In 1986 Sykes played Horace Harker in " The Six Napoleons ", an episode of the Granada TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories starring Jeremy Brett.

In lighter vein, West starred as patriarch Bradley Hardacre in Granada TV's satirical Northern super-soap Brass over three seasons ( 1982 – 1990 ), and made a memorable appearance as Professor Furie in A Very Peculiar Practice in 1986.

Granada had increased investment in Liverpool moving its regional news service to the Albert Dock complex in 1986 before moving back to the Quay Street sometime in the early 2000s.

It was resurrected briefly for the export market by an independent producer in the mid 1980s, though some ITV companies did not show any of the episodes made in 1986 and only Granada transmitted the final 13 episodes consecutively as a complete series.

* Series 4 ( 13 ) 4 January-21 April 1986 · Saturday 2: 15pm ( Granada Television )

Originally taken on a researcher, he was with Granada Television from 1967 to 1986 where he was soon appointed joint editor of World in Action with John Birt ; Macdonald had an association with the programme for many years.

Those most closely related to the Fairmont included the 1980 – 1982 Ford Thunderbird, the 1981 – 1982 Ford Granada, the 1979 – 1993 Ford Mustang ( and 1979 – 1986 Mercury Capri ), and the 1982 – 1987 Lincoln Continental.

Marter's acting career outside of Doctor Who consisted mainly of guest roles in episodes of series such as the BBC's Bergerac ( in 1981 ) and Granada Television's The Return of Sherlock Holmes ( in 1986 ).

Granada Television also produced a version in 1986, adapted by Alan Plater as part of their The Return of Sherlock Holmes television series.

First Among Equals was adapted into a Granada Television serial transmitted by ITV in 1986.

The story was adapted in the Granada Television series The Return of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, in 1986.

( Cleese himself parodied this line in a 1986 BBC advert defending the Television Licence Fee: " What has the BBC ever given us?

In 1986 responsibility for the movie industry was transferred from the Ministry of Culture to the new Ministry of Radio, Cinema, and Television.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

Television in the United States has long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox, launched in 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered as part of the " Big Four.

* Otello ( 1986 ) – British Academy of Film and Television Arts winner, foreign language film ; with Plácido Domingo and Katia Ricciarelli

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In 1982, the critics moved to a syndicated commercial television show named At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they left to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television ( part of the Walt Disney Company ).

His last speech was in a debate on marine pilotage in 1986, when he commented as an elder brother of Trinity House ; in the same year, he played himself as Prime Minister in an Anglia Television drama, " Inside Story ".

In 1986, the American Program Service ( now American Public Television, Boston ) integrated some newly produced segments into reruns of past episodes, distributing the newer version of the series until 1993.

You Can't Do That on Television resumed production in 1989, but the only child cast members to make the transition from 1987 to 1989 were Amyas Godfrey and Andrea Byrne, although a few minor cast members seen in 1986, including Rekha Shah and James Tung, returned for an episode or two.

Referred to throughout its run as The New Hollywood Squares, the program debuted on September 15, 1986 and was produced by Century Towers Television with Rick Rosner serving as executive producer and Orion Television as distributor.

The show, produced by Viacom Productions ( now CBS Television Studios ), originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC ; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC.

The addition of two new ministerial bodies also resulted from the 1986 Congress: a Ministry of Information to replace the Vietnam Radio and Television Commission, and a Commission for Economic Relations with Foreign Countries to act as a coordinating body for foreign aid.

In 1985 he played the Mad Hatter in the Anglia Television serial adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, joining an all-star cast that included Michael Bentine, Leslie Crowther and Leonard Rossiter, and he also had an uncredited role ( as an arcade attendant ) in the Julien Temple film musical Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ) which stars Patsy Kensit.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many television films including a memorable Duchess of York in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of Richard II ( 1978 ), the irascible Edwardian Oxford academic in Miss Morrison's Ghosts ( 1981 ) and the BBC dramatizations of Julian Gloag's Only Yesterday ( 1986 ) and the Vita Sackville-West novel All Passion Spent ( 1986 ), in which she was the quietly defiant Lady Slane.

In 1986, the Museum of Television & Radio ( now the Paley Center for Media ) presented an exhibit of Kovacs ' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.

Four on the Floor was a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television in 1986.

* Azariah Southworth ( May 13, 1986 ), Television producer / personality 2006-2008.

On July 5, 1986, Ma performed on the New York Philharmonic's tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, which was televised live on ABC Television ..

The series was adapted into an anime TV series produced by Kitty Films and broadcast on Fuji Television affiliates from 1981 to 1986 over 195 episodes.

The series was adapted by Kitty Films into a 195 episode TV series that aired from October 14, 1981 to March 14, 1986 on Fuji Television.

During 1986 and 1987, Sims starred as Annie Begley alongside Angela Thorne in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Farrington of the F. O .. Also in 1986, Sims appeared in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who in the four episodes of The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet as Katryca.

Saturday Night Live produced two famous sketches parodying the Original Series, " The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise " in 1976 and William Shatner's own " Get a life " sketch in 1986 ( which parodied the show's " trekkie " followers ).

Weaver has hosted two episodes of the long-running NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live: once on the 12th season premiere in 1986, and again, on a season 35 episode in January 2010.

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

Cusack was a cast member on the NBC sketch show, Saturday Night Live, from 1985 to 1986.

A television spoof appeared in a 1986 episode of the BBC sketch show The Two Ronnies, which featured a sketch entitled " It Came From Outer Hendon ", written by David Renwick.

George Wendt first appeared on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in a Season 11 ( 1985 – 1986 ) episode where he shared hosting duties with director Francis Ford Coppola.

The theme song for the sketch is Kraftwerk's 1986 song " Electric Café ", sped up by playing the 33⅓ rpm album at 45 rpm, then looped.

Victoria Jackson ( born August 2, 1959 ) is an American comedian, actress, satirist and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) from 1986 to 1992.

Conan the Librarian appears in a sketch on a 1986 episode (" Alistair in Outer Space ") of the children's television series Reading Rainbow.

He moved on to executive producing at the BBC in 1986, working on sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and became head of comedy entertainment in 1994, mainly responsible for sketch shows.

He was originally a regular in the BBC2 sketch series Naked Video ( 1986 – 1990 ).

A 1986 Saturday Night Live sketch featured Jon Lovitz portraying Uncle Pennybags as a criminal lawyer who used his Get Out of Jail Free cards to constantly frustrate the police.

In 1986, he was featured in the Off-Broadway improvisational sketch comedy show, Sills & Company, directed by Paul Sills.

The Comedy Mill was a Canadian sketch comedy series, which aired from 1986 to 1991 on Hamilton, Ontario's CHCH-TV, and through syndication on other Canadian television stations.

Her characters included half of " The Sweeney Sisters " lounge act alongside Hooks, as well as talk show host Pat Stevens ( which became a popular recurring role starting in the low-rated 1985 – 1986 season ), melodramatic French hooker Babette, and film buff Ashley Ashley from the " Actors on Film " sketch from the 1985 – 1986 season.

The D-Generation was a popular and influential Australian TV sketch comedy show, produced and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) for two series, between 1986 and 1987.

From 1967 to 1986, WNDU aired Beyond Our Control, a locally-produced sketch comedy program, which was presented as part of the station's involvement in the Junior Achievement program.

Her first major television appearance was in 1986 as a star on the BBC sketch show Naked Video.