In fact, during the thirteen episode run of the Lucy-Desi hour-long shows, Vance was given a lot more latitude to look more attractive as Ethel Mertz, something she had been denied during the run of the I Love Lucy episodes.

The series was broadcast for six years as half-hour episodes, later changing to hour-long specials from 1957 to 1960 titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ).

In 1957, after the highly successful half-hour I Love Lucy episodes had ended, Vance continued playing Ethel Mertz on a series of hour-long specials titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show ( later retitled The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour ).

When I Love Lucy was reformatted into the hour-long Lucy-Desi shows in 1957, Desi Arnaz proposed to Vance and Frawley the opportunity to star in their own " Fred and Ethel " spin-off show.

On 8 December 2000, the show celebrated its fortieth year by broadcasting a live, hour-long episode.

** The long-running television game show The Price is Right expands from 30 minutes to its current hour-long format on CBS.

In prime time, Fox first tried its hand at a news show in 1988 with an hour-long weekly newsmagazine called The Reporters, which was produced by the same team behind the FTSG-distributed syndicated tabloid program A Current Affair.

When Sesame Street premiered, most researchers believed that young children did not have long attention spans, therefore the new show's producers were concerned that an hour-long show would not hold their audience's attention.

An hour-long 25th Anniversary show was broadcast in 1989.

In September 1981, CBS shortened the hour-long show to a half-hour, briefly retitled it Wake Up with the Captain, and moved it to an earlier time slot ; it was later moved to weekends in September 1982, and returned to an hour-long format.

An hour-long television show called The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits was broadcast on many PBS stations in late 2006.

The hour-long show was broadcast on 1 January 1995 and featured Norman Wisdom as a piano player who had lost the confidence to play.

The final series episode was followed by an hour-long compilation show on 11 August 2002, and by a two part " Reunion Special " broadcast on 26 and 30 December 2005.

Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC that was created and hosted by David Letterman.

Those wishing to watch the fireworks gather around the park's three ponds and spread blankets for the hour-long show.

* Chris Matthews, television talk show host and pundit, known for a nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC

In 1957, I Love Lucy was re-tailored into an hour-long show originally titled The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show that was to be part of an anthology series called the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

Ailes also hosted his own nightly show, Straight Forward, an hour-long talk show.

The Bullseye round first appeared on Family Feud Challenge where it was played in both halves of the hour-long show.

* November 30 – Simon & Garfunkel air TV special Songs of America, ostensibly an hour-long show that is anti-war and anti-poverty featuring live footage from their 1969 tour.

* Cleveland television station WEWS-TV launches Polka Varieties, a regular Sunday-afternoon, hour-long program devoted to polka music ; Frank Yankovic led the original band to perform on the show.

Following the success of The Ultimate Fighter, Spike also picked up UFC Unleashed, an hour-long weekly show featuring select fights from previous events.

In August 2011 Moyers announced a new hour-long weekly interview show, Moyers & Company, which premiered in January 2012.

The show acknowledged this attempt to restore its original premise, with the third season's hour-long opener titled Putting The Ork Back in Mork.

In the 1960s a typical hour-long American show would run for 51 minutes excluding advertisements.

I assumed it was one of those hour-long conversations with Dolly or Constance, she comfortable in bed.

His first solo effort was in 1960 with an hour-long special produced by Sylvia and sponsored by General Motors ; there were similar specials in 1961 and 1962.

After meeting Hitler she was offered the opportunity to direct Sieg des Glaubens, an hour-long feature film about the fifth Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg in 1933.

In the May 16, 2007 edition of TIME magazine, it was reported that " His ( Gore's ) Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home " On October 30, 2010, under the headline A VERY inconvenient truth, the UK Telegraph reported that " Al Gore ' left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture ".

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

When she was 9 years old, she composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to some of the most distinguished intellectuals of the day.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.

Following the game, NBC broadcast an hour-long episode of Friends, re-starting a trend in which the prized post-Super Bowl time slot was given to an established program.

Also, some UPN stations aired a block of cartoon programming from DIC Entertainment ( such as Trollz and Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century ) which was designed to meet the minimal three hours of E / I programming required by the FCC, and usually airs either six days a week for a half-hour each day, or in three hour-long blocks throughout the week.

In a long sought-after break, Eastwood was cast in the supporting role of Rowdy Yates for the CBS hour-long western series Rawhide in the summer of 1958, although he was not especially happy with his role.

Polka Varieties was an hour-long television program of polka music originating from Cleveland, Ohio.

The hour-long pilot was well-received, leading to 3 further episodes being commissioned.

After a successful first season, a national network version of the program entitled Whatever Turns You On was produced for CTV and debuted in September 1979 ( having already aired an hour-long pilot episode in May ).

* The Centre Block of the Canadian Parliament complex was used in the first season and in the original hour-long versions of the 1981 season episodes.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

In November 2006, there was an hour-long documentary on the British television network Channel 4 about Facing the World, an organization that helps children with severe facial disfigurements in developing countries.

Hilton's novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in three hour-long episodes under its Classic Serial banner:

In October 2003, Alchemists of Sound, an hour-long television documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop, was broadcast on BBC Four.