While on his first cross-country tour, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and defied that conservative show's ban on using drums of any sort.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

Other storylines included Leanne Battersby becoming a prostitute and the show's first bi-sexual love triangle ( between Michelle Connor, Sonny Dhillon, and Sean Tully ).

2010 saw the show's first lesbian storyline as Sophie Webster develops an attraction towards her best friend Sian Powers.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

Segments of the pilot were recreated in the sixth episode of the show's first season.

In recognition of this, the audience chants the first name of the radio show's host, Ira Flatow.

According to the show's executive producer, Terry Lickona, this is the first and only time in the show's long history that an episode went unaired.

It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series, " Full Frontal Nudity " ( 7 December 1969 ).

The episodes ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved very unpopular among the show's viewers during the first three seasons.

The show's first winner, David Bloomfield was one of the returning contestants, and was asked the question: If there have been a thousand episodes of The Weakest Link, each with nine players, how many contestants in total have appeared on the show?

They appeared again together in July 2007 for the show's first anniversary.

* Medabots takes place in the 22nd century ; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song.

The Contender, a boxing show, unfortunately became the first American reality show in which a contestant committed suicide after being eliminated from the show ; the show's winner was promised a shot at a boxing world championship.

This television show's action and straightforward story-telling left little time for personal stories involving wives or girlfriends, though a two-part story in the first season dealt with the loss of McGarrett's sister's baby.

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

After the show's successful first season, consultants were brought in to make suggestions for the show, including changing Janine to a more maternal character, giving every character a particular " job " ( Peter is the funny one, Egon is the smart one, and Winston, the only black character, was to be the driver ), and to add kids into the show.

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

On an episode of The Gadget Show ( first aired on 30 March 2009 ), the Psion was pitted against the BlackBerry for a place on the show's Hall of Fame.

It was also the first time a show's educational effects on young children were studied, and the first time both summative and formative research were reflected in a television show's content.

He will guest star again in the show's sixth season.

Plato actually returned for several appearances during the show's final 1986 season, which appeared on ABC, including an episode ( Plato's final appearance in the series ) in which Kimberly suffers the effects of bulimia.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

These often opened with the show's main title logo within the teaser scene ; from season four onward, the show began using an anthropomorphic version of the logo in the opening scenes, using various animations.

Producers argued for its cancellation because of its falling ratings, afraid that the show's legacy might be damaged if it were renewed for another season.

In January 2012, Abdul announced that she would not be returning as a judge for the show's second season.

In October 2004, coinciding with the start of the show's fourth season and months before the cancellation announcement, Paramount revealed plans to release the four seasons of Enterprise to DVD in North America during 2005.

In the show's fourth season, Kes is replaced on the ship by Seven of Nine, a Borg drone ( known colloquially as Seven ), who was assimilated as a six-year-old Human girl but liberated from the collective by the Voyager crew.

Magneto and Professor X spent much of the show's second season trapped in the Savage Land ( Xavier's legs having fortunately been restored as a result of the loss of his powers ) until Sinister used them as bait to lure the X-Men into a trap in the season finale, Sinister's forces subsequently being defeated when Wolverine escaped capture and teamed up with Ka-Zar to infiltrate the base and defeat Sinister.

The show's incarnations of Link and Zelda also appeared in various episodes of Captain N: The Game Master during its second season.

During the show's seventh season, star David Duchovny decided to leave the show, following a lawsuit against Fox.

The show's future was not to be, however, because John Doggett's presence gave only a small ratings boost to the show's eighth season.

In the show's second season ( 1997 – 1998 ), Buffy continues to come to terms with her destiny, finds forbidden love with benevolent vampire Angel ( David Boreanaz ), and clashes with new villains Spike ( James Marsters ) and Drusilla ( Juliet Landau ).

The show's board of directors plan to run a short 10 week season rather than risk losing $ 25, 000 a day in a shaky post-war economy.

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

After appearing alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the 2010 television film The Client List, Shepherd became a regular on the series based on the film in 2012 and will continue this role in the show's second season in 2013.

In fact, an estimated 500 different actors, including Gordon Pinsent, Donnelly Rhodes, Nicholas Campbell, Jayne Eastwood, Margot Kidder, Eric McCormack, Vlasta Vrana, Linda Kash, Gordon Clapp, and Wendy Crewson, Abby Zotz, had guest roles during the show's eight-year run.

The show's 275 episodes have been successfully syndicated worldwide, and have earned 28 Emmy Awards from a then-record 117 nominations.

At the same time, Newlywed lost the sponsorships of Ford and Procter & Gamble and earned the resentment of Jackie Autry, whose husband and business partner Gene Autry owned the show's Los Angeles outlet and production base, KTLA, because of its supposedly highly prurient content.

( Cavett claims that Godfrey's statement also earned tax audits from the Richard Nixon-era Internal Revenue Service for the show's entire production staff.

Her standout performance during the course of the show was a heartfelt staging of the Porgy and Bess standard " Summertime " that left her in tears from " feeling the song " and earned praise from the judges-Randy Jackson has called it the best performance in the show's history-and was named amongst the AOL's 2004 list of greatest television moments.

Due to the show's racy humor, it earned a TV-14 rating.

McKenzie reportedly earned about $ 15, 000 and $ 25, 000 per episode throughout the show's run.

For his portrayal of Seth, Brody earned several Teen Choice Awards throughout the show's run.

Accompanying the statement of suspensions the show's editor Richard Marson said Blue Peter wished to " protect children who have earned their badges and who are feeling very let down by this cynical trade.

Because of the show's popularity and prestige, starting in 1992 the AKC limited entries by requiring that dogs must have already earned their breed Championship before appearing at Westminster.

Whichever couple was in the lead after the final puzzle won the game and whatever cash they had earned while the other couple left with a copy of the show's home game, various parting gifts, and whatever previous front-game winnings they had earned if they were a defeated champion.

Her role as the flawed but good Babe Carey earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2005 and recognition as being half of one of the show's most popular soap opera pairings.

The show ran on CBS from 1966 to 1973 and earned him an Emmy Award in 1966 as the show's producer plus another for " Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama.

With the second series, the show's popularity expanded to other parts of SFR Yugoslavia too, as they earned both critical and popular praise.