Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

In 1986, when Ted Turner acquired MGM's library ( which by then had included Warner Bros .' pre-1950, MGM's pre-1986, and a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures catalogs ), he vowed to continue the preservation work MGM had started.

* Nearly all of MGM's film and television library prior to May 23, 1986 ending with the film Killer Party ( released on May 9, 1986 )

Though the Turner sale included all of MGM's rights to most of its pre-1986 films, MGM retained its overall rights to the Fame franchise as the TV series was still in production in 1986.

However when the executive producer Steven Spielberg went to acquire the rights in 1986, MGM's pre-1986 library ( which Tom and Jerry were a part of ) was being purchased by Turner Entertainment which created a series of legal complications.

In 1986, a year after Disney acquired the rights to use The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Singin ' in the Rain, The Public Enemy, Tarzan the Ape Man and The Footlight Parade ; Ted Turner purchased MGM's pre-1986 library and all of a. a. p's library, thus forming Turner Entertainment.

This included almost all the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television library with the exception of those owned by United Artists ( i. e. James Bond franchise ), although some UA material were included such as the a. a. p.

When the pre-May 1986 MGM library was bought by Turner Entertainment, both productions were included in the roster as well.

* The pre-May 1986 MGM films released through United Artists ( and outside Anglo-America through Cinema International Corporation and United International Pictures ) are also now with WB / Turner Entertainment.

* Some of the pre-May 1986 MGM / UA films made around the early 1980s still remain in the MGM library and were not picked up by Turner Entertainment due to most of these films produced by UA ( ex.

In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.

During 1986, Turner bought the pre-May 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer library, the RKO Radio Pictures library, the Associated Artists Productions library, and some United Artists material ( including some post-1952 UA material such as Gilligan's Island and its spinoffs, and Bugs Bunny Superstar ) from MGM / UA.

Turner Entertainment also distributes films from the RKO Radio Pictures, pre-May 1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries, certain films from New Line Cinema ( 1994 – 1997 ), and shows from TBS, TNT, Hanna-Barbera ( 1991 – 1997 ), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV and PBS ( 1994 – 2004 ) on home video via Turner Home Entertainment, and after 1996, Warner Home Video ( which currently operates Turner's home video subsidiary as an in-name-only division ) ( see below ).

Turner Classic Movies ( TCM ) is a movie-oriented cable television channel, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment film library, which comprises the pre-May 1986 MGM, RKO and pre-1950 Warner Bros. films.

However, Turner was forced by a crushing dept to return Kerkorian all of United Artists and the MGM trademark 74 days later, on June 8, but kept the pre-May 1986 MGM television shows, the holdings of Associated Artists Productions, and Gilligan's Island and it's two animated spin-offs The New Adventures of Gilligan and Gilligan's Planet.

Thus, when Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting System in October 1996, the pre-May 1986 MGM / UA TV shows became part of Warner Bros. ( via its Turner Entertainment unit ).

* Warner Home Video ( 1990-1999, 1999-present for the pre-May 1986 MGM and a. a. p.

* 1986 – A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400, 000 books and other items.

The world's largest creator of Karaoke tracks, Blank Productions USA, ( since 1986 ), produces between 40 and 60 titles per month, adding to their 25, 000 title library, which is licensed to manufacturers and content providers.

After Ted Turner failed in an attempt to buy MGM / UA Entertainment Co. in 1986, he settled for ownership of the library, which included the a. a. p.

The renovation saw them transformed into a shopping centre complete with a library which opened in 1986.

The British Library's Stefan Zweig Collection was donated to the library by his heirs in May 1986.

The post-1952 UA library and the post-4 / 1986 MGM were assumed by themselves through MGM Home Entertainment after their worldwide deal with Warner Home Video expired in 2000.

Then, in 1986, the Sauk Village Library District Board of Trustees changed the district's name to the Nancy L. McConathy Public Library District in order to honor library district trustee and Village Clerk Nancy L. McConathy, who had died suddenly.

The library was established in 1986.

The Library officially became a municipal library in 1986.

In 1986, the library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The library moved to Richmond in 1986.

In 1986 the Atascocita Hi Neighbor group began to campaign for a library in Atascocita.

What was once a thriving local community with shops, schools, library, sheriff, youth hostel, churches, medical clinics and more, became a ghost town as 95 % of the residents left the town by 1986.

The two schools were moved in the 1950s and the library in 1986.

In part this was due to the continuing turmoil at MGM / UA ; bought by Ted Turner in 1986, he could not get financial backing to complete the deal and, seventy-four days later, re-sold UA and the MGM trademark to Kerkorian, and sold the MGM studio lot to Lorimar ( now the location of Sony Pictures Studios ), while keeping almost all of the MGM / UA library for himself ( with the exception of the United Artists library ).

Turner Entertainment, after failing to buy MGM outright, settled for ownership of the library, including the Popeye cartoons, in 1986.

In 1973, NBC sold the rights to the series, along with the rest of its pre-1973 library, to National Telefilm Associates, which changed its name to Republic Pictures in 1986.

Susan George of the Transnational Institute has also been a long-term influence on the movement, as the writer of books since 1986 on hunger, debt, international financial institutions and capitalism.

The line " There's this to say for blood and breath ,/ they give a man a taste for death " supplies the title for Peter O ' Donnell's 1969 Modesty Blaise thriller, A Taste for Death, also the inspiration for P. D. James ' 1986 crime novel, A Taste for Death, the seventh in her Adam Dalgliesh series.

He also became the first starting pitcher to win this award since Roger Clemens had accomplished the feat in 1986.

A second single, " C ' mon C ' mon ", also charted in the UK Top 20 and an album, Truthdare Doubledare, released in May 1986, peaked at Nº18.

In 1986, the film was featured in the syndicated series, the Canned Film Festival and was later featured on the comedy series, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which also featured other Wood films.

The Virgilio Barco ( 1986 – 1990 ) administration, in addition to continuing to handle the difficulties of the complex negotiations with the guerrillas, also inherited a particularly chaotic confrontation against the drug lords, who were engaged in a campaign of terrorism and murder in response to government moves in favor of their extradition overseas.

According to a report in the Cork Examiner, the Continuity IRA's first chief of staff was Dáithí Ó Conaill, who also served as the first chairman of RSF from 1986 to 1987.

* Clanking replicators are also mentioned briefly in the fourth chapter of K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation.

The five stars are also in the logo of the Brazilian football team Cruzeiro Esporte Clube and the Brazilian coat of arms ; it is mentioned in the Brazilian national anthem, and even featured as the name of the currency ( the cruzeiro from 1942 to 1986 and again from 1990 to 1994.

The 1980s also saw the cementing of relationships between established characters: Alf Roberts ( Bryan Mosley ) married Audrey Potter ( Sue Nicholls ) in 1985, Kevin Webster ( Michael Le Vell ) married Sally Seddon ( Sally Dynevor ) in 1986.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

He had a cameo role as Dylan, a smarmy pedestrian, in the 1986 musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured his SNL co-star, Steve Martin.

She also continued to explore new business and entertainment ventures such as her Dollywood theme park, that opened in 1986 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

He also appeared as Jareth, the Goblin King, in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, for which he wrote five songs.

Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games.

They also published a sequel to The Golden Turkey Awards, Son of Golden Turkey Awards, in 1986.

Every Mac made between 1986 and 1998 has a SCSI port on the back, making external expansion easy ; also, " toaster " Compact Macs did not have easily accessible hard drive bays ( or, in the case of the Mac Plus, any hard drive bay at all ), so on those models, external SCSI disks were the only reasonable option.

In the context of abnormal psychology Samuels ( 1986 ) states that Jung considers Hermes the archetype for narcissistic disorder, but also lending the disorder a " positive " ( beneficious ) aspect, that is Hermes is both the good and bad of narcissism.

The Iran – Contra affair (, ), also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986.

And to compete with the Leisure Suit Larry style games that were also appearing, Infocom also came out with Leather Goddesses of Phobos in 1986, which featured " tame ", " suggestive ", and " lewd " playing modes, and that was notable for including among its " feelies " a " scratch-and-sniff " card with six odors that corresponded to six cues during the game.

Carrickfergus, Drogheda and Kilkenny were abolished ; Galway was also abolished, but recreated in 1986.

JAL also had a flag-carrier monopoly on international routes until 1986.

Dylan also appears on the first track " Street Rock " of Kurtis Blows 1986 album Kingdom Blow

Additionally, Raynor also stated that Edwards had previously told him he had faked a photograph in 1986, which he had promoted as genuine in the National Geographic documentary.