

With Angela Rippon as the presenter, the contest is won by Marie Myriam representing France, with her song " L'oiseau et l'enfant" ("The Bird and the Child"). 7 May – The 22nd Eurovision Song Contest is held in London.
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In 2002, the series is relaunched in a new format. In 1978, it is offered to BBC2 where it airs until 2001. 22 April – The original series of motoring programme Top Gear begins as a local magazine format produced by BBC Midlands from its Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, presented by Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne.Both programmes run at the same time, with Tyne Tees, Good Morning North, and Yorkshire's Good Morning Calendar. It is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of TV-am and the BBC's Breakfast Time in 1983. 28 March – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television launch a nine-week breakfast television experiment.


In a misguided attempt to enlighten his African-originating slaves, a Count invites twelve of them to a dinner on Maundy Thursday in a re-enactment of the Last Supper with himself as Christ. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields, hoping to thus teach the slaves about Christianity. The film tells the story of a pious Havana plantation owner in the 1790s, during Cuba's Spanish colonial period.
