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 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.

The hour-long Lucy-Desi show was to alternate on a monthly basis with other hour long Playhouse shows.

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.

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

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

On November 26, 2006 the network broadcast an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank featuring rarely-seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973 – 1982 runs, plus interviews with Rayburn, Somers, Dawson, DeBartolo, producer Ira Skutch, and others involved in the show's production.

The new series was broadcast on BBC Radio 7 and repeated in mid 2010 as three hour-long episodes: Rebel ( written by Ben Aaronovitch ), Traitor ( Marc Platt ) and Liberator ( James Swallow ).

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.

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

A BBC Radio 4 adaptation in two hour-long episodes starring Ian McDiarmid was broadcast on August 8 and August 15, 2003.

* An hour-long compilation of highlights of the first and second series Wot a Palaver − The Best of In Bed with Medinner broadcast by London-area ITV on 2 August 1996, having been released on VHS on 26 September 1994.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on the April 22, 1940 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, again starring Raymond Massey as Lincoln.

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

In November and December 2010, as part of the Classic Serial strand, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of six hour-long episodes of a dramatization of both novels, adapted by Robin Brooks and directed by Jonquil Panting.

* May 4 – Steve Frame ( George Reinholt ) marries Alice Matthews ( Jacqueline Courtney ) for the second time on a special hour-long broadcast of Another World, coinciding with the show's tenth anniversary.

* January 10-That Was The Week That Was ( TW3 ) premieres on NBC-TV ( 9: 30-10: 00 ET ) as a half-hour satirical revue broadcast live from New York after a successful hour-long special on November 10, 1963.

An hour-long making-of documentary that covered the filming of Labyrinth and included interviews with the key figures involved in its production was broadcast on television as Inside the Labyrinth.

The success of A to Z led to a weeknight 11pm hour-long broadcast of Madonna videos, titled The Madonna Show.

The hour-long show ( as opposed to the 30-minute UK version ) which is broadcast at 5 pm on Saturdays on TV2 ( New Zealand ) contains a mixture of songs recorded on a sound stage in the Auckland CBD, as well as performances from the international versions of the show.

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 North America, the three series of hour-long episodes were released by A & E Home Video under the title Secret Agent a. k. a. Danger Man in order to acknowledge the American broadcast and syndication title.