In 1978, The Dain Curse was made into a six-hour CBS television miniseries starring James Coburn.

During the six-hour police siege, a television reporter doing a live report at the scene is hit by a stray bullet.

Small World was turned into a six-hour mini-series for British television in 1988.

It was made into a prize-winning six-hour PBS / BBC television series.

The game was the first to be broadcast live on television in South Carolina and a large contingent from Selvy's hometown, including his family, had made the six-hour trek just for the occasion.

For HBO, in 1984 Peter Duffell directed a Goldcrest-produced an epic six-hour three-part television miniseries based on the novel, starring Ben Cross as Ashton, Amy Irving as Anjuli, Omar Sharif as Koda Dad and Christopher Lee as Kaka-ji Rao.

The “ Cousteau Amazon Expedition ” cost eleven million dollars and culminated in a six-hour television documentary titled “ Cousteau ’ s Amazon ” released in 1983.

Burr took on a shorter project next, playing an underworld boss in a six-hour miniseries, 79 Park Avenue One last attempt to launch a series followed on CBS.

A Kalahari Family ( 2002 ) is a five-part, six-hour series documenting fifty years in the lives of the JuǀʼHoansi of Southern Africa, from 1951 to 2000.

The plot retained substantial similarities to the original six-hour series, retaining the main characters, but with its location changed to Washington, D. C., and with certain aspects condensed and changed in order to fit the two-hour format.

Through WGN-TV's longtime association as the MDA Love Network station for Chicago, WGN America simulcasts the annual MDA Show of Strength ( having aired it in both its former 21 1 / 2-hour format from 1979 to 2010 ( known as Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon ), and the six-hour primetime format used for the 2011 telethon ), including the local segments featuring WGN-TV personalities ; as a result, donations to the Chicago-based segments of the telethon come from various areas of the United States and Canada, in addition to the Chicago area.

* Christmas in America, was a six-hour program aired within the week leading up to or on Christmas Day, with interview clips from country singers sharing Christmas memories interspersed between songs.

January 9, 1981 was also the premier of America Overnight, a six-hour interview and call-in show hosted by Eric Tracey in Los Angeles and Ed Busch from Dallas.

The Phillies sent out Steve Carlton in game one of the NLCS after a six-hour flight the night before.

This is a six-hour voyage from the park, and the ship overnights at the island before returning the next day, making two round trips each week, June to mid-September.

2003 saw the release of the double live album How the West Was Won, and Led Zeppelin DVD, a six-hour chronological set of live footage that became the best-selling music DVD in history.

He ended his career with a six-hour, two-part toga and chariot epic, Der Kampf um Rom ( 1968 ), oddly more campy ( perhaps intentionally, one hopes ) than Cobra Woman had been.

" The six-hour film was cut to under four, eliminating many of Burton's scenes, but the result was viewed the same — a film long on spectacle dominated by the two hottest stars in Hollywood.

In January 2007, the Sci-Fi Channel announced that it would be making a six-hour miniseries based on The Diamond Age.

The proposed movie scheduled for the Friday after the deal was struck ( May 28 ), Gorillas in the Mist, was dropped in favor of a six-hour marathon of Tornado Road.

The Airbus A340-600HGW operating the six-hour flight ran on a 50 – 50 blend of synthetic gas-to-liquids ( GTL ) and conventional oil-based kerosene developed by Shell instead of traditional, purely oil-based aviation turbine fuel.

Mount Maria is the island's highest peak at 711 metres and is approximately a six-hour return walk.

On Saturdays, following a six-hour show, he did production work for the next three.

To get a handle on the man ’ s voice and how he talked, Crowe listened repeatedly to a six-hour tape of Wigand.

The ground echelons of both heavy bomb groups began evacuation by sea on 25 February, while the bombers, carrying up to 20 passengers each, made daily six-hour flights to Broome, Western Australia, an intermediate evacuation point for all aircraft fleeing Java.

Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

Some eyewitnesses told reporters that " Serb troops shot and mutilated their victims, and the six-hour orgy of violence ended with a nationalist song.

The most famous occasion when the triple tiara was used was the papal coronation, a six-hour ceremony, when the new pope was carried in state on the sedia gestatoria ( portable throne-see image of Pope John XXIII, left ), with attendants fanning the pontiff with ostrich-feathered flabella to the location of the coronation.

Together, they found the money to hire a van and make the six-hour journey.

The announcement inspired a spontaneous six-hour parade in Mexico City ; it was followed by a national fund-raising campaign to compensate the companies.

Columbus is roughly a six-hour drive away from Chicago.

Repetition was stressed on bass and drums, particularly on the epic " Yoo Doo Right ", which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to take up a mere single side of vinyl.

Wonder Lake can be reached by a six-hour bus ride from the Wilderness Access Center.

Weather permitting, a luxury motor launch leaves Whakatane daily for a six-hour day trip.

Knowing this version was far too long, Stroheim cut out almost half the footage, reducing it to a six-hour version to be shown over two nights.

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

The local Public-access television station BronxNet provides Government-access television ( GATV ) public affairs programming in addition to programming produced by Bronx residents.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

There are numerous public and private media companies that specialise as producer or distributor of television production facilities.

The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World when The Bee Gees ' album Living Eyes ( 1981 ) was played.

Morris first came to public attention in the 1950s as a presenter of the ITV television programme Zoo Time, but achieved worldwide fame in 1967 with his book The Naked Ape.

In 1976, Bernard Luskin launched Coastline Community College as a college beyond walls, combining computer assisted instruction with telecourses proceed by KOCE TV, the Coast Community College District public television station.

They were also featured in the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop, syndicated to public television stations by American Public Television starting on November 1, 2008. Chihuly Over Venice from Chihuly's Portland Press website

* Easter Rising 50th Anniversary audio & video footage from RTÉ ( Irish public television )

Members of the EBU are radio and television companies, most of which are government-owned public service broadcasters or privately owned stations with public service missions.

There is a national public radio and television company Yleisradio ( Yle ), which is funded by television license fees, and two major private media companies, Alma Media and Sanoma, with national TV channels.

Free to Choose ( 1980 ) is a book ( ISBN 978-0-15-633460-0 ) and a ten-part television series broadcast on public television by economists Milton and Rose D. Friedman that advocates free market principles.

Contrary to normal practice the book was written after the TV series was produced, although the line " Basis for the acclaimed public television triumph " is written on the front cover, using the program transcripts as reference.

On Faber's television, they watch news reports of another mechanical hound being released, with news helicopters following it to create a public spectacle.

* 1954 – The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.

In 1983 he started hosting a public television program on the side, called Computer Chronicles, that followed trends in personal computing.

Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.

The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public.

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and / or prizes.