Grundy's Prisoner began screening in the United States in 1979 and achieved high ratings in many regions there, however only the first three years of the series would be screened in that country.

The audience of children could never compete in the ratings with such entertainment / news shows as The Today Show, although Captain Kangaroo won Emmy Awards three times as Outstanding Children's entertainment series in 1978 – 1979, 1982 – 1983 and 1983 – 1984.

Although the syndicated Match Game was not a direct cause of the ratings problems Love of Life facedthe 4: 00 PM timeslot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for CBS, NBC, and ABC for years and Love of Life had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon many stations ran the syndicated series against the veteran soap opera and, in the case of some CBS affiliates and owned-and-operated stations, preempted Love of Life in favor of the new Match Game.

Scrappy-Doo was added to the cast of Scooby-Doo to save the show's ratings, which by 1979 had begun to sink to the point of cancellation threats from ABC.

In 1979, Jones tried her hand at television for the second time starring in Shirley which, like, The Partridge Family, featured a family headed by a widowed mother, but failed to win ratings, and was canceled toward the middle of the season.

As a result, WFLD edged ahead of WGN-TV in the ratings by the end of 1979.

It remained a regular show until 1979 ; ratings were modest.

held the title and became the first African-American teen sitcom to break into the Nielsen ratings, as part of the top 30 Rated Programs from 1976 until 1979, although the 1977 – 1978 season did not break the top 30.

Production ended in early 1979 after the final season ranked only 45th in the ratings.

Rankings were based on television ratings, inflation-adjusted box office performance, as well as presence in popular culture through blog and press mentions since 1979.

However, ratings plummeted upon the move as many CBS affiliates pre-empted the serial to show more profitable syndicated programming-which, beginning in September 1979, included a new daily syndicated Match Game that went up against ( and, in some cases, shown in place of ) Love of Life.

ABC reran the episodes over the summer of 1979 ( in August on Sundays ) where they continued to achieve high ratings leading many to believe that the show would have a long run.

Its existing affiliate, WKEF, was a distant third in the ratings, and did not have a news department until 1979.

Motor vehicle standards of the United States and Canada which called for increased weight ratings as of the 1979 model year spelled the end of automobile-based ambulances and the beginning of the van-based units seen today throughout North America.

The full-sized cars were the beginning of a " corporate-wide " downsizing of vehicles in order to improve fuel economy ratings following the 1973-74 energy crisis that would filter down to intermediates in 1978, personal-luxury cars in 1979 and compacts in 1980 with subsequent downsizings of each line of vehicles scheduled in subsequent years.

Since then, the series has been seen on CBS from 1979 to 1989 ( except for one episode, which was seen on PBS in 1981 ), then on ABC from 1989 to 1995, then CBS again from 1995 until 2011, when that network cancelled the series due to low ratings.

In 1979, WWTC switched to an oldies format known as the " Golden Rock " and achieved its highest ratings in years.

The b / w series were first syndicated in the US by NBC affiliate stations in 1967 and 1968, and 32 of the 47 colour episodes were Networked by NBC from 1968 to 1969, and has since played in syndication in the US for many years after ( the 70s sequel Return of the Saint aired to high ratings on CBS in 1979 / 80 ).

By 1979, NBC was deeply mired in third place in the Nielsen ratings.

Zagat Survey () was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners.

Although the viewing figures dipped somewhat during Williams ' first two seasons, they remained fairly healthy and in 1979, the series achieved ratings as high as 16. 1 million viewers ( for episode 4 of City of Death ), its highest ever-although this was partly attributable to the strike which took ITV, the BBC's main competitor, off the air.

Unable to draw high ratings with adult contemporary, KIIS-FM continued to change formats from Top 40 in 1976 to 1978, Dance and Disco in 1979 to 1980 and back to Top 40 in 1981.

WKAP realized a ratings jump from 3. 8 to 23. 4 Saturday evenings from 9: 00PM to midnight in a one-month period and maintained this throughout the summer, until the show's conclusion on Labor Day of 1979.

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

# The Primates ' Meeting ( first met in 1979 ) is the most recent manifestation of international consultation and deliberation, having been first convened by Archbishop Donald Coggan as a forum for " leisurely thought, prayer and deep consultation ".

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

* Number Theory for Beginners ( 1979 ) with Maxwell Rosenlicht

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

Following the 1979 invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by Soviet troops, Massoud devised a strategic plan for expelling the invaders and overthrowing the communist regime.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

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

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award ( posthumously ) for his " unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

Both the F-14 Tomcat and AIM-54 Phoenix missile continue in the service of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, although the operational abilities of these aircraft and the missiles are questionable, since the US refused to supply spare parts and maintenance after the 1979 revolution ; except for a brief period during the Iran-Contra Affair.

He has been invited to speak at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies at Yale University in 1979.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

The criteria for being charged with " caught stealing " were fine tuned in 1979, with a runner being charged with being caught if he is put out while trying to steal, oversliding a base ( otherwise successfully stolen ), or is picked off a base, and tries to advance to the next base.

* 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.

Previous radio flagships for the Orioles have been WCBM from 1954 to 1956, and again for the 1987 season ; and the now-defunct WFBR from 1979 through 1986.

J. B. Curtis in his 1979 paper " On Job's Response to Yahweh ", argues that Job's final responses to Yahweh are a total rejection of Yahweh rather than an expression of repentance, and translates Job 42: 6 as " Therefore I feel loathing contempt and revulsion ( toward you, O God ); and I am sorry for frail man.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

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