"first broadcast date and the name being Latin for ""The Sky at Night"". In February 2007, the Royal Mail issued a set of six astronomy stamps to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the programme. In the ""Guinness Book of World Records"", Patrick Moore is listed as the most prolific TV presenter in the world, having hosted all but one episode of the programme between 1957 and January 2013. A DVD of the special commemorative ""Sky at Night"" film ""Apollo 11: A Night to Remember"" was released on 6 July 2009 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first man"
"programme was broadcast on BBC One, with Moore depicted as a Time Lord and featured special guests, amateur astronomers Jon Culshaw (impersonating Moore presenting the first ""The Sky at Night"") and Brian May. On 6 May 2007, a special edition of ""The Sky at Night"" was broadcast on BBC One, to commemorate the programme's 50th anniversary, with a party in Moore's garden at Selsey, attended by amateur and professional astronomers. Moore celebrated the record-breaking 700th episode of ""The Sky at Night"" at his home in Sussex on 6 March 2011. He presented with the help of special guests Professor Brian"
"of ""The Sky at Night"", in September 1961, Moore's attempt to be the first to broadcast a live direct telescopic view of a planet resulted in another unintended 'comedy episode', as cloud obscured the sky. In 1965, he was appointed director of the newly constructed Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland, a post he held until 1968. His stay outside England was short partly because of the beginning of The Troubles, a dispute Moore wanted no involvement in. He was appointed Armagh County secretary of the Scout movement, but resigned after being informed that Catholics could not be admitted. In developing"
"Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, (4 March 19239 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter. Moore was President of the British Astronomical Association, co-founder and president of the Society for Popular Astronomy, author of over seventy books on astronomy, and presenter of the world's longest-running television series with the same original presenter, BBC's ""The Sky at Night"". He became known as a specialist in Moon observation and for creating the Caldwell catalogue. Idiosyncrasies such as his rapid diction and monocle made him a"
"The Moore Show The Moore Show is a British television talk show presented by Kevin Moore and produced by Joanna Soh. The show began filming in April 2011 under the name of The Moore Show - Prime Time and went on to air on Sky Television on 10 June 2011. Covering a range of topics including the paranormal, self-help and celebrity chat with many of the shows interviews focusing on spiritual subject matters. Notable names which have been on the show include British Astronomer Patrick Moore, ""Coronation Street"" actor William Roache, ""Star Wars"" actor David Prowse and psychic medium, Colin"
"Moore on the cover and included a copy of Moore's Moon map as a free gift, sold out and back issues are no longer available. Copies of Issue 1 have since sold for over £100 on eBay. In April 2007, the magazine celebrated the 50th anniversary of ""The Sky at Night"" on BBC TV with a specially-themed issue, which was produced in two different covers. Patrick Moore was an editorial advisor serving as Editor Emeritus, along with Chris Lintott, serving as Contributing Editor respectively. BBC Sky at Night BBC Sky at Night magazine is a British monthly magazine about astronomy"
"BBC Sky at Night BBC Sky at Night magazine is a British monthly magazine about astronomy aimed at amateur astronomers and published by Immediate Media Company. Its title is taken from the television program produced by the BBC, ""The Sky at Night"". The magazine, in comparison with the TV series, includes more technical and scientific information. It also includes a bonus CD-ROM with software programs, latest astronomical photographs, written materials and in some issues, a 'classic' episode of ""The Sky at Night"" from the BBC archives. ""BBC Sky at Night"" was launched in 2005. The first issue, which featured Patrick"
"Chris Lintott Christopher John Lintott (born 26 November 1980) is a Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Lintott is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomy to a wider audience. He is the primary presenter of the BBC series ""The Sky at Night"", having previously been co-presenter with Sir Patrick Moore until Moore's death in 2012. Lintott co-authored ""Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe"" with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May. Lintott attended Torquay Boys' Grammar School in Devon. In 1999, while still"
"schedule for a short time, but then returned to a weekend run. The network resumed airing reruns of the syndicated version in March 2014. Presently, the network is only airing the NBC version of the show. The original pilot was produced for ABC in early 2004 with Irish TV personality Patrick Kielty as host and a $2.5 million top prize. It was announced that the show would premiere in March 2004, but ABC decided against airing the series. The first season was taped at Sunset-Gower Studios in Los Angeles; however, early episodes were taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood."
"Sky One from 2002 to 2003. In the US, the series was first broadcast in 1965. Premiering in colour, it was syndicated across more than 100 markets with total sales exceeding £3 million. Sci-Fi Channel aired the series between 1992 and 1997 as part of its ""Sci-Fi Cartoon Quest"" programming block. ""Stingray"" was featured in the Supermarionation tie-in comic ""TV Century 21"" from its first issue, published by AP Films (Merchandising) in January 1965. The 1960s also saw the publication of two original novels by Armada Books: ""Stingray"" and ""Stingray and the Monster"", written by John William Jennison under the"
"a story by Roy Winsor, the brainchild of Robert Morris Burtt and Wilfred Gibbs Moore, who also created ""Captain Midnight"". Several actors played the part of Sky, including Earl Nightingale and John Reed King. ""Radio premiums"" were offered to listeners, as was the case with many radio shows of the day. For example, the Sky King Secret Signalscope was used on November 2, 1947, in the ""Mountain Detour"" episode. Listeners were advised to get their own for only 15 cents and the inner seal from a jar of Peter Pan Peanut Butter, which was produced by the sponsor, Derby Foods."
"Cox, Jon Culshaw and Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal. It was reported in January 2012 that because of arthritis and the effects of an old spinal injury he was no longer able to operate a telescope. However, he was still able to present ""The Sky at Night"" from his home. Moore died aged 89 at 12:25 p.m. on 9 December 2012 at his home in Selsey, West Sussex. On 9 December 2014 it was reported that the Science Museum, London had acquired a large collection of Patrick Moore's objects and manuscripts and memorabilia, including ""The Sky at Night"" scripts, and"
"series. In the fall of 1992, Nick at Nite began broadcasting the series nightly, launching it with a week-long ""Mary-thon"", and it became the network's top-rated series. The series was broadcast on BBC1 from February 13, 1971 to December 29, 1972. The BBC broadcast the first 34 episodes before the series was dropped. Beginning in 1975 a number of ITV companies picked up the series. Channel 4 repeated the first 39 episodes between January 30, 1984, and August 23, 1985. The full series was repeated on The Family Channel from 1993 to 1996. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has released"
"Act IV, scene 2, as well as the vocal version of No. 5, Mélisande's Song. The opening movement of the suite for orchestra is called ""At the Castle Gate"". The strings introduce an atmospheric, brief theme, which is then restated with help from the woodwind. This introduction is closed by austere chords. This section is familiar to British television viewers as the theme of the world's longest-running TV programme, the BBC's ""The Sky at Night"", presented by Patrick Moore (1923-2012). Then the character Mélisande is introduced with characteristically strong material presented by a cor anglais solo. This is succeeded by"
"The Edge of Night The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its run until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984; 7,420 episodes were produced, of which some 1,800 are available for syndication. It is said that the writer P.G. Wodehouse, actress Bette Davis, actress Tallulah Bankhead, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and songwriter Cole Porter were all devoted"
"The Edge of Night The Edge of Night is an American television mystery series/soap opera produced by Procter & Gamble. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its run until November 28, 1975; the series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984; 7,420 episodes were produced, of which some 1,800 are available for syndication. It is said that the writer P.G. Wodehouse, actress Bette Davis, actress Tallulah Bankhead, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and songwriter Cole Porter were all devoted"
"campaigned unsuccessfully against the closure of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in 1998. Among Moore's favourite episodes of ""The Sky at Night"" were those that dealt with eclipses, and he said ""there is nothing in nature to match the glory of a total eclipse of the Sun."" Moore was a BBC presenter for the total eclipse in England in 1999, though the view he and his team had from Cornwall was obscured by cloud. Moore was the patron of the South Downs Planetarium & Science Centre, which opened in 2001. On 1 April 2007, a 50th anniversary semi-spoof edition of the"
"literature and in local history in presenting episodes of Radio 4’s ""With Great Pleasure"" and ""Down Your Way"", and in classical music by selecting her “pick of the Proms” for ""In Tune"" on BBC Radio 3. Couper appears regularly as an astronomy expert on news and current affairs programmes, and has presented many series and programmes, mainly on Channel 4. Her first TV appearances were on ""The Sky at Night"", a long-running series hosted by Patrick Moore. Couper (with Terence Murtagh) presented the 1981 children's series ""Heavens Above"", produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network. In 1985, Couper presented"
"on the ABC television network 7–7:30 PM on Tuesday nights in its first season and on Monday nights in its second season. The first program was broadcast September 20, 1960; the last show was broadcast April 27, 1962. The show received a Thomas Alva Edison award for science education, an Ohio State award for broadcast journalism, and a 1961 Peabody Award for Television Excellence. Fred Steiner, a well-known composer of music for television shows from the 1950s through the 1990s, composed the background music for many of the episodes. Twenty-six episodes were produced and broadcast in the 1960-61 television season."
"in October 2008. The radio show expanded to over thirteen FM stations across the UK as a pre-recorded show. The Radio Show (The Moore Show Late Night Talk ) plans to go live across multiple FM stations in mid-2013. The Moore Show The Moore Show is a British television talk show presented by Kevin Moore and produced by Joanna Soh. The show began filming in April 2011 under the name of The Moore Show - Prime Time and went on to air on Sky Television on 10 June 2011. Covering a range of topics including the paranormal, self-help and celebrity"
"1940, Durward Kirby, made the move to TV with him, and appeared throughout all three versions of the TV show. The first incarnation of the show began in June 1950 as a Monday-through-Friday, 30-minute evening series. It was also simulcast on radio. The show changed to a once-weekly, one-hour format by August. Another prime time edition, ""The Garry Moore Evening Show"", alternated with ""The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"" on Thursday nights from September through December 1951. In the fall of 1950, Moore moved to a daytime show on CBS, at first in the early afternoon and later in"
"January 2006, Culshaw presented one series of the BBC programme ""Jon Culshaw's Commercial Breakdown"". In November 2007 and December 2008, Culshaw, a keen amateur astronomer, appeared on ""The Sky at Night"" impersonating a young Sir Patrick Moore. In March 2011, he appeared again on the 700th episode of ""The Sky at Night"", reading viewer questions to the panel of experts. Culshaw later appeared two months later reporting on the Northern Lights. In January 2008, he appeared on """", as part of a pub-quiz team with Chris Moyles. In May 2008, Culshaw appeared in the BBC documentary series ""Comedy Map of"
"the Kasper Gutman character from Dashiell Hammett's ""The Maltese Falcon"". The last three episodes introduced Hi-Spy (again voiced by Frees), a master of scientific criminology. The show's debut was on September 12, 1965 in ""The World of Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel"" prime-time special on NBC. The original series was broadcast from October 2, 1965 to September 2, 1967. Secret Squirrel had his own show in 1966 and was then reunited with Atom Ant in 1967 until 1968. Episodes were broadcast in syndication and as part of ""The Banana Splits"" variety and compilation series. Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole were"
"the Night"", November 5, 1953). Directors who worked on the show include: Writers who worked on the show include: Four Star Playhouse Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956. Four Star Playhouse was owned by Four Star International. Its episodes ranged anywhere from surreal mysteries, such as ""The Man on the Train"", to light comedies, such as ""The Lost Silk Hat"". The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time,"
"debuted as a one-hour pilot special which aired on HBO and CBC Television in 1988, and began airing as a regular weekly series on both services in 1989. The regular series premiered July 21, 1989 on HBO, and September 14 on CBC. In the United States, the first three seasons were on HBO before it moved to CBS in 1993, where it stayed for two more seasons airing late Friday nights. CBC aired the show for the whole duration of its run. Despite their ""SNL"" connection, the show's sketches were more reminiscent of ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"": often quirky or"
"Pilot (Twin Peaks) The pilot episode, also known as Northwest Passage, of the mystery television series ""Twin Peaks"" premiered on the ABC Network on Sunday, April 8, 1990. It was written by series creators Mark Frost and David Lynch, and directed by Lynch. The pilot follows the characters of Dale Cooper and Harry S. Truman as they investigate the death of popular high school student Laura Palmer; Cooper believes the murder has connections to a murder case that occurred a year earlier. In addition to setting the tone for the show, the episode sets up several character and story arcs"
"fans. ""The Edge of Night"", whose working title was ""The Edge of Darkness"", premiered on April 2, 1956, as one of the first two half-hour serials on television, the other being ""As the World Turns"". Prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show was originally conceived as the daytime television version of ""Perry Mason"", which was popular in novel and radio formats at the time. Mason's creator Erle Stanley Gardner was to create and write the show, but a last-minute tiff between the"
"by Mary Tyler Moore's MTM Productions, which had produced ""Lou Grant"" and ""The White Shadow"". That season NBC was attempting to gain ground on the other two major networks (CBS and ABC) after having moved to ""within striking distance"" the prior year according to Brandon Tartikoff. At the time of the debut, Robert McLean described the cast as a ""cast of unknowns"". The series' January 15, 1981 debut, which was announced on October 22, 1980, occurred amid the industry's recovery from the 1980 Actors strike and NBC's recovery from the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. The show debuted on a night"
"first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on October 24, 1994. The episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 5.9 with an 11 share—meaning that in the US, 5.9 percent of television-equipped households, and 11 percent of all households actively watching television, were watching the program. It was viewed by 5.6 million households. In a retrospective of the first season in ""Entertainment Weekly"", ""Shadows"" was rated a C+, with the episode being called ""exceedingly awkward"", while the political context was seen as a weak point. Keith Phipps, writing for ""The A.V. Club"", had mixed feeling about the episode,"
"""The Sky at Night"" were created; ""Panorama"" was relaunched; and David Attenborough began his wildlife broadcasting career. Miall was promoted to assistant controller at the BBC in 1961, in charge of the planning for the new BBC television channel, BBC2, which began broadcasting in 1964. He was appointed OBE in 1961. After a period as Assistant Controller for Programme Services, Television, Miall returned to America in 1966 to run the BBC's New York office, in charge of editing news coverage and also selling BBC costume dramas to American television channels. He returned to London in 1971 to become controller of"
"difficult for the child actors not to laugh with everyone laughing when they were done filming the scene. The episode premiered on ABC in the United States on September 23, 2009. The show was watched live by 12.61 million viewers, placing it as the most viewed show of the night and the series. It also acquired a Nielsen rating of 4.2/11 in the 18-49 age bracket. The show began broadcasting in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 15 October 2009. The pilot was watched by 444,000 viewers across two airings, with 348,000 watching the show in the 8pm time slot."
"debuted on September 5, 1983. It was hosted by Canadian actor and songwriter Alan Thicke, who was well known in his home country for hosting ""The Alan Thicke Show"", a popular daytime talk show that ended when Thicke was signed to do the American show. Its debut was preceded by a concerted publicity campaign. When the series made it to air, it was unable to compete against the ""Tonight Show"" in the ratings, and critics were not kind to its unorthodox blend of stand-up comedy, sketch comedy, and talk show, which would later become staples of late night talk shows."
"the series was taped at CBS Television City and aired on April 21, 1965. The pilot featured Bert Parks of ""Break the Bank"" fame as the host. The pilot also featured future HS regulars Rose Marie and Charley Weaver with Jim Backus in the center square. Shortly after the taping of the pilot episode, NBC acquired the rights to the game show and after some reworking of the CBS pilot, NBC taped a second pilot episode of the game show, with Peter Marshall as the host and aired it on October 17, 1966. The Marshall-hosted pilot became the official first"