October 1977 - New York Yankees, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Don't Space Out, Enjoy October 1977!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in October 1977 was 'Star Wars Theme' by Meco.

October 1 - We've Got Each Other tv show debuts on CBS.

October 2 - Julia movie premieres.

October 3 - Knockout and To Say the Least game shows debut on NBC.

October 6 – Irish American mobster Danny Greene is murdered with a car bomb by the Cleveland crime family in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

October 7 - Oh, God! movie premieres.  This movie briefly ended Star Wars' 15 week reign as #1 at the box office, before Star Wars returned to the top spot the following week.

October 9 - On Our Own tv show debuts on CBS.

October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, actress, dies. (b. 1895)

October 14 – Bing Crosby, singer and actor, dies. (b. 1903)

October 14 – Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. This event resulted from her anti-gay activism.

October 14 - Starship Invasions movie premieres.

October 18 – Reggie Jackson hits three home runs to lead the New York Yankees to victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series in six games.

October 19 - Equus movie premieres.

October 20 – Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash:
Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948)
Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948)
Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b. 1949)

October 27 - James at 15 debuts on NBC.

1977 Ford Ranchero:

Speed Burners toy (released 1977):

McDonald's Happy Meal was created in October 1977.

Star Wars comic for October:

Playboy playmate of the month, Kristine Winder, and Playgirl man for October, Richard Burke Davis:

Nielsen top 10 shows for the week ending Oct 16th:  1 World Series Game 2;  2 World Series Game 1; 3 World Series Game 3; 4 Three's Company; 5 All in the Family; 6 Big Event "Good Old Days"; 7 White Line Fever (NBC Sunday Movie); 8 60 Minutes; 9 What's Happening; 10 Big Event "79 Park Avenue"

Albums released in October (album / artist):

Waitin' for the Night / The Runaways

Elvis in Concert / Elvis Presley

Out of the Blue / Electric Light Orchestra

Midnight Wind / The Charlie Daniels Band

Goin' Places / The Jacksons

Send It / Ashford and Simpson

Point of Know Return / Kansas

Heroes / David Bowie

Street Survivors / Lynyrd Skynyrd

Bat Out of Hell / Meat Loaf

Seconds Out / Genesis

Once Upon a Time / Donna Summer

Watermark / Art Garfunkel

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols / Sex Pistols

News of the World / Queen

Here You Come Again / Dolly Parton

McCall's magazine for October:

New Yorker magazine for October 3rd:

Soap Opera Digest magazine for October:

'The Silmarillion' by J.R.R. Tolkien moves to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.

Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip from October 1977:

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November 1979 - Iran, Pat Summerall

No Heartaches in November 1979!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in November 1979 was 'Heartache Tonight' by the Eagles.

November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.

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November 1 – Mamie Eisenhower, 34th First Lady of the United States, dies. (b. 1896)

November 2 – Assata Shakur (ne' Joanne Chesimard), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, is liberated from a Clinton, New Jersey prison and soon shuttled off to Cuba.

November 2 - Quadrophenia and Running movies premiere.

November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.

November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.

November 5 – Al Capp, cartoonist, dies. (b. 1909)

November 7 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.

November 7 - The Rose movie premieres.

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November 8 - Nightline (debuting as The Iran Crisis–America Held Hostage) debuts on ABC.

November 9 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.

November 12 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.

November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.

November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

November 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4.

November 21 - Mountain Family Robinson movie premieres.

November 23 – Judee Sill, singer and songwriter, dies. (b. 1944)

November 25 - Pat Summerall calls his first NFL telecast (Minnesota Vikings–Tampa Bay Buccaneers) with John Madden.

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November 28 - Young Maverick debuts on CBS.

November 30 – Zeppo Marx, actor and comedian, dies. (b. 1901)

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Creepy comic for November:

Rocket Tubes playset (released 1979):

Dustbuster was a new product introduced in 1979:

Playboy playmate of the month, Sylvie Garant, and Playgirl man for November, Greg Scott:

Albums released in November (album / artist):
Freedom at Point Zero / Jefferson Starship
Machine Gun Etiquette / The Damned
Night in the Ruts / Aerosmith
Setting Sons / The Jam
The Wall / Pink Floyd

Nielsen top shows for the week ending November 18th:  1 60 Minutes CBS; 2 Alice CBS; 3 The Jeffersons CBS; 4 Three's Company ABC; 5 Dallas CBS; 6 Archie Bunker's Place CBS; 7 Taxi ABC; 8 Happy Days ABC; 9 Trapper John, M.D. CBS; 10 Silver Streak CBS; 11 Eight Is Enough ABC; 12

MASH CBS; 13 Laverne and Shirley ABC; 14 Charlie's Angels ABC; 15 Little House on the Prairie NBC.

'The Establishment' by Howard Fast is at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.  Set in 1948, this novel is about an author and foreign correspondent starting a new life after WW II with her husband and son.  After her husband leaves on a secret mission, she's thrust into Congressional confrontations, jail, and eventually tragedy.

National Lampoon for November:

New Yorker magazine for November 26th:

Newsweek magazine for November 19th:

Garfield comic strip from November 1979:

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