Each episode of The Big Time will focus on a different vertical ( Baseball, Soccer, Cooking etc .…) and will feature contestants competing for a chance to live their dreams.

On 8 December 2000, the show celebrated its fortieth year by broadcasting a live, hour-long episode.

It was originally believed that a live episode had not been planned for the anniversary, but actor Keith Duffy confirmed on 29 August 2010 that one would be aired focussing on the aftermath of the upcoming tram crash.

The live episode took place on 9 December 2010.

Coronation Streets 50th anniversary week was celebrated by broadcasting seven consecutive episodes, along with a special one hour live episode, from 6 – 10 December.

During this period, the Friday episode was broadcast live, with the Wednesday episode being pre-recorded 15 minutes later.

The last regular episode to be shown live was broadcast on 3 February 1961.

* Iceman appears in the episode of The Super Hero Squad Show titled " Mysterious Mayhem at Mutant Academy " with Shawn Ashmore reprising his role as the character from the live action X-Men movies.

In this episode, however, Pellucidar is merely described as being a region below Africa where dinosaurs still live.

* Survival expert Les Stroud finds and eats a live bark scorpion in the episode titled " Arizona Desert " of the documentary television series Survivorman.

This was the first time that a major television network successfully scheduled Super Bowl counterprogramming: Fox aired a special live football-themed episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during the halftime show.

To counter with the halftime show, Fox decided to broadcast a special live episode of In Living Color.

Throughout the course of every episode, an assortment of rituals are performed that are sometimes revamped differently each time, such as the playful interactions between the Teletubbies and the voice trumpets, the mishaps caused by Nuu-Nuu, the footage of live children displayed on the screens in the creatures ' stomachs, and, particularly, the " magical event " that occurs once per episode.

Although the shows involve a traditional talent search, the shows follow the reality-competition conventions of removing one or more contestants per episode and allowing the public to vote on who is removed ; the Idol series also require the contestants to live together during the run of the show ( though their daily life is never shown onscreen ).

* Vengeance on Varos ( 1985 ) was an episode of the TV show Doctor Who in which the population of a planet watches live TV broadcasts of the torture and executions of those who oppose the government.

According to the TNG Technical Manual, the transporter cannot move antimatter, but in the VOY episode " Dark Frontier " Voyager transported a live photon torpedo equipped with antimatter onto a Borg ship.

The show consisted of comedy skits, music videos ( usually three per episode ) and live phone-in contests in which the viewer could win a variety of prizes ( transistor radios, record albums, model kits, etc .).

Also, when asked by Nelson Muntz about why she doesn't live with " Mr. Krabappel " in the same episode, she tells him that he " chased something small and fluffy down the rabbit hole ".

Ben Chapman introduced the creature in costume with Abbott and Costello on live television on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Déjà Q " the omnipotent Q, stripped of his powers and left to live as a mortal human, sarcastically refers to himself as " The king who would be man.

Despite Richie and Eddie seemingly being killed at the end of series three ( something which also happened in the episode " Hole ", only for them to reappear unharmed in the following episode ), a fourth series was written but turned down by the BBC, and several of their live shows as well as Guest House Paradiso have been written and performed since then.

The brief allusion to the Judgment in the Iliad ( 24. 25 – 30 ) shows that the episode initiating all the subsequent action was already familiar to its audience ; a fuller version was told in the Cypria, a lost work of the Epic Cycle, of which only fragments ( and a reliable summary ) remain.

For example, Vince Gilligan's " Drive " ( about a man subject to an unexplained illness ) was a frenetic action episode, unusual for The X-Files, not least due to its setting on roads in the stark desert of Nevada.

In a demonstration of Speight's satirical skills-after a successful libel action brought against Speight by Mary Whitehouse-he created an episode where Alf Garnett was seen as a fan of Whitehouse first broadcast on 27 February 1967.

* 24 ( 2010 ) In episode 13 of the eighth season of the serial action / drama television series, former FBI special agent Renee Walker is shown to stay in the hotel, in the residential apartment of Jack Bauer, who was living there.

From its first episode, Sesame Street has structured its format by using " a strong visual style, fast-moving action, humor, and music ", as well as animation and live-action short films.

He then commented that was just the general background, then repeats the action to transfer further information pertinent to the episode.

Scholars have attempted to draw a connection between the episode of the castration of Attis and the ritual mutilation of the Galli as a reflection in myth of a secondary ritual action or conversely, as the mythical foundation of a ritual action.

In an episode of the action cartoon, Ben 10: Alien Force, one of the main villains ' Vulcanus ' buys a form allowing him to terraform Earth so he can drop a bomb into the center of the planet so he'll have " all the comforts of home ".

* In the Season 13 episode of the series Law & Order entitled " Chosen ," defense lawyer Randy Dworkin ( played by Peter Jacobson ) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, " Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk ..."

This episode became known as the " Battle of Nottingham " and, though the action moved to the courtroom, it was seven months before the loco was released.

In the episode, McDowell played the real-life narrator of the story in live action, introducing himself simply as " a British person ", in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre, and its ex-host, Alistair Cooke.

After an unsuccessful appeal to God for planning permission to enlarge Hell, in episode 1, the action divides between Hell and various locations on Earth.

* In the Season 13 episode of the series Law & Order entitled " Chosen ", defense lawyer Randy Dworkin ( played by Peter Jacobson ) prefaces a speech against affirmative action with the phrase, " Janeane Garofalo herself can storm into my office and tear down the framed photos of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner, that I keep on the wall over my desk ..."

* Cultural References — lists and explanations of real-life events and / or media that were indirectly or directly referenced within the dialogue and action of the episode

Notable parts in this period included an episode of the popular action series The Equalizer in which he played the victim of a kidnapping, and also in the TV movie The Midnight Hour.

The season also featured the running theme of the Ancient Spirits of Evil having to take a more active hand in pushing Mumm-Ra into action, culminating in another unique feature of the season-an actual finale episode, " The Last Day ," in which the Spirits give Mumm-Ra one last chance to destroy the ThunderCats.

The 5 April 1984 episode was never made, as BBC1 was off air the entire day due to industrial action.

The latter action figure was released as part of a set, with the other figure being Dawn from the same episode.

On the September 7 episode of SmackDown !, Mysterio had an " I Quit " match with Chavo Guerrero, which he won after hitting Guerrero's knee with a chair repeatedly in a similar manner to which Mysterio had been put out of action.

On the February 22 episode of SmackDown !, Mysterio announced that his injury would keep him out of action for at least six months, and he eventually underwent three surgeries within the space of a month.

After almost a year, Mysterio returned to in-ring action on the July 16 episode of Raw, saving Zack Ryder from his old rival, Alberto Del Rio.

Slaughter also appeared in action for the first time in many years on the November 15, 2010 " old school " episode of Raw, losing to Alberto Del Rio.