Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

* The Class ( TV series ), a CBS sitcom

* Eve ( Mauritian TV series ), a Mauritian sitcom featuring the remake of Desperate Housewives

He played Grace's husband, Dr. Leo Markus, on the TV sitcom Will & Grace from 2002 to 2006.

His second chance as a TV series lead, the CBS sitcom Listen Up!

* The song " Christmas Rappin was featured during a Christmas episode of the TV sitcom Martin.

Grammer thought Fox's decision to cancel his TV sitcom Back to You contributed to his health problems, stating that " It was a very stressful time for me, and a surprise that it was cancelled.

* The Mullets ( TV series ), a UPN sitcom

* Mary ( 1985 TV series ), a sitcom follow-up to The Mary Tyler Moore Show

In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That ' 70s Show.

It can range from a casual item for comic effect, such as in an episode titled The Seance of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where Lucy dabbles in numerology, to a central element of the storyline, such as the movie π, in which the protagonist meets a numerologist searching for hidden numerical patterns in the Torah.

The British TV sitcom Up Pompeii uses situations and stock characters from Plautus's plays.

David P. Pierson treats Seinfeld as a comedy of manners: " he popular TV sitcom can best be associated with the modern comedy of manners dramatic genre.

* In 1975 Milligan co-wrote ( with Neil Shand ) and co-starred in a BBC TV sitcom called The Melting Pot.

* Soap ( TV series ), a 1970s sitcom

* The Thin Blue Line ( TV series ), a British sitcom set in a police station, starring Rowan Atkinson, David Haig and Serena Evans

Pierce also appeared on an early episode of the hit 80's TV sitcom Designing Women as a steward on a cruise ship.

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).

* Roc ( TV series ), an American sitcom which aired 1991 – 1994

His last TV role was that of the supermarket manager in the eponymous Tripper's Day, an ITV sitcom.

* Warren ( Porridge ), character ' Bunny ' Warren played by Sam Kelly in the TV sitcom

His final TV series role was in the sitcom Emeril, in 2001.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s.

In recent times, the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory portrays one of its main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper as a man whose birthplace is Galveston, Texas.

The characters have made cameo appearances ( either visually or only voices ) and have been referenced in numerous television shows, such as Friends, Two and a Half Men, Celebrity Deathmatch, Robot Chicken, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and Saturday Night Live ( TV Funhouse ), in films such as Airheads, Clueless, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery and Jackass 3D, and even parodied in children shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, Regular Show and Arthur.

During the 1970s, he made guest-appearances on TV series such as Ironside, Insight, Barbary Coast, The Love Boat, Medical Center, four episodes of Love, American Style, Fantasy Island, and two episodes each of The Streets of San Francisco, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.

Many had come to prominence on the American TV series Saturday Night Live, including Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase.

The Night of the Steel Assassin is a January 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West TV series.

Two years later, Brooks repaid the favor by appearing as a special guest ( with Nanci Griffith ) on McLean's first American TV special, broadcast as the PBS special Starry Starry Night.

Will Jordan portrayed Sullivan in the films I Wanna Hold Your Hand, The Buddy Holly Story, The Doors, Mr. Saturday Night, Down with Love, and in the 1979 TV movie Elvis.

Later that year, the two met up backstage at the New York studios of the TV show Friday Night Videos.

Shows like MAD TV, The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live parody Cosby, using Jell-O references like " pudding pop ".

Her credits include the TV series Ready or Not, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Seasons of Love, and Andromeda as Trance Gemini, and the movies Night of the Twisters, and Dear America: So Far From Home.

They also made many appearances in major print media and on radio and TV, including multiple appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and the Late Show with David Letterman in the U. S. The Presidents turned down an offer to perform on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 1995 because the date conflicted with Ballew's wedding.

Clemens has also made guest appearances as himself on the TV shows Hope and Faith, Spin City, Arli $$, and Saturday Night Live as well as in the movies Kingpin, and Anger Management.

This halftime show also had a connection with past ABC programming: the first two Indiana Jones films had their broadcast premieres on ABC, and the network aired a TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, from 1992 to 1993 ( actually serving as the lead-in to Monday Night Football at one point ).

As his first work, Carter decided to pitch a horror series, something as " scary " as his favorite childhood TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

* Tuesday Night Titans, a 1980s-era World Wrestling Federation TV show

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

** Don Pardo, American TV announcer ( Saturday Night Live )

Crawford's appearance in the 1969 TV film Night Gallery ( which served as pilot to the series that followed ), marked one of Steven Spielberg's earliest directing jobs.

Bacup has been used as a filming location for the 1980s BBC TV police drama Juliet Bravo, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, parts of The League of Gentlemen and much of the film Girls ' Night.

On January 10, 2009, Minnelli made a rare live TV appearance in a surprise cameo on NBC's Saturday Night Live, playing the best friend of “ Penelope ” ( Kristin Wiig ).

Burr co-starred in such TV films as Eischied: Only The Pretty Girls Die and Disaster On The Coastliner ( both 1979 ), The Curse of King Tut's Tomb and The Night the City Screamed ( both 1980 ), and Peter and Paul ( 1981 ).

She has made appearances on comedies such as Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, and Rescue Me.

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

This was parodied in an episode of TV Funhouse from the November 11, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live in which Takeru Kobayashi plays a hot dog eating superhero.

Today when we watch TV and see quick cutting, hand-held cameras, interviews conducted on the run with moving targets, quickly intercut snatches of dialogue, music under documentary action and all the other trademarks of the modern style, we are looking at the children of A Hard Day's Night ".

Among her TV jobs as a show host, Malaret worked on the Noche de Gala, ( Gala Night Ball ) show with Eddie Miró, one of the island's highest rated TV shows during the 1970s, and 1980s, broadcasted by Telemundo.