They eventually brought the Microman toy line to the United States as the Micronauts, but Mego eventually lost control of the market after losing the license to produce Star Wars toys to Kenner in 1976.

In 1975 and 1976, Mego also released the 8 " tall Fist Fighting Riddler which was basically the same as the 1974 figure except it had a mechanism which allowed a child move a lever on the figure's back to make the arms swing.

Then Mego added the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman doll line in 1976.

Mego produced the first edition series of the 12 " Wonder Woman dolls in 1977 during the release of the New Adventures of Wonder Woman TV series, the Dolls were patented in 1976 and release on the toy market in the fall of 1977 during the same time that the Wonder Woman TV series first aired on CBS on September 16, 1977.

After Kenner acquired the license to produce Star Wars toys when the Mego Corporation rejected it in 1976, Kenner popularized the 3. 75 inch action figure that became an industry standard that continues to dominate the action figure toy market.

* Cher ( Mego, 1976, 1977, 1978 and Mattel, 2000 )

Following the lead of Stinky Toys, Métal Urbain played its first concert in December 1976.

The band had a minor hit in " Dream On ", which peaked at No. 59 in 1973, but it wasn't until the back-to-back releases of Toys in the Attic ( 1975 ) and Rocks ( 1976 ) that Aerosmith broke into the mainstream.

Chief among these successes were Toys in the Attic ( 1975 ) and Rocks ( 1976 ), thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio.

Douglas engineered and produced many of Aerosmith's albums in the 1970s, including Get Your Wings ( 1974 ), Toys in the Attic ( 1975 ), Rocks ( 1976 ) and Draw the Line ( 1977 ), all of which have gone multi-platinum.

The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company ( now Apple Inc .) in 1976.

The system was described in 1976 by Guy Ottewell and also by Robert J. Weber, who coined the term " approval voting.

At the time, precautions were not taken against this unintended side reaction, which caused also the Seveso disaster in Italy in 1976.

See also Ford's 1976 executive order.

The team at Dubna also studied this reaction in 1976 as part of their newly established cold fusion approach to new elements.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

Bixby also hosted Once Upon A Classic on PBS from 1976 to 1980.

* Communion, a 1976 horror film ( also called Alice, Sweet Alice ) starring Brooke Shields

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

Sylvester Stallone created one of the most successful sports drama franchises with Rocky ( 1976 ) and also directed the sequel Rocky II ( 1979 ).

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

To promote his autobiography, A Book, on February 21, 1976, Arnaz served as a guest host on Saturday Night Live, with his son, Desi, Jr., also appearing.

He also revived the Pertwillaby Papers in this " RBCC " fanzine a comic book style story rather than a newspaper comic strip from 1976 to 1978.

Prior to the NES version, Nintendo also made a Duck Hunt game based on Laser Clay Shooting System released in 1976.

It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).

The film has been parodied and referenced in places such as the 1976 film The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the satirical publication The Onion, the Japanese game-show Takeshi's Castle, and the 1977 John Landis comedy anthology film Kentucky Fried Movie ( in its lengthy " A Fistful of Yen " sequence ) and also in the film Balls of Fury.

The album also shed the customary ELO logo that had appeared on every album since 1976.

At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976.

It is said to have at least two moons, one being the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya ( first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible ); the novel Lungbarrow also places Karn ( setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976 ) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an " astrological figure " of " Kasterborous the Fibster ".

The metric definition of exactly cubic decimetres ( also after the litre was redefined in 1964, ≈ ) was adopted shortly afterwards in Canada, but from 1976 the conventional value of was used in the United Kingdom until the Canadian convention was adopted in 1985.

The 8086 ( also called iAPX 86 ) is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel between early 1976 and mid-1978, when it was released.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.

As a last attempt to reach international success, he released the LP titled Baris Mancho ( 1976 ), a strange transcription of his name, mostly with George Hayes Orchestra under CBS Records label, in Europe and South Africa.

* Baris Mancho, released as Nick The Chopper in Turkey ( 1976 ) ( CBS Disques / Grammofoonplaten S. A. B. V., CBS 81784, Yavuz LP )

Three albums released in years 1975 and 1976 ( Caught in the Act, Movin ' On, Hot On The Tracks ) are considered the peak of their harder funk period.

Starting with Telstar Pong clone based on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 chip in 1976, there were 14 consoles released in the Telstar branded series.

The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

The second was their breakthrough album, 2112, released the following year in 1976.

Initially, Decade was to be released in 1976, but was pulled at the last minute by Young.

In 1976, American DJ, editor, and producer Walter Gibbons remixed " Ten Percent " by Double Exposure, one of the earliest commercially released 12 ″ singles ( aka " maxi-single ").

In 1976 Devo released their first single Mongoloid b / w Jocko Homo, the B-side of which came from the soundtrack to The Truth About De-Evolution, on their independent label " Booji Boy ", followed in 1977 by the re-working of the Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction ".

On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).

The film was released theatrically in the United States in the summer of 1976 by Cinema Shares.

In 1976, Cinema Shares released Godzilla vs. Megalon theatrically.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was released theatrically in America on May 9, 1976, though the San Francisco Chronicle indicates that it opened there in June, and The New York Times indicates that it opened in New York City on July 11.

Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.

In 1976, Taito released Interceptor, an early first-person combat flight simulator that involved piloting a jet fighter, using an eight-way joystick to aim with a crosshair and shoot at enemy aircraft.

Presence, released in March 1976, marked a change in the Led Zeppelin sound towards more straightforward, guitar-based jams, departing from the acoustic ballads and intricate arrangements featured on their previous albums.

1976 saw the release of the low-budget comic musical, The First Nudie Musical, released by Paramount.

In 1976, the U. S. National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) released a report that confirmed the scientific credibility of the ozone depletion hypothesis.

Atari later released a version under its own brand in 1976.