While the CGI shots have already been mastered in a 16: 9 aspect ratio for future applications, they are currently broadcast in the U. S. and Canada – along with the live-action footage – in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio television format to respect the show's original composition.

While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in the year 2062 in a futuristic utopia ( 100 years in the future at the time of the show's debut ) of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.

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 original pilot episode featured a calypso theme song by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics.

In Season 10 Episode 4, the show's 200th episode, Brainiac 5-having been reprogrammed to fight for the Legion-appears to Clark and takes him through his past, present and future as part of his training.

Jimmy Wallington became the show's announcer for most of its life with Allen as the feature ( he succeeded George Burns and Gracie Allen sidekick Harry Von Zell ), though for a brief spell during its second season the announcer was budding radio personality and future television legend Arthur Godfrey.

CBS and the show's producers had hoped that the new look would help reinvent the show and raise ratings, making the longest-running program in daytime history a model for the future of daytime, but the plan was ultimately unsuccessful.

" After approximately two and a half years, and no significant change in the show's financial situation, the Dr. Demento official website announced on June 6, 2010 that the show that aired that weekend would be the final broadcast in the terrestrial radio version ; however, new episodes of the online streaming version would still continue to be produced for the foreseeable future, with new episodes posted every Saturday.

Despite the show's terrestrial cancellation, new online episodes are expected to be produced for the foreseeable future.

The self-fulfilling prophecy becomes more important in the show's sixth season, when the Elder Gideon learns of a future where the Charmed Ones ' son Wyatt Halliwell will turn evil and rule the world ; although Gideon attempts to kill Wyatt before he can become evil, the Charmed Ones learn that Gideon's attacks will traumatise Wyatt and turn him to evil as he loses faith in good to protect him ( Until Leo manages to stop him )

With audience figures falling, Channel 4 decided that the eleventh series in Summer 2010 would be the last Big Brother broadcast on their channel, although the show's future was in the hands of the rights holder Endemol.

The show's future and a new venue after that time have yet to be decided.

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 ".

Despite the show's relative failure, fans of the former UK Play spoof interviews show Rock Profile, often recall the creators and future stars of Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's, appearance on the show as Danny and Noel from Hear ' Say, in which they constantly sang " Monday, Monday " after Theakston asked them a question.

April 8, 1956 saw the debut of The $ 64, 000 Challenge ( initially co-sponsored by Revlon and Lorillard Tobacco Company's Kent cigarettes ), hosted through August 26 by future children's television star Sonny Fox and then, for the remainder of the show's life, Ralph Story.

Quinn Martin produced the show's first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin.

The show's premise was, the main guest of the programme has to choose a meal as if it were their last, and Ronnie would cook it for him / her and his other guest, whilst they chatted about the guest's past and their current / future projects.

Stephen would be very much the show's hero and focus for the audience while John was something of an authoritarian figure who took his responsibilities for the species ' future and welfare very seriously.

It was also publicized, just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ( a classmate of Lerner at Harvard ), that the show's original cast recording had been favorite bedtime listening in the White House, and that Kennedy's favorite lines were in the final number ( in which Arthur knights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of Camelot to future generations ):

The show's basic premise is that in the near future – a fictional version of 1980 ( a date indicated in the opening credits ) – Earth is being visited and attacked by aliens from a dying planet and humans are being covertly harvested for their organs by the aliens.

Gardner also brought aboard several keen writing talents, including theatric humorist Abe Burrows ( the show's co-creator and head writer for its first five years ), future M * A * S * H writer Larry Gelbart and Dick Martin, who later was the co-host of television's groundbreaking Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

The show's focus changed to the future, and what mankind could look forward to.

Light novels have also been serialized within the Japanese version of the magazine in the past: these have included " For the Barrel " ( an abstract adaptation of the Mobile Suit Gundam novel trilogy ); a novelization of Overman King Gainer ( accompanied by illustrations from the show's character designer, Kinu Nishimura ); and the Yoshiyuki Tomino story " Gaia Gear ", set in the far future of Gundam's Universal Century timeline.

The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

In 2010, his character was involved in the show's dramatic 50th anniversary tram crash storyline, which was recorded live.

Claire was the main focus of the show's first story arc, featuring the popular catchphrase, " Save the cheerleader, save the world ".

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

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

Kershaw was also a script writer for the programme and the show's producer between 1962 and 1971.

Bill Podmore was the show's longest serving producer.

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

Anderson moved to the BBC in 1996 and the show's name changed to Clive Anderson All Talk and was aired on BBC One.

She had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

The producers of Diff ' rent Strokes did not feel that a pregnancy would fit the show's wholesome image, so Plato was let go.

The act that appeared most frequently through the show's run was the Canadian comedy duo of Wayne & Shuster, making 67 appearances between 1958 and 1969.

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

She was a special guest at the 70th Academy Awards, where the show's host, Billy Crystal, introduced her as the " Beauty who charmed the Beast ".

During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.

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 show's name was coined by show business talent manager and producer Bernie Brillstein and derives from a common English onomatopoeia used to describe the braying sound that a donkey makes.

During the summer of 1992, a decision was made to end first-run production, and instead air highlights of the show's earlier years in a revamped program called Hee Haw Silver ( as part of celebrating the show's 25th year ).