Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

In the 1990s, Krzysztof Kieślowski won a universal acclaim with productions such as The Decalogue ( made for television ), The Double Life of Véronique and the Three Colors trilogy.

The Eye provides the power required for time travel ( The Three Doctors, 1973 ; The Deadly Assassin, 1976 ), and all Time Lord TARDIS time machines draw their power from it ( the 1996 television movie ).

" Three and a half decades later, he stated on the television program Inside the Actors Studio that he really was a recovering alcoholic.

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Three years later, the show returned to television for its final series, which was produced with an aspect ratio of 16: 9.

For instance, Sydney Pollack brought a lawsuit against Danish TV after screening his 1975 film Three Days of the Condor in pan-and-scan in 1991 ( The court ruled that the pan scanning conducted by Danish television was a ' mutilation ' of the film and a violation of Pollack's ' Droit Moral ', his legal right as an artist to maintain his reputation by protecting the integrity of his work.

Three series of A Year at Kew were filmed in the gardens for BBC television and released on DVD, including a box set of all three series.

Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in the original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films.

Three sequels have been produced: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 ), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines ( 2003 ), and Terminator Salvation ( 2009 ), as well as a television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles ( 2008-2009 ).

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

During this period, Moe, Larry, and Shemp made a pilot for a Three Stooges television show called Jerks of All Trades in 1949.

The Stooges also tried their hand at another weekly television series in 1960 titled The Three Stooges Scrapbook.

The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges, which features a series of 156 animated cartoons produced for television.

Television in the United States has long been dominated by the Big Three television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, but Fox, launched in 1986, has gained prominence and is now considered as part of the " Big Four.

" The Big Three provide a significant amount of television programs to each of their affiliates, including newscasts, prime-time, daytime television and sports television, but still have periods each day when each affiliate can air local programming, such as local news or syndicated programmes.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

Three years later, in 1968, television networks in the United States, for the first time, imposed no time limit for their coverage of a State of the Union address.

" Although the band virtually had no support by television or by radio broadcasting in its first four years, Korn would go on to influence Pleymo, Adema, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Evanescence, P. O. D., Cold, Staind, System of a Down, Seether, One Minute Silence, Kittie, Endo, Taproot, Disturbed, Crazy Town, Otep, Hoobastank, Suicide Silence, Emmure, Impending Doom, Five Pointe O, Lacuna Coil, Chris Volz, Videodrone, Theory of a Deadman, Thousand Foot Krutch, Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bleed the Sky, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Shinedown, Coal Chamber, Three Days Grace, Flymore, Bring Me the Horizon, Trapt, Molotov and other bands.

The film network effort would fail after a few years, but Fox continued to dabble in television through its production arm, TCF Television Productions, producing series such as Perry Mason for the Big Three television networks.

The Coalition attacked Labor for the economic conditions, and released television commercials " The Three Dark Years " showing images from the Whitlam government scandals.

Three railway stations — those of the German, French and Swiss networks — lie within the city ( although the Swiss ( Basel SBB ) and French ( Bâle SNCF ) stations are actually in the same complex, separated by Customs and Immigration facilities ).

Three new private satellite-based TV stations were launched in November 2001, marking a great change in Egyptian government policy.

Three satellites and three ground stations confirmed that the upper atmosphere ozone depletion rate has slowed down significantly during the past decade.

Three of these stations belong to RFO-two on St. Pierre and one on Miquelon.

However, while the traditional " Big Three " don't require their affiliates to have such naming schemes ( though some affiliates choose to adopt it anyway ) and only on their O & O's is the style required, UPN mandated it on all stations ( as Fox currently does ), though The WB did not.

Often, each new network would be identified with their channel number, so that individual stations would often be numbered One, Two, Three, and so forth.

Some Fox stations have a newscast schedule similar to many affiliates of either of the three networks that predate the launch of Fox, along with the added 10 p. m. late newscast, a weekday morning newscast extended by two to three hours and an early evening newscast that is extended by a half-hour ( newscasts in the latter two timeslots generally compete with the national morning and evening newscasts on the Big Three networks ), while others only have a half-hour or hour-long 10 p. m. newscast.

Fox affiliates that have their newscasts produced by another area station tend to have fewer hours devoted to news than their Big Three counterparts ( generally limited to one evening newscast and a one-or two-hour weekday morning newscast ) with little to no expansion into other timeslots due to the contracting station choosing to not carry newscasts on the Fox station in timeslots that compete with their own ( which differs from outsourcing agreements between two stations affiliated with either of the three pre-1986 broadcast networks where both stations may simulcast local news programs in the same timeslots ).

Three Moravian missionaries under Matthias Stach arrived in 1733 and began the first of a series of mission stations at Neu-Herrnhut ( which later developed into the modern capital Nuuk ), but a returning Inuit child brought smallpox from Denmark and a large proportion of the native population died over the next few years.

Three days prior to NASA's announcement, various radio stations were reporting that NASA had decided to send Glenn back into space.

Three fire stations exist in the city.

Three railway stations on two major routes:

Three tube stations-Clapham North, Clapham Common and Clapham South-serve the area, in addition to the Victoria Line stations in nearby Stockwell and Brixton.

Three of the stations ( WRUF, WRUF-FM, and WUFT-FM ) are operated by broadcasting students at the University of Florida.

Three radio stations broadcast from Russell.

Three television stations have transmitting facilities located east of Chesaning, WJRT in Flint, WSMH in Flint and WAQP in Saginaw.

Three deaths were reported by the Associated Press and Oklahoma City news stations, but these reports were later proven to be false.

Three television stations are available in Powell: KTVQ ( CBS ) and KULR ( NBC ) from Billings, and PBS station K49AI, a local translator for KCWC-DT in Lander.

Three Television stations are available ; KTVM ( 6 ) NBC, KBZK ( 7 ) CBS, and KUSM ( 9 ) PBS.

Three of the rail stations have free parking for people who wish to park and ride.

Three television stations are available in Frannie: KSVI ( ABC ,) KTVQ ( CBS ) and KULR ( NBC ) from Billings.

Some radio stations edited the Top Three smash to include the voices of children whose parents were deployed in Saudi Arabia between 1990 and 1991.