* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

The 1971 made-for-TV Brian's Song was also briefly released to theatres after its success on television, and was even remade in 2001.

Her best-known came in 1971 as " Grandma Esther Walton " on the made-for-TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which served as the pilot for The Waltons.

He subsequently wrote music for two jazz ballets and for numerous theater pieces and films, including Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Pociąg ( The Train a / k / a Night Train ) ( 1959 ), Mieczysław Waśkowski's Jeszcze słychać śpiew i rżenie koni ... ( Singing Still Heard, and the Neighing of Horses ...) ( 1971 ), Andrzej Kotkowski's 1978 made-for-TV movie Gra o wszystko ( A Gamble for Everything ), Wojciech Marczewski's Dreszcze ( Shivers ) ( 1981 ), Janusz Kidawa's Bardzo spokojna wieś ( A Very Peaceful Village ) ( 1983 ) and Krzysztof Magowski's controversial 1990 TV miniseries Świnka ( Piggy ), which was not broadcast until 1994.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

In the 1971 movie Harold and Maude the character Harold, played by Bud Cort, drives two hearses: originally a 1959 Cadillac Superior 3-way ; and then later a custom hearse he makes from a 1971 Jaguar XK-E 4. 2 Series II.

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

In the same year, Waits lent his vocals to Gavin Bryars ' 75-minute reworking of his 1971 classical music piece Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet ; appeared in Robert Altman's film version of Raymond Carver's stories Short Cuts and Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California, a short black-and-white movie with Iggy Pop ; and his third child, Sullivan, was born.

The film was the fifth most popular " reserve ticket " movie at the British box office in 1971.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named The City, where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled The Man and the City.

* Fielder Cook ( March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003 ) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

He co-starred with Yul Brynner and Richard Crenna in the Western movie Catlow ( 1971 ).

* The movie Goodbye Uncle Tom ( 1971 ) ends with an unidentified man's fantasy re-enactment of Styron's novel.

* The sound track for the 1971 movie " Summer of ' 42 " by Michel Legrand includes a lively piece called " The Bacchanal.

Bogdanovich liked Bottoms for his sad eyes, and recalled that he was convinced to cast him when he learned that he was being highly touted at the time by his agent who said he had been given the lead in a Dalton Trumbo movie Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 ); " I guess that's what convinced me " he said.

In the 1971 Peter Bogdonovich film " The Last Picture Show ", the final movie shown in the movie theatre is " Red River ", which was changed from " The Kid From Texas " in Larry McMurty's book.

The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black from Tidyman's 1971 novel of the same name.

The county is referred to in Joe David Brown's 1971 novel Addie Pray, which inspired the movie Paper Moon.

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey's 1964 novel adapted for a 1971 movie, is about a family of lumberjacks in Oregon.

* The majority of the youthful romance movie Friends ( 1971 ) takes place in the Camargue, with numerous scenes of wetlands and wildlife.

* In The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, a 1971 TV movie that served as a pilot for the series The Waltons, Grandpa ( played by Edgar Bergen ) is seen listening to a 1947 Christmas episode of Fibber McGee and Molly, in which Teeny explains that she and her friends have been practicing their Christmas carol.

* In 1971, Christopher George played an escape artist named Cameron Steele in the TV movie / unsold series pilot, Escape.

The series pilot aired as a television movie entitled The Homecoming: A Christmas Story and was broadcast on December 19, 1971.

Day of the Wolves is a 1971 heist movie starring Richard Egan.

* Assault ( 1971 )

* An alternative name for the 1971 film Assault ( film )

* Yulia Dioshi in the 1971 Eastern Bloc co-production Liberation: The Last Assault.

* Assault on Soho ( 1971 )

* Assault ( 1971 )

Assault ( March 26, 1943 – September 2, 1971 )

Assault died on September 1, 1971, at age 28, at King Ranch.

In the 1971 Eastern Bloc co-production Liberation V: The Final Assault, he was portrayed by East German actor Otto Busse.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

" The Abadan oil refinery was featured on the reverse side of Iran's 100-rial banknotes printed in 1965 and from 1971 to 1973.

The lowest minimum temperature was − 14. 6 ° C ( 5. 7 ° F ) at Gudgenby on 11 July 1971.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

A fax from the Secretary of the International Narcotics Control Board to the Netherlands Ministry of Public Health sent in 2001 goes on to state that " Consequently, preparations ( e. g. decoctions ) made of these plants, including ayahuasca, are not under international control and, therefore, not subject to any of the articles of the 1971 Convention.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

Reprinted on pp. 92 – 119 in Bell, C. Gordon and Newell, Allen ( 1971 ), Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

The 1971 census was the first census in Botswana to use de facto enumeration ; this method counts people based on how many people spent census night at a specific location.

The current standard of 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched or 45 days on the active roster of a Major League club ( excluding time in military service or on the disabled list ) before September 1 was adopted in 1971.

A small selection was issued on a 1971 LP and a 2-cassette set of the series ' soundtrack was made available in the late 1990s.

Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

In 1971, the Orioles won another division title thanks to four 20-game winners on their pitching staff ( Cuellar, Jim Palmer, Pat Dobson, and Dave McNally ).

They were married on July 4, 1971.

In response to escalating levels of violence across Northern Ireland, internment without trial was introduced on 9 August 1971.

Through the support of the Western bloc ( most Western countries continued to recognize the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China ), the Republic of China on Taiwan retained China's seat in the United Nations until 1971.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

In 1950, he became the first African-American instructor at the Art Students League, where he remained on faculty until 1971.

The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

It was not until 1971 that the Brazilian Association of Canchim Cattle Breeders ( ABCCAN ) was formed, and on 11 November 1972 the Herd Book was initiated.

However, the efforts in integrated circuit development culminated in the introduction in early 1971 of the first " calculator on a chip ", the MK6010 by Mostek, followed by Texas Instruments later in the year.