In 1978, Cropper and Dunn became members of Levon Helm's RCO All-Stars, and then went on to figure prominently in the Blues Brothers Band with the drummer Willie Hall.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

* 1978 – World News Tonight premieres on ABC.

* John Lafayette, in the 1978 ABC television special " A Home Run for Love " ( broadcast as an ABC Afterschool Special ).

The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971 to 1978, took a respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1989 to 2003.

It aired on the ABC network as a regular series from 1974 to 1978, following three television movies aired in 1973.

* Starlord was a weekly title ( originally intended to be monthly ) launched in 1978 following much the same format as 2000 AD and included Strontium Dog and Ro-Busters which introduced characters that would later reappear in ABC Warriors.

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine ?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979.

Another ABC Television Movie, Battlestar Galactica, which spawned the 1978 television series of the same name, was seen by 64 million people and at the time was the most expensive TV movie ever made.

* 1978 ALCS-All four games ( ABC version ) are intact via off-air recordings.

NBC and ABC continued the wiping process well into the 1970s ; while ABC ceased in early 1978, NBC continued to wipe some shows into 1980, leaving much of their daytime game show content lost forever.

Taxi is an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC.

He first gained prominence for his portrayal of short statured dispatcher Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC television series Taxi ( 1978 – 1983 ), for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

Arledge's first major creation for ABC was 20 / 20, which premiered in June 1978.

* September 12 – Maude, a spinoff of All in the Family premieres on CBS ( 1972 – 1978 ), Temperatures Rising premieres on ABC ( 1972-1974 ).

* October 20 – The Six Million Dollar Man on ABC ( 1973 – 1978 ).

Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC.

The Nielsen ratings were very high, ranking at # 3, behind Laverne & Shirley ( at # 1 ) and Three's Company ( at # 2 ), both on ABC, which was the highest rated network in the US in 1978.

Additionally, in early 1978, the band appeared as themselves in two episodes of the ABC sitcom What's Happening !!

Soon after in 1978, Nine switched their slogan to " Still the One " ( patterned after the campaign used by ABC in the United States ), which lasted until the ratings downfall in January 2006.

He also played four separate guest roles on Fantasy Island, on ABC from 1978 to 1980.

Hudson Street is an American comedy television show that aired on ABC in 1978 on Thursday night from 9: 30 pm to 10: 00 pm est.

It also has used various titles, including ABC Evening News from 1970 to 1978 and World News Tonight from 1978 to 2006.

The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America ( 1978 ), 1880s and 1890s in U. S.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of.

The Reuters news agency nicknamed Gate House " U of T's Animal House " because Donald Sutherland's memories of its parties are said to have influenced the script of the 1978 movie.

2nd Edition 1972 and 1978 reprint, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ( Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved ), Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., ISBN 0-933346-01-8 oversize folio softcover spiral bound, with transparency overlay coordinate grid ruler.

Prime Minister of Israel | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, President of Egypt | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and President of the United States | U. S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

* Ogbu, J. U. ( 1978 ).

The Federal Banking Agency Audit Act, enacted in 1978 as Public Law 95-320 and 31 U. S. C.

* 1978 election for U. S. House of Representatives — 4th District

In the U. S., public library users have borrowed on average roughly 15 books per user per year from 1856 to 1978.

President Tolbert and U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( in car, left ) in Monrovia, 1978

Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).

* 1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U. S. State of Arizona ( b. 1909 )

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Charles, Prince of Wales ( 3 November 1972 ), U. S. President Jimmy Carter ( 15 July 1978 ), and U. S. Vice President ( later President ) George H. W. Bush ( George Bush Senior ) ( 1 February 1983 ).

With the death of company founder and first CEO Willard Rockwell in 1978, and the stepping down of his son Willard Rockwell, Jr. in 1979 as the second CEO, Bob Anderson became CEO and led the company through the 1980s when it became the largest U. S. defense contractor and largest NASA contractor.

In 1978, the U. S. Census Bureau proclaimed Redmond the fastest growing city in the state.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel meet at Camp David and agree on the Camp David Accords a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

The band Tako combined symphonic and jazz rock, and released two albums, Tako ( 1978 ) and U vreći za spavanje ( 1980 ).

The U. S. government produced a photo alleged to showed Miskito bodies being burned by Sandinista troops ; however, the photo was actually of people killed by Somoza's National Guard in 1978.

* The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was set up in 1978 as a commonwealth in political union with the U. S.

Pavel filed a patent for his Stereobelt in Italy in 1977, followed by patent applications in the U. S., Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan by the end of 1978.

Although " Humphrey was an enthusiastic supporter of every U. S. war from 1938 to 1978 ", in February, 1960, he introduced a bill to establish a National Peace Agency.

In 1978, the U. S. government paid for Kazan and his family to travel to Kazan's birthplace where many of his films were to be shown.