July 1978 - Test Tube Baby, Animal House

Missing You in July 1978!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in July 1978 was 'Miss You' by the Rolling Stones.

July 3 - Tic Tac Dough game show premieres on CBS.

July 5 - Hot Lead and Cold Feet movie premieres.  Although promotional material for this Western prominently featured Don Knotts, he was only fourth-billed and in a supporting role.

July 8 - 1978 Wimbledon Championships end.  Martina Navratilova won her first grand slam singles title at this event.  She defeated Chris Evert in the final, 2–6, 6–4, 7–5.

July 10 - The ABC Evening News gets a revamp and becomes ABC World News Tonight, employing a unique three-anchor setup (Frank Reynolds serving as lead anchor from Washington, Max Robinson presenting national news from Chicago, and Peter Jennings with international news from London).

July 14 - Foul Play, Hooper and The Swarm movies premiere.

July 18 – Claude P. Dettloff, photographer, dies. (born 1899)

July 19 - Revenge of the Pink Panther and International Velvet movies premiere.

July 20 – Alan Hirschfield is fired as president and CEO of Columbia Pictures. He is replaced by Francis T. Vincent.

July 21 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie premieres.

July 25 - The world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in the United Kingdom.

July 28 - Animal House movie premieres.

Superman's Action Comics for July:

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Incredible Hulk Pencil By Numbers set (released 1978):

Playboy playmate of the month, Karen Morton, and Playgirl man for July, Michael Montelbano:

Albums released in July (album / artist):
Under Wraps / Shaun Cassidy
Nightwatch / Kenny Loggins
Cheryl Lynn / Cheryl Lynn
Heartbreaker / Dolly Parton
Touchdown / Bob James
Can't Stand the Rezillos / The Rezillos
More Songs About Buildings and Food / Talking Heads

Nielsen top shows for the week ending July 16th:  1 Quincy NBC; 2 All‐Star Game ABC; 3 Alice CBS; 4 All in the Family CBS; 5 Happy Days ABC; 6 Switch CBS; 7 All‐Star Preview ABC; 8 Lou Grant CBS; 9 One Day at a Time CBS; 10 Charlie's Angels ABC; 11 The Love Boat ABC; 12 Death of Richie NBC; 13 (tie) Three's Company ABC and Barnaby Jones CBS; 15 Girl in Empty Grave NBC.

 People magazine for July 31st:

Rona Barrett's Hollywood for July:

Preview magazine for July:

'The Holcroft Covenant' by Robert Ludlam moves to the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.  Ludlum says the novel was inspired by a "what if" question. "What if Nazi children at the end of World War Two were being saved [secretly groomed] so that in the next generation they could revive the Third Reich?"

Peanuts comic strip from July 1978:

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August 1979 - Coyote Lake Earthquake, Facts of Life

Definitely Good Times in August 1979!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in August 1979 was 'Good Times' by Chic.

August 1 - North Dallas Forty movie premieres.

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August 2 – Thurman Munson, baseball player, dies in a plane crash. (b. 1947)

August 3 - The Concorde...Airport '79 and More American Graffiti movies premiere.

August 6 – The 5.7 Mw Coyote Lake earthquake affected the South Bay and Central Coast areas of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing 16 injuries and $500,000 in damage.

August 9 – Walter O'Malley, baseball executive, dies. (b. 1903)

August 10 - Hot Stuff movie premieres.

August 15 - Apocalypse Now movie premieres.

August 21 – Stuart Heisler, movie and television director, dies. (b. 1896)

August 22 – James T. Farrell, novelist, dies. (b. 1904)

August 24 - The Facts of Life tv series debuts on NBC.

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August 17 - Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Prisoner of Zenda, Rich Kids and The Seduction of Joe Tynan movies premiere.

August 24 - Rock 'n' Roll High School movie premieres.

August 25 - Hart to Hart tv series debuts on ABC.

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August 25 – Stan Kenton, jazz pianist, dies. (b. 1911)

August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States.

August 30  – Jean Seberg, actress, dies (body found on September 8).  (b. 1938)

August 31 – Sally Rand, dancer, dies. (b. 1904)

August 31 - City on Fire movie premieres.

1979 Ford F-150 Ranger:

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Playboy playmate of the month, Dorothy Stratten, and Playgirl man for August, Edward Tombridge-Wells.  Dorothy would later be named playmate of the year.  She was an actress appearing in Fantasy Island and Buck Rogers before she was killed by her estranged husband.

Albums released in August (album / artist):
Fear of Music / Talking Heads
Off the Wall / Michael Jackson
Chicago 13 / Chicago
Drums and Wires / XTC
Slow Train Coming / Bob Dylan
In Through the Out Door / Led Zeppelin
The Rose / Bette Midler
Eve / The Alan Parsons Project
In the Heat of the Night / Pat Benatar
Big Fun / Shalamar

Nielsen top shows for the week ending August 19th:  1 Three's Company ABC; 2 WKRP in Cincinnati CBS; 3 Taxi ABC; 4 M•A•S•H CBS; 5 Detective School ABC; 6 Charlie's Angels ABC;

7 Happy Days ABC; 8 Lou Grant CBS; 9 Vega$ ABC; 10 The Jeffersons CBS; 11 “Joe Kidd” ABC; 12 60 Minutes CBS; 13 Alice CBS; 14 Carter Country ABC; 15 Barney Miller ABC.

Mademoiselle magazine for August:

Rona Barrett's Gossip magazine for August:

Sport magazine for August:

Garfield comic strip from August 1979:

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June 1978 - Grease, Affirmed, Seasat

Out of the Shadows and Into June 1978!

A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in June 1978 was 'Shadow Dancing' by Andy Gibb.

June 2 - Capricorn One movie premieres.

June 3 – Frank Stanford, poet, dies. (born 1948)

June 4 - The 32nd Tony Awards is held.  Best Play award went to Da.  Best Musical award went to Ain't Misbehavin'.

June 6 – California voters approve Proposition 13, which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.

June 6 - 20/20 tv series debuts.

June 6 - Damien: Omen II movie premieres.  Jonathan Scott-Taylor revealed in an interview that his characterization of Damien was at least partly inspired by Brian De Palma's film Carrie.

June 10 – Affirmed becomes only the 11th horse to ever win the Triple Crown by defeating Alydar in the 110th running of the Belmont Stakes.

June 16 – The musical film Grease is released, starring 24-year-old New Jersey born actor John Travolta and 29-year-old British-Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John...as teenagers.

June 16 - Jaws 2 movie premieres.  At around $30 million (over 3 times the original's cost), this was the most expensive film that Universal Pictures had made up to that time and the second-most expensive film of 1978, after Superman.

June 28 - The U.S. scientific satellite Seasat is launched.

June 28 -  University of California Regents v. Bakke: The Supreme Court of the United States bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.

June 28 - The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

June 28 - Convoy and Heaven Can Wait movies premiere.

June 30 - The Bad News Bears Go to Japan movie premieres.

Playboy playmate of the month, Gail Stanton, and Playgirl man for June, Stephen D'Auria:

Albums released in June (album / artist):
Darkness on the Edge of Town / Bruce Springsteen
Peter Gabriel / Peter Gabriel second album
The Cars / The Cars
Fame / Grace Jones
Octave / The Moody Blues
Some Girls / The Rolling Stones
Living Room Suite / Harry Chapin
Street-Legal / Bob Dylan
Sunlight / Herbie Hancock
Thick as Thieves / Trooper
Double Vision / Foreigner

Nielsen top shows for the week ending June 18th: 1 One Day at a Time; 2 M•A•S•H; 3 Three's Company; 4 Lou Grant; 5 Charlie's Angels; 6 Lords of Flatbush; 7 Carter Country; 8 Laverne and Shirley; 9 Starsky and Hutch; 10 Happy Days; 11 Barney Miller; 12 Love Is not Enough; 13 Earthquake; 14 Quincy; 15 Play It Again Sam.

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Psychology Today magazine for June:

'Scruples' by Judith Krantz moves to the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list.

Garfield comic strip debuts on June 19, 1978:

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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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1979 Ford Fairmont:

Ginny Sweet Shop playset (released 1979):

Mello Yello was a new product introduced in 1979:

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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:

Esquire magazine for September:

Famous Monsters magazine for September:

Alfred Hitchcock's magazine for September:

Garfield comic strip from September 1979:

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