Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including " Harley Davidson "; " Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plaît "; " Bubble gum "; " Contact "; " Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi "; " L ' Appareil À Sous "; " La Madrague "; " On Déménage "; " Sidonie "; " Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?

Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including Dad's Army and On the Buses.

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

On 1 July 2011, Gaddafi threatened to sponsor attacks against civilians and businesses in Europe in what would be a resumption of his policies of the 1970s and 1980s.

On the other hand, the variant " gnurd " was in wide use at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology throughout the first half of the 1970s.

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

On February 16, 2010, Sean organized a concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music called " We Are Plastic Ono Band ," at which Yoko performed her music with Sean, Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Jim Keltner, for the first time since the 1970s.

Williams worked regularly in British film during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the Carry On series ( 1958 – 1978 ) with its British double entendre humour.

On the other hand, Dodge produced several thousand pickups for the United States Military under the CUCV program from the late 1970s into the early 1980s.

She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters ( 1947 ), Show Boat ( 1951 ), The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ), The Barefoot Contessa ( 1954 ), Bhowani Junction ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), Earthquake ( 1974 ), and The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 ).

On the 1970s Match Game, Gene Rayburn occasionally mentioned another German version of the show titled " Schnick Schnack " ( literally " Something, Anything " as there is no German word for blank.

On July 21, as something of a tie-in with the movie 21, Merrill Heatter returned to game-show producing with Catch 21 ( a revival of the 1970s game Gambit ) hosted by actor-singer-dancer Alfonso Ribeiro with actress Mikki Padilla as the dealer.

McCall's " Convoy " ( 1975 ) and on television series such as Movin ' On ( debuted 1974 ) and The Dukes of Hazzard ( debuted 1979 ) established CB radio as a nationwide craze in the USA in the mid-to late 1970s.

ITV's most successful sitcoms were generally produced in the 1970s, including Rising Damp, On the Buses, George and Mildred, Man About The House and the now unfashionable Love Thy Neighbour.

Railways: On the Naples-Salerno line, owned by FS, is situated the main railway station and a little stop named Pompei Scavi ( ruins of P .), closed in the 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 Broadway strip was also home to the Mabuhay Gardens, the Stone and On Broadway nightclubs, which were important venues in the punk rock scene of the late 1970s to mid-1980s.

On the July 4 show in Gothenborg, Steven Van Zandt brought back the famous " double-mike " ditty he and Bruce used to do in the 1970s with the song's chorus.

On the city's southern edge was located one of the few drive-in theatres in the Birmingham area ( the " Skyview ") This was torn down when I-65 was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

On the north west side of Lake Taupo on the cliffs of Mine Bay, there are Māori rock carvings created in the late 1970s by Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell and John Randall.

Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts, and later with hit singles such as " Carry On Wayward Son " and " Dust in the Wind ".

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded several notable songs throughout his career including " These Days ", " The Pretender ", " Running On Empty ", " Lawyers in Love ", " Doctor My Eyes ", " Take It Easy ", " For a Rocker ", and " Somebody's Baby ".

On the downside, the air blowing out from under the trains presented a unique problem in stations, and interest in them waned in the 1970s.

On the Tuesday prior to the Super Bowl, the ABC sitcom Full House aired an episode called " Super Bowl Fun Day " involving two main characters actually at the game.

On March 29, 2012, Nicks made a guest appearance as herself on the NBC sitcom Up All Night.

Dolenz also played one of Alan Matthews ' bandmates in the sitcom Boy Meets World, and later joined Davy Jones and Peter Tork in episode eight of the 3rd season ( titled " Rave On "), although they did not play themselves.

ITV's most successful sitcom of this period was probably The Army Game ( 1957 – 61 ), featuring some of the comedians who would soon appear in the Carry On film series.

* On the NBC sitcom The Office, it is revealed that Michael did not attend college because he lost all his tuition money in a pyramid scheme.

* On television the town became known in the sitcom, Terry and June where Terry and June Medford ( Terry Scott and June Whitfield ), had moved after the characters ' previous series, Happy Ever After.

On a similar refrain, A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote, " Nearly every line of the script drops from the actors ' mouths with the leaden clank of exposition, timed with bad sitcom beats ".

She is also well-remembered for her performance as Lady Carlton, a quirky romance novelist and landlady to the main characters in the British sitcom Girls On Top.

On television, Deakin played Stella Tulley in Side by Side and Marsha, the ageing divorcée landlady, in the British sitcom Spaced ( 1999 ).

The " On Screen Cars " exhibit has a display of TV and film cars including Del Boy ’ s Reliant Regal as featured in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and Mr Bean ’ s lime green Mini.

* January 11 – On All in the Family, a tearful Edith says goodbye to her neighbor, Louise Jefferson as The Jeffersons moved on up to their own sitcom

After a relatively slow start, the show went on to achieve consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode " Time On Our Hands " holds the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24. 3 million viewers ( over a third of the population ).

On March 11, 2010, Welch appeared as himself in the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock.

* On the animated sitcom Family Guy ( set in Rhode Island ), Chris attended Buddy Cianci Junior High School ; one episode was even named " Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High ".

On television he appeared as a guest performer on The Morecambe and Wise Show ( 1977 ), alongside Richard Briers in a series of Ben Travers farces for the BBC, as the pompous Dr Maxwell in the ITV comedy Doctor at Large ( 1971 ), and as Redvers Bodkin, a snooty, old-fashioned butler in the short-lived sitcom The Last of the Baskets ( 1971 – 72 ).

On a The Times-Union list of the 50 greatest sitcom characters of all time, George was ranked third, behind Lucy Ricardo ( Lucille Ball ) from I Love Lucy and Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) from The Andy Griffith Show.

On television he worked as an impressionist on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image and starred in the ITV sitcom Mog as a burglar who spent his days in a psychiatric hospital, pretending to be insane.

On July 28, 2010, Conway guest-starred in an episode of the TV Land sitcom.

On television, he went on to host an odd-variety show / sitcom hybrid on NBC, The Don Knotts Show, which aired Tuesdays during the fall of 1970, but the series was low-rated and short-lived.

Other comic roles include the lead role in the sitcom The Peter Principle and occasional guest appearances in Not The Nine O ' Clock News, Only Fools and Horses, and Victoria Wood As Seen On TV.

On television, she is best known for her co-starring role as Nikki Cox's Eve Arden-ish best friend on the WB sitcom Nikki, which ran for two seasons from 2000-2002.

On the fourth episode of sitcom $ h *!

On the set of the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the cast referred to her as Cathy, a name that has stuck with her in her comedic career.

On the show Joey, Joey turned down a role in a sitcom called Nurses to star in a different series pilot.