Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose:

Used in a few episodes in the first two seasons and almost every episode in later seasons, the closing credits of You Can't Do That on Television are followed by an announcement of the " company " that produced the program, with the name generally tying in with the episode's main subject.

On 27 September 1950 installment, the audience was treated to a surprise --- Colman himself had written the script, poking a little fun at himself at the finish when he himself gave the episode's credits.

The interviews with supposed scientists, astronauts, and others were far too dramatically polished to have been spontaneous, and in any case, the episode's closing credits named the actors who took the roles of interviewees and correspondents.

The show's reality-style format and nearly instantaneous captures ( some fugitives were captured before the episode's final credits rolled ) contributed to its success.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

At the end of each episode's credits, there is a random niche celebrity in the " Special Thanks " section, typically as a joke.

Immediately following the opening credits, the episode's title card is superimposed over a nighttime view of the Los Angeles skyline, reading " The Greatest American Hero " before appending the letters " i n e " individually to the sound of the NBC chimes.

The show's producers received a constant trickle of letters each week from viewers who thought this was cruel, so in the final episode's opening credits, a bag of dog food spills out of a nearby cabinet.

The building also appeared in several episodes of the 1980s TV show Miami Vice and at the end of each episode's opening credits.

The song that plays during the episode's end credits is " Highway to Hell " by Australian hard rock band AC / DC.

The episode's ending credits were also painted red in honor of the holiday.

* There is a mistake in the first episode's credits.

Finally, each episode's credits end with a topless sunbathing scene.

The episode makes a reference to Blue Öyster Cult's hit song “ Don't Fear the Reaper ”, which also plays during the episode's end credits, and inspired the title of a later episode.

Tim Minear credits David Solomon's expertise as a director with the success of the episode's daring three-timeline structure.

During the credits, the boys settle down to a game of cards, while around them, all of the episode's characters enter the house.

The remastered Original Series episode " Amok Time " featured Shikahr in the background as Spock beams up at the episode's end, and the remastered version of " The Ultimate Computer " replaced the Botany Bay-style Woden with an automated grain carrier from " More Tribbles, More Troubles.

At the close of the October – November 1985 contest, that episode's in-studio winner drew a card from a bowl containing the names of each of the 75 at-home participants featured over the five-week period.

Each episode except the first featured a re-cap of the previous episode's events in a voiceover from Dennis, a feature not continued in the fourth series.

* Tokyo: The Park Hyatt Tokyo was featured prominently in the movie Lost in Translation, and also in an episode of I Survived a Japanese Game Show where that episode's winning team stayed in the suite featured in that movie worth $ 12, 000 / night, plus a personal chef.

Emerging from the wreckage of the " Phantom Express ", he proceeds through a " Dark Carnival " with several Cabal controlled attractions, including a grotesque " House of Horrors " which is featured as the episode's secret level.

The episode's original airing on Showtime in 1997 featured full-frontal nudity during the scene showing the possession of Sha're ( Vaitiare Bandera ) by Amonet.

" Featured character ( s )" refers to the character ( s ) whose back story is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

The episode's principal idea came from the season four episode " The Front ", which featured a short scene entitled " The Adventures of Ned Flanders " at its conclusion.

In season 3 of Sony's serialized reality program The Tester, these cockroaches are featured in the first episode's challenge Bug Out, where each contestant will have a square-glass box placed over their head with the cockroaches in them and then interviewed by the judges.

" Featured character ( s )" refers to the character ( s ), whose back story is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

The character featured is usually central to the episode's plot.

The episode's secondary plot device is the Cybermen, from the universe featured in " The Age of Steel " and " Rise of the Cybermen ".

It also contains a hidden neural relay linked to River Song, saving her at the episode's conclusion — the purpose for which the future Doctor gave Professor Song the device.

The episode's significance is in his forced introspection about his life, and its meaning, while contemplating his impending death by formal execution ; only in formal trial and death does he acknowledge his mortality and responsibility for his own life.

Bob's design was updated for " Krusty Gets Busted "; as the episode's animation style evolved, director Brad Bird made the character of Sideshow Bob sleeker and more refined, to fit Grammer's voice technique.

Humanity's propensity for destruction and suicide are among the episode's themes.

" The Obsolete Man " takes the episode's literary subtext — the notion that reading may eventually be considered " obsolete " — to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian ( also played by Meredith ) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence.

Although 70 percent of the first episode's animation had to be redone, pushing the series premiere back three months, it became one of the first major hit series for the fledgling Fox network.

Online fansubbing communities are able to release a fully subtitled episode ( including elaborate karaoke with translation, kana, and kanji for songs, as well as additional remarks and translations of signs ) within 24 hours of an episode's debut in Japan.

Dudley uses variations of the theme as a basis for all of the episode's scores and was awarded a British Academy Television Award for her work on the third series.

O ' Brien suggested having an episode about a rival for Lisa, but the rest of the episode's storyline was written by Scully and other staff members.

Beginning with the second series, which aired several years after the first, the episode's length was increased to 48 – 49 minutes and Drake underwent retconning and became a British agent ( though he identifies himself as Irish in " The Battle of the Cameras ") working for a secret British government agency called M9, though his mid-Atlantic accent persists for the first few episodes in production.

Following the episode's release, the underpants gnomes and particularly the business plan lacking a second stage between " Collect underpants " and " Profit ", became widely used by many journalists and business critics as a metaphor for failed, internet bubble-era business plans and ill-planned political goals.

A 2004 episode about the importance of voting on election day seemed to suggest that the men in the family were voting for President George W. Bush, while the women were voting for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry — however, the script went out of the way to make sure that no mention of either candidate was ever made directly by name, leaving the viewer to decide ; the episode's message was " Vote, no matter who you vote for.

Unusually for episodic radio drama, several episodes were sequels of earlier broadcasts, or at least recycled the same ideas: A character and setting from the very first episode " Nothing Behind the Door " ( 8 June 1947 ) are referenced in one of the last episodes, " The Other Side of the Stars "; in " The Man Who Knew Everything " ( 6 March 1949 ) the titular character seems to die at the episode's end, only to return in " The Venetian Blind Man " ( 3 April 1949 ).

The music during the episode's final scene, for example, is the same as that which played at the conclusion of the Fourth Doctor's regeneration into the Fifth in Logopolis.

The audience's first critical assumption — that this is a " musical episode " where the Buffy cast is presumably unaware that they are singing — is overturned when it becomes clear that the characters are all too aware of their musical interludes and that determining the supernatural causes for the singing will be the focus of the episode's story.

Sir Greville had his first dealings with B ' Stard in this episode who implied he would expose him unless he agreed a similar arrangement for B ' Stard, and thus became a suspect for the audience in Alan's shooting at the episode's climax.

He demonstrates mastery of whatever field of science is convenient for a given episode's plot ; however, in the episode Mars University when asked what he is teaching, he responds: " The same thing I teach every semester, the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields.

The leader of the episode's club was played by actor Peter Wyngarde, best known for his role as Jason King, forming the basis for Mastermind's new " Jason Wyngarde " identity.