March 1978...So Thick!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in March 1978 was '(Love Is) Thicker Than Water' by Andy Gibb.
March 1 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery three months after burial. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault which is then buried in the same grave.
March 2 - Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek flies aboard Soyuz 28, becoming the first space traveler from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States.
March 3 – The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.
March 3 – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for The Empire Strikes Back, but dies only two weeks later.
March 5 - An Unmarried Woman movie premieres.
March 6 – American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
March 10 - The Incredible Hulk tv series debuts on CBS.
March 10 - Return from Witch Mountain and The Fury movies premiere.
March 13 - The Big Sleep movie premieres.
March 17 - American Hot Wax movie premieres.
March 19 – Faith Baldwin, romantic novelist and poet, dies. (born 1893)
March 22 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
March 26 – April 1 CBS commemorates its golden anniversary in radio and TV broadcasting with CBS: On the Air, a 9½-hour retrospective special airing over 7 nights.
March 28 – Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. It involved an Indiana judge who was sued by a young woman who had been sterilized without her knowledge as a minor in accordance with the judge's order. The Supreme Court held that the judge was immune from being sued for issuing the order because it was issued as a judicial function.
Black Panther comic for March:
1978 Plymouth Volare:
Hawaiian Punch game (released 1978):
Sears 1978 Spring/Summer catalog:
Playboy playmate of the month, Christina Smith, and Playgirl man for March, CW Mundy:
Ms. magazine for March:
Seventeen magazine for March:
March 3 – Leigh Brackett completes the first draft for The Empire Strikes Back, but dies only two weeks later.
March 5 - An Unmarried Woman movie premieres.
March 6 – American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
March 10 - The Incredible Hulk tv series debuts on CBS.
March 10 - Return from Witch Mountain and The Fury movies premiere.
March 13 - The Big Sleep movie premieres.
March 17 - American Hot Wax movie premieres.
March 19 – Faith Baldwin, romantic novelist and poet, dies. (born 1893)
March 22 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
March 26 – April 1 CBS commemorates its golden anniversary in radio and TV broadcasting with CBS: On the Air, a 9½-hour retrospective special airing over 7 nights.
March 28 – Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. It involved an Indiana judge who was sued by a young woman who had been sterilized without her knowledge as a minor in accordance with the judge's order. The Supreme Court held that the judge was immune from being sued for issuing the order because it was issued as a judicial function.
Black Panther comic for March:
1978 Plymouth Volare:
Hawaiian Punch game (released 1978):
Sears 1978 Spring/Summer catalog:
Playboy playmate of the month, Christina Smith, and Playgirl man for March, CW Mundy:
Albums released in March (album / artist):
And Then There Were Three / Genesis
Easter / Patti Smith
Gettin' the Spirit / Roberta Kelly
Guilty Until Proven Insane / Skyhooks
You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish / REO Speedwagon
Generation X / Generation X
This Year's Model / Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Kaya / Bob Marley and The Wailers
London Town / Wings
Nielsen Top 10 for the week ending March 12th: 1 Happy Days; 2 Little House on the Prairie; 3 (tie) Three’s Company and M-A-S-H; 5 One Day at a Time; 6 60 Minutes; 7 Circus Highlights; 8 All in the Family; 9 Alice; 10 Love Boat.
Sidney Sheldon's 'Bloodline' moved to the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list. This book is about a pampered heiress who inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit.
Crazy magazine for March:
Ms. magazine for March:
Seventeen magazine for March:
Peanuts comic strip from March 1978:
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