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.

The stereotyped plot line follows the " boy-gets-girl ", " boy-loses-girl ", " boy gets girl back again " sequence.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

The plot follows his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and Prime Minister.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.

The story follows the basic Biblical plot.

The plot follows five students at fictional Shermer High School in the fictitious Chicago suburb of Shermer, Illinois as they report for Saturday detention on March 24, 1984.

The plot follows a mysterious stranger ( Eastwood ) who arrives in a brooding Western town where the people hire him to protect them against three soon-to-be-released felons.

* British — Ashton, Helen: Pierrot in Town ( 1913 ); Barrington, Pamela: White Pierrot ( 1932 ); Callaghan, Stella: " Pierrot and the Black Cat " ( 1921 ), Pierrot of the World ( 1923 ); Deakin, Dorothea: The Poet and the Pierrot ( 1905 ); Herring, Paul: The Pierrots on the Pier: A Holiday Entertainment ( 1914 ); Priestley, J. B .: The Good Companions ( 1929 ; plot follows fortunes of a Pierrot troupe, The Dinky Doos ; has had many adaptations, for stage, screen, TV, and radio ).

The film contains no scenes, characters, or dialogue from Red Harvest, whereas it follows the plot and main characters of The Glass Key fairly closely.

The plot of the movie basically follows Hugo's novel, but there are a large number of differences.

The plot of the epic costume drama follows the globe-trotting adventures of the title character, the illegitimate offspring of Maria Bonnyfeather, the bride of the cruel and devious middle-aged nobleman Marquis Don Luis, and Denis Moore.

The film loosely follows the novel ’ s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem ’ s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin ’ s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet.

The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.

The plot follows a secret branch of the United States ' National Security Agency who have developed a time travelling device based upon alien technology found at Roswell.

If rage is accepted as a pre-verbal, pre-cognitive phenomenon ( and sufferers describe it colloquially as " losing the plot ") then it follows that cognitive strategies, eliciting commitments to behave differently or educational programs ( the most common forms of interventions in the UK presently ) are contra-indicated.

Its screen story fairly closely follows the plot of " Second Variety ".

In a play that follows a climatic plot construction, Dionysus the Protagonist, instigates the unfolding action by simultaneously emulating the play's author, costume designer, choreographer and artistic director.

The plot follows the novel by Franz Werfel, which is not a documentary but a historical novel blending fact and fiction.

The plot closely follows, and expands upon, the film of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The arcade-style game Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game designed by Attention To Detail was released almost simultaneously with its adventure counterpart, and loosely follows its plot.