SEPT. 10, 1975

Steven Spielberg's big fish story, Jaws (starring Richard Dreyfuss, right), finishes the summer as the undisputed box office champion, leaving such adult fare as Nashville in its wake and inaugurating the era of the summer blockbuster. By decade's end, grown-up movies would forever be banished to fall. In a luxe LOLLAPALOOZA, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie begin a two-week engagement at New York's Uris Theater, packing them in at a top ticket price of $40. CBS' indomitable All in the Family launches its fifth season as TV's most popular show. Amazingly, the sophisticated sitcom's No. 1 status had come despite four years in a time slot later considered to be fatal: Saturday nights at eight. AND IN THE REAL WORLD, teachers are on strike in New York City, prolonging summer vacation for some one million public school students. Kids will have three more days to frolic before the strike is settled on Sept. 15.