Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

A self-admitted alcoholic ( as indicated in a 1974 radio interview for the BBC ), Haley fought a battle with alcohol into the 1970s.

Howard Thurman was interviewed in the late 1970s for a BBC feature on religion.

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

Milligan contributed his recollections of his childhood in India for the acclaimed 1970s BBC audio history series Plain Tales From The Raj.

Based on Postgate's wartime encounter with Welshman Denzyl Ellis, who used to be the fireman on the Royal Scot, it was remade in colour for the BBC in the 1970s.

In addition to Numa's commercial failure, a lack of radio play ( his records were removed from the BBC Radio 1 playlist ) and sales drained the fortune ( he estimated £ 4. 5 million ) Numan had amassed in the late 1970s.

Brooke-Taylor has acted in many other television sitcoms, as well as appearing in the 1970s BBC radio sketch show Hello, Cheeky!

Stars from the BBC TV serial The Onedin Line stayed in the town during filming in the late 1970s.

Dawson starred in a radio sketch show Listen to Les, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in the 1970s and 1980s.

This can be seen in his television plays for LWT in the late 1970s and the BBC in the early 1980s and in the 1987 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Richard II ( 1978 ), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in Miss Morrison's Ghosts ( 1981 ) and the BBC dramatizations of Julian Gloag's Only Yesterday ( 1986 ) and the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent ( 1986 ), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane.

There is lost material in all genres – as late as 1993, a large number of videotaped children's programmes from the 1970s and 1980s were irretrievably wiped by Adam Lee of the BBC archives on the assumption that they were of " no use ", without consulting the BBC children's department itself.

In January 2010 the BBC screened the show's pilot programme ( seen in colour for the first time since the early 1970s ) alongside several tribute shows to the late actors who appeared in the series with BBC2 dedicating an entire night to the show.

The long-running British TV show Top of the Pops began playing music videos in the late 1970s, although the BBC placed strict limits on the number of ' outsourced ' videos TOTP could use.

In the 1970s, David Bowie began singing Brel's " Amsterdam " at a BBC session with John Peel and Evilan Tom ( not released until 2000 on Bowie at the Beeb ).

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

To fans of 1970s BBC children's television, the instrument will always be associated with the voices of the Clangers.

The impetus for a more complex type of television remote control came in the late 1970s, with the development of the Ceefax teletext service by the BBC.

Their most famous piece of broadcast television equipment was the EMI 2001 colour camera, which became the mainstay of both the BBC and several ITV companies in the 1970s and early 1980s.

He then joined the BBC as a trainee and worked for BBC Radio and London Weekend Television before devoting most of his time to writing from the late 1970s.

During the 1970s, he made guest-appearances on TV series such as Ironside, Insight, Barbary Coast, The Love Boat, Medical Center, four episodes of Love, American Style, Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

Devo remained popular in countries such as Australia, where the nationally broadcast 1970s – 1980s pop TV show Countdown was one of the first programs in the world to broadcast their video clips.

Media fandom shot off from science fiction fandom in the early 1970s with a focus on relationships between characters within TV and movie media franchises.

Pittman's boss, WASEC Executive Vice President John Lack, had shepherded PopClips, a TV series created by former Monkee-turned solo artist Michael Nesmith, whose attention had turned to the music video format by the late 1970s.

However this has actually only been fashionable since the 1970s, possibly due to the presence of TV cameras.

During the early 1970s, Mobil ran a TV commercial featuring a character known as " Mr. Dirt " to show the ruinous effects that dirt had on automotive engines for which a tank of Mobil Detergent Gasoline could provide a cure and preventive medicine against damage that could lead to costly repairs.

* Rex Humbard ( 1919 – 2007 ) The first major TV evangelist ( 1950s, 1960s & 1970s ), and at one time had the largest TV audience of an evangelist in the U. S.

Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series Columbo, " everyone's favorite rumpled television detective ", writes historian David Fantle.

* In an episode of the 1970s TV series The Waltons, called the Changeling, ( Season 7 Episode 5 ) Elizabeth Walton, who is turning thirteen, sees a chair a banging up and down, a vase breaking itself, a rag doll changing position, and various other strange activities, which disappear immediately after she declares her fear and anger on the night of her slumber party.

TV Guide originally used the term rerun, but abruptly changed to repeat in the early 1970s.

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

* Soap ( TV series ), a 1970s sitcom

* NBC ran two popular TV series about truck drivers in the 1970s featuring actor Claude Akins in major roles:

As some 1960s-era 12-channel TV sets remained in use for many years, and Canada and Mexico were slower than the US to require UHF tuners to be factory-installed in new TVs, a market for these converters continued to exist for much of the 1970s.

" Cardille was well-known locally as a Pittsburgh TV man who had his own horror movie show, " Chiller Theater " on TV late Saturday nights in the 1960s and 1970s.

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

During the 1970s they were at the forefront of low-priced hi-fi, TV and car stereo cassette technologies.

Leann " Pepper " Anderson, the central character in the 1970s Police Woman TV series, played by Angie Dickinson

FSS satellite technology was also originally used for DTH satellite TV from the late 1970s to the early 1990s in the United States in the form of TVRO ( TeleVision Receive Only ) receivers and dishes.

Benigni became famous in Italy in the 1970s for a shocking TV series called Onda Libera, on RAI2, by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted the satirical piece " anthem of the nimble body " ( L ' inno del corpo sciolto, a hymn to defecation ).

: From the 1970s until the early 2000s, Looney Tunes shorts appeared via various public service TV channels throughout the region as part of children's blocks or in-betweeners.

One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Milan's Articolo 31, then and still today produced by Franco Godi, who had written the soundtrack to the animated TV series Signor Rossi in the 1970s.