In 1970, the character of Miss Marple was portrayed by Inge Langen in a West German television adaptation of The Murder at the Vicarage ( Mord im Pfarrhaus ).

In 1992, David Thacker directed a British television adaptation with Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve and David Calder.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

Graves's two books were the basis for a British television adaptation produced by the BBC.

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

After his extraordinary career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing memorable cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

In 1976, he played the role of Mister Geppetto in a television musical adaptation of Pinocchio with Sandy Duncan in the title role.

* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

The character later spawned a television series starring Lynda Carter and a film adaptation is currently underway.

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

The CBS television anthology Playhouse 90 aired a 90-minute loose adaptation in 1958.

The film was released in 1982, along with his television adaptation of the acclaimed play The Rainmaker.

Astro Boy quickly became ( and remains ) immensely popular in Japan and elsewhere, and the anime adaptation of Sazae-san drawing more viewers than any other anime on Japanese television in 2011.

Miyazaki's most famous television work was his direction of Future Boy Conan ( 1978 ), an adaptation of the children's novel The Incredible Tide by Alexander Key.

The partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair ( and its stage adaptation of the same name ), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing.

The two Scotts also produced a 2010 film adaptation of 1980s television show The A-Team, directed by Joe Carnahan.

The character appears in the first and third novels, the first and third radio series ( and the LP adaptation of the first radio series ), the 1981 television series and the 2005 feature film.

The first known piece of television science fiction anywhere in the world was produced by the BBC on February 11, 1938, a thirty-five-minute adaptation of a section of the play R. U. R ..

In television, the American adaptation of Casino Royale ( 1954 ) featured Jimmy Bond in an episode of the Climax!

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

During his marriage to Valerie he had an alleged affair with his Carry On co-star, Barbara Windsor, which was dramatised in the 1998 stage-play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick and its 2000 television adaptation Cor, Blimey !.

Steven Soderbergh was attached to direct an adaptation of the television series with George Clooney set to star but had to back out due to health issues.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

This adaptation will become the most popular television production of the work.

** ABC-TV telecasts a highly acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon, starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

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 2004, he played serial killer Ted Bundy in the A & E Network television film The Riverman, which was based on the book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer written by Robert D. Keppel.

Elwes ' voice-over work includes the narrator in James Patterson's audio book The Jester, as well as characters in film and television animations such as Quest for Camelot, Pinky and The Brain, Batman Beyond, and the English versions of the Studio Ghibli films Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns.

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.

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.

It was primarily a response to an earlier landmark book and television series: The Age of Uncertainty, by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

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.

He said in a 2007 interview that the book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature.

The book was subsequently adapted into a television mini-series in 1994.

Stone's book is the basis for the German television production Der geheimnisvolle Schatz von Troja ( Hunt for Troy ) from 2007.

Over the years, there have been five Highlander movies, two television series, an animated series, an animated movie, an animated flash-movie series, ten original novels, seventeen comic book issues, and various licensed merchandise.

In November 2009, Hezbollah pressured a private English-language school to drop excerpts from The Diary of Anne Frank, a book of the writings from the diary kept by the Jewish child Anne Frank while she was in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, after Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel complained, asking how long Lebanon would " remain an open arena for the Zionist invasion of education "?

In the book Why I Am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perseverance by Peter Stanford, the television presenter Dermot O ' Leary describes his upbringing as " classic plastic paddy ", where he would be " bullied in a nice way " by his own cousins in Wexford for being English " until anyone else there called me English and then they would stick up for me.

Numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, television and radio programs and a revealing book written by an ex-convict ( which for the first time openly questioned the effectiveness of the TBS-system ) boosted discussion.

Lex's story continues in the comic book continuation Smallville Season Eleven, written by Bryan Q. Miller, who also wrote for the television series.

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Aside from appearing in numerous radio and television commercials in the St. Louis area since retiring from baseball, Smith authored a children's book in 2006 and launched his own brand of salad dressing in 2008.

The book led to a CBS television miniseries by the same name starring James Brolin, Rachel Ward and Hart Bochner.

Fan fiction, known to aficionados as " fanfic ", is non-commercial fiction created by fans in the setting of an established book, film, video game, or television series.

This book also provides a lead-in to a series of books that will document the Earth-Romulan War that has been referenced in the other Star Trek materials, but was never developed during the television production of Enterprise.