" Singin ' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the " Moses Supposes " routine with Donald O ' Connor and the " Broadway Melody " finale with Cyd Charisse.

The finale featured a float that was dressed up as a riverboat that rose several stories high.

With Duchovny's return to the show and the opening credits for the two-part series finale, " The Truth ", this marked the most number of cast members ( five ) to be featured in the opening credits of the show.

In other fictional television works, a January 1971 episode " By the Pricking of My Thumbs ..." of the British science fiction TV series Doomwatch featured a 16-year-old XYY boy expelled from school because of his genetic condition, a November 1993 episode " Born Bad " of the American police procedural TV series Law & Order portrayed a 14-year-old XYY sociopathic murderer, and the May 2007 season finale episode " Born To Kill " of the American police procedural TV series CSI: Miami depicted a 34-year-old XYY serial killer.

* Sex and the City: Season five's finale episode, " I Love a Charade ," originally airing September 8, 2002, featured an Old Westbury home in place of an estate in the Hamptons

Stillwater is also briefly featured in the seventh season finale and the eight season premiere.

In 2001 the railway was featured in the finale of ITV's comedy series The Grimleys, named The Grimley Curse, and then in 2007 on the finale of BBC One's award-winning drama series Life on Mars.

A Good Samaritan law was featured in the May 1998 series finale of the popular NBC situation comedy Seinfeld, in which the show's four main characters were all prosecuted and sentenced to one year in jail for making fun of ( rather than helping ) a fat man who was getting robbed at gunpoint.

Hayward's " Voices in the Sky " charted as a single in the UK ( No. 27 ), as did Lodge's " Ride My See-Saw " ( No. 42, No. 15 in France ) – still their concert finale number today – which featured Pinder's non-album song " A Simple Game " as ' B ' side.

This finale was featured predominantly as early as 1886, but vanished after 1907 ; in total, it was used in 23 of 33 tours.

The second of the two shows took place on August 26 and featured a jam session, including Vaughan, with Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Jimmie Vaughan, who performed " Sweet Home Chicago " as the finale to Clapton's set ; Clapton introduced them as " the best guitar players in the entire world ".

" Glad Tidings " was prominently featured in The Sopranos Season 5 finale (" All Due Respect ").

After appearing in the finale of Sean Bean's series Sharpe as HRH The Prince of Orange at the Battle of Waterloo, he made his film debut with a small part in Bent, a Holocaust drama which also featured Clive Owen, Jude Law, and Ian McKellen.

In the reunion episode featured in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, it is revealed in the years since the finale Jerry has donated sperm to Elaine that results in her having a daughter.

The finale featured Chan jumping and sliding down a mall post covered with wired lights before smashing through a wooden canopy.

* It is also featured in the 1980s series Beauty and the Beast in the first season's finale entitled " A Happy Life ".

The season also featured the running theme of the Ancient Spirits of Evil having to take a more active hand in pushing Mumm-Ra into action, culminating in another unique feature of the season-an actual finale episode, " The Last Day ," in which the Spirits give Mumm-Ra one last chance to destroy the ThunderCats.

As a finale to the series on Channel 4, McCall also presented the Ultimate Big Brother show, which started immediately after the regular series, and featured selected past regular and celebrity housemates.

The first season finale and second season premiere featured Cybil Shepherd as Cate's sister, Maggie.

* Red Eyes and Tears is featured in the season finale of the first season of Six Feet Under.

* The seventh season finale of Frasier, " Something Borrowed, Someone Blue ", featured the main characters receiving a 1945 Château Pétrus, appraised on-sight by Frasier Crane as " one of the rarest bottles in the world ", as a gift from the widow of their recently deceased doorman Morrie.

Messing was featured as a judge on the season finale of the second season of Bravo's reality show, Project Runway.

In 1989, " Bad Attitude " was featured in the series finale of Miami Vice, played during a Ferrari driving segment that mirrored one from the series ' pilot episode.

As a finale is appended a close-up of one of the band taking aim and firing his revolver straight at the audience.

" In China, after the finale of the 2005 season of Super Girl ( the local version of Pop Idol ) drew an audience of around 400 million people, and 8 million text message votes, the state-run English-language newspaper Beijing Today ran the front-page headline " Is Super Girl a Force for Democracy?

The series finale closed with the cast and various crew members singing " Happy Trails " to say good-bye to the audience, after which the shot dissolved into a darkened, blank set while soundbites from the series played until the episode finally faded out.

After outdoor and serial sketches were filmed on location, the studio material was filmed on Sunday evenings at BBC Television Centre in front a live audience ; the musical finale was filmed the day before without the audience.

On several occasions, such as in Africa and Thailand, the final Tribal Council and finale are edited together to make them seem like one event, until moments later the camera shows the studio audience.

An integral part of the Dee Rocks experience, is the " Styes in Their Eyes " finale when local characters take to the stage to entertain and dazzle the audience with their party pieces.

Another notable show was the finale of the last series ( to date ), which was performed in front of a live audience at the Royal Institution, much in the style of the Institution's Christmas Lectures.

The finale of Season Two, " The Jem ' Hadar ", permitted writer Robert Hewitt Wolfe to surprise the audience, and challenge their opinions concerning the safety of the Federation and Starfleet, when the USS Odyssey, a Galaxy-class starship similar to the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation, is outfought and destroyed.

McCartney also used the same quip, this time for an American audience, to introduce The Beatles ' performance of ' I Want to Hold Your Hand ' as the finale of their set for The Ed Sullivan Show at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida on 16 February 1964.

Considered to be " the series finale that invented the modern-day series finale ," " The Judgement ", the final episode of The Fugitive, attracted a 72 % audience share when broadcast.

By audience share, the highest rated finale to date was from the series M * A * S * H in 1983.

The Sopranos finale caused millions of viewers to temporarily believe they had lost cable service due to an abrupt blackout finale ; the final scene left open the fate of Tony Soprano ( series creator David Chase had wanted the cut to black to last for several minutes and take the place of post-show credits, so that the first thing the audience would see was an HBO notice, but the network refused this and there was a very short jump from the final shot to the credits ).

Its success in the USA was partly due to its schedule: the 12-hour duration was split into eight episodes broadcast on consecutive nights, resulting in a finale with a 71 percent share of the audience and 130 million viewers, which at the time was the highest rated TV program of all time.

The " nailbiting " finale drew 18. 5 million viewers, a record post-midnight audience on British television and a record audience for BBC Two.

Although the series never ranked higher than 49th place in the yearly Nielsen ratings, it maintained a large enough audience to last six seasons and 137 episodes, and the show's famously provocative series finale is frequently mentioned in discussions about television series finales.

In that show, Stryker performed a comic monologue about his life and adventures in adult films, conducted a " porn acting demo " comedy skit with an audience member, and danced in a nude finale where he greeted the audience.

They were found not guilty, but in the final moments of the season finale, Divine intervention, angry plaintiff Debbie Shanahan drove her car directly at Jamie, Tony and Ella, and the audience was left to wonder who had survived.

Georges bids the audience farewell while Les Cagelles prepare the Dindons for the grand finale (" La Cage aux Folles ").

He showed it to the conductor Johann von Herbeck, who conducted the extant two movements on 17 December 1865 in Vienna, adding the last movement of Schubert's 3rd Symphony ( in D major ) as the finale in a performance received with great enthusiasm by the audience.