In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver.

In this novel's precursor, Ender's Game, the last surviving member of ' the Buggers ' contacts the lead character ( Ender Wiggin ), who had unwittingly wiped out the rest of the species.

Alongside Kane and Finger, Fox contributed to the evolution of the character, including the character's first use of his utility belt, which " contain choking gas capsules ," as well as writing the first usages of both the Batarang and the Batgyro ( an autogyro precursor to the Batcopter ) two issues later.

Note that these quotation marks are unpaired ( the same character is used as an opener and a closer ), which is a hangover from the typewriter technology which was the precursor of the earliest computer input and output devices.

In addition to appearing on numerous comedy, variety, and dramatic series, Adams had a role on the NBC sitcom The Bill Dana Show ( 1963 – 1965 ), as a bumbling hotel detective named Byron Glick — a character Adams created that was the precursor to the role he would play as " Maxwell Smart " on Get Smart.

The character of Caroline Sheppard was later acknowledged by Christie as a possible precursor to her famous detective Miss Marple.

The character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man # 344 ( March 1991 ), and was created by writer David Michelinie and artist Mark Bagley, based on elements of the precursor character Venom.

" In 2009, GamesRadar listed SHODAN as one of the scariest video game characters ever, describing her as the precursor to the Portal character GLaDOS.

This version of the character was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum in X-Men # 97 ( 1975 ) as a precursor to the original Phoenix Saga storyline.

It gives Everdingen his character as a precursor of Jacob Ruysdael in a certain form of landscape composition ; but though very skillful in arrangement and clever in effects, Everdingen remains much more simple in execution ; he is much less subtle in feeling or varied in touch than his great and incomparable countryman.

The book was to be a precursor of her portrait of her husband in Fortunes of War, detailing comic episodes that highlighted Reggie's character, including his gregarious nature and interest in social issues: " My husband Cartwright is a lover of his fellow-men.

This game, published by Namco, is a precursor to tri-Ace's own Star Ocean games in several ways ; i. e. an action battle system where the player controls one character and AI controls others in the party and special battle skills that the player can assign to different buttons.

However, if the character is extremely close to an enemy, he will throw out his fists to attack-a precursor to the characters featured in Metal Slug, who use knives in close combat.

" Wallaby Jack ", a similar character from The Late Show, is a precursor to Coight.

However, their character names and families were different, so this series cannot technically be seen as an immediate precursor to the later shows.

Coincidentally, voice actor Harry Shearer, who does the voices of Mr. Burns, Smithers and Ned Flanders on The Simpsons, played the character Frankie ( a precursor to the Eddie Haskell character ) in the pilot episode of Leave It to Beaver.

Parker said this was done because it was the way Jesus appeared in the crudely animated The Spirit of Christmas, a 1995 animated short film by Parker and Stone that served as a precursor to South Park, and they wanted to maintain that nuance for the character.

* The character of Tim is a precursor to Manfred Steiner, a character in Dicks's 1964 novel, Martian Time-Slip.

In Moonrunners — the precursor film to the Dukes of Hazzard — the character that would go on to be developed into Boss Hogg, was named Jake Rainey ( played by George Ellis ).

Their ideology was nationalist in character, and was a precursor of the movement that would seize control of Turkey following World War I.

Using this approach to justify the electromotive force equation ( the precursor of the Lorentz force equation ), he derived a wave equation from a set of eight equations which appeared in the paper and which included the electromative force equation and Ampère's circuital law.

Previously in 1884, Dow had composed an initial stock average called the Dow Jones Averages, which contained nine railroads and two industrial companies that appeared in the Customer's Afternoon Letter, a daily two-page financial news bulletin which was the precursor to The Wall Street Journal.

In order to condemn the pope, Philip convoked an assembly of bishops, nobles and grand bourgeois of Paris, a precursor to the Etats Généraux that appeared for the first time during his reign, a measure of the professionalism and order that his ministers were introducing into government.

This was followed in the Examiner on 20 December by the short-lived Mary's Home from College, a precursor to the " girl strips " such as Cliff Sterrett's Polly and Her Pals and John Held Jr .' s Merely Margie ; and on 23 December with Gooseberry Sprigg, about a cigar-smoking " Duck Duke ", acharacter who had previously, and popularly, appeared in Herriman's sports cartoons.

Though not official, it is presumed that pumping house actually served as precursor to the now underground bassline genre that appeared in the UK around the time pumping went scarce.

An unnamed precursor to Kyle first appeared in the first The Spirit of Christmas short, dubbed Jesus vs. Frosty, created by Parker and Stone in 1992 while they were students at the University of Colorado.

An unnamed precursor to Stan first appeared in the first The Spirit of Christmas short, dubbed Jesus vs. Frosty, created by Parker and Stone in 1992 while they were students at the University of Colorado.

A direct precursor of Water Margin was the Old incidents in the Xuanhe period of the great Song Dynasty ( 大宋宣和遺事 ), which appeared around the mid 13th century.

The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called " The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar " in a mid-1850s broadsheet.

However, the earliest precursor of the modern four-stringed version of the instrument appeared and experienced popularity during the Tang Dynasty ( AD 618 – 907 ).

Although the first U. S. reference to panini dates to 1956, and a precursor appeared in a 16th-century Italian cookbook, the sandwiches became trendy in Milanese bars, called paninoteche, in the 1970s and 1980s.

Created by Ruth Atkinson, Patsy Walker first appeared in Miss America Magazine # 2 ( Nov. 1944 ), published by Marvel precursor Timely Comics, and became Hellcat in The Avengers # 144 ( Feb. 1976 ).

Created by Ruth Atkinson, Patsy Walker first appeared in Miss America Magazine # 2 ( cover-dated Nov. 1944 ), published by Marvel precursor Timely Comics.

A precursor to the D-pad also appeared on Entex's short lived " Select A Game " cartridge based handheld system ; it featured non-connected raised left, right, up and down buttons aligned to the left of a row of action buttons.

Also, a ballot that she appeared on is framed next to the downstairs bathroom, and her father's cavalry sword and uniform from his duties as general of the South Dakota Regiment ( the precursor to the South Dakota National Guard ) are on display.

A precursor to the concept of a school for feared genetic mutants appeared in the 1953 science fiction novel Children of the Atom by Wilmar H. Shiras, which has been credited — though never officially confirmed — with inspiring the X-Men.

Similarly to its precursor in the visual arts, musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music.

Dungeon, the mainframe precursor to the commercial Zork trilogy, is generally assumed to be in the public domain and is available from The Interactive Fiction Archive as original FORTRAN source code, a Z-machine story file and as various native source ports.

For instance, Abhijñānashākuntala by the renowned Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa ( c. 400 CE ), believed to have lived in the era of the Gupta dynasty, is based on a story that is the precursor to the Mahabharata.

The story is a precursor to the " disguised superhero " tales such as Zorro and Batman.

They decided to have a contest to see who could write the scariest story, leading Shelley to write Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Lord Byron to write " A Fragment ", which Polidori later stole and rewrote as The Vampyre — a precursor to Dracula.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

In the introduction of the 1967 Simon and Schuster book club edition, Bradbury implies that the Nazi book burnings drove him to write the short story " The Fireman " which was the precursor along with the foundation for his novel Fahrenheit 451, stating, " It follows then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in the long sum of history they are one and the same flesh.

Grosman published his precursor to the screenplay, the short story " The Trap " ( Past ), in Czech in 1962.

The precursor to the Gravitation manga was a dōjinshi series titled Help !, which followed a similar story line but cast the characters in slightly different roles.

Wells's story " The Chronic Argonauts " ( 1888 ), which was a precursor to The Time Machine ( 1895 ).

Thomas S. Monson, current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, quotes, in a 1991 speech, prison warden Kenyon J. Scudder from a 1961 Reader's Digest article, to tell a story of a man whose family uses the white ribbon as a sign of forgiveness, and cites the story as the precursor to the tradition of the yellow ribbon for welcome home and forgiveness:

Without the awakening, however, the story becomes a precursor of magical realism, as an unreal element is woven into a realistic narration.

* A Handful of Dust precursor to " All Our Yesterdays "; story outline and analysis by Dave Eversone

One story is a direct precursor to the next book he wrote.

# Mahasudassana Sutta: story of one of the Buddha's past lives, as a king ; the description of his palace has close vebal similarities to that of the Pure Land, and Dr Rupert Gethin has suggested this as a precursor

When we arranged all the chapters and read through the remarkable outline, we found that Spice Planet was a unique and worthy story in its own right, not just a precursor to Dune.

The story is a precursor to the spy fiction and the superhero genres, where a hero hides under a mild-mannered alias.

Unlike other Front Mission titles, Front Mission Alternative is the precursor to the serialized storyline and features a completely standalone story and cast of characters.