In the 1960s, Ackerman organized the publication of an English translation in the U. S. of the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan, the longest science fiction series in history.

The format is still in use for some lengthy serials, like the German science fiction weekly Perry Rhodan ( over 2, 650 issues as of 2012 ).

after that he continued to produce science-fiction short stories, including " Moon Prospector " ( Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1966 ), " New Lensman Serials " ( Perry Rhodan, 1975 ) and " Triplanetary Agent " ( Perry Rhodan, 1978 ).

* In the science fiction series Perry Rhodan, M13 is the location of Arkon, the home world of the race of Arkonides.

* In the Perry Rhodan series, Earth is much as in the real world until Rhodan, that Earth's first man on the moon, discovers a wrecked starship from the ancient Arkonide Empire.

In the German science fiction series Perry Rhodan, positronic brains ( German: Positroniken ) are the main computer technology ; for quite a time they are replaced by the more powerful Syntronics, but those stop working due to the increased Hyperimpedance.

Perry Rhodan is the name of a science fiction series published since 1961 in Germany, as well as the name of the main character.

Written by an ever-changing team of authors, Perry Rhodan is issued in weekly novella-size installments in the traditional German Heftroman ( pulp booklet ) format.

Significant spin-offs include the Atlan series and the Planetenromane (" Planet Novels ") paperbacks that provide additional playgrounds for stories set in the Perry Rhodan universe, often used to fill in the gaps between the ' cycles ' of stories.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary World Con, on September 30th 2011 a new series named Perry Rhodan Neo began publication gaining to attract new readers with a reboot of the story starting in the year 2036.

The story line starts in 1971 with the first manned moon landing by U. S. Space Force Major Perry Rhodan and his crew, who discover a marooned extraterrestrial space ship.

Once the cosmocrats ordered Perry Rhodan to find the answers to the three ultimate questions ; apparently they have known the answer to the first and second question but not to the third, which reads " Who initiated the LAW and what does it cause?

Perry Rhodan had the chance to receive the answer at the mountain of creation, but he refused, knowing that the answer would destroy his mind.

Ace ended its run of Perry Rhodan — double issue # 117 / 118 was the last of the regular series — by publishing three " lost " episodes.

Translations of Perry Rhodan are currently available in Brazil (# 1 to # 536 and # 650 to # 847 as of August 2011 ), Russia, China, Japan （# 1 to # 800 as of May 2011 ), France, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands (# 1 to # 2000 as of September 2009 ).

Rhodan was so popular in the Spanish-speaking world that the Flash Gordon comic strip was called " Roldán el Temerario " ( Rhodan the Fearless ) in a somewhat misleading attempt to identify Flash with Perry.

The first language into which Perry Rhodan was translated was Hebrew.

The series became the second best-selling German-language science fiction series of all time, eclipsed only by team effort Perry Rhodan.

* Volume 322 of the German Perry Rhodan magazine series, first published in November 1967, marks another very early appearance of the bioship concept in science fiction.

Some movies ( Lancelot du Lac, Shakespeare in Love, Marion du Faouet, Sezneg ) and TV series ( Columbo, Perry Mason ) are also broadcast in Breton.

Canadian contestants are generally allowed to participate on American game shows, and there have been at least two Canadian game show hosts, Jim Perry and Alex Trebek, that have gone on to long careers hosting American series.

* Ulysses is the middle name of fictional character Dr. Perry Cox on TV show Scrubs and Guybrush Threepwood from the adventure game series Monkey Island series.

In 2000 Enfield appeared in his first leading film role playing Kevin alongside Kathy Burke, who played the character's ( male ) friend Perry — roles originally created for Enfield's television series — in Kevin & Perry Go Large.

The film network effort would fail after a few years, but Fox continued to dabble in television through its production arm, TCF Television Productions, producing series such as Perry Mason for the Big Three television networks.

The series ran from 1957 to 1966, and Burr won Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason.

In 1960, Ray Collins, who portrayed Lt. Arthur Tragg on the original Perry Mason series, and who was by that time often ill and unable to remember all the lines he was supposed to speak, stated, " There is nothing but kindness from our star, Ray Burr.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.

In the first season of the television series, Perry helps out an old friend from World War II.

In one episode of the TV series Perry meets an old friend from his childhood, and we learn that at least part of it ( the part when he knew her ) was spent in Oregon.

After Raymond Burr's death four movies were produced in a series entitled A Perry Mason Mystery, in which Barbara Hale continued to star as Della Street:

As in the original version of the series Professor Jirafales corrects him, yelling " Perry Mason!

Mad Magazine spoofed the 1950s TV series with " Perry Masonmint " ( Perry lost because he was tricked into trying a case on a Friday rather than Saturday, when he was always successful ).

A mystery novel by Barbara Paul, But He Was Already Dead When I Got There ( 1987 ), is dedicated by the author to her viewing of the original Perry Mason TV series, and was inspired by it.

Matlock had largely become, like Silverman and Hargrove's Perry Mason revival, a " movie-of-the-week " type series by its ninth season.

Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004.

Over the next several years, Merman was featured in two films, the successful It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ) and the flop The Art of Love ( 1965 ), and made dozens of television appearances, guesting on variety series hosted by Perry Como, Red Skelton, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, and Carol Burnett, on talk shows with Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, and Merv Griffin, and in episodes of That Girl, The Lucy Show, Batman, and Tarzan, among others.

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

* 2009: Die Ärzte, Anti-Flag, Ben Harper, Blood Red Shoes, Brand New, Clueso, Culcha Candela, Dendemann, Disturbed, Duffy, Eagles of Death Metal, Editors, Eskimo Joe, Faith No More, Fettes Brot, Fleet Foxes, Frank Turner, Franz Ferdinand, Friendly Fires, Get Well Soon, Gogol Bordello, Johnossi, Karamelo Santo, Katy Perry, Kings of Leon, Kraftwerk, Less Than Jake, Lykke Li, Moby, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, No Use for a Name, Paolo Nutini, Ska-P, Social Distortion, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The Gaslight Anthem, The Living End, The Mars Volta, The Ting Tings, The Whip, The Wombats

" Artists heard on WNIC now include Lady Gaga, Daughtry, Bruno Mars, and Katy Perry.

In addition to celebrated guests, the show has played host to live performances from platinum selling, chart topping artists like Katy Perry, Train, Bruno Mars, Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, Colbie Caillat and others.

* During the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards, 30 Seconds to Mars, Katy Perry and Linkin Park were featured live from the Puerta de Alcalá.