In December 1996, Price began airing regularly on the schedule, with half-hour Barker shows in the morning and hour-long episodes in the afternoon and evening, Kennedy shows in late-night, and the Cullen version as part of what was then billed as " Sentimental Sunday ".

On the hour-long TV anthology drama shows of the Golden Age of Television, such as The United States Steel Hour, The Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One, productions often were telecast live from studios with limited scenery and other constraints similar to theatrical presentations.

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

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.

ET on weekends ) included Video Comic Book, and the long-running Pinwheel ( now formatted as a daily hour-long series that ran in a 3 – 5 hour block format, and was a precursor to the Nick Jr. block ) along with other shows such as America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way.

Beginning around 1969 in the US, however, there was a brief spate of half-hour shows that purposely alternated between comedy and drama and aired without a laugh track, as well as some hour-long shows such as CHiPs in the late 70s to early 80s.

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.

Three historically-based hour-long shows aired in late 1954 / early 1955, and were followed up by two dramatized installments the following year.

After the shows ended in 1979, she continued playing " La Bruja " on the hour-long " Chespirito " and on public tours.

The first season aired hour-long shows that included recent Warner Brothers cartoons.

( A syndication of the original episodes on daytime TV in the 1980s reduced each hour-long original show to two separate half-hour shows in which only one guest's story was told in each half-hour episode.

WCCW's syndicated show was usually taped at the Sportatorium beginning in 1981, with two hour-long shows being recorded every other Friday.

Thomas tried his hand at network television hour-long shows in 1986 when he wrote and co-executive produced Steel Collar Man for CBS.

Six years and over 1, 200 hour-long shows later, that show ended on March 31, 2002.

Callers would write in to the show via mail or through the Cartoon Network website to call the show and request a cartoon from Cartoon Network's cartoon library, which would then be played, with an exception of half hour-long shows.

The system displays one message at a time, and usually shows several tens of messages throughout each hour-long episode.

Since 1990 the first three members of the group have made weekly hour-long radio shows for the Finnish national broadcasting company Yleisradio ( Alivaltiosihteeri-Suomen virallinen ohjelma, strictly translated Alivaltiosihteeri-the official program of Finland ).

He later stated that he had wanted to retire after his spectacular hour-long shows had been axed and that the move to children's television was a " purely financial " arrangement.

All six of Baxter's hour-long ITV specials were released on a two-disc DVD set in 2005 as The Stanley Baxter Collection with a further two-disc DVD set being released in 2006 under the title The Stanley Baxter Series & Picture Show featuring both of his series of half-hour shows for ITV.

For American TV shows, the format rules for hour-long dramas, like CSI, and single-camera sitcoms, like Scrubs, are essentially the same as for motion pictures.

Some other regularly featured highlights include a " Breakdown " ( in which ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury would comedically break down an athlete's performance in a previously hosted segment ), " Do Not Lend Tapes to This Person " ( which is usually a pre / post-commercial close-up shot of a poster featuring a notorious celebrity such as Vince McMahon or George W. Bush, athlete or fictional character such as Bigfoot or Freddy Krueger ; a picture of the Sklars on the board was the series ' final shot ), " What to Look For " ( in which the Sklar brothers point out certain happenings that they find ironic or personally amusing ), " Cheap Shot of the Week " ( which usually showcases an athlete featured earlier in the show at their worst ), and " What Got Cut " ( which shows the viewer at home what didn't make the cut due to time constraints, also an acknowledgment that the show once ran in hour-long episodes, rather than the latter half-hour ).

One of these shows was One Life to Live, which it passed on from its 1968 debut up until 1978, when the serial went to an hour-long format.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From 2001 to 2004, two full series were produced, along with three one-off hour-long specials ; Gay ( retitled and issued as Absolutely Fabulous in New York for the United States ) in 2002, Cold Turkey, a Christmas special in 2003, and White Box ( which included the tying-up of loose-ends and past semi-regular characters appearing in cameos in what seemed an ironic finale for Saffy, Patsy, and Edina ), which aired in 2004.

In the 1990s and 2000s, hour-long Westerns and slickly packaged made-for-TV movie Westerns were introduced.

These were followed by two Christmas specials: one 10-minute sketch as part of an anthology presented by Frank Muir, and then the hour-long " Party Games ", in 1984.

On September 6, 1994, the station dropped children's programs airing on weekday mornings, replacing them with the WGN Morning News ( which was dropped by the national feed in 1996, reportedly because certain segments of the newscast were not allowed to air outside of Chicago ; the national feed still airs the second hour of Midday News and the 9 p. m. newscast, though the first hour of WGN Midday News, the weekend morning and weeknight 5 p. m. newscasts do not air on the superstation feed for undetermined reasons ), the morning newscast gradually expanded from an hour-long program at start, to two hours in January 1996, then to three hours from 6-9 a. m. eight months later, to 3½ hours in January 2001, four hours starting at 5 a. m. in January 2004, four-and-a-half hours in August 2010 and then to its current five hours in July 2011.

These hour-long episodes were later split in two, yielding 93 half-hour episodes for syndication.

After the cancellation of the original series, the characters were revived in the TV special The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park, which first aired as an hour-long installment of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie on Saturday, November 25, 1972.

Eight weeks into the series on Monday, October 28, 1974, Rhoda and Joe were married in a special hour-long episode which broke several television records.

The ranger was never identified in the theatrical shorts, but when the films were re-edited into an hour-long Disney TV episode, the ranger was given a name: J. Audubon Woodlore.

The hour-long show featured segments that would influence radio and, much later, television ; news satires such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-Ins " Laugh-In Looks at the News " and Saturday Night Live's " Weekend Update " were influenced by Town Hall Tonight's " The News Reel ", later renamed " Town Hall News " ( and in 1939 – 40, as a sop to his sponsor, " Ipana News ").

As the Crystal Cathedral ’ s founding pastor, Schuller was seen and heard internationally on Sundays on the world ’ s most widely watched hour-long church service, the Hour of Power, 1500 of which were recorded.

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.

In 1989 and 1990, the first eight of the novels ( excluding The Crime at Black Dudley ) were adapted over two seasons, with each story shown in two hour-long episodes.

Many of the hour-long scripts were padded with filler, Dunning suggested, and could have been worked better as 30-minute programs, while other episodes suffered due to having been written by scribes unfamiliar with the unique needs of radio drama.

At a time when hour-long series were serious and half-hour series were humorous, Steele incorporated multiple styles of comedy into the standard detective format.

Six half-hour episodes plus an hour-long pilot were produced.

In June 1963, while shooting Penalty Kick ( directed by Veniamin Dorman and starring Mikhail Pugovkin ), Vysotsky used the Gorky Film Studio to record an hour-long reel-to-reel cassette of his own songs ; copies of it quickly spread and the author's name became known in Moscow and elsewhere ( although many of these songs were often being referred to as either " traditional " or " anonymous ").