In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

* The MTV Thanksgiving Special " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving " aired on November 27, 1997, the day before the series finale Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn.

The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 1983, and was a joint production with the Australian Seven Network.

Campbell co-stars on the television series Burn Notice, which has aired since 2007 on USA Network.

Banacek ( pronounced ' BAN-a-check ') is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard which aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974.

The series was canceled after the following season, but leftover episodes aired as late as the next June.

During the same time period, Bixby directed several episodes of another short-lived television series, Wizards and Warriors, which aired in 1983.

Before the Cheers pilot, " Give Me a Ring Sometime ", was finalized and then aired in 1982, the series originally consisted of four employees of Cheers, the bar, in the original script.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

* On November 20, 1981, the CBC Radio series Nightfall aired an adaptation of Carmilla written by Graham Pomeroy and John Douglas.

The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.

Since then, the series has aired continuously in rotation due to its success.

" The last series of Clive Anderson All Talk aired in 2001.

* ABC aired a short-lived television series in 1964, Destry, based on the first two films, starring John Gavin as the son of the movie's title character.

American media mogul Ted Turner bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for an English-language release, but canceled it without explanation before any episodes were aired.

He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. Benedict starred in the television series Chopper One which aired for one season in 1974.

Digimon Frontier ( the fourth series / season ) never aired in the UK as the shows ( then ) provider Jetix took it off the air, which shortly after, Jetix ended.

Later, all 4 series aired.

In Latin America, the first four series were aired on Fox Kids and later on Jetix and later on Disney XD ( Latin America ), which also aired the fifth series, Digimon Data Squad.

The entire first series of Digimon Adventure was dubbed in English ( in order to compete with the 4Kids version of Pokémon which aired on the rival network GMA 7 on the same day and time ), along with Digimon Adventure 02.

The second series aired on a new Saturday morning block at 10 A. M. two weeks after the first series finale.

* In the third UK series, " Big Brother " set live tasks for the housemates on a Saturday night in order to win treats ; this was used until Series 5 of the program.

Many had come to prominence on the American TV series Saturday Night Live, including Bill Murray, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase.

* Bunnie Rabbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog Saturday morning TV series and US comic series.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

He produced a Saturday morning children's TV series for the American Broadcasting Company called The Curiosity Shop in 1971.

McLean had a series of conflicts with Saturday Night Live writer Andy Breckman, starting when Breckman opened for McLean on tour in 1980.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series was given another chance by Cartoon Network on their late-night Adult Swim block, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings.

* Milton ( cartoon ), series of cartoons for Saturday Night Live and the film Office Space

Produced by Quincy Jones, the sketch comedy series was in the vein of Saturday Night Live and SCTV, and ran for 14 seasons.

The ad ran during Saturday morning network programming during the series ' run.

It was one of the first catchphrases from the series ( which later became Saturday Night Live, or SNL ) to enter the general lexicon.

On 7 April 2010, 3AW reported that Skyhooks were to appear on the first episode of the new series of Hey Hey It's Saturday with Leo Sayer on vocals.

In 1999, UPN made a deal with Disney to air select programming from ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block ( later ABC Kids ) in place of the teen series.

Originally broadcast on NBC as a Saturday morning cartoon, the series ran first-run original episodes for three seasons, from 1981 to 1983, then aired repeats for an additional two years ( from 1984 to 1986 ).

Beginning on July 11, the network rolled out its inaugural Saturday night schedule with a two-hour movie premiere of Werewolf, and over the next three weeks the series The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Karen's Song and Down and Out in Beverly Hills were added.

MADtv, another sketch-comedy series that debuted in 1995, became a solid competitor to NBC's Saturday Night Live for over a decade and the most successful show on Saturday nights.

An attempt to make a larger effort to program Saturday nights by moving Married ... with Children, Martin and two other long-forgotten new sitcoms to the night at the beginning of the 1996 – 97 season backfired with the public, as it resulted in a short cancellation of America's Most Wanted that was criticized by law enforcement and public officials, and roundly rejected by the viewing public, which brought swift cancellation to the newer series.

In 1977, he received an Emmy Award for writing on Saturday Night Live ; he later received two more nominations for writing, and one each for acting and Outstanding Comedy-Variety series.

Concurrent with his work in Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd played the role of Purvis Bickle, lift operator at the fictitious office block 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television series Coming Up Rosie.