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.

His frequent appearances on NBC's The Tonight Show spanned three emcees ( Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson ), from the 1950s to the 1970s.

In the late 1970s, he made public appearances alongside Jane Fonda and Leonard Bernstein in support of the leftist Unidad Popular group in Chile.

Gimlin avoided publicly discussing the subject from at least the early 1970s until about the year 2000 when he began giving interviews and making appearances at Bigfoot conferences.

In his earliest appearances, Clouseau is actually ( only slightly ) less inept and exaggerated ; some of the above character elements were not added until the 1970s.

Hawn's Laugh-In persona was parlayed into three popular film appearances in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Cactus Flower, There's a Girl in My Soup, and Butterflies Are Free.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

Her notable guest appearances on American television during the 1960s and 1970s included Batman, The Virginian, Mission: Impossible, Police Woman and the notable Star Trek episode, " The City on the Edge of Forever ".

During the 1960s and 1970s, Hall also made frequent appearances on Soviet television, always supporting the position of the Soviet Communist Party and the Leonid Brezhnev regime.

Jerry West led the team to nine NBA Finals appearances in the 1960s and 1970s.

Robby made few film appearances after the 1970s, but there is a cameo appearance in Gremlins ( 1984 ), where he can be seen standing in the background and speaking some of his trademark lines ; he was also featured in a 2006 commercial for AT & T.

Durante continued his film appearances through It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and television appearances through the early 1970s.

Its first appearances in print were in the early 1970s, under the Whitlam government, and it was almost invariably used in a favorable sense until the late 1980s.

Christie reduced her screen appearances in the 1970s, acting in only six films during the decade.

Constance " Connie " Booth ( born 31 January 1944 ) is an American-born writer and actress, known for appearances on British television and particularly for her portrayal of Polly Sherman in the popular 1970s television show Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese.

Charlton was a part of the successful Leeds United side of the 1960s and 1970s, winning a league championship ( 1969 ), an FA Cup ( 1972 ), a League Cup ( 1968 ) and two Fairs Cups ( 1968 and 1971 ) and made a club record 773 appearances.

After those pilots were not picked up, Wyman went into semi-retirement and remained there for most of the 1970s, though she made guest appearances on series such as Charlie's Angels and The Love Boat.

In 1950 he was a mystery guest on What's My Line ?, and during the 1970s he made appearances on The Mike Douglas Show and The Tonight Show.

His best work was in the 1960s: the critical quality of the films in which he took part diminished from the mid 1970s, with poorly regarded made-for-television films and episodic television making up the majority of his appearances, except in The Saviour, directed in 1971 by the French film critic Michel Mardore.

Bolan made regular appearances on the LWT pop show Supersonic, directed by his old friend Mike Mansfield and released a succession of singles, but he never regained the success of his glory days of the early 1970s.

Yosemite Sam made appearances in several television specials in the 1970s and 1980s, and in three of the Looney Tunes feature-film compilations.

He made a number of guest appearances in episodic television in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including spots on Laverne and Shirley ; B. J.

While Sherlock Hemlock made frequent appearances on the show in the 1970s and ' 80s, in recent years he has been phased out in favor of newer characters.

The 1970s included numerous small-part television acting appearances for Quarry, and television commercials.