Week of December 28, 1984

President Reagan patches things up with his son Michael, during a family

reconciliation in his hotel suite in Los Angeles. Said first lady Nancy: “It was a

nice visit. There are no differences: all is resolved.” It’s the first time the president

has seen his 20-month-old granddaughter.

An Eastern Airlines 727 disappears 11 minutes before it was to land in La Paz,

South America. The plane disappeared with 29 aboard including Marion Davis,

wife of U.S Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur H. Davis and one of eight Americans

on board. There was no indication of trouble from the pilots.

- I party win a majority of seats in Parliament in a landslide

victory in national elections

At least one person is killed as angry supporters of a

defeated mayoral candidate burned the city hall and jail in

Piedras Negras, Mexico - a border town about 125 miles

southwest of San Antonio. The army moved in before dawn to

enforce peace.

Passing - director Sam Peckinpah (59), writer and director of

“Straw Dogs” and “The Dirty Dozen.’

has been sought by police in the vigilante shooting of

four youths who harassed him and demanded $5 in a

subway, turns himself into police in New Hampshire.

Earlier in the week, New Yorkers were cheering for a

middle-aged man with neat blond hair and a baby blue

sweater and gold-rim glasses who coolly shot the four

youths in the subway after being accosted. More than

1,500 callers flooded a special police hot line set up in

the case to voice support for the still-unidentified

gunman.

Not a good week of the Reagan Administration as 2

quit - Interior Secretary William P. Clark submits his resignation, saying he wants

to return to his ranch in California ... Also resigning - White House Deputy Chief

of Staff Michael K. Deaver - one of the president’s most influent ional advisers.

At the Philadelphia Zoo - Massa - the world’s oldest known gorilla (54) dies from

a stroke caused by blockage of the arteries to the brain. Hours before,

Week of December 28, 1984

zookeepers had celebrated his birthday and gave him a whipped-cream covered

sundae of bananas, grapes and apples.

Time Magazine names Peter

Ueberroth, organizer of the 1984

Olympics and now

commissioner of major league

baseball, its man of the year. As

president of the Los Angeles

Olympic Organizing Committee,

Ueberroth managed to make the

games “one of the greatest

athletic spectacles” despite the

boycott by the Soviet Union and

other Soviet Bloc countries.

IBM television commercial -

everybody is familiar with it - it

Tramp) character, who is

doesn’t say a word in the

commercials, nor does IBM want

him to be interviewed.

More computer news - Coleco

Industries announces that it is

discontinuing its Adam Personnel Computerline. The company, best known for

Cabbage Patch dolls, says it is losing money on the computer side of the

business. It has enjoyed major success with its ColecoVision video games.

Suzy Mallery - president of Man Watchers Inc

gives the “10 most watch able men in the world”

in their ninth annual poll:

President Reagan

Mel Gibson

Ed McMahon

Kirk Douglas

Michael Douglas

Dean Martin

Joe Montana

Week of December 28, 1984

Chuck Woolery

Mallery says each man has a unique trademark or appeal. About President

Reagan:

He’s the great communicator because he uses body language. His smile and

wave can’t be matched for endearing him to everyone. Do you think people voted

for him just because they like his foreign policy? .. and Jackie Jackson - “He

sings and swings and the audience swoons. He should be more n the spotlight

because he’s so cute.”

Bill Scudder

100th point of the season with a hat trick as the

Edmonton Oilers beat the Detroit Redwings 6-3.

Engaged - actress Joan Collins (51) of

“Dynasty” to Swedish businessman Peter Holm

(37) who has been her companion for the last 18

months. “I’m thrilled. Peter is ideal for me.”

Mike Wallace (66) of “60 Minutes” is in stable condition after suffering from

exhaustion. He had just returned to New York from Washington, where he

finished work on a report for the magazine show.

Week of December 28, 1984

In Los Angeles, jurors decide that insurers for teen rock

to Roland Winkler, a passenger who was paralyzed from

the chest down in a car accident in November of 1979. The

singer was driving under the influence when he struck the

rear of another car. Garrett, five days under the legal adult

age of 18 at the time was tried as a juvenile and given one

year’s probation with a one-year suspension of his driver’s

license.

is improving after surgery to reattach his severed left arm

after a New Year’s Eve car crash. Doctors won’t say if

he’ll drum again. Def Leppard’s LP “Pyromania” has sold

6 million copies in the U.S.

Bestsellers -

The Talisman - Stephen King/Peter Straub

The Sicilian - Mario Puzo

The Nutcracker - E.T.A. Hoffmann

Love and War - John Jakes

Strong Medicine - Arthur Hailey

Cold Sassy Tree - Olive A. Burns

Iacocca - Lee Iacocca/William Novak

Pieces of My Mind - Andrew A. Rooney

Loving each Other - Leo Buscaglia

Moses the Kitten - James Herriot

The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach

The Good War: An Oral History of World War

Two - Studs Terkel

Hey, Wait a Minute, (I Wrote A Book) - John

Madden/Dave Anderson

Above Paris - Robert Cameron/Pierre Salinger

Radio news - syndicated year-end countdown shows. The hottest coast-to-coast

personalities countdown the year’s biggest hits - pick your favorite:

American Top-40 with Casey Kasem

Top30 USA with M.G. Kelly

John Leader’s Countdown America

Rick Dees’ Weekly top 40 Countdown

Most of these shows should be carried in your local area.

Week of December 28, 1984

Top Videocassette sales:

Purple Rain

The Empire Strikes Back

Jane Fonda’s Workout

Star Wars

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

Prime Time

48 HRS

Video Rewind: The Rolling

Stones Great Video Hits

An Officer And A Gentleman

TV Ratings -

Dynasty - 25.9

Monday Night football - 25.1

Simon & Simon - 23.4

Dallas - 23.0

The A-Team - 21.8

The Cosby Show - 21.7

Knots Landing - 20.9

Hotel - 20.8

Riptide - 20.8

A Christmas Carol - 20.7

60 Minutes - 20.1

Family Ties - 19.9

Movie - Superman - 18.9

Magnum, PI - 18.9

Remington Steele - 18.6

Falcon Crest - 18.4

Fall Guy - 18.4

Movie - Bless All The Dear Children - 18.2

TV Bloopers & Practical Jokes - 18.0

Cheers - 17.4

Murder She Wrote - 17.0

Benson - 16.4

20/20 - 16.4

Cagney & Lacey - 15.8

Night Court - 15.6

Highway to Heaven - 15.3

Alice - 15.2

Week of December 28, 1984

The Jeffersons - 14.6

Trapper John, MD - 14.5

Facts of Life - 14.3

Sunday Night Television -

CBS - 60 Minutes, Murder, She Wrote, Debut-Crazy Like A Fox, Trapper John,

MD

NBC - Silver Spoons, Punky Brewster, Knight Rider, Movie

ABC - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Movie

PBS - All Creatures Great and Small, Nature, Masterpiece Theater, Mark

Russell’s ‘84

Disney Channel - DTV(music), Wonderful World of Disney, Movie-Three Lives of

Thomasina, EPCOT Magazine

USA - Lancer, Bridget Lives Bernie, Make Me Laugh, Kung Fu Theater

Silver Spoons - Pearl Bailey guests as a longtime family friend, who returns after

years of traveling

ABC Movie - Close Encounters of the Third Kind

stars as Harry Fox - a private eye/con

artist, who drags his son - an upward-

attorney, into his crazy cases.

NBC Movie - On Golden Pond

Debuting in syndication - “Out of Our

Mind” - with David Steinberg and Sherry

Miller. The program uses true facts from

surveys as a basis for spoofing everyday

attitudes, opinions and behavior.

Pop charts -

Like A Virgin - Madonna

Out of Touch - Hall & Oates

The Wild Boys - Duran Duran

I Feel For You - Chaka Khan

Sea of Love - The Honeydrippers

Cool It Now - New Edition

We Belong - Pat Benatar

Run To You - Bryan Adams

Week of December 28, 1984

No More Lonely Nights - Paul McCartney

Do They Know It’s Christmas -

Band Aid

I Can’t Hold Back - Survivor

All I Need - Jack Wagner

You’re The Inspiration - Chicago

Valotte - Julian Lennon

Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce

Springsteen

Do What You Do - Jermaine

Jackson

Understanding - Bob Segar

Hello Again - The Cars

Pride (In The Name of Love) -

U2

Penny Lover - Lionel Richie

Top Albums -

Purple Rain - Prince

Like A Virgin - Madonna

Born in The U.S.A. - Bruce

Springsteen

Big Bam Boom - Hall & Oates

The Woman In Red - Stevie Wonder

Chicago 17 - Chicago

Arena - Duran Duran

Private Dancer - Tina Turner

Can’t Slow Down - Lionel

Richie

Volume One - The

Honeydrippers

Sports - Huey Lewis & The

News

Top Country single -

Why Not Me - The Judds

More Albums -

She’s So Unusual - Cyndi

Lauper

Make It Big - Wham!

Week of December 28, 1984

1100 Bel Air Place - Julio Iglesias

The Distance - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

Rio - Duran Duran

Isolation - Toto

Waking Up With The House On fire - Culture Club

At the movies -

Dune -

2010 -

Stapleton, Peter Boyle, Griffin Dunne, Glynnis O’Connor, Dom DeLuise, Richard

Week of December 28, 1984

Dimitri, Danny DeVito

Torn, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco, Madeline Kahn

Week of December 28, 1984