The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

* Maggie Shayne's Wings in the Night series ( 1993 –).

* Maggie Malone Seaver, a working ( news reporter ) mom in the television series Growing Pains ( 1985-1992 ), played by Joanna Kerns.

* Maggie O ' Connell, a character in the 1990's television series Northern Exposure was born and raised in Grosse Pointe.

" Four Great Women and a Manicure ", an episode of the animated comedy series The Simpsons, loosely adapts The Fountainhead as the segment " Maggie Roark ", casting Maggie Simpson, as voiced by Jodie Foster, as Howard Roark.

She appeared as Maggie Gioberti in " The Vintage Years ", the pilot for the drama Falcon Crest, but was replaced by Susan Sullivan when the series went into production.

* 13 Ruth Cracknell, 76, redoubtable Australian actress most famous for the long-running role of Maggie Beare in the series " Mother and Son ".

Maggie Millar ; Ian Smith ; Gerda Nicolson ; and Anne Phelan would eventually join the cast of the series as well ( playing Marie Winter ; Ted Douglas, Ann Reynolds and Myra Desmond, respectively ).

Welch was spectacularly written out of Number 96 in late 1975 when, in the aftermath of a deadly explosion that rocked the building the series was set in, it was revealed that the embittered Maggie had set the bomb.

In 2010, the CW network picked up a new series Nikita, with Maggie Q as a Nikita who has gone rogue.

* Maggie Winters ( TV series ) ( 1998 )

* The 2010 television series, Downton Abbey, features Dame Maggie Smith playing the fictional Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham.

She is also known for her role as Maggie Cheon on the 2008-10 TV series Crash.

A certain determinism is at play throughout the novel, from Mr Tulliver ’ s grossly imprudent inability to keep himself from “ going to law ”, and thereby losing his patrimony and bankrupting his family, to the series of events which sets Maggie and Stephen down the river and past the point of no return.

After killing a gang leader during a fight over Maggie, he escapes from London to Yorkshire at the age of fifteen ( by creating this back story, Bernard Cornwell made the actor Sean Bean's Yorkshire accent part of the canon of the series ).

R. O. D-THE TV-is a 26-episode anime TV series, animated by J. C. Staff and produced by Aniplex, directed by Koji Masunari and scripted by Hideyuki Kurata, about the adventures of three paper-manipulating sisters, Michelle, Maggie and Anita, who become the bodyguards of Nenene Sumiregawa, a famous Japanese writer.

He challenges the Paper Sisters during " Twilight of the Papers " episodes and proves stronger than all three combined, even capable of ripping Maggie's familiars apart with his hands, and he only meets his fate after Maggie successfully manages to fight him defensively until he is engulfed in a sea of ink released when a series of explosives in the building go off.

Because I Said So is a 2002 Canadian talk show television series hosted by former lawyer, stand-up comedian, and actress Maggie Cassella.

Maggie Cassella is a former lawyer, stand-up comedian, writer, and American-Canadian actress who hosted the Canadian talk show television series Because I Said So.

Professor Maggie Walsh is a fictional character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Beaudine was often entrusted with series films, including the Torchy Blane, The East Side Kids, Jiggs and Maggie, The Shadow, Charlie Chan and The Bowery Boys series.

Another Walter Lantz cartoon " The Ostrich Egg And I " ( from the Maggie & Sam series ) in 1956 was a spoof of The Egg and I with Maggie voiced by Grace Stafford and Sam voiced by Daws Butler.

-- The powerful New York Yankees won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely played finale.

Joan Hickson played the part of the home help in this film and can claim to have appeared in two Miss Marple series.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia since 1882.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

England lost only four Ashes Tests in the 1880s out of 23 played, and they won all the seven series contested.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Of the 20 Tests played during the four series, Australia won four and England three.

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

Sixty-six series have been played, with Australia winning 31 and England 30.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

The England Cricket Board declined and the series was played over five Tests.

Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The winners of each division played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The Yankees have currently played in the most division series in history, with fifteen appearances.

The Atlanta Braves have currently played in the most NL division series with eleven appearances.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

This role was taken in the first two series by Lord Percy Percy, played by Tim McInnerny, with Hugh Laurie playing the role in the third and fourth series, as Prince George, Prince Regent, and Lieutenant George, respectively.