March 1979 - Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty, Three Mile Island

I Survived March 1979!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in March 1979 was 'I Will Survive' by Gloria Gaynor.

March 1 — The new Penal Code of Cuba enters into force, decriminalizing homosexual acts.

March 1 – Dolores Costello, actress, dies. (b. 1903)

March 2 - Norma Rae movie premieres.

March 4 – The U.S. Voyager I space probe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.

March 4 - Just Friends tv series debuts on CBS.

March 6 - On NBC, Another World becomes the only soap opera to air regularly scheduled 90-minute telecasts (it would go back to 60-minute episodes in 1980).

March 11 – Victor Kilian, actor, dies. (b. 1891)

March 13 - The Ropers tv series debuts on ABC.

March 14 - Hair, Tourist Trap and Voices movies premiere.

March 15 - Harris and Company tv series debuts on NBC.

March 16 - California Dreaming and The China Syndrome movies premiere.

March 17 - The Story of Heidi movie premieres.

March 19 - C-SPAN is launched.  The first televised session of the House of Representatives is broadcast, beginning with a speech by Tennessee representative Al Gore. 

March 24 - The Bad News Bears tv series debuts on CBS.

March 25 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.

March 26 – In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.

March 26 – Jean Stafford, writer, dies. (b. 1915)

March 28 – Emmett Kelly, clown, dies. (born 1898)

March 28 - Dear Detective tv series debuts on ABC.

March 28 - Phantasm movie premieres.

March 29 – America's most serious nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.

1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans-am:

 Sears catalog for spring/summer 1979:

Spiderman Magic Catch game (released 1979):

Superman comic for March:

Fun YouTube video of commercials from March 30th:

March 30, 1979 Commercials

Playboy playmate of the month, Denise McConnell, and Playgirl man for March, Bill Davidson:

Albums released in March 1979 (album / artist):
Sheik Yerbouti / Frank Zappa
Angel Station / Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Even Serpents Shine / The Only Ones
Thriller / Eddie and the Hot Rods
Fate for Breakfast / Art Garfunkel
Live at the Witch Trials / The Fall
Desolation Angels / Bad Company
L.A. / The Beach Boys
Van Halen II / Van Halen
Overkill / Motörhead
Go West / Village People
Breakfast in America / Supertramp

Top Nielsen shows for the week ending March 18th: 1 Three's Company; 2 The Ropers; 3 Laverne and Shirley; 4 Happy Days; 5 Mork and Mindy; 6 Eight is Enough; 7 Jericho Mile; 8 M-A-S-H; 9 60 Minutes; 10 One Day at a Time.

Starlog magazine for March:

Tiger Beat magazine for March:

Time magazine for March 12, 1979:

'Overload' by Alex Hailey was at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.

Garfield comic strip from March 1979:

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March 1978 - Charlie Chaplin, Larry Flynt

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 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:

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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March 1977 - Airport 77, Eight is Enough, Pavarotti

Feeling Evergreen in March 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in March 1977 was 'Evergreen' by Barbra Streisand.  Paul Williams wrote the lyrics.  Among many other songs, he also wrote the lyrics to the Love Boat theme...a show on which he was also a guest star!

March 3 - Mr. Billion movie premieres.

March 7 - Second Chance, the forerunner to Press Your Luck, premieres on ABC.

March 9 – Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.

March 9 - Islands in the Stream movie premieres.

March 11 - Sesame Street broadcasts its 1,000th episode.

March 11 - Black Sunday and Airport '77 movies premiere.

March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist, dies. (b. 1917)

March 15 - Renata Scotto and Luciano Pavarotti are seen in "La bohème" on PBS and heard in stereo on local (mostly NPR) stations in the first live "simulcast" from the Met.

March 15 - Eight Is Enough and Three's Company premiere on ABC.

March 20 - Loves Me, Loves Me Not tv series premieres on CBS.

March 25 - Eraserhead movie premieres.

March 27 - In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ABC affiliate WITI and CBS affiliate WISN-TV swap affiliations, reversing a swap that took place in 1961.

March 28 – At the 49th Academy Awards, Rocky wins for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win for their performances in Network for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.  Jason Robards wins Best Supporting Actor for All the President's Men.  Beatrice's performance is the shortest to ever win an acting Oscar, at 5 minutes and 2 seconds.

March 29 – Charles Nicoletti, American gangster, dies. (b. 1916)

March 30 - Esther Rolle departs the CBS sitcom Good Times.  Rolle does not return until the sixth and final season in September 1978.

1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo:

Milky toy (released in 1977):

Sears Spring/Summer 1977 catalog:

Welcome Back, Kotter comic for March:

Playboy playmate of the month, Nicki Thomas, and Playgirl man for March, Greg Cuskelly:

Nielsen top 20 shows for the week ending March 20th:  M.A.S.H. CBS; Happy Days ABC; The Waltons CBS; Wizard of Oz CBS; One Day at a Time CBS; Mary Tyler Moore CBS; Murder at the World Series ( ABC Sunday movie); Hawaii Five-0 CBS; Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers (NBC Monday movie); Baretta ABC; Charlie's Angels ABC; Bing Crosby Special CBS; Peanuts special CBS; Foreman-Young boxing ABC; Little House on the Prairie NBC; Eight is Enough ABC; Welcome Back, Kotter ABC; Kojak CBS; Miracle Months CBS and Rockford Files NBC.  

Albums released in March (album / artist):
High Class in Borrowed Shoes / Max Webster
Foreigner / Foreigner
Go for Your Guns / The Isley Brothers
Dandy in the Underworld / T.Rex
Islands / The Band
Live at the London Palladium / Marvin Gaye
Works Volume 1 / Emerson, Lake and Palmer
The Idiot / Iggy Pop
Whatever Happened to Slade / Slade
Commodores / Commodores

Fun YouTube video featuring commercials from 1977:
1977 Commercials

Dynamite magazine for March:

Starlog magazine for March:

Teen Beat magazine for March:

Peanuts comic strip from March 1977:

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