In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Jennifer Ward-Lealand portrayed Boudica in an episode of Xena-Warrior Princess titled " The Deliverer " in 1997.

He has been featured in an interview segment in a 1997 episode of This Week In Baseball.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

( 1997 ) – Emily Dickinson Trophy ( voice ) in episode: " Phoebe Cheats "

* The Tony Danza Show ( 1997 ) – Simka Gravaas in episode: " The Milk Run "

* Homicide: Life on the Street ( 1997 ) – Gwen Munch, John Munch's ex-wife, in episode: " All is Bright "

* 1997 – An episode of Pokémon, " Dennō Senshi Porygon ", aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children.

In 1997, the episode " The One with the Prom Video " was ranked No. 100 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time.

In 1997, Spader guest starred in an episode of Seinfeld as an angry recovering alcoholic who refuses to apologize to George for making fun of him.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

* " Nemesis " ( Stargate SG-1 ), episode 22 of season 3 of the 1997 science fiction series

New neighbours Derek and Betty McVitie replaced the Trenches for the 1997 special " Endgame ", however this turned out to be their only appearances in the series and they were said to have emigrated by the penultimate episode which caused Nick Swainey to leap straight in with the offer for their old house.

* Space Quest Collection Series ( 1997 ) – All six games, plus a preview of episode VII.

In 1997, the pilot episode was ranked # 25 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

The fourth CD soundtrack, The Vision of Escaflowne: Lovers Only, was released in on January 22, 1997 and contained twenty tracks, including the original TV length opening and ending themes and the ending theme used for the final episode of the series.

In 1997 the long-lost episode, " Alf's Dilemma ", was found in a private collection on a 21-minute 16mm telerecording ( some sources state that the episode is an edited version, others that it was just a short episode ).

* Lexx episode " Eating Pattern ", character " Bog " ( 1997 )

In 1997, " Getting Davy Jones " ( season 3, episode 12 ) was ranked No. 37 on

On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).

* " Re-generation " ( The Outer Limits ), an episode of The Outer Limits television show ( season 3, 1997 )

* Gun ( 1 episode, 1997 )

In a 1997 episode of the TV show Highlander: The Series, the 1950 return was adapted with the characters Duncan MacLeod ( Adrian Paul ), Hugh Fitzcairn ( Roger Daltrey ) and Amanda Darieux ( Elizabeth Gracen ) stealing the stone for various reasons.

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

He released two records of his stand-up comedy: No Cure for Cancer ( 1993 ) and Lock ' n Load ( 1997 ).

His last film of 1997 was Boys Will Be Boys, a family comedy directed by Dom DeLuise.

After supporting roles in the television series ER ( 1996 ) and films such as Wag the Dog ( 1997 ), Small Soldiers ( 1998 ) and The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst transitioned into romantic comedies and comedy dramas, starring in Drop Dead Gorgeous ( 1999 ), Bring It On ( 2000 ), Get Over It and Crazy / Beautiful ( both 2001 ).

After Clan Undead's 1997 work Operation Bayshield built on the earliest Quake movies by introducing narrative conventions of linear media and sketch comedy reminiscent of the television show Saturday Night Live, the New-York-based ILL Clan further developed the genre in machinima through works including Apartment Huntin ' and Hardly Workin '.

Outing has been featured in comedy films as well, such as the French comedy Le Placard ( The Closet ), where a heterosexual man is falsely outed, or in the 1997 comedy In & Out where Kevin Kline stars as a small-town teacher who gets outed on national television, and is then forced to come to terms with his own unrecognized homosexuality.

In 1997, Cruz appeared in the Spanish comedy film Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health.

In 1997, the Christian comedy band ApologetiX also parodied Lump with " Plump ", as well as " Peaches " with " Preachers ".

The television series Moonlighting ( 1985 – 1989 ), Married ... with Children ( 1987 – 1997 ), NewsRadio ( 1995 – 1999 ), Gilmore Girls ( 2000 – 2007 ), and Standoff ( 2006 – 2007 ) have also adapted elements of the screwball comedy genre for the small screen.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1997, Jones did the soundtrack for the comedy film The Full Monty, recording " You Can Leave Your Hat On ".

Hawn made her entry back into film as producer of the satirical comedy Something to Talk About starring Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid, as well as making her directorial debut in the television film Hope ( 1997 ) starring Christine Lahti and Jena Malone.

Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith.

DeLaria has released two CD recordings of her comedy, Bulldyke in a China Shop ( 1994 ) and Box Lunch ( 1997 ).

Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer to construct a fake war with Albania.

The former was adapted into Private Parts ( 1997 ), a biographical comedy film that starred Stern and his radio show staff that earned $ 41. 2 million in domestic revenue.

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin.

Fools Rush In is a 1997 romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant.

Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films ( 1997 – 2002 ), is a parody of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

* Rhys Ifans, who starred in the 1997 black comedy Twin Town and played Hugh Grant's delusional flatmate in Notting Hill, was born in Haverfordwest in 1968.

Australian comedy has a strong tradition of self-mockery, from the outlandish Barry McKenzie expat-in-Europe movies of the 1970s, to the quirky outback characters of the Crocodile Dundee films of the 1980s, the suburban parody of Working Dog Productions ' 1997 film The Castle and the dysfunctional suburban mother – daughter sitcom Kath & Kim.