: Made in 1974, Carry On Dick, of the celebrated Carry On series of films, followed the same premise of a country vicar ( Sid James ) who is secretly an outlaw, in this case the highwayman Dick Turpin.

A well-known approximation scheme, the 1 / N expansion, starts from the premise that the number of colors is infinite, and makes a series of corrections to account for the fact that it is not.

Much of the criticism focused on the premise which essentially reduced the finale to a holodeck adventure from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series.

In hoax reality shows, a false premise is presented to some of the series participants.

In truth, the premise of the series is completely different.

In April 2004, the premise of the film was described as having Hasselhoff reprise his role as Michael Knight, though he would be an elder statesman who would serve as a mentor to the protagonist in the same way that Devon Miles mentored Knight in the TV series.

This story is set in 1995, current events having invalidated the premise during production of the series.

A sorites is a form of argument in which a series of incomplete syllogisms is so arranged that the predicate of each premise forms the subject of the next until the subject of the first is joined with the predicate of the last in the conclusion.

The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).

* Belisarius series: The premise of this science fiction ( more specifically alternate history ) series is that a war between two competing societies in the future spills over to 6th century Earth.

The premise of the series is that mathematician Hari Seldon spent his life developing a branch of mathematics known as psychohistory, a concept of mathematical sociology ( analogous to mathematical physics ).

The show's premise involved Doodles dealing with an assignment to stage a no-budget television series using only the discarded costumes, sets, and props left behind by more popular network TV shows away for the summer.

Seven Days ( also written as 7 Days ) is a science fiction television series based on the premise of time travel.

Crime Traveller is a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes.

However, Vincent Cronin replies that such criticism relies on the flawed premise that Napoleon was responsible for the wars which bear his name, when in fact France was the victim of a series of coalitions which aimed to destroy the ideals of the Revolution.

Warren Ellis's comic book series Planetary has a similar premise of fitting many different superhero, science fiction, and fantasy elements into the same universe.

* The cartoon " Mickey's Airplane Kit " ( 1999 ) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.

Tad Stones was directed to come up with a series around the premise, as an executive liked the title Double-O Duck ; Stones was initially reluctant as he felt this would have " no heart or a sense of family " but created a pitch, with GizmoDuck, a character from the final season of DuckTales, as the sidekick ( Gizmoduck would end up as a recurring guest star ).

* Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, a CBS television miniseries ( Air dates: 2 / 13 / 00 and 2 / 16 / 00 ; Writer: Tina Andrews Director: Charles Haid ; With Carmen Ejogo as Hemings and Sam Neill as Thomas Jefferson ) As PBS noted in a Frontline program, " Though many quarrelled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no major historian challenged the series ' premise that Hemings and Jefferson had a 38-year relationship that produced children.

The premise of the series is that, in about April 2000, irresponsible aliens ( accidentally ) exchanged a sphere with a radius of about three miles ( 5 km ) centered on Grantville with an equally sized chunk of Thuringia from 1631, plunging the town into the midst of the Thirty Years ' War.

Oppenheimer, Pugh, and Davis began fine-tuning the premise of the show and writing the series ' first scripts.

Peckinpah has been criticized by fans of the show, who argue that his involvement caused the show to " jump the shark ", despite new executive producer Marc Scott Zicree's decision to restore Tracy Tormé's original " alternate history " premise for the series in season 4.

* The premise for the TV series Now and Again ( 1999 – 2000 ) was the transplantation of lead character Michael Wiseman's brain into a genetically-engineered body to make him into a top-secret super-agent.

In that, he played Martin Bannister, an ageing writer who makes up stories about " the Doctor ", a character who travels in time and space, the premise being that the series had never made it on to television.

The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, " the map is not the territory ".

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

An axiom is a premise or starting point of reasoning.

As classically conceived, an axiom is a premise so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.

Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Bidding is based on the premise that the lowest contract available to bidders starts with the proposition to take seven tricks, i. e. one cannot contract to make less than seven tricks.

The premise of the show is that a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world.

The return from exile is the theological premise of prophet's visions in chapters 1-6.

Unlike similar constructed languages like aUI, Blissymbolics was conceived as a purely visual, speech-less language, on the premise that “ interlinguistic communication is mainly carried on by reading and writing ”.

The basic premise of the transactional model of communication is that individuals are simultaneously engaging in the sending and receiving of messages.

The premise of mainstream cognitive behavioral therapy is that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and in behavior but recent variants emphasize changes in one's relationship to maladaptive thinking rather than changes in thinking itself.

The basic premise of all of these is that something caused the Universe to exist, and this First Cause must be God.

Secondly, the premise of causality has been arrived at via a posteriori ( inductive ) reasoning, which is dependent on experience.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

Even though the three processes mentioned above proved to be equivalent, the fundamental premise behind the thesis — the notion of what it means for a function to be effectively calculable — is " a somewhat vague intuitive one ".

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

In fact, he conceded that there would indeed be an extra premise needed, but denied that the cogito is a syllogism ( see below ).

His instruction was based on the premise that Buddhist ideology is eternal, and that Buddha would send emanations to complete the missions he had initiated.