They became popular in the mid-1970s as integrated circuits made their size and cost small.

One-button, 8-directional " Atari-style " gaming joystick, popular from the mid-1970s to early 1980s.

By the mid-1970s filmmakers avoided the genre in favor of using music by popular rock or pop bands as background music, partly in hope of selling a soundtrack album to fans.

The 4000 was followed by the very popular 4001 ( in 1961 ), the 4002 ( limited edition bass introduced in 1977 ), the 4008 ( an eight-string model introduced in the mid-1970s ), the 4003 ( in 1979, replacing the 4001 entirely in 1986 and still in production in 2012 ), and most recently the 4004 series.

Sonny continued to work with Cher through the early and mid-1970s starring in a popular television variety show, The Sonny and Cher Show, which ran on CBS from 1971 to 1974.

Banana board is a term used to describe skateboards made of polypropylene that were skinny, flexible, with ribs on the underside for structural support and very popular during the mid-1970s.

Beginning in the mid-1970s, balloon envelopes have been made in all kinds of shapes, such as hot dogs, rocket ships, and the shapes of commercial products, though the traditional shape remains popular for most non-commercial, and many commercial, applications.

The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid-1970s.

In the mid-1970s, a singer-songwriter tradition called canto popular emerged in Uruguay.

Although these photographs caused controversy at the time, they are partly credited with the increased circulation that established the Sun as one of the most popular newspapers in the United Kingdom by the mid-1970s.

In the mid-1970s, Eric and Ernie recorded a tribute album, Morecambe and Wise Sing Flanagan and Allen ( Phillips 6382 095 ), in which they performed some of the earlier team's more popular songs in their own style, without attempting to imitate the originals.

The Tubes, who mixed progressive rock with wild theatricality, and Journey, formed from among some of Carlos Santana's sidemen and eventually experiencing a peak as one of the most popular AOR acts in the United States, were virtually the only acts from San Francisco to gain any sort of fame in the mid-1970s.

Sales of models such as the Cadillac DeVille, Buick Electra, Oldsmobile 98, Lincoln Continental, Mercury Marquis, and various other luxury oriented sedans became popular again in the mid-1970s.

In the 1960s, dance high-life was more popular than guitar-band high-life ; most of the guitar bands began using the electric guitar until a roots revival in the mid-1970s.

In the mid-1970s, local musicians in the Minneapolis area began producing popular and innovative acts.

As stated on XMFan. com: " A shift of styles in popular music in the mid-1970s had quickly caused old-fashioned guitar rock-and-roll to face near extinction on the Top 40 charts.

References to classical music by popular music as a major influence had been first used by music artists dating from the mid-1970s at the beginnings of the new age music movement.

This model, however, was not particularly popular, and it was discontinued by Gibson in the mid-1970s.

In the mid-1970s, popular support for Suharto's regime was rapidly waning.

Local shows could often be popular and profitable, but concerns about product promotion led them to almost completely disappear by the mid-1970s.

Mood rings were a short-lived fad of the mid-1970s ( like the pet rock ) and were especially popular with young girls.

From the mid-1970s, Lakemba became very popular with migrants from Lebanon and by the mid-1990s the area was considered a centre of Lebanese Australian life.

They started playing music together in the mid-1970s, when punk rock became popular in the underground music scene.

" Beginning in the mid-1970s, the theatre's midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show gave the movie a popular cult following, often attracting patrons dressed up in costumes based on characters in the film.

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

By the mid-1970s, commercial television abandoned their experiments with creating better children's programming.

Starting in 1967 and continuing until the mid-1970s, the CBC provided limited television service to remote and northern communities.

He also hosted his own afternoon television series in the mid-1970s.

Hyams became a successful television writer and director and began writing the script for Capricorn One in the mid-1970s, but Peepers failure jeopardized his career.

In the mid-1970s, the Australian television industry was at the crossroads.

Costello As recently as the mid-1970s the BBC screened The Black and White Minstrel Show on television, starring the George Mitchell Minstrels.

This ribald humour was unusually forthright on a primetime Saturday night on British television in the mid-1970s, and his appearance made a great impact.

Boontling briefly enjoyed a national audience in the mid-1970s when a Boontling speaker named Bobby ( Chipmunk ) Glover was a regular guest on the well-known The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on the NBC television network.

He also became the celebrity spokesman for Lee Myles Transmissions in the New York City area, appearing on dozens of television commercials from the mid-1970s to the mid 1980s.

During the mid-1970s, Muntz thought of taking a Sony color cathode ray tube ( CRT ) television receiver, fitting it with a special lens and reflecting mirror, then projecting the magnified image onto a larger screen.

By the mid-1970s, the movie itself fell into the public domain, occasionally airing on television to a new generation of viewers.

From the mid-1970s, she began to make various appearances on episodic primetime television series such as Kojak, Happy Days, Police Woman, a few episodes of CBS Radio Mystery Theatre.

He made his musical debut as drummer on a local television program and in the mid-1970s he played guitar for a Washington, D. C. jazz club house band.

Some of the programs produced by KETC for nationwide consumption include Inside / Out and The Letter People, instructional program about reading, which was seen on many PBS and educational television stations in mid-1970s, A Time for Champions an hour long documentary chronicling the St. Louis University soccer dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s, and Homeland and upcoming limited series examining the topic of immigration in the United States.

By the mid-1970s he was a television anchor and reporter in Phoenix, and he later joined Seattle's KING-TV.

He is no relation to American actor Bruce Fairbairn of the mid-1970s television series The Rookies.

He became one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television and continued to make occasional film appearances until the mid-1970s, then gradually moved into academia.

He left college and spent the mid-1960s working at local theater companies before moving to California in the mid-1970s, where he landed roles on television programs of the day such as Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels.

She was a staple of Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.

Hyams worked in television through the early to mid-1970s.

Taylor and her husband of 39 years, journalist / TV producer Jack Fries, produced and co-hosted the widely-acclaimed Little Rascals Family Theater on San Diego and Los Angeles television in the mid-1970s and mid-1980s.

U-Matic saw even more success from the television broadcast industry in the mid-1970s, when a number of local TV stations and national TV networks utilized the format when its first portable model, the Sony VO-3800, was released in 1974.