The show's first winner, David Bloomfield was one of the returning contestants, and was asked the question: If there have been a thousand episodes of The Weakest Link, each with nine players, how many contestants in total have appeared on the show?

The Contender, a boxing show, unfortunately became the first American reality show in which a contestant committed suicide after being eliminated from the show ; the show's winner was promised a shot at a boxing world championship.

The show's winner, Bobby Banhart, claimed that he never saw Ms. Tequila again after the show finished taping, and that he was not given her telephone number.

The day's winner from the Match Game segment faced the show's returning champion in the Hollywood Squares segment, and played until time ran out, with the winner playing the " Super Match " bonus from Match Game.

The first season's winner was BeBe Zahara Benet, and first runner-up Nina Flowers was chosen by fans as " Miss Congeniality " through voting via the show's official website.

Many bachelorettes are runner-ups or eliminated contestants from The Bachelor, including Trista Rehn, whose wedding to Ryan Sutter – the show's winner – was televised on ABC.

The female winner of the show's first season, Milly Ruperto, has already participated in a soap opera, playing a boxing trainer, alongside Venezuelan superstar Gaby Spanic.

Survivor: Marquesas winner Vecepia Towery was pregnant at the time of the show's filming, ruling her out of the game automatically.

Sandra Diaz-Twine ( born July 30, 1974 ) was the $ 1, 000, 000 winner of the seventh season of Survivor, Survivor: Pearl Islands and the winner of the 20th season in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains ; she is the show's only two-time winner.

The show's climax occurred when one of the contestants, Linda Kazdová, from Czech Republic, was brought back to the show after eliminating herself, and was later selected by Smith as the winner.

He also appeared on The Terry and Gaby Show from 2003 to 2004 ( where he burnt his hand trying to perform a trick with a microwave and a piece of soap ) and has appeared on BBC Two quiz show QI, becoming the show's first ever winner.

He became the show's first winner that season, and was soon signed to a recording contract with Columbia Records Nashville.

The show's director Kosh, winner of three Grammy Awards, is the former creative director for Apple Records and designer for the Beatles and Eagles.

The show's winner was required to bet at least half their winnings on one hand of Blackjack, with the chance to continue gambling if successful.

In the Scrabble Sprint round, the winner of the Crossword game ( now the " challenger ") faces off against the show's reigning champion.

While the show's premise is to find one winner with promises of a recording deal and other frugal benefits, the Idol series often has several contestants who go onto the same route of fame, whether they be finalists, semi-finalists, or even auditioners.

The following evening he was crowned the winner, and was awarded the show's $ 1 million grand prize.

Recent shows have been sponsored ( with prizes going to the winner such as free Bridgestone tires or several cases of Shell Q Motor Oil ), with Series Four featuring NAPA Auto Parts as the series presenting sponsor for both the regular and All Out series, owing to the show's growing popularity.

Australian Adam Horder was the winner in 2002 but the 2004 winner is unknown after the show's cancellation.

The winner of the semifinals round competed against the show's returning champion in the Finals.

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

The show's offices are located nearby at the corner of JFK Street and Brattle Street in Harvard Square, marked as " Dewey, Cheatem & Howe ", the imaginary law firm to which they refer on-air.

Clark also developed a method of rapidly spinning into his costume at super speed which became a trademark change, especially during the third and fourth seasons of the series, and extremely popular with the show's fans.

He went to Hollywood the next year to appear in the show's movie version at RKO, which starred Lucille Ball.

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.

During the show's peak in popularity, Hee Haw often competed in syndication against The Lawrence Welk Show, a long-running ABC program which had also been canceled in 1971, also in an attempt to purge the networks of older demographic-leaning programs.

Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings.

By that time, the show's name became Transitions, which was also the name of a four-volume series of mix albums by Digweed released every six months during 2006-2008.

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.

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

The series was originally set to run for 52 episodes but was cut down to 39 by the show's sponsors, which included the original toymakers for the series.

However, aside from short bumpers which animated existing " Spy vs. Spy " and Don Martin cartoons during the show's early years, there was no editorial or stylistic connection between the TV show and the magazine.

The view presented in Seinfeld is arguably consistent with the philosophy of nihilism, the idea that life is pointless, and from which arises a feeling of the absurd that characterizes the show's ironic humor.

Saturday Night Live produced two famous sketches parodying the Original Series, " The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise " in 1976 and William Shatner's own " Get a life " sketch in 1986 ( which parodied the show's " trekkie " followers ).

The episodes ended the ongoing Temporal Cold War arc, which proved very unpopular among the show's viewers during the first three seasons.

Throughout the series, they are generally depicted as antagonists, who are always at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of Planets, the show's galactic organization of which Earth is a member.

The show's finale included a special appearance by Naomi Judd, who joined Wynonna in performing The Judds ' single " Love Can Build a Bridge ", to which everyone eventually joined in.

In such stand-alone episodes, Mulder and Scully investigated strange crimes which often had no long-term effect on the mythology of the show, though the episodes contributed to the show's background.

The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called The Ark, which has gone off-course.

The system receives a special code in the broadcast signal which indicates the show's score according to a simple numerical rating system for violence, sex, and language.

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 series, which premiered on October 10, 1992, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident " Iron Chefs " in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).