During the show's run, Bixby invited two of his long-time friends, Ray Walston and Brandon Cruz, to guest star with him in different episodes of the series.

He will guest star again in the show's sixth season.

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.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

On August 4, 2011, Gellar confirmed she will be returning as a guest star on the ABC soap opera All My Children before the show's ending in September but not as Kendall Hart.

During the show's seventh season, star David Duchovny decided to leave the show, following a lawsuit against Fox.

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.

She also appears as a guest star in the Showtime cable television show Weeds as the marijuana supplier for the show's main character ( Mary-Louise Parker ).

As Rita Marlowe opens her television spectacular for Stay-Put Lipstick, she is surprised by the appearance of the show's " surprise " guest star of ( and the first real love of her life ), George Schmidlap.

In the end, many fans saw the Enterprise itself as the show's star, leaving Scott in an enviable position as her defender.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( also known simply by the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore ) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.

She returned as a guest star in the show's season eight for five episodes to conclude her storyline.

Shortly prior to the show's closing, however, it was announced that Rosalind Russell had been signed to star instead.

After gaining popularity among the show's listeners, the narrator became the star of The Shadow Magazine on April 1, 1931, a pulp series created and primarily written by the prolific Gibson.

" Escape Route " was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland " asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important part ... they came to view a rough cut at the studio and he got The Dirty Dozen ".

Mel Cooley ( Richard Deacon ), a balding straight man and recipient of numerous insulting one-liners from Buddy, was the show's producer and the brother-in-law of the show's star, Alan Brady ( Carl Reiner ).

Portrayed by Emma Caulfield, the character appears as a guest star in the third and fourth seasons of the show before becoming a series regular in the show's fifth season.

* Helen Wagner ( 1938, deceased )-Longtime star of the soap opera, As The World Turns, for over 50 years, she uttered the show's first words in its debut in 1956.

They were eliminated on April 24 after losing a " dance duel " to Disney Channel star Roshon Fegan and partner Chelsie Hightower, ironically on the show's " Motown Week ".

Eight of the men from the show's original dating pool were actually straight men pretending to be gay ; one important part of the plot was whether the gay star would be able to recognize the straights.

She expressed a fondness for the show's star, Elizabeth Montgomery, and said that she had enjoyed working with her.

Wise's character would write a play, complete with cheap props, shaky scenery and appallingly clumsy writing (" the play what I wrote " became a catchphrase ), which would then be acted out by Morecambe, Wise and the show's guest star.

In 1975, she met with Rookies producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to discuss her contractual obligation to star in another television series for Spelling / Goldberg Productions upon that show's cancellation.

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 ).

The show's future was not to be, however, because John Doggett's presence gave only a small ratings boost to the show's eighth season.

The show's organiser, Bob Geldof, other musicians such as Elton John and Dave Grohl, and various music journalists commented that Queen stole the show.

The show's theme song is " As Long as We've Got Each Other ," which was written and composed by both John Bettis ( Lyrics ) and Steve Dorff ( Music ).

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

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

The show's tone could move from silly to sobering from one episode to the next, with dramatic tension often occurring between the civilian draftees of 4077th — Hawkeye, Trapper John, B. J.

The planned host of the NBC show was John Barbour, who did not understand the show's concept and considered it a straight talent show as opposed to Barris's parody concept.

The band recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show in 1990, and their popularity with the show's listeners saw them with three tracks in the Festive Fifty that year, with " Dreams Burn Down " and " Like a Daydream " at numbers 3 and 4 respectively, and " Taste " at number 25.

Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the show's executive producer.

Initially, Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad were the show's only regulars, along with the occasional appearances of dopey roadsweeper Trigger ( Roger Lloyd Pack ) and pretentious used car salesman Boycie ( John Challis ).

She is also known for starring on the show 8 Simple Rules in the role of Cate Hennessy, where she worked with John Ritter until his death, leading to Sagal taking over as the series ' lead for the remainder of the show's run.

The show's writers based MacGyver's inventions on items they found on location, concepts from scientific advisers John Koivula and Jim Green, and real events.

This marked a shift in the show's style with the writers moving from the Punch and Judy style to more subtle and atmospheric sketches, notably a series in which an awkward John and Norma Major ate peas for dinner.

Episode five of the second series of the BBC's Life on Mars features a recreation of the opening of Camberwick Green, with a puppet of the show's main character, Sam Tyler ( John Simm ), emerging from the musical box and despairing over his colleague, Gene Hunt ( Philip Glenister ), who can be seen in puppet form " kicking in a nonce " at the end.

The child actor Stephen Dudley ( John ) was given his part by his father, the show's producer Terence Dudley, while Tanya Ronder ( Lizzie ) is the daughter of Jack Ronder, who wrote eight episodes of Survivors.

Conductor John Owen Edwards along with JAY Records recorded the first ever complete recording, with all musical numbers, scene change music and incidental music, of the show's score in the 1990s with Judy Kaye and Barry Bostwick starred.

The show was written by co-creator Cannell ( 36 episodes ); one of the show's producers and Garner's partner at Cherokee Productions, Juanita Bartlett ( 34 episodes ; also Scarecrow and Mrs. King and In the Heat of the Night ); David Chase ( 16 episodes ; Northern Exposure and The Sopranos ); and Roy Huggins ( as John Thomas James ), among others.

The show's intro and outro make use of John Lennon's " Imagine ", which is notable for its antireligious theme.

For example: several skits from the cult 1960s TV show At Last the 1948 Show were resuscitated by John Cleese ( one of that show's creators ) and performed by him with various Amnesty show cast members, including fellow Pythons ( Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman ) and other peers ( John Bird, John Fortune and Tim Brooke-Taylor ( the last also an At Last the 1948 Show writer / star ), younger performers ( Rowan Atkinson and Griff Rhys Jones ), and Cleese's then wife, actress / writer Connie Booth.

In a salute to the original Secret Policeman's Ball that was the show's direct inspiration – the finale of the show was a re-creation by four performers ( Alan Rickman, Vic Reeves, Eddie Izzard and Harry Enfield ) of the celebrated Four Yorkshiremen sketch that had been performed at the 1979 Amnesty gala by John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Rowan Atkinson.

Immediately following Willard Scott's three-year-run as WRC-TV Washington, D. C .' s Bozo, the show's sponsors, McDonald's drive-in restaurant franchisees John Gibson and Oscar Goldstein ( Gee Gee Distributing Corporation ), hired Scott to portray " Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown " for their local commercials on the character's first three television ' spots.