QuoteI scheduled a local meetup RPG called Bell Bottoms, Black Sabbath, and Beltane.  It's an RPG (with adventure) that I will make up between now and Saturday at 1pm.  All I know is that players will be exploring the dark side of unexplained phenomena in the 1970's.  So, it'll slightly resemble Call of Cthulhu, except with lava lamps, waterbeds, "purple haze" acid, feathered hair, flared jeans, and glow-in-the-dark pet rocks.

Even though I was born in 1974 and love the TV shows influencing this concept (see below), I don't know a ton about that decade.  I mean, I'm not a 70's-ologist or anything.  So, internet searches and re-watching the following will help:

The Tomorrow People, Night Gallery, Kolchak: the Night Stalker, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker era Doctor Who, In Search of..., Land of the Lost, Children of the Stones, The Omega Factor, etc.

Quote from: The Butcher;799261Well, I did pitch a World of Darkness: Hammer Horror game set in 1970s London once. Complete with Belial's Brood ("Satanic Rites of Dracula") and a disgruntled thespian slasher carrying out Shakespeare-themed revenge murders ("Theatre of Blood").

Quote from: Skyrock;799262I know it's not constructive, but the first thing the title and then the premise made me think of was Dracula 1972 A.D., which mixes satanism, the Dracula story and unintentionally dated 70s fashion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deJWUkiS42U
(The German localization title has been "Dracula hunts mini-skirted girls", which is actually very apt.)

The follow-up movie The Satanic Rites of Dracula set in the same period deserves honourable mention. Less of an unintentional 70s period piece, but better at centering on an occult conspiracy revolving around Dracula. Also the last Hammer Dracula film Christopher Lee ever volunteered to appear in.

Quote from: gonster;799277I am pretty sure Street Thunder was the name of the gang that laid siege to the police station in ASSAULT ON PRECIENCT 13.  Was it on purpose or was it a happy accident?

Quote from: JeremyR;799344The '70s wasn't all feathered hair and bell bottoms.

You have Gary Collins wearing turtlenecks and exploring the occult in The Sixth Sense (which was syndicated with Night Gallery for some reason)

The whole show is on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/SixthSense1972

And from 1978-79, Project UFO

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkv0oC2gTCPfxShXrgSfehlzGiFydiFVW

And there is an amazing movie starring William Shatner about a Druid temple on an airliner: The Horror at 37,000 Feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irUl_0LcQSs

And the other thing, that really was the last heyday of the horror comic.

That was the only sort of comics I really read in the '70s and most of the titles were cancelled in the mid-80s.

Tales of the Unexpected
House of Secrets
House of Mystery
Secrets of Haunted House
Witching Hour
Weird War Tales
The Many Ghosts of Dr. Graves
Tomb of Dracula

Quote from: VengerSatanis;800275Sounds cool.  And how did that pitch go?

VS

Quote from: The Butcher;800295Shot down. But in favor of Day After Ragnarok, so I wasn't even mad.

Quote from: VengerSatanis;800348And what, pray tell, is Day After Ragnarok about?

Quote from: Spinachcat;800417I like the idea. If using the USA as the locale, don't forget the 1970s were a time of tremendous social upheaval and malaise. The turbulent, but exciting 60s, gave way to the uncertain and pessimistic70s.   Vietnam was a disaster, the post-war economic boom had faded, Watergate and the Kennedy assassinations haunted politics, the space race failed to bring us the Jetsons, and civil rights movement scared the shit out of the honkies.

Oh, and D&D was forcing all the kids to worship Satan.

Jared Sorensen wrote a cool RPG called Sphear which was his Phantasm RPG and it's my only 1970s horror RPG experience and I've run it twice and both mini-campaigns were awesome.
 
It's free download.
http://www.1km1kt.net/rpg/sphear