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

Before Ellison could begin work on the show's production bible, a writers ' strike began, running from March 6 to June 24.

Although the show's writers and producers received a minimal negative reaction from Willow choosing Tara over Oz, the response from viewers and critics alike was overwhelming towards Whedon for killing Tara, accusing him of homophobia.

While several characters have asserted that transporters cannot transport through a ship's shields or planetary defense shields, there are instances of this " rule " being broken through a technobabble solution ( TNG: " The Wounded ", DS9: " Trials and Tribble-ations ") or disregarded by the show's writers ( VOY: " Caretaker ").

Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called " the CTW model " ( named for the show's production company, The Children's Television Workshop ), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers.

Fifteen writers a year worked on the show's scripts, but very few lasted longer than one season.

The research team, in a series of meetings with the writers, also developed " a curriculum sheet " that described the show's goals and priorities for each season.

The writers were present during the show's taping, which for the first twenty-four years of the show took place in Manhattan, and after 1992, at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, to make last-minute revisions when necessary.

In response, Schwinn and the show's writers altered the format in 1972.

The show's writers usually supplied the jokes.

In addition to those departures, regular panelist Caroline Rhea also left the program in order to host her short-lived successor program to The Rosie O ' Donnell Show and Bruce Vilanch, who was also one of the show's writers, left with Goldberg ( who had hired him ) and made several infrequent appearances throughout the rest of the series.

Smith and the show's writers worked to give Lisa a more defined personality, and she has developed greatly during the series.

Before his death, Hartman had often expressed an interest in starring in a live-action film about McClure, which would be penned by some of the show's writers.

Another rule established by the show's writers mandated Bob's return to prison at the end of each episode, although this pattern was abandoned in later episodes like " The Great Louse Detective " and " The Italian Bob ".

The show's writers admire Grammer's singing voice, and try to include a song for each appearance.

One of the show's other writers, Barry Cryer, said: " You could write almost anything knowing these two would do it brilliantly.

According to co-creator Allan Burns, Minnesota was selected for the show's location after " one of the writers began talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the Vikings.

In the third season DVD commentary, the writers revealed they had been planning to have Jimmy adopt Beth as his daughter, but never felt the time was right to begin the story in the midst of the show's normal plotlines.

The avant-garde poet bpNichol worked as one of the show's writers.

Rogers did, however, still enjoy working with Alda and the rest of cast as a whole ( Alda and Rogers quickly became close friends ), but eventually chafed that the writers were devoting the show's best humorous and dramatic moments to Alda.

The show's head writers were Michael Grodner and Swith Bell, while Neil Landau served as the co-head writer.

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.

Mirkin conducted the show's writing sessions in one room, rather than splitting the writers into two groups, as later showrunners would do, and often worked late into the night.

In 2004, Mirkin stated that he " really wasn't at all intimidat to join show's writing crew ," because he " had worked with and written with " many of his fellow writers previously and concluded that, " took this show in a direction that is more personal to me.

Critics have debated the merits of the show's animation, writing, and spirit compared to classic Quest, but it has also received praise in those categories.

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.

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.

* School Scenes: There were always school scenes during the show's run.

The show's additional legacy — probably its main one to most of the Southern and rural viewers in particular — was the hundreds of performances of country music, bluegrass, gospel music, and other traditional styles, that were featured on it during its run.

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.

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

In October 2004, coinciding with the start of the show's fourth season and months before the cancellation announcement, Paramount revealed plans to release the four seasons of Enterprise to DVD in North America during 2005.

Singer Gloria Estefan performed during the show's finale.

( Full House was set in San Francisco, and this was the only time during the show's run that the 49ers advanced to a Super Bowl aired on ABC ).

The show's incarnations of Link and Zelda also appeared in various episodes of Captain N: The Game Master during its second season.

* Medabots takes place in the 22nd century ; first mentioned during the show's initial dubbed intro song.

Most of the show's 26 episodes from series 1-3 that were videotaped in black and white and broadcast 1965-68 no longer exist ; they were wiped by the BBC during the late 1960s and early ' 70s.

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

Between 2001 and 2004, Joss Whedon and Jeph Loeb developed a 4-minute pilot episode for Buffy the Animated Series, which was set during the show's first season.

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 ).

The CTW conducted research in two ways: in-house formative research that informed and improved production, and independent summative evaluations, conducted by the Educational Testing Service ( ETS ) during the show's first two seasons, which measuring its educational effectiveness.

Any product line associated with the show had to be educational, inexpensive, and could not be advertised during the show's airings.

In fact, the only character to appear as a regular during all five seasons was FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval ( Von Flores ), the show's main antagonist.

In the film, we also see Cagney as Cohan performing " Off the Record " during the show's run.

This feature of the show was also introduced during its first season in 1979 and continued until the end of the series in 1990, with the lockers themselves undergoing a few minor physical makeovers during the show's early years.

Starting in 1973, and changing with each new season, an instrumental version of the show's theme played beneath the narration ; prior to this, a specific musical score played during the corporate credits.