Category Archives: 1970s

House Ways and Means chair injured in scuffle with mistress 40 years ago this hour (Oct 7 1974)

1970s

(Wednesday, October 7, 1974, around 2:00 a.m. EDT) — Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was pulled over by police this morning with his glasses broken and his face bleeding from a scuffle with his mistress Argentine stripper Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe. Continue reading House Ways and Means chair injured in scuffle with mistress 40 years ago this hour (Oct 7 1974) →

Frank Robinson named first major league black manager 40 years ago today (Oct 3 1974)

1970s


Video: 'Frank Robinson - Baseball Hall of Fame Biographies'

(Thursday, October 3, 1974) — With the poise that has characterized his career as a slugger of 574 home runs and as a clubhouse leader, Frank Robinson was named today by the Cleveland Indians as major league baseball’s first black manager.

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ released in U.S. 40 years ago today (Oct 1 1974)

1970s, Movies 1970s


Video: 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' trailer

(Tuesday, October 1, 1974) — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a slasher film about five friends visiting their grandfather’s house in the country who are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals, was released today in the U.S.

Directed by Tobe Hooper, the film starred Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen and Teri McMinn.

‘Police Woman’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974)

1970s, Television 1970s


Video: 'Police Woman - The End Game (1974)' (Sept. 13, 1974)

(Friday, September 13, 1974, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — Police Woman, a police drama television series that revolves around Sgt. “Pepper” Anderson, an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Angie Dickinson and Earl Holliman.

‘The Rockford Files’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974)

1970s, Television 1970s


Video: 'The Rockford Files The Kirkoff Case' (Sept. 13, 1974)

(Friday, September 13, 1974, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — The Rockford Files, a drama television series about Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and his father, a retired truck driver, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred James Garner and Noah Beery, Jr.

‘Chico and the Man’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974)

1970s, Television 1970s


Video: 'Chico and the Man'

(Friday, September 13, 1974, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — Chico and the Man, a sitcom television series about a cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio and an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Jack Albertson and Freddie Prinze. Continue reading ‘Chico and the Man’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1974) →

‘Little House on the Prairie’ series debuts on NBC-TV 40 years ago this hour (Sep 11 1974)

1970s, Television 1970s


Video: 'Little House On The Prairie [1974] - Opening and Ending Videos'

(Wednesday, September 11, 1974, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Little House on the Prairie, a Western drama about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC. It starred Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, Karen Grassle and Melissa Sue Anderson.

Snake River Canyon defies daredevil Evel Knievel 40 years ago this hour (Sep 8 1974)

1970s


Video: 'Snake River Canyon jump 1973-EVEL KNIEVEL Awesome video!!'

(Sunday, September 8, 1974, 3:36 p.m. MDT) — With much media fanfare, daredevil Evel Knievel tried and failed to leap the mile-wide chasm of the Snake River Canyon today on his specially engineered rocket motorcycle.

His drogue parachute malfunctioned and opened on take-off. Evel and his contraption floated to the bottom of the canyon, landing on the riverbank directly below his launch ramp.