MacArthur Park Is Melting...It Must be November 1978!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in November 1978 was 'MacArthur Park' by Donna Summer.
November 2 - David Cassidy: Man Undercover tv series debuts on NBC.
November 3 - Diff'rent Strokes tv series debuts on NBC.
November 7 – California voters defeat the Briggs Initiative that would have prohibited gay school teachers.
November 8 – Norman Rockwell, painter and illustrator, dies. (born 1894)
November 8 - Magic movie premieres.
November 10 - Paradise Alley movie premieres.
November 10 – Theodore Roosevelt National Park is established.
November 15 – Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist, dies. (born 1901)
November 17 - The Star Wars Holiday Special airs for the first...and last time on CBS.
November 18 – Mass murder/suicide of 909 Americans in Jonestown, Guyana under the direction of Jim Jones.
November 19 – The first Take Back the Night march to protest violence against women occurs in San Francisco.
November 22 - Same Time, Next Year movie premieres.
November 27 – In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.
November 27 - The White Shadow tv series debuts on CBS.
Barbie Fashion Change-abouts (released 1978):
1978 Chrysler New Yorker:
Trapper Keeper was a new product introduced in 1978.
Yogi Bear comic for November:
Playboy playmate of the month, Monique St. Pierre, and Playgirl man for November, Howie Gordon:
Albums released in November 1978 (album / artist):
Midnight Oil / Midnight Oil
Outlandos d'Amour / The Police
You Don't Bring Me Flowers / Neil Diamond
Babylon by Bus / Bob Marley and The Wailers Live
Give 'Em Enough Rope / The Clash
Jazz / Queen
Lionheart / Kate Bush
The Scream / Siouxsie and the Banshees
Shakedown Street / Grateful Dead
Blondes Have More Fun / Rod Stewart
Love Tracks / Gloria Gaynor
Nielsen top shows for week ending November 19th: 1 Laverne and Shirley ABC; 2 Three's Company ABC; 3 Pearl part 1 ABC; 4 Alice CBS; 5 Pearl part 3 ABC; 6 Happy Days ABC; 7 Charlie's Angels ABC; 8 Mork and Mindy ABC; 9 Pearl part 2 ABC; 10 What's Happening! ABC; 11 MASH CBS; 12 (tie) 60 Minutes CBS and Wonderful World of Disney NBC; 14 All in the Family CBS; 15 Taxi ABC.
Herman Wouk's 'War and Remembrance' is at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.
Cracked magazine for November:
Sports Illustrated for November 27th:
Time magazine for November 6th:
Garfield comic strip from November 1978:
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