By the show's end, the wooden barrel full of samples was empty.

During the show's first season, any contestant who won over $ 25, 000 would retire undefeated, with the full amount won in his or her appearances.

The series ' theme song, " Under the Gun ," was written by Randy Newman, who also performed it in the series ' title sequence music video-style in a recording studio, complete with a full backing band and the show's cast ( appearing out of character ) serving as an audience.

None of the show's episodes ever specified Gilligan's full name or clearly indicated whether " Gilligan " was the character's first name or his last.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes ( almost always referred to since fall 2009 as simply 22 Minutes ; the full title is still seen briefly in the show's current introduction ) is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television.

The full cast for the show's premiere, 1977.

Another bold move in the show's final months saw Number 96 feature what was publicised as Australian television's first full frontal nude scene when new character Miss Hemingway ( Deborah Gray ) made the first of several unveilings in April 1977.

However, as the full comedy potential of Cole's dodgy-dealing character emerged, as well as the successful on-screen pairing of Waterman and Cole ( which proved to be one of the series most popular elements ), the emphasis increasingly focused more on Arthur's exploits, and by a few series into the show's life, typical plots revolved more around Arthur's latest shady scam instead of some of the more " gritty " plots of Terry's minding jobs witnessed in early episodes.

In full Gildersleeve character, at the height of the show's popularity, Harold Peary recorded three albums, reading popular children's stories for Capitol Records, in heavy-bookleted four-disc 78rpm record albums.

Although a full series of K-9 and Company was not produced, the two characters did re-appear two years later in The Five Doctors, an episode of Doctor Who broadcast in 1983 celebrating the show's twentieth anniversary.

Rigby's acrimonious relationship with fellow producer Cyma Rubin led to Rubin terminating Rigby's contract and removing his credit as co-producer, but insiders claimed he deserved full credit for the show's success.

In his memoir Star Trek: Memories, William Shatner called this one of the series ' worst episodes — in the full general autobiography Up Till Now, he called the episode's plot a " tribute " to NBC executives who slashed the show's budget and placed it in a bad time slot.

Pardon the Interruption is unique in its studio layout, featuring a " wall " full of cut-out cardboard heads of athletes and celebrities that have previously been used in the " Role Play " segment, bobblehead dolls of the show's hosts and Reali, Etch-A-Sketch art of Kornheiser and Wilbon, and several other toys and trinkets they have received, such as Kornheiser's beloved " Leg Lamp " from A Christmas Story, Stewie Griffin and Elmo.

airs the full credits of the current program at the show's beginning rather than the end ; some programs, most prominently E!

With most of the villains becoming comic bunglers less likely to frighten the show's juvenile viewers and only some occasional deaths, usually off-screen, Kellogg's gave its full approval to Ellsworth's approach and the show remained a success.

This led to an incident on March 8, 1999 in which he improvised a raunchy performance art piece that involved full nudity and breaking two liquor bottles on the show's set.

A new song was written from series nine until the show's conclusion in 2001: " Reaching out, holding hands, reliving memories ... Life is full, full of surprises ... And the nicest surprise in my life is you!

Long running Casualty character Charlie Fairhead appeared in HolbyBlues first episode, and a full two part crossover episode with Holby City aired at the beginning of the show's second series.

The following year, in the show's first full season, Bertinelli's character was revised to be more appealing to a traditional male demographic.

To mark the show's 18th anniversary, a ' live ' event took place in lieu of a full repeat screening on British television.

He returned as Clark Kent for the show's tenth and final season in Fall 2010 and has become a full executive producer, as credited in a May 20, 2010 press release by the CW.

The show's stories center on Tom Peters ( Tim Heidecker ), a new citizen to the town of Jefferton who is " full of ideas ", and the Mayor ( Eric Wareheim ) who always tweaks Tom's ideas and causes them to backfire.

Much was made at the time of the show's premiere about the central character of the show being a " full figured " woman, and that the title correlated to Claude being " Less Than Perfect.

House bands on television shows usually play only cover songs instead of originals and they play during times which commercials would be seen by the home viewing audience, therefore only those present in the studio during the show's taping see their full performances.

The show's production team was tested when many core cast members left the programme in the early 1970s.

" Writers drew on the show's many archetypes, with previously established characters stepping into the roles left by the original cast.

This included the nation's and the writers ' favourite episodes plus a documentary of the cast and creators that revisited the show's locations.

Sheb Wooley, one of the original cast members, wrote the show's theme song.

Ancient members of the show's cast, like the Devil and Punch's mistress " Pretty Polly ," ceased to be included when they came to be seen as inappropriate for young audiences.

The series featured most of the original cast performing the voices for their characters, except for Pavel Chekov ( Walter Koenig ), who was omitted because the show's budget could not afford the complete cast.

The show's popularity by early 1998 was evident to the cast members, and Hannigan remarked on her surprise specifically.

U8TV: The Lofters combined the " special living environment " format with the " professional activity " format noted below ; in addition to living together in a loft, each member of the show's cast was hired to host a television program for a Canadian cable channel.

However, " Repo Men " would turn out to be the character's only appearance in the entire show's run, leading to a legal dispute in the following years over the rights to characters and concepts between Rushing and Warner Brothers, although he remained on good terms with cast and crew and in recent years has made appearances at several fan conventions.

As well as its regular car chases, jumps and stunts, the show relied on character familiarity, with Deputy Cletus replacing Deputy Enos in the third and fourth season, and Coy and Vance Duke temporarily replacing Bo and Luke ( due to a salary dispute ) in the fifth season, being the only major cast changes through the show's run ( Ben Jones and James Best both left temporarily during the second season due to different disputes with producers, but both returned within a couple of episodes ).

Birch was cast and scheduled to make her American stage debut in the off Broadway revival of Dracula, but was fired for reasons apparently involving her father's interference four days before the show's first performance.

Many of the show's storylines were taken from the experiences of its writing staff, cast, and crew, most notably, the 1982 death of Will Lee — who played Mr. Hooper — and the marriage of Luis and Maria in 1988.

During the 1980s, the show incorporated the real-life experiences of the show's cast and crew, including the death of Will Lee ( Mr. Hooper ) and the pregnancy of Sonia Manzano ( Maria ) to address affective concerns.

Jon Stone, whose goal was to cast white actors in the minority, was responsible for hiring the show's first cast.

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).

Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches, although actress Abby Hagyard later joined the show to become " the other grown-up " in the cast roster, and frequently played " Mom " opposite Lye's role as " Dad.

Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue ( or several would be having a group conversation ) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would ( generally ) be opposite what the monologue ( or dialogue ) was about, all present cast would say, " It must be the introduction to the opposites ", and then the inversion fade would happen ; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly ( for example, eating sweets instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank ).

A return to the show's daily subject was hallmarked by another of these inversion fades, and usually accompanied by one of the cast members saying, " Back to reality.

Neither actor's presence in the cast helped the show's flagging ratings and this series, too, was not renewed and was replaced permanently by Happy Days.

* During the show's season as The American Radio Company of the Air, Bob Elliott was a regular cast member.