1970s:

1970s:
o ’70: Break up of the Beatles
o ’72: Newsround
o ’77: Death of Elvis
o ’73: Watergate Scandal/trial
o ’74: Nixon resigns as a result.
o ’75: The Naked Civil Servant (Defying moment in television’s depiction of gay lifestyles – tells the life story of a persecuted homosexual)
o ’76: Jeremy Thorpe Affair (trial following allegations that the MP had arranged to murder a man with whom he had a homosexual relationship)
o ’77: Roots (Programme about the slavery of African Americans – Historical dramas of this type defined the ‘70s)
o ’79: Thatcher Elected (Conservative party – ‘Iron lady’ – First female Prime Minister)
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