He appeared again as Poirot in three made-for-television movies: Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), Dead Man's Folly ( 1986 ), and Murder in Three Acts ( 1986 ).

The Original Chip Set ( OCS ) appeared with the launch of the A1000 in 1985.

In 1985, he was honoured with his image on a postage stamp of the United Kingdom, and in 1994 he appeared on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

In 1985, she appeared as the wicked stepmother in the Faerie Tale Theatre production of Cinderella.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

On 28th February 1985, Chernenko appeared once more on television to receive parliamentary credentials and read out a brief statement on his electoral victory: the election campaign is over and now it is time to carry out the tasks set for us by the voters and the Communists who have spoken out.

As she continued to promote " Just Say No ", she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, " Stop the Madness ".

The original chipset appeared in Amiga models built between 1985 and 1990: the Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000, Amiga CDTV, and Amiga 500.

The term " object-oriented database system " first appeared around 1985. Notable research projects included Encore-Ob / Server ( Brown University ), EXODUS ( University of Wisconsin – Madison ), IRIS ( Hewlett-Packard ), ODE ( Bell Labs ), ORION ( Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation or MCC ), Vodak ( GMD-IPSI ), and Zeitgeist ( Texas Instruments ).

When True BASIC appeared on the market in 1985, the BASIC language was widely used on home computers, but with little standardization.

By 1985, a version of Emacs ( MicroEMACS ) was available for a variety of platforms, but it was not until June, 1987 that Stevie ( ST editor for VI enthusiasts ), a limited vi clone appeared.

Solar powered boats started to become known around 1985 and in 1995 the first commercial solar passenger boats appeared.

In 1985, she appeared with Starship's Mickey Thomas in the music video for the song " Sara ".

In the summer of 1985 he appeared with his Quinteto Tango Nuevo at the Almeida Theatre in London for a week-long engagement.

He also wrote a short story, " At Moonset Blackcat Comes ", that appeared in the special 100th issue of Dragon in August 1985.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

In 1985 a major screen adaptation of the play appeared: Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Initially published by JC Comics in JCP Features # 1, ( December 1981 ), in March 1983, the first issue of Mighty Crusaders appeared, leading to a procession of new titles under the Red Circle Comics banner, soon to be re-branded ( in February 1984 ) the Archie Adventure Series, before cancellation in September 1985.

A later version appeared on the Nine Network in 1985 hosted by Daryl Somers, and again in 1996 hosted by Shane Bourne.

* 1985 – Melissa Barrera, American television host

* A. D. ( miniseries ), a 1985 television miniseries set in ancient Rome

On television, the actor Freddie Jones portrayed Claudius in the 1968 British television series The Caesars while the 1985 made-for-television miniseries A. D. features actor Richard Kiley as Claudius.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress.

( Parton's March 1983 performance at London's Dominion Theatre from this tour was filmed and broadcast as a television special in the U. S .) From 1984 to 1985, she toured alongside Kenny Rogers for the Real Love Tour.

David Huffman ( 10 May 1945 – 27 February 1985 ) was a character actor with many television, film and stage credits.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

Category: 1985 in British television

Category: 1985 British television programme debuts

Over time, Godzilla 1985, though not a hit, was partially profitable for New World only with the addition of home video and television syndication ( the film debuted on television on May 16, 1986 ).

* 1985 – Ólafur Hannesson, Icelandic television host

* Hans-Dieter Asner in the 1985 television production Mussolini and I

* Richard Kane in the 1985 US / Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story

* 1985 – Dan Sweetman, Australian television host

* 1985 – Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian television personality

* 1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television star

Barred from film-making by prior anti-trust rulings, he acquired the struggling ABC television network in February 1953, leading it first to financial health, and eventually, in the mid-1970s, to first place in the national Nielsen ratings, before selling out to Capital Cities in 1985 ( Capital Cities would eventually sell out, in turn, to the Walt Disney organization in 1996 ).

The television series Moonlighting ( 1985 – 1989 ), Married ... with Children ( 1987 – 1997 ), NewsRadio ( 1995 – 1999 ), Gilmore Girls ( 2000 – 2007 ), and Standoff ( 2006 – 2007 ) have also adapted elements of the screwball comedy genre for the small screen.

In the 1980s, US television featured the light espionage programmes Airwolf ( 1984 – 87 ) and MacGyver ( 1985 – 92 ), each rooted in the Cold War yet reflecting American citizens ' distrust of their government, after the crimes of the Nixon Government ( the internal, political espionage of the Watergate Scandal and the Vietnam War ) were exposed.