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The sci-fi TV series Logan's Run is shown on ITV. The ITV variety and sketch series The Les Dawson Show is first broadcast. 27 January – In an interview for Granada Television 's World in Action , Leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher remarks, "people are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a ...
The Time Machine was reprinted in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books in 1951. A Victorian Englishman, identified only as the Time Traveller, tells his weekly dinner guests that he has experimental verification of a machine that can travel through time. He shows them what he says is a small model, and they watch it disappear.
The Time Machine is a 1978 American made-for-television science fiction-adventure film produced by Sunn Classic Pictures as a part of their Classics Illustrated series. The film stars John Beck and Priscilla Barnes , and was broadcast November 5, 1978 during the November Sweeps on NBC .
Television series which originated in the United Kingdom and began in the year 1978. Shows that originated in other countries and only later aired in the United Kingdom should be removed from this category.
The Sandbaggers is a British spy thriller television series created by Ian Mackintosh, about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War.Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV from 1978 to 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of espionage on the personal and professional lives of British intelligence officers and their American colleagues.
Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of July 2020 it is in its 56th series. . Over 1,250 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 23 episodes per series during the 56-year
Siegfried Farnon, based on Wight's real-life professional partner Donald Sinclair, is played by Robert Hardy.Writer Michael Russell sums up the character's composition thus: "He is capricious, cantankerous, whimsical, arbitrary, unreasonable, unpredictable, ill-tempered, extravagant, effusive, contradictory, etc., yet in the midst of all that, the most loyal and caring of friends."
2013 in British television – BBC Two launches in high-definition for the first time 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years after BBC One did, Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary since BBC Wimbledon in 1987 The Boat Race in 1998 and BBC Cricket in 1999, More4 also launches in HD for the first time ...