In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

* The voice of Platypus in the Australian animated film Dot and the Kangaroo ( 1977 )

The Hobbit, an animated version of the story produced by Rankin / Bass, debuted as a television movie in the United States in 1977.

John Huston voiced Gandalf in the animated films The Hobbit ( 1977 ) and The Return of the King ( 1980 ) produced by Rankin / Bass.

Smaug as he appears in the The Hobbit ( 1977 film ) | 1977 animated version of The Hobbit.

In the 1977 Rankin / Bass animated version of The Hobbit, Bilbo was voiced by Orson Bean.

Jordan also lent his voice to Disney's animated film The Rescuers ( 1977 ).

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

Of all the various adaptations, Chuck Jones's 1977 animated TV short Mowgli's Brothers, adapting the first story in The Jungle Book, may be the one that adheres most closely to the original plot and dialogue.

( Both Tyrone and Gladys became animated characters in the " Nitwits " segments of the 1977 animated television show, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits.

Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ) is a live-action / animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions, in which he played a travelling elixir showman / salesman named Doc Terminus.

In 1977 Al Guest and Jean Mathieson of Rainbow Animation were commissioned by Capitol Records to create the first animated rock video of the Klaatu song " A Routine Day ".

The Goblins in the 1977 animated adaptation of The Hobbit were likened to the work of Maurice Sendak.

* Fred Flintstone was the guest of honor at a celebrity roast for his birthday in the live-action and animated TV special Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue ( 1977 ) hosted by Roy Clark and Bonnie Franklin which featured the Ice Capades.

Ralph Bakshi used the technique quite extensively in his animated movies Wizards ( 1977 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 ), American Pop ( 1981 ), and Fire and Ice ( 1983 ).

Pete's Dragon is a 1977 live-action / animated musical film from Walt Disney Productions and the first Disney film to be recorded in the Dolby Stereo sound system.

* Narrator of several Disney animated films, including those featuring Winnie the Pooh ( 1966 – 1977 )

In the 1977 animated adaption of The Hobbit, The Wood Elves are depicted as having fair hair and pale lavender skin, with clothing predominantly brown and olive coloured garb.

He played the main characters Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in the 1977 and 1980 Rankin / Bass animated adaptations of J. R. R.

The first version of Applesoft was released in 1977 only on cassette tape and lacked proper support for high-resolution graphics.

In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

In 1977 it began to publish and maintain a much-improved, revised version of Bliss ’ s system, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification ( Second Edition ) or BC2.

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

Another unreleased recording, " Latitude 88 North ", was released as the third bonus track on the 2007 remastered version of their 1977 album Out of the Blue.

The 1980 version ( éditions 10 / 18 ) contains substantially different essays from the 1977 version.

Foobar was used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1977 Crowther and Woods version ).

In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

In 1977, a new version of D & D, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ), was first published.

Ronstadt herself covered " Blue Bayou " in 1977, her version reaching number 3 on the Billboard charts and remaining in the charts for 24 weeks.

It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins's version charted in 1975 and 1977.

* 1977: Jazz vocalist Lorez Alexandria recorded an uptempo version for her album From Broadway To Hollywood which subsequently became popular on the UK jazz dance and soul scenes, eventually being rereleased as a 7 inch single on Jazzman Records in 2000.

* 1977: Grace Jones recorded a disco version of the song for her debut album, Portfolio.

* 1977: Mel Tormé recorded an uptempo version for his album The London Sessions, arranged by Christopher Gunning.

In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.

The first version of Zork was written in 1977 – 1979 using the MDL programming language on a DEC PDP-10 computer.

In 1996, the Santa Cruz Operation finally authorised the release of the twenty-year-old 6th Edition source code ( along with the source code of other versions of " Ancient UNIX "), and the full code plus the 1977 version of the commentary was published by Peer-To-Peer Communications ( ISBN 1-57398-013-7 ).

) His performance as psychiatrist Martin Dysart won him both a special Tony Award for his appearance, but he had to make Exorcist II: The Heretic – a film he hated – before Hollywood producers would allow him to repeat his role in the 1977 film version.

On the band's 1977 tour of the United States, Jones would sing lead vocals on " The Battle of Evermore ," filling in for Sandy Denny who sang on the studio version.

Beginning in 1977 on this version, this was increased to include additional cash ($ 5, 000 or $ 10, 000 ) and a luxury vacation.

Restrained by loyalty to Padovani, both Copeland and Sting initially resisted the idea, and the Police began performing as a four-piece version in July 1977.