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.

In September 1981, CBS shortened the hour-long show to a half-hour, briefly retitled it Wake Up with the Captain, and moved it to an earlier time slot ; it was later moved to weekends in September 1982, and returned to an hour-long format.

But in the fall of 1981, to make more room for the expansion of CBS Morning News, the Captain was moved to an earlier time slot of 7 a. m. and cut to 30 minutes, sporting the new title Wake Up with the Captain.

* An autogyro was heavily featured in the second Mad Max ( The Road Warrior ) film, released in 1981, appearing in several scenes with its pilot, the Gyro Captain, as a major character.

Although information obtained well after the fact supported Captain Herrick's statements about the inaccuracy of the later torpedo reports as well as the 1981 Herrick / Scheer conclusion about the inaccuracy of the first, indicating that there was no North Vietnamese attack that night, at the time U. S. authorities and all of the Maddox crew stated that they were convinced that an attack had taken place.

Dennis the Menace has been published in comic books and comic digests from the 1950s through the 1980s by a variety of publishers, including Standard / Pines ( 1953 – 58 ), Fawcett Comics ( 1958 – 80, during their only return to comics after losing the Captain Marvel lawsuit ), and Marvel Comics ( 1981 – 82 ).

This led to a videotex system called Captain (" Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information Network "), created by NTT in 1978, which went into full trials from 1979 to 1981.

* Code Red ( 1981 ) — Captain Joe Rorchek

Moore was born in Pinner in Middlesex on 4 March 1923 to Captain Charles Trachsel Caldwell-Moore MC ( died 1947 ) and Gertrude, née White ( died 1981 ) and moved to Bognor Regis, and later East Grinstead ( both in Sussex ), where he spent his childhood.

Until 1981, it would precede Captain Kangaroo on the CBS morning schedule from 7: 00-8: 00 a. m.

So on September 28, 1981, Morning dropped the days of the week from its title ( except for Sunday Morning ), and was extended to 90 minutes and added Diane Sawyer as co-host ; in the process, Captain Kangaroo was reduced to a half-hour daily and pushed to an earlier time period ( 7: 00 a. m .).

In 1981 he reprised his role as Captain Mainwaring for the pilot episode of It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a radio sequel to Dad's Army.

After Weston's 1926 election to President-General, he was succeeded by Frederick Augustus Toote ( 1929 ), Clifford Bourne ( 1930 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1931 – 1934 ), Henrietta Vinton Davis ( 1934 – 1940 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1940 – 1961 ), Captain A L King ( 1961 – 1981 ) and Milton Kelly, Jr. ( 1981 – 2007 ).

In addition to animated ( and occasionally live-action ) television shows such as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), Inspector Gadget ( 1983 – 1986 ), The Littles ( 1983 ), The Real Ghostbusters ( 1986 – 1991 ), Captain Planet and the Planeteers ( 1990-1993 ), and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of Sailor Moon ( 1995 – 1998 ), DIC produced live-action feature films while under Disney, including 1998's Meet the Deedles and 1999's Inspector Gadget.

Princess Anne and Captain Phillips ( who also had a daughter, Zara, in 1981 ) tried to ensure that their children were kept out of the limelight.

He was promoted to Captain on 8 September 1981, and to Major on 30 September 1988.

For example, in DC Comics Presents # 34 ( June 1981 ), Mxyzptlk, prompted by his endless search for distraction, teams up with Captain Marvel's archenemy Mister Mind to double-team their foes, not realizing that Mind, unlike himself, is a ruthless murderer.

* The Cannonball Run ( 1981 )-Victor Prinzi / Captain Chaos

Captain Benbow is prominently mentioned in " Down by the Sea ", the last song on Business as Usual, the 1981 album by Australian rock group Men at Work.

2, # 29 ( June 1978 ); The Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 15 ( Dec. 1981 ); Captain America # 268 ( April 1982 ); and with other heroes in the graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel ( April 1982 ) and the humorous Fantastic Four Roast ( April 1982 ).

The first worldwide popular association football-oriented Japanese animation ( manga ) series, Captain Tsubasa, was started in 1981.

The project was completed in 1981 with the recordings of Burlesque Variations on an Original Theme, and Two Herrick Songs, Requiem for the Rose and The Hag.

From January 1977 until 1981, Herrick edited The Freethinker.

Originally based in New Brighton, Minnesota and founded by Gregory E. Herrick, the company incorporated in Minnesota in 1981.

* Jim Herrick, January 1977 – 1981

* 1981 – Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author

* Adrian Holovaty ( born 1981 ), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur

* 1981 – Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist

* 1902 – Harry Golden, American journalist ( d. 1981 )

Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born January 9, 1958 ) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on February 1, 1979 and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison.

* 1908 – Alvar Lidell, English journalist ( d. 1981 )

She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

** Harry Golden, American journalist ( d. 1981 )

* September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist ( d. 1981 )

** Lowell Thomas, American journalist ( d. 1981 )

* Job de Roincé ( 1896 – 1981 ), French journalist and writer

Thus, Afghanistan's foreign minister commented that Afghanistan was a democratic but not yet socialist republic, while a member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan's Politburo predicted that " Afghanistan will not see socialism in my lifetime " in an interview with a British journalist in 1981.

Mao Dun ( July 4, 1896 – March 27, 1981 ) was the pen name of Shen Dehong ( Shen Yanbing ), a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist.

His first three were co-written by fellow journalist Bill Montalbano: Powder Burn ( 1981 ), Trap Line ( 1982 ), and A Death in China ( 1986 ).

Politician Tony Benn records in his diary ( 17 February 1981 ) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information from an intelligence agent two years previously that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if a Labour Government was elected, James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected Party Leader in his place.

He maintained a relationship from 1981 to 1986 with American theatre journalist Albert N. Williams ( no relation ), whom Emlyn Williams met while appearing at the Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area with his one-man Charles Dickens show.

Although NBC finally settled on the skilled and well-respected broadcast journalist John Chancellor, Cronkite proved to be more popular and continued to be top-rated until his retirement in 1981.

From 1979 to 1981 Stoltenberg was a journalist for Arbeiderbladet ; between 1985 and 1989, he was the leader of the Workers ' Youth League and between 1990 and 1992, leader of the Oslo chapter of the Labour Party.

In November 1981, while serving as Reagan's National Security Advisor, Allen was accused of receiving a bribe from a journalist from Japan for setting up an interview in January 1981 with First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Francis Claud Cockburn of Brook Lodge, Youghal, County Cork, Munster, Ireland ( ; 12 April 1904 – 15 December 1981 ) was a British journalist.

* Josef Berger ( speechwriter ) ( 1903 – 1981 ), American journalist, accused of being a Soviet spy

* Claud Cockburn ( 1904 – 1981 ), writer and journalist

In 1981, Hydrick's psychic powers were definitively exposed as being fraudulent by investigative journalist Dan Korem who was also a magician.