Dy-no-mite December 1976!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in December 1976 was 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing' by Leo Sayer.
December 1 - C.P.O. Sharkey, The McLean Stevenson Show and Sirota's Court tv series premiere.
December 1 - C.P.O. Sharkey, The McLean Stevenson Show and Sirota's Court tv series premiere.
December 5 - Bound for Glory movie premieres.
December 6 - The Feather and Father Gang tv show premieres on ABC.
December 8 - The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of New York, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.
December 8 - A Star Is Born movie premieres.
December 20 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies while in office.
December 12 – Jack Cassidy, actor and singer, dies in a fire. Father to both David and Shaun Cassidy, Jack has over 75 acting credits to his name. (born 1927)
December 13 - Double Dare game show premieres on CBS.
December 14 - Barbara Walters airs her first interview special for ABC, with guests Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Peters.
December 14 - Barbara Walters airs her first interview special for ABC, with guests Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Barbra Streisand, and Jon Peters.
December 15 - The Pink Panther Strikes Again movie premieres.
December 17 - At 1:00 p.m. (ET), Atlanta, Georgia station WTCG-TV begins satellite transmission of its regular programming to four cable systems, thus becoming the first superstation.
December 17 - The Shaggy D.A. and King Kong movies premiere.
December 24 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown movie premieres.
December 31 - President Gerald Ford presents the last of the Bicentennial Minutes on CBS, which had been airing nightly since July 4, 1974.
Albums released in December (album / artist):
Still Stills: The Best of Stephen Stills / Stephen Stills
Hotel California / Eagles
A Day at the Races / Queen
Wings over America / Wings
Wind and Wuthering / Genesis
Nielsen top 20 shows for the week of Dec 6-12: Happy Days, Laverne
and Shirley, Charlie's Angels and Six Million Dollar Man, all on ABC; M-A-S-H, CBS; The Carpenters, ABC; 60 Minutes, All in the Family, Johnny Cash Special and The
Waltons, CBS; ABC Monday Night Football; One Day at a Time, CBS; Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man, NBC, Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Christmas in Disneyland and
Friday Movie, ABC; Phyllis, CBS; Little House on the Prairie, NBC; and
Rhoda, CBS
1976 Cadillac Coupe Deville:
1976 Cadillac Coupe Deville:
JC Penney Christmas 1976 catalog:
Fisher-Price little people hospital (released 1976):
Playboy playmate of the month, Karen Hafter and Playgirl man for December, Ben Gallagher:
X-Men comic for December:
Jet for December:
Soap Opera Digest for December:
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for December:
For detailed news/info on what happened each day in December 1976, check out this really good site: ultimate70s.com
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