For the book, Seltzer took liberties with his own material, augmenting plot points and character backgrounds and changing details ( such as character names — Holly becomes Chessa Whyte, Keith Jennings becomes Huber Jennings, Father Brennan becomes Father Edgardo Emilio Tassone, et cetera ).

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

It was an ambitious project and even Bishop Patrick A. Ludden ( 1836 – 1912 ) did not believe that a school could be built in Geddes at that time, however, in 1887, he gave Father Magee permission to purchase a plot of land opposite the church from the Mead Belden estate.

As part of a plot by the Underground, the leaders of the Resistance then turn themselves in, to grant Preston an audience with Father.

In 1605, many of those involved with the Gunpowder plot visited it with Father Edward Oldcorne to give thanks for his deliverance from cancer, or as some said, to plan the plot.

The plot revolves around the crisis of faith suffered by Father Merrin following the horrific events he witnessed during World War II.

Though the film's plot centers around Father Merrin's exorcism of a boy in Africa many years before the events in The Exorcist, little effort was made to keep the story consistent.

A major secondary plot in the novel and the film is the Pope's relationship with a theologian and scientist, Father Telemond ( Jean Telemond in the book, David Telemond in the film ).

Offenbach's plot – for although Crémieux and Halévy wrote the libretto, the idea was Offenbach's – places Orpheus, the great musician, in the centre ; however, Gilbert's plot focuses on Thespis, the Father of the Drama.

* Although the opening credits mention " told and sung by Joel Grey ", it is really narrated by George Gobel as there is more emphasis on the point of view of Father Mouse, with Moore's poem read by Grey a secondary plot.

After fighting off the deformed Cephalos ' plot to drain his power to stabilize Cephalos ' form, Jack had Father Ramon Joaquez translate the Darkhold.

In 1576, Fitzmaurice had been warmly received at Rome, where Father William Allen was also present, having presented to the pope a plot for the invasion of England through Liverpool, with 5, 000 musketeers under Stukley's command.

Insofar as The Dark Tower series ' overall plot is concerned, it is revealed in the seventh book that Ted is essential to the Crimson King's quest to break the beams that hold the Dark Tower up, in turn, holding the universe together.

Doctor Einmug is a scientist who was created by Ted Osborne ( plot ) and Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ) in the story Island in the Sky, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from November 1936 to April 1937.

He was created by Ted Osborne ( plot ) and Floyd Gottfredson ( plot and art ) in the story Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine, published in the Mickey Mouse daily strip from September 1935 to January 1936.

Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the second of which was entitled Batman: Nosferatu, most of the plot derived from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Scotland Yard suspects Verloc's involvement in the plot and assigns Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer ( John Loder ) to investigate Verloc, initially under cover.

Her love-hate relationship with Ted was a plot thread during the first half of the series.

Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the third of which was entitled Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon, with the plot derived partly from Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler.

Eddie is unwittingly drawn into a plot orchestrated by Ted to drive his unhappy wife, Marion, to infidelity.

While some condemned its racist and sexist humour, this was simply the plot device, and indeed the premise of the entire show, to show and mock the bigotry of the main character, Edward Melba " Ted " Bullpitt ( Ross Higgins ), a white Australian, conservative, bigoted, Holden Kingswood-loving putty factory worker and WWII veteran who recalls his difficult childhood in ever more exaggerated ways.

The main plot concerns Ted Kord, the superhero and former Justice League member known as the Blue Beetle, investigating the theft of funds from his company that has left him nearly bankrupt.

The movie's plot was very loosely based on stories from National Lampoon magazine that were written by Ted Mann and Todd Carroll.

The plot follows the story of Ted Benteley, an idealistic young worker unhappy with his position in life.

Déjà Vu is also a plot element in the episode " Mystery Spot " of the television series Supernatural where Sam Winchester wakes up in the same day as a result of being trapped in a time loop.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

* The old time radio show Duffy's Tavern had an episode which used a newly discovered diary of Stuyvesant as a plot device.

Before it was published, however, the TV series aired " The Seventh ", an episode with a similar core plot point, which forced last-minute revisions to Dillard's book.

Koenig wrote " The Infinite Vulcan ", which had plot elements of the original Star Trek episode " Space Seed " blended into it.

* Serial ( radio and television ), series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion

Not wanting to cut out any of the characters or the already elaborately planned plot lines, the series was instead forced to fit into the shorter length and cover more of the story in each episode than originally planned.

The plot changed little in each episode.

* " Das Bus ", an episode of The Simpsons with a similar plot

One episode, " The Way ", which loosely interpreted elements of Hinduism as major plot points, generated controversy, requiring the producers to add a disclaimer at the head of the episode and a tag explaining the episode's intentions at its end.

* " Pup Fiction " – an episode of Wishbone featuring the plot and characters of Austen's Northanger Abbey.

During each episode, he provided an omniscient viewpoint of the situations presented, and regularly interjected comical asides during crucial plot points ( often, during a freeze frame of a cliffhanger scene right before a commercial break ) and " down home " aphorisms.

In April 2012, additional episode-only tags relating to plot points in an episode ( for instance, the # saturdaynightGLEEver tag for a mid-April 2012 episode of Glee with that episode title ) began to also be promoted in this space to both add additional trending topics and spread out more conversations on Twitter.

This is used as a plot element in the episode Time's Arrow where Data's head ( an artifact excavated on Earth from the late 19th century ) is reattached to his body after nearly 500 years.

The plot of a typical episode is some humorous variation of standard superhero and tokusatsu fare, with the girls using their powers to defend their town from villains and giant monsters.

" This choice led one reviewer to question if Fringes plot might be a homage to the Star Trek episode " Mirror, Mirror ", which featured an alternate reality " Mirror Universe " concept and an evil version of Spock distinguished by a goatee.

In the 1996 The Simpsons episode " The Day the Violence Died ", a relationship similar to Iwerks ' early relationship with Walt Disney is used as the main plot.

* The plot of the second episode of Blackadder II, " Head ", echoes plot elements of the play, with the titular character, as Executioner, swapping around heads in order to pretend that a criminal is alive rather than dead.

*" Revenge of the Lutefisk ", an episode of the animated series King of the Hill, uses the dish as a key plot device.

The writers conceived the episode before the film Goodfellas, which has a similar plot, was released.