June 1976 - Teton Dam, J. Paul Getty, The Omen

Get Up and Boogie, it's June 1976!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in June 1976 was 'Get Up and Boogie' by Silver Convention.

June 2 – A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.  The murder was linked to his coverage of the mafia.

June 2 - Breaking Point movie premieres.

June 3 - British parliamentarians came to the U.S. Capitol to present lawmakers with a one-year loan of the oldest known copy of the Magna Carta, one of only four that survive.  It was later displayed for public viewing in the Rotunda of the Capital.

June 4 - CBS broadcasts Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns. This triple-overtime contest has since been heralded as the greatest NBA game ever played.

June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.

June 6 – J. Paul Getty, industrialist dies. (born 1892)

June 7 - After several years providing commentaries for the show, David Brinkley joins John Chancellor as co-anchor of NBC Nightly News.

June 13 – Severe thunderstorms pass through Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan.

June 14 - The Gong Show tv series premieres on NBC.

June 16 – Francis E. Meloy, Jr., the newly appointed United States Ambassador to Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.

June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA-NBA merger.

June 18 - Midway movie premieres.

June 20 – Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon.

June 23 - The Big Bus, Logan's Run and Murder by Death movies premiere.

June 25 - The Omen movie premieres.

June 26 - Bugsy Malone movie premieres.

June 30 - The Outlaw Josey Wales movie premieres.

1976 Toyota Land Cruiser:

Playboy playmate of the month, Debra Peterson, and Playgirl man for June, Greg Hamilton:

Esquire magazine for June:

MAD magazine for June:

New York magazine for June 7 (cover story was inspiration for Saturday Night Fever movie):

Scooby Doo comic for June:

Albums released in June (Album / Artist):

The Runaways / The Runaways

All Things in Time / Lou Rawls

Rock 'n' Roll Music / The Beatles

Beautiful Noise / Neil Diamond

Chicago X / Chicago

A Night on the Town / Rod Stewart

Unorthodox Behaviour / Brand X

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell / Alice Cooper

Whistling Down the Wire / Crosby & Nash

Steal Your Face / Grateful Dead

Two for the Show / Trooper

Nielsen top 20 shows for the week of June 21-28:

McMillan and Wife (NBC), All in the Family (CBS), Starsky and Hutch (ABC), M-A-S-H (CBS), The Rookies (ABC), Maude (CBS), One Day at a Time (CBS), Happv Days (ABC), Baretta (ABC), Medical Center (CBS), Laverne and Shirley (ABC), Jigsaw John (NBC), Bob Newhart (CBS), Barnaby Jones (CBS), HawaiiFive-0 (CBS), Phyllis (CBS), Bionic Woman (ABC), Joe Forrester (NBC), Six Million Dollar Man (ABC), and Rhoda (CBS).

Fun YouTube video featuring some commercials from June 1976: 
1976 Commercials

Evel Knievel Super Jet Cycle toy (released in 1976):

'Trinity' by Leon Uris moves to the top of the New York Times fiction best seller list.

Peanuts comic strip from June 1976:

For detailed news/info on what happened each day in June 1976, check out this really good site:  ultimate70s.com

September 1977 - Voyager, Panama Canal, Ted Turner

Don't Stop Thinking About...September 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in September 1977 was 'Don't Stop' by Fleetwood Mac.

September 1 – Ethel Waters, singer and actress, dies. (b. 1896)

September 4 – The Golden Dragon Massacre, a gang related shooting killing 5, took place in San Francisco, California at the Gold Dragon Restaurant.  The five perpetrators, members of the Joe Boys, a Chinese youth gang, were attempting to kill leaders of the Wah Ching, a rival Chinatown gang. The attack also left 11 injured, none of whom were gang members. Seven perpetrators were later convicted and sentenced in connection with the murders. 

September 5 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.

September 5 - The Fitzpatricks debuts on CBS.

September 7 – Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

September 8 – Zero Mostel, actor, dies. (b. 1915)

September 10 - Several TV series debut:
 - Baggy Pants and the Nitwits on NBC
 - CB Bears, I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali, The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, The Red Hand Gang, Search and Rescue, Space Sentinels, Thunder and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics on ABC
 - The Skatebirds and Space Academy on CBS

September 11 - The Haunting of Julia movie premieres.

September 11 - The 29th Primetime Emmy Awards were held.  Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) won best comedy series.  Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS) won best drama series.  Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family) won best comedy actor, Bea Arthur (Maude) won best comedy actress, James Garner (Rockford Files) won best drama actor and Lindsay Wagner (Bionic Woman) won best drama actress.

September 12 - The Betty White Show, Young Dan'l Boone and Lucan tv shows debut on ABC.

September 13 - Soap, The Richard Pryor Show and Mulligan's Stew tv shows debut on NBC.

September 14 - Inside the NFL debuts on HBO.

September 15 - Carter Country debuts on ABC.  CHiPs debuts on NBC.

September 16 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano, dies. (b. 1923)

September 16 - Sanford Arms and Logan's Run debut on CBS.

September 17 - Operation Petticoat debuts on ABC.

September 18 – Courageous, skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps Australia in the 24th America's Cup.

September 19 - Under pressure from the Carter administration, President Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.

September 19 - The San Pedro Beach Bums debuts on ABC.  The Amazing Spider-Man debuts on CBS.

September 20 - Lou Grant debuts on CBS.

September 21 – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.

September 21 - The Oregon Trail debuts on NBC.

September 22 - Man from Atlantis debuts on NBC.

September 24 - The Love Boat debuts on ABC.

September 26 – Ernie Lombardi American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, dies. (b. 1908)

September 30 - A Little Night Music movie premieres.

Great YouTube video of intros to the new shows of fall 1977:
New Shows of Fall 1977

Batman Mego playset (released 1977):

1977 Chrysler Cordoba Coupe:

Fantastic Four comic for September:

Montgomery Ward Fall and Winter 1977 catalog:

Chairman, manager and hostesses for the Tennessee State Fair, September 1:

Playboy playmate of the month (and later playmate of the year), Debra Jo Fondren and Playgirl man for September, John Alexander:

The Nielsen top 20 shows for the week ending September 18th: 1 Charlie's Angels; 2 Happy Days; 3 Three’s Company; 4 Soap; 5 Welcome Back, Kotter; 6 Young Joe The Forgotten Kennedy (ABC movie); 7 Betty White Show; 8 Best of All in the Family; 9 Barney Miller; 10 Eight is Enough; 11 Carter Country; 12 Maude; 13 60 Minutes; 14 Sex and the Married Woman (NBC Tuesday movie); 15 Rooster Cogburn (NBC Saturday movie); 16 Billy, Portrait of a Street Kid (NBC Monday movie); 17 Judge Roy Bean (CBS Sunday movie); 18 The Redd Foxx Show; 19 Little House on the Prairie; 20 Rafferty.  

Albums released in September (album / artist):

A Farewell to Kings / Rush

Bad Reputation / Thin Lizzy

Dance Band on the Titanic / Harry Chapin

Chicago XI / Chicago

Foreign Affairs / Tom Waits

Baby It's Me / Diana Ross

Rough Mix / Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane

Talking Heads: 77 / Talking Heads

Aja / Steely Dan

Little Criminals / Randy Newman

Love You Live / The Rolling Stones

The Stranger / Billy Joel

Ringo the 4th / Ringo Starr

Susan Perkins from Ohio is crowned Miss America:

Esquire magazine for September:

National Geographic magazine for September:

Sports Illustrated for September:

Peanuts comic strip from September 1977:

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

Logan's Run Vintage Collectibles

 Life Clocks Are A Lie!  Carousel Is A Lie!

Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film which was turned into a 1977 tv series.  

The film was directed by Michael Anderson and starred Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov. The screenplay by David Zelag Goodman is based on the 1967 novel Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a utopian future society on the surface, revealed as a dystopia where the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30. The story follows the actions of Logan 5, a "Sandman" who has terminated others who have attempted to escape death and is now faced with termination himself.

The television series starred Gregory Harrison as  Logan 5.  It aired on CBS from September 1977 to February 1978.  The series maintained the basic premise and visual style of the film in that Logan and Jessica have escaped from the "City of Domes" so that they will not have to die once they reach the age of 30. However, the series differs from the plot of the movie in various ways, and depicts Logan and Jessica on the run in each episode in various locations on future Earth as they search for the mythical place known as "Sanctuary". Logan and Jessica are also assisted in each episode by an android called Rem (Donald Moffat) who did not appear in the film version.

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