Casper's First Christmas is a 30-minute Christmas Television special and crossover produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that featured Casper the Friendly Ghost and his friend Hairy Scary from the show Casper and the Angels with guest stars Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.
Other forms of TV specials are one-time comedy or musical events, one-shot seasonal programs (e.g. Christmas television specials), irregular sports events (e.g. the Olympic Games or the Super Bowl), live coverage of a popular cultural event (such as the Academy Awards or Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) or spontaneous interruptions of active programming to cover an important news event (election coverage, however, is generally scheduled).
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9/11: The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a television special documentary film which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks.
Big Bird's Birthday Celebration, or Eat My Cake, was a 1991 television special based on the legendary children's television show Sesame Street, in which Big Bird turned 6.
Escape from Cluster Prime is an one-hour animated television special, created by Rob Renzetti, and produced by Frederator Studios for the Nickelodeon cable channel.
She also wrote episodes of The Smothers Brothers Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Rhoda, Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, Babes (of which she also served as series creator) and Finder of Lost Loves, and the musical variety special Sills and Burnett at the Met.
Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show is a 90-minute CBS retrospective television special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1970-1977 sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show which aired on February 18, 1991.
The television special is held the night before the Super Bowl, the league's championship game, at the game's host city.
The band named themselves after the fictional Ocean Bottom Nightmare Band, from the Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021 (which itself was a parody of the song "The River Bottom Nightmare Band" played by The Nightmare in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas television special).
Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (titled Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano for the sing-a-long videocasette release) is an animated musical television special written by Dr. Seuss, directed by Gerard Baldwin, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, completed in 1979 and first aired on ABC on May 2, 1980.
Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins is a 1985 animated television special from Canada's Nelvana Limited, and the last one until DiC's recent revival to feature the American Greetings character, Strawberry Shortcake (1993–1995) on Fox Kids.
Their own television special, The Three Degrees at The Royal Albert Hall (aka An Evening with The Three Degrees), was recorded in October 1979 in which the trio were backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Olympic skating champion Ekaterina Gordeeva has performed to music from TheMusicLibrary.org during her TV specials such as NBC's Katarina Witt and Friends.
But his chief claim to fame was announcing on network promos, bumpers and program introductions, most notably a variation of the shortened 1968 version of the "Laramie Peacock" bumper on which he intoned, "Now, a special program in living color on NBC," which ran on television specials aired on the network through 1975.
Gladwin's TV engagements include performances on BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 (The Big Breakfast) and The Young Magician's Showcase; a television special where he was hand-picked by Las Vegas illusionist Lance Burton as one of the best young magicians in the world.
Juliana Chen performed on The World's Greatest Magic television special with a brief black-light performance of Bian Lian.
Gasa and Kumana were interviewed by National Geographic in 2002, and can be seen on the DVD of the television special.
Brak Presents the Brak Album Starring Brak is the soundtrack to the television special Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak.
While working with a reporter from 60 Minutes, he helped in the production of a television special that investigated the failings of security at US chemical plants, which received national attention from the media and the government.
Carlton Your Doorman was an animated television special starring the (previously) unseen doorman Carlton from the sitcom Rhoda.
Christmas Two Step is a 1975 live-action/animated television special made by Nelvana Limited, and broadcast on the CBC.
He traveled there with cameraman, filmmaker and author Peter Vronsky in 1992 to report on the break-away republic and nuclear weapons materials smuggling for the Canadian produced television special The Hunt for Red Mercury.
Murray produced the theatrical documentary Facing Ali, which was released as a television special and DVD with Lionsgate Entertainment and Spike Television.
The festival was a sequel to the original California Jam held in 1974.A television special featuring highlights of the festival was broadcast a few months later on the American Broadcasting Company network.
It featured in the 2005 edition of the annual German television special Stars in der Manege, in which actress, model and TV presenter Arabella Kiesbauer played the role of victim.
Originally shown as a television special on November 29, 1995 on Fox, the video presented Carey performing a concert to celebrate and promote her fifth studio album, Daydream, and to help prepare her and her crew for her 1996 Daydream World Tour.
He wrote the score for the Shrek Hallowee'en television special Scared Shrekless, which aired on the NBC network in October 2010; as well as the Lifetime Television film Living Proof (film).
Jackson Browne sang a folk music tempo of this song in the 1995 television special The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True when he performed as the Scarecrow.
The first verse to this song is sung by an offscreen narrator in Nickelodeon's 1995 television special, "Oh, Brother" featuring Stick Stickly who seeks for his twin brother in New York City.
In 1990 Ringo Starr recorded a cover version of The Beatles' "I Call Your Name" for a television special marking the 10th anniversary of John Lennon's death and the 50th anniversary of his birth.
Jim recorded Snoopy’s guitar tracks for the Peanuts animated television special “Snoopy’s Reunion” in 1991 and he was also the guitarist on the theme song of “The Beverly Hillbillies” movie.
Minnelli became strongly associated with Kander and Ebb, with Ebb producing Minnelli's Emmy-winning television special Liza with a Z.
It was adapted into a live-action television special which aired 5 August 2011 on NTV, starring Keiko Kitagawa as Suzu Urano, Keisuke Koide as Shūsaku Hōjō, Yūka as Rin Shiroki, Mokomichi Hayami as Tetsu Mizuhara, Ryo as Keiko, Saburō Shinoda as Entarō Hōjō, Yoshie Ichige as San Hōjō, and Mana Ashida as Chizuko Hōjō.
In addition, she interviewed various notable Latinos(as) for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ 2011 HBO television special The Latino List.
Mitzi...Roarin' in the 20s is a 1976 Emmy Award winning television special starring Mitzi Gaynor.
Murray The K – It's What's Happening, Baby was a television special on CBS-TV hosted by Murray the K.
On Broadway, 1969 soundtrack album from the television special G.I.T. on Broadway by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations
Examples include a trick in which Melinda Saxe escaped from a tank filled with snakes during the 1998 television special The World's Most Dangerous Magic and a performance in the sequel show the following year in which the magician Margo was shackled in a coffin filled with rats and escaped to re-appear from behind the audience.
Remembering Bo is a sixty-minute television special aired annually on WXYZ-TV, Channel 7 in Detroit, Michigan since 2006.
Rescue at Midnight Castle, also known as Rescue from Midnight Castle and released later as Firefly's Adventure, was a 1984 animated television special based on the Hasbro toy line, My Little Pony.
Among the places visited during the national trips were numerous schools, which were the subject of a television special hosted by presenter Valerie Singleton.
It was first aired on May 21, 1980 as a part of the television special Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over and was one of four new cartoons released.
Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City was the second television special sponsored by the Kenner toy company, then owned by General Mills.
Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade is an animated television special from 1982, made by Romeo Muller, Robert L. Rosen, and Fred Wolf.
Superfrank! was a 1987 one-hour television special starring English comedian Frankie Howerd OBE.
ABC's Wide World of Sports featured the mud madness in a national television special and Hollywood stars like Gary Cooper were seen in Naples riding Swamp Buggies.
Star Wars Holiday Special, a 1978 television special featuring the cast and characters of Star Wars
The concert was subsequently produced in VHS and DVD format and was originally made for a television special produced by local radio station 2SM and Australia's Seven Network.
The First 40 Years was a 1979 television special by American singer, Frank Sinatra on his 40th anniversary of show business.
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (released on home video as Tales from MuppetLand: The Muppet Musicians of Bremen) is a 1972 television special that is an adaptation of Town Musicians of Bremen, featuring The Muppets.
Throughout the 1970s, along with television appearances with Julie Andrews, The Ed Sullivan Show, Kraft Music Hall, and their own television special with Lorne Greene, The Young Americans began concert tours in the United States and abroad at venues that included Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl, and with Liberace in Las Vegas.
Genesis (2014) is a professional wrestling television special produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which will take place on January 16, 2014 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
After CODCO's run concluded in 1992, Sexton and Malone wrote and starred in a CBC television special, The National Doubt, satirizing the constitutional debates of the early 1990s.
In 2009 Venus signed a multi-year deal to be the international music producer of the High Fashion meets Rock & Roll live television special Fashion Rocks in Rio de Janeiro.
BBC Radio DJ John Peel said that "Spizzenergi went on to record the only Star Trek tribute worthy of the Enterprise's jukebox" in reference to "Where's Captain Kirk?" on a Star Trek television special.