In the late 1970s, Chapman moved to Los Angeles, where he guest-starred on many television shows including Hollywood Squares, Still Crazy Like a Fox, and The Big Show.

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

Notable examples include André the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Paul " Big Show " Wight, The Undertaker, Yokozuna, Giant Gonzales, The Great Khali and Kane.

In the 1970s and 80s, Ft. Lauderdale swimming champion Charkie Phillips revived water ballet on television with The Krofftettes in The Brady Bunch Hour ( 1976 – 77 ), NBC's The Big Show ( 1980 ), and then on screen with Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper ( 1981 ).

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show.

The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.

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Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

From 1956 to 1975, Beginning with its inception in 2001, the RFD-TV Network aired " The Big Joe Show ", a television program which included polka music and dancing that was filmed on location in various venues throughout the United States from 1973 through 2009.

RFD-TV replaced The Big Joe Show with " The RFD-TV Polka Fest " in January, 2011.

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The " Live Lawrence Welk Show " makes annual concert tours across the United States and Canada, featuring stars from the television series, including Ralna English, Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Gail Farrell, Anacani and Big Tiny Little.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

However, when the shorts were shown right before and after Toon Disney's Big Movie Show on weekdays, they were shown with the Mickey Mouse Works closing credits.

On June 13, GSN premiered its Big Saturday Night live interactive show block, hosted by Keegan-Michael Key of MADtv, Ross Matthews of The Tonight Show, and Charissa Thompson of Fox Sports.

In 1980 they appeared in the short-lived American variety show The Big Show ; the two were glad the show did not last as they objected to the use of canned laughter by the American networks.

His credits in this period include The Howerd Crowd ( 1952 ), Frankie Howerd's Korean Party, Nuts in May and The Frankie Howerd Show, as well as The Big Man ( 1954 ) starring Fred Emney and Edwin Styles.

This was followed in 1971 by a six-episode series Sykes and A Big, Big Show for the BBC and a special Sykes: With the Lid Off for Thames Television.

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* The Big Movie Show ( 2004 – 2009 ): Daily showing of films, usually animated Disney films, but rarely movies produced by another studio.

Programmes such as Green Wing, Peep Show, Black Books, Spaced, Smack the Pony, Big Train, The Office, and Extras have used editing, surreal humour and cultural references to great effect.

Durante made his television debut on November 1, 1950, though he kept a presence in radio as one of the frequent guests on Tallulah Bankhead's two-year, NBC comedy-variety show, The Big Show.

The tape of the incident was destroyed, although the moments leading up to it can be seen in the documentary Andy Kaufman's Really Big Show.

Torrio took over the crime empire of James " Big Jim " Colosimo after he was murdered.

In an embarrassing incident at the 1943 Tehran Conference, during a ceremony to receive the " Sword of Stalingrad " from Winston Churchill, he took the sword from Stalin but then allowed the sword to fall from its scabbard onto his toes in the presence of the Big Three wartime leaders.

The trilogy as a whole took third place in the BBC's Big Read poll in 2003.

The film was followed by Big City with Luise Rainer and Mannequin with Joan Crawford, the latter of which took good billings at the box office.

Location shooting took place at Big Sur Beach and at the Mission San Antonio de Padua near Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County.

In turn, they were pushed to the west by the Lakota ( Sioux ), who took over the territory from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

At WrestleMania XIV he served as " guest ring announcer " during a match between Kane and the Undertaker, before which he took a Tombstone Piledriver from Kane ( nicknamed " The Big Red Machine " for his red ring attire ).

Gabriel took on a project with the BBC World Service's competition " The Next Big Thing " to find the world's best young band.

In an Astaire-Rogers picture, the Big White Set — as these Art Deco-inspired creations were known — took up the largest share of the film's production costs, and Top Hat was no exception.

The post-hardcore style first took shape in Chicago, with bands such as Big Black, The Effigies and Naked Raygun, while later developed in Washington, DC within the community of bands on Ian MacKaye's Dischord Records with bands such as Fugazi, The Nation of Ulysses, and Jawbox.

Location shooting took place in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine and Big Pine, California.

Legendary Southern Indiana black basketball pioneer David " Big Dave " DeJernett took his integrated barnstorming ICC AllStars to Jasper for a 1935 game against the Cokes, splitting a home-and-away series.

Jay Perry Richardson took up a musical career and is known professionally as " The Big Bopper, Jr .," and has performed around the world.

A trip to Big Bear Lake from San Bernardino took two days on horse-drawn coaches.

Filming took place at The Thunder Bay Inn, the Big Bay Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast, The Lumberjack Tavern ( scene of the real 1952 crime on which the film is based ), Perkins Park Campground, and various other locales.

The new " Big Tom " took eight hours to assemble, standing over tall and wide.

This community bears the name of U. S. Army General George Armstrong Custer who was defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, which took place nearby in 1876.

The murder took place in Punkey Bay on Big Moose Lake in 1906.

The Nestuggas fled by canoe down the Big Nestucca River to the ocean, and took refuge on the half-mile wide bare sandspit between Nestucca Bay and the ocean.

September 17, 1789 George Reynolds took out a patent from the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania for a large tract of unsettled land surrounding the Big Spring which flows into the Frankstown Branch Juniata River.

Milnes took advantage of the railroad's presence and erected the Big Gem Cast Iron Furnace.

Jacob Starcher erected a grist mill in 1824 and laid out the town in 1830, naming it in honor of Harry Ripley, a young minister who was to be married, but drowned in Big Mill Creek, about one and a half miles north of the town, shortly before the ceremony took place.

On Memorial Day 2007, WLS took a cue from sister station WABC and ran a special day of musical programming, " The Big 89 Rewind ," featuring live visits from Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards, Fred Winston, Chris Shebel, Jeff Davis, John Records Landecker, Tom Kent, and other D. J. s, sounders, and airchecks from the Musicradio era.

At the same time, " Mr Nasty " -- the man whose briefcase Henry accidentally took on the underground — is killed by " Mr Big " -- the man he had criminal dealings with — and thrown into the Thames near Putney Bridge -- which is quite close to Fulham --, together with Henry's briefcase ( which contains, among other things, a cheese and chutney sandwich ).

Shortly afterward, Gambino's cousin and brother-in-law, Paul " Big Paul " Castellano ( Giuseppe's son ), took over as capo of Gambino's old crew.