* December 8 – For the first time, the Mary Martin Peter Pan is presented as a stand-alone two-hour special on NBC instead of as part of an anthology series.

The disk, tape or card deck must contain a special program to load the actual operating system into main storage, and for this specific purpose " IPL Text " is placed on the disk by the stand-alone DASDI ( Direct Access Storage Device Initialization ) program or an equivalent program running under an operating system, e. g., ICKDSF, but IPL-able tapes and card decks are usually distributed with this " IPL Text " already present.

Before 1977, the presentation of the award wasn't televised as a stand-alone special, but rather as a quick in-game feature.

The Micro Tavor ( MTAR-21 ), also designated X95 and sometimes called Tavor-2, is a stand-alone extremely compact weapon specifically designed for special forces units, as well as military personnel who are normally not issued long assault rifles.

Alpha Group ( also called the Alfa Group or Spetsgruppa A ) is an elite, stand-alone component of Russia's special forces and the dedicated counter-terrorism task-force of the Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB ).

The New York Film Critics ' Circle also gives special stand-alone awards to individuals and / or organizations that they believe have made significant contributions to the art of cinema that includes other film critics, film restorers, historians and service organizations.

After the success of an all-Beatles issue, published to mark the release of The Beatles Anthology, many stand-alone, themed special editions of MOJO have been produced, devoting an entire magazine to one artist or genre.

These games could run either as stand-alone applications, or embedded in a web page using a special plugin.

Coronation Streets 50th anniversary week was celebrated by broadcasting seven consecutive episodes, along with a special one hour live episode, from 6 – 10 December.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

Albert also appeared as a special guest on The Simpsons ' Season 20 episode The Burns and the Bees in 2008.

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

For a brief while it was also implied that Skuld had a crush on Keiichi ; the second special episode of the first TV series ( where she's grown up for a day ) explored this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.

This was the first time that a major television network successfully scheduled Super Bowl counterprogramming: Fox aired a special live football-themed episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during the halftime show.

To counter with the halftime show, Fox decided to broadcast a special live episode of In Living Color.

* In the twenty-second and final episode of The Simpsons fourth season, entitled Krusty Gets Cancelled, Krusty the Clown sings the altered lyrics: " Send in those soulful and doleful, schmaltz-by-the-bowlful clowns " in a musical number of his comeback special.

Doggett is an FBI special agent who makes his first appearance in the season eight episode " Within ".

This special episode has not been seen since its original broadcast, although it still exists in the BBC archive.

The My Family version was broadcast in 2007, and was essentially portraying all of the main characters on an ordinary episode of the show, except for the fact that it was a ' family special '.

* 24 ( 2010 ) In episode 13 of the eighth season of the serial action / drama television series, former FBI special agent Renee Walker is shown to stay in the hotel, in the residential apartment of Jack Bauer, who was living there.

Cracker returned to television screens a decade after " White Ghost " in the 2006 special episode, " Nine Eleven ", written by McGovern and directed by Antonia Bird.

For special effects reasons, in TOS, people generally appear immobilized during transport, with the exception of Kirk in the episode " That Which Survives ".

Crawford made three more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian ( 1970 ), entitled " The Nightmare "; as a special guest who performed in multiple sketches on The Tim Conway Comedy Hour ( also in 1970 ) ; and as Joan Fairchild ( her final performance ) on an episode of the television series, The Sixth Sense, entitled, " Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death " ( 1972 ).

Fisher also appeared in and hosted the November 18, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live that aired one day after the holiday special.

The Archers reached its 60th anniversary on 1 January 2011 and to mark this achievement, a special half hour episode was broadcast on Sunday 2 January on BBC Radio 4 from 7pm.

In general, Humphrey Lyttelton would describe special rules to apply to that session, such as " Trumpington's Variations " or " Tudor Court Rules ", so that almost every episode featuring Mornington Crescent introduced a variant.

In the TOS episode " This Side of Paradise ", Leila Kalomi hints at having had a special relationship with Spock some six years earlier, though Spock's remark that he hoped his half-human blood would see him " spared " the agony of pon farr in the episode Amok Time suggests that their relationship was more casual.

This version of the series included musical questions ( wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish ), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, " surprise " special guests, and even an episode done while the set was being struck down in preparation for the show going on the road.

The first new special aired on 25 December with the second episode airing on 1 January 2012.

To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, seventeen years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th anniversary special and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981, making Prince the only SNL musical guest to have that long of a gap between appearances.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

The special guard, however, was still posted on Kehl bridge.

There must have been special feelings of joy and patriotism in the heart of Daniel Morgan too, when the news was received on April 30th of the recognition by France of the independence of the United States.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

The situation with regard to the Southern Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable to other situations in other industries.

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques, full of dash and wit and glamor, quoting from the books I read, imitating the grand styles of the authors recommended by a teacher in whose special, after-school class I was enrolled.

Until 1958 the state was also entitled to a special type of manufacturers' discount through the dealers.

His soil was `` nothing special '', just prairie land, but he had harrowed in compost until it was loose, spongy and brown-black.

The bubble was filled to the top and special precautions were taken to prevent any sample from remaining in the capillary.

A titre personnel and a special office was created in the Ministry of the Interior to plan and to conduct the elections.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;

One of the President's special assistants, the Harvard dean McGeorge Bundy, was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's classic memoir, On Active Service.

In a far distant part of the United States, I was talking to an instructor about a boy who in the twelfth grade was doing special work.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.