Lists

TV Shows

Name	Web address	Description

ESPN Sportscenter	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0136668/	SportsCenter debuted on September 7, 1979 to launch ESPN. It shows highlights of sporting events from around the country. This is SportsCenter! Booyah! Back, Back, Back, Back, Gone! He Could Go All The Way Touchdown! are some popular catch phrases.

NFL Total Access	http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/total_access	NFL Network launched on Nov. 4, 2003 featuring more than 1,500 hours of original programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

NFL Sunday Ticket	http://www.nfl.com/ticket	We can choose from the biggest selection of games available anywhere throughout the 17-week regular season.

The O'Reilly Factor	http://www.billoreilly.com/	Bloviate – to discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner. Opine - speak one's opinion without fear or hesitation. Popinjay – a vain, talkative person. Perspicacious - acutely insightful and wise. Jackanape - an impertinent or conceited person.

The Ed Sullivan Show (a.k.a. The Toast of the Town)	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040053/	The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and its rock music performances. 73 million TVs were tuned into the broadcast of the Beatles appearance on the show in 1964.

Mary Tyler Moore	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065314/	Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis after a relationship goes bad. She finds work as an associate producer in a small television newsroom where the characters include Lou Grant, her gruff boss, Murray Slaughter the humorous writer, and Ted Baxter the Anchor

Diagnosis Murder	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105986/	The character of Doctor Mark Sloan was first seen in an episodeof "Jake and the Fatman" (1987).

Matlock	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090481/	Besides Don Knotts, other former cast members of the "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960) to appear were Aneta Corsaut, Jack Dodson, Betty Lynn, and Arlene Golonka.

Murder She Wrote	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086765/	The show's title is a reference to the Miss Marple mystery Murder She Said (1961), which was based on a novel by Agatha Christie.

College Football Game Day	http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnShow?showID=FBCG	Host Chris Fowler and analysts Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit bring commentary and camaraderie to college football towns around the country all season long.

Pardon the Interruption (or PTI)	http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnShow?showID=EOPT	Washington Post columnists Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon face-off during this half-hour debate devoted exclusively to sports opinions and headlines.

Three's Company	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075596/	In the opening credits, the brunette that knocks Jack Tripper off his bike was Suzanne Somers in a wig.

MAS*H	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/	1972-1983: This television series, set during the Korean War, lasted eleven seasons. The actual Korean War lasted only three years.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055708/	1962-1992: Carson was the best at what he did.

Saturday Night Live	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072562/	Dana Carvey holds the record for the number of times saying, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night".

The Andy Griffith Show	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053479/	Barney Fife was Andy Taylor's cousin, as mentioned in three episodes. Mayberry, North Carolina is based on Mt. Airy, North Carolina, Andy Griffith's birthplace.

60 Minutes	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123338/	As of 2005, this is still the only TV show in the history of American television to have no theme music.

All In The Family	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066626/	Notoriously, the first toilet flush in prime time television washeard on this show.

The Honeymooners	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042114/	To the moon, Alice! Hamana-hamana-hamana-hamana. Way to go there, Ralphie-boy!

I Love Lucy	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043208/	This was one of the first TV shows to be filmed in Hollywood, ata time when many shows were done live in New York. It pioneered the use of three cameras simultaneously.