This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

Gershwin's first A episode introduces the two main " walking " themes in the " Allegretto grazioso " and develops a third theme in the " Subito con brio ".

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1953 – The first U. S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.

* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).

In new episodes after the 2011 revival Beavis is now allowed to say fire again ; the first words uttered by Beavis in the first video segment of the 2011 premiere episode were: " Fire!

In the first episode of Daria, she and her family move from Beavis and Butt-Head's hometown of Highland to Lawndale — the only references to the original show is a single mention of Highland in the first episode, with Daria saying Lawndale can't be a second Highland " unless there's uranium in the drinking water here too ".

A naturalistic study from first admission for mania or mixed episode ( representing the hospitalized and therefore most severe cases ) found that 50 % achieved syndromal recovery ( no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis ) within six weeks and 98 % within two years.

* " The Car " ( The Assistants episode ), the first episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom

The first episode in that book deals with the story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the enamoured sea-god seeks a love filtre to win Scylla's love, only to have the sorceress fall in love with him.

Ken Barlow ( Coronation Street ) | Ken Barlow in the first episode of Coronation Street.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

After the first episode in 1960, the Daily Mirror printed: " The programme is doomed from the outset ... For there is little reality in this new serial, which apparently, we have to suffer twice a week.

Only one character from the first episode remains, Ken Barlow ( William Roache ).

Daran Little, for many years the official programme archivist, claims that the first episode to be transmitted in colour was episode 930 shown on 24 November 1969.

The ITV network, like BBC1, began full colour transmissions on 15 November 1969 and it is therefore possible that the first transmitted colour episode is number 928 shown on 17 November.

The first episode aired on July 9, 2008.

" In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglas ' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: " Air-to-air communications ... were between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign " Dragnet 51 " from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs " Darkstar November " and " Darkstar Mike ".

The police procedural combines Shakespeare, Dragnet, and vaudeville jokes and was first broadcast on The Ed Sullivan Show.

After the first commercial, Gibney would officially introduce the program: " Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.

They often used classical or Shakespearean settings and characters ; on their first Ed Sullivan appearance, for example, they performed Rinse the Blood off My Toga, a sketch which retold Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in the style of a then-contemporary police procedural television series such as Dragnet.

Their first collaboration, " St. George and the Dragon-Net " ( based on Dragnet ), was the first comedy record to sell over one million copies.

* Fabian of the Yard, ( 1954 – 1955 )-possibly the first police drama to be made for British TV, this series, based on the memoirs of real-life Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, had a lot in common with Dragnet.

Just as Dragnet had been the first network drama series with continuing characters to be shot on film, so Fabian of the Yard was one of the first British series to be filmed.

There were plans to publish an anthology comic, with the first issue being Dream Police, which was described as " Dragnet in the dreamscape.

Riddle's " Route 66 Theme " instrumental was one of the first television themes to make Billboard Magazine's Top 30, following Ray Anthony's " Dragnet Theme " ( in 1953 ) and Henry Mancini's

His first network show was The Whistler which was soon followed by appearances on Escape ( notably narrating " Wild Jack Rhett " and as the title patriot in an adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's " A Tooth for Paul Revere "), Suspense, Tales of the Texas Rangers ( as various local sheriffs ), Dragnet, The CBS Radio Workshop, Lux Radio Theater, The Six Shooter, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, to name a few.

The first substantial amounts of metallic americium weighing 40 – 200 micrograms were not prepared until 1951 by reduction of americium ( III ) fluoride with barium metal in high vacuum at 1100 ° C.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

* 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

In 1951 he invented and tested the first explosively pumped flux compression generators, compressing magnetic fields by explosives.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

The atom probe is closely related to the method of Field Ion Microscopy, which is the first microscopic method to achieve atomic resolution, occurring in 1951.

They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

Although the Attlee Government failed to meet its targets, primarily due to economic constraints, over a million new homes were built between 1945 and 1951 ( a significant achievement under the circumstances ) which ensured that decent, affordable housing was available to many low-income families for the first time ever.

The Perkins Brailler, first manufactured in 1951, uses a 6-key chord keyboard ( plus a spacebar ) to produce braille output, and has been very successful as a mass market affordable product.

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

The first Pakistani census after the proclamation of independence was conducted in 1951.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

* Herman Badillo ( 1951 ), Civil rights activist and the first Puerto Rican elected to the U. S. Congress

This promotion was completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, Abuna Basilios, as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.

In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.

* 1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity.

He was the first Research Director of the International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ), which presented the Interlingua conference in 1951.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The first Japanese film in color was Carmen Comes Home directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and released in 1951.

* 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.