The show's creator and producer, Paul Henning is from Independence, Missouri, and donated for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson.

Barry Gray, the show's creator, also composed the music for the series.

" The show's creator Matt Groening has called Smith very similar to Lisa: " Yeardley has strong moral views about her character.

Sometimes, this title is conferred upon a celebrity or notable creator who has lent his or her name to a project to boost its prestige or credibility, as a recognition of newly-acquired industry status, or as a perk to the show's main star or creative force.

The show's creator Humphrey Barclay would also go on to create the TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set, featuring the rest of the Python team.

The show's creator Aaron Sorkin also mentioned the film and Chayefsky during his acceptance speech after winning the Academy Award for writing the film The Social Network.

According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, " Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election ", and " said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected.

However, in the film series the show's creator placed the community closer to the Cimarron Strip or Cherokee Strip of the Indian Territory panhandle area near the Cimarron River.

The site was chosen because it was the childhood home of the show's creator, Donald Bellisario.

In 2005, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry used the band's song " Juicy " as the background music for the second season of the show's promotional advertisements, which Griffin credited with bringing attention to the album.

According to the show's creator, Guy Daniels, " We got all the dialogue in by noon, or else we wouldn't get it done at all.

On March 15, 2010 The Bachelorette creator Mike Fleiss appeared on 20 / 20 to confess that he develops the show's contestants into characters that will cater to his audience's tastes and that they " need fair share of villains every season.

Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of Romano, creator / producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff.

In January 2004, creator Esther Shapiro participated in a marathon of the show's episodes, called " Serial Bowl: Alexis vs. Krystle ", giving behind-the-scenes tidbits and factoids.

She has been married to the show's creator, Kurt Sutter, since 2004.

A fan of the series who was writing an episode guide at TV Tome informed creator Angus Oblong of the show's cancellation and rallied fans of the series to petition and encourage the network to renew the show.

The show's creator Alan Ball states they represent the living character's internal dialogue by exposing it as an external conversation.

The character of Sam is based on the show's creator.

However, Barker was replaced in the lead role by the show's creator, Ajay Sahgal, and the show never aired.

Josh Schwartz, the show's creator, stated that in season 2, the show would " no longer be about Ryan's past ; now it's going to be about Ryan's future " and that this season would " slow down the storytelling a little bit ... and evolve the characters ".

When series creator Leonard Freeman died in 1974, the show's ownership was shared among Lord, CBS, and Freeman's estate, with a contract that made Lord executive producer and gave him complete control over content.

Though, often mistaken for a mole his identity as a hamster was confirmed directly by the show's creator Brian Cosgrove on 20 January 2011, following numerous public complaints to the UK quiz show " The Chase " which did not offer mole as part of its multiple choice answers.

The show's creator, J. Michael Straczynski, insisted that the final episode (" Sleeping in Light ") not be seen prematurely.

White was originally scared to play Rose, feeling that she would not be able to play the role — until the show's creator took her aside and told her not to play Rose as stupid but to play her as someone " terminally naive, a person who always believed the first explanation of something.

The show's offices are located nearby at the corner of JFK Street and Brattle Street in Harvard Square, marked as " Dewey, Cheatem & Howe ", the imaginary law firm to which they refer on-air.

The marketing program continued through the 1971 season, when the Federal Trade Commission's Staff Report, Guidelines on Advertising to Children, recommended against Schwinn's on-air marketing practices using the show's host.

* Lisa Miller ( Maura Tierney ), with whom Dave has an intermittent relationship, is promoted and demoted within the show's run, serving as reporter, on-air personality, producer and news director.

Ken Niles was the show's longtime announcer, doubling as an exasperated foil to Abbott and Costello's mishaps ( and often fuming in character as Costello routinely insulted his on-air wife ).

For the show's final season ( 1972 – 1973 ), Rowan and Martin assumed the executive producer roles from George Schlatter ( known on-air as " CFG ", which stood for " Crazy Fucking George ") and Ed Friendly.

" That is the basis of the show's signature " Host Chat ", an unscripted on-air conversation between the co-hosts which opens each show in a segment lasting about twenty minutes.

Bob Edwards, previously a co-host of All Things Considered, hosted Morning Edition beginning with its first episode, a job he initially took on a temporary basis when a shake-up in production and on-air staff occurred ten days before the show's premiere.

The show's ratings decreased after Gifford's arrival, having drawn 1. 9 million viewers the weeks before her arrival and 1. 7 million a few months after, although the network maintains that the drop in viewers was seasonal and unrelated to the on-air talent.

In the sketch, the host is found murdered moments before the show's taping ; the subsequent on-air police investigation reveals that he'd been having a clandestine homosexual affair with the Reilly character.

Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's 11-year run, and spent half of that time playing the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson.

During the show's first two seasons, " Judge Lucci " ( Luciano Casimiri ) had a semi-recurring role as the show's on-air judge.

Carolla brought up the fact that on-air personnel on radio shows, even long-running hit shows, earn extremely low salaries compared to the show's host and wondered what kind of money Melendez made considering he was way down in the show's pecking order, behind Howard, Robin, Fred, Jackie, and Gary.

Rod was given an on-air role for most of the show's run, due to Cancon laws which required American shows taping in Canada to feature at least one Canadian personality on-air, since Edwards had no ties to the country in any way.

The contest however, seemed to be scrapped, as it has not been mentioned on-air since the show's move to Sirius XM Radio.

For her nine seasons on-air, she developed a chemistry with Reese, and the two struck up a friendship that continued in the aftermath of the show's cancellation.

The idea of including production staff as an on-air cast of characters was the idea of Fred Imus, Don's younger brother, who briefly served as the show's producer and was a regular guest on the show until his death in August 2011.

The show's on-air title was Fire Me Please!

Among the show's primary sponsors whose products were promoted live on-air by either Hodgson or Wallace, were the legendary Villa Capri restaurant, local shoe emporium Kara-Vel Shoes, Mrs. Johnson's Bakery, and Superior Dairies products.