When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

The series was produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television and ran for two seasons from 1973 to 1974 on NBC, airing a total of twenty-two half-hour episodes.

* NBC ran two popular TV series about truck drivers in the 1970s featuring actor Claude Akins in major roles:

Rival NBC paid affiliates for every sponsored show they carried and charged them for every sustaining show they ran.

Originally broadcast on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon, the series ran first-run original episodes for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years ( from 1984 to 1986 ).

College Bowl with General Electric as the primary sponsor, the show ran on CBS from 1959 to 1963, and moved back to NBC from 1963 to 1970.

The show also ran at night, first on NBC from January 12 to September 13, 1968 as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived sitcom Accidental Family.

Although the syndicated Match Game was not a direct cause of the ratings problems Love of Life facedthe 4: 00 PM timeslot, the last network daytime slot, had been a problem for CBS, NBC, and ABC for years and Love of Life had seen a precipitous drop in ratings since the April 1979 move to the late afternoon many stations ran the syndicated series against the veteran soap opera and, in the case of some CBS affiliates and owned-and-operated stations, preempted Love of Life in favor of the new Match Game.

Burr moved from CBS to Universal Studios, where he played the title role in the television drama Ironside, which ran on NBC.

Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978.

He was best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, which ran from 1954 to 1960 ( the last season on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program ).

* Return to Peyton Place ( TV series ), a daytime soap opera that ran from 1972 – 1974 on NBC

In 1972, he starred in his own television variety show on NBC, The Bobby Darin Amusement Company, which ran until his death in 1973.

Elsewhere which ran from 1982 to 1988 on NBC.

The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984 to September 7, 1986 and again in first-run syndication from October 30, 1987 to May 27, 1988.

They were popular on radio throughout the 1940s, primarily on their own program which ran from 1942 until 1947 on NBC and from 1947 to 1949 on ABC.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973 on the NBC network.

NBC opted against production, but Fox ran it from 1992 to 1993.

Bad publicity after a bid by NBC to squelch the stunt --- and an accidental mention by Rudy Vallee on his Fleischmann's Hour --- helped the stunt continue, according to radio historian John Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, which also mentioned that Gracie's real brother, a " publicity-shy accountant " living in San Francisco, went into hiding until the gag ran its course.

He co-starred in the NBC series Boone in the 1983-1984 season and thereafter on CBS's Northern Exposure, which ran from 1990-1995.

Jimmy McCallion was Skeezix in the series that ran on NBC from February 17 to April 11, 1941, continuing on the Blue Network from April 28 to May 9 of that same year.

The show starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971.

The show, which co-starred former silent film actor Charles Farrell as her father, was originally a summer replacement for I Love Lucy on CBS, but ran for 126 episodes on NBC and CBS.

The following year, the group got their own hour-long musical variety television program, The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show, which ran for four episodes on NBC as a summer-season replacement.

* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

On September 27 and October 4, 1959, on NBC Sunday Showcase, Larry Blyden starred as Sammy Glick in a two-part television broadcast on NBC-TV.

Between 1948 and 1952, he conducted ten concerts telecast on NBC, including a two-part concert performance of Verdi's complete opera Aida starring Herva Nelli and Richard Tucker, and the first complete telecast of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

It was originally broadcast on NBC as a two-part miniseries.

Conrad guest starred as an aging prosecutor in a two-part episode of Matlock during its first season on NBC.

In the season six two-part episode " Dick'll Take Manhattan ", in which Dick, Harry and Sally enter into an alternate universe, Harry is employed as the President of NBC, while Mrs. Dubcek is his secretary.

The ninth season of Law & Order premiered in the United States on NBC on September 23, 1998, and ended with a two-part episode on May 26, 1999.

The NBC drama Third Watch ran from 1999 to 2005 and provided a fictionalized and dramatized depiction of the firefighters and paramedics of the FDNY and police officers of the New York City Police Department.

He was fictionalized in Episode 5 of Riverboat on U. S. television network NBC, and the episode was first broadcast on October 11, 1959.

On May 17, 2010, NBC ran a fictionalized version of Lacks ' story on Law & Order, titled " Immortal ".

A fictionalized version of the events of the Philadelphia riots of 1964 are depicted in the first season finale of the NBC television series American Dreams.

He also wrote the teleplays for Blind Alleys ( with Frederic Kimball ) and the NBC mini-series The Monkey King ( more commonly known as The Lost Empire ), directed by Peter MacDonald.

One of the best literary depictions of a coureur des bois was Pasquinel in James A. Michener's 1974 historical novel, Centennial and later, portrayed by Robert Conrad, in the 1978 NBC television mini-series, of the same name.

The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too " cerebral " for the average American viewer.

Another early role for Zimbalist was that of Ellie Zendt in the mini-series Centennial, based on James Michener's epic novel of the same name, which was first televised on NBC between October 1978 and February 1979.

Commercials for the mini-series on NBC featured the song " Más " by the Mexican band Kinky.

Despite these failures, there were high points in Silverman's tenure at NBC, including the launch of the critically lauded Hill Street Blues ( 1981 ), the epic mini-series " Shogun " and The David Letterman Show ( daytime, 1980 ), which would lead to Letterman's successful late night program in 1982.

Originally conceived by Frank Lupo in 1987 with the title Invader, NBC ordered a four-hour mini-series for broadcast in May 1988 with a budget of $ 7. 5 million.

One of the writers, Eric Bercovici, would go on to write the screenplay for, and produce, the Emmy Award winning television mini-series Shōgun ( based on the James Clavell novel ) for NBC, with Toshirō Mifune cast as " Toranaga " the man who would eventually become the Shogun.

For television and cable, Davis produced Asteroid, the NBC mini-series.

* Best Sellers ( aka: NBC Best Sellers ), a serial NBC mini-series from the 1976-1977 television seson

However, NBC told Johnson that they were more interested in a remake of the original V mini-series instead, which, if successful, might lead to his proposed sequel.

The book became an NBC mini-series in 1978 titled The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, which starred Bette Davis ( as Mary Fortune ) and David Ackroyd ( as Ned ).

Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray is the NBC mini-series Lenkov Executive Produced entitled XIII, based on the popular graphic novel and video game by the same name.