Saturday mornings would never be the same as Chris Tarrant�s TISWAS (Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile) swept away all before it in a tidal wave of gunk and "flans".

We have the technology, we can rebuild him! Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin crashed his space shuttle and became noisily bionic this year.

A decade before Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger featured in a photo essay and documentary, Pumping Iron, fuelling a body building craze.

"Delicious and light ... Angel Delight" first frothed up in a bowl near you - and McDonald�s opened its first UK restaurant in London. The fluorescent pink dessert went on to become the quintessential suburban pudding of the 1970s - and Ronald McDonald went on to conquer the world.

Ceefax was transmitted for the first time on BBC1.

Gillette launched the first disposable razor in a desperate bid for men to abandon handlebar moustaches.