( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time.

The mother later claimed that her son had watched one of the fire-related segments shortly before he burned down the home, although, according to an article in the March 24, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone, neighbors claimed that the family did not have cable television.

They are continuously watched by television cameras.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

That game was one of the most watched television events in history according to the Nielsen ratings system ; the game had a rating of 48. 3, ranking it seventh in all-time television history.

The programme currently rates as one of the most watched programmes on UK television for every day it is aired.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

The series finale ( the 236th episode ), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51. 1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.

* 1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

The subjects run the gamut of the otaku subculture: the interviews cover a cosplayer who now works as a computer programmer and outright denies his cosplay days, even when presented with photographic evidence, but keeps his Char Aznable helmet in his desk drawer, an airsoft otaku, a garage kit otaku, and a shut-in who videorecords television programs for trade, but has not actually watched anything he's recorded.

In 1988 approximately 75 million households owned television sets, and an estimated 93 percent of the population watched television.

Over a million people lined the streets and 2. 5 billion watched around the world on television.

Super Bowl XVI also became one of the most watched broadcasts in American television history, with more than 85 million viewers, and a final national Nielsen rating of 49. 1 ( a 73 share ).

The game was one of the most watched broadcasts in American television history, with more than 85 million viewers.

The NBC television broadcast averaged 95. 13 million people in the United States, breaking the then-record most watched sporting event ever on American television, and the second most watched program of all, trailing only the final episode of M * A * S * H.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

Slipping her hand in his, they silently watched the Burnsides make the bend in the road and disappear from sight.

Feathertop watched the smooth scissoring of her slim, trim legs as she walked to the bags, and tucked them beneath her, smoothing the skirt out in a wide circle.

She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.

Both watched Scotty constantly, Rachel without seeming to, Virginia openly, her eyes filled with concern.

Winston watched her fumbling to untie her apron.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Nick watched her somewhat enviously as she efficiently cut the engines, and started the auxiliary motor.

A small, rock-carved angel watched her from a nearby tomb, the only angel in the cemetery.

Walitzee whitened his leggings with clay, knowing the girl watched from her place in the trees.

He had loved and lost Vivian Wayne to somebody else, had watched her marry the somebody else, and had caught a bear of a cold by kissing the bride good-by forever, which was really piling it on.

She watched over the development of her son's character and improved the tone of the administration.

Fredrika tells her grandmother that she has watched carefully, but still has not seen the night smile.

The episode where Gail was told of her daughter's pregnancy was watched by 15 million viewers.

When the police came to his house, Harold watched as they told his mother that he had died in the fire, and saw her collapse into the policemen's arms.

that he watched the film 67 times, and in 2007 he booked an entire theatre to see her comeback movie Aaja Nachle.

Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game.

The Christmas Day 1986 episode was watched by 30. 15 million viewers and contained a scene of divorce papers served to Angie Watts by her husband Den.

Selznick, who watched her performance that month in Fire Over England and A Yank at Oxford, thought her to be excellent but in no way a possible Scarlett, as she was " too British ".

The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people — one out of six people around the globe — watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train.

Here, she created her own moves, imitated the famous dancers she watched in the movies, and taught “ Sister ’ s ” waltz clog.

He watched a teacher feeding schoolchildren their lunch, consisting only of a slice of apple and some crackers, and was moved to tears.

I watched as he ( DeMille ) systematically reduced ingenue ... Allen to screaming hysterics by calling her every insulting name in the book in front of company and crew simply to bring on tears ... Cromwell was the only man on the set who dared confront the tryannical DeMille.

There were earlier versions of the speech in Peoples ' draft screenplays ; one included the sentence " I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched c-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tanhauser Gate " In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only " All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain " although the original script, displayed during the documentary, before Hauer's rewrite, does not mention " Tanhauser Gate ":

The militant approach taken by white supremacist groups has caused them to be watched closely by law enforcement officials.

Although it was a huge hit at introduction ( watched by almost 1 in 4 households according to official ratings during that time period ), the onset of the Gulf War caused NBC to continually preempt or reschedule the episodes resulting in declining ratings.

Charles Edward in 1933, as SA-GruppenführerThe Russian Revolution of 1917 caused Charles much concern and he watched anxiously during the ensuing power struggles between the left-and right-wing parties in Germany.

The daughter of Don Frankie, and the vengeful child of the catatonic Lauren Franchetti, who watched as her father murdered her mother's lover which caused her mother to go into a coma.

It caused quite a sensation, so it was watched and cheered by crowds of Viennese along its route.

When swallowed, the fluid is clearly shown on X – ray and is watched as it travels down the esophagus and through the restriction caused by the band.