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The Turn of the Decades
Fifty years of film soundtrack memories introduced by Chris Kelly. This week: 1979
The year when futuristic space-pictures - Alien, Star Trek: the Motion Picture, Battlestar
Galactica et al - did well at the box office, while war films such as Yanks, 1941 and Apocalypse Now failed to draw the crowds as hoped. The world went crazy for Bo Derek in 10, Kramer fought Kramer, both Sherlock Holmes and H.G. Wells hunted Jack the Ripper, and Jane Fonda solved The China
Syndrome. Both Woody Allen (Manhattan) and Count
Dracula (Love at First Bite) visited New York, while Monty Python went east to tell the story of The Life of Brian. Written and compiled by ROY PICKARD
Producer HARRY THOMPSON (R)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Chris Kelly.
Unknown:
Bo Derek
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Sherlock Holmes
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Jane Fonda
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Woody Allen
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Monty Python
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Roy Pickard
Producer:
Harry Thompson

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