Janssen played an alcoholic in the 1977 TV movie A Sensitive, Passionate Man, which co-starred Angie Dickinson and an engineer who devises an unbeatable system for blackjack in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Nowhere to Run, co-starring Stefanie Powers and Linda Evans.

On February 3, 1978, CBS aired a made-for-TV movie about the duo titled Deadman's Curve.

Strange ( 1978 film ), a made-for-TV movie based on the Marvel Comics fictional character

Marilyn Schreffler replaced Mae Questel as Olive when Hanna-Barbera obtained the rights to produce new made-for-TV Popeye cartoons for The All-New Popeye Hour in 1978.

In 1978, Carney appeared in The Star Wars Holiday Special, a made-for-TV movie that was linked to the Star Wars film series.

In 1978, Basinger played the lead role in the made-for-TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, as a smalltown young woman who goes to Hollywood to become an actress and winds up a famous centerfold for a men's magazine.

After its cancellation by NBC in 1978 Columbo was revived on ABC between 1989 and 2003 in several new seasons and a few made-for-TV movie " specials ".

The Great Wallendas, a 1978 made-for-TV movie starring Karl Wallenda, depicts the act's comeback after a fatal accident involving several family members during a performance.

This period also marked the start of artistic and made-for-TV movies such as Udha e shkronjave, a movie directed by V. Prifti in 1978.

She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV film, The Star Wars Holiday Special.

Citizen X is a made-for-TV film, released in 1995, which covers the investigation of the Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted in 1992 of killing 53 women and children between 1978 and 1990, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him.

After graduating from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ( FAMU ) in 1978, Kusturica began directing made-for-TV television shorts in Yugoslavia.

* Crash ( 1978 film ), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau

Pope and Staples were also at the time involved in writing music for film and television soundtracks, and in 1978 they picked up a Genie Award for their work on the made-for-TV film One Night Stand.

Following the cancellation of The Bionic Woman in 1978, Wagner continued to act, predominantly in television mini-series and made-for-TV movies.

* Crash ( 1978 film ), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau

* Robert Sapolsky ( 1978 ) at Boysoloist. com ( Sapolsky starred in the made-for-TV film version shot on location )

* The Bermuda Depths, a 1978 fantasy film originally broadcast as a made-for-TV movie featuring a mysterious character named " Jennie Haniver "

The S. S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue From Gilligan's Island.

He subsequently wrote music for two jazz ballets and for numerous theater pieces and films, including Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Pociąg ( The Train a / k / a Night Train ) ( 1959 ), Mieczysław Waśkowski's Jeszcze słychać śpiew i rżenie koni ... ( Singing Still Heard, and the Neighing of Horses ...) ( 1971 ), Andrzej Kotkowski's 1978 made-for-TV movie Gra o wszystko ( A Gamble for Everything ), Wojciech Marczewski's Dreszcze ( Shivers ) ( 1981 ), Janusz Kidawa's Bardzo spokojna wieś ( A Very Peaceful Village ) ( 1983 ) and Krzysztof Magowski's controversial 1990 TV miniseries Świnka ( Piggy ), which was not broadcast until 1994.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him.

The Reuters news agency nicknamed Gate House " U of T's Animal House " because Donald Sutherland's memories of its parties are said to have influenced the script of the 1978 movie.

Benedict's career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and television series Battlestar Galactica.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ) and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ) recalled the Vietnam war ; George A. Romero satirized the consumer society in his zombie sequel, Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ); Canadian director David Cronenberg featured the " mad scientist " movie sub-genre by exploring contemporary fears about technology and society, and reinventing " body horror ", starting with Shivers ( 1975 ).

* 1978 – Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor

# The Judas Goat ( 1978 ; adapted into Lifetime TV movie )

The movie, which was released in Japan on August 6, 1977, was edited down further and dubbed into English in 1978 ; entitled Space Cruiser Yamato or simply Space Cruiser, it was only given a limited theatrical release in Europe & Latin America, where it was called Patrulha Estelar ( Star Patrol ) or Astronave Intrepido ( Starship Intrepid ), though it was later released on video in most countries.

Sports anchor Andy Hardy handled the play-by-play, and for one game in 1978, his broadcast partner was his friend, Florida State alumni and movie actor Burt Reynolds.

* The Misfits song " We Are 138 ", a B-side of their 1978 single Bullet, is thought to be based on the movie.

* Grand Slam ( 1978 film ), a 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie

Leia briefly appears in the 1978 TV movie The Star Wars Holiday Special, where she is once again portrayed by Fisher.

In 1978, the International Commission of Jurists estimated that more than 100, 000 Ugandans had been murdered during Amin's reign of terror ; some authorities place the figure as high as 300, 000 — a statistic cited at the end of the 2006 movie The Last King of Scotland, which chronicled part of Amin's dictatorship.

Another ABC Television Movie, Battlestar Galactica, which spawned the 1978 television series of the same name, was seen by 64 million people and at the time was the most expensive TV movie ever made.

* The Pirate, 1974 ( made into a TV movie in 1978 )

* Northern Lights ( 1978 film ), a 1979 movie directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson

John Russell Taylor's official biography of Hitchcock, Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock ( 1978 ), suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another movie project:

With the release of the first feature-length Superman movie in 1978, a vastly less idyllic image of Krypton, compared to the previous comics ' versions, was presented.

The television series Smallville presents a version of Krypton that borrows elements from the 1978 movie version of the planet combined with elements of John Byrne's Post-Crisis version of the planet and culture.

By 1978 the Duck family were ingrained sufficiently in popular culture that a character in the movie Corvette Summer quips " Just call me Gladstone Duck ‏" after being lucky.