Granada drew on 1970s pop music with shows such as Lift Off with Ayshea and the Bay City Rollers show, Shang-a-lang.

The story opens in the late 1970s in the Pennines, where Tony Wilson ( Steve Coogan ), reporting for Granada Television embarks on a hang gliding adventure, despite not having any training.

The Comedians is a British television show of the 1970s ( later reprised in the mid 1980s and early 1990s ) which was produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television.

Speaking to Granada Television in 2003, David Steel reflected on events in the 1970s with the conclusion:

He also presented Quiz Ball ( a football quiz ) on BBC television during the early 1970s and he was the original host of the long running sports quiz A Question of Sport ( at that time only broadcast in the North of England ); and in the late 1990s he presented Going, Going, Gone, an antiques quiz show for the BBC and provided the voice-over for God's Gift for Granada.

* Lincoln Versailles, an upmarket version of the 1970s U. S. Ford Granada

Manuel Orantes Corral ( born February 5, 1949 in Granada, Spain ) was a tennis player in the 1970s and 1980s.

The most famous fictional examples are perhaps Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Brynne ' Shut Up ' Williams, portrayed by Windsor Davies in the 1970s sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Company Sergeant Major Percival Bullimore and Company Sergeant Major Claude Snudge played by William Hartnell and Bill Fraser, respectively, in the 1958-63, Granada television comedy series, The Army Game.

* In the early 1970s, Granada Television produced a half-hour documentary in its " Parade " art series entitled Egdon Heath in which an actor portraying Gustav Holst walks across the barren heath while the music from his tone poem Egdon Heath is playing, and sees scenes and characters from novel which inspired the music.

He then became one of the original stars of The Comedians, a popular TV series of the 1970s produced by Johnnie Hamp for the Manchester-based Granada Television, which consisted entirely of short slots by mature stand-up comedians.

He was a director of the company, managing director of Granada Television in the 1970s, and Chairman of Granada Group 1979-96.

Another Steele-Pratt collaboration, " A Handful of Songs ", originally a hit for Tommy Steele in 1957, became the theme tune to a long-running Granada Television children's programme of the same name in the late 1970s.

He graduated in medicine and served in the RAMC before becoming a GP in Urmston as well as a noted media personality, as a television and radio doctor in the 1960s, and hosting Granada TV's This Is Your Right consumer advice show in the 1970s.

MacDonald had also appeared in the Granada Television Rentals television adverts of the late 1970s and made a cameo appearance in one episode of Goodnight Sweetheart, starring his Only Fools and Horses co-star Nicholas Lyndhurst, with MacDonald playing Mr Jones.

In the late 1970s, the Continuing Anglican movement produced a number of new church bodies in opposition to women's ordination, prayer book changes, and the new understandings concerning marriage.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

All of these programs were produced by Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht in the 1970s.

" Hybrid " television sets produced in the early to mid 1970s made use of a combination of tubes ( typically Compactrons ), transistors, and integrated circuits in the same set.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

The punk rock scene of the 1970s produced The Stranglers, whose keyboard player Dave Greenfield used a Hammond on the band's early albums.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

Berry began to sing again in the early 1970s, and he arranged and produced a number of singles ( both solo and as Jan & Dean ) between 1972 and 1978 on the Ode and A & M labels, facilitated by friend and former manager Lou Adler.

The project, codenamed " Project Lapponia ", was headed by Simo Vuorio, and towards the end of the 1970s, a working prototype was produced based on the Saab 99 GL.

The majority of media about lesbians is produced by men ; women's publishing companies did not develop until the 1970s, films about lesbians made by women did not appear until the 1980s, and television shows portraying lesbians written by women only began to be created in the 21st century.

Hoffmann-La Roche then licensed the invention to the Swiss manufacturer Brown, Boveri & Cie who produced displays for wristwatches during the 1970s and also to Japanese electronics industry, which soon produced the first digital quartz wrist watches with TN-LCDs and numerous other products.

* In March 2004, a Libyan official stated that the country has never produced anti-personnel mines, but is known to have laid land mines in the 1970s and 1980s.

The first evidence of this type was produced in the late 1970s by British parapsychologist Keith Hearne.

In the 1970s commercially successful LED devices at less than five cents each were produced by Fairchild Optoelectronics.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the most visible presence of martial arts films was the hundreds of English dubbed kung fu and ninja films produced by the Shaw Brothers, Godfrey Ho, Joseph Lai, and other Hong Kong producers.

Despite the success of these musicals, Hollywood also produced a series of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste.

Following the " kung fu wave " in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s, a number of mainstream films produced during the 1980s contributed significantly to the perception of martial arts in western popular culture.

Some of the best-selling books in the 1970s and early 1980s included those produced by Vladimir Koziakin, Rick and Glory Brightfield, Dave Phillips, Larry Evans, and Greg Bright.

Several manufacturers produced mainframe computers from the late 1950s through the 1970s.

* Chris Blackwell, Island Records ' founder who produced the band before hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley

Paramount's association with the comedian Jerry Lewis, whose York Pictures Productions produced The Nutty Professor among other films, ended in the 1970s, and the rights to these films were given back to Lewis.

Hewlett Packard and Tektronix produced small, desktop-sized flatbed plotters in the late 1960s and 1970s.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.

A situation that has been often cited of this was the oil crisis of the 1970s, which some economists see as a major cause of the inflation experienced in the Western world in that decade.

Vacillating between support for the Soviet Union and ( by the late 1970s ) the United States, Guinea's economic situation became as unpredictable as its diplomatic line.

During the 1970s, the economic situation in Maldives suffered a setback when the Sri Lankan market for Maldives ' main export of dried fish collapsed.

The 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, but in the late 1970s, the situation in the Middle East was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty.

Large-scale emigration abroad as well as to Northern Italy, which began to diminish only in the 1970s, has had a lasting effect on the demographic situation in the region.

While all telecasts of World Series games starting with 1975 are accounted for and exist, the LCS is still a spotty situation through the late 1970s:

The now-demolished bus depot at Wood Green was used for location filming by London Weekend Television for their popular 1970s situation comedy On The Buses.

The popular 1970s TV situation comedy All in the Family focused on the generation gap.

In the 1970s the airfield was the outdoor location for a series of Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt !, a situation comedy on British television.

Comparing with the domestic networks of the 1960s and 1980s gives reason to assume that the situation during the 1970s should have been more or less the same, though.

The 1970s economic situation in Britain saw costs escalating, with funding limited by the MPTE, which was embarking on an expensive operation to construct the Merseyrail " Liverpool Loop " extension.

This situation lasted until the early 1970s, when the increase in use of the airport and luggage was rendering the old system obsolete.

This situation would lead the RTT to carry out major reorganization programs during the mid 1970s.

In the 1960s and 1970s the situation became increasingly liberalized, finally reaching full liberalization after Franco's death.

It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s.

Although conditions varied from region to region, a situation that was, in part, a reflection of factional divisions that still existed within the CPK during the 1970s, the testimony of refugees reveals that the most salient social division was between the politically suspect " new people ," those driven out of the towns after the communist victory, and the more reliable " old people ", the poor and lower middle-class peasants who had remained in the countryside.

A similar situation occurred in the 1970s, with a student lawsuit against the District for censorship.

In the early 1970s, a couple of years after artists in SoHo were able to legalize their live / work situation, artist and resident organizations in the area to the south, known then as Washington Market or simply the Lower West Side, sought to gain similar zoning status for their neighborhood.

While the Right has dominated Federally since the 1950s, the gradual shift of the paradigm of economic policy within Australia towards the Right, particularly since the 1970s, has led to the situation where past leaders of the Right, such as Ben Chifley, would now be considered in the Socialist Left ; especially in comparison to more recent Right leaders such as Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Kevin Rudd.

This situation remained unchanged in France until the late 1970s, when the deaf community began to militate for greater recognition of sign language and for a bilingual education system.

She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker ( played by Carroll O ' Connor ) and mother of Gloria Stivic ( played by Sally Struthers ), on the 1970s situation comedy All in the Family.

The situation has much improved since the 1970s and 1980s largely due to increased regulation and general changes in commercial practice.

Though hailed as a great success in the 1970s, the movement lost momentum during the 1980s as economic situation and political environment in South Korea changed rapidly.