* 1986 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air.

His role in The A-Team led to him making an appearance in the long-running sit-com Diff ' rent Strokes in the sixth season opener " Mr T. and mr. t " ( 1983 ), in which an episode of The A-Team is supposedly filmed in the family's penthouse apartment.

* 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.

Bron appeared in the long-running British TV series Midsomer Murders as Lady Isobel DeQuetteville in the episode " The Dark Rider ", first aired on ITV1 on 1 February 2012.

In September 2006, she made a guest appearance on the long-running NBC drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent, in Masquerade, a Halloween-themed episode, broadcast on Tuesday, October 31, 2006.

Weaver has hosted two episodes of the long-running NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live: once on the 12th season premiere in 1986, and again, on a season 35 episode in January 2010.

" The final episode of the series was followed the next week by the first episode of Jonathan Creek, which became a popular long-running crime series.

Dunaway won an Emmy for a 1994 role as a murderer in " It's All in the Game ," an episode of the long-running mystery series Columbo.

In Britain, Tony Hatch's theme tune to the long-running soap opera Emmerdale Farm was originally performed on the cor anglais, as was also the version of Harry South's theme tune played at the end of each episode of The Sweeney.

" The long-running comedy series Seinfeld, created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld includes a notable episode entitled " The Doodle ", in which a crude drawing of George Costanza provides the mise en scène for subsequent friction between characters.

Also in 1994, she played a non-recurring role in an episode of the long-running Australian TV series GP, as Janie Morris, a woman living with her brother ( Daniel Lapaine as Sean Morris ) in a consensual incestuous relationship.

In the sixth season episode " Masquerade " of NBC's long-running legal drama series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent it is noted by Detective Robert Goren that police officers used to try to obtain confessions by beating up perpetrators with telephone books until they confessed to the crime in question.

Besides taking the leading role in the TV versions of Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes and Alan Ayckbourn's Norman Conquests, Conti appeared in the Princess and the Pea episode of the family television series Faerie Tale Theatre, guested on Friends and Cosby, and played opposite Nigel Hawthorne in a long-running series of Vauxhall Astra car advertisements in the UK during the mid 1990s.

* " Minder on the Orient Express " ( 1985 ): a special episode of the long-running ITV sit-com Minder.

In 2003, Buscemi made a brief celebrity guest appearance as himself on the long-running Fox animated television show The Simpsons in the episode " Brake My Wife, Please ".

In May 2003, the long-running alternative music show 120 Minutes, which started on MTV in 1986 and moved to MTV2 at the end of 2000, came to an end with a final episode, featuring host Jim Shearer interviewing former hosts Matt Pinfield and Dave Kendall.

After playing Thomas Culpeper in an episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), he went on to star in the BBC drama series, Moonbase 3 ( 1973 ) and the long-running Poldark, in which he played villainous George Warleggan.

The episode also is the first time long-running background actor Eddie Paskey appeared ; his character would later be identified as Lt. Leslie.

Secret history is sometimes used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history ; for instance, in the Star Trek universe, Greg Cox's novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh cast the devastating Eugenics Wars of the 1990s ( still well into the future when first mentioned in an episode from 1967 ) as shadow wars most people never knew about, in which such real-life events from that era as the Smiling Buddha nuclear test, the Yugoslav Wars, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots were all part of one wider conflict.

He also wrote several episodes of the ITV detective drama Inspector Morse and an episode of long-running ITV drama Boon.

The Minute Waltz is also the theme tune to the long-running radio panel show, Just A Minute, and is mentioned at the start of every episode.

The ending theme music, also written by Rose, originally appeared as a piece of incidental music in a later-season episode of Michael Landon's previous long-running series, Bonanza.

In 1983, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, producer John Nathan-Turner planned a special event, The Five Doctors, a 90-minute episode to feature the four of the five actors who had at that point played the role of the Doctor.

* " Abduction " ( The Outer Limits ), episode of the television series

* " Abduction ", episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series

* " Abducted ", episode of Invader Zim, an animated television series

* " Bug " ( Breaking Bad ), a television episode

* " Bloody Mary " ( South Park ), an episode of the television series South Park

* " Bloody Mary " ( Supernatural ), an episode of the television series Supernatural

In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boy Friend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

* The Return of the Sorcerer was adapted for an episode of the television series Night Gallery, starring Vincent Price and Bill Bixby.

In the episode " Chupacabra " of the American television series The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon claims to have seen one while squirrel hunting, but it is later revealed that he was hallucinating after eating Psilocybin mushrooms.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Frances ' daughter, Christine Lynch, appeared in an episode of the television programme Antiques Roadshow in Belfast, broadcast on BBC One in January 2009, with the photographs and one of the cameras given to the girls by Conan Doyle.

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.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

In 1999, he guest starred as Dr. John York in an episode of the television series The Outer Limits.

In spring 1989, Flockhart made her first television appearance in a minor role in an episode of Guiding Light as a babysitter.

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

* Television director, a person who directs the activities involved in making a television episode

* " Diet ", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Déjà Vu is also a plot element in the episode " Mystery Spot " of the television series Supernatural where Sam Winchester wakes up in the same day as a result of being trapped in a time loop.

* " Euphoria, Part 1 " and " Euphoria, Part 2 " ( 2006 ), a two-part episode of the American television series House