While the idea may have begun as a creative ploy by the BBC to save time and money on props, it soon became an in-joke genre convention in its own right, as the old-style police box was phased out of use.

While on Rising Damp, he also took the eponymous lead in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted by David Nobbs from his own Reginald Perrin comic novels and aired on the BBC.

While the CRBC was a state-owned company, the CBC was a Crown corporation on the model of the BBC.

While CBC services continued during the lockout, they were primarily made up of repeats, with news programming from the BBC and newswires.

While John Birt was Director General of the BBC, the British press from time to time reported Paxman's criticism of his boss.

While the BBC telecast was run commercial-free ( as it is a public broadcaster ), both the MTV and syndicated / ABC broadcasts included advertisements and interviews.

While with the BBC, Brett produced the first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as many episodes of cult comedy series The Burkiss Way, comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and comedy panel game Just a Minute.

While now known as the BBC Proms, the text on the tickets ( along with the headline " BBC Proms " next to the BBC logo ), still says " BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ".

While the show started off being broadcast in ( genuine ) black-and-white, the show was one of the very first to be shown in colour on BBC Two in 1967.

While The Beatles would later record many of the thirty songs in the studio or perform them for the BBC, nine of the songs would never be officially released in another version.

While in England, the Maharishi appeared on BBC television and gave a lecture to 5, 000 people at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

# " Take Me In Your Arms ( Rock Me A While )" ( BBC Radio's Saturday Club 1966 )

While having a radio interview for the BBC Eavis said he thought the booking of The Wombles for Glastonbury 2011 was a mistake saying " I've got about 25 stages and managers and bookers for each of the stages.

While speaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions in the context of insurance and legal risks making British teachers unwilling to take pupils on outdoor adventures, he said his outdoor activities helped him develop the courage to be a political risk-taker in adult life.

Sweeney alleged that, " While making our BBC Panorama film Scientology and Me I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, denounced as a " bigot " by star Scientologists, brain-washed – that is how it felt to me – in a mock up of a Nazi-style torture chamber and chased round the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers.

While an impressionist, Dennis did voices for Spitting Image and appeared with Punt as resident support comics on two TV series hosted on the BBC by Jasper Carrott.

While some of these measures are being recognised by the BBC and Government, the audience numbers for the station began falling and attempts by Wright to make programmes more accessible and predictable was met with complaints from loyal listeners.

While many of the shows were produced by the BBC, some of the shows were produced by other British networks.

While the article was little more than a rehash of views expressed in a 1955 article " Royal Soap Opera ", its timing caused outrage back in Britain, and he was sacked for a short period from the BBC, and a contract with Beaverbrook newspapers was cancelled.

While working on his first novel, The Palace of Fears, he worked as a television producer at the BBC, and then the CBC and Citytv in Toronto.

While at BBC Radio 1, Ball began a relationship with DJ and musician Norman Cook ( also known as Fatboy Slim ).

While the " footprint " of the Astra 2D satellite was smaller than that of Astra 2A, from which it was previously broadcast encrypted, it meant that viewers with appropriate equipment were able to receive BBC channels " free-to-air " over much of Western Europe.

While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

While the coast of BC and certain valleys in the south-central part of the province have mild weather, the majority of BC's land mass experiences a cold winter temperate to subarctic climate similar to the rest of Canada.

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While there are 68 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.

" While Dorchester planned for a defensive war, Simcoe urged London to declare war: " Upper Canada is not to be defended by remaining within the boundary line.

While Judit remained in Hungary, the rest of her family eventually emigrated: Sofia and her parents to Israel and later to Canada, and Susan to the United States.

While lecturing in political science at Lincoln he was elected president of the African Students Organization of America and Canada.

While stereotyped as rural music, the Country music format is common and popular throughout the United States and in some other countries ( particularly Canada and Australia, both of which share much of the same Anglo-Saxon and Celtic roots as the United States ).

While he did not do this, he did admit, for the first time, that he had refused the Order of Canada in 1990.

While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ministers of Canada as premier, the modern practice is such that the federal head of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the provincial heads of government are termed premiers ( save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the premiers are addressed in French as Premier ministre du, literally translated as Prime Minister of ).

While undertaking geographical research in northern Canada he became fascinated with the Inuit people and decided to become an ethnographer.

While the CGI shots have already been mastered in a 16: 9 aspect ratio for future applications, they are currently broadcast in the U. S. and Canada – along with the live-action footage – in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio television format to respect the show's original composition.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

While the 2001 Canadian census done by Statistics Canada put Canadian Unitarians at 17, 480, the latest membership statistics from the Canadian Unitarian Council show as of September 1, 2007 they had 5, 150 " official " members.

While the United Nations had decided not to get involved in the internal affairs of the small country, Canada thought differently and sent Alpha Flight to intervene.

While Canada left the IWC in 1982, the only species currently harvested by the Canadian Inuit that is covered by the IWC is the bowhead whale.

While foreign operations had once shown promise, nearly 70 percent of SCI ’ s revenue was generated by operations in the United States and Canada.

While Canada does not federally regulate freezing fish, British Columbia and Alberta voluntarily adhere to guidelines similar to the FDA's.

While Kinder eggs have been available in Canada since 1975, the product has never been allowed into the US for several reasons.

While Stephen stayed in Canada, Darrin returned to tour Europe with German keyboarder Johannes Haeusler in support of England's legendary poetic artist Anne Clark.

While several powers are the sovereign's alone, because she lives predominantly in the United Kingdom, most of the royal governmental and ceremonial duties in Canada are carried out by the Queen's representative, the governor general.