It was the season's first night game and an obvious refocusing of the lights are in order.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

Smith was voted in as the National League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game for the first time in 1983, and at season's end won a fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award.

The expedition itself suffered a series of early misfortunes, which hampered the first season's work and impaired preparations for the main polar march.

Grace produced his season's highlight in the South v North match at The Oval when he made his highest career score to date of 268, having been dismissed by Jem Shaw for nought in the first innings.

Brad's first problem is having to tell his girlfriend, Holly, a flyer who has no idea whom she is in love with and who had been expecting to be the star of that season's show, that she's out of the center ring.

The season's first masquerade ball was held at the Court Theatre on 16 January.

He eventually struck a deal to appear in all the first season's remaining episodes, but always billed as a " guest star " so that he could have the option to give notice to work on a feature film.

This policy is not consistently followed ; for example, in the first season's " The Legend ," Briggs ' original plan is to personally shoot Nazi rallying-figure Martin Bormann, which is foiled by the discovery of a dummy and a tape recorder in the " man's " sick room.

After the first year, an entire season's worth of " tape scenes " were usually filmed all at once prior to production of the rest of the episodes, and the crew never knew which tape scene would appear with which episode until broadcast.

As evidenced in some of his letters and memos, Roddenberry was fond of circle-and-triangle designs and had wanted to use them for purposes of theatrical unity as early as the first season's " The Return of the Archons ".

Gullit's last appearance as a player came in the first leg of that season's Football League Cup semi final against Arsenal, but Gullit was sacked before the second leg.

Despite a 20 point improvement from last season's efforts, the team failed to reach the playoffs for the second straight year, the first time the Colorado club would do so in their 17 years playing in Denver.

In their first conference finals since 1996, the Magic beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, which were led by the season's MVP, LeBron James.

Following the previous season's disappointing first round playoff upset at the hands of the seventh seeded Colorado Avalanche, the Stars made a number of changes during summer 2006.

They finished the calendar year 2009 in the second spot in the national league behind FC Twente, who also did also not lose a single domestic game in the season's first half.

The 2003 season looked as if it would send Tromsø IL back to the first division, but they rescued their place in the Premier League by scoring a winning goal three minutes into injury time in the season's final match against league champions Rosenborg BK.

At the season's end, he demonstrated his leadership abilities for the first time.

The first season's winner was BeBe Zahara Benet, and first runner-up Nina Flowers was chosen by fans as " Miss Congeniality " through voting via the show's official website.

As for other Twilight Zone episodes, Bernard Herrmann — also composer of the first season's main title music and most of its stock music — wrote the music for this one.

The event has historically been one week before the Masters Tournament, the season's first major.

At the start of the 2008 – 09 season, during the press conference to present the new season's kit, the new official website was also presented, and an absolute novelty in the Italian championship, the first Web TV channel dedicated to a football club called Udinese Channel was launched, totally free and visible worldwide.

In the Heroes television series, the Midland-Odessa area is a focal point for many of the first season's episodes, serving as the home for the Bennet family as well as the location of a recurring restaurant, the Burnt Toast Diner.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

Other storylines included Leanne Battersby becoming a prostitute and the show's first bi-sexual love triangle ( between Michelle Connor, Sonny Dhillon, and Sean Tully ).

Both were based on storylines from the first manga.

Each episode of the former was more or less self-contained, but the first series of Yes, Prime Minister had a loose story arc relating to Hacker's attempts to reform the United Kingdom's armed forces, while the second was mostly devoted to concluding storylines and character arcs that had been seen over the course of the show.

Though the TV series concept centered on the Robinson family, many storylines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith ( Jonathan Harris ) who is a medical doctor, originally an utterly evil would-be killer who became a sympathetic anti-hero by the end of the first season, providing comic relief to the TV show ( and causing most of the episodic conflict ).

For example, after the first disappearance of Ratchet and Megatron, a disparate continuity of storylines based around the " Earthforce "— a team of Autobots based on Earth — began, which saw Megatron and Shockwave establishing a joint leadership of the Decepticons only to have command usurped by Starscream and Soundwave.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

Creator Bill Lawrence stated in a video interview that season 8 will be more like the first few seasons in tone, with more of a focus on more realistic and dramatic storylines and the introduction of new characters.

The season four episodes " Sanctuary, Parts I & II ", which involve Magneto creating an orbiting haven for mutants, were influenced by several storylines from the comics, chiefly the first three issues of X-Men ( Volume 2 ) and the " Fatal Attractions " crossover.

Originally designed on the premise that they were all clones, the first Jem ' Hadar seen onscreen were all made to look identical to one another, though as they became more deeply woven into the storylines, each Jem ' Hadar was given a distinctive look.

Starlin became the writer of Batman and one of his first storylines for the title was " Ten Nights of The Beast " in issues # 417-420 ( March-June 1988 ) which introduced the KGBeast.

With the exception of the first season finale and second season premiere episodes, which are linked, most other Corner Gas episodes are stand-alone storylines that can be viewed in virtually any order, though occasional incidental references to previous episodes can be found.

Metal Hurlant, emphasizing complex graphics, cinematic imagery and surreal storylines, was highly influential throughout the world as one of the first mature expressions of " adult " comic book making.

She was originally billed as a guest star in the first few episodes, and due to fan response was offered a series regular contract ; Clarke accepted the role and her character became an integral part of the show's storylines.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer had been very successful in its first three seasons on television, but some of the characters left the series and storylines ended, creating a need for an entire shift in location and mission.

One of the first storylines concerned an Internet romance.

Shortland Street producer Jason Daniel said Justine Jones was a popular character, central to both current and upcoming storylines, hence the decision to recast the role, a first for the kiwi soap opera.

" Omaha " the Cat Dancer was the first of several comic books published in the early 1980s which integrated explicit sex into their storylines, rather than utilizing sex for shock value.

" Omaha " the Cat Dancer was the first of several comic books in the early 1980s which integrated sex into their storylines, rather than utilizing sexual explicitness for shock value.

He was removed from both core X-titles by Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada when his storylines fell apart due to editorial interference by the previous editor-in-chief in a failed attempt to capitalize on the first X-Men movie.

It is used in two slightly different meanings: first, " it refers to the overall set of storylines, premises, settings, and characters offered by the source media text ".