One of the show's best-known features is Keillor's News from Lake Wobegon, a weekly storytelling monologue, claiming to be a report from Keillor's fictitious hometown of Lake Wobegon, " the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve ... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

" HBO's promotional efforts focused on Bean as the show's leading man and best-known actor.

Released as a single, this song became a pop and R & B radio hit in 1974 and the show's best-known theme.

The best-known songs from the musical include the title song, which was an international hit for Dionne Warwick, released before the show's December 1968 Broadway opening ; " I'll Never Fall in Love Again ", a hit for Warwick in the US and Canada ( No. 6 and No. 1, respectively ) and for Bobbie Gentry in the UK ( No. 1 ); " Knowing When To Leave " ( also recorded by Warwick ), " She Likes Basketball " and " Turkey Lurkey Time ", a dance number featuring McKechnie, Lee and Sappington.

Canadian comedian and actor Martin Short also employed a similar technique with his best-known character, the fawning, morbidly obese celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick ; another notable resemblance between Glick and Norman is the Glick show's " fairytale " segment " Lalawood Fables ", which is very similar to the " Norman's Dreamtime " segments of the Gunston show, in which the host reads a satirical mock-fable ( intercut with pre-produced vision ) to a group of assembled children.

The show's biggest hit — the song that Rodgers believed " made " Rodgers and Hart — was " Manhattan " sung by Ruth Tester and Allan Gould.

Yo Se Que Mentia became one of the most viewed Puerto Rican telenovelas in history, and the show's main song, also named Yo se que mentia became one of Chacon's biggest hits as a singer.

However, the biggest casualty of Davis's arrival was the show's only remaining original character to have appeared continuously for the entire run of the series, Roy Farmer, who was killed in a fire in his internet café business.

Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on " the two biggest things in the entertainment world today "— James Bond and Inspector Clouseau.

The foursome was invited to perform at the 2001 MTV Movie Awards ; the performance was the show's biggest highlight of the night.

Question contestants sometimes became celebrities themselves for a short while, including 11-year-old Robert Strom ( who won $ 192, 000 ) and Teddy Nadler ($ 252, 000 across both shows ), the two biggest winners in the show's history.

In 1988, when Chomsky was interviewed by Bill Moyers there were 1, 000 letters in response, one the biggest written reactions in the show's history.

Decca issued a 10-inch LP featuring Merman singing some of her songs, accompanied by arranger-conductor Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and Chorus, with vocalizing by Dick Haymes ( who joined Merman in the show's biggest hit, " You're Just in Love ", their single reaching Billboard magazine's number 30 for a week ) and Eileen Wilson ( who sang " It's a Lovely Day Today " with Haymes ).

However, he felt that Eccleston was " the show's biggest disappointment " as he seemed unsuited to a fantasy role.

He is currently featured in the Professional Poker Tour and the second season of High Stakes Poker, where he won the fifth biggest pot in the show's history ($ 575, 700 ) when his defeated Daniel Negreanu's on a board of.

The biggest star of the show, however, was the inexplicably enthusiastic Serge Vleminckx, the show's announcer.

In 2002, she joined The Bill as PC Kerry Young, which became her biggest role and one of the show's much loved characters.

The firings and turnover resulting from this season represented the biggest involvement into the show's affairs by NBC executives since season 6 and the largest cast overhaul since season 11.

In June 2002, FSN launched its biggest advertising and promotional blitz for the show with the " Best Damn All-Star Summer ", with superstar athletes and celebrities appearing on the show, along with a barrage on newspaper, billboard, and radio advertising to help garner more recognition just before the show's one-year anniversary.

The song soon became one of his show's biggest hits.

He later contributed to the aftermath show, revealing that he'd correctly predicted the killer of Archie Mitchell, the show's biggest ' whodunnit '.

Her big break came in 2000, when she beat Suzanne Shaw and Kimberley Walsh to the role of Maria Sutherland in Coronation Street, where she has been at the centre of some of the show's biggest story lines in recent years.

In general, South Park is widely considered the show's biggest influence by Israeli critics and fans.

What was undoubtedly the biggest moment in the show's history came in the penultimate show of the first series, when Chris Evans kept touting a huge surprise throughout the show, but did not reveal it until he was about to play " Light Your Lemon ".

Multimedia news and reviews website IGN was pleased to see Stewie and Brian get more screen time as a duo, something they thought had always been one of the show's biggest strengths.

Being part of the cast was a dream among many Brazilian kids and in 1999 over 15. 000 people in São Paulo, 10, 000 in Rio de Janeiro and 6, 000 in Recife attended the auditions for the show's third season, breaking the record for the biggest casting ever ( as a comparison castings for Ídolos, the Brazilian version of American Idol, are attended by 2, 000 people in each state and 4, 000 in São Paulo ).

# Capital Offense ( a. k. a. Bath Reno Gone Wrong )-The Holmes Crew travel to Ottawa, Ontario to help two of the show's biggest fans, who, despite having heeded Mike's advice and researched meticulously, nevertheless find that their bathroom renovation has gone awry.

The Futon Critic named it the 10th best episode of 2000, saying " Her breakdown in the show's closing moments was painfully real and left one of the biggest impressions of 2000.

Despite her character being at the centre of some of the show's biggest storylines, the actress is now considering a modelling career.

Upon the show's American debut in 1999, it was an instant hit and became a regular part of ABC's prime time lineup until 2002.

The early 1990s cult hit Twin Peaks is seen as a major influence on the show's dark atmosphere and its often surreal blend of drama and irony.

Contributing the single " Boss of Me " as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, brought a new audience to the band.

Her performance is generally credited as one factor in the fledgling show's subsequent rise in the Nielsen ratings to a hit rivaling Dallas.

Before 1987, the show's theme song was the Hank Snow hit " Hello Love ".

The show's theme music also featured on two minor UK hit singles in 1991, " Summer's Magic " by Mark Summers and " Magic Style " by The Badman.

It became a hit for the channel, spawning many future stars in both music and acting during its nine-year run, including Martika ( who went by her real name of Marta Marrero in the show's first season ), eventual Party of Five co-stars Scott Wolf and Jennifer Love Hewitt ( billed as Love Hewitt ), and Stacy Ferguson ( later known as " Fergie " of The Black Eyed Peas ).

The show's most famous character was Mr. Canoehead, a quintessentially Canadian superhero: on a canoeing trip in Algonquin Park, he was hit by lightning while portaging his aluminum canoe, which became permanently welded to his head.

At the end of the choir's 4165th live broadcast on July 12, 2009, the show's host, Lloyd D. Newell, announced another milestone that the show had just hit: the completion of its 80th year in existence.

In this context, it should be mentioned that Diana Ross & the Supremes, frequent guests on Sullivan's show, debuted their then-release and eventual controversial # 1 hit song " Love Child " on Sullivan's show, but nothing about its title or its content about a woman in poverty having a child out of wedlock seemed to faze Sullivan, the show's producers, or the network.

The show's executive producer, Dan Schneider, would go on to create and produce several hit series for Nickelodeon including among others Kenan & Kel, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh and Zoey 101, and more recently iCarly and Victorious.

In 2007, Nickelodeon began a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed series for the channel, help fund and launch albums in conjunction with the label tied to Nickelodeon shows and produce original songs for the programs to be released as singles as result ; the only series produced under the partnership that was greenlit as a series, Victorious debuted in 2010, though a similar hit music-themed sitcom, Big Time Rush that debuted the same year features a similar partnership with Columbia Records, though with Columbia only being involved with the show's music, Sony Music became involved with that show's production midway through its first season.

The show's title character retrieves the code by achieving a score of 2, 000, 000 points after realizing that " the mathematical pattern underlying the game is the same " as Rush's 1981 hit " Tom Sawyer ".

Lane remained anonymous as the voice of Mister Ed, and the show's producers referred to him only as " an actor who prefers to remain nameless ," though once the show became a hit, Lane campaigned the producers for credit, which he never received.

Although the band was initially hired only to perform the chart hits of the day on the show ( in arrangements as close as possible to the actual hit records ), after a time, the show's producer encouraged the group to write and perform their own material as well.

Columbo was an immediate hit in the Nielsen ratings and Falk won an Emmy Award for his role in the show's first season.

The show's use of Blondie's " Heart of Glass " was widely credited with helping the song become a major U. S. hit, and the band's record label Chrysalis Records presented the producers with a gold record award for the album Parallel Lines, on which the song appeared.

At the beginning of the third season of Charlie's Angels, Jackson was offered the Meryl Streep role in the feature film Kramer vs Kramer ( 1979 ), but was forced to turn it down because Spelling told her that they were unable to rearrange the hit show's shooting schedule to give her time off to do the film.

The show's eventual hit song, " There's No Business Like Show Business ," was almost left out of the show because Berlin mistakenly got the impression that Richard Rodgers did not like it.

No use trying to pick a hit tune, for all the tunes are hits ... Ethel Merman is at her lusty, free and easy best ... She is now able to develop a consistent characterization and stay with it to the show's end.

" This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK.

Adams wanted Presley to sing the theme song for The Rebel but the show's producer wanted Johnny Cash, who made it a hit.