Have a favorite memory that you'd like to share with others? Add a comment to this post. I remember laughing and marveling at the comedy of Mike Dann and Rob Isbell as they improvised on stage at the talent show.
Below is some trivia to get your 70's brain into gear:
The following TV shows premiered in 1978: Dallas, 20/20, Battlestar Galactica, Mork and Mindy, Taxi, WKRP in Cincinatti
Do you remember these gems: Fantasy Island, Match Game, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Barnaby Jones, Good Times, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, Three's Company, MASH, Monty Python (best for last)
The Saturday Night Live Cast included: Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtain, Garret Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner
Top Hits: Night Fever (and many others from the Bee Gees), You Light up My Life, Lay Down Sally (Clapton), Baby Come Back, It's A Heartache, We are the Champions, Baker Street, Two out of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf), Hot Blooded, Short People, Still the Same (Seger), On Broadway (G Benson), Come Sail Away, You Belong to Me (Simon), Count on Me (J Starship), What's Your Name (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Runnin on Empty (J Browne), Life's Been Good (Walsh), It's So Easy (Ronstadt), Turn to Stone (ELO), Deacon Blues, Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue (C. Gayle)
Big News:
- Camp David Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
- Mass murder/suicide of Jim Jones cult members in Guyana
- Space Invaders video game released
- Serial killer, Ted Bundy, arrested in Florida
- Porn king, Larry Flynt, shot and paralyzed
- Annie Hall won Best Picture
- The US Senate voted to turn over control of the Panama Canal to Panama
- Pete Rose got his 3000th major league hit
- The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was proclaimed under pro-communist leadership
- Charlie Chaplin's coffin stolen and later found
- The first Unabomber attack at Northwestern University
- Al Unser won the Indy 500 for the third time
- Nintendo released Computer Othello
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