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1978 |
Top TV Shows
Laverne & Shirley
Three’s Company
Happy Days
Charlie’s Angels
Mork and Mindy
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Top Films
Star Wars
Superman
Animal House
Every Which Way But Lose
Coming Home
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Top Singles
“Night Fever” – The Bee Gees
“Shadow Dancing” – Andy Gibb
“Le Freak” – Chic
“Stayin’ Alive” – The Bee Gees
“Kiss You All Over” - Exile
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Top Albums
“Saturday Night Fever” – The Bee Gees
“Grease” – Sound Track
“52nd Street” – Billy Joel
“Some Girls” – The Rolling Stones
“Don’t Look Back” - Boston
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In The News
February 15 - Leon Spinks defeats Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Las Vegas.
August 4 – Citizens of Love Canal, New York evacuate their homes after learning their neighborhood was formerly used as a toxic waste dump.
July 25 – Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, is born in Great Britain.
September 17 – Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin sign a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel at the White House. They later win the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 6 – Congress extends the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to June, 1982. It is never ratified.
November 18 – Jonestown, Guyana: Hoosier native Rev. Jim Jones orders his 911 commune members to drink Koolaid mixed with cyanide.
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Fads & Culture
- “Toga! Toga! Toga!” echoes through the air at every high school and college in
America following the release of the surprise hit comedy “National Lampoon’s
Animal House”.
- John Carpenter’s “Halloween” introduces the crazed-killer-in-a-hockey-mask to
summer horror filmgoers.
- “Hey Man – what’s happenin’” becomes the polite greeting when meeting friends
courtesy of Cheech & Chong’s “Up In Smoke”.
- 1978 is a golden year for television as America is introduced to manic Robin “Na-
Nu, Na-Nu” Williams in “Mork & Mindy”, and JR Ewing in “Dallas”.
- Meanwhile, “Boss! Boss! Ze plane! Ze plane! begins each new episode of
“Fantasy Island”. Other new TV shows include “The Incredible Hulk”, “Different
Strokes”, “Taxi”, and “WKRP in Cincinnati”.
- Pop Rocks fizz noisily in students’ mouths to the disdain of teachers everywhere.
- A lethal Disco Fever Epidemic spreads across America thanks to John Travolta’s
“Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack and “The Village People”. The YMCA is
never the same again.
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Sports Champions
Baseball ML: The New York Yankees defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 2.
Basketball NBA: The Washington Bullets defeat the Seattle Supersonics 4 games to 3.
Basketball NCAA: Kentucky defeats Duke 94 – 88.
Basketball IHSAA: Muncie Central defeats Terre Haute South 65 –64 (OT).
Football NFL: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XII.
Football NCAA: Alabama & USC share the National Champion title.
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser, Sr. – Winning Average Speed: 161 mph.
Kentucky Derby: Affirmed (Triple Crown Winner).
Wimbledon: Bjorn Borg over Jimmy Connors & Martina Navratilova over Chris Evert. |
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