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.

On television, the made-for-TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders ( which aired January 14, 1979 ) starring Jane Seymour was a highly-rated success, spawning the 1980 sequel The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II.

Notable disco hits based on movie and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, " Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band " ( 1977 ) by Meco, and " Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone " ( 1979 ) by The Manhattan Transfer.

During this period, Parton's visibility continued to increase, with television appearances in 1977, 1978 and 1979.

He reunited twice with Katharine Hepburn for the television movies Love Among the Ruins ( 1975 ) and The Corn Is Green ( 1979 ).

It was remade for television in 1979 and 2000.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

* Demeter Bitenc in the 1979 Yugoslavian television production Slom

He briefly worked on the television soap operas Search for Tomorrow ( 1979 ) and The Guiding Light ( 1980 – 81 ) in New York.

The " Pythonesque " film explored the events surrounding the 1979 television debate on talk show Friday Night, Saturday Morning between John Cleese and Michael Palin and Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the then Bishop of Southwark.

* 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

* 1979 – Barney Harwood, English television presenter

It was adapted and broadcast for television by the BBC for Christmas 1979 ..

Both a film ( 1940 ) and a short lived 1979 television sitcom starring Sharon Gless and John Schuck ( canceled after six episodes ) were based on Turnabout .< ref >

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

* May 8 – Fulton J. Sheen, American Catholic archbishop and television personality ( d. 1979 )

By 1976, 60 Minutes became the top-rated show on Sunday nights in the U. S. By 1979, it had achieved the number-one Nielsen rating for all television programs, unheard of before for a news broadcast in prime time.

Anderson is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Ingalls on the NBC television series Little House on the Prairie, as well as for her film roles ; as Vivian in Midnight Offerings, as Ginny in the cult classic slasher Happy Birthday to Me, and as Alex in the ABC Afterschool Special, Which Mother Is Mine ?, for which she won the Emmy Award in 1979.

The Daytona 500 was the first auto race to be televised live flag-to-flag on network television when CBS aired it in 1979, continuing to air until 2000.

In 1979, This Old House, starring Bob Vila, premiered on PBS and started the DIY television revolution.

The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

It is also because of these rights issues that Animal Crackers did not see an appearance on television until July 21, 1979, when CBS broadcast the film.

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

After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his right shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work ; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying " Once I stepped back, I liked the view " and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster.

John Backus said during a 1979 interview with Think, the IBM employee magazine, " Much of my work has come from being lazy.

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

In a 1979 interview, Townshend claimed that Moon had consumed Ketamine pills.

In an interview in Playboy magazine in January 1979, Brando said: " You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an image of the kike because the Jews were ever so watchful for that — and rightly so.

In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.

* Germs interview from Flipside No. 15, 1979 at Punk Zine Archive

She later reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

* animation historian Jim Korkis ' 1979 interview with Floyd Gottfredson

In a November 1979 interview with author William R. Horner for his book Bad at the Bijou, Brand admitted to battles with drugs and alcohol.

In a 1979 interview, Fontaine says the reason she stopped speaking with her sister was because Olivia wanted their mother ( who was suffering from cancer ) operated on at the age of 88.

P-Orridge also credited 1960s rock such as The Doors, Pearls Before Swine, The Fugs, Captain Beefheart, and Frank Zappa in a 1979 interview.

In a 1979 interview Norman explained: " I would like the work that I do, and all my artists do, to break down the limited concepts of what Christian music should be and show what it can be and must be if it's ever to reach people like us.

She also mentioned that, during a 1979 interview, Bellow had expressed admiration for Eliade.

Jacques Tillier ( a former Directorate of Territorial Security policeman ) had written disparagingly about Mesrine in the French newspaper Minute but on September 10, 1979 he went, rather incautiously, to a clandestine meeting with Mesrine on the promise of an interview.

In 1979, an out-of-state columnist, Mike Royko, at the Chicago Sun-Times, picked up on the nickname from Brown's girlfriend at the time, Linda Ronstadt, who was quoted in a 1978 Rolling Stone magazine interview humorously calling him " Moonbeam ".< ref >

In a 1979 interview, Fontaine says the reason she stopped speaking with her sister was because de Havilland wanted their mother, ill with cancer, operated on at the age of 88.

Chancellor again became sole anchor on October 10, 1979, and Brinkley provided commentaries again until leaving NBC for ABC in 1981, where he became host of that network's Sunday morning interview show This Week.

* Le Brocquy, Pierre, ed., Louis le Brocquy, The Head Image, ( Kinsale: Gandon Editions 1996 ), with contributions by Prof. George Morgan ‘ An interview with Louis le Brocquy ’; Michael Peppiatt ‘ An interview with Louis le Brocquy ’ ( 1979 ),-German trans.

Chief CIA Iran analyst Jesse Leaf in an interview on 6th Jan. 1979 stated that the CIA taught Nazi torture techniques to SAVAK.