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AH574

AH574 was initially ordered in 1940 for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as part of the Airacobra I serial number block AH570–AH739 (No. 601 Squadron RAF).

Amita Ka Amit

The serial starred newcomers Chandni Bhagwanani and Nishad Vaidya in the lead roles and Neha Saxena in the supporting role.

Anacin

In 1939, Anacin sponsored a daytime serial called Our Gal Sunday.

Angie Cheong

In 2013, Cheong returned to TVB to film Aerobic Girls after being persuaded by her good friend and executive producer of the serial drama, Eric Tsang.

Barry Burman

In the 1980s, he created a number of images inspired by both real-life and fictional serial-killers, including Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein and Hannibal Lecter.

Belgian aircraft registration and serials

In 1954 the Belgian Army formed its own aviation element and serial numbers were allocated in the form OL-A01, the OL for Observation Leger (light observation), the letter for the type and the number for each individual aircraft.

Bhavsar

Disha Vakani (b. 1978), Television actress, who plays the role of Daya Ben, in the tele-serial, "Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah".

Chandana Sharma

She played the role of Tara Arora in the serial Yeh Dil Chahe More telecast on STAR One.

Corl

Dean Corll (1939-1973), American serial killer and pedophile, also known as "The Candy Man"

Digital Spy Soap Awards

Television shows nominated for the 'Best Serial Drama' award are The Bill, Waterloo Road, Casualty, Doctors, Holby City and Desperate Housewives.

Don Winslow of the Navy

The Universal serials for 1941-42 were meant to run: Riders of Death Valley, Sea Raiders, Head Hunters of the Amazon, Gang Busters.

Donald Sumpter

One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor.

Dyott Bomber

The first prototype, serial number 3687, made its maiden flight at Chingford in August 1916, with the second prototype, serial number 3688 following in September.

Francis Dolarhyde

In the South Park season eight episode, "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Eric Cartman fakes psychic powers and pretends to identify a serial killer who has cut off and collected the left hands of his victims.

Gail Kobe

She appeared on daytime television in the NBC serial Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–72).

George W. M. Reynolds

His best-known work was the long-running serial The Mysteries of London (1844), which borrowed liberally in concept from Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (The Mysteries of Paris).

Gul Gulshan Gulfaam

Gul Gulshan Gulfaam was a 1991 Doordarshan television serial directed by Ved Rahi and produced by Prem Krishen (Cinevistaas).

Hamish Wilson

Hamish Wilson (born 13 December 1942) is a Scottish actor from Glasgow, and is best known for briefly taking over the role of Jamie McCrimmon for part of two episodes in the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber when series regular Frazer Hines was ill with chickenpox and unable to attend the recording.

Iver Johnson

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and wounded U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).

Johnny Swank

The serial was about a secret agent named Johnny Swank (voiced by Rob Sitch) and his sidekick K2 (voiced by Santo Cilauro).

Journal of Historical Review

The Journal of Historical Review is a non-peer reviewed serial, periodical, or journal published by the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, California.

K-38 trailer

A list of serial numbers, manufacturers and dates of delivery is in compilation, and seems to indicate that Highway Trailer made the earliest units at the start of World War II, FWD production was later in World War II, and Regent Manufacturing post World War II production.

Kaldor City

Kaldor City is a human city of the future on an unspecified alien world, created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and reused in his Past Doctor Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999.

Kevin Ricks

When his home in Federalsburg, Maryland, was searched by police, dozens of handwritten journals were discovered that detailed more than three decades of Ricks's serial sexual abuse.

Louise Germaine

Louise Germaine (born Tina Louise Germaine (however, known to be born as Tina Reid) in 1971 in Margate, Kent) is an English actress and model best known for her appearance as usherette Sylvia Berry in the 1993 Dennis Potter serial Lipstick on Your Collar.

M. G. Kelly

He also provided the voice of the archvillian The Lightning Bug in the 1979 serial spoof J-Men Forever.

Man Udhan Varyache

This serial is also having popular marathi film star Varsha Usgaonkar.

Marvel Collectors' Item Classics

The reprints were generally in serial order, with occasional skips; missing, for instance, are The Fantastic Four #5-6, already reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #2-3 (1964–1965); #11, already partly reprinted in Annual #3; #12, never reprinted at the time; #19, reprinted in heavily edited form in the 1967 promotional one-shot America's Best TV Comics; and #25-26, reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #4 (1966).

Maurice Colbourne

He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.

Meet Mr. McNutley

In the episode "The Prodigy", David Stollery, later of Walt Disney's serial, The Adventures of Spin and Marty (in the role of Marty), appears as Peggy's cousin who enrolls at Comstock as a pre-teen.

Miracle Systems

The QXL ran the SMSQ Qdos-compatible operating system and used the host PC's disks, screen, keyboard, serial and parallel ports via an MS-DOS "server".

Mirat-ul-Uroos

This serial is about the grand-daughters of Akbari whose character played by Aamina Sheikh and Mehwish Hayat and the grand-sons of Asghari whose character played by Mikaal Zulfiqar and Ahsan Khan.

Modzelewski

Stanisław Modzelewski, Polish serial killer active in Łódź, Poland during the 1960s

Nant Ffrancon Pass

It has been frequently used as a filming location for British film-makers, including doubling for the Khyber Pass in the Carry On film Carry On up the Khyber, and doubling for the Himalayas in the Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen.

Neem Ka Ped

The title song for this serial is written by notable Urdu poet Nida Fazli & sung by famous singer Late Jagjit Singh called Muh ki baat sunah har koi......

Parvin Dabas

In 2005 he gave a guest appearance(as Sudhanshu) in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai TV serial aired on STAR One in one episode directed by Deven Bhojani.

Ponvayal

Kalki wrote a serial in his own weekly magazine Kalki, titled Poimaan Karadu about a vast stretch of dry land in Salem District where a hillock resembled a deer at rest, and hence the name of the place.

Radar Men from the Moon

This serial was re-released on September 30, 1957 between Republic's re-releases of the similar Zorro's Black Whip and Son of Zorro.

Rehan Sheikh

Rehan Sheikh is a Pakistani / British TV Actor, director, producer and theater artist, He is best known for his role, in Haseena Moin's PTV classic serial The Castle-Aik Nae Umeed and for his role in Hum TV play Sanjha, which earned him a nomination for best supporting actor at 1st Hum Awards.

Roger Murray-Leach

For the serial Planet of Evil, Murray-Leach designed an alien jungle at Ealing studios that so impressed Hinchcliffe that he wrote to the Head of the BBC design department, suggesting that Murray-Leach should be nominated for a BAFTA or a Royal Television Society Award.

Rue de la Harpe

They are often cited as the first serial killers, and also it is argued that the pair were a significant influence in the famous story of the barber Sweeney Todd of Fleet Street, London, and his baker accomplice Mrs. Lovett.

Serial number

During the Second World War RAF aircraft that were secret or carrying secret equipment had "/G" (for "Guard") appended to the serial, denoting that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while on the ground, e.g., LZ548/G—the prototype de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, or ML926/G—a de Havilland Mosquito XVI experimentally fitted with H2S radar.

Sheila Ruskin

She is possibly best known for playing Vipsania in the 1976 BBC adaptation of I, Claudius but is also remembered by fans of Doctor Who for her performance as Kassia in the 1981 serial The Keeper of Traken, and by Blake's 7 fans as Alta 1 in the 1979 episode "Redemption".

Smiley Face Killer

Keith Hunter Jesperson - A serial killer who used the smiley face symbol on his letters to the police and prosecutors

Robert Lee Yates - A serial killer who used plastic bags with a smiley face printed on them to cover the heads of his victims

Superman Classic

The Metropolis scenery is heavily inspired by the architecture of Hugh Ferriss, while the film's music is taken from the 1948 Superman serial composed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff.

Tim Preece

He played the politically correct Tom Patterson in the first two series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–77) and The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin (1996) and also had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Planet of the Daleks" (1973).

Tonto

When the 1938 Republic movie serial The Lone Ranger was being filmed, it was thought that having two white horses would be confusing, so the producers made "White Feller" a Pinto horse, presumably on the theory that, being partly white, a pinto could still be named "White Feller." The radio series, noting that the pinto in the film had gone over well with audiences, decided that Tonto's mount would henceforth be a pinto.

Written works of L. Ron Hubbard

Hubbard wrote the script for The Secret of Treasure Island, a 1938 Columbia Pictures movie serial After his work on The Secret of Treasure Island, L. Ron Hubbard also helped with the script for the 1941 Columbia movie serial, The Spider Returns.


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