September 17, 1978: Battlestar Galactica premieres on ABC. It tries to do for television what Star Wars had done for motion pictures: Become the leading science fiction production.
Lorne Greene of Bonanza fame played Commander Adama, commanding a "ragtag fleet" centered on "the great ship Galactica," taking what appears to be the last remnants of humanity, after the robotic Cylons destroyed their 12 home planets, across the stars in search of a mythical 13th planet of humans, called "Earth."
For those of you who only know the 2003 reboot, this was the original version, before Starbuck and Boomer became women, and the idea of Cylons having any desire other than killing humans was ridiculous.
Alas, the show was really expensive to produce, and ran only 2 seasons, the 2nd being titled Galactica 1980 and being a sequel to the 1st season, and the cheapness showed.
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September 17, 1978 was a Sunday. The Camp David Accords were signed the same day. I have a separate entry for that event.
There was a full slate of Major League Baseball games, and a full slate of National Football League games, minus the Monday Night Football game the following day.
The baseball games:
* The New York Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 7-3 at the old Yankee Stadium. Dennis Eckersley outpitched Jim Beattie, and Carl Yastrzemski hit a home run. Reggie Jackson went 0-for-4, but did reach base on an error.
The Yankees had taken 6 straight against the Sox, having gone from 14 games behind the Sox on July 20 to tied on September 10, to 3 1/2 games ahead the day before this. But now, the season turned around again, and it would result in a 1-game Playoff for the American League Eastern Division title. And if you don't know how that ended, you're either too young to know about baseball, or you're reading the wrong blog.
* The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0 at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. Lee Mazzilli got 3 hits, and Mike Bruhert pitched a 4-hit shutout. It was only the 27th game of Bruhert's career, advancing his career record to 4-11. He never won another game in the major leagues. Mike Schmidt went 1-for-3.
* The Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-0 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Mike Flanagan pitched a 5-hit shutout. Eddie Murray went 2-for-4, and Doug DeCinces hit a home run.
* The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Montreal Expos, 5-3 at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. Willie Stargell went 0-for-3, but Dave Parker hit a home run.
* The Cleveland Indians beat the Detroit Tigers, 2-1 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
* The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2 at Wrigley Field, in a game called in the bottom of the 7th inning due to rain.
* The Minnesota Twins beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-3 at Milwaukee County Stadium. Rod Carew went 1-for-3 with a walk. Robin Yount went 0-for-4.
* The Kansas City Royals beat the California Angels, 5-0 at Royals (now Kauffman) Stadium. Dennis Leonard pitched a 5-hit shutout.
* The Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics, 3-1 at the Oakland Coliseum.
* The San Diego Padres beat the Houston Astros, 3-1 at San Diego Stadium.
* The Atlanta Braves beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
* The Cincinnati Reds beat the San Francisco Giants, 7-1 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Pete Rose went 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs, and Johnny Bench went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
* And the Seattle Mariners beat the Chicago White Sox, 3-1 at the Kingdome in Seattle.
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The NFL games of the day:
* The New York Giants beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 26-10 at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, East Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey.
* The New York Jets lost to the Seattle Seahawks, 24-17 at Shea Stadium in Queens.
* The Cleveland Browns beat the Atlanta Falcons, 24-16 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
* The Miami Dolphins beat the Buffalo Bills, 31-24 at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
* The Chicago Bears beat the Detroit Lions, 19-0 at the Silverdome in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan.
* The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cincinnati Bengals, 28-3 at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
* The Oakland Raiders beat the Green Bay Packers, 28-3 at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.
* In the day's biggest upset, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Minnesota Vikings, at Metropolitan Stadium in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota.
* The Washington Redskins beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 28-10 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis.
* The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New Orleans Saints, 24-17 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
* The Houston Oilers beat the San Francisco 49ers, 20-19 at the Astrodome in Houston.
* The Denver Broncos beat the San Diego Chargers, 27-14 at Mile High Stadium in Denver.
* The Los Angeles Rams beat the Dallas Cowboys, 27-14 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Cowboys would avenge this loss in the NFC Championship Game, before losing Super Bowl XIII to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
* And in the Monday Night Football game on September 18, the Baltimore Colts beat the New England Patriots, 34-27, at Schaefer Stadium (later Sullivan Stadium and Foxboro Stadium) in the Boston suburb of Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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