In 2004, he played serial killer Ted Bundy in the A & E Network television film The Riverman, which was based on the book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer written by Robert D. Keppel.

House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In January 1997, Abdul starred in the ABC television movie Touched by Evil, playing a businesswoman who discovers that her boyfriend is a serial rapist.

A soap opera, sometimes called " soap " for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming.

No cable television outlet has produced its own daytime serial, although DirecTV's The 101 Network took over existing serial Passions, continuing production for one season.

An early television serial was The Grove Family on the BBC.

They are often mass-produced under large production banners, with companies like Balaji Telefilms running different language versions of the same serial on different television networks or channels.

The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.

The first popular science-fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which ran from June 1949 to April 1955.

* " Television series ", the Australian, British, and a number of others countries ' equivalent term for the North American " television season ", a set of episodes produced by a television serial.

Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost.

The industry expanded very rapidly with the advent of television in the 1950s and the age of highly produced serial radio shows ended.

Reality shows with low ratings included The Amazing Race, Lost ( unrelated to the better-known serial drama of the same name ) and The Mole, leading some to speculate that reality television was a temporary fad that had run its course.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

* 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.

The book has twice been adapted by the BBC as a serial for television, in 1960 and 1975.

* Maskelyne features prominently in Dava Sobel's 1995 book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, as well as the television serial based on the book, where he is portayed by Samuel West.

* Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 1959 ) – A British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London, which reveals that humanity on Earth is the result of experiments by a Martian civilisation, now long dead.

Bron appeared in a brief scene in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who serial City of Death ( 1979 ) alongside John Cleese as art critics in Denise Rene's art gallery in Paris.

" Later, she had a more substantial guest role in another Doctor Who television serial, Revelation of the Daleks ( 1984 ).

Joe Perrone went on to play Gino Rossini in the popular Australian television serial " Neighbours " in 1987 ; guest starred in the Australian sit-com " Acropolis Now " in 1992, and featured in the 1988 US motion picture " Phantom of the Ritz ".

In 1989, he collaborated with artist Tom Phillips on a television serial A TV Dante, dramatising the first few cantos of Dante's Inferno.

Another subgenre of detective fiction is the serial killer mystery, which might be thought of as an outcropping of the police procedural.

He eventually turned to writing for money in 1925, and by 1931 was selling short stories and serial fiction to American science fiction pulp magazines, most under the pen names of ' John Beynon ' or ' John Beynon Harris ', although he also wrote some detective stories.

Retcons also appear in soap operas, serial drama, movie sequels, professional wrestling, video games, radio series, and other kinds of serial fiction.

His first science fiction serial was Dark Season ; two years later he wrote Century Falls.

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published ( in abridged form ) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( October, November 1959, as " Starship Soldier ") and published hardcover in December, 1959.

" Because we grew up on comic books and the Tolkien trilogy, one of the things we're interested in is bringing serial fiction to cinema ," Lana has said.

* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.

* A robotic Yeti in The Abominable Snowmen, a six-part serial from 1967 in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who ( they returned in The Web of Fear, The Five Doctors, and Downtime )

Flash Gordon is a 1940 science fiction film serial.

Flash Gordon was the first outright science fiction serial, although earlier serials had contained science fiction elements such as gadgets.

* Terminus ( Doctor Who ), a serial in the long-running science fiction TV series

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day — e. g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens — Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom.

The Pirate Planet is the second serial of the 16th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 30 September to 21 October 1978.

Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

City of Death is the second serial of the 17th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

* Soldat från jorden (" Soldier from Earth ") ( 1973 ; based on a earlier draft previously published as a serial in the Swedish science fiction fanzine SF-Forum )

A 1966 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who officially entitled The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, but often referred to by fans simply as The Massacre, is set during the events leading up to the Paris massacre.

* " Inferno " ( Doctor Who ), a 1970 serial from the British science fiction series

After the first episode in 1960, the Daily Mirror printed: " The programme is doomed from the outset ... For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week.

* " Conspiracy ", third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Romans

In 2008, Alexander guest-starred on the CBS show Criminal Minds in the season four episode " Masterpiece " as Prof. Rothschild, a well-educated serial killer obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence who sends the team into a race against time to save his last victims.

Marvin received the role after guest-starring in a memorable Dragnet episode as a serial killer.

Each episode of this serial was fifteen minutes and it screened each weekday on the Seven Network.

The arrow remains in the door throughout the serial and through several dematerialisations before being removed at the story's conclusion ; this is repeated in " The Shakespeare Code " ( 2007 ), and the arrow is removed in the following episode.

* Numerous references to " The Illustrated Man " are made throughout an episode of Criminal Minds ( episode 20, season 5, entitled " A Thousand Words ") that deals with a serial killer whose body is covered in tattoos.

This is one of the older variants of the format ; shows such as The Dating Game that date to the 1960s had similar premises ( though each episode was self-contained, and not the serial format of more modern shows ).

Over the course of the series, the viewer is given insight into the nature of the leaping process, in that the person that Sam leaps into is brought to the future at Project Quantum Leap, where he appears to everyone as Sam there ; in one episode, this person, a serial killer, escaped, preventing Sam from leaping until he was returned without incident to Project Quantum Leap.

Stevens also produced a series of audio dramas called Kaldor City, created by Chris Boucher, which link the Blake's 7 universe into Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death through the character Carnell ( Scott Fredericks ), whom Boucher created for the Blake's 7 episode Weapon.

One of Pickens ' most memorable television roles was an episode of Hawaii Five-O where he played the patriarch of a family of serial killers.

* " The Plague ", second episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark

Sadie planned a trip to Dwight in the " Sadie's Trip To Dwight " episode of the radio serial Vic and Sade, originally aired on June 4, 1937.

* Used as Windsor Castle in the Doctor Who episode Silver Nemesis ( 1988 ), in The Madness of King George ( 1994 ), in Victoria & Albert ( 2001 TV serial ), and in The Young Victoria ( 2008 ).

At one time the Raritan River Railroad passed through Sayreville and had several spurs to service Sayre & Fisher and other local industries, with a train running on the line featured in a 1914 episode titled " The Juggernaut " of the silent movie serial The Perils of Pauline.

In one episode, it was shown that he couldn't remember his serial number, although it might have been an act.

* The Doctor Who serial Frontier in Space features a lunar penal colony in the 26th century ; a lunar penal colony of the 2002nd century is also mentioned in the episode " Bad Wolf ",

In turn, a limerent may only experience a single limerent episode, or may experience " serial " episodes, in which nearly one's entire mature life, from early puberty through late adulthood, can be consumed in successive limerent obsessions.

* A 2010 episode ( 118 ) of the series Criminal Minds featured an episode with a serial killer who met his victims in swing clubs and acted out because his wife got pregnant.