September 1979 - ESPN, Radical Faeries, Hurricane Frederic

 Sharona Loves September 1979!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in September 1979 was 'My Sharona' by The Knack.

September 1 – The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.

September 1 – Doris Kenyon, actress, dies. (b. 1897)

September 1 - New Jersey decriminalizes private consensual homosexual acts.

September 3 - Harry Hay, John Burnside, Don Kilhefner and Mitchell L. Walker hold the 'Spiritual Conference for Radical Fairies' gathering in Benson, Arizona, with over 75 men in attendance.  The success of the event leads the men to form Radical Faeries.

September 7 - ESPN launches and becomes the first cable TV channel to be 24-hours a day.  SportsCenter debuts.

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September 7 - Patrick movie premieres.

September 8 - Fred and Barney Meet the Thing debuts on NBC.

September 9 - Jason of Star Command tv series debuts on CBS.  Out of the Blue tv series debuts on ABC.

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September 9 - The 31st Primetime Emmy Awards were held.  Taxi (ABC) won best comedy series.  Lou Grant (CBS) won best drama series.  Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family) won best comedy actor, Ruth Gordon (Taxi) won best comedy actress, Ron Leibman (Kaz) won best drama actor and Mariette Hartley (Incredible Hulk) won best drama actress.

September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall on Alabama's gulf coast.  The hurricane killed 5 and caused $1.77 billion in damage.

September 12 - On the two-hour season four premiere of Charlie's Angels on ABC, Shelley Hack is introduced as new angel Tiffany Welles, replacing Sabrina Duncan played by Kate Jackson.

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September 13 - Benson debuts on ABC.

September 14 - Love and Bullets movie premieres.

September 15 - Working Stiffs debuts on CBS.

September 16 - A New Kind of Family debuts on ABC.

September 16 – The Sugarhill Gang release Rapper's Delight, the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

September 17 - Three's a Crowd debuts in syndication.

September 18 - The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo debuts on NBC.

September 19 - The Last Resort and Struck by Lightning tv series debut on CBS.

September 19 - The Onion Field and Yanks movies premiere.

September 20 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century debuts on NBC.

September 21 - Eischied tv series debuts on NBC.

September 21 - Mr. Mike's Mondo Video movie premieres.

September 22 - Casper and the Angels, A Man Called Sloane, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, The New Shmoo and The Super Globetrotters debut on NBC.  Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and Spider-Woman debut on ABC.

September 23 - The Associates debuts on ABC.  Archie Bunker's Place debuts on CBS.

September 23 – The largest anti-nuclear demonstration to date is held in New York City, when almost 200,000 people attend.

September 24 – Carl Laemmle Jr., film studio executive, dies. (b. 1908)

September 25 - California Fever and Trapper John, M.D. debut on CBS.

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September 26 - John Cromwell, film director and actor, dies. (b. 1887)

September 28 - The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie; A Man, a Woman, and a Bank; Time After Time and Wise Blood movies premiere.

September 29 – Rudy Lavik, sports coach and administrator, dies. (b. 1892)

September 29 Big Shamus, Little Shamus and Paris debut on CBS.

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Playboy playmate of the month, Vicki McCarty, and Playgirl man for September, Brett Austin:

Albums released in September (album / artist):
Cut / The Slits
Ladies' Night / Kool and the Gang
La Diva / Aretha Franklin
Join Hands / Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Pleasure Principle / Gary Numan
Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile / Cliff Richard
Head Games / Foreigner
Stormwatch / Jethro Tull
Top Priority / Rory Gallagher
Joe's Garage Act I / Frank Zappa
Boogie Motel / Foghat
Dream Police / Cheap Trick
Uncle Jam Wants You / Funkadelic
The Long Run / Eagles
One Voice / Barry Manilow
Recent Songs / Leonard Cohen
Legends of the Lost and Found / Harry Chapin

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Nielsen top shows for the week ending September 23rd:  1 Eight Is Enough ABC; 2 Charlie's Angels ABC; 3 60 Minutes CBS; 4 “Coming Home” NBC; 5 “The Outlaw Josey Wales” NBC; 6 CHiPs NBC; 7 Three's Company ABC; 8 Little House on the Prairie NBC; 9 Alice CBS; 10 The Jeffersons CBS; 11 M*A*S*H CBS; 13 Taxi ABC; 14 Happy Days ABC; 15 Benson ABC.

'The Last Enchantment' by Mary Stewart is at the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.

Cheryl Prewitt from Mississippi is crowned Miss America:

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September 1978 - Camp David Accords, Mork and Mindy

So Greasy in September 1978!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in September 1978 was 'Grease' by Frankie Valli.

September 7 - Grandpa Goes to Washington tv series debuts on NBC.  Starring Jack Albertson as a U.S. senator, 10 episodes were broadcast, 11 were filmed.  

September 8 - The Eddie Capra Mysteries tv series debuts on NBC.

September 9 - Fabulous Funnies, Fantastic Four, Godzilla and Yogi's Space Race debut on NBC.  Fangface  debuts on ABC.  The All New Popeye Hour, The Paper Chase and Tarzan and the Super 7 debut on CBS.

September 10 - Kaz debuts on CBS.  Sword of Justice debuts on NBC.

September 12 - Taxi debuts on ABC.  Battle of the Planets debuts in syndication.

September 13 - W.E.B. debuts on NBC.

September 13 - Days of Heaven movie premieres.

September 14 - Mork and Mindy debuts on ABC.

September 15 - Up in Smoke movie premieres.

September 17 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.

September 17 - The 30th Primetime Emmy Awards were held.  All in the Family won best comedy series.  Rockford Files won best drama series.  Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family) won best comedy actor, Jean Stapleton (All in the Family) won best comedy actress, Edward Asner (Lou Grant) won best drama actor and Sada Thompson (Family) won best drama actress.

September 17 - Battlestar Galactica debuts on ABC.  Lifeline debuts on NBC.

September 18 - WKRP in Cincinnati debuts on CBS.  David Cassidy was offered the role of Dr. Johnny Fever, but turned it down.

September 19 - The chairs on which Archie and Edith Bunker sat through 8 seasons of the CBS comedy All in the Family are presented to the Smithsonian Institution.

September 22 - The Waverly Wonders and Who's Watching the Kids debut on NBC.

September 23 - Apple Pie debuts on ABC.  The American Girls debuts on CBS.

September 23 – Lyman Bostock, baseball player, dies. (born 1950)

September 24 – Ruth Etting, singer, dies. (born 1897)

September 24 - Mary debuts on CBS.

September 25 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.

September 29 - Somebody Killed Her Husband and Death on the Nile movies premiere.

September 30 – Edgar Bergen, actor and ventriloquist, dies. (born 1903)

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Montgomery Ward Fall and Winter 1978 catalog:

Huggies was a new product introduced in 1978.

Great YouTube video of intros for the new tv shows of fall 1978:  
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Playboy playmate of the month, Rosanne Katon, and Playgirl man for September, Stephen Taylor:

Albums released in September 1978 (album / artist):
The Bride Stripped Bare / Bryan Ferry
Pieces of Eight / Styx
Molly Hatchet / Molly Hatchet
Feel the Need / Leif Garrett
Ross / Diana Ross
Blue Valentine / Tom Waits
Studio Tan / Frank Zappa
Wet Dream / Rick Wright
Ace Frehley / Ace Frehley
Gene Simmons / Gene Simmons
Paul Stanley / Paul Stanley
Peter Criss / Peter Criss
All Fly Home / Al Jarreau
Living in the USA / Linda Ronstadt
Tormato / Yes
Road to Ruin / Ramones
The Man / Barry White
One Nation Under a Groove / Funkadelic
Cruisin' / Village People
Never Say Die! / Black Sabbath

Nielsen top 10 for the week ending September 24:  1 Laverne and Shirley; 2 Three's Company; 3 Charlie's Angels; 4 Happy Days; 5 M-A-S-H; 6 One Day At a Time; 7 Taxi; 8 All in the Family; 9 Love Boat; 10 Alice.

Kylene Barker from Virginia is crowned Miss America:

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Mad magazine for September:

Tiger Beat for September:

Peanuts comic strip from September 1978:

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August 1978 - Love Canal, Double Eagle II

Once, Twice, Three Times...August 1978!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in August 1978 was 'Three Times A Lady' by the Commodores.

August 2 – President Jimmy Carter declares an unprecedented state emergency and evacuation immediately following the revelation that Niagara Falls, New York neighborhood Love Canal was built on a toxic waste dump.

August 2 - Eyes of Laura Mars and Interiors movies premiere.

August 3 - Piranha movie premieres.  Steven Spielberg described this film as "the best of the Jaws rip-offs." 

August 4 - Corvette Summer movie premieres.  Both of this film's leads, Annie Potts and Mark Hamill, had experience with major car accidents before making this film. Potts got pins in her legs and Hamill got a fractured nose and cheekbone.

August 13 – A Santa Barbara earthquake affected the central coast of California, causing 65 injuries and $12 million in financial losses.

August 14 – Joe Venuti, jazz violinist, dies. (born 1903)

August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine to Miserey, France.

August 26 – Charles Boyer, film actor, dies. (born 1899 in France)

August 28 – Bruce Catton, Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, dies. (born 1899)

August 30 - Avalanche movie premieres.

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Coors Light was a new product introduced in 1978.

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Playboy playmate of the month, Vicki Witt, and Playgirl man for August, Jeremy Alves:

Albums released in August 1978 (album / artist):
Don't Look Back / Boston
Roberta Flack / Roberta Flack
C'est Chic / Chic
Who Are You / The Who
Along the Red Ledge / Hall and Oates
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! / Devo

Nielsen top shows for week ending August 27th:  1 Three's Company; 2 Quincy; 3 (tie) Laverne and Shirley and Carter Country; 5 M-A-S-H; 6 Alice; 7 Rockford Files; 8 One Day at a Time; 9 (tie) Starsky and Hutch and All in the Family.

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'Chesapeake' by James A. Michener is at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.

Peanuts comic strip from August 1978:

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