A TV series of Encyclopedia Brown premiered on HBO in 1989 with 30-minute episodes.

After a few years, these shows were replaced by Game TV ( a half-hour interview show hosted by Nancy Sullivan and Dave Nemeth ), Game World ( which showed highlights of current game shows from around the world ), and standalone 30-minute call-in games like Super Decades and Trivia Track.

At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

Also made in 2000, the 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( adapted from Peake's novella Boy in Darkness ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

In 1959 he was credited as exterior or second unit director on 23 episodes of the TV series The Four Just Men and four 30-minute episodes of the series Danger Man.

Many, but not all, of the 30-minute TV episodes are currently available in various video formats.

There were at least two records available in the early 1950s, featuring " prequel " situations involving Commander Corry and Cadet Happy, and starring the radio / TV cast, although the ' origin ' story for Cadet Happy contradicted both the 15-minute and 30-minute TV show versions.

* The Gift ( 1994 film ), a 30-minute TV film directed by Laura Dern

Although broadcast in French, la télévision québécoise has little relationship to its gallic cousin ; it's decidedly North American in its approach: a 30-minute programming grid, commercials, local stations, along with the distinction between broadcast television formed around networks of stations — which is freely available to anyone with a TV within their broadcast area — and cable television channels — which requires a subscription to receive.

Pickard was series editor and director of film inserts on Word Of Mouth, a series of ten 30-minute TV programs for Border TV / Arts Council England.

Rather than sign off for the early hours of the morning ( as was standard practice until the early 1970s in larger markets and until the mid 1980s in smaller ones ), TV stations now fill the time with syndicated programming, reruns of prime time television shows or the local late news o ' clock news, or 30-minute advertisements, known as infomercials, and in the case of CBS and ABC, overnight network news programs.

She appears in extended TV commercials and hosts a 30-minute infomercial.

On June 26, 1950, he was rewarded with his own 30-minute CBS early-evening talk-variety TV program The Garry Moore Show, which was a shorter version of his radio show.

In 1995, the four began their broadcasting career as a hobby with a 30-minute Public-access television cable TV show in Bowie featuring sports chat and irreverent humor.

Uncommon Knowledge was a weekly 30-minute current affairs TV show hosted by Peter Robinson and co-produced and presented by San Jose, California, PBS member station KTEH from 1997 to 2005.

** Unlike most TV title matches, this match had a 30-minute time limit.

In 2001, Fillery and then former Southall Football Club publicist Andy Fitzsimons were re-united on Channel East as sports pundits on the popular Asian award-winning satellite station's ' Sports Special ' show: A 30-minute show presented by former SKY and TV AM correspondent Mike Bishop broadcast twice-weekly.

Godzilla is a 30-minute animated series co-produced between Hanna-Barbera Productions and Toho in 1978 and aired on NBC in the United States and TV Tokyo in Japan.

Most of the station's local programming during this time, in addition to the remaining " My Shows "- formatted programs, have included 30-minute wrestling show from the Massachusetts-based " Big Time Wrestling " promotion ( which aired on the station from May 1, 2009 until moving to WMFP in December 2010 ), Scorch's PFG-TV ( a talk show hosted by WGIR-FM personality Scorch ), The Chef's Plate ( which showcases New Hampshire's top chefs creating their signature dishes ), '' The Steve Katsos Show '' ( also aired on sister station WPME in Portland ), Debra Crosby's Talent Quest TV Show, Quiet Desperation ( a reality comedy TV show based in Allston, Massachusetts ), Inside the Revolution ( a spotlight on the New England Revolution.

WIN Gippsland provides a 30-minute local news bulletin on weeknights and Southern Cross Ten airs short local news updates on weekdays.

It was Wenders who granted Jarmusch the leftover film stock from his subsequent film Der Stand der Dinge ( 1982 ) that would enable the young director to shoot the 30-minute short subject film that would become Stranger Than Paradise.

" Try-before-you-buy " programs range from relatively short trials, as in the case of 30-minute test drives in the automobile market, to several-week loans for other types of products.

In July 2002, ADV Films announced that they had licensed Voices of a Distant Star for U. S. distribution and would release the 30-minute short.

Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led to five years of filming and 250 hours of footage.

The film was originally intended by filmmakers Peter Gilbert, Steve James, and Frederick Marx to be a 30-minute short, shot in three weeks, to be aired on PBS, focusing on one playground court and its young players.

With the success of Vincent in the same year, Disney started to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute television special.

After the success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider developing The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short film or 30-minute holiday television special.

* The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ( 1949 ), directed by James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and packaged with a companion 30-minute short " Mr. Toad " based on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.

At first the entire production was limited to Infotop -- short, multiple daily broadcasts in a bulletin-style format — along with a central 30-minute evening newscast.

During the campaign to recapture the Philippines, pilots of the 25th Liaison Squadron flew a dozen L-5 aircraft in short 30-minute flights ( Dec. 10-25, 1944 ) delivering supplies ( including a 300-bed hospital ) to the 6, 000 men of the 11th Airborne Division isolated in the mountains of Leyte.

His 30-minute short film Lucid Dreaming, helmed by director Chang of 2008 feature Death Bell, was shot particularly for his fans in China and Japan and released on DVD in early 2012.

As part of his coursework, he enlisted Gervais to perform in a 30-minute short film, " Seedy Boss ," which became the earliest inspiration for their sitcom The Office.

Based upon the classic Our Gang comedy short films, it was part of a 90-minute package program, The Pac-Man / Little Rascals / Richie Rich Show, with Pac-Man and Richie Rich in 1982 – 1983, and part of the 30-minute The Little Rascals / Richie Rich Show in 1983 – 1984.

There is currently only one film available which uses this format, a 30-minute short called Seven Swans.

Boys Life is a compilation of three 30-minute short subject films about being gay in America.

Hatta had intended to adapt the novel into a feature-length film but was unable to secure sufficient funding, so she decided to make a 30-minute short film around a few key episodes in the book.

Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors.

Intended as a vehicle to promote the singer, a 30-minute film featuring performances from his repertoire, Love You till Tuesday, was made.

) This 30-minute film traces the history of Esperanto.

The 30-minute silent film documented the 10-millionth Model T Ford and its promotional tour on the Lincoln Highway.

File: M8-20. jpg | Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in a montage of two single 30-minute exposures captured on slide film at prime focus of an 8 " Schmidt – Newton telescope.

In late 2001, she appeared alongside comedian Martin Short in the 30-minute film CinéMagique, a theatre-show attraction presented several times daily at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Resort Paris.

* July 7 – At David Sarnoff's request for an experiment of RCA's electronic television technology, NBC's first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues, vocal numbers, and film clips.

The filmmakers followed the children back to their homes, and after nearly eight years, and with over 250 hours of raw footage, a 30-minute PBS special turned into a three-hour feature film on the lives of Gates and Agee, while grossing $ 7. 8 million.

In 2009, Bluth was asked to produce storyboards for, and later to direct, the 30-minute Saudi Arabian festival film Gift of the Hoopoe.

At this time, the Broken Lizard members also made their first foray into long-form film, shooting the 30-minute 16 mm project, The Tinfoil Monkey Agenda, an absurdist media spoof that earned them a trip to the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, and cemented in the group's minds that they should be creating full-length feature films.

Though the tight budget and his inexperience occasionally showed through in the film, Lorentz's script, combined with Thomas Chalmers's narration and Virgil Thomson's score, made the 30-minute movie powerful and moving.