I Caught Night Fever in April 1978!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in April 1978 was 'Night Fever' by the Bee Gees.
April 2 – The CBS soap opera Dallas is launched.
April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held with Annie Hall winning Best Picture. Best actor is Richard Dreyfuss for Goodbye Girl, best actress is Diane Keaton for Annie Hall, best supporting actor is Jason Robards for Julia, best supporting actress is Vanessa Redgrave for Julia. Richard Dreyfuss became the youngest man to win an Oscar for best actor. This was Bob Hope's 19th, and final, time hosting the event.
April 3 - Pass the Buck game show debuts on NBC. Hosted by Bill Cullen, four contestants competed to give a list of items that fit into a specific category announced at the beginning of each round (e.g., first names with exactly five letters, things that make people laugh).
April 5 - Pretty Baby movie premieres.
April 7 – Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb – a weapon which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
April 8 - The Ted Knight Show debuts on CBS.
April 9 - Rabbit Test movie premieres.
April 10 – Volkswagen becomes the second (after Rolls-Royce) non-American automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the Volkswagen Golf, at the Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania.
April 16–19 - Holocaust, starring James Woods and Meryl Streep, first airs on NBC.
April 18 – The senate votes 68–32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
April 20 - Dawn of the Dead movie premieres.
April 21 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, civil rights activist, biologist and educator; first African American to receive a doctorate from Cornell, dies. (born 1877)
April 22 - The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
April 24 - Card Sharks game show debuts on NBC.
April 26 - F.I.S.T. movie premieres.
April 25 - Vega$ tv series debuts on ABC.
April 28 - FM movie premieres. Some AM radio stations played an edited version of the movie's title song in which an overdubbed "A" was substituted for the "F" of FM.
April 28 – WAC abolished; women integrated into regular Army.
1978 Dodge Magnum XE:
Star Wars comic for April:
Superman pinball game (released 1978):
Playboy playmate of the month, Pamela Jean Bryant, and Playgirl man for April, Brian Dawson:
Albums released in April (album / artist):
For You / Prince
Heavy Horses / Jethro Tull
Almighty Fire / Aretha Franklin
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture / Various Artists
Come Get It! / Rick James
Bad Boy / Ringo Starr
Showdown / The Isley Brothers
Nielsen top 10 for the week ending April 16th: 1 Three's Company; 2 Laverne and Shirley; 3 M-A-S-H; 4 Holocaust Part I; 5 Happy Days; 6 One Day at a Time; 7 Charlie’s Angels; 8 Baby I'm Back; 9 Amazing Spider Man; 10 60 Minutes.
Us magazine for April 18th:
Vogue magazine for April:
Peanuts comic strip from April 1978:
1978 Dodge Magnum XE:
Star Wars comic for April:
Superman pinball game (released 1978):
Playboy playmate of the month, Pamela Jean Bryant, and Playgirl man for April, Brian Dawson:
Albums released in April (album / artist):
For You / Prince
Heavy Horses / Jethro Tull
Almighty Fire / Aretha Franklin
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture / Various Artists
Come Get It! / Rick James
Bad Boy / Ringo Starr
Showdown / The Isley Brothers
Nielsen top 10 for the week ending April 16th: 1 Three's Company; 2 Laverne and Shirley; 3 M-A-S-H; 4 Holocaust Part I; 5 Happy Days; 6 One Day at a Time; 7 Charlie’s Angels; 8 Baby I'm Back; 9 Amazing Spider Man; 10 60 Minutes.
Teen Beat for April:
Us magazine for April 18th:
Vogue magazine for April:
Peanuts comic strip from April 1978:
