1979 was an eventful year that saw the controversial release of Monty Python's Life Of Brian which led to arguments over blasphemy with some councils banning showings. I went to see it at a cinema in the Haymarket in Central London which was being picketed by Nuns who it turned out hadn't even seen the film. It's now a classic and helped bring forward the march of secularism as most people reacted against the fundamentalists.
Meanwhile James Bond continued with Moonraker with Roger Moore, Blondie hit number one with Sunday Girl, The groundbreaking film Alien appeared in cinemas and the Boomtown rats sang a song about a girl who shot her classmates (for real) and when asked why said I Don't Like Mondays.
Then came two big political events; Margaret Thatcher won the General Election and Jeremy Thorpe somehow managed to get off a conspiracy to murder charge. Peter Cook takes up the case...
Still Look-in continued to bring the nations youth the real news that counted for them. Featured programmes included Charlie's Angels, Battlestar Galactica, Sapphire & Steel plus good old Benny Hill kept on amusing the nation.....
Music continued to be featured in the form of Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe.
And finally there were the comics still going strong as we headed towards the eighties.
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