Not all fantasy and SF were novels or stories. The decade produced quite the stockpile of ephemeral works, from blueprints of the Enterprise, to collected covers of popular artists, to illustrated works.
This section is significantly under-researched at this time.
Alien Landscapes (1979) - Robert Holdstock and Malcolm Edwards
Blueprints of the USS Enterprise.
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979) - Wayne Barlow
Beauty and the Beast (1978) - Chris Achilleos
Faeries (1978) - Brian Froud, Alan Lee
Guide to Tolien's World: A Bestiary (1979) - David Day
Necromonicon (1977) - H.R. Geiger
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (1979) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Star Wars: A Popup Book (1979) - Wayne Barlow
The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo (1978) - Boris Vallejo
The Illustrated Roger Zelazny (1978) - Gray Morrow
The Monster at the End of this Book (1971) - Jon Stone
The topic of comics in the 70's far exceeds this little page. Of main importance was that comics were still sold in pharmacies and grocery stores, existing mostly as impulse purchases for kids. Early in the 70's, Marvel created many of its iconic series, growing aggressively, and Chris Claremont took over the X-Men, beginning a powerhouse run that would go for twenty years.
Some comics made it to the screen. The Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferigno, ran for several seasons. Despite many attempts, no other Marvel character made it to the small screen. Meanwhile, Superfriends established itself on Saturday mornings, giving us the cry, "Wonder Twin Powers Activate!" Also, the Batman TV series was frequently found in syndication, extending the reach of the 60's caped crusader.
Listed below are noteworthy media series. Although the 80s’s will see stunning growth in the SF and fantasy genres, due to Star Wars mania and generally falling production costs, in the 70's these faced high production costs and the associated high risks. However, Star Wars inaugurated the Hollywood cash cow that is the summer scifi blockbuster, ensuring that some type of scifi film was always in production.
In these days before the VCR, if there was a market, publishers would create novel adaptations of popular series, and most big films had accompanying novels as well. Many an SF kid grew up reading Star Trek or Doctor Who novels.
I've listed many titles here, but I've not done an exhaustive search for titles. This list is certainly more interesting than I've documented. In Japan, the 70's was a great time for anime, but that topic far exceeds my page. In this list, I only included anime that was translated into English.
Just escaping the 70's were the radio-play adaptations of Star Wars.
While there were decades of SF films before the 70's, it was the summer blockbuster which changed the film landscape, beginning with Jaws, and sent into orbit with Star Wars. I can't begin to do the decade justice, especially as I'm no expert on B-cinema. Below are some highlights of the decade.
Battlestar Galactica (originally released as a film)
Buck Rogers (originally released as a film)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Escape to Witch Mountain
Godzilla film series
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Hobbit
Island at the Top of the World
James Bond film series
Logan’s Run
Lord of the Rings
Planet of the Apes film series
Silent Running
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
Superman the Movie
Star Wars (before it was Star War: A New Hope)
Wizards
On TV, older B-movies continued on, showing in odd time slots, extending their influence far beyond their initial decades.
King Kong
Harryhausen films
50's B-Movies
Atomic Monster Movies
Toho giant monster films
For prime-time television, I included syndicated shows generally aimed at the family-adult audience.
Battlestar Galactica
The Bionic Woman
Blake’s 7
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Christmas - the subject of numerous fantastical TV specials
Captain America (made for TV movie)
The Hulk
Logan’s Run (TV series)
Mork and Mindy
Planet of the Apes (TV series)
The Six Million Dollar Man
Space 1999
The Starlost
UFO
Many shows continued on in reruns, influencing a new generation despite their downgraded status. Each of these shows had some fantastical, SF, or outlandish bent.
The Addams Family
The Beverly Hillbillies
Flash Gordon (serials)
Get Smart
Land of the Giants
Lost in Space
The Munsters
My Favorite Martian
Star Trek
The Time Tunnel
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
These shows were all clearly aimed at kids of varying ages. At the same time, reruns from the 1960's and 50's were prevalent, deserving a place on this list.
Ark 2
Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman)
Doctor Who
Far Out Space Nuts
Genesis II
Get Smart (in reruns)
Gilligan's Planet
H. R. Pufinstuf
Isis
Johnny Sokko and His Amazing Flying Robot
Land of the Lost
The Land That Time Forgot
The Lost Saucer
Marine Boy
Mobile Suit Gundam (Japan)
Sid and Marty Kroft shows
Shazam
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Sentai style TV (Japan)
Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato)
Star Trek, The Animated Series
Thunderbirds
Ultraman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [radio]
Anime hit a flowering in the 1970s, ramping up from a kid's oriented medium to a considerable SF powerhouse. While such shows were marketed towards kids here in the US, they enjoyed considerable adult audiences at home in Japan.
Mobile Suite Gundam
Space Battleship Yamato
New in the 1970’s, these types of fiction expanded in the 1980s, forming the computer game industry and the smaller RPG industry.
The Caves of Time (1979) - Edward Packard
The Third Planet from Altair (1979) - Edward Packard
Space and Beyond (1979) - R. A. Montgomery
Adventure (Atari) (1979)
Adventureland (1978)
The Cottage (1978)
Colossal Cave (1976)
Pyramid 2000 (1979?)
Moria (1975)
dnd (1975)
Dungeon (1975)
pedit5 (1975)
Oubliette (1977)
DND (1977)
orthanc (1978)
Akalabeth (1979)
avatar (1979)
Dunjonquest: The Datastones of Ryn (1979)
Dunjonquest: Morloc’s Tower (1979)
Space (1979)
Space II (1979)
Temple of Apshair (1979)
Chainmail (1971)
Basic Dungeons and Dragons (1974)
Player’s Handbook (1978)
Dungeon Master’s Guide (1979)
Monster Manual (1977)
B1 In Search of the Unknown (1978)
B2 The Keep on the Borderlands (1979)
D1 Descent into the Depths of the Earth (1978)
D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (1978)
D3 Vault of the Drow (1978)
G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief (1978)
G2 The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl (1978)
G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King (1978)
S1 Tomb of Horrors (1978)
S2 White Plume Mountain (1979)
T1 The Village of Hommlet (1979)
Gamma World (1978)
Traveller Boxed Set (1977)
Book 1-Characters and Combat (1977)
Book 2-Starships (1977)
Book 3-Worlds and Adventures (1977)
Book 4- Mercenary (1978)
Supplement 1-1001 Characters (1978)
Supplement 2-Animal Encounters (1979)
Supplement 3-The Spinward Marches (1979)
Supplement 4-Citizens of the Imperium (1979)
Adventure 1-The Kinunir (1979)
Blackmoor (1975)
Boot Hill (1975)
Empire of the Petal Throne (1975)
En Garde! (1975)
Tunnels and Trolls (1975)
Bunnies & Burrows (1976)
Chevalier (1976)
Metamorphosis Alpha (1976)
The Arduin Grimoire (1977)
Chivalry and Sorcery (1977)
Dagorhir (1977)
Starships & Spacemen (1978)
RuneQuest (1978)
Star Trek: Adventuring Gaming … (1978)
Villains and Vigilantes (1978)
Buccaneer (1979)
Bushido (1979)