Ken Barlow ( Coronation Street ) | Ken Barlow in the first episode of Coronation Street.

The episode where Alan met his death under the tram gave Coronation Street its highest ever viewing figures of 26. 9 million, and is still the 9th most watched UK broadcast of all time.

On 17 September 2010 Coronation Street entered the Guinness World Records book as the world's longest-running television soap opera after the American soap opera As the World Turns had its final episode.

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

The episode of EastEnders broadcast on the same day as Coronation Street 50th anniversary episode included a tribute, with the character Dot Branning saying that she never missed Coronation Street.

Hilda Ogden's final episode on Christmas Day 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of Coronation Street ever, with nearly 27 million viewers.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Coronation Street added a second episode on Friday evenings at 8: 30 pm.

With broadcasts of Coronation Street on rival network TV3 moving to Thursday night, the Wednesday night episode of Fair City broadcasts at 7: 30pm each week.

** The first episode of the classic British TV series Coronation Street is broadcast.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

The railway was also featured in an episode of Coronation Street ( transmitted on August Bank Holiday 2010 ) when Hayley and Roy Cropper travelled to their wedding aboard an ELR train of Mark 1 coaches hauled by LMS " Black 5 " No. 44871, and in the BBC television film Eric and Ernie, aired on New Year's Day 2011, about the early career of the British comedy act Morecambe and Wise.

She has also made many single television appearances, including playing Jill, the receptionist from Pear Tree Productions, in one episode of the first series of I'm Alan Partridge, a rural dominatrix in Doc Martin as well as roles in Midsomer Murders and Coronation Street.

She returned to television in 2011, guest-starring as a judge on a June 2011 episode of Coronation Street and as aunt Annie in an episode of the children's TV show Scoop, titled " Come In Digby, Your Time's Up ".

In the 1960s he had cameo roles in Coronation Street and Dad's Army ( in the latter he played a Pickfords man in one episode ( 1969 ), and an ARP Warden called Gerald in three episodes ( 1970 )).

Small parts and guest appearances in television series began to materialise throughout the 1970s, and, in May 1979, comedy writer Jimmy Perry spotted Paul playing Frank Roper in a 1979 episode of Coronation Street, and offered him the part of Ted Bovis in his new holiday-camp sitcom Hi-de-Hi !.

In October 2011, in one of the first instances of paid product placement since a ban on such advertising was lifted, a Nationwide cash machine appeared in an episode of Coronation Street.

Campbell made a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street.

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

In a 1950 radio episode of You Bet Your Life, Groucho stated that he was born in a room above a butcher's shop on 78th Street in New York City.

* " Andy's Play ", the third episode in the 7th season of The Office, centers around Andy Bernard's role in a local musical production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.

For example, in one episode, the Muppets of Sesame Street appeared behind the duo, who told them, " How should we know how to get to Sesame Street?

** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.

It was also used at the end of roll call at the beginning of the episode of 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues.

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.

The season two episode " The Giant Jackrabbit " also became the most watched telecast up to the time of its airing, and remains the most watched half-hour episode of a sitcom as well.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

The series finale ( the 236th episode ), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51. 1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.

Reruns of Hee Haw began airing on RFD-TV in September 2008, and the show has aired there since, currently anchoring the network's Sunday night lineup with a re-airing of that week's episode the following Monday.

* After the airing of the season 5 episode " Games, Flames, and Automobiles ", in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game.

Voight made a cameo appearance as himself on the Seinfeld episode " The Mom & Pop Store " airing November 17, 1994, in which George Costanza buys a car that appears to be owned by Jon Voight.

In 2002 Brookside went from three half hour episodes on different week nights to airing one ninety minute episode each week.

The series was noteworthy for being both partially improvised and each episode being produced in the 5 days prior to airing to take advantage of topical events that could be worked into the fictional narrative.

* The NBC reality series Lost ended up with a truncated run as the second episode of the show was to air on the night of the 11th and subsequently edited down from six to five episodes airing in December 2001, with copious editing done due to the show's finish line being shot at a pre-attacked Statue of Liberty.

Following the game, NBC aired the premiere episode of The A-Team, beginning the tradition of the game's host network airing programming after the game.

The final episode in the series is titled " Finishing the Hat " ( airing May 13, 2012 ).

It premiered in Japan on April 2, 1996 on TV Tokyo, with the final episode airing on September 24, 1996.

In the episode Pendragon of the Gargoyles second season originally airing in 1996, King Arthur comes to London and encounters the Stone of Destiny at Westminster Abbey.

The History Channel's initial airing of its new series, Mega Disasters, debut episode " West Coast Tsunami ", was broadcast the first week of May.

The series made its official debut as a Cartoon Cartoon on November 18, 1998, with the final episode airing on March 25, 2005.

) He had a cameo appearance in the Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries episode " When Granny Ruled the Earth ", first airing on March 27, 1999.

The first new special aired on 25 December with the second episode airing on 1 January 2012.

In August 2008 it was reported by The Consumerist that Discovery Channel had stopped their popular MythBusters program from airing an episode examining RFID security in regard to its implementation in credit cards because the episode would upset credit card companies, who are major advertisers on Discovery Channel.

The series finale was followed by a special airing of the Saved by the Bell: The College Years pilot episode, to set up the next phase of the characters ' lives.

" is the first episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, airing in 1959.

The cable network Trio started airing the show in its original one-hour form in the early 2000s, but only the pilot and the first 69 episodes ( extending to the fourth episode of the 1970 – 1971 season ) were included in Trio's package.

* An episode of DEA, a television series airing on Spike, was filmed in Hazel Park, arousing controversy when the city was branded falsely as a " dangerous, drug-infested section of Detroit ".