* Cordelia Chase, character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

However, in the television spin-off Angel, the characters Cordelia and Angel do eventually develop romantic feelings for each other.

A television series starring Helen Baxendale as Cordelia and Annette Crosbie as Edith Sparshott was made in 1997 and 1999, based in part upon the book.

Cordelia Gray was first portrayed by Pippa Guard in the 1982 television adaptation of An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.

The character Cordelia Chase from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel referenced the concept on several occasions.

Cordelia Bugeja ( born 5 March 1976 in Chichester, West Sussex ) is a British actress, best known for her roles as Melanie Hart in the soap opera Family Affairs, and the prostitute Kate in Respectable on Five.

Young private detective Cordelia Gray walks into the office she shares with former police detective Bernie Pryde to find her partner dead.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

" And Helen Faucit's final appearance as Cordelia, dead in her father's arms, became one of the most iconic of Victorian images.

She exclaims, " I am Esme Cordelia Hoggett ", as she pulls the knot finally, " And I have come for my Arthur's Pig!

Sennett was profiled in the television series This is Your Life in 1954, and made a cameo appearance ( for $ 1, 000 ) in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops ( 1955 ).

* John Abbott ( actor, born 1945 ) ( born 1945 ), British actor, primarily on television

Ben Chapman introduced the creature in costume with Abbott and Costello on live television on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour.

Abbott was a researcher and reporter at Thames Television from 1980 to 1983 and then a researcher and reporter at the breakfast television company TV-am from 1983 to 1985.

In the 1950s, they introduced their comedy to live television on The Colgate Comedy Hour, and launched their own half-hour series, The Abbott and Costello Show.

" The following year, Abbott performed in a dramatic television episode of General Electric Theater titled " The Joke's On Me ".

Costello's sister, Marie Katherine Cristillo ( 1912 – 1988 ) was married to actor Joe Kirk ( Nat Curcuruto ), who portrayed " Mr. Bacciagalupe " on the Abbott and Costello radio and television shows and appeared in supporting roles in several of the team's films.

William " Bud " Abbott and Lou Costello ( born Louis Francis Cristillo ), were an American comedy duo whose work in vaudeville and on stage, radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 1950s.

Abbott and Costello's routines, already familiar, were now glutting the movie and television markets.

In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld — who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work — hosted a television special Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld ( the title refers to the duo's popular film series in which they met some of Universal's famed horror picture characters ), on NBC ; the special was said to have been seen in 20 million homes.

" numerous times on radio and television ( notably in The Abbott and Costello Show episode " The Actor's Home ").

Roger Abbott and Luba Goy began the show with a brief history of the show, closing with " the scariest three words on television: AIR FARCE LIVE!

*" Speedvision News ", a newsroom sketch ( purportedly on the Speedvision television channel ) where two anchors ( Abbott and Ferguson ) speak quickly while recalling current events.

" Louis ", George's middle name is a homage to Lou Costello, whose 1950s television series The Abbott and Costello Show, inspired Seinfelds writing style.

In 1978, Hackett surprised many with his dramatic performance as Lou Costello in the television movie Bud and Lou opposite Harvey Korman as Bud Abbott.

In 1948, with his studio deeply in debt, Roach re-established his studio for television production, with Hal Roach, Jr., producing shows such as The Stu Erwin Show, Steve Donovan, Western Marshal, Racket Squad, The Public Defender, The Gale Storm Show, and My Little Margie, and independent producers leasing the facilities for such programs as Amos ' n ' Andy, The Life of Riley, and The Abbott and Costello Show.

The theme was also drawn from older films and television programs, such as Bride of Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and the 1960s TV series, The Addams Family and The Munsters.

Delivering the Huw Wheldon Lecture at the Royal Television Society's annual convention in Cambridge in September 2005, Paul Abbott praised The Second Coming as one of the few genuinely innovative British television drama productions of recent years, describing it as: "... a television masterpiece.

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

Abbott became well known for many roles on the television show, including parodies of Jean Chrétien, The Queen Mother, Yasser Arafat, Leonard Cohen, George W. Bush, Brian Williams, Peter Mansbridge, Don Newman, Craig Oliver, and " Native Persons Spokesman " Billy Two-Willies.

In 2004, the boy sought out his biological mother and it was publicly revealed that the child had become an ABC sound recordist who worked in Parliament House, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, and was involved in making television programs in which Abbott appeared.

State of Play is a six-part British television drama serial directed by David Yates and written by Paul Abbott.

* John Abbott ( The Young and the Restless ), character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless

Back in New York, Kramer works as a stand-in on a soap opera with his friend Mickey Abbott in " The Stand In ", and is given a one-line part in a Woody Allen movie in " The Alternate Side " ( His line, " These pretzels are making me thirsty ", becomes the show's first catchphrase ), but he is fired before completing his scene.

* Lucy Abbott, a character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless

Peter Michael Bergman ( born June 11, 1953 ) is an American soap opera actor best known for his portrayals as Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children, as well as Jack Abbott on The Young and the Restless.

Brenda Irene Dickson ( born February 3, 1949 in Long Beach, California )) is an American actress who originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

: For the fictional character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, see Jack Abbott ( The Young and the Restless ).

* Victoria Newman Abbott, a character on the America soap opera The Young and the Restless

* Jack Abbott, a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless

Jess Walton ( born February 18, 1949, Grand Rapids, Michigan ) is an American actress, best known for her role as Jill Foster Abbott Fenmore on the American soap opera, The Young and the Restless.

Walton is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.