Also, in the Sliders episode " Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome ", Quinn recognized he was not home on his Earth due to a newspaper headline that showed the 49ers had beaten the New York Jets in Super Bowl XIX.

According to recollections by newspaper publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved a bizarre episode in which Soong May-ling, wife of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek allegedly seduced Willkie.

At this time, the standard publication size and space of newspaper comics was sharply reduced ; for example, the Dick Tracy Sunday strip, which had traditionally been a full-page episode containing 12 panels, was cut in size to a half-page format that offered, at most, eight panels — these new restrictions created challenges for all comic artists.

In 1881, he sent a short episode in the life of a wooden puppet to a friend who edited a newspaper in Rome, wondering whether the editor would be interested in publishing this " bit of foolishness " in his children's section.

In the early 1970s, in the best known episode in the recent history of The Post, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal ; reporting in the newspaper greatly contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

At the end of the episode the peddler gives a couple a comb, which they use to groom themselves just before they are photographed as witnesses for a newspaper story covering the " hit and run " accident that killed Fred Renard.

The movement is quick, but the front page of the newspaper is visible, indicating that it is the same front page used in another Twilight Zone episode, " Time Enough at Last ".

The whole episode alienated her from many of her friends on the left, with the Tribune newspaper railing very hard against the bill, which they held to be attacking the workers without attacking the bosses.

Partridge is politically conservative, and his favourite newspaper is the Daily Mail, a right-leaning publication which he claims is " arguably the best newspaper in the world " in the episode Bravealan.

As a result of this episode, people were chanting, " Wilkes, Liberty and Number 45 ", referring to the newspaper.

Additionally the 1976 episode, " The Baby Contest ", deals with Archie entering baby Joey in a cutest baby contest sponsored by the Long Island Daily Press, a then-operating local newspaper in Queens and Long Island.

But an article in The Sun newspaper and an episode of the TV series " Most Haunted " seem to be the only sources for this so far.

* In The Simpsons episode Homer Defined, Homer reads a newspaper called USofA Today with the cover story: " America's Favorite Pencil-# 2 is # 1.

Additionally, in a first season episode, Clark accidentally transfers his powers to a classmate named Eric Summers, who, before running amok with his newfound powers, is called " Superboy " by the local newspaper.

There is also, however, a small Iron Man reference in the episode " On Angel's Wings ", when a sign reading " Stark Enterprises " is seen during an exterior shot of New York City and a small Spider-Man reference when Angel was reading the Daily Bugle, the newspaper that Peter Parker / Spider-Man normally takes pictures for.

In the first episode of the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Planet newspaper, producing an article on Knob-Tailed Geckos as proof of his writing skills.

In a newspaper column originally printed in 1981, Ellison wrote that he stumbled across one particular episode in his childhood, and afterwards, became a devoted Quiet, Please listener.

Hundreds of newspaper headlines, TV trailers and episode titles, etc.

In the 15 April 2009 episode of Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage built a small boat out of a modified formulation of Pykrete ( using newspaper instead of wood pulp ).

He is first seen in the episode at a bar and / or hotel called Bulkmier's managed by Bulk and Skull while resting and reading a newspaper before accepting a phone given to him by Bulk.

The cast was not informed until after the June 25, 1985, episode " Red Robins ", and actor Sherman Hemsley said he found out that the show was canceled by reading it in the newspaper.

In The Twilight Zone episode " A Penny for Your Thoughts ," the main character buys a newspaper, and flips a coin into the collection pan, where it lands on its edge.

2009 appearances included a guest role on " Desperate Housewives " on March 15, 2009, in which he played the role of a small newspaper editor, and he also appeared in an episode of According to Jim.

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

* In the episode " Goodnight Mr. Bean ", Mr. Bean and Teddy are reading an Asterix comic book.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

It can range from a casual item for comic effect, such as in an episode titled The Seance of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where Lucy dabbles in numerology, to a central element of the storyline, such as the movie π, in which the protagonist meets a numerologist searching for hidden numerical patterns in the Torah.

* Stuyvesant was a key figure in the Belgian comic strip Suske en Wiske in episode 269, " De Stugge Stuyvesant ".

Willow appears in every Buffy episode ( making her the only character besides Buffy herself to do so ), is featured in three episodes of the spinoff Angel, an animated series and video game — both of which use Hannigan's voice, and the comic Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( 2007 – 2011 ), which uses Hannigan's likeness and continues Willow's storyline following the television series.

", an episode in a 1972 comic book from Weird Mystery Tales

The first comic book that directly referenced the Amazing Friends show was Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends # 1 ( December 1981 ), a one-shot that adapted the pilot episode, " The Triumph of the Green Goblin ".

Though the comic version altered the story to bring it in line with established Marvel Universe continuity ( such as making the Green Goblin identity a costume as in the comics, rather than a physical transformation as in the episode ), it was not considered part of said continuity.

* Brooke's poem " A Channel Passage ", with its vivid description of seasickness, is used for comic effect in a third-season episode, " Springtime ", of the television series M * A * S * H. Corporal Radar O ' Reilly reads the poem to a nurse he hopes to impress, with surprising results.

The episode " Brother from Another Series " ( season eight, 1997 ) reveals that Bob only received the job after his younger brother Cecil failed an audition, because Krusty considered Bob to be a perfect comic foil.

The 2005 IDW comic book Spike: Old Times, by Peter David, depicts Spike's encounter with the vengeance demon Halfrek, explaining his recognition of her in Buffy episode " Older and Far Away ", and clarifying that she was in fact his beloved Cecily.

" and a credited role as Standup Bull, a bumbling Native American stand up comic, in the episode " Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop.

An unrelated, prototype Negaduck was created ( in the episode " Negaduck ") by Megavolt's Tron Splitter, an evil copy of Darkwing that had been " galvanised " into a powerful and malevolent being ; in the comic " Crisis of Infinite Darkwings ", the Tron Splitter was used to stop the main Negaduck, reducing him to multiple microscopic particles of good and evil, which turned into a slime substance.

Examples include a parody of the story published in a 1970 Batman comic book, comedic references in television programmes such as The Simpsons ( 1990 ), being discussed in a 2006 episode of the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat, and a 2009 Wired Italia magazine article which compared selected photographs of McCartney, taken before and after his alleged demise.

He then became the resident stand-up comic on Saturday Zoo, a Channel 4 comedy series first screened in 1993 and appeared on an episode of Have I Got News For You.

A Saturday Night Live episode hosted by Pamela Anderson ( credited as " Pamela Lee ") features Anderson as the patient, though in a comic twist she and all the male doctors conclude that she is now " hot ".

In the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (" Chosen "), and also in the first issue of the Buffy: Season Eight comic book, Sunnydale is depicted being surrounded by desert terrain.

In 1934, Dashiell Hammett created the comic strip Secret Agent X9, illustrated by Alex Raymond, which contained a locked-room episode, albeit a rather feeble one.

The character, heretofore a comic feature, came to town in a 1962 episode titled " Us Haggens ", to avenge the death of his twin brother Fergus, and decided to stay in Dodge when the deed was done.

In a comic relief episode (" Mad Dog "), another case of mistaken identity forces Festus to fight three sons of a man killed by his cousin.

Most of these countries exist only for a single story, a TV-series episode or an issue of a comic book.

In the fictional comic strip Invasion !, set in 1999 and first appearing in 1977, Shirley Williams was depicted as the Prime Minister, before being killed by the invading Volgans in the first episode.