To the average American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday night TV movie.

Arau has made many appearances as a character actor in American and TV series and plays.

* Ozzie Alfonso, American TV director and producer.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

Examples of pre-packed American meals include various casserole type dishes such as Hamburger Helper, as well as bakeable and microwaveable foods such as Hot Pockets, frozen pizzas, frozen burritos, and various types of TV dinner meals.

* Another World ( TV series ), an American soap opera

A ' live ' version for American TV was transmitted in 1959 which was directed by George Schaefer.

Cable TV also is available locally and provides most American programs with some Canadian and European channels.

Banacek ( pronounced ' BAN-a-check ') is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974.

During the 1970s, he made guest-appearances on TV series such as Ironside, Insight, Barbary Coast, The Love Boat, Medical Center, four episodes of Love, American Style, Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

Many had come to prominence on the American TV series Saturday Night Live, including Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase.

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

* Elisa Diana, a character from the American Broadcasting Company's popular TV drama, Lost

1980 ), American actor known for his role as Bobby Baccalieri on the HBO TV series The Sopranos

Most American television sets are cable-ready and have a television tuner capable of receiving older analog cable TV ( UK televisions are set up to receive Freeview digital terrestrial broadcasting ).

He produced a Saturday morning children's TV series for the American Broadcasting Company called The Curiosity Shop in 1971.

* 1974 – Tiffany Brissette, American TV actress

* 1960 – Terry Moran, American TV reporter

* 1965 – Vecepia Towery, American reality TV contestant

Extended or special editions can also apply to films that have been extended for television and video against the wishes of the director, such as the TV versions of Dune ( 1984 ) and the Harry Potter films, and the DVD editions of Ridley Scott films Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and American Gangster.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.