / Chicago

Foreign Affairs / Tom Waits

Baby It's Me / Diana Ross

Rough Mix / Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane

Talking Heads: 77 / Talking Heads

Aja / Steely Dan

Little Criminals / Randy Newman

Love You Live / The Rolling Stones

The Stranger / Billy Joel

Ringo the 4th / Ringo Starr

Susan Perkins from Ohio is crowned Miss America:

Esquire magazine for September:

National Geographic magazine for September:

Sports Illustrated for September:

Peanuts comic strip from September 1977:

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