The genre became a specific draw in North America in the eighties when comedians such as Eddie Murphy started taking more action oriented roles such as in 48 Hrs.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

Later with Eddie Brock, it became the being known as Venom, who is now one of Spider-Man's greatest foes and has spawned Carnage.

The international program on Sundays commenced in 1928, with host Eddie Startz hosting the Happy Station show, which became the world's longest-running shortwave program.

During WWII, British subject Eddie Chapman, trained by the Germans in sabotage, became a double agent for the British.

The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

A photo by Eddie Adams showing the summary execution of a Viet Cong in Saigon on February 1 became a symbol of the brutality of the war.

Politically and socially activist composers have long been an important part of salsa, and some of their works, like Eddie Palmieri's " La libertad-lógico ," became Latin, and especially Purto Rican anthems.

In 1951 the duo became one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour ( Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others ) and the following year they inaugurated their own situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show.

After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour and on February 15, 1932 they became regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS.

Thanks to the example of her music producer brother Eddie, music became teenage Sylvie's main interest.

He wasn't keen on doing soundtrack work since it would make the music hard to obtain for fans, ' abusing ' them, so the second track the band were due to record became an Eddie / Alex instrumental, " Respect the Wind ".

" James " Eddie " Draper became the mayor and owner of Corral City.

The song from the film's opening, “ Blues ' Theme ” ( sometimes listed as “ Blue's Theme ”), an aggressive, repetitive and very catchy instrumental showcasing Allan's new fuzzed-out ( heavily distorted ) guitar sound became their biggest hit ( it was also one of the first songs Eddie Van Halen learned to play on brother Alex's guitar ).

Once again, Forbes and Gaynor found themselves out of the band: Mark Kerr became the new drummer and Eddie Duffy joined on bass guitar.

In 1992, Eddie Hopson became Duva's 13th world champion.

After spending time playing Eddie's drum kit, Alex became more skillful at the drums than Eddie.

In 1974, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth and Anthony became known as Van Halen, dropping the name Mammoth because they discovered that another local band was using that moniker.

Rickenbacker became well known as a race car driver, competing in the Indianapolis 500 four times before World War I, and earning the nickname " Fast Eddie ".

A contract with ICI for storage of basic slag in 1963 enabled expansion of the business, and it became a limited company: Eddie Stobart Ltd in November 1970 with a share value of ten thousand pounds.

A sacrifice by Eddie Mathews and an intentional walk to Hank Aaron followed ; the next batter, Joe Adcock, hit a home run that became a double when he passed Aaron on the bases.

Over time he became a favorite of American TV networks, scoring sensational knockouts of contenders such as Curtis Ramsey, Gary Guiden, former world champion Eddie Gazo, Curtis Parker, Frank The Animal Fletcher, Nino Gonzalez and Earl Hargrove.

W. C. Stobart & Co's Etherley Colliery was Escomb's major employer from the middle of the 19th century until the seams of its pits became exhausted in the 1920s.

They had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, both born in Cambridge, where in 1907 Stobart became a lecturer at Trinity College.

He joined Briggs Motor Bodies Ltd in West Thurrock, where he became a maintenance engineer.

Gibraltar Nynex Communications Ltd ( GNC ) became responsible for fixed-line telephony.

The firm became a subsidiary of the US-based General Motors ( GM ) automotive group in 1931, and resultantly retitled General Motors-Holden's Ltd.

Holden & Co became Holden & Frost Ltd. Edward Holden, James ' grandson, joined the firm in 1905 with an interest in automobiles.

On 18 May 2005, " Holden Ltd " became " GM Holden Ltd ", coinciding with the resettling to the new Holden headquarters on 191 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria.

Later ILM and Skywalker Sound were consolidated in Lucas Digital Ltd. and LucasArts became the official name of the former Games Division.

and Athletic Grounds Ltd " ( Everton Athletic for short ), the club became Liverpool F. C.

It became a full title in 1972 and was published by Nextmedia Pty Ltd, Sydney until 2008.

In 1910, Bennett became a director of Calgary Power Ltd. ( now formally TransAlta Corporation ) and just a year later he became President.

In 2000, Sonic Team officially became Sonic Team Ltd.

In September 1986, Square spun off from Den-Yu-Sha and became an independent company officially named Square Co., Ltd. Sakaguchi then became a full-time employee as the Director of Planning and Development of the company.

When well-regulated mechanical clocks became widespread in the early 19th century ,| publisher = Canonical Ltd.

In 2006, AB Volvo acquired from Nissan Motor Co Ltd, 13 % of the shares in the Japanese truck manufacturer UD Trucks former Nissan Diesel, and became a major shareholder.

In 1928 the Aviation Department became Vickers ( Aviation ) Ltd and soon after acquired Supermarine, which became the " Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd ".

Thirty years later Col. Jim Porter became managing director of Newcastle Breweries, Ltd, and was awarded a CBE.

The software, known as the Silicon Disk System was further developed into a commercial product and marketed by JK Systems Research which became Microcosm Research Ltd when the company was joined by Peter Cheesewright of Microcosm Ltd.

The work was so important that Acorn spun off the design team in 1990 into a new company called Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Advanced RISC Machines became ARM Ltd when its parent company, ARM Holdings plc, floated on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in 1998.