List of works of fiction set in 1977

↞ 1967

← 1976

List of works of fiction by year

1978 →

1987 ↠

This is a list of works of fiction set largely or wholly in 1977.

Audio stories

• Hexagora (2011) the second part of fifth Doctor Who's The Lost Stories.
• The Foe from the Future (2012) Big Finish Productions resurrected an original script idea for possible conclusion to season 14 and adapted it to audio.
• The Valley of Death (2012) a resurrected idea from Hinchcliffe using a script written by Jonathan Morris for The Lost Stories about fourth Doctor Who.

Comic

• The Devil's Mouth (1977) a Doctor Who's TV Comic.
• The Orb (1977) an other Doctor Who's TV Comic.
• Doctor Who and the Nightmare Game (2003) an Eighth Doctor comic story in Doctor Who Magazine.
• XXXombies (2007).^[1]

Computer and video games

• The Heavy Rain chapters "Twins" and "Hold My Hand" take place in October, 1977.

Film

• The Omega Man (1971)
• Italia: Ultimo atto? (1977)
• Germany in Autumn (1978)
• Starman (1984)
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
• Young Soul Rebels (1991)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• The Color of Friendship (2000)
• House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Paanch (2003)
• Camp Slaughter (2005)
• NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell (2007) a documentary about a reminiscence on life in New York City during the year 1977.
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• 1977 (2009)
• Potiche (2010)
• The Monuments Men (2014), in 1977, the elderly Stokes (Nick Clooney) takes his grandson to see Michelangelo's Madonna sculpture, amid large crowds of youth appreciating the pieces of humanity's creativity that his men sacrificed so much to preserve in war.

Literature

• Seven Little Monsters (1977)
• Morning Star (1984)
• Life of Pi (2001) novel set in the summer of 1977 that draws on places and historical events in India.

Play

• Fifth of July (1978) play set in rural Missouri in 1977.
• Zero Hour (2006)

Television

• Image of the Fendahl (1977) was the third story of Season 15 of Doctor Who.
• Mawdryn Undead (1983) was the third story of Doctor Who's twentieth season.

Fictional events

Dexter

Births

• 24 November – Travis Marshall, The Doomsday Killer is born.

Grand Theft Auto

Events

• Mary Valvona is arrested for loansharking.
• The movie Bury Me was produced by Dreyfuss Productions.
• Burn Baby Burn is established in Ocean Beach, Vice City.
• Spray'n'go is established in Vice City.
• Hannibal Liquor has been supporting habits in Montgomery, Red County.

Births

• Roman Bellic is born in Yugoslavia.
• Elizabeta Torres is born in Puerto Rico.
• Brucie Kibbutz is born in the Midwest.
• Gracie Ancelotti is born in Alderney City, Alderney.
• Yusuf Amir is born in Dubai, UAE.
• Bledar Morina is born in Albania.
• PintSizePrude is born.
• Abraham Hampton is born.
• Malc is born.
• Leila Sharpe is born in Acter, Alderney.
• Lyle Cleethorpes is born in Algonquin, Liberty City.
• Frankie Gallo is born in Leftwood, Alderney.
• Eddie Low is born in San Fierro.

Harry Potter

Events

• Sirius Black buys his own place with the inherited money from Alphard Black, his uncle.
• James Potter and Sirius Black are chased by two Muggle police men as well as three Death Eaters on broomsticks, while riding on Sirius's motorbike.
• Vernon and Petunia Dursley purchase and move in to 4 Privet Drive.
• Regulus Black plays for the Slytherin Quidditch team during the 1977 to 1978 school year.

Births

• Fleur Delacour to Monsieur Delacour and Apolline Delacour
• September/October – Cedric Diggory to Amos Diggory and his wife
• Late October – Angelina Johnson
• Cassius Warrington

Deaths

• Dorea Potter née Black
• Amarillo Lestoat

Stargate: Atlantis

Births

• Lindsey Novak.

References

1. Remender and Dwyer Make Skin Crawl in Crawl Space