Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Most critics felt that the screenplay was poorly written, not funny, and the dramatic material was unconvincing and unbelievable.

Most dramatic was the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament.

Most of the major ancient historians assigned credit for the dramatic Athenian victories of 411 BC to Alcibiades, but a few, such as Cornelius Nepos, pointed to the decisive role that was played in these battles by Thrasybulus.

Most dramatic was a giant sculpture depicting Moses which was placed on the top, above the entrance.

Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or, often, a serious play with a happy ending.

Most of his plots spring from the deeper conflict between freedom and fate and culminate in a dramatic crisis in which the hero, in the face of a great temptation, loses his moral freedom and is forced to fulfill the higher law of destiny.

Most of Wilkie's foreign subjects – the Pifferari, Princess Doria, the Maid of Saragossa, the Spanish Podado, a Guerilla Council of War, the Guerilla Taking Leave of his Family and the Guerilla's Return to his Family – passed into the English royal collection ; but the dramatic Two Spanish Monks of Toledo, also entitled the Confessor Confessing, became the property of the marquis of Lansdowne.

Most offer sporting, musical, dramatic and art facilities, sometimes at extra charges, although often with the benefit of generations of past investment.

Most dramatic was the victory in Vietnam in 1975 when North Vietnam invaded and conquered South Vietnam ; American forces were involved only to rescue American supporters.

Most traffic between Al-Andalus and Christian regions remained in the hands of Jewish and Muslim traders until the dramatic shifts initiated by European commercial expansion throughout the 11th and 12th centuries.

Most famously, he referred to persons against the Accord as " enemies of Canada ", and while speaking about the dangers of voting against the agreement in Sherbrooke, he ripped a piece of paper in half with a dramatic flourish to represent the historic gains for Quebec that would be threatened if the accord failed.

Most literature on strategic information systems emphasizes the dramatic breakthroughs in computer systems, such as American Airlines ' Sabre System and American Hospital Supply ’ s terminals in customer offices.

Most of Ponsard's plays hold a certain steady level of literary and dramatic ability, but his popularity is in the main because his appearance coincided with a certain public weariness of the extravagant and unequal style of 1830.

Most dramatic television programming falls within other standard categories such as miniseries, made-for-TV movies or certain rather circumscribed dramatic genres.

Most key archaeological sites in the region seem to show continued, undisturbed occupation from an early date, so their rise to power may have been gradual rather than a sudden, dramatic conquest, or it may be linked to the burning of the large hill fort at Castle Hill, Huddersfield, c. 430BC.

Most of the more dramatic stories of tightlacing reputed to have come from daily Victorian life actually come from fetish magazines of the period.

Most notable of these commissions was the dramatic fire curtain for the theatre in GAPW's Chicago Civic Opera Building in 1929.

Most of the time the victim has a bowel movement so dramatic and agonizing that it induces unconsciousness.

Most of these programs were produced as installments of live dramatic anthologies, such as The Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre and Playhouse 90.

Most notable would be the introduction of the first push-button automatic transmission to appear in an American automobile, and a more dramatic rear-end treatment highlighted by a pair of rakish tail-fins.

Most of his plays were melodramas, and his work became repetitive, but he caught something of the new spirit appearing in German dramatic literature, in the works of Schiller, Iffland and Kotzebue.

Most recently, Lundquist called Tiger Woods ' dramatic chip-in bridie on # 16 at the 2005 Masters Tournament, yelling " Here it comes ... Oh, my goodness !... OH, WOW !!

Most epitaphs are brief records of the family, and perhaps the career, of the deceased, often with an expression of love or respect-" beloved father of ..."-but others are more ambitious.

A feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God was celebrated in Syria on 9 December perhaps as early as the 5th century.

Most of Davis ' associates at the time, some of them perhaps in imitation of Charlie Parker, had drug addictions of their own ( among them, sax players Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon, trumpeters Fats Navarro and Freddie Webster, and drummer Art Blakey ).

Most of these are installed in government offices, collective farms, and state-owned enterprises ( SOEs ), with only perhaps 10 percent controlled by individuals or households.

Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props.

Most modern Christian churches continue to uphold the belief that there will be a final Resurrection of the Dead and World to Come, perhaps as prophesied by the Apostle Paul when he said: "... he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world ..." ( Acts 17: 31 KJV ) and "... there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Most, perhaps all, volcanic eruptions are preceded and accompanied by geophysical and geochemical changes in the volcanic system.

Most importantly perhaps, the local-government law of July, 1805, founded the first Dutch system of public administration.

Most famously, perhaps, they lie at the center of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Most performance art also involves some form of plastic art, perhaps in the creation of props.

Most notable, perhaps, was NewtonScript for the Apple Newton and JavaScript used in all modern browsers.

Most ancient authors did not mention precession and perhaps did not know of it.

Most versions of the story say that Hippolyta was so impressed with Heracles that she gave him the girdle without argument, perhaps while visiting him on his ship.

Most other raptors are considerably smaller, including Buteo hawks which are perhaps most similar to the Golden Eagle in structure among smaller raptors.

Most traditional researchers ( those subscribing to Cognitivism ) argue that learner-content interaction is perhaps the most important endeavor of Instructional technology.

A 19-time All-Star and two-time American League ( AL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ), Ripken is perhaps best known for breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a record that had stood for 56 years and many deemed unbreakable.

Most would agree with Wagstaff's view that, because " a true response to hypnotic suggestion is not a response brought about at any stage by volition, but rather a true nonvolitional response, perhaps even brought about despite volition ", only category ( 1 ) really embodies the true domain of hypnotic suggestibility.

Most homes contain several cheaper home appliances, with perhaps a few more expensive appliances, such as a high-end microwave oven or mixer.

Most of these were simple records of patient and laborious analytical operations, and it is perhaps surprising that among all the substances he analysed he only detected two new elements, beryllium in 1798 in beryl and chromium in 1797 in a red lead ore from Siberia.

Most living genera would seem to have evolved throughout the Oligocene to Miocene with the waders perhaps a bit later ; see the genus accounts for the fossil record.

Most thinking in genetics has focused upon vertical transfer, but there is a growing awareness that horizontal gene transfer is a highly significant phenomenon and amongst single-celled organisms perhaps the dominant form of genetic transfer.

Most usually a former king's son became tanist ( sometimes the son of the king simultaneously elected, however perhaps more often a son of a rival branch of the dynasty ), but not because the system of primogeniture was in any way recognized ; indeed, the only principle adopted was that the dignity of chieftainship should descend to the eldest and most worthy of the same male-line blood of the clan.

Psychic medium Derek Acorah, perhaps best known for starring as the medium at the beginning of the paranormal documentary reality television series Most Haunted, was born in Bootle in 1950.

Most scholars though agree that they could perhaps consist of a mixture of several groups, or take influence from several groups.