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* 1973 – " Saturday Night Massacre ": President Richard Nixon fires U. S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork.
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* 1973 – Watergate Scandal: U. S. President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R.
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The series aired Saturday mornings at 10: 30am Eastern / 9: 30am Central in 1973 and at 11: 30am Eastern / 10: 30am Central the following year.
During the 1970s and early 1980s until its resurrection, the term was not in vogue, one notable exception being in the lyrics of the song " Drive-In Saturday " by David Bowie ( from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane ) which includes the line " It's a crash course for the ravers.
* " Drive-In Saturday " ( 1973 ) by David Bowie, depicting a world placed in 2033 in which its inhabitants have forgotten how to reproduce and need to watch old porn films to remember how it's done.
Starting from 1 May 1973, Peking Television began broadcasting experimentally in colour on its second channel every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday using the PAL-D system, and fully converted to colour broadcasting by 1977.
Avildsen was the original director for both Serpico ( 1973 ) and Saturday Night Fever ( 1977 ), but was fired over disputes with producers Martin Bregman and Robert Stigwood, respectively.
Other artists have had doo-wop or doo-wop-influenced hits in later years, such as Led Zeppelin's 1973 song " D ' yer Mak ' er ", David Bowie's 1973 hit " Drive-In Saturday ", Billy Joel's 1984 hit, " The Longest Time ".
Beginning in 1973, the outdoor Courthouse Show features arts, crafts, and other booths on Saturday around the courthouse, hosted by the Mason Area Chamber of Commerce.
In the 1970s, he played an abbot in the ITV Saturday Night Theatre production of Catholics ( 1973 ).
By December 1970 Burke formed eight of his children, including Kyrell " Connie " Burke Groves ; Eleanor A. Burke, who was named after his grandmother who raised him ; Melanie Burke ( born March 1960 ); Gemini Curtis Burke ( born June 3, 1961 ), Solomon Vincent Burke, Jr. ( born 15 October 1961 ); Carolyn Burke ; and John Fitzgerald Kennedy " JFK " Burke into a " kiddie-soul " group, the Sons and Daughters of Solomon, whose entire output consisted of " Think of the Children " ( later known as " Save the Children ") ( K14354 ), recorded on December 10, 1971 ; " Don't Leave Me Now " ( K14233 ) and " A Piece of Clay " ( K14354 ), recorded on 21 December 1970 ; MGM single, " Everybody's Got Fingers " ( written by Solomon Burke, and Melanie Burke and JFK Burke ), recorded on January 16, 1971 ; b / w " Don't Leave Me Now " ( MGM K14233 ), a single " Save the Children " ( 1972 ), and a 1973 album " Kid Power " ( PRD0010, MGS 2994 ), the soundtrack to Kid Power, a cartoon adaptation of Morrie Turner's Wee Pals comic strip that was part of ABC Television's Saturday morning lineup during the 1972 – 73 season, on MGM's Lion subsidiary.
In 1973, NBC made Brokaw White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal, and anchor of the Saturday editions of Nightly News.
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran for 16 half-hour episodes from September 11, 1971, to September 2, 1972, and four 8-minute episodes ( as part of The Flintstone Comedy Hour ) from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973, on CBS.
spun off an animated version called Emergency + 4 which ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1976, and featured four teenagers who participated in adventures with the firefighter / paramedics.
More holidays were moved in 1973: Epiphany to the Saturday following 5 January and Ascension Day to the Saturday before the traditional Thursday, but these revisions were reversed in 1991.
Before the first year of his second term ended, Brooke became the first Republican to call on President Nixon to resign, on November 4, 1973, shortly after the Watergate-related " Saturday night massacre ".
This potential cycling of Acting Secretaries of Defense could be reminiscent of the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre at the Department of Justice.
* Harlem Globetrotters, a Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon, broadcast from September 12, 1970 to May 1973.
Winchell's last regular on-camera TV appearances working with his puppets were The Storybook Squares, a children's version of the adult celebrity game show The Hollywood Squares which was seen Saturday mornings on NBC during the 1969 TV season, and Runaround, another children's TV game show seen Saturday mornings on NBC from September 1972 to September 1973.
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