During the show's popular, although short-lived production, Bixby as always, invited a few old friends along to co-star such as Pamela Britton ( in her final role ), Kristina Holland and Ralph O ' Hara.

Plato actually returned for several appearances during the show's final 1986 season, which appeared on ABC, including an episode ( Plato's final appearance in the series ) in which Kimberly suffers the effects of bulimia.

After The Edge of Nights 1984 cancellation, reruns of the show's final five years were shown on the USA Network's latenight schedule from 1985 to 1989.

In the show's final episode " Chosen ", Buffy shares her power with her fellow Slayers before leading them into an epic battle against an army of Turok-Han vampires.

From 2007, Shepherd appeared on the Showtime drama, The L Word as the character Phyllis Kroll for the show's final three seasons.

In the premiere show of the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 10, 2010, Simon surprised Oprah and the audience with a song dedicated to Oprah and her show lasting 25 years ( an update of a song he did for her show's 10th anniversary ).

For the show's final two seasons, Schoolhouse Rock mainstay Lynn Ahrens ( who composed and performed a few Captain Kangaroo songs herself ) composed a new theme, entitled " Here Comes Captain Kangaroo ".

The three regulars also served as guest hosts for when Davidson was unavailable ; in one of those instances, for one week at the beginning of the show's final season, Stevens hosted while Bullock was the center square and Howard Stern announced.

Otherwise, the Davidson series was produced at the Hollywood Center Studios, except for a short time the program was taped at the NBC Burbank Studios ( the show's home base for all but the final syndicated year of the Marshall era ) and The Prospect Studios in the last few weeks of the first season.

This music package was re-arranged / recorded for the show's final season.

For its last two seasons, the show's affiliate count went down significantly due in large part to a daily syndicated version that debuted in September 1979 ( although some markets, like New York, kept both shows on the air as WABC-TV continued to air episodes of Match Game PM into its final season ).

", and ending with the show's name as the final lyric.

By the final season, Serling, stung by criticism and ignored by the show's executives, all but disowned the series.

Toward the end of the show's final season, actress Julie Hill was added to the cast as Monica, Ed's attractive 18-year-old adopted niece.

After the show's final episode aired, Wolfe wrote and published a one-act play entitled " Coda " that explained his intended plans for the show without contradicting the already aired episodes.

The show's Emmy winning final episode has been alluded to many times in other series ' closing episodes, such as the finale of St.

" Johnson Wax sponsored the show through 1950 ; Pet Milk through 1952 ; and, until the show's final half-hour episode in mid-1953, Reynolds Aluminum.

In the show's final season, NBC doubled the number of episodes ordered, despite the fact that they would have to re-sign the entire cast to new contracts in order to film them.

In the series ' final episode " The Last Episode Ever ", Jay is revealed to be the show's animator, as he constantly re-draws the physical forms of Dante and Randal ( similar to one of Bugs Bunny's antics in Looney Tunes ) toward the end of the episode.

In February 2007, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after season seven of the show, but later returned to the show's final episode.

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.

The two approved and offered Mirkin a freelance job writing one of the final nine episodes of show's first season, pending their commissioning by NBC.

Mirkin did not have time, but worked as writer and consultant on the show's first season, and later returned to direct the 1998 final season episode " The Beginning of the End ".

Segments of the pilot were recreated in the sixth episode of the show's first season.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

The band also contributed most of the show's original music, including " My Lovely Horse ", as used in the episode " Song For Europe " and " My Lovely Mayo Mammy " for the episode " Night of the Nearly Dead ".

Phoebe gives birth to triplets in the show's 100th episode.

According to the show's executive producer, Terry Lickona, this is the first and only time in the show's long history that an episode went unaired.

It was written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman and first performed in the eighth episode of the show's first series, " Full Frontal Nudity " ( 7 December 1969 ).

Each episode may feature some of the show's current storylines but not always all of them.

Early episodes of Dark Shadows were rerun on PBS stations in the early 1970s after the show's cancellation, and the entire series ( except the single missing episode ) was rerun on the SciFi Channel in the 1990s.

* The NBC reality series Lost ended up with a truncated run as the second episode of the show was to air on the night of the 11th and subsequently edited down from six to five episodes airing in December 2001, with copious editing done due to the show's finish line being shot at a pre-attacked Statue of Liberty.

The show, which aired on 10 March 2009, was the last episode transmitted in series eleven of the show's run on the satellite and cable TV channel Living.

The show's version is often referred to by characters and fans as " Whatever Happened, Happened " ( also the title of an episode ).

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

In the show's first season Eastwood earned $ 750 ( US $ in dollars ) an episode.

On an episode of The Gadget Show ( first aired on 30 March 2009 ), the Psion was pitted against the BlackBerry for a place on the show's Hall of Fame.

" The show's last original run episode was on March 25, 2005, in all six seasons were made.

The original pilot episode clip was called the " Flagstones " ( which first appeared in 1959 as a 90-second promotion to draw advertisers to the show ) and was later reincorporated into the show's first episode ( third episode in original air date order ).

Another episode included an April Fools ' prank played on Tom Bergeron in the show's fifth season, featuring E. E. Bell as an obnoxious contestant who kept pushing his overly emotional opponent until she broke down in tears, in addition to testing Bergeron's patience.

The episode recast the show's main characters in a self-referential comedic parody of The Taming of the Shrew.