On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

He is the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me, which ended its seventh and final season on September 7, 2011.

Groucho's final appearance was a brief sketch with George Burns in the Bob Hope television Special Joys in 1976.

* The poem was used as the title of one of the final episodes of the 1987-1989 television series Beauty and the Beast.

He also co-created with Michael Jacobs the television show Dinosaurs during his final years.

After her final film, Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas such as Wagon Train and The Tall Man until 1962, when she retired as an actress.

Three years later, the show returned to television for its final series, which was produced with an aspect ratio of 16: 9.

A party of this kind may also be held following the end of shooting for a motion picture ( called a “ wrap party ”) or after the season ’ s final episode of a television series.

Super Bowl XVI also became one of the most watched broadcasts in American television history, with more than 85 million viewers, and a final national Nielsen rating of 49. 1 ( a 73 share ).

The final national Nielsen rating was a 49. 1 ( a 73 share ), which is still a Super Bowl record, and ranks second only to the final episode of M * A * S * H in 1983 among television broadcasts in general.

The NBC television broadcast averaged 95. 13 million people in the United States, breaking the then-record most watched sporting event ever on American television, and the second most watched program of all, trailing only the final episode of M * A * S * H.

This was Summerall's 26th and ( to date ) final Super Bowl broadcast on television or radio.

Cable television represented a possible alternative to deployment of UHF converters as broadcasts could be frequency-shifted to VHF channels at the cable head-end instead of the final viewing location.

1987 also saw the band embark on another national tour, appearances on national television – including playing the final episode of Countdown and the lead single " At First Sight " making the Young Einstein soundtrack.

* December 26 – After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

** The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.

Furthermore, Dame Eva Turner, the most renowned Turandot of the inter-war period, insisted on pronouncing the word as " Turan-do " ( i. e. without the final " t "), as television interviews with her attest.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

He retired from filmmaking in 1959, soon after receiving his sixth Academy Award nomination for The Last Angry Man ; however, he made a final television appearance in the series Saints and Sinners in 1962.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

For most players, many calls ( bids, doubles and redoubles, and sometimes even passes ) are not made with the intention that they become the final contract, but to describe the strength and distribution of the player's hand, so that the partnership can reach an informed conclusion on their best contract, and / or to obstruct the opponents ' bidding.

The GCVTC released its final report in 1996 and initiated the Western Regional Air Partnership ( WRAP ), a partnership of state, tribal and federal agencies to help coordinate implementation of the Commission ’ s recommendations.

The consolidation represented the second and final step in the acquisition of Corel by Corel Holdings, L. P., a limited partnership controlled by an affiliate of Vector Capital.

With his final boxing winnings, Wilde entered into several business schemes, including a Welsh cinema chain and partnership in a cafe at 5 Western Shelter, Barry Island that was named ' The Mighty Atom ' cafe.

It was his final accounting of his close friendship — indeed, partnership — with Martin Luther King, Jr. and their work in the Civil Rights Movement.

At that point, equal partnership would have been achieved and a final settlement would have been arrived at.

On June 29, 2009, Governor Jim Doyle signed the budget, giving final approval to limited domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples living in Wisconsin.

In the final quarter of the 18th century the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the mechanisation of factories and mills.

In the final game of the series, he scored his first Test hundred, opening the batting and sharing a partnership of 221 with Rhodes which was a record at the time for the first wicket in Test matches.

England also won the final Test to take the series 4 – 1 ; Hobbs scored 32 and 45, sharing a partnership of 76 with Rhodes in the second innings.

* 1978 – The strike partnership of Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson helped the Sky Blues finish in seventh position in the First Division, their second-highest ever final league placing, but fractionally missing out on a UEFA Cup place.

Once the annulment is declared final and the GRC issued the couple then have to make arrangements with the local registrar to have the civil partnership ceremony ; they have four weeks grace.

The Fifth Test at The Oval was curtailed by rain and although Australia had the English batsmen in danger on the final day, a rearguard counterattacking partnership by Kevin Pietersen and Ashley Giles on the final afternoon secured a draw for the hosts.

His personal exhaustion was exacerbated by commercial pressures and the complicated recording process surrounding the final release of Steely Dan's initial career, 1980's Gaucho, leading the duo to suspend their partnership in June 1981.

He formed a productive partnership with Iceland striker Eiður Guðjohnsen in his second year with Chelsea, scoring 29 goals in all competitions and helping Guðjohnsen to 23 in a season which also saw Chelsea reach the FA Cup final.

* The final production year was 1997, as the AutoLatina partnership had been dissolved.

Thuram's centre-back partnership with William Gallas was to be the foundation for France's progression to the final.

In March 2008, Winkleman rekindled her partnership with Patrick Kielty when the pair hosted the final leg of Sport Relief 2008, announcing £ 19, 640, 321 as the final amount raised through viewers ' donations.

In his final season with PSV, he was noted for forming a formidable midfield partnership with Mark van Bommel and Phillip Cocu where the club managed to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League tournament.

His second season saw a significant improvement, as he formed an impressive midfield partnership with Frank Lampard as Chelsea impressed in the winner-takes-all final game of the season against Liverpool as Chelsea secured the 4th UEFA Champions League berth.

Carvalho formed a strong partnership with Jorge Andrade in the Portuguese defence as his country reached the final, though they lost 1 – 0 to Greece in a stunning upset.

However, his defensive opening partnership of 129 with Geoff Boycott in the final used up 38 of 60 allotted overs ; although it was recognised that a potent pace attack of Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Colin Croft and Joel Garner needed to be countered, the speed of the partnership greatly added to the pressure on the rest of the order.