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With an audience of between fifty and eighty million viewers per episode, it becomes the most successful television show of its time in the Soviet Union. August 17 – CBS presents an adaptation of David Rabe 's play Sticks and Bones ...but only to about half of its affiliates.
Top 10 TV Shows for 1973-1974. These television shows represent the top ten shows by Neilson ratings for the 1973-1974 programming year, which began in September of 1973. All shows were aired on one of the "Big Three" networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Jan 1, 1973 · 1-50 of 819. Sort by Popularity. 1. The Young and the Restless. 1973– TV-PG. 5.3 (6.9K) Rate. TV Series. Set in Genoa City, this is the long-running soap that tells the story of the struggle behind the business, and sex-savvy Abbott and Newman clans.
Jan 1, 1973 · 1. The Young and the Restless. 1973– TV-PG. 5.3 (6.8K) Rate. TV Series. Set in Genoa City, this is the long-running soap that tells the story of the struggle behind the business, and sex-savvy Abbott and Newman clans. Votes 6,770. 2. Kojak. 1973–1978 TV-PG. 7.1 (8.7K) Rate. TV Series.
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The Exorcist Debuted
Released in December of 1973, the Exorcist went on to become the highest-grossing R-rated horror film of all times, a record that was only broken in 2017 by the movie It. A Warner Bros. film, the Exorcistwas incredibly difficult to shoot. It costed twice its initial budget, and the shoot took twice as long as initially scheduled. It is based on a novel of the same name by William Peter Blatty, who wrote the script for the scene and also produced the film. The casting for the film was quite in...
The Sting
This was the second highest-grossing film of the year 1973. It had a complicated plot, featuring two grifters who team up to con a mob boss. The story of the movie was inspired by David Maurer’s book that documented real-life scams by Fred and Charley Gondorff. The film was universally acclaimed, liked by both audiences and critics. It was nominated for ten awards at the Oscars and won seven awards, including the award for Best Picture. The Stingfeatured several tracks by Scott Joplin, and th...
Popular TV Shows
The most popular TV shows were All in the Family and The Waltons. All in the Familyran on CBS from 1971 to 1979. It was one of the most successful sitcoms of its time, and the top-rated show in the United States for five straight years. Its subject matter was often controversial, tackling subjects like race, sex, gender, bigotry, and social inequity. A winner of four consecutive Emmy Awards, the comedy series served as a model for seven different television shows. First broadcasted in Decembe...
TV Shows that Premiered
Kojak, The Young and the Restless, Barnaby Jones, and Police Story were some of the shows that premiered this year. Kojakwas an action crime drama that featured a New York City detective, taking on crime in his city with a relentless and tenacious attitude. The detective, Theo Kojak, was often seen sucking on a lollipop, a habit he picked up as a substitute for smoking. The show had a total of 118 episodes and ran on television from 1873 to 1978. Barnaby Jones was another detective series tha...
Top Two Music Hits
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree by Tony Orlando and Dawn and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce were the top-two hits of the year. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Treewas not just a hit in the US. It topped the charts in eight countries. In the US, it stayed on the number one place on the music charts for a whole month and was the top-selling single of the year. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown was written and sung by Jim Croce. The track was part of his album Life and Times and was a hug...
Summer Jam – A Rock Festival
In upstate New York, three bands, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and the Band, played to over half a million people. The festival broke the record of the Woodstock Rock Festival, which was attended by 400,000 people. The festival was a one-day event, and organizers had only sold 150,000 tickets. Yet, fans showed up without tickets. Around 600,000 peoplewent to attend the event, causing a great roadblock. By the time the concert was over, and crowds had gone home, it is reported that...
First Cellular Call Was Placed
The first mobile phone call was made by Marty Cooper, an employee of Motorola. The device he used to place the call later became known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. Today’s mobile phone users would be surprised to learn that Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the first commercially available phone, weighed 2.5 pounds, and had a text-only LED display, and still cost $3,995. That meant that the phone was exclusive to the very rich. The phone can be seen in some movie scenes, for example, in Wall Street,...
Battle of the Sexes
The most-watched tennis match of all times, Battle of the Sexes was a tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs. Bobby Riggs had been one of the top tennis players in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s. Billie was a similarly gifted tennis player, with about five Wimbledon titles to her name by the time Riggs challenged her to a match. Riggs had been mocking and degrading women publicly before he started challenging leading female tennis players to tennis matches. He challen...
Women’s Clothing
The hippie look was still popular in 1973. The fashionable attire of the timeincluded tie-dye shirts, ‘peasant’ blouses, ponchos, capes, bell-bottoms, frayed jeans, ankle-length maxi dresses, and midi skirts. Hippie clothing was made in bright colors, floral patterns, and Indian and Native American patterns. The hippie clothes were accompanied by accessories like chokers, handcrafted necklaces, and jewelry made of shells, stones, feathers, etc. The simpler clothing trends for women in 1973 co...
Men’s Clothing
Well-settled, young men explored clothes outside of social standards. Grey and black satin shirts were quite popular, and the cuffs and necklines often had lace ruffles. Bright colored suits in unorthodox styles became available. In the spirit of hippie fashion, men wore tweed sports jackets, chunky sweaters, storm coats, flannel shirts, corduroy pants, and sweater vests and tassels. Like women, men’s jewelry featured natural objects like wood, leather, flowers, shells, stones, and beads.
The Paris Peace Accords Is Signed
Signed in January, the Paris Peace Accords was a peace treatythat ended the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam war. The US ground troops had been withdrawing and avoiding the offensive operations for two years, with morales running low when the US signed the treaty. As a result of the pact, all the remaining US troops, including naval and air forces, withdrew from Vietnam. North Vietnamese agreed to release all the US and other prisoners of war.
Inflation due to Oil Embargo
The OPEC – Organization of Arabic Petroleum Exporting Countries – imposed an oil embargo on the countries supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War. The ban began in October 1973 and ended in March 1974. During this period, the oil prices quadrupled, going from $3 to $12 per barrel. The export of oil to the US by the OPEC was halted entirely. The embargo had immediate economic effects, with the Middle Eastern countries amassing vast wealth. The oil price shock, accompanied by the subsequent mar...
Abortion Legalized
The US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States granted a woman the right to terminate her pregnancy, with suitable government intervention. The landmark decision was called Roe v. Wadeand ruled that a woman would have the complete freedom to abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy, with zero intervention from the government. In the second and third trimesters, the government could exercise regulations on abortion, and it would usually only be allowed when the mothe...
American Contemporary Art Auction
In New York City, Sotheby held an auction, titled “The Collection of Robert C. Scull,” which was the first single seller auction of contemporary American art. The auction featured the Pop and Minimal art collection of Robert Scull and went on to make $2.2 million.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Is a Bestseller
First published in 1970, the book was a bestsellerin the US in 1972 and 1973. It held the first spot on New York Times Bestseller List for about 37 weeks. The novella was a self-help and spiritual book, featuring a seagull who is learning to navigate life. The book is a spiritual classic and was original at its time.
Once Is Not Enough Is Published
The second-highest selling novel of 1973, Once Is Not Enoughwas Jacqueline Susann’s third novel. Like her previous two novels, this also enjoyed the number one place on the New York Times Best Seller list. The work reflected the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s and was described by Susann as having a theme of ‘mental and spiritual incest.” The critics only had negative reviews for the book, but the sales of the book told another story. It remained on the New York Times Best Seller list...
Perfection
Perfection is a board game that was published by a toy company called Reed Toys in 1973. In the game, the objective of the player is to place every yellow piece into the matching holes on the board before time runs out. If all the pieces are not yet on the board after time runs out, the board will then push the pieces upwards, scattering them on top of the board and on the surrounding areas. While the game has been around since the 1970s, it became quite popular in the 1990s when Hasbro began...
With Bille Jean King winning the Battle of Sexes, the first-ever mobile phone made commercially available, and construction of the tallest building in the world, 1973 was a happening year in the world of pop culture.
Dec 31, 2019 · 1973-74 TV Ratings History. Written Monitoring Edited Movies by Bridger Cunningham. This article is an update to the August 11, 2017 Top 30 article, as TV Ratings Guide now is the first site to ever publicly disclose the 1973-74 ratings on the internet!
Jan 1, 1973 · TV Series, Released between 1973-01-01 and 1973-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) 1. The Young and the Restless (1973– ) Set in Genoa City, this is the long-running soap that tells the story of the struggle behind the business, and sex-savvy Abbott and Newman clans.
