Tuesday, April 21, 2009

It came from 1974

I thought it might be neat to see what else came out the same year as the original Dungeons & Dragons boxed set.

BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1974
  • By the Light of the Green Star
  • Carrie
  • Centennial
  • The Forever War
  • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
  • Jaws
  • A Midsummer Tempest
  • The Mote in God's Eye
  • Six Days of the Condor
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
COMICS THAT FIRST CAME OUT IN '74

  • Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
  • Marvel Two-In-On - probably my favoritest series ever
  • Métal Hurlant - which you may know by its English title, Heavy Metal
  • One-Man Army Corps - one of Kirby's greatest creations
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Star*Reach - Which I did not know existed until I started hitting wikipedia for this article
  • Savage Sword of Conan
  • Superman Family
A SELECTION OF TV SHOWS THAT PREMIERED IN '74

  • Chico and the Man
  • Good Times
  • Hong Kong Phooey
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  • Land of the Lost
  • Little House on the Priairie
  • Nova
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Rhoda
  • The Rockford Files
  • Shazam!
  • The Six Million Dollar Man
SOME OF THE FILMS RELEASED IN 1974

  • Benji
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Caged Heat
  • Chinatown
  • Dark Star
  • F for Fake
  • The Godfather part II
  • Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
  • The Longest Yard
  • The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • The Street Fighter
  • Vampyres
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Zardoz
OTHER STUFF FIRST SEEN IN '74

  • HMS Alacrity, HMS Arrow, HMS Cardiff, HMS Coventry - all of which later saw action in the Falklands War
  • Bailey's Irish Creme
  • Intel 8080 microprocessor
  • the San Diego Chicken

13 comments:

  1. Rush's first album came out in 1974. Rush and D&D are very much tied together for me. I experienced both of them for the first time together, down in my cousin's basement, around 1976 or '77.

    Other Albums Released in 1974:
    Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
    Bad Company: Bad Co.
    Bob Seger: Seven
    Chicago: VII and VIII
    David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
    Deep Purple: Burn and Stormbringer
    Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd.
    Frank Zappa: Apostrophe (and A live album, I think)
    Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
    Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
    Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill
    Iron Butterfly: Sun and Steel
    Jethro Tull: Warchild
    Judas Pries: Rocka Rolla
    Kansas: Kansas
    King Crimson: Red
    Kiss: Kiss
    Lou Reed: Rock'n'Roll Animal
    Mott the Hoople: The Hoople
    New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon
    ProcoL Harum: Exotic Birds and Fruit
    Queen: Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack
    Rick Wakeman: Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Santana: Borboletta
    Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
    Styx: Man of Miracles
    Sweet: Desolation Blvd.
    Uriah Heep: Wonderworld
    Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer

    All in all, a good year.

    more here: http://www.oldielyrics.com/1974.html

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  2. I arrived in 1974, so it was defintely a good year.

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  3. Baileys and Zardoz. That's one hellacious Combination.

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  4. Settembrini9:14 AM

    Interestingly enough, I just went through the Sinbad-Trilogy. Many D&D-isms are right there; especially the sensible interaction of spell effects: wall of force, invisibility used in a fight etc.

    Plus: Golden Voyage has Tom Baker as the Evil-Pact-Mage; whereas th Eye of the Tiger has no one less thatn Patrick Troughton as the Good-Alchemist-Guy. Awesome D&D movies in so many more ways than the Monsters.

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  5. Anonymous9:57 AM

    The first issue of Marvel Comic's Man-Thing is dated Jan. 1974. Awesome stuff.

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  6. Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles came out the same year? Wow, I never realized that. Why does it take so damn long to make movies these days?!

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  7. Bailey's. Mmmmmmmmmm :)

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  8. Ahh, Forgotten Beasts of Eld...

    Ahh, Zardoz...

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  9. I couldn't find your email adress, so...here is something for Shatnerday:

    http://www.demotivatorblog.com/2008/09/19/james-t-kirk-demotivator/

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  10. Anonymous4:28 PM

    Rockford Files FTW!

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  11. The Ramones, Blondie, and Talking Heads all formed in '74 too. Good year indeed.

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  12. Anonymous8:45 AM

    Giants walked the earth, in those days...

    - Calithena

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  13. Coming to this very late, but I felt compelled to point out that the song "Kung Fu Fighting" was released that year too.

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