* Lieutenant Pigeon reached No. 17 with ' Desperate Dan ' in 1972.

Robbie is drawn by Desperate Dan artist Ken H. Harrison, and his clean drawing style immediately cemented the strips ' popularity.

Because of Ken's continuing work on Desperate Dan, Robbie did not initially appear as regularly as other characters such as Roger the Dodger or Billy Whizz.

With Desperate Dan's revamp when the Dandy got a facelift in September 2004, both were drawn in the same style ( as opposed to the ' old ' Desperate Dan where Ken drew things more detailed ).

Following the decision to stop running new Desperate Dan strips in mid 2007, Harrison was able to concentrate entirely on Robbie, who now appears on a weekly basis.

Like Desperate Dan from The Dandy, she has a statue in Dundee.

Iain McLaughlin took over as writer, and in Beano issue 3422, dated 15 March 2008, former Desperate Dan artist Ken Harrison took over as the strip's artist.

Alongside the Dandy's Desperate Dan, she was given her own statue in Dundee in 2001.

* King Gussie Everybody laughs to see the antics of His Majesty-a short strip about a king ; like strips such as Desperate Dan, this surreally combined historical and modern day elements.

* Ken H. Harrison, artist who drew Desperate Dan

His mother, even more rough-looking and masculine than his already tough father, bears a striking resemblance to Desperate Dan, a character from the same comic, including the pronounced stubble.

In 1954 the first Desperate Dan Book was released, mostly consisting of reprints.

The contents received a major overhaul, and all the comic strips from the Xtreme era except for Desperate Dan, Bananaman and The Bogies were dropped.

The original editor was Albert Barnes, who according to The Legend of Desperate Dan ( 1997 ) was the model for Dan's famous chin.

The longest-running strips are Desperate Dan and Korky the Cat, who both appeared in the first issue.

Desperate Dan, long since the comic's most popular character, then took over the cover, a position he retained until 1999 when he was replaced as cover star by Cuddles and Dimples.

However, they were not on the cover for very long and Desperate Dan had been restored to the cover by the end of 2000.

In 2004, following a major revamp, Desperate Dan was replaced on the front cover by Jak, a character created for the cover, slightly based on an older strip with the same name, although other characters, including Dan, also made occasional cover appearances.

Despite not having quite as many appearances as other DC Thomson characters such as Dennis the Menace or Desperate Dan, Beryl is still considered one of the classic characters which define the popularity of British comics.

To mark celebration with her joining the comic, Beryl shares the spotlight with Desperate Dan on the 1994 Dandy Annual.

This causes a chain effect in which other famous characters from The Dandy-including Korky the Cat, Desperate Dan and Bananaman-also unfriend her father, much to his dismay.

After Desperate Dan took over the front page in 1985, the annual cover reflected this by featuring both Korky and Dan until the 1991 book-the first ever Dandy Annual not to feature Korky on the front in any way.

* Toby, a fictional cat on the ABC prime time drama Desperate Housewives, is a British Shorthair.

* The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.

* Katherine Mayfair is a character in the television show " Desperate Housewives "

Desperate to make her believe him that he will return, at the last minute, Elliot invites Paula to go with him while he is filming the picture and suggests Lucy stay with a friend until they return.

The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Millais is played by Samuel Barnett.

The first, The Love School, was broadcast in 1975 ; the second is the 2009 BBC television drama serial Desperate Romantics by Peter Bowker.

Although much of the latter's material is derived from Franny Moyle's factual book Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites, the series occasionally departs from established facts in favour of dramatic licence and is prefaced by the disclaimer: " In the mid-19th century, a group of young men challenged the art establishment of the day.

The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Hunt is played by Rafe Spall.

According to a quote on the agency's website, Patrick's goal " is to help girls ( and guys ) in the business to be treated with respect, and realize their true potential ...." She also owns a production company called " Teravision ," which along with Vivid Video released its first feature, " Desperate ," starring Patrick and Seinfeld.

It has been featured as a plot device in numerous TV shows, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Skins, Hall Pass, Grounded for Life, (" Henry's Working for the Drug Squad "), Arrested Development (" Afternoon Delight "), Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, Frasier, Family Guy, American Dad !, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Glee, Gilmore Girls, The Young And The Restless, Weeds, The L Word, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, I Love Keith Allen, 90210, Swingtown, The Big Bang Theory and Frasier (" High Holidays "), as well as in movies such as Love and Other Disasters, EuroTrip, Next Friday, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Never Been Kissed, Adventureland, Grandma's Boy, Can't Hardly Wait, Life as We Know It, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Empire Records.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

RÚV – which by the terms of its charter is obliged to " promote the Icelandic language, Icelandic history, and Iceland's cultural heritage " and " honour basic democratic rules, human rights, and the freedom of speech and opinion " – carries a substantial amount of arts, media, and current affairs programming, in addition to which it also supplies general entertainment in the form of feature films and such internationally popular television drama series as Lost and Desperate Housewives.

These include Self-Portrait with Black Dog ( c. 1842 – 1844, accepted for exhibition at the 1844 Paris Salon ), the theatrical Self-Portrait which is also known as Desperate Man ( c. 1843 – 45 ), Lovers in the Countryside ( 1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon ), The Sculptor ( 1845 ), The Wounded Man ( 1844 – 1854, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), The Cellist, Self-Portrait ( 1847, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, shown at the 1848 Salon ), and The Man with a Pipe ( c. 1848 – 1849, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

Desperate for some cash, Reggie agrees but is cheated out of the money by Chaffinch, who takes the money and runs off to New York.

She is perhaps most widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, and has also had series television roles as Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives and Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.

* On the television show Desperate Housewives, the suburb of Fairview, where Wisteria Lane and the residents of Desperate Housewives can be found, is a gated community.

Desperate to find a way to get back into the local party's good graces quickly, Alan takes the advice of Norman, now ready for his final sex-change operation and going by the name of " Norma ," to cozy up to the owner of an American fast food chain, Lamb Burger Guzzler, which is planning to open 200 stores throughout Britain and will be locating its factory in either Haltemprice or Wales.

Disney's former non-Disney branded television division Touchstone Television Productions, LLC ( formerly known as Touchstone Pictures and Television an alternate version of Walt Disney Pictures and Television and later Touchstone Television ) is known for being the production company of the series The Golden Girls, Blossom, Boy Meets World ( all three began before Disney's ABC acquisition ), My Wife and Kids, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scrubs.

Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution, but he is assaulted and robbed by a gang of thugs.

In 2009, he was cast in the recurring role of Roy Bender, a steak salesman, who is Karen McCluskey's love interest on the ABC series Desperate Housewives.

Desperate for money to pay them off, Alwa cheats at cards, but is caught at it.