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| 1978 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan turns a double suicide of 1889 into a ferociously dramatic ballet, Mayerling | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Hungarian composer György Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre has its premiere in Stockholm | |
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| 1978 |
| | | John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey, with Leo McKern in the title role, begins its first series of six episodes on British TV | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Douglas Adams creates Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a science fiction comedy series for BBC's Radio 4 | |
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| 1978 |
| | | David Attenborough writes and presents Life on Earth, a television series on evolution – the first of his many surveys of natural history | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London | |
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| 1979 |
| | | British artist Richard Long lays out his Slate Circle at the Tate Gallery in London | |
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| 1980 |
| | | The threat of a hunger strike persuades the British government to authorize S4C (Sianel Pedwar Cymru), a television channel broadcasting in Welsh | |
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| 1980 |
| | | US author Sam Shepard's play True West has its premiere in New York | |
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