✧˖°📺 ⋆｡˚ 'Top of the Pops 78' Monday 25 December 1978 ~ BBC1: 14:00 Due to a B.B.C technicians strike, Noel Edmonds hosts proceedings from the TOTP office (or a painstaking recreation of it, at any rate), enabling the Swapmeister-in-chief to unleash a barrage of visual gags throughout the next hour. | Bernie Briffa

📺 'Seaside Special' Saturday 09 September 1978 - BBC1: 20:20 This week's show comes from Weymouth with John Inman as the host and who ends up doing a routine alongside Bobby Crush. #SeasideSpecial #JohnInman #bobbycrush | Bernie Briffa

📺 'Larry Grayson's Generation Game' Saturday 14 October 1978 -- BBC1: 18:45 Larry handles an unexpected appearance from sometime Doctor Who companion K-9. #TheGenerationGame #LarryGrayson | Bernie Briffa

📺 'Are You Being Served?' Wednesday 06 December 1978 ~ BBC1: 18:45 Dwindling sales means that one member of the department faces getting the chop. Who will it be? Each staff member, via a not very secret ballot, has a chance to air their view on who it should be.... Following Arthur Brough's who played Mr Grainger, sudden death, his replacement was Mr Tebbs, played by James "Mr Kipling Does Make Exceedingly Good Cakes" Hayter. #AreYouBeingServed | Bernie Briffa