" He is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including several hits for Three Dog Night ( the aforementioned " An Old Fashioned Love Song ", as well as " The Family of Man ", and " Out in the Country "), Helen Reddy (" You and Me Against the World "), and the Carpenters, most notably " Rainy Days and Mondays ," " I Won't Last a Day Without You ," and " We've Only Just Begun ", originally a song for a Crocker National Bank television commercial featuring newlyweds, and which has since become a cover-band standard and de rigueur for weddings throughout North America.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Crocker cultivated a reputation for customer service and convenience, including expanded hours.

During its heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Frankie Crocker was WBLS ' program director and afternoon disc jockey, and is credited with defining what became the station's signature Urban Contemporary sound.

His most prominent roles were as Detective Bobby Crocker, the trusted partner of Lt. Theo Kojak ( played by Telly Savalas ) on the popular 1970s CBS crime drama Kojak, and as the second husband of Karen MacKenzie ( played by Michele Lee ), M. Patrick " Mack " MacKenzie, on the 1980s soap opera Knots Landing-a role he played from 1982 until the series ended in 1993.

Crocker, a native of Buffalo, coined the phrase " urban contemporary " in the 1970s, a label for the eclectic mix of songs that he played.

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

Throughout the 1960s and most of the 1970s, the military-led governments of Honduras ran a state-sponsored and state-financed economy.

During the 1970s, Holden ran an advertising jingle " Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars ", based on the " Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pies and Chevrolet " jingle used by Chevrolet in the United States.

During the fuel crisis of the 1970s, Saab-Valmet developed and series-produced the Saab 99 Petro that ran on kerosene, turpentine or gasoline.

Whereas MVC comes from the previous decade ( by work at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s and early 1980s ) and is based on observations of applications that ran on a single graphical workstation ; MVC was applied to distributed applications later in its history ( see Model 2 ).

During the early 1970s, Mobil ran a TV commercial featuring a character known as " Mr. Dirt " to show the ruinous effects that dirt had on automotive engines for which a tank of Mobil Detergent Gasoline could provide a cure and preventive medicine against damage that could lead to costly repairs.

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

* The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town ran as a serial in The Two Ronnies in the 1970s.

* NBC ran two popular TV series about truck drivers in the 1970s featuring actor Claude Akins in major roles:

The Dandy has run two similar series firstly Whacko a strip about a teacher who always taught in a suit of armour and taught very unruly kids who always attempted to beat up their teacher but ended up being caned repeatedly which ran in the 1970s.

The narrow gauge Government railway line reached Kalgoorlie in 1896, and the main named railway service from Perth was the overnight sleeper train The Westland which ran until the 1970s.

Others claim the term was in use earlier: Claus-Dieter ( Nick ) Hetzer, an academic and adventurer from Forum International in Berkeley, CA, coined the term in 1965 and ran the first ecotours in the Yucatán during the early 1970s.

Enjoying solid ratings during its original run, the show grew in popularity during decades of syndication, especially in the 1970s and 1980s when many markets ran the show in the late afternoon after school.

Since the early 1970s and the completion of Interstate 71, which connects Oldham County to Downtown Louisville and shopping in Eastern Jefferson County, Oldham County has increasingly become suburban in nature, a natural extension of Louisville's wealthy East End as it ran out of large tracts of undeveloped land.

( In the TV version that ran in the late 1970s, Doyle says of getting Charnier, I'm going to get that son of a bitch if it takes me the rest of my life !!

His son, August, ran the company from 1944 to the late 1970s, when his son Sam took the reins.

Starting in the 1970s, a number of “ tech parks ” opened in North Stonington ’ s southeastern corner, adjacent to I-95. The dramatic growth in the town ’ s population had a direct impact on the size of the school system ; whereas in the late 1950s the average graduating class ran in the teens, by 1965 it had more than doubled to 42, and was 51 in 1968.

However, when LILCO ran into opposition to Shoreham in the 1970s and 1980s, the Jamesport plan was scrapped.

Ralph Capone eventually returned to Mercer, built a home, and ran a tavern called " The Rex Bar " until the early 1970s.

) During the 1970s WLS ran a Sunday night music interview program called Music People.

SIS operations against the USSR continued to gain pace through the remainder of the Cold War, arguably peaking with the recruitment in the 1970s of Oleg Gordievsky whom SIS ran for the better part of a decade, then successfully exfiltrated from the USSR across the Finnish border in 1985.

* Buzz ( DC Thomson ), a British comic that ran in the 1970s

In the late 1970s the UK's Anglia Television ran a weekly science series, Science Report.

During the early 1970s Dartington school ran a scheme, known as The Terrace, with Yorkshire County Council overseen by Alec Clegg to provide education to pupils who were required to stay on at school due to the raising of the leaving age.

During much of the 1970s and 1980s, he lived in Echo Park, California and ran a legal and civil rights office on the southwest corner of Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Blvd.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

In 2009, Toyota commissioned Haden to perform three songs for television commercials for the third-generation Toyota Prius, including an a cappella version of the Bellamy Brothers 1970s song " Let Your Love Flow ".

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

Category: 1970s British television series

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

Indeed television sets sold throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ' ITV / IBA 2 '.

Most radios and television sets prior to the 1970s used filament-heated-cathode electron tubes for signal selection and processing ; to this day, a hot cathode forms the source of the electron beam ( s ) in cathode ray tubes in many television sets and computer monitors.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

By the late 1970s, two and a half million British homes received their television service via cable.

" Hybrid " television sets produced in the early to mid 1970s made use of a combination of tubes ( typically Compactrons ), transistors, and integrated circuits in the same set.

) Shortly after the US theatrical run, it was re-edited yet again for a two-part presentation on Disney's television series in the 1970s, simply omitting the middle segment.

The 1970s saw the cinema audience drop due to the spread of television.

Genealogy received a boost in the late 1970s with the television broadcast of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley's account of his family line.

In the late 1970s, Chapman moved to Los Angeles, where he guest-starred on many television shows including Hollywood Squares, Still Crazy Like a Fox, and The Big Show.

Busey continued to play several small roles in both film and television during the 1970s.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, this show was probably the best-known showcase for popular country music on commercial television, aside from other half-hour performer-hosted syndicated shows ( most notably The Porter Wagoner Show, which is perhaps the only other weekly country music show of this era to approach Hee Haws longevity.

Category: 1970s American television series

The popular 1970s television variety show Hee Haw starred several well-known country and western singers and regularly lampooned the stereotypical hillbilly lifestyle.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s, then ventured into television animation and independent comics.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

Martial arts since the 1970s has become a significant industry, a subset of the wider sport industry ( including cinema and sports television ).

In the 1970s he worked as an animator on the World Masterpiece Theater television animation series under Isao Takahata.