Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

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.

* Phllby has a key role in Mike Ripley's short story " Gold Sword " published in ' John Creasey's Crime Collection 1990 ' which was chosen as BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Story to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June 1994.

Her portrayal of a troubled theatre-goer in Secret Friends ( BBC 2, 1990 ) was described as " a miniature tour de force ... Miranda Richardson's finest hour, all in ten minutes " ( The Sunday Times ).

In 1990 Enfield developed his BBC sketch show, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, later called Harry Enfield and Chums, with Whitehouse and Kathy Burke.

Finney made several television productions for the BBC in the 1990s, including The Green Man ( 1990 ), based on a story by Kingsley Amis, the acclaimed drama A Rather English Marriage ( 1998 ) ( with Tom Courtenay ), and the lead role in Dennis Potter's final two plays, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus in 1996 and 1997.

Bron played an art critic again in 1990, appearing on the BBC sketch comedy show French and Saunders in a parody of an Andy Warhol documentary.

In 1990 The Comic Strip Presents, a BBC television series, produced a spoof version of Calvi's story under the title Spaghetti Hoops, with Nigel Planer in the lead role.

Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, its legal name has been Channel 3, the number 3 having no real meaning other than to distinguish it from BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4.

In 1990, Adams himself recorded an unabridged edition, later re-released by New Millennium Audio in the United States and available from BBC Audiobooks in the United Kingdom.

Sir Alec Guinness presented him with a lifetime achievement honour at the inaugural British Comedy Awards in 1990, while he received another such honour at the BBC Centenary Programme in 1996.

* Talking Heads, London: BBC Publications, 1988 ; New York: Summit, 1990

* The Comic Strip Presents ...: " GLC: The Carnage Continues ..." 15 February 1990 ( BBC ) as Sir Horace Cutler

They released a debut EP titled " Across The Circle's Edge " in both Vinyl format ( by Circle's Edge records in 1990 ) and in CD format ( by SI Records in 1992 ) which received airplay on BBC Radio 1 Tommy Vance Rock Show.

On screen, Odo has been portrayed by John Nettleton in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ), part of the series Theatre 625, and by Denis Lill in the TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror ( 1990 ).

It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been regularly broadcast since 1990.

In 1989, her appeal to save the Babelsberg studios from closure was broadcast on BBC Radio, and she spoke on television via telephone on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990.

She made her first appearance at the BBC Proms in 1990, and has appeared regularly since.

She played Mrs Wembley in the BBC comedy series On the Up, which starred Dennis Waterman and ran from 1990 to 1992.

In 1990 he played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for BBC Radio 3.

BBC Radio 5 was launched on 27 August 1990 as a home for sport and children's programming, and was replaced and renamed on 28 March 1994 with BBC Radio 5 Live, a dedicated news and sport network.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

Although a 1990 law authorizes private radio and television stations, the government has not granted any licenses as of March 1998.

* In 1990, Gabrielle Beaumont created a film adaptation for a horror anthology television series Nightmare Classics titled " Carmilla ", which is one of the more faithful adaptations of the story, though the setting was transported to post-Civil War Deep South of the United States.

Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks ( 1990 – 1991 ); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ( 1992 ), a road movie, Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), and a family film, The Straight Story ( 1999 ) in the same period.

* Streaming of the original 1980 television series " Free to Choose " as well as an updated 1990 version.

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Operational satellites for television use were launched between 1984 and 1990.

* 1990 – The Jamaat al Muslimeen attempt a coup d ' état in Trinidad and Tobago, occupying the Trinidad and the studios of Trinidad and Tobago Television, holding Prime Minister A. N. R. Robinson and most of his Cabinet as well as the staff at the television station hostage for 6 days.

* Andre Braugher, in the 1990 TNT television movie The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson.

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

* Janeen Rae Heller played the saw in four television guest appearances: The Tracey Ullman Show ( 1989 ), Quantum Leap ( 1990 ), and Home Improvement ( 1992 and 1999 ).

Just under six weeks into his new ownership role, Werner attempted to cross-promote the team with one of his television series in between games of a doubleheader against the Cincinnati Reds in July 1990.

Afterward, she was cast in a series of small roles in several independent films as well as in the lead role of the short-lived NBC television version of the film Working Girl ( 1990 ).

From 1990 to 2005 Scientific American also produced a television program on PBS called Scientific American Frontiers.

* Tom & Jerry Kids, a 1990 television series

* September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer ( The Muppets ) ( d. 1990 )

After leaving Little House, she continued acting in television shows like The Equalizer, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote, and was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die ( 1990 ).

Aniston was cast in her first television role in 1990, starring as a regular on the short-lived series Molloy and in the TV movie Camp Cucamonga.

Until the passage of the Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990, television captioning was performed by a set-top box manufactured by Sanyo Electric and marketed by The National Captioning Institute ( NCI ).

She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice ( 1990 ), and Eugene Levy's Once Upon a Crime ( 1992 ), as well as several television films.

The 13-year-old incarnation played by Phoenix in the film was the focus of a Young Indiana Jones series of young adult novels that began in 1990 ; by the ninth novel, the series had become a tie-in to the television show.