Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Warner Communications branched out into other business, such as its acquiring of video game company Atari, Inc. in 1976, and later the Six Flags theme parks.

In the late 1970s, Harlan Ellison wrote a screenplay based on Asimov's book I, Robot for Warner Bros ..

Despite his controversial public image, Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his retirement in the early 1970s.

Warner remained active as an independent producer until the early 1970s.

Boomerang, a spin-off channel of Cartoon Network, currently specializes primarily in reruns of Saturday morning cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s ( the majority of which come from Hanna-Barbera, which, like Boomerang, is owned by Time Warner ).

" Other Warner Bros. peers such as musical co-ordinator Carl Stalling and animator Tex Avery stood by Clampett during his talks on the cartoon industry in the 1960s and 1970s.

By the final years of the series in the 1970s, Warner was getting elderly and looking increasingly implausible even in a desk job ( as he had increasing difficulty moving about, helped slightly by a treatment involving bee stings ).

Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a series of Warner Bros. Records albums that showcased his guitar work.

Arguably the greatest of the 1970s disaster films, The Towering Inferno was a joint venture of 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. and was produced by Irwin Allen ( eventually known as " The Master of Disaster ", as he had previously helmed The Poseidon Adventure and later produced The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and When Time Ran Out ...).

However, Warner retained Eastern Mountain Sports, a retailer that The Franklin Mint had acquired in the 1970s, as well as The Franklin Mint Center, which it leased back to API.

Quantum Jump was a 1970s British band, consisting of keyboard player and singer Rupert Hine, guitarist Mark Warner, bass player John G. Perry ( then of Caravan ) and drummer Trevor Morais ( ex-The Peddlers ).

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. ( often abbreviated TBS Networks, TBS, Inc. or simply Turner ) is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties initiated or acquired by Robert Edward " Ted " Turner starting during the 1970s.

DFE continued to do Warner Cartoon work into the 1970s, with the Looney Looney Christmas Tales Holiday special.

The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros. Television ( QM produced the show on its own for the remainder of its run ), where it starred Karl Malden and Michael Douglas as two detectives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Among the earliest all-female rock bands to be signed to a record label were Goldie & the Gingerbreads, to Atlantic Records in 1964, The Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro to Hideout Records in 1964 and Mercury Records in 1968, The Feminine Complex to Athena Records in 1968, and Fanny ( who pioneered the all-female band sound in the early to mid 1970s ) in 1969 when Mo Ostin signed them to Warner Bros. Records.

( though Turner kept the pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries after the purchase of MGM / UA ) The studio lot was sold to Lorimar-Telepictures, which was later acquired by Warner Bros .; in 1990, the lot was sold to Sony Corporation's Columbia TriStar Pictures in exchange for the half of Warner's lot they'd rented since the 1970s.

The " 1725 cc engine " ( as it is known ; it actually displaces 1724 cc ) was available in the 1970s with a Borg Warner ( BW ) Model 35 3-speed automatic transmission with a dashboard mounted selector.

Following a stint in 1969 recording solo singles for Warner Bros. Records, Valentino assembled a new band, Stoneground, which was associated with the hippie commune the Hog Farm in the early 1970s.

While president of Warner communications, Ross lead the firm into the world of sports ownership in the mid 1970s via the purchase of the then obscure New York Cosmos soccer club.

Authors Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark, in their writings for Fate Magazine in the early 1970s and their first two books, The Unidentified ( Warner Books, 1975 ) and Creatures of the Outer Edge ( Warner Books, 1978 ), modernized and popularized tulpas for a new generation of ufologists and cryptozoologists.

Beginning in 1967 with the signing of The Grateful Dead, Warner Bros. Records steadily built up a diverse and prestigious lineup of rock and pop artists through the 1970s.

Under the guidance of Edward West, Vice-President of Warner Bros. Records Inc in 1973 and its executives, A & R managers and staff producers, including Mo Ostin, Stan Cornyn, Lenny Waronker, Andy Wickham, Russ Titelman and ex-Warner Bros. recording artist ( with Harpers Bizarre ) Ted Templeman, sales grew streadily throughout the 1970s and by the end of the decade it had become one of the world's leading rock labels, with a star-studded roster that included Curved Air, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Van Morrison, America, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Seals & Crofts, Labelle and Rickie Lee Jones.

A comeback of sorts was seen during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1981, when the Liberals allied with the newly formed SDP to form the SDP-Liberal Alliance, that the party enjoyed significant electoral success.

* Cadence Industries, publishing company formed in 1970s that owned Marvel Comics

Hayek visited Chile in the 1970s and 1980s during the Government Junta of general Augusto Pinochet and accepted being named Honorary Chairman of the Centro de Estudios Públicos, the think tank formed by the economists who transformed Chile into a free market economy.

In the late 1970s, the different regional Greenpeace groups formed Greenpeace International to oversee the goals and operations of the regional organizations globally.

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

* Magic Lantern, a street theater and puppetry group in the 1970s, formed by Taffy Thomas

The creation of the New Progressive Party polarized the political arena to a great degree as radical independence groups were formed in the 1970s and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party ( PSP ), a Marxist and Cuba-friendly party, was created.

During the 1970s pubs provided an outlet for a number of bands, such as Kilburn and the High Roads, Dr. Feelgood and The Kursaal Flyers, who formed a musical genre called Pub rock that was a precursor to Punk music.

Tamil National Alliance, formed in October 2001 is the current successor of these Tamil political parties which had undergone much turbulences as Tamil militants ' rise to power in late 1970s.

The roots of The Pogues were formed when MacGowan ( vocals ), Peter " Spider " Stacy ( tin whistle ), and Jem Finer ( banjo ) were together in an occasional band called The Millwall Chainsaws in the late 1970s after MacGowan and Stacy met in the toilets at a Ramones gig at The Roundhouse in 1977.

In parallel with Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley formed a more experimental and post-punk band, The Tiller Boys, along with Eric Random and Francis Cookson, while Steve Garvey joined The Teardrops in 1978, along with The Fall's Tony Friel and Karl Burns ; both bands were releasing material in late 1970s and broke up at the same time as Buzzcocks.

The Stems were an alternative rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1983 and were heavily influenced by 1960s garage rock and 1970s power pop.

Algeria gave help to the Movimiento de Liberación del Sahara, that in the late 1960s and early 1970s formed a section of new split youngs.

This unit was formed in the early 1970s and was disbanded in 1980 after two of its members were convicted of terrorist offences including kidnap and murder.

By the early 1970s, ABC had formed its first theatrical division, ABC Pictures, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures.

Branca formed two bands in the late 1970s: Theoretical Girls in 1977 with composer / guitarist Jeffrey Lohn and photographer / musician Barbara Ess, and The Static.

The first gay and lesbian square dance clubs formed in the mid-to-late 1970s in the USA.

The brigade formed part of the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of loyalist assassins which the Pat Finucane Centre has linked to 87 killings in the 1970s.

The Information Age formed by capitalizing on the computer microminiaturization advances, with a transition spanning from the advent of the personal computer in the late 1970s to the internet's reaching a critical mass in the early 1990s, and the adoption of such technology by the public in the two decades after 1990.

Members of the CBTCC formed what became known as Australian Citizens Radio Movement ( ACRM ) in the early 1970s ; this organisation became the voice for CB radio legalisation throughout Australia.

In the late 1970s, Bradman played an important role during the World Series Cricket schism as a member of a special Australian Cricket Board committee formed to handle the crisis.

Schools and colleges in Folkestone include The Folkestone Academy ( formed by the merger of Hillside School for Boys and Holywell School for Girls in the early 1970s, and formerly known as Wyndgate Secondary School in the 1970s, The Channel High School in the 1980s, and The Channel School in the 1990s ); and Pent Valley Technology College ( formerly Pent Valley Secondary Modern, formed by the merger of Harcourt Seconday School for Girls and Morehall Secondary School for Boys in the 1970s ).