In the late 1970s, Chapman moved to Los Angeles, where he guest-starred on many television shows including Hollywood Squares, Still Crazy Like a Fox, and The Big Show.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Notable examples include André the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Paul " Big Show " Wight, The Undertaker, Yokozuna, Giant Gonzales, The Great Khali and Kane.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show.

The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.

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Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

From 1956 to 1975, Beginning with its inception in 2001, the RFD-TV Network aired " The Big Joe Show ", a television program which included polka music and dancing that was filmed on location in various venues throughout the United States from 1973 through 2009.

RFD-TV replaced The Big Joe Show with " The RFD-TV Polka Fest " in January, 2011.

* The Big Gay Sketch Show

The " Live Lawrence Welk Show " makes annual concert tours across the United States and Canada, featuring stars from the television series, including Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Gail Farrell, Anacani and Big Tiny Little.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

However, when the shorts were shown right before and after Toon Disney's Big Movie Show on weekdays, they were shown with the Mickey Mouse Works closing credits.

On June 13, GSN premiered its Big Saturday Night live interactive show block, hosted by Keegan-Michael Key of MADtv, Ross Matthews of The Tonight Show, and Charissa Thompson of Fox Sports.

In 1980 they appeared in the short-lived American variety show The Big Show ; the two were glad the show did not last as they objected to the use of canned laughter by the American networks.

His credits in this period include The Howerd Crowd ( 1952 ), Frankie Howerd's Korean Party, Nuts in May and The Frankie Howerd Show, as well as The Big Man ( 1954 ) starring Fred Emney and Edwin Styles.

This was followed in 1971 by a six-episode series Sykes and A Big, Big Show for the BBC and a special Sykes: With the Lid Off for Thames Television.

* Sykes and a Big Big Show ( 1971 series )

* The Big Movie Show ( 2004 – 2009 ): Daily showing of films, usually animated Disney films, but rarely movies produced by another studio.

Programmes such as Green Wing, Peep Show, Black Books, Spaced, Smack the Pony, Big Train, The Office, and Extras have used editing, surreal humour and cultural references to great effect.

Durante made his television debut on November 1, 1950, though he kept a presence in radio as one of the frequent guests on Tallulah Bankhead's two-year, NBC comedy-variety show, The Big Show.

The tape of the incident was destroyed, although the moments leading up to it can be seen in the documentary Andy Kaufman's Really Big Show.

* A Conversation with Alan Kay Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk — and much more.

" ( In fact, Fisher's brutish hillbilly character — Big Leviticus, created by Capp in Fisher's absence — bore little resemblance to Li ' l Abner.

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

Sawmill owners used the canal to transport timber from Big Clam Lake to the mills and railroad sites — the G. R.

* The Big Street ( 1942 ) — Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball ( adapted from Runyon's story " Little Pinks ")

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).

* Big Art Mob — a user-created pictorial map of graffiti and street art across the United Kingdom

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (: " The Theater of the Big Puppet ") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris ( at 20 bis, rue Chaptal ).

The character of Captain Queeg mirrored those Bogart had played in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca and The Big Sleep — the wary loner who trusts no one — but with none of the warmth or humor of those roles.

( In a relativistic universe, presumably this means — at any point in spacetime — time measured from t = 0 at the Big Bang or end of inflation.

In 1992 the town of Echo Bay, Ontario, home of loonie designer Robert-Ralph Carmichael, erected a large loonie monument in his honour along the highway — similar to Sudbury's ' Big Nickel '.

Two entities founded in 1962: the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and the Findhorn Foundation — an intentional community which continues to operate the Findhorn Ecovillage near Findhorn, Moray, Scotland — played an instrumental role during the early growth period of the New Age movement.

They both postulated that if the stars in the universe were distributed in a hierarchical fractal cosmology ( e. g., similar to Cantor dust )— the average density of any region diminishes as the region considered increases — it would not be necessary to rely on the Big Bang theory to explain Olbers ' paradox.

Roosevelt's 1901 saying " Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick " is still quoted by politicians and columnists in different countries — not only in English but also in translation to various other languages.

Failing to raise funds for the project in San Francisco, he succeeded in signing up four Sacramento merchants — the " Big Four ": Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.

I'm saying if I had to sit down in a room and put on an X record — which I don't generally do — I have recently listened to some X records but I generally don't listen to myself — the record I would pick to listen to would be Under the Big Black Sun.