* April 1 – Prisoner and Escort, the pilot episode of Porridge, airs as part of Seven of One.

Mackay returned to the role of the newly retired prison officer in the first episode of Going Straight ( 1978 ), the sequel series to Porridge.

The final episode of Porridge, " Final Stretch ", was broadcast on 25 March 1977.

Beckinsale quit Rising Damp in 1977, the same year that Porridge was brought to a natural end after his character of Godber was released from his prison sentence in the final episode.

He is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur but also claims to have been a lifelong watcher of Orient during the Porridge film which is also referenced in Going Straight episode 3 Going Sour.

In episode 4059, Curly Doesn't Like Porridge, Baby Bear is horrified to learn Curly doesn't like porridge.

The fictional character Norman Stanley Fletcher of the BBC sitcom Porridge was revealed to be resident of the Fortis Green area in the episode Men Without Women.

He also featured in a Christmas special episode of Porridge ( 1976 ) with Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale.

He appeared in episodes of the BBC sitcoms The Good Life and Porridge (" Disturbing The Peace "), and in a controversial episode of The Goodies (" South Africa "), which satirised Apartheid.

One of the earliest examples of this is " A Night In ", the third episode of prison sitcom Porridge, which, apart from a prison warden who has three lines towards the end of the episode, is thirty minutes set entirely within a prison cell with only two characters.

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

It also included a 60-minute episode (" The Case of the Missing Time Capsule ").

In an interview about his last episode (" Justice Denied ") in the 13th season of Law & Order: SVU, he discussed his character's final case and his time with the show.

The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus (" Whither Canada "), first shown on October 5, 1969.

In both American TV showings and on the American DVD release, episode 15 (" Kukurus Doan's Island ") was cut out.

Perhaps best known was his appearance in the season three episode of The Simpsons (" Homer at the Bat ") where he is hypnotized into thinking he is a chicken ( he did his own clucking ).

In 2007, he appeared on a baseball-themed episode of MythBusters (" Baseball Myths ").

She did not appear in the final season of Angel, causing the intended episode (" You're Welcome ") to be rewritten for the character of Cordelia Chase.

* Cartoon Network cancelled Mobile Suit Gundam after the attack as the series focused on war and took an episode of Cowboy Bebop that dealt with terrorist bombings (" Cowboy Funk ") out of the Adult Swim lineup for nearly a year afterwards.

The terms Star Service (" The Conscience of the King "), Spacefleet Command (" The Squire of Gothos "), United Earth Space Probe Agency (" Charlie X " and " Tomorrow Is Yesterday "), and Space Central (" Miri ") were all used to refer to the Enterprise < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s operating authority before the term " Starfleet " became widespread from the episode " Court Martial " onwards.

* Mentioned in the SyFy TV show Sanctuary ( episode " Requiem ") when Helen Magnus says that he was an abnormal (" You don't think a normal person would choose a job that impossible?

* March 6 – On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show (" Same-Sex Crushes "), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

He was a guest actor on an episode of TV's Wonder Woman and played a cross-dressing villain in an episode of Laverne & Shirley (" Murder on the Moose Jaw Express ").

After leaving animation, Straczynski freelanced for The Twilight Zone writing an episode entitled (" What Are Friends For "), and for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics, adaptating The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award ).

Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1982 episode of Happy Days (" A Case of Revenge ," where he played a disgruntled former classmate of The Fonz ) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks.

* The band made a short appearance, as animated figures, on the March 21, 2004, episode of The Simpsons (" Co-Dependent's Day ").

The phrase was also used in an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (" The Survivor ", season 4, episode 9 ).

Through the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as a respected actor in theatre and film, and began to make his presence felt on television, with a semi-regular role as Det-Insp Bamber in the police series Z-Cars, as well as guest roles in series as diverse as Steptoe and Son (" The Lead Man Cometh ", 1964 ; " The Desperate Hours ", 1972 ) and The Avengers episode " Dressed to Kill " ( 1963 ).

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

* The Return of the Sorcerer was adapted for an episode of the television series Night Gallery, starring Vincent Price and Bill Bixby.

The Night of the Steel Assassin is a January 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West TV series.

* 1976: Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode, as host, musical guest and skit player )

Uslan and Solomon do not mention at what date this transpired, but the only time when the Stones appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show following the " Let's Spend the Night Together " episode was on November 23, 1969.

The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

In an episode of Night Court, Judge Harry Stone asks what grok is.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

* Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode, 2011 )

Lewinsky made a cameo appearance as herself in two sketches during the May 8, 1999, episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live, a program that had lampooned her relationship with Clinton over the prior 16 months.

* In the 1988 Night Court episode " Danny Got His Gun: Part 2 ," episode 103 ( season 6 ), Dan is rescued from a plane crash in Alaska by an Inuit family.

On 10 December 2011, Robyn was featured as the musical guest on the episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Katy Perry, where she performed Call Your Girlfriend and Dancing On My Own.

In a parody sketch titled " The Restaurant Enterprise ", on an episode of Saturday Night Live, Kirk ( guest host William Shatner ) directs McCoy ( Phil Hartman ) to help a man who's choking.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

* John Belushi portrayed Peckinpah as a deranged lunatic who directs his first romantic comedy by beating up his leading lady in the first season, fifth episode of Saturday Night Live.

The Saturday Night Live episode guest-hosted by Louis-Dreyfus made several references to the curse.

The starship USS Brattain, which appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Night Terrors ," was named after the scientist.

* April 24 – Patrick Moore presents the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts.

* October 11 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live ( George Carlin is the first host ; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests ).

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

A 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live purported that Soylent Green had been made into a franchise, consisting of increasingly unsuccessful cinematic sequels.