Do you remember September 1978?

Scott McEvoy • September 14, 2025

Enjoy recalling these memories from September 1978.

Illustrated movie poster for National Lampoon's Animal House showing a chaotic fraternity house with cartoon characters.

If you attended high school in 1978, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you will start making decisions about your Medicare options.


To learn more about your options, give me a call to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation informational meeting.

In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from September 1978:


Top 5 Singles – September 23, 1978

#1 “Boogie Oogie Oogie” – A Taste of Honey

#2 “Kiss You All Over” – Exile 

#3 “Hopelessly Devoted to You” 

– Olivia Newton-John

#4 “Three Times a Lady” – The Commodores 

#5 “An Everlasting Love” – Andy Gibb


Top-Grossing Movie Week of September 20

“Animal House” 


September 1978 Events

  • Home Theater Network (HTN), premiered as a lower-priced competitor to the existing Home Box Office (HBO).
  • Pope John Paul I was formally installed as the 263rd pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He died 25 days later.
  • Scientists at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, announced they had been able to make a biological carbon copy of the molecule for the human insulin hormone and possibly be able to mass produce insulin for treatment of persons with diabetes.
  • The TV situation comedy “Taxi,” starring Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito and Andy Kaufman, premiered on the ABC network for the first of 114 episodes over five seasons.
  • The science fiction comedy “Mork & Mindy,” starring Robin Williams and Pam Dawber, premiered on ABC and became the surprise hit of the 1978-79 U.S. prime time season as the third-most popular program of the year.
  • Muhammad Ali regained the world heavyweight boxing championship at the age of 36 with a unanimous decision in a 15-round bout with Leon Spinks, who had dethroned him from the heavyweight crown on February 15.
  • The Camp David Accords were signed at the U.S. presidential retreat of Camp David between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
  • The science fiction television show “Battlestar Galactica,” starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, and Dirk Benedict, premiered on ABC, and ran for 24 episodes after poor ratings for the most expensive American TV program up to that time.
  • The TV situation comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” about a fictional radio station, premiered on CBS for the first of 90 episodes over four years.          

—Source: Wikipedia


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