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Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.
Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion. In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries.
In 2013, 79% of the world's households owned a television set. The replacement of earlier cathode-ray tube (CRT) screen displays with compact, energy-efficient, flat-panel alternative technologies such as LCDs (both fluorescent-backlit and LED), OLED displays, and plasma displays was a hardware revolution that began with computer monitors in the late 1990s. Most television sets sold in the 2000s were flat-panel, mainly LEDs. Major manufacturers announced the discontinuation of CRT, Digital Light Processing (DLP), plasma, and even fluorescent-backlit LCDs by the mid-2010s. LEDs are being gradually replaced by OLEDs. Also, major manufacturers have started increasingly producing smart TVs in the mid-2010s. Smart TVs with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 functions became the dominant form of television by the late 2010s. ( Full article...)
The fourteen episodes of the thirteenth season of South Park, an American animated television comedy series, originally aired in 2009. The show focuses on the exploits of protagonists Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Butters in the fictional Colorado mountain town of South Park. The 13th season satirized such topics as the ACORN scandal, Japanese whaling, piracy in Somalia and the marketing tactics of the Walt Disney Company. Celebrities were spoofed throughout the season, including the Jonas Brothers, Kanye West, Carlos Mencia, Paul Watson and Glenn Beck. The season received mixed reviews: some critics called it one of South Park's strongest seasons, while others claimed the series was starting to decline in quality. The season maintained the average Nielsen rating viewership for the series, around 3 million viewers per episode. The episode " Margaritaville", which satirized the global recession then affecting much of the industrialized world, won the 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). " Fatbeard" was praised by the crew of the USS Bainbridge, which was involved in the 2009 rescue of the MV Maersk Alabama from Somalian pirates.
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John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others watching flight of Astronaut Alan Shepard on television. Shepard was the second person and the first American in space. He later commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the moon.
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Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involved in the making of Rehearsal for a Drama, BBC 1939). The outbreak of war, however, meant that his contract was terminated; his television play The Dead Eye was stopped in the production stage. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1952. He soon became one of the public service broadcaster's leading directors and went on to produce and direct over 120 productions in the next 24 years, ending his television career with the play Loyalties in 1976. ( Full article...)List of selected biographies
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No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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51 | 1 | " North by North Quahog" | Peter Shin | Seth MacFarlane | May 1, 2005 (2005-05-01) | 4ACX01 | 11.87 |
52 | 2 | "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" | Pete Michels | Ken Goin | May 8, 2005 (2005-05-08) | 4ACX02 | 9.90 |
53 | 3 | " Blind Ambition" | Chuck Klein | Steve Callaghan | May 15, 2005 (2005-05-15) | 4ACX04 | 9.26 |
54 | 4 | "Don't Make Me Over" | Sarah Frost | Gene Laufenberg | June 5, 2005 (2005-06-05) | 4ACX03 | 7.35 |
55 | 5 | " The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire" | James Purdum | Mike Henry & Patrick Henry | June 12, 2005 (2005-06-12) | 4ACX08 | 8.21 |
56 | 6 | " Petarded" | Seth Kearsley | Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild | June 19, 2005 (2005-06-19) | 4ACX09 | 7.17 |
57 | 7 | " Brian the Bachelor" | Dan Povenmire | Mark Hentemann | June 26, 2005 (2005-06-26) | 4ACX10 | 7.34 |
58 | 8 | "8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter" | Greg Colton | Patrick Meighan | July 10, 2005 (2005-07-10) | 4ACX11 | 6.12 |
59 | 9 | " Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" | Kurt Dumas | Tom Devanney | July 17, 2005 (2005-07-17) | 4ACX12 | 5.65 |
60 | 10 | "Model Misbehavior" | Sarah Frost | Steve Callaghan | July 24, 2005 (2005-07-24) | 4ACX13 | 7.04 |
61 | 11 | " Peter's Got Woods" | Chuck Klein & Zac Moncrief | Danny Smith | September 11, 2005 (2005-09-11) | 4ACX14 | 9.13 |
62 | 12 | "Perfect Castaway" | James Purdum | John Viener | September 18, 2005 (2005-09-18) | 4ACX15 | 9.59 |
63 | 13 | " Jungle Love" | Seth Kearsley | Mark Hentemann | September 25, 2005 (2005-09-25) | 4ACX16 | 8.68 |
64 | 14 | " PTV" | Dan Povenmire | Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild | November 6, 2005 (2005-11-06) | 4ACX17 | 8.59 |
65 | 15 | " Brian Goes Back to College" | Greg Colton | Matt Fleckenstein | November 13, 2005 (2005-11-13) | 4ACX18 | 9.20 |
66 | 16 | " The Courtship of Stewie's Father" | Kurt Dumas | Kirker Butler | November 20, 2005 (2005-11-20) | 4ACX19 | 9.08 |
67 | 17 | " The Fat Guy Strangler" | Sarah Frost | Chris Sheridan | November 27, 2005 (2005-11-27) | 4ACX20 | 9.85 |
68 | 18 | " The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" | James Purdum | Danny Smith | December 18, 2005 (2005-12-18) | 4ACX22 | 8.26 |
69 | 19 | " Brian Sings and Swings" | Chuck Klein & Zac Moncrief | Michael Rowe | January 8, 2006 (2006-01-08) | 4ACX21 | 8.10 |
70 | 20 | " Patriot Games" | Cyndi Tang | Mike Henry | January 29, 2006 (2006-01-29) | 4ACX25 | 9.08 |
71 | 21 | " I Take Thee Quagmire" | Seth Kearsley | Tom Maxwell, Don Woodard & Steve Callaghan | March 12, 2006 (2006-03-12) | 4ACX23 | 8.06 |
72 | 22 | " Sibling Rivalry" | Dan Povenmire | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | March 26, 2006 (2006-03-26) | 4ACX24 | 8.22 |
73 | 23 | " Deep Throats" | Greg Colton | Alex Borstein | April 9, 2006 (2006-04-09) | 4ACX26 | 7.83 |
74 | 24 | " Peterotica" | Kurt Dumas | Patrick Meighan | April 23, 2006 (2006-04-23) | 4ACX27 | 7.91 |
75 | 25 | " You May Now Kiss the... Uh... Guy Who Receives" | Dominic Polcino | David A. Goodman | April 30, 2006 (2006-04-30) | 4ACX28 | 7.45 |
76 | 26 | " Petergeist" | Sarah Frost | Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild | May 7, 2006 (2006-05-07) | 4ACX29 | 8.47 |
77 | 27 | " The Griffin Family History" | Zac Moncrief | John Viener | May 14, 2006 (2006-05-14) | 4ACX30 | 8.03 |
78 | 28 | " Stewie B. Goode" | Pete Michels | Gary Janetti & Chris Sheridan | May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) | 4ACX05 | 8.20 |
79 | 29 | " Bango Was His Name, Oh!" | Pete Michels | Alex Borstein | May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) | 4ACX06 | 7.87 |
80 | 30 | " Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure" | Pete Michels | Steve Callaghan | May 21, 2006 (2006-05-21) | 4ACX07 | 8.14 |
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No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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82 | 1 | " Homer's Barbershop Quartet" | Mark Kirkland | Jeff Martin | September 30, 1993 (1993-09-30) | 9F21 | 19.9 |
83 | 2 | " Cape Feare" | Rich Moore | Jon Vitti | October 7, 1993 (1993-10-07) | 9F22 | 20.0 |
84 | 3 | " Homer Goes to College" | Jim Reardon | Conan O'Brien | October 14, 1993 (1993-10-14) | 1F02 | 18.1 |
85 | 4 | " Rosebud" | Wes Archer | John Swartzwelder | October 21, 1993 (1993-10-21) | 1F01 | 19.5 |
86 | 5 | " Treehouse of Horror IV" | David Silverman | Conan O'Brien (wraparounds) | October 28, 1993 (1993-10-28) | 1F04 | 24.0 |
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87 | 6 | " Marge on the Lam" | Mark Kirkland | Bill Canterbury | November 4, 1993 (1993-11-04) | 1F03 | 21.7 |
88 | 7 | " Bart's Inner Child" | Bob Anderson | George Meyer | November 11, 1993 (1993-11-11) | 1F05 | 18.7 |
89 | 8 | " Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" | Jeffrey Lynch | Dan McGrath | November 18, 1993 (1993-11-18) | 1F06 | 20.1 |
90 | 9 | " The Last Temptation of Homer" | Carlos Baeza | Frank Mula | December 9, 1993 (1993-12-09) | 1F07 | 20.6 |
91 | 10 | "
$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" | Wes Archer | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | December 16, 1993 (1993-12-16) | 1F08 | 17.9 |
92 | 11 | " Homer the Vigilante" | Jim Reardon | John Swartzwelder | January 6, 1994 (1994-01-06) | 1F09 | 20.1 |
93 | 12 | " Bart Gets Famous" | Susie Dietter | John Swartzwelder | February 3, 1994 (1994-02-03) | 1F11 | 20.0 |
94 | 13 | " Homer and Apu" | Mark Kirkland | Greg Daniels | February 10, 1994 (1994-02-10) | 1F10 | 21.8 |
95 | 14 | " Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" | Jeffrey Lynch | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | February 17, 1994 (1994-02-17) | 1F12 | 19.9 |
96 | 15 | " Deep Space Homer" | Carlos Baeza | David Mirkin | February 24, 1994 (1994-02-24) | 1F13 | 18.2 |
97 | 16 | " Homer Loves Flanders" | Wes Archer | David Richardson | March 17, 1994 (1994-03-17) | 1F14 | 18.0 |
98 | 17 | " Bart Gets an Elephant" | Jim Reardon | John Swartzwelder | March 31, 1994 (1994-03-31) | 1F15 | 17.0 |
99 | 18 | " Burns' Heir" | Mark Kirkland | Jace Richdale | April 14, 1994 (1994-04-14) | 1F16 | 14.7 |
100 | 19 | " Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" | Bob Anderson | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | April 28, 1994 (1994-04-28) | 1F18 | 19.7 |
101 | 20 | " The Boy Who Knew Too Much" | Jeffrey Lynch | John Swartzwelder | May 5, 1994 (1994-05-05) | 1F19 | 15.5 |
102 | 21 | " Lady Bouvier's Lover" | Wes Archer | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | May 12, 1994 (1994-05-12) | 1F21 | 15.1 |
103 | 22 | " Secrets of a Successful Marriage" | Carlos Baeza | Greg Daniels | May 19, 1994 (1994-05-19) | 1F20 | 15.6 |
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