Based on the hit song by C. W. McCall, the film was an attempt to capitalize on the huge success of Smokey and the Bandit ( 1977 ).

* Stranglers huge success in 1977: the making of the first 2 albums

** Space: 1999 ( 1975 – 1977 ): A huge explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit on September 13 ( a Friday in the series, but not in reality ).

Meanwhile, the huge Monaco ( Royal Monaco beginning in 1977 when the mid-sized Coronet was renamed " Monaco ") models hung around through 1977, losing sales every year, until finally being replaced by the St. Regis for 1979 following a one-year absence from the big car market.

Formed in 1977 in Stoke-on-Trent, Discharge played a huge role in influencing other European hardcore bands.

A steady stream of Johnny Wadd films followed which included Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here ( 1976 ), Liquid Lips ( 1976 ), The Jade Pussycat ( 1977 ), The China Cat ( 1978 ), and Blond Fire ( 1978 ), all of which were huge box office successes.

However, some miners considered Benn's 1977 industry reforms to have caused problems during the strike ; firstly, that they led to huge wage differences and distrust between miners of different regions ; and secondly that the controversy over balloting miners for these reforms made it unclear as to whether a ballot was needed for a strike or whether it could be deemed as a " regional matter " in the same way that the 1977 reforms had been.

The Janata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister.

Star Wars ( 1977 ) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1978 ), were box-office hits that brought about a huge increase in science fiction films.

The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977.

In defiance of the opinion polls and political commentators Fianna Fáil swept to power with a huge 20-seat Dáil majority following the 1977 general election.

Following Fianna Fáil's huge triumph at the 1977 general election, Gibbons's tenure as a MEP ended and he returned to Jack Lynch's new cabinet as Minister for Agriculture.

After forming a new production company, Hexagon Films, he produced, directed and co-wrote ( with Alan Hopgood ) his next feature, Alvin Purple, which was a huge hit with Australian audiences, held the record as Australia's most successful film release between 1971 and 1977, and is one of the key works in the revival of Australian cinema in the ' 70s.

Realizing that Owens ' performance numbers were a huge draw, they sold their home in 1977 and purchased the building on the corner of St. Louis and Bourbon.

Witnessing Kiss live at Madison Square Garden in 1977 made a huge impact on Ian, who has been vocal about his love for the band, and appeared on an episode of Gene Simmons Family Jewels, in which he visited Simmons ' home and spoke about the impact Kiss had on his life.

McQuarrie's concept paintings, including such scenes as R2-D2 and C-3PO arriving on Tatooine, helped convince 20th Century Fox to fund Star Wars, which became a huge success upon release in 1977.

On February 25, 1977, a huge fire in the building killed 42 and injured 50.

Session players Dan Ferguson ( guitar ) and Ron Fransen ( keyboards ) were brought in instead to play on Rarearth, which was produced by James Anthony Carmichael ( who would go onto huge success with The Commodores and Lionel Richie ) and released in 1977.

This continued a tradition of painting 47s in unusual liveries, which dates back to 1977, when Stratford depot in East London painted two locomotives with huge Union Flags to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

* In a huge hailstorm in 1977, Southern Airways 242, a DC-9, lost both engines due to the hail.

The band achieved huge popularity in the 1970s, with their releases Smak ( 1975 ), Satelit ( 1976 ), Crna dama ( 1977 ) and Stranice našeg vremena ( 1978 ).

In the episode Albatross: Wings of Death, Lupin and the gang have to rescue Fujiko from Lonebach, a weapons dealer who is planning to sell a new type of " suitcase nuke " ( in 1977 a truly innovative concept ) and is using his huge airplane The Albatross ( a Dornier Do X ) to transport them.

The Blizzard of 1977 was a deadly blizzard that hit upstate New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1, 1977.

Passenger service ceased in January 1977 due to a blizzard, never to resume.

He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra that would endure Sinatra's early 1970s conversion to the Republican party and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.

In July 1994, an earthquake rated at 8. 2 struck just 200 miles north of La Paz, the largest earthquake since the Sumbawa earthquake of 1977.

Summing up this triumphant period, The Guardian critic Michael Billington later wrote: " 1977 the RSC struck gold.

On February 6, 1977, Lévesque's car fatally struck Edgar Trottier, a drunk homeless man who had been lying on the road.

In 1977, the Supreme Court struck down state minimum height requirements for police officers as violating the Act ; women usually could not meet these requirements.

He returned in 1977, bringing in relief aid for those struck by the powerful earthquake on March 4.

The six brought a civil claim for damages against the West Midlands police in 1977, which was struck out on 17 January 1980 by the Court of Appeal ( Civil Division ), constituted by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Denning, Goff LJ and Sir George Baker, under the principle of estoppel.

On September 7, 1977, a private aircraft dropped altitude to in dense fog, struck the CKVR-TV tower, killing all five on the plane and destroying the tower and antenna.

This incident, as well as the ending of Gerry Desjardin's career when a puck struck his eye in 1977, lead many NHL goalies to switch from fibreglass facemasks toward the cage and helmet style, and resulted in many amateur and junior leagues banning fibreglass masks altogether, mandating the helmet / cage combo.

* On 20 January 1977, a U. S. Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard-CG tail number 1448, struck three electrical transmission wires and crashed into the ice-filled Illinois River.

The couple separated in 1977, when Soares left him after he struck her during an argument.

Harris ' father, Sam Charasuchin, was struck and killed in a car accident in New York City in 1977.

* Franklin D. Roosevelt ( CV-42 ), was a Midway-class aircraft carrier, launched in 1945 and struck in 1977.

He appeared in the 1977 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and as a pinch hitter, Fairly struck out against Tom Seaver.

On the morning of February 24, 1977, the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge on the James River near Hopewell was struck by an ocean-going tanker ship, severing State Route 156, a major commuter artery between Charles City County and Prince George County.

* The 1977 Granville train disaster in Sydney, Australia, which involved the collapse of a bridge after its support pylons were struck by a train.

Haydock's life came to an end in 1977, when he was struck by a truck while hitchhiking after visiting Steckler in Las Vegas.

On 11 October 1977 the derailed wagons of an eastbound coal train were struck by a Northfleet to Dunstable cement train between Lee and Mottingham.

Another quake, 7. 4 in the Richter magnitude scale, struck 80 km northeast of the city on November 23, 1977, causing considerable damage and killing 65 people around the province.

Other top riders joined his boycott of the event and by 1977, the event was struck from the Grand Prix schedule.

Carey v. Population Services International, decided in 1977, struck down a New York law forbidding distribution of contraceptives to those under 16 but failed to produce a majority opinion and thus is not widely cited.

Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed " Auld Lang Syne " by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck midnight.

The New York City Blackout of 1977 struck on July 13 of that year and lasted for 25 hours, during which black and Hispanic neighborhoods fell prey to destruction and looting.

Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission, 432 U. S. 333 ( 1977 ) was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously struck down a North Carolina law requiring all importers of apples to label their containers with United States Department of Agriculture grade, and prohibiting the display of state grades.