The final series episode was followed by an hour-long compilation show on 11 August 2002, and by a two part " Reunion Special " broadcast on 26 and 30 December 2005.

In 2004, the soap opera celebrated its fifteenth year by broadcasting an hour-long compilation episode entitled Fair City: The Ten Commandments.

This resulted in an hour-long compilation of Toonami remixes, called the Toonami: Black Hole Megamix, but for unknown reasons was never published.

The song has featured on more than sixteen compilation albums since its original release and in 2006, an hour-long documentary on the song's composition and cultural impact was broadcast on BBC Three.

The hour-long episode was mostly a fond look-back at all the highlights of the show's past.

STV Rugby, an hour-long Magners League highlights show was launched in September 2009, for the 2009 / 10 season.

Some other regularly featured highlights include a " Breakdown " ( in which ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury would comedically break down an athlete's performance in a previously hosted segment ), " Do Not Lend Tapes to This Person " ( which is usually a pre / post-commercial close-up shot of a poster featuring a notorious celebrity such as Vince McMahon or George W. Bush, athlete or fictional character such as Bigfoot or Freddy Krueger ; a picture of the Sklars on the board was the series ' final shot ), " What to Look For " ( in which the Sklar brothers point out certain happenings that they find ironic or personally amusing ), " Cheap Shot of the Week " ( which usually showcases an athlete featured earlier in the show at their worst ), and " What Got Cut " ( which shows the viewer at home what didn't make the cut due to time constraints, also an acknowledgment that the show once ran in hour-long episodes, rather than the latter half-hour ).

The hour-long Saturday airing shows highlights of the weekday broadcasts.

His first solo effort was in 1960 with an hour-long special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors ; there were similar specials in 1961 and 1962.

In prime time, Fox first tried its hand at a news show in 1988 with an hour-long weekly newsmagazine called The Reporters, which was produced by the same team behind the FTSG-distributed syndicated tabloid program A Current Affair.

After a successful first season, a national network version of the program entitled Whatever Turns You On was produced for CTV and debuted in September 1979 ( having already aired an hour-long pilot episode in May ).

* The Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament complex was used in the first season and in the original hour-long versions of the 1981 season episodes.

It was also presented on Lux Radio Theater three times as an hour-long broadcast: first on December 19, 1949, with Tyrone Power and David Niven, second on May 11, 1953 with Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter and third on March 1, 1955, again with Grant and Thaxter.

After the network sustained the program during its first two years, the sponsor became Roma Wines ( 1944 – 1947 ), and then ( after another brief period of sustained hour-long episodes, initially featuring Robert Montgomery as host and " producer " in early 1948 ), Autolite Spark Plugs ( 1948 – 1954 ); eventually Harlow Wilcox ( of Fibber McGee and Molly ) became the pitchman.

The Twilight Zone aired for five seasons ( the first three presented half-hour episodes, the fourth hour-long episodes and the fifth returned to the half-hour format ).

Bedford, Indiana was featured as the subject of an hour-long PBS special entitled Our Town: Bedford, first aired in May 2006.

It was also presented as an hour-long drama on Lux Radio Theater, first on April 27, 1942 with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, then on May 8, 1944 with Joseph Cotten and Irene Dunne.

The Bullseye round first appeared on Family Feud Challenge where it was played in both halves of the hour-long show.

* January 6 – Another World becomes the first American soap opera to start airing hour-long telecasts

In 1980, WGN-TV debuted the first hour-long primetime newscast in the midwestern United States, when the station moved its half-hour 10 p. m. newscast one hour earlier to 9 p. m. and expanded it to an hour ; at this point, the newscast was retitled from Newsnine to The Nine O ' Clock News.

On September 6, 1994, the station dropped children's programs airing on weekday mornings, replacing them with the WGN Morning News ( which was dropped by the national feed in 1996, reportedly because certain segments of the newscast were not allowed to air outside of Chicago ; the national feed still airs the second hour of Midday News and the 9 p. m. newscast, though the first hour of WGN Midday News, the weekend morning and weeknight 5 p. m. newscasts do not air on the superstation feed for undetermined reasons ), the morning newscast gradually expanded from an hour-long program at start, to two hours in January 1996, then to three hours from 6-9 a. m. eight months later, to 3½ hours in January 2001, four hours starting at 5 a. m. in January 2004, four-and-a-half hours in August 2010 and then to its current five hours in July 2011.

After the cancellation of the original series, the characters were revived in the TV special The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park, which first aired as an hour-long installment of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie on Saturday, November 25, 1972.

Edith Bowman co-presented its hour-long swansong, along with Jimmy Savile ( who had presented the first show ), Reggie Yates, Mike Read, Pat Sharp, Sarah Cawood, Dave Lee Travis, Rufus Hound, Tony Blackburn and Janice Long.

The first series debuted on BBC Three as the channel at this time was trying to break out into hour-long dramas.

In 1955, he guest-starred in the third episode (" The Argonauts ") of the first hour-long western television series, Cheyenne, an ABC program starring Clint Walker.

In 1989 and 1990, the first eight of the novels ( excluding The Crime at Black Dudley ) were adapted over two seasons, with each story shown in two hour-long episodes.

ABC-TV aired The Hollywood Palace, an hour-long show broadcast weekly ( generally on Saturday night ) from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970, where the Rolling Stones first appeared on American TV.

Other films for television included a four-part series on the Monterey Jazz Festival, the first documentary for television on pop music, Anatomy of a Hit, and the hour-long programs on San Francisco rock, Go Ride the Music, A Night at the Family Dog, and West Pole.

The Tommy and Tuppence characters have been portrayed on television by James Warwick and Francesca Annis, first in the feature-length The Secret Adversary ( 1982 ), and then in the 10-episode hour-long series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ( 1983 ).

A television technological historic footnote, this work was the first hour-long series filmed entirely in HDTV format.

The first season aired hour-long shows that included recent Warner Brothers cartoons.

In 1958, WTVT became the second station in the country to introduce daily editorials, and was also the first station in the country to run an hour-long news block, consisting of 45 minutes of local news ( under the title Pulse ) combined with the then-15-minute network newscast.

* May 4 – Steve Frame ( George Reinholt ) marries Alice Matthews ( Jacqueline Courtney ) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of Another World, coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.

On the initial hour-long special, the grand prize was $ 5, 000 with second and third places winning a new camcorder ; the producer picked the winner, with no audience voting.

Most of the second half of the hour-long episodes are devoted to that fight: the loser is eliminated.

CBS aired a second, hour-long episode the next night in order to attract and maintain the audience's attention.

Algiers was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, first on July 7, 1941 with Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr, second on December 14, 1942 with Boyer and Loretta Young.

* Danger Man, a 1960s British television series, the second, hour-long version of which was retitled Secret Agent for U. S. broadcasts

" Eleven further hour-long episodes were aired in 1992 ( seven in the first season, four were part of the second season )-during the second season, it was placed as the lead-in to Monday Night Football, just as fellow Paramount series MacGyver had done for the previous six years.

The " Mulligan Challenge " was the first challenge contested in each hour-long episode, though in The Big Break II, it was the second challenge contested.

The " Skills Challenge " is the second challenge contested in each hour-long episode, though in The Big Break II, it was the first challenge contested.

As their popularity grew, a second show, Friday Night Jams, was added as well as noontime hour-long mixes during the week dubbed the Hot Lunch Mix.

In 1988, New World also faced a lawsuit from Michael Mann, executive producer of " Crime Story ," a second season hour-long show.

Following its cancellation, two versions of the series were syndicated in reruns: the original hour-long episodes, which usually contained a primary plot, a sub plot and two or more musical numbers ; and a second version, stripped of the musical numbers and the sub plot and reduced to 30 minutes in length.