The second season had no connecting story arc ; plots varied from Wally finding disciples (" The Shroud of Wally ") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder (" The Trial ").

Much of the story of that season is told in pitcher Jim Bouton's classic baseball book, Ball Four.

The publishers may publish stories that contradict the previous story or explicitly establish that it " never happened " – for example by claiming that events in a previous installment were " just a dream ", like one season of Dallas, which became Pam's dream so that her husband Bobby could return from the dead.

The third season follows a single story arc, beginning in the second season finale " The Expanse ", in which a mysterious probe cuts a wide, deep trench from central Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people.

Had the series gone on for a fifth season, the story would have continued.

In the final story arc of the season a human terrorist group, called Terra Prime, are bent on removing all non-humans from human planets and genetically engineer a child from DNA samples of Commander Tucker and Commander T ' Pol.

Other possible plans for the season included: an episode showing the construction of the first starbase ; a Borg Queen origins story with Alice Krige as a Starfleet medical technician who makes contact with the Borg from Season 2's " Regeneration " and becomes the Borg Queen, and a Mirror Universe arc spanning four or five episodes.

The current format, which was unintentionally popularized by Chris Carter of The X-Files, is toward long story arcs and season long plots with character oriented subplots.

In the final story of season 15, The Invasion of Time, the Fourth Doctor conceded, " Not even the sonic screwdriver can get me out of this one.

* The More Short Trips short story " Special Weapons ", set late in season 24, indicates that the Seventh Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.

This second season featured additional plots such as a love story between Teresa ( Trelaina ) and Yamato crew member Daisuke Shima ( Mark Venture ), and an onboard antagonism between Kodai and Saito ( Knox ), leader of a group of space marines.

Originally conceived as a 52-episode story, funding cuts meant the season had to be truncated to 25 episodes, with a corresponding loss of overall story development.

Willow and Tara's first on-screen kiss did not occur until the fifth season episode " The Body ( Buffy episode ) | The Body " in a story that diverted attention away from the display.

This television show's action and straightforward story-telling left little time for personal stories involving wives or girlfriends, though a two-part story in the first season dealt with the loss of McGarrett's sister's baby.

One episode of the first season of Mission Impossible 1966 named " OLD MAN OUT " ( parts 1 and 2 ) makes use of a calliope as a musical instrument and also as a timing cue to the development of the story.

Straczynski left at this point and Janson and Menville took on the story editing job for the second network season.

He recommended DiTillio to take over the job as story editor for a second season, but the toy company financing fell through and that season was never produced.

In November 2008, NBC announced that the series had been picked up for a complete 22-episode season but that several cast members would be leaving and the story lines revamped after the original 13-episode order.

By season 20, research had shown that children were able to follow a story, and the street scenes, while still interspersed with other segments, became evolving storylines.

After receiving the curriculum focus and goals for the season, the writers met to discuss ideas and story arcs for the characters, and an " assignment sheet " was created that suggested how much time was allotted for each goal and topic.

A notable example is the second season two-part story " The Council ," later released to European movie houses under the title Mission Impossible vs. the Mob.

Seattle's Harold Reynolds led the league with 60 steals ; Reynolds tells the story of getting an impish phone call from Henderson after the season:

There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

But what was the story??

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

It was the story of the rhinoceros fight all over again.