: 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.

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.

This was not, for the Angel, just a matter of running through a logical or deductive chain, or deciding on some action from some already established premise.

Historically, others have titled their appellate court a court of errors ( or court of errors and appeals ), on the premise that it was intended to correct errors made by lower courts.

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

The unstated premise was that the surviving brother would be king.

The British Museum has refused to return these artefacts, stating that the " restitutionist premise, that whatever was made in a country must return to an original geographical site, would empty both the British Museum and the other great museums of the world ".

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 ”.

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.

The original premise was for the couple to portray Lucy and Larry Lopez, a successful show business couple whose glamorous careers interfered with their efforts to maintain a normal marriage.

His premise was that each repetition in learning increases the optimum interval before the next repetition is needed ( for near-perfect retention, initial repetitions may need to be made within days, but later they can be made after years ).

In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique " topsy-turvy " style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd.

The basic premise was to divide the players into two teams — attackers and defenders — with each side either assaulting or protecting the castle respectively.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

A suitable premise for war arose in 1870, when the German Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was offered the Spanish throne, which had been vacant since a revolution in 1868.

It was a widely held idea among traditional theories of the origin of language ( glottology ), assumed as a premise that children's use of language gives insights on its origin and evolution.

His pangenesis theory was criticised for its Lamarckian premise that parents could pass on traits acquired in their lifetime.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

The original plot and premise of Preacher was spun out of Ennis ' run on Hellblazer, which postulated what would happen if an angel and a demon mated, and the spirit of their offspring ended up in a mortal man.

A further premise was that the circuit was broken, explaining why it was " stuck " in that form.

The game was first published in 1984 during the Cold War and was intended to be an accurate depiction of a possible future, but events in the world have rendered the premise of the game an alternate history.