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Flat-screen television receivers on display for sale at a consumer electronics store in 2008

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set, rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers.

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...)

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The first flashback of the episode is from the point of view of Jeremy Davies's character Daniel Faraday

"Confirmed Dead" is the second episode of the fourth season and seventy-first episode overall of the ABC's serial drama television series Lost. It was aired on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada on February 7, 2008. The episode was written by co-executive producer Drew Goddard and co-producer Brian K. Vaughan and directed by co-executive producer Stephen Williams. "Confirmed Dead" was watched by seventeen million Americans and received positive critical reception with reviewers praising the introductions of the new characters. The episode marks the first appearance of main characters Miles Straume (played by Ken Leung) and Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) and supporting character Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey). The actors were given fake scenes when auditioning to limit the leak of spoilers and each actor influenced their character's development. The narrative begins on December 21, 2004, ninety-one days after the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. Flashbacks introduce the four people from the offshore freighter 130 kilometers (81 mi) who land on the island. John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) leads his group to the Barracks and begins to find out why Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) is afraid of the island's latest arrivals.

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A satellite dish is a type of parabolic antenna designed with the specific purpose of transmitting signals to and/or receiving from satellites. A satellite dish is a particular type of microwave antenna. Satellite dishes come in varying sizes and designs, and are most commonly used to receive satellite television.

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... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance?
... that Angeline Quinto has recorded songs for at least 35 films and television soundtracks in the Philippines?
... that a federal marshal seized a car and a truck because there was no other way to satisfy a debt owed by Arkansas television station KRZB-TV?
... that the exclusive secret society Hamilton House from the television show Gossip Girl was based on St. Anthony Hall, a social and literary fraternity?
... that Svalbard Minute by Minute, a 221-hour-long television broadcast, is credited with increasing tourism in Svalbard by 25 percent?
... that a scene from the television adaptation of the manga It's All About the Looks was filmed at the Tokyo Girls Collection fashion show?

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Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

— Ernie Kovacs

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...that David Letterman parodied Werner Erhard in the 1978 Mork & Mindy episode Mork Goes Erk?

...that the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance?

...that children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns?

...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?

...that Dr. Andrew Rochford, a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You, got his break after he won the popular show The Block?

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Newman at the Canadian media delegation to China in 1974

Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. After his return to Canada in 1970, Newman was appointed acting director of the Broadcast Programs Branch for the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) and then head of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.

During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with ABC Weekend TV, before moving across to the BBC in 1962, holding the role of Head of Drama with both organisations. During this phase of his career, he created the spy-fi series The Avengers and co-created the science-fiction series Doctor Who, as well as overseeing the production of groundbreaking social realist drama series such as Armchair Theatre and The Wednesday Play. (Full article...)

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Image 1RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set. (from Color television)
Image 2LG Electronics smart TV from 2011 (from Smart TV)
Image 3Ad for the beginning of experimental television broadcasting in New York City by RCA in 1939 (from History of television)
Image 4Family watching TV, 1958 (from History of television)
Image 5Smart TVs on display (from Smart TV)
Image 6Ferdinand Braun (from History of television)
Image 7A map depicting digital terrestrial television standards (from Digital television)
Image 8Baird in 1925 with his televisor equipment and dummies "James" and "Stooky Bill" (right) (from History of television)
Image 9Philo Farnsworth in 1924 (from History of television)
Image 10Manfred von Ardenne in 1933 (from History of television)
Image 11This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system. (from Color television)
Image 12The Philco Predicta, 1958. In the collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (from History of television)
Image 13The first mass-produced Czechoslovak TV-set Tesla 4001A (1953–57) (from History of television)
Image 14Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom) (from Digital television)
Image 15Color bars used in a test pattern, sometimes used when no program material is available (from History of television)
Image 16First television test broadcast transmitted by the NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Institute in May 1939 (from History of television)
Image 17A color television test at the Mount Kaukau transmitter site, New Zealand in 1970.
A test pattern with color bars is used to calibrate the signal. (from Color television)
Image 18RCA 630-TS, the first mass-produced television set, which sold in 1946–1947 (from History of television)
Image 19DBS satellite dishes (from History of television)
Image 20An early Smart TV from 2012 running the discontinued Orsay platform (from History of television)
Image 21Samsung's discontinued Orsay platform (from Smart TV)
Image 22The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, which may also be square for greater precision. The area of the disk outlined in black shows the region scanned. (from History of television)
Image 23Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s (from Color television)
Image 24LG Smart TV using the Web browser (from Smart TV)

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Terry-Thomas in Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, 1968

The English actor and comedian Terry-Thomas (1911–1990) performed in many mediums of light entertainment, including film, radio and theatre. His professional career spanned 50 years from 1933 until his retirement in 1983. During this time he became synonymous with playing the "silly-ass Englishman", a characterisation that he had portrayed from his time on the variety circuit.

Terry-Thomas made his film debut as an extra in the 1933 film, The Private Life of Henry VIII, which starred Charles Laughton in the title role; Terry-Thomas continued to undertake a series of small and uncredited film roles while his reputation grew on radio and television. He played his first role on radio in the 1938 BBC tea dance programme Friends to Tea, before spending the Second World War with the Royal Corps of Signals and ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association. (Full article...)
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Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels. The story, set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, has several plot lines and a large ensemble cast. The first story arc follows a dynastic conflict among competing claimants for succession to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, with other noble families fighting for independence from the throne. The second covers attempts to reclaim the throne by the exiled last scion of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty; the third chronicles the threat of the impending winter and the legendary creatures and fierce peoples of the North.

The series, mostly written by Benioff and Weiss, has been nominated for many awards, including eight Golden Globe Awards (one win), ten Writers Guild of America Awards, eight Producers Guild of America Awards (one win), ten Directors Guild of America Awards (two wins), eight Art Directors Guild Awards (five wins), thirty-four Saturn Awards (six wins), fourteen Satellite Awards (three wins), and a Peabody Award (one win). The series has received 164 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including eight consecutive Outstanding Drama Series nominations, with a total of 59 wins. Game of Thrones received numerous nominations, with awards recognizing various aspects of the series such as directing, writing, cast, visual effects, or overall quality. (Full article...)
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Popotan is a 2003 anime series based on the visual novel of the same name produced by the company, Petit Ferret. The story follows three girls, sisters Ai, Mai and Mii, and their maid, Mea, as they travel through time without aging, along with the mansion they live in. One of the sisters occasionally gathers crucial intelligence from conversations with dandelions—referred to as popotan—as they search for the mysterious figure of Shizuku. Popotan is a play on the Japanese word for "dandelions", tanpopo. It was developed by Shaft, directed and storyboarded by Shinichiro Kimura, and written by Jukki Hanada. The characters were designed by Haruka Sakurai and originally created by Akio Watanabe, under the alias of Poyoyon Rock.

Twelve episodes were produced. They originally aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System's satellite station BS-i, from July 18, 2003 through October 3, 2003, and were also made available at the same time on the Bandai Channel. On August 27 and 28, 2003, an event with the first volume Japanese DVD of Popotan was shown Animate Ikebukuro in Japan. The event featured guest appearances by the anime's voice actress for the three sisters. (Full article...)

Season	Episodes	Originally aired
Season	Episodes	First aired	Last aired
1	15	October 14, 2001 (2001-10-14)	March 3, 2002 (2002-03-03)
2	22	September 29, 2002 (2002-09-29)	February 23, 2003 (2003-02-23)
3	22	September 17, 2003 (2003-09-17)	April 5, 2004 (2004-04-05)
4	22	September 7, 2004 (2004-09-07)	February 14, 2005 (2005-02-14)
5	19	September 19, 2005 (2005-09-19)	March 20, 2006 (2006-03-20)
6	19	September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29)	May 14, 2007 (2007-05-14)
7	24	October 5, 2007 (2007-10-05)	June 23, 2008 (2008-06-23)
8	22	October 5, 2008 (2008-10-05)	August 14, 2009 (2009-08-14)
9	23	October 4, 2009 (2009-10-04)	July 16, 2010 (2010-07-16)
10	44	July 19, 2010 (2010-07-19)	April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22)
11	45	July 18, 2011 (2011-07-18)	May 18, 2012 (2012-05-18)
12	40	July 16, 2012 (2012-07-16)	June 21, 2013 (2013-06-21)
13	40	July 11, 2013 (2013-07-11)	July 29, 2014 (2014-07-29)
14	28	October 28, 2014 (2014-10-28)	August 2, 2015 (2015-08-02)

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Turner as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Lana Turner (1921–1995) was an American actress who appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned four decades. Discovered in 1937 at age 16, she signed a contract with Warner Bros. but soon transferred to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The studio's co-founder, Louis B. Mayer, helped further her career by casting her in several youth-oriented comedies and musicals, including Dancing Co-Ed (1939) and Ziegfeld Girl (1941), the latter of which was a commercial success and helped establish her as one of the studio's leading performers. Turner subsequently co-starred with Clark Gable in the drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1943), the first of four films she would appear in with him.

Turner's role as a femme fatale in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) advanced her career significantly and established her as a dramatic actress. It earned her acclaim with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times deeming it "the role of her career." In addition to her film roles, Turner frequently appeared on radio programs throughout the 1940s, including Suspense and The Orson Welles Almanac. In 1952, she co-starred in the drama The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) opposite Kirk Douglas, portraying an alcoholic actress. Turner made her final film appearance with Gable in the drama Betrayed (1954). After the critical and commercial failure of Diane (1956), MGM opted not to renew Turner's contract. At the time, her films with the studio had collectively earned over $50 million (Full article...)
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Jonathan Ross (left) was named by Radio Times as the most powerful person in radio in June 2005. Ricky Gervais (right) was named the most powerful person in TV comedy in January 2003.

Radio Times's Most Powerful People was a series of listings created by the British weekly magazine Radio Times from January 2003 to June 2005. The lists charted who the magazine believed were the most powerful people from three different areas of British media: TV comedy, TV drama and radio. The listing for TV comedy was published three times, every January from 2003 to 2005; the drama and radio lists were produced just once each, in July 2004 and June 2005 respectively.

The first 'Most Powerful People' listing was published by Radio Times in January 2003, and recognised the most influential people in TV comedy in the United Kingdom. It was topped by the British comedian Ricky Gervais, as a result of the success of the award-winning second series of his TV show The Office. The second poll, published a year later in January 2004, was won by the Irish comedian Graham Norton, following his signing of two new contracts during 2003, each worth a reported £5 million. Six months later, in July 2004, Radio Times published their 'Most Powerful People in TV Drama' list. Following a series of votes from industry experts, the magazine named the actress Julie Walters as their choice for the most powerful person in drama. (Full article...)
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Rental Magica (レンタルマギカ, Rentaru Magika) is a Japanese animated television series . Its episodes are directed by Itsuro Kawasaki and produced by the Japanese animation studio ZEXCS and Victor Entertainment. ZEXCS produced the animation and Victor Entertainment was responsible for developing the music. They are based on the light novel series Rental Magica by Makoto Sando and illustrated by pako, and adapt the source material over twenty-four episodes. The plot of the episodes follows Itsuki Iba, the newly appointed president of Astral, a company that dispatches magicians to perform jobs involving supernatural phenomena, and his interactions with his employees and Astral's competitors.

The episodes aired from October 7, 2007 to March 23, 2008 on Chiba TV and TV Saitama, with the episodes later broadcast on KBS Kyoto, Sun TV, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Kanagawa, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co. The order that the episodes air in is nonlinear; for instance, the first episode broadcast is the sixth episode chronologically. The exceptions are episodes four, eight, and episodes sixteen through twenty, which are in the same broadcast and chronological order. (Full article...)
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Hathaway in 2018

Anne Hathaway is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the short-lived television drama series Get Real (1999–2000) before starring in her breakthrough role of Mia Thermopolis in the successful Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). It established her as a teen idol and she later reprised the role in its sequel, Royal Engagement. The following year, Hathaway made her New York stage debut in the Encores! production of Carnival!. This was followed by a string of family films such as Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and Ella Enchanted (2004), which were box office flops. In 2005, she transitioned to more mature roles with the acclaimed romance Brokeback Mountain. In 2006, Hathaway starred opposite Meryl Streep in the highly successful comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada and portrayed Jane Austen in the biographical drama Becoming Jane the following year.

Hathaway received critical acclaim and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing a recovering alcoholic in Rachel Getting Married (2008). She played Viola in The Public Theater's 2009 production of Twelfth Night, which garnered her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In 2010, she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for providing her voice for an episode on The Simpsons. The same year, she played the White Queen in Tim Burton's $1 billion grossing fantasy adventure Alice in Wonderland. For her role as a free-spirited artist in Love & Other Drugs (2010), she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. During this period, Hathaway also starred in a number of other box-office hits such as Get Smart (2008), Bride Wars (2009) and Valentine's Day (2010). She then went on to voice a Spix's macaw named Jewel in the animated comedy adventure film Rio (2011) and its sequel Rio 2 (2014). (Full article...)
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The British documentary television programme Meerkat Manor (September 2005 – August 2008), produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International, documented the antics of various meerkats being studied by the Kalahari Meerkat Project. The meerkats live in matriarchal groups led by a dominant couple, who have exclusive mating and breeding rights. The remainder of the group is usually the offspring and relatives of the dominant couple.

In the first three series of the four-series programme, five major groups of meerkats were regularly shown, however, its primary focus was on a group called the Whiskers, one of the largest and oldest of the research groups. Other groups featured were neighbouring rival groups of the Whiskers and groups formed by former Whiskers members. During the first series, a group called the Lazuli were depicted as the Whiskers' main rivals, with occasional appearances by the smaller Gattaca group. In the second series, the Commandoes were introduced as one of the toughest rivals the Whiskers had ever faced, and by the third, the Commandoes had forced the Whiskers to move. The Whiskers then acquired two new neighbouring groups, the Zappa, with whom they had frequent confrontations, and the short-lived Starsky group formed by a trio of evicted Whiskers females. In the fourth and final series, one of the Whiskers' females formed a new group, the Aztecs. (Full article...)
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The episodes of the Bleach anime television series are based on Tite Kubo's original manga series of the same name. It is directed by Noriyuki Abe, produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu and Pierrot, and was broadcast in Japan from October 5, 2004, to March 27, 2012. The series follows the adventures of high school student Ichigo Kurosaki who can see spirits and becomes a Soul Reaper, after assuming the duties of Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki.

Viz Media obtained the foreign television, home video and merchandising rights to the Bleach anime from TV Tokyo Corporation and Shueisha on March 15, 2006. Subsequently, Viz Media contracted Studiopolis to create the English adaptation of the anime, and has licensed its individual Bleach merchandising rights to several different companies. The English adaptation of the Bleach anime premiered on Canada's YTV in their Bionix programming block on September 9, 2006. Cartoon Network in the U.S. began airing Bleach the following evening on September 10 as part of Adult Swim. (Full article...)
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Roberts at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer who made her debut in the 1987 direct-to-video feature Firehouse. She had her breakthrough the following year by starring in the coming-of-age film Mystic Pizza (1988). For her supporting role in the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias (1989), she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Roberts' next role was opposite Richard Gere in the highly successful romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. In 1991, she appeared in the psychological thriller Sleeping with the Enemy, and played Tinker Bell in the Steven Spielberg-directed fantasy adventure Hook. Two years later, Roberts starred in the legal thriller The Pelican Brief, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name. During the late 1990s, she played the lead in the romantic comedies My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), Notting Hill (1999), and Runaway Bride (1999).

In 2000, Roberts became the first actress to earn $20 million, for playing the eponymous environmental activist in the Steven Soderbergh-directed biographical film Erin Brockovich. Her performance won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Drama. The following year, she starred in the romantic comedy America's Sweethearts (2001), and reteamed with Soderbergh on the comedy heist remake Ocean's Eleven (2001). Roberts appeared in the 2003 drama, Mona Lisa Smile, which earned her a then record $25 million salary. The following year, she starred in the romantic drama Closer (2004), and also reprised her role in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004). In 2006, she lent her voice to two animated films: The Ant Bully, and Charlotte's Web. Roberts went on to appear in the comedy-dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007) and Eat Pray Love (2010), following which she starred in August: Osage County (2013), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016, Roberts played a television producer in the thriller Money Monster and the following year, she played a mother coping with her son's Treacher Collins syndrome in the comedy-drama Wonder. (Full article...)
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The Masked Singer is an American reality singing competition television series based on the South Korean television program King of Mask Singer. The show, which involves celebrities singing anonymously in elaborate full-body costumes, was developed by Craig Plestis and is hosted by Nick Cannon. During most episodes, three to six celebrities each perform covers of famous songs in costume in front of a studio audience and panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke. After the audience and panelists vote for their favorite performance, the celebrity with the fewest votes is eliminated from the competition and takes off their mask, revealing their identity.

The series has been broadcast on Fox since January 2, 2019, and has aired eleven seasons thus far. Plestis and Izzie Pick Ibarra have served as executive producers since the first season; Rosie Seitchik and Cannon have also done so since the second and third, respectively. As the highest-rated entertainment series in the adults 18–49 key demographic both television seasons it has aired, the program's ratings have remained consistently high. Owing to its success, an aftershow, The Masked Singer: After the Mask, was formed as a spin-off. The series's costume designer has won a Costume Designers Guild Award in the Excellence in Variety, Reality-Competition, Live Television category, and has received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming nominations. Aside from double-length episodes, most run for about 43 minutes. (Full article...)

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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
154	1	"Treehouse of Horror VII"	Mike B. Anderson	Ken Keeler	October 27, 1996 (1996-10-27)	4F02	18.3
				Dan Greaney
				David X. Cohen
155	2	"You Only Move Twice"	Mike B. Anderson	John Swartzwelder	November 3, 1996 (1996-11-03)	3F23	13.9
156	3	"The Homer They Fall"	Mark Kirkland	Jonathan Collier	November 10, 1996 (1996-11-10)	4F03	17.0
157	4	"Burns, Baby Burns"	Jim Reardon	Ian Maxtone-Graham	November 17, 1996 (1996-11-17)	4F05	12.6
158	5	"Bart After Dark"	Dominic Polcino	Richard Appel	November 24, 1996 (1996-11-24)	4F06	14.1
159	6	"A Milhouse Divided"	Steven Dean Moore	Steve Tompkins	December 1, 1996 (1996-12-01)	4F04	12.8
160	7	"Lisa's Date with Density"	Susie Dietter	Mike Scully	December 15, 1996 (1996-12-15)	4F01	12.2
161	8	"Hurricane Neddy"	Bob Anderson	Steve Young	December 29, 1996 (1996-12-29)	4F07	14.36
162	9	"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"	Jim Reardon	Ken Keeler	January 5, 1997 (1997-01-05)	3F24	14.85
163	10	"The Springfield Files"	Steven Dean Moore	Reid Harrison	January 12, 1997 (1997-01-12)	3F25 3G01	20.41
164	11	"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"	Chuck Sheetz	Jennifer Crittenden	January 19, 1997 (1997-01-19)	4F08	13.98
165	12	"Mountain of Madness"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	February 2, 1997 (1997-02-02)	4F10	17.49
166	13	"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"	Chuck Sheetz	Al Jean & Mike Reiss	February 7, 1997 (1997-02-07)	3F27 3G03	9.10
167	14	"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"	Steven Dean Moore	David X. Cohen	February 9, 1997 (1997-02-09)	4F12	15.67
168	15	"Homer's Phobia"	Mike B. Anderson	Ron Hauge	February 16, 1997 (1997-02-16)	4F11	15.26
169	16	"Brother from Another Series"	Pete Michels	Ken Keeler	February 23, 1997 (1997-02-23)	4F14	15.07
170	17	"My Sister, My Sitter"	Jim Reardon	Dan Greaney	March 2, 1997 (1997-03-02)	4F13	15.10
171	18	"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"	Bob Anderson	John Swartzwelder	March 16, 1997 (1997-03-16)	4F15	14.60
172	19	"Grade School Confidential"	Susie Dietter	Rachel Pulido	April 6, 1997 (1997-04-06)	4F09	13.27
173	20	"The Canine Mutiny"	Dominic Polcino	Ron Hauge	April 13, 1997 (1997-04-13)	4F16	13.25 7.9 (HH)
174	21	"The Old Man and the Lisa"	Mark Kirkland	John Swartzwelder	April 20, 1997 (1997-04-20)	4F17	13.97
175	22	"In Marge We Trust"	Steven Dean Moore	Donick Cary	April 27, 1997 (1997-04-27)	4F18	16.93
176	23	"Homer's Enemy"	Jim Reardon	John Swartzwelder	May 4, 1997 (1997-05-04)	4F19	11.80
177	24	"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"	Neil Affleck	Story by : Ken Keeler Teleplay by : David X. Cohen	May 11, 1997 (1997-05-11)	4F20	11.57
				Story by : Ken Keeler Teleplay by : Dan Greaney
				Story by : Ken Keeler Teleplay by : Steve Tompkins
178	25	"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"	Mike B. Anderson	Richard Appel	May 18, 1997 (1997-05-18)	4F21	12.69
21	1	"Enter! The World of the Shinigami" Transliteration: "Totsunyū! Shinigami no Sekai" (Japanese: 突入！死神の世界)	Jun'ya Koshiba	Jun'ya Koshiba	Rika Nakase	March 1, 2005 (2005-03-01)	February 10, 2007
22	2	"The Man who Hates Shinigami" Transliteration: "Shinigami o Nikumu Otoko" (Japanese: 死神を憎む男)	Kōji Aritomi	Kōji Aritomi	Natsuko Takahashi	March 8, 2005 (2005-03-08)	February 17, 2007
23	3	"14 Days Before Rukia's Execution" Transliteration: "Rukia Shokei, Jūyokka Mae" (Japanese: ルキア処刑、14日前)	Kazunori Mizuno	Kazunori Mizuno	Masahiro Ōkubo	March 15, 2005 (2005-03-15)	February 24, 2007
24	4	"Assemble! The 13 Divisions" Transliteration: "Kesshū! Gotei Jūsantai" (Japanese: 結集！護廷13隊)	Sanzō Tsunoda	Akira Iwanaga	Michiko Yokote	March 22, 2005 (2005-03-22)	March 3, 2007
25	5	"Penetrate the Center with an Enormous Bombshell?" Transliteration: "Kyodai Hōdan de Chūō Toppa?" (Japanese: 巨大砲弾で中央突破？)	Tetsuhito Saitō	Akira Shimizu	Genki Yoshimura	March 29, 2005 (2005-03-29)	March 10, 2007
26	6	"Formation! The Worst Tag" Transliteration: "Kessei! Saiaku no Taggu" (Japanese: 結成！最悪のタッグ)	Noriyuki Abe	Takuji Kimura	Masashi Sogo	April 5, 2005 (2005-04-05)	March 17, 2007
27	7	"Release the Death Blow!" Transliteration: "Hissatsu no Ichigeki o Hanate!" (Japanese: 必殺の一撃を放て！)	Jun'ya Koshiba	Jun'ya Koshiba	Masashi Sogo	April 12, 2005 (2005-04-12)	March 25, 2007
28	8	"Orihime Targeted" Transliteration: "Nerawareta Orihime" (Japanese: 狙われた織姫)	Kōji Aritomi	Keizō Kusakawa	Rika Nakase	April 19, 2005 (2005-04-19)	April 8, 2007
29	9	"Breakthrough! The Shinigami's Encompassing Net" Transliteration: "Toppa seyo! Shinigami Hōimō" (Japanese: 突破せよ！死神包囲網)	Shigeki Hatakeyama	Shigeki Hatakeyama	Michiko Yokote	April 26, 2005 (2005-04-26)	April 15, 2007
30	10	"Renji's Confrontation" Transliteration: "Tachihadakaru Renji" (Japanese: 立ちはだかる恋次)	Motosuke Takahashi	Jun'ya Koshiba	Masahiro Ōkubo	May 3, 2005 (2005-05-03)	April 22, 2007
31	11	"The Resolution to Kill" Transliteration: "Kiru Tame no Kakugo" (Japanese: 斬る為の覚悟)	Tetsuhito Saitō	Kazunori Mizuno	Natsuko Takahashi	May 10, 2005 (2005-05-10)	April 29, 2007
32	12	"Stars and the Stray" Transliteration: "Hoshi to Norainu" (Japanese: 星と野良犬)	Noriyuki Abe	Takuji Kimura	Genki Yoshimura	May 17, 2005 (2005-05-17)	May 6, 2007
33	13	"Miracle! The Mysterious New Hero" Transliteration: "Kiseki! Nazo no Shin Hīrō" (Japanese: 奇跡！謎の新ヒーロー)	Chiaki Kon	Chiaki Kon	Masahiro Ōkubo	May 26, 2005 (2005-05-26)	May 13, 2007
34	14	"Tragedy of Dawn" Transliteration: "Yoake no Sangeki" (Japanese: 夜明けの惨劇)	Kōji Aritomi	Kōji Aritomi	Natsuko Takahashi	June 1, 2005 (2005-06-01)	May 20, 2007
35	15	"Aizen Assassinated! The Darkness which Approaches" Transliteration: "Aizen Ansatsu! Shinobiyoru Yami" (Japanese: 藍染暗殺！忍び寄る闇)	Jun'ya Koshiba	Jun'ya Koshiba	Masashi Sogo	June 7, 2005 (2005-06-07)	May 27, 2007
36	16	"Zaraki Kenpachi Approaches!" Transliteration: "Zaraki Kenpachi, Semaru!" (Japanese: 更木剣八、迫る！)	Shigeki Hatakeyama	Shigeki Hatakeyama	Rika Nakase	June 14, 2005 (2005-06-14)	June 9, 2007
37	17	"Motive of the Fist" Transliteration: "Kobushi no Riyū" (Japanese: 拳の理由)	Kazunori Mizuno	Kazunori Mizuno	Michiko Yokote	June 21, 2005 (2005-06-21)	June 17, 2007
38	18	"Desperation! The Broken Zangetsu" Transliteration: "Zettaizetsumei! Orareta Zangetsu" (Japanese: 絶体絶命! 折られた斬月)	Tetsuhito Saitō	Mitsutaka Noshitani	Genki Yoshimura	June 28, 2005 (2005-06-28)	June 24, 2007
39	19	"The Immortal Man" Transliteration: "Fujimi no Otoko" (Japanese: 不死身の男)	Tetsuhito Saitō	Noriyuki Abe	Rika Nakase	July 5, 2005 (2005-07-05)	July 1, 2007
40	20	"The Shinigami whom Ganju Met" Transliteration: "Ganju no Mita Shinigami" (Japanese: 岩鷲の見た死神)	Sanzō Tsunoda	Ryō Miyata	Masashi Sogo	July 12, 2005 (2005-07-12)	July 8, 2007
41	21	"Reunion, Ichigo and Rukia" Transliteration: "Saikai, Ichigo to Rukia" (Japanese: 再会、一護とルキア)	Kōji Aritomi	Kōji Aritomi	Natsuko Takahashi	July 19, 2005 (2005-07-19)	July 15, 2007

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