* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1978 – Matt Walker, British swimmer

She has also been the subject of a 1978 British TV series, Warrior Queen, starring Siân Phillips as Boudica.

Pinochet tried to defend himself by referring to the State Immunity Act of 1978, an argument rejected by the British justice.

* 1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist ( Muse )

* 1978 – Olav Bjortomt, British quiz champion

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

* 1978 – Dean Gaffney, British actor

* 1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer / presenter / model / DJ ( Precious and Atomic Kitten )

* 1978 – Marc Hynes, British racing driver

The 1978 British comedy film The Rutles was done in the style of rock documentary which treated the fake band The Rutles as if they were a real band.

The Victorian Painter and British History, 1978, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500271321

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )

* 1978 – Ricky Wilson, British singer ( Kaiser Chiefs )

* 1978 The Bible and recent archaeology, London: British Museum Publications Ltd, 1978.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

* 1978: Land Rover Limited formed as a separate subsidiary of British Leyland

* 1978 – Adam Jennings, British actor, producer, and director

In 1978, Jones ' wife Dorothy died ; three years later, he married Marian Dern, the writer of the comic strip Rick O ' Shay.

* 1978 – Tony Moore, American comic book artist

He also revived the Pertwillaby Papers in this " RBCC " fanzine a comic book style story rather than a newspaper comic strip from 1976 to 1978.

From December 3, 1978, to September 20, 1980, Encyclopedia Brown was a daily and Sunday comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate.

* 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

* November 28 – Edgar Church, American comic book collector ( d. 1978 )

( Assistant editor Nick Landau largely edited the comic himself in 1978 while Kelvin Gosnell was occupied with editing new sister title Starlord.

In 1978, Asprin began the " MythAdventures " series, chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth.

Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story " Royal Feast " in issue No. 84 ( June 1978 ), and " Endless Cloud " in No. 85 ( July 1978 ).

The franchise began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games.

A scene from a 1978 Footrot Flats comic strip-showing Wal and The Dog

The first parts of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright followed as a serial in the British underground comic Near Myths in 1978, were later continued in pssst!

His first came in 1978 for a series of comic shorts about a plasticine character named ' Junfan ' ( a spin off from Morph, a similar character who was the star of animated shorts on Hart's TV shows ), and he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.

* Crawford ( also known as Crawford & Morgan ), a short-lived syndicated comic strip ( 1977 – 1978 ), written and drawn by Chuck Jones and collected by IDW in 2011

* Holo-Man, fictional American superhero who starred in a 1978 single-issue comic book about holography, The Amazing Adventures of Holo-Man

In 1978, Kahn's comic screen persona reached another peak with Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective ( 1978 ), a spoof of both Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, directed by Robert Moore.

Hammerstein is a fictional robot created by Pat Mills who first appeared in 1978 as a member of Ro-Busters in the British comic Starlord but is best known as the leader of the ABC Warriors in 2000AD.

Thereafter, he ran for governor in 1971 and the United States Senate in 1978, both times as an Independent candidate.

Garfields first Sunday page ran on June 25, 1978, being featured as a third-pager until March 22, 1981.

This ran until 1979, when Andy Rooney, whose commentaries were already alternating with the debate segment since late 1978, replaced it.

In 1978, he ran a true exploratory campaign, finding little public or media interest.

Their career ran from 1978 to 1984 and they were one of the most successful pop bands in Dutch history.

On March 16, 1978, the very large crude carrier Amoco Cadiz ran ashore just north of Landunvez, Finistère, Brittany, France, causing one of the largest oil spills in history.

The daytime revival of The Match Game, which featured regular panelists Richard Dawson, 1973 to 1978, Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, ran until 1979 on CBS and another three years in first-run syndication.

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978.

The first version appeared in January 1978 and it originally ran on a PDP-11.

The extension to Route 20 through Paterson was stopped in 1978 because of the designation of the Great Falls Historic District, a historical district recognizing Paterson ’ s heritage as an industrial center, and the number of homes and businesses that would be displaced by the route whether or not it ran through the historic district.

is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi that premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1978 and ran until its conclusion in 1987.

Lott was re-elected six more times without much difficulty, and even ran unopposed in 1978.

A Broadway revival with the same director, choreographer, and cast as the original 1978 production opened on August 15, 1988 at the Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 176 performances and eight previews.

The Good Life is a British sitcom produced by the BBC that ran from 1975 to 1978.

It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978.

* Revolver, was a British music TV series on ITV that ran for one series only, of eight episodes, in 1978 that featured Punk and New Wave acts.

Then in 1978 Gramm successfully ran as a Democrat for Representative from Texas's 6th congressional district, which stretched from the Fort Worth suburbs to College Station.

The Black and White Minstrel Show was a British light entertainment show that ran on BBC television from 1958 to 1978 and was a popular stage show.

This series ran from late 1978 to early 1979.

His luck ran out in 1978, when he lost the title to Mexico's Freddie Castillo by a knockout in round 14 on February 19.

Barker did, however, reprise his role as Fletcher in a sequel, Going Straight, which ran for one series in 1978.

In 1978, Baker ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General of Texas, losing to future Texas governor Mark White.

1935 ), an attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, ran unsuccessfully in 1978 for the United States House of Representatives, having been defeated by the Republican Jon C. Hinson, then the aide to U. S. Representative Thad Cochran, who ran successfully to succeed James O. Eastland for the other Mississippi seat in the U. S. Senate.