In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

* Atlantis Cable News ( ACN ), a fictional news channel on the American HBO drama television series The Newsroom

" He, too, has become a noted writer of his own high-profile television drama programmes, including Queer as Folk and the 2005 revival of Doctor Who.

( TV series ), an Indian television drama

Sarandon would later find work on television again with a recurring role as Dr. Burke on NBC's long-running medical drama ER.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

Bayard's Cove has been used in several television productions, including The Onedin Line a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980.

Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.

Young filmmakers had the opportunity to test their mettle in such programmes as the stand-alone drama and documentary series Das kleine Fernsehspiel ( The Little TV Play ) or the television films of the crime series Tatort.

The BBC produced a feature-length television drama, All the King's Men ( not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren ), that focused attention on a unit ( the " Sandringham Company ") that was decimated at Gallipoli and included men from King George V's estate at Sandringham House.

Al-Manar, the Hezbollah-owned and operated television station, was criticized in the West for airing " anti-Semitic propaganda " in the form of a television drama depicting a Jewish world domination conspiracy.

House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically.

* " Underground " ( 1958 TV play ) British television drama, part of Armchair Theatre

In 1987, the story told in Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, a made-for-television movie, formed the basis of a full-fledged drama television series.

MTM Enterprises later produced popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis ( both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show ), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hill Street Blues, and Newhart.

She appeared in an episode of the hit television drama Dynasty to underscore support for the anti-drug campaign.

* Nemesis, the UN organisation The Champions worked for in the 1960s British television spy drama

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

Not only could viewers now follow the action and drama of the game on television, they could also play the game in the comfort of their own home.

Falk's first television series was in the title role of the drama The Trials of O ' Brien, in which he played a lawyer.

* The Phantom ( Mad Men ), an episode of the American television drama series Mad Men

Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series.

Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.

A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

* Steve Austin, fictional character in Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, which inspired the television series The Six Million Dollar Man

The villain ( Cyril Sneer ) and one of the heroes ( Cedric Sneer ) of the 1980s animated television series The Raccoons were aardvarks.

The main character of Arthur, an animated television series for children produced by WGBH, shown in more than 180 countries, is an aardvark.

Another example is in the television show Gladiators, in which two series were based on contests between teams representing Australia and England.

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

She appears briefly in Disney's Hercules, but has a more dominant role in the television series.

Athena appears in the television series Stargate SG-1 when she kidnaps Vala Mal Doran to gain information on the Clava Thessara Infinitas ( The Key to Infinite Treasure ).

* " Abduction " ( The Outer Limits ), episode of the television series

* " Abduction ", episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series

* " Abducted ", episode of Invader Zim, an animated television series

* Ajax Duckman, a character in the animated television series Duckman

* Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange

* Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park

* Alfred J. Kwak, a Dutch animated television series

* Atmospheres ( TV show ), a former television series on The Weather Channel

One such character was Steve Austin in the television series The Six Million Dollar Man.

* Ark II, a children's science fiction television series

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted.

In December 2009, a new television competition series called The Sing-Off aired on NBC.

More recently, " Twilight Zone " by 2 Unlimited was sung a cappella to the instrumentation on the comedy television series Tompkins Square.

* In the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the Enterprise-D's Shuttlecraft is named after Sakharov, and is featured prominently in several episodes.