* Elisa Diana, a character from the American Broadcasting Company's popular TV drama, Lost

Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980.

Existentialism became popular in the years following World War II and influenced a range of disciplines besides philosophy, including theology, drama, art, literature and psychology.

The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.

MTM Enterprises later produced popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis ( both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show ), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues, and Newhart.

Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni ( in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte ) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.

The Royal Today was a daily spin-off of popular sixties drama The Royal, which had been running in a primetime slot since 2002.

The most popular Italian prime-time drama series Incantesimo ( Enchantment ), that run from 1998 until 2008, has been transformed into daytime soap opera in its final two years, airing 5 days-a-week on Rai 1.

One of the oldest records of the word samba appeared in Pernambuco magazine's O Carapuceiro, dated February 1838, when Father Miguel Lopes Gama of Sacramento wrote against what he called the samba d ' almocreve – not referring to the future musical genre, but a kind of merriment ( dance drama ) popular for black people of that time.

Like Calderón de la Barca's earlier El golfo de las sirenas ( The Sirens ' Gulf, 1657 ), El Laurel de Apolo mixed mythological verse drama with operatic solos, popular songs and dances.

Musical content from this era ranges from full-scale operatic arias ( romanzas ) through to popular songs, and dialogue from high poetic drama to lowlife comedy characters.

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

I Take This Woman with Hedy Lamarr was a critical and commercial failure, but the historical drama Northwest Passage — Tracy's first film in Technicolor — proved popular.

The new national literature thus firstly mimicked popular German genres and would only later evolve into an independent creative effort ; this was especially true for drama, e. g. Václav Kliment Klicpera.

By the late 1930s, radio drama was widely popular in the United States ( and also in other parts of the world ).

Radio drama remains popular in much of the world.

Theatrical drama was very popular amongst the elite and general populace, although Classical Chinese — not the vernacular language — was spoken by actors on stage.

The work is considered an imitation of a Medieval mystery play, a type of drama popular in the 14th century.

A popular theme, The Request of Helen ( Helenes Apaitesis, Ἑλένης Ἀπαίτησις ) was the subject of a drama by Sophocles, now lost.

While popular farces and melodramas like the stage adaptation of Trilby anchored the repertoire ( the production ran for an extraordinary 260 performances ), Tree also encouraged the new drama, staging Maeterlinck's The Intruder ( 1890 ), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( 1893 ) and Wilde's A Woman of No Importance ( 1893 ), among others.

One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself " tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama " of the elements during a storm at sea.

Dumbshows were a Medieval element that continued to be popular in early Elizabethan drama, but by the time Pericles ( c. 1607 – 08 ) or Hamlet ( c. 1600 – 02 ) were staged, they were perhaps quaintly old-fashioned: “ What means this, my lord ?” is Ophelia's reaction.

The 36-episode TV series — the first Chinese television drama to enter the global market — still remains popular in the international market.

During the Golden Age of Radio, radio featured genres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment — adventure, comedy, drama, horror, mystery, musical variety, romance, thrillers — along with classical music concerts, big band remotes, farm reports, news and commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows ( beginning with Professor Quiz ), sidewalk interviews ( on Vox Pop ), broadcasts, talent shows and weather forecasts.

The series was a comedy drama in the vein of the popular ITV series of the time, Minder.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

* Alexandra Dunphy, aka Alex Dunphy, character in popular American Television series " Modern Family "

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Their first step into the design world was a series of advertisements featuring work from currently popular designers.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

The series of fighting games are among the most popular in their genre, and have sold over 30 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

Spoofs remained popular as well, especially with the Scary Movie series and Not Another Teen Movie series.

* The popular TV series Stargate SG-1 introduces ' Replicators ' as some of the deadliest enemies of life.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

Comic storylines had been popular in the series in the 1960s but had become sparse during the early 1970s.