The Star Wheel was introduced in 1978 to determine which celebrity a contestant played with in the Head-To-Head Match.

Having lived under cover in various parts of the Middle East and Europe, in 1978 he married Georgina Rizk, a Lebanese celebrity who had been Miss Universe seven years earlier in 1971.

It is this period, along with the 1978 and 1979 albums that created the mythos Jimmy Buffett has parlayed into icon status as a performer, restaurateur, entrepreneur, author, and celebrity.

Trebek also appeared as a celebrity teammate on the NBC game show The Magnificent Marble Machine in 1975, as well as the Tom Kennedy-hosted NBC word game To Say the Least in 1978.

* Guy the Gorilla, ( 1946 – 1978 ), a Western Lowland Gorilla and 1960s – 70s " celebrity " at London Zoo

A children's version, called Junior Almost Anything Goes and hosted by Soupy Sales, ran on Saturday mornings from 11 September 1976 to 4 September 1977 ; After this, a syndicated celebrity version ( All Star Anything Goes ) hosted by Bill Boggs ran from 16 September 1977 to September 1978.

The first Christmas show in 1978 featured three celebrity partners, paired according to their nationality.

In addition to Wilson and Cooper, his other celebrity clients reportedly included actor Richard Harris ; actor Rod Steiger ; actress Maureen McCormick ; and actor Gig Young, who died in an apparent murder-suicide along with his wife in 1978.

* James ( 1978 ) and Josh ( 2000 ) Brolin is the only father-son combination to win the celebrity portion of the event.

* 1978 – Tom Fulp, American video game programmer

He was succeeded in 1978 by Tom Davis of the Democratic Party.

* Clark, Tom ( 1978 ).

* Wheeler, Tom ( 1978 ).

* 1931 – Tom Wilson, American record producer ( d. 1978 )

Artist Marghe McMahon was inspired in 1978 to create a bronze statue of Tom playing the musical saw which sits in downtown Santa Cruz.

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

* Tom Paxton released the song " The Death of Stephen Biko " on his 1978 album Heroes.

* Tom Danielson ( 1978 -), is a professional road bicycle racer.

Metrinko also was the hero ( and dedicatee ) of the book Razi Crossing, by Tom Burchill, when he saved a number of westerners ' lives during a revolutionary uprising in Tabriz, Iran in 1978.

The music critic Tom Sutcliffe later wrote that Doráti and his successors, Colin Davis ( 1967 – 71 ), Pierre Boulez ( 1971 – 75 ) and Gennady Rozhdestvensky ( 1978 – 81 ) had been partly successful in improving playing standards, but had not the brought the orchestra up to its original level of distinction.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

The band's third album, Heaven Tonight, released in 1978 and again produced by Tom Werman, combined elements of the first two albums.

In 1978, Ferd's son, Tom Johnson, signed on as his assistant.

A member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972 to 1975, Rigg took leading roles in premiere productions of two Tom Stoppard plays, Dorothy Moore in Jumpers ( National Theatre, 1972 ) and Ruth Carson in Night and Day ( Phoenix Theatre, 1978 ).

* Tom Hamilton Jr. ( born 1978 ), American singer / songwriter / guitarist

Tom DeLay began his career as a politician in 1978 when he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives.

Ribot's son His Majesty sired the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Pleasant Colony, and his great grandson Alleged, by Tom Rolfe's son Hoist The Flag, emulated him by winning the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe in succssive years ( 1977 and 1978 ).

* Night and Day ( play ), a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard

The concept began in 1978 when Tom Braden and Pat Buchanan cohosted a radio show on WRC in Washington.

* 1984 Review of Tom Haydon's documentary " The Last Tasmanian " ( 1978 )

New York Yippie Tom Forcade was the producer of one of the first movies about punk rock, D. O. A., featuring footage of the Sex Pistols ' 1978 tour of America.

Following the 1978 season, Mendoza's request for a trade was granted as he, Odell Jones and Rafael Vasquez were sent to the Seattle Mariners for Rick Jones, Tom McMillan and Enrique Romo on December 5, 1978.

* Dorothea Kuhn, Hermann Sudermann: Porträt und Selbstporträt, 1978

Premiere: Lisbon 1978, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Gustav Kuhn conductor

In 1978, Bull patented the SPOM ( self-programmable one-chip microcomputer ) that defines the necessary architecture to program the chip.

In 1978 scientists at BMI-TNO, the research unit of Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research at The University of Amsterdam, invented and patented a series of additional key elements to make the volume clamp work in clinical practice, among them: the use of modulated infra-red light in the optical system inside the sensor, the light-weight, easy to wrap finger cuff with Velcro fixation, a new pneumatic proportional control valve principle and last but not least the invention of a setpoint strategy for the determination and tracking of the correct volume at which to clamp the finger arteries – the Physiocal system.

In 1978, specific means for a retinal scanner was patented, followed by a commercial model in 1981.

The company Software Concepts, Inc., founded by William J. Tobin in 1978, developed one of the first patented computer software programs in the United States for spelling verification.

Avobenzone was patented in 1973 and was approved in the EU in 1978.

In 1978, “ Forever Changes ” was ranked as the 16th greatest rock album of all time in “ Rock Critics ’ Choice: The Top 200 Albums ,” a book compiled by Paul Gambaccini.

Melle Mel is cited as an Old School MC who epitomizes the Old School flow – Kool Moe Dee says, “ from 1970 to 1978 we rhymed one way Melle Mel, in 1978, gave us the new cadence we would use from 1978 to 1986 ... he ’ s the first emcee to explode in a new rhyme cadence, and change the way every emcee rhymed forever.

Even further back, in 1978 Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz coined the term groupware ; their initial 1978 definition of groupware was, “ intentional group processes plus software to support them .” Later in their article they went on to explain groupware as “ computer-mediated culture ... an embodiment of social organization in hyperspace.

With an expanding power base, in September 1978, Deng began openly attacking Hua Guofeng's “ Two Whatevers ”.

He produced a series of ironic political posters signed “ The Last International ”, first in Ann Arbor, Michigan, then in San Francisco where he moved in 1978.

“ Faith and Election: The Christian right in Congressional Campaigns 1978 – 1988 .” The Journal of Politics 55 ( 1 ), ( February ): 80 – 91.

* Isao Tomita ’ s 1978 album Kosmos features a track titled “ The Sea Named ‘ Solaris ’ ”, based upon the character-thematic J. S. Bach music selections in Tarkovsky ’ s film.

In 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA ) created a “ secret federal court for issuing wiretap warrants in national security cases .” This was in response to findings from the Watergate break-in, which allegedly uncovered a history of presidential operations that had used surveillance on domestic and foreign political organizations.

According to the report, throughout the 1980s political killings rose to a peak of 3, 500 in 1988, averaging some 1, 500 victims per year since then, and " over 1, 500 civilians are also believed to have “ disappeared ” since 1978.

* “ Italy ”, a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel ( book )

The main part of this play is made up of short, occasionally fragmented sentences spoken in a “ apid tempo throughout ” “ which in his 1978 rehearsals likened to a lawn mower – a burst of energy followed by a pause, a renewed burst followed by another pause .” “ He wrote each part separately, then interspersed them, working over the proper breaks in the speeches for a long time before he was satisfied .”

The band was also featured, along with a 70-piece orchestra, on the live album “ An Evening of Magic ,” which was recorded at the Hollywood Bowl on July 16, 1978, at the height of Mangione ’ s success from “ Feels So Good .” Performances of material new and old included versions of “ Main Squeeze ,” “ Hill Where the Lord Hides ” and “ Chase the Clouds Away .” Mangione opened and closed the show with “ Feels So Good ” and its “ Reprise ” version.