In 1978 and 1979, Gilda Radner portrayed a character called Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live based on Smith.

In 1979, incoming NBC President Fred Silverman offered Radner her own prime time variety show, which she ultimately turned down.

In 1979, shortly before Radner began her final season on Saturday Night Live, her Broadway show was filmed by Mike Nichols under the title Gilda Live !, co-starring Paul Shaffer and Don Novello, and was released to theaters nationwide in 1980 with poor results.

Elliott appeared on a number of other television programs, including Happy Days ; Newhart ; and Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda in 1979 ( with Goulding, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman and Gilda Radner ).

He appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 US tour ; in Legends of Guitar ( filmed live in Spain, 1991 ) with B. B.

Emlyn Williams was cast as Caligula in the never-completed 1937 film I, Claudius, and Courtney Love appeared as Caligula in a fake trailer for Gore Vidal's Caligula, ostensibly a remake of the 1979 film, but actually a parodic short film by conceptual artist Francesco Vezzoli.

Devo also appeared on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in 1979, performing " Blockhead ", " Secret Agent Man ", and " Mongoloid ".

The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

He also appeared in a 1979 pilot for a revival of The Little Rascals as Stymie.

He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha.

Around the same time, he appeared in two episodes of a twist-in-the-tale episode of the British TV series, Tales of the Unexpected, with Wendy Hiller ( 1979 ), and Gloria Grahame ( 1980 ).

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).

In November 1978 and again in May 1979 Ferrigno appeared in Battle of the Network Stars.

Lint first appeared ( outside of Bell Labs ) in the seventh version ( V7 ) of the Unix operating system in 1979.

In 1979 the bar code appeared.

That year the actual term signal transduction was included in abstracts until in 1979 it appeared in a paper's title.

Twenty-five collections of records have been completed since the first REED collection, York, appeared in 1979 ; the most recent one, REED: Lincolnshire, comes out in 2009.

Woody Guthrie's Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, childhood home as it appeared in 1979

This story appeared only in The Silver Locusts, the British edition of The Martian Chronicles, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, the September 1979 illustrated trade edition from Bantam Books, the " 40th Anniversary Edition " from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 Book-of-the-Month Club edition.

She appeared in a number of disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably Earthquake ( 1974 ) with Charlton Heston, The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ), and the Canadian movie City on Fire ( 1979 ).

In 1979 they appeared on a sampler-album ( Uitholling Overdwars ) made up of new Dutch-language bands.

In 1979 he appeared in the Galton and Simpson scripted short film Le Pétomane.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death ( 1979 ) alongside John Cleese as art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris.

Victory-class Star Destroyers appear as early as Brian Daley's 1979 book Han Solo's Revenge, and since then have appeared in Expanded Universe books and games.

In 1979 Jason appeared as Buttons in the pantomime Cinderella at Newcastle's Theatre Royal with Leah Bell and Bobby Thompson produced by Michael Grayson and directed by John Blackmore.

An almost completely new group of musicians, mostly British-including Pete Thomas ( saxophonist )-were assembled to perform as The Comets, and Haley appeared on many television shows as well as in the movie Blue Suede Shoes, filmed at one of his London concerts in March 1979.

They had topped most of the pre-winter opinion polls by several points, but in February 1979 at least one opinion poll was showing the Tories 20 points ahead of Labour and it appeared certain that Labour would lose the forthcoming election.

Hip hop first appeared in France in 1979, just as the genre was achieving some success in the United States.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

* 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.

Having ascertained that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir which initially failed.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

Karmal was made Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Council of Ministers on 27 December 1979.

It merged with The Beezer on 24 February 1979.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No. 1188 was consecrated on the 2 June 1979, it currently meets on the second Thursday in March, May, September & November

Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.

Building on this first edition, in 1979, B. Dennis Sustare wrote " Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign " in Different Worlds, a magazine published by Chaosium.

Since the 16th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 1979, the candela has been defined as:

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

New York: Facts on File Inc., 1979.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Since 1979 the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has addressed some of the major environmental problems of the UNECE region through scientific collaboration and policy negotiation.

Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on March 13 – 16, 1979, in Brussels.

Just before that, on March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called " Philips Introduce Compact Disc " in Eindhoven, Netherlands.