The writer behind the " memorable " episode depicting Hilda Ogden's departure, which attracted a record soap opera audience, was Leslie Duxbury.

Hilda's final scenes in the programme were aired on Christmas Day 1987, when the locals in the Rovers Return joined Hilda in what has been described as a " stirring rendition " of " Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye ".

The first storm of 1999 was named Hilda and the final one was named Gloria.

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 ).

* In the ITV series The Professionalss 1st season's 4th episode " Killer With A Long Arm ", characters Georgi ( Michael Latimer ), Hilda ( Diane Keen ), and Costa ( Milos Kirek ), are assassins who wear leather gloves throughout the entire program ; as they murder, hold hostages, and commit other crimes.

The station appeared in a 1992 episode of Rumpole of the Bailey ( Rumpole and the Children of the Devil ), as Horace Rumpole and his wife Hilda travel there separately from Temple and Gloucester Road stations respectively.

Hilda Stark worked as an art director on the pilot episode and was asked back by Mann after seven episodes to become the show's production designer.

* The Cadwells — Seen only in the episode " Speed Shrinks ", they are two twins similar to Hilda and Henry, but they are somewhat villainous.

Her father has at least four sisters: Vesta, seen only once in the first-season episode " Third Aunt from the Sun " ( played by Raquel Welch ) but mentioned many times and Hilda and Zelda, both of whom Sabrina lives with, and Sophia, a witch who lived in Rome and looked identical to Sabrina.

But the ladies do not always play fair: in one episode, Hilda and Evadne organise the refreshments for a " friendly " inter-village football match, manned by two teams of Stanley Matthews look-alikes and intentionally poison the visiting team.

; Stanley's Vision, as Hilda Spencer ; My World ; Henry ; Nice Town ( 1992 ) as Rosemary Dobson ; Murder Most Horrid ( episode: " A Life Or Death Operation ") ( BBC2, 1996 ) as Mrs. Osman ; Spark ( 1997 ) as Mrs. Wells ; and Playing the Field ( BBC1, 1998 ) as Francine Pratt.

Interviewed for The People's Soap Special, Dynevor spoke about how terrifying her first episode was to film because she had not done any TV work prior to the role and the scene involved one of the show's best known characters, Hilda Ogden ( Jean Alexander ).

In 1958 Gregg played Hilda Stone in an episode (" The Eight-Cent Reward ") of Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Reflecting his immense influence on 20th-century thought, Hilda Neatby, in 1953, wrote " Dewey has been to our age what Aristotle was to the later middle ages, not a philosopher, but the philosopher.

One of her friends, the antiquarian Hilda Davidson, who knew Murray in her old age, described her as being " not at all assertive ... never thrust her ideas on anyone.

Hilda Ellis Davidson says that " the eight-legged horse of Odin is the typical steed of the shaman " and that in the shaman's journeys to the heavens or the underworld, a shaman " is usually represented as riding on some bird or animal.

* Saint Hilda founds an abbey on the Yorkshire coast at Whitby.

In December 2010, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was named the Chair of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, of which Labor has been a member since its beginnings in 1987.

Thus the Bessie Bunter series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who continued to use the same pen-name.

A play, written by Miller and Robert Rossen based on the novel, was first shown in Philadelphia and then twice at Broadway's Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on February 22 and 23, 1960, featuring Raymond St. Jacques, James Earl Jones, Calvin Lockhart, Hilda Simms, and others.

Hilda Ellis Davidson criticized Graves as having " misled many innocent readers with his eloquent but deceptive statements about a nebulous goddess in early Celtic literature ", and stated that he was " no authority " on the subject matter he presented.

He has also been seen on a few episodes of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch as himself, seen in a daydream cloud in Hilda's Mind and driving a car as Hilda zapped herself in his car.

The prior lived on the upper floor, which comprised a hall, chamber and chapel dedicated to Saint Hilda.

* Duchess Elisabeth Hilda Zita Marie Anna Antonia Friederike Wilhelmine Louise of Hohenberg, the Grand Duke's aunt, was born on December 22, 1922.

In about 1128 Henry I granted the abbey burgage in Whitby and permission to hold a fair at the feast of St Hilda on 25 August.

Hilda, however, remained a Christian, and eventually went on to become abbess of the influential Whitby Abbey.

Dame Hilda, as she later became, was based partly on Ethel Smyth and partly on Elisabeth Lutyens ( who was not pleased, and considered legal action ).

Returning to Seattle with his new found wealth, he married Hilda Carlson and looked for a business venture, finally settling on a shoe store that opened in 1901, called Wallin & Nordstrom.

He even ran as an independent for an at-large seat on the council against 74-year old incumbent Hilda Mason.

Hilda, who is actually Grunwald's sister and under his evil influence, later collaborates with Drago and sends a swarm of rats to attack the village ( in the original Japanese version, Grunwald wanted Hols to be his brother before he plunged Hols down the cliff ; this ties in with Hols ' first encounter with Hilda and her comment on how they both share the same fate that they're like twins ).

Grunwald then sends Hilda, against her wishes, to kill Hols, and makes his own attack on the village, together with his wolves and a giant ice mammoth.

She gained fame for her role as Aunt Hilda on the ABC and ( later ) The WB's Sabrina the Teenage Witch, as well as being a regular on the latest incarnation of Hollywood Squares.

When Hilda left the programme on Christmas Day 1987, she sang " Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye ", in her trademark trilling voice ; it was watched by an aggregated audience of 26. 65 million people, one of the highest audiences in British television history.

In 627 King Edwin was baptised on Easter Day, April 12, along with his entire court, which included Hilda, in a small wooden church hastily constructed for the occasion near the site of the present York Minster.

* It is sung by Maud Chapman ( played by Hilda Bayley ) in the 1942 film, Went the Day Well ?.

She is best known to British television viewers as Hilda Ogden on the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 – 1987 and also as Auntie Wainwright on the longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010.

When she decided to leave the programme in 1987, fans started " Save Hilda!

* Hilda Murrell's Nature Diaries 1961-1983, edited by Charles Sinker Pub: Collins 1987 ISBN 0-00-412186-4

The video hailed the brief return of Coronation Street favourite Hilda Ogden, who had not been seen in the soap since 1987 ; Betty travelled to meet her at her new home.

After 23 years playing Hilda, Jean Alexander decided to leave Coronation Street in 1987.

Since her departure in 1987, various producers have expressed their desire to see Hilda Ogden back on Coronation Street.

The video hailed the brief return of Hilda Ogden, who had not been seen in the soap since 1987 ; Betty Williams travelled to meet her at her new home.

The company's first account was funded by a US $ 5 million fixed-income investment through Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg of World Bank in 1987.