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

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.

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.

In A Hole In The Heart ( part 2 ), to placate a director from charity organisation Rotary, she allows the executive producer to yell at her and pretend to fire her over one of the show's decisions, when in reality she is receiving a large pay rise in return for her part of the act.

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.

According to the show's producer, Sam Lovullo, the ratings showed improvement with these classic reruns ; however, the series was finally canceled in 1993 at the conclusion of its 25th season.

Dick Ebersol, who replaced Lorne Michaels as the show's producer, said that Shearer was " a gifted performer but a pain in the butt.

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.

In 1929, Gordon was starring in the title role of " Serena Blandish " when she became pregnant by the show's producer, Jed Harris.

An early screenplay draft called for the Defiant to be destroyed, but Deep Space Nine executive producer Ira Steven Behr objected to the destruction of his show's ship and so the idea was dropped.

Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producer ( s ) in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, attract advertisers.

* Two characters are given names related to cigarettes: Lucky Straeker, Bookman's director and Dora Belair, an assistant to a competing show's producer.

The hairy creature appeared in Addams cartoons as " It ", but was named " Cousin Itt " by the show's producer, David Levy.

On November 26, 2006 the network broadcast an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank featuring rarely-seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973 – 1982 runs, plus interviews with Rayburn, Somers, Dawson, DeBartolo, producer Ira Skutch, and others involved in the show's production.

Grammer usually joins the show's " table readings " ( wherein cast members read each script together for the first time ), and former executive producer David Mirkin described working with Grammer as very pleasant, due to his lively sense of humor.

Controversy erupted during the midst of the second season when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show's production, although his influence was felt until the completion of the second season ; at that point, Bob Engels was brought on to be an executive producer of the series.

The show's producer Stan Rogow says the visual look of the show was partly inspired by Run Lola Run.

John Ammonds, the show's producer, replaced Hills and Green with Eddie Braben, who had just parted from Ken Dodd.

* 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.

But shortly after production began, Cassidy convinced music producer Wes Farrell that he was good enough and he was promoted to lead singer for show's recordings.

The show's writers included Howard Harris, Hal Fimberg, Parke Levy, Don Prindle, Eddie Cherkose ( later known as Eddie Maxwell ), Leonard B. Stern, Martin Ragaway, Paul Conlan, and Eddie Forman, as well as producer Martin Gosch.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

LuPone had asked the show's Musical Director to change her keys because they were too low for her, but was told she could not.

King World chairman Roger King was reported in the New York Daily News as being embarrassed by the show's ratings and derision of being a ' bad Regis and Kelly clone ', and told the staff this upon the show's cancellation announcement, refusing to congratulate them on a good run.

( The show's head writer, Goodman Ace, later told radio host Richard Lamparski that Allen's lucrative NBC contract was a large factor in getting him on the show, though Allen also wrote the segments on which he appeared and consulted with the respected Ace and staff on other portions of the show.

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.

Explaining the show's new title, Izzard told the Evening Standard: " The title is designed to streamline the message of Secret Policeman's Ball, which was a bit more ambiguous.

When the show's hosts asked her to perform in Edith Bunker's voice, she jokingly told them that she only does so " for pay ".

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.

They insist that the show's producers told them the videotaped footage was going to be used for a Fox Television documentary series titled Heroes on Patrol and that they have no control over what is shown and that the show only seems to capture moments of incompetence.

The first Switchback in the aforementioned season 15 was a remake of the Roadblock encountered by teams during the show's season six stop in Stockholm ; the original Roadblock was notorious as one team struggled for more than six hours before being told they had been eliminated from the race.

The crew of more than 35 people who worked on the show were told of the show's cancellation the next morning.

CBC president Alphonse Ouimet told the committee that CBC management had been battling the show's producers for two years, and that the show had consistently ignored CBC policies.

Mathers reportedly got the role of Beaver Cleaver when he told the show's producers he'd rather be at his Cub Scout meeting than auditioning for the part.

Herskovitz said Danes and her parents approached the show's creators and told producers that she did not want to be involved with the show if it was permitted to continue for a second season.

Essentially that show's polar opposite, Superstar USA told contestants they were looking for the best singer when they were actually looking for the worst.

However, only six months after his television début he was banned from the Australian airwaves when, during a live broadcast, he told his show's producer — who had been pressing him to go to a commercial break — to " go away and masturbate " so that he could continue an entertaining interview with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

Among the show's pranks, there is one where a celebrity is driven to Venevision's parking lot, thinking that he or she is going to be interviewed on a television show ( particularly Súper Sábado Sensacional ), then told by the " security guard " known as Inspector Rodriguez ( played by Luís Moncho Martínez ) that he or she cannot proceed because the celebrity's name does not appear on the list of Venevision's guests for that day.

One performer was quoted saying, " What show's private detective told me was that some of the episodes are real, but ... they would do these ringer episodes to supplement the show.

The show's producer, Gary Dell ' Abate, mentioned Melendez's stuttering to Howard Stern who, without seeing him and even before he was interviewed, told the producer to hire him.

Critics from such publications as Entertainment Weekly on IGN. com, Thomas had originally conceived of the show as more experimental, especially in terms of interaction with the studio audience, but CBS executives told him to tone down the experimental aspects of the series — a decision which, Thomas believes, ultimately contributed to the show's short life span.

Stern read out the list of revelations for the show's " Revelations Game ", where staff told an unknown secret about themselves.

When Letts cast Manning and introduced her to the show's star, Pertwee was delighted and said " I told you she was the girl for the part ".

Donna told them that Eric did this three weeks earlier ( this is often described as the show's Jumping the shark moment ).