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Beginning in 1988, Butterfinger was advertised with The Simpsons, still a series of shorts in The Tracey Ullman Show at the time. The first commercial was the advertisement "The Butterfinger Group", which featured the debut of the character Milhouse Van Houten. The Simpsons was immediately popular and boosted the candy's popularity. In 1992 ...
The Misadventures of Butterfingers, the fourth book in the series, came out in 2016 and is a collection of short stories. It was followed by two collections of short stories, Run! It's Butterfingers Again! [13] [16] in 2017 and Of Course It's Butterfingers! in 2018. [5] In July 2021, a badminton-based novel, Smash It, Butterfingers! was ...
Crime Fiction came to be recognised as a distinct literary genre, with specialist writers and a devoted readership, in the 19th century.Earlier novels and stories were typically devoid of systematic attempts at detection: There was a detective, whether amateur or professional, trying to figure out how and by whom a particular crime was committed; there were no police trying to solve a case ...
A segment from the Unsolved Mysteries TV series, the February 1977 murder of 47-year-old respiratory therapist Teresita Basa in Chicago, Illinois, inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she is possessed by a murdered co-worker's spirit which identifies the killer.
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely ...
Mystery! is an anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS in the United States. The series was created as a mystery, police and crime drama spin-off of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre. From 1980 to 2006, Mystery! aired mostly British crime series purchased from or co-produced with the BBC or ITV and
The Baby Ruth / Butterfinger factory, built in the 1960s, is located at 3401 Mt. Prospect Rd. in Franklin Park, Illinois. Interstate 294 curves eastward around the plant, where a prominent, rotating sign, resembling a giant candy bar, is visible. It originally read "Curtiss Baby Ruth" on one side and "Curtiss Butterfinger" on the other.
Armchair Detective was the title of a British radio series created by Ernest Dudley. Armchair Detective was also the title of an early TV series on KTLA, flagship station of the Paramount Television Network (approximately 1949–50). Armchair Detectives is the name of a British TV game show hosted by Susan Calman in 2017 on the BBC