In January 2008, Dark Horse Comics began releasing a four-part monthly comic book mini-series based on Evil Dead, written by Mark Verheiden, with art by John Bolton, who provided art for the Dark Horse Army of Darkness comic.

In 1984 the Australian television mini-series, All the Rivers Run, based on a novel by Nancy Cato and starring Sigrid Thornton and John Waters, was filmed in and around Echuca.

It was rumoured that fellow film director John Boorman would be taking over direction, but the production collapsed and Nostromo soon became a BBC television mini-series.

* Mythos: The Final Tour ( 1996 ): A three-issue mini-series featuring Pain, written by John Ney Rieber and illustrated by Gary Amaro and Peter Gross, Peter Snejbjerg, and Teddy Kristiansen.

She also appeared opposite then-husband Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton in Becket ( 1964 ); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), again starring O ' Toole ; once more opposite O ' Toole in Murphy's War ( 1971 ); as Emmeline Pankhurst in the TV mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder ( 1974 ); as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and Smiley's People ( 1982 ), adapted from John le Carré's novels of the same names ; in Nijinsky ( 1980 ); and as the queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).

** “ Die Laughing ,” written by John Wagner and Alan Grant, art by Glenn Fabry ( book 1 ) and Jim Murray ( book 2 ), 2-part mini-series ( 1998 )

He returned to play John Crichton in the 2004 SciFi Channel mini-series Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars.

* The 1985 Australian television mini-series A Thousand Skies, with John Walton as Kingsford Smith and Andrew Clarke as Ulm.

Kerr has thrice played real-life Australian military personalities, appearing as bomber pilot Micky Martin in The Dambusters ( 1955 ), as General John Monash in the TV mini-series Anzacs ( 1985 ) and as General Harry Chauvel in the film The Lighthorsemen ( 1986 ).

Both John Milius and John Huston each attempted to adapt the novel into a feature film before Suzanne De Passe and McMurtry decided to adapt the novel as a mini-series.

Both Emma and John Steed made cameo appearances in the bar scene in the second issue of the 1996 comic book mini-series Kingdom Come.

The original mini-series concentrated on Timothy Hunter's introduction to the world of magic by the Trenchcoat Brigade ( the Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, Mister E, and John Constantine ), who are aware that the boy has the potential to be the world's greatest magician, but that his allegiance to good or evil is undecided.

Martin was played by John Turturro in the 2007 ESPN mini-series The Bronx is Burning which follows the tumultuous summer of 1977 in New York City.

Ennis has also worked with John Woo on a 5-issue comic book mini-series called Seven Brothers for Virgin Comics.

* A BBC TV mini-series in five episodes The Scarlet and the Black, was made in 1965, starring John Stride, June Tobin, and Karin Fernald.

He also had three recent Vertigo series that have wrapped up: Faker a six part mini-series with art by Jock ; a second graphic novel, God Save the Queen, with John Bolton, featuring Queen Titania, Oberon, Puck, Nuala and Cluracan from the Sandman and Books of Magic comics ; and Crossing Midnight with Jim Fern.

The Suicide Squad was revived in the Legends mini-series, with writer John Ostrander at the helm.

John Ostrander returned to the Suicide Squad for an eight-issue mini-series, starting in November 2007.

It was a spin-off of Point Blank, a mini-series about Grifter from Wildcats and John Lynch from Gen¹³ that was also written by Ed Brubaker.

Rosenthal adapted the novel " The Devil's Lieutenant " for director John Goldschmidt as a mini-series for Channel 4 and ZDF, and wrote the screenplay of " Captain Jack " ( based on a true story ) for producer John Goldschmidt.

In 1993, he played a young John F. Kennedy in the 2-part TV mini-series JFK: Reckless Youth.

The title refers to The Flash ( Wally West ) and Green Lantern ( John Stewart ) characters in connection to the second mini-series featuring Barry Allen and Hal Jordan in the roles.

On television, Kathryn Walker and Leora Dana in the 1976 PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles.

* Rorschach was featured in promo artwork by Art Adams for the Countdown to Final Crisis: Arena mini-series, where he is being beaten by Batman from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

In 2008, Morse portrayed George Washington in the HBO mini-series John Adams, for which his nose was made bigger.

In 1982, Marvel published the mini-series Contest of Champions, in which all of the major heroes in existence at the time were gathered together to deal with one threat.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown ( which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film ), Geordi ( now a commander ) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

In 1973, his novel Seventeen Moments of Spring ( 1968 ) was adapted to television as a twelve-part mini-series about the Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in wartime Nazi Germany as Max Otto von Stierlitz, charged with preventing a separate peace between Nazi Germany and America which would exclude the USSR.

SiP, as it is commonly known, began as a three-issue mini-series published by Antarctic Press in 1993, which focused entirely on the relationship between the three main characters and Francine's unfaithful boyfriend.

One of the most notable examples is the episode " The Mayflower voyagers " of the 1988 mini-series This is America, Charlie Brown, which ABC has often aired on Thanksgiving Day ( except in 2006 and 2007 ) along with A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

Will next starred in Red, an adaptation of the comic book mini-series of the same name, in which he portrays Frank Moses.

Blake's 7: Legacy would be a two part, three hour mini-series, which would be written by Ben Aaronovitch and D. Dominic Devine.

However, with the advent of the 2005 – 2006 mini-series Infinite Crisis, another continuity-altering storyline, pre-or post-Crisis alone is no longer a definitive identifier ; it is now necessary to make clear which Crisis one is referring to.

In 2000 Sykes appeared as Mollocks, the servant of Dr Prunesquallor, in the BBC's mini-series adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, which was the last production to feature both Milligan and Sykes ( although they did not appear together on screen ).

Later Gale Ann Hurd planned a similar mini-series for the Sci-Fi Channel, which also remained unproduced.

The title was replaced by a Batman and Robin series following the Battle for the Cowl mini-series, as well as an ongoing Red Robin monthly which continues the story of Tim Drake.

In 2004, DC began an anthology series titled JLA: Classified, which would feature rotating writers and artists producing self-contained story-arcs and aborted mini-series projects that were reappropriated for publication within the pages of the series, starring the JLA.

Later, the Models of Yesteryear, Dinky, and Convoy series were used as a basis for creating themed collectible " mini-series " of models, while the Super Kings range often yielded large-scale truck " specials ", all of which were generally offered only by mail order.

TV comedies and in mini-series ( which is a term used for shorter, three or four chapter versions of telenovelas ( soap operas ), which helped her become a household name and recognized figure in Puerto Rico.

After his daughter is killed, and he has one of his arms cut off by the villain Prometheus in Justice League: Cry for Justice, Roy will star in the mini-series Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal during which he will retake the name of " Arsenal ".

The following year, she co starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Peter Gallagher, Tim Curry and George C. Scott.

In 2004, he appeared in the year's highest rated mini-series on German television, " Die Nibelungen ", which was released in the USA in 2006 as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King.

It was revealed in the mini-series that the " Reboot " Legion came from Earth-247 ( a metafictional homage to the Legion's first appearance in Adventure Comics # 247 ), which was destroyed in Infinite Crisis, and the " Threeboot " Legion came from the reconstructed Earth-Prime.

Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies ( 1983 ) ( for which he won an Academy Award ), The Natural ( 1984 ), Colors ( 1988 ), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove ( 1989 ), Stalin ( 1992 ), The Man Who Captured Eichmann ( 1996 ), A Family Thing ( 1996 ), The Apostle ( 1997 ) ( which he also wrote and directed ), A Civil Action ( 1998 ), Gods and Generals ( 2003 ), Broken Trail ( 2006 ) and Get Low ( 2010 ).

He also directed the War and Remembrance mini-series which was the continuation of The Winds of War.