It was an hour-long series that utilized a laugh track, which was very unusual, but is considered a comedy-drama for the fact that it alternated between drama and comedy.

In 1980, Malden starred in Skag, an hour-long drama that focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill.

Bendix and Rosemary DeCamp ( who starred as Riley's wife in Gleason's version of the TV series ) repeated the roles when an hour-long radio adaptation of the feature film was presented on Lux Radio Theater in May, 1950.

Dick also starred in The Big Idea, in which he tested out amateur inventions, and featured in the short series The Re-Inventors, a series of five, hour-long programmes commissioned by the UK digital channel UKTV History and first broadcast through the week of 11 December 2006.

He starred in one of the more comical early hour-long Twilight Zone episodes, " I Dream of Genie ".

On June 6, 2008, the show featured an hour-long special with British band Coldplay, on December 9 an hour-long special with actor Tom Cruise and on December 31, 2008 ran a New Year's Eve special featuring an interview with former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Produced and presented from Radio New Zealand's Hobson Street studios in Auckland, the programme includes a wide variety of music, special interest and Maori language features, a mixture of serious and light-hearted current affairs interviews, a strong component of viewer feedback and an hour-long celebrity panel discussion of news between 16: 00 and 17: 00.

E Street was modelled on A Country Practice ( Forrest Redlich had worked as a writer on A Country Practice ) and could initially be seen as an ' urban ' version of that soap, tackling human interest, issue-led stories over two weekly hour-long episodes, with longer-running soapier elements provided by a small ensemble cast.

It was also presented on Lux Radio Theater three times as an hour-long broadcast: first on December 19, 1949, with Tyrone Power and David Niven, second on May 11, 1953 with Cary Grant and Phyllis Thaxter and third on March 1, 1955, again with Grant and Thaxter.

The hour-long musical-variety program ran opposite NBC's Little House On The Prairie and the CBS sitcoms Rhoda and Phyllis.

In Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Doctor Evil Story, a half hour-long preview special of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Dr.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

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

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

On September 18, 1974, courts awarded Day $ 22, 835, 646 for fraud and malpractice in an hour-long oral decision by Superior Judge Lester E. Olson, ending a 99-day trial that involved 18 consolidated lawsuits and countersuits filed by Day and Rosenthal that involved Rosenthal's handling of her finances after she terminated him in July 1968.

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.

Jones also appeared in animated form as himself in 1972 in an hour-long episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

In March 2007, KQED-TV broadcast an hour-long documentary " Gumby Dharma " as part of their " Truly CA " series.

From 1982 to 1991, twelve primetime Garfield cartoon specials and one hour-long primetime documentary celebrating the character's 10th anniversary were aired ; Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield in all of them.

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.

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.

In 1983, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast eight hour-long episodes for radio dramatising the complete Gormenghast Trilogy.

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 1996, Sakamoto simultaneously delved into the classical and " post-techno " genres with Discord ( 1998 ), an hour-long orchestral work in four parts.

Peckinpah completed the script, which Miss Porter enthusiastically endorsed, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67.

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.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1973 ), an hour-long TV production by the CBC Television series The Purple Playhouse with Barry Morse as Todd.

The theme music, " The X-Files ", used more instrumental music score than most hour-long dramas.

The rest of the hearings were presented on television each Sunday from April 1996 to June 1998 in hour-long episodes of the " Truth Commission Special Report " by progressive Afrikaner journalist Max du Preez, former editor of the Vrye Weekblad.

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.

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

These commentaries endeared him to President Nixon, who rewarded him with a rare, hour-long, one-on-one interview in 1971, at the height of the administration's animus against major newspapers, CBS, and NBC.

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.

Edith Bowman co-presented its hour-long swansong, along with Jimmy Savile ( who had presented the first show ), Reggie Yates, Mike Read, Pat Sharp, Sarah Cawood, Dave Lee Travis, Rufus Hound, Tony Blackburn and Janice Long.

Mike Lupica then follows with an hour-long program to lead into The Michael Kay Show, WEPN's long-running flagship talk show.

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.

Beaumont wrote many scripts for the Twilight Zone, including an adaptation of his own short story, " The Howling Man ", starring John Carradine, and the hour-long " The Valley of the Shadow ," in which a newspaper reporter stumbles upon a cloistered technological Utopia, disguised as an ordinary small town in the middle of nowhere, which refuses to allow its startlingly-advanced science discoveries to be given to the outside world, citing humanity's previous misuse of another scientific formula E = mc2 as their cautious rationale.

At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves.

In March 2007, KQED-TV broadcast an hour-long documentary Gumby Dharma as part of their Truly CA series.

On November 21, 1971, the band played an opening spot for The Kinks at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall, receiving a thunderous ovation at the end of their hour-long set.

On an hour-long trip from Binghamton to Syracuse, the rest of the family remained silent to see if Rod would notice their lack of participation.

BBC Radio 4 broadcast a full cast audio dramatization in two hour-long episodes as part of their Classic Serial strand in November 2008.

* 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.

The following year, the group got their own hour-long musical variety television program, The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show, which ran for four episodes on NBC as a summer-season replacement.

The series received no formal finale, concluding with an hour-long episode in which the principal characters, while redecorating a plantation house, envision what their lives would have been like if they had been characters in Gone with the Wind, and simultaneously thwart a wealthy adversary of B. J's and an illegal leveraged buyout of her company.

VH1 had a short-lived hour-long program called " By Request " in which viewers could call a 1-900 hotline number to request their videos.

At the end of the hour-long show, Michael Parkinson told viewers to keep their eyes out for another Surprise Party.

The hour-long cop drama, in which D ' Onofrio would play ' Sonny ', was to follow the main characters attempts to balance their careers with family life.

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.

During the summer of 1975, the group was showcased in their own hour-long television variety series on CBS.

Each Teacher Workshop is an hour-long presentation and discussion on an HGO dress rehearsal, encouraging teachers to incorporate opera and the arts into their curriculum.

On August 13, 2012, CITY-TV expanded their nightly 11 p. m. newscast, CityNews Tonight, to one hour, making the program the only hour-long late evening newscast in the Toronto market.

They were regulars on NBC's Monitor, often on stand-by to go on the air at short notice if the program's planned segments developed problems, and they were also heard in a surprising variety of formats and timeslots, from a 15-minute series in mid-afternoon to their hour-long show aired weeknights just before midnight in 1954-55.

Tilton was particularly influenced by Dave Del Dotto, a real estate promoter who produced hour-long infomercials showing his glamorous life in Hawaii ( which he constantly stressed anyone could achieve just by following the principles set up in his many " get rich quick " books ) as well as " interviews " with students who were brought out to his Hawaiian villa for said interviews, specifically for their on-camera testimonials about the success in life they were now enjoying thanks to his teachings.

The Pirates and the New York Giants, who were playing at Forbes Field, were called into their dugouts while the 24, 738 fans in attendance listened to the radio broadcast of the hour-long bout.

One celebrity championed each of the top ten sitcoms, presenting an hour-long special on why their favourite was the best.

Temple acted in three of the sixteen hour-long episodes, and her children made their acting debuts in the Christmas episode, " Mother Goose ".