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This is a list of British television related events from 1978. ==Events== *20 January – The first of ITV's occasional ''An Audience With'' programmes is aired. The first presenter is Jasper Carrott. *27 January – In an interview for Granada Television's ''World in Action'' programme, Leader of the Opposition Margaret Thatcher remarks, "people are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture".〔Interview for Granada TV with journalist Gordon Burns (27 January 1978), (''TV Interview for Granada ''World in Action'' ("rather swamped")'' ), ''Margaret Thatcher Foundation''. Retrieved 6 May 2009. (Archived ) 2009-05-08.〕 Critics regard the comment as a veiled reference to people of colour, thus pandering to xenophobia and reactionary sentiment. However, Thatcher receives 10,000 letters thanking her for raising the subject and the Conservatives gain a lead against Labour in the opinion polls.〔John Campbell, ''Margaret Thatcher: Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter'' (Jonathan Cape, 2000), p. 400.〕 *13 February – Anna Ford becomes the first female newscaster on News At Ten. *22 February – The Police appear in a television commercial for Wrigley's chewing gum. *24 February – 7 April – The BBC airs ''Going Straight''. The sitcom is a direct spin-off from ''Porridge'', starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where ''Porridge'' had been set. The programme airs for one series. *7 March – 11 April – Dennis Potter's groundbreaking drama serial ''Pennies From Heaven'' airs on BBC1. *24 May – The iconic skateboarding duck item first airs on BBC TV's ''Nationwide''. *13 July – The original series of ''Top Gear'' begins airing on BBC2 having started as a locally produced programme at BBC Pebble Mill the previous year. *10 September – ''Return of the Saint''. The Saint returns with a new voice actor named Ian Ogilvy and introducing the Jaguar XJ-S to take over the Volvo P1800 from the Saint 1962 TV series. The first episode is ''The Judas Game''. *17 October – James Burke's history of science series ''Connections'' first airs on BBC. *6 November – ITV airs the first episode of ''Edward & Mrs. Simpson'', a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson. *23 November – 15th anniversary of the first episode of science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. *ITV started broadcasting the ORACLE-teletext based service. It ended in 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1978 in British television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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