TV 5.6 Fred and Barney Meet The Thing

Fred and Barney Meet The Thing

Fred and Barney Meet The Thing is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 8, 1979 to December 1, 1979 on NBC. It contained the following segments: ⁕The New Fred and Barney Show ⁕The Thing Despite the title, the two segments remained separate and did not crossover with one another. Fred, Barney and the Thing were only featured together during the show's opening title sequence and in brief bumpers between segments. The unusual ...

NR NBC
5.6
1979 Animation 11 min Play
TV 7 Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B

Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B

A legendary television series and cultural asset that first aired 32 years ago, Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B is famous for putting many social issues on the front burner of the public conscious over its long run, as filtered through the emotionally volatile lives of third year middle school students. The heartfelt relations between a devoted schoolteacher, Kinpachi Sakamoto, and his unique students have won the show high praise for several decades. Whether due to the pressures of exams, family ...

NR TBS
7
1979 Drama 60 min Play
TV 7.1 You Can’t Do That on Television

You Can’t Do That on Television

You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format. Each episode had a theme. The show was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including Alanis Morissette, and writer Bill Prady, who would write and produce shows like The Big Bang Theory, Gilmore Girls and Dharma and Greg. The show was produced by and aired on Ottawa's ...

NR CTV
7.1
1979 Comedy 30 min Play
TV 6.9 Tales of the Unexpected

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

NR ITV1
6.9
1979 Drama 25 min Play
TV 5.2 B. J. and the Bear

B. J. and the Bear

B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars Greg Evigan and Claude Akins.

NR NBC
5.2
1979 Comedy 60 min Play
TV 7.6 Prisoner: Cell Block H

Prisoner: Cell Block H

Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.

NR Network Ten
7.6
1979 Drama 50 min Play
TV 6.8 Hart to Hart

Hart to Hart

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

NR ABC
6.8
1979 Action 60 min Play
TV 7.4 The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.

TV-PG CBS
7.4
1979 Action 60 min Play
TV 6.3 Archie Bunker’s Place

Archie Bunker’s Place

Archie Bunker's Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last for four seasons, until its cancellation in 1983. In its first season, the show performed so well that it knocked Mork & Mindy out of its new Sunday night time slot.

NR CBS
6.3
1979 Comedy 30 min Play
TV 4.9 Question Time

Question Time

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

NR BBC One
4.9
1979 News 60 min Play
8.1 Alien

Alien

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

R
8.1
1979 Horror 117 min Play
8.1 Stalker

Stalker

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

NR
8.1
1979 Drama 162 min Play
8.2 Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

NR
8.2
1979 Drama 147 min Play
6.1 Fascination

Fascination

A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.

NR
6.1
1979 Drama 80 min Play
TV 7 NDR Talk Show

NDR Talk Show

NR NDR Fernsehen
7
1979 Talk 90 min Play
TV 7 CBS News Sunday Morning

CBS News Sunday Morning

The sparkling notes of a trumpet fanfare and the familiar logo of the sun alert viewers that it's time for CBS's Sunday morning staple. Journalist Jane Pauley helms the show, taking over hosting duties from Charles Osgood, who spent 22 years on the job. A morning talk show, this program airs at a different pace and focuses much of its attention on the performing arts. After a quick update of the day's news and national weather, correspondents offer longer-length segments on a variety of ...

NR CBS
7
1979 News 60 min Play
TV 5.2 This Old House

This Old House

TV's original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.

TV-G PBS
5.2
1979 Documentary 30 min Play
TV 7.0 The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.

NR NBC
7.0
1979 Comedy 30 min Play
5.9 Caligula

Caligula

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

R
5.9
1979 Drama 156 min Play