The three installments include evenings overseen by Mark Adamo (Jan . 28, John Musto (March 4) and Harold Meltzer (April 1).
Further installments include A Clash of Kings (1999), A Storm of Swords (2000), A Feast for Crows (2005), and A Dance with Dragons (2011).
Several of the installments, including Maggie Smith's deliciously dry portrait of a wine-soaked vicar's wife in "Bed Among the Lentils," instantly became genteel cult classics.
The first in a trilogy concerning English institution (all three installments, including "Murmuring Judges" and "The Absence of War,O have already been produced at the National), the play dramatizes factional quarrels within the Church of England.
Seven of the top 10 movies were new franchise installments, including the No. 1 movie of the year, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," which Paramount Pictures pushed to $402 million in domestic sales.
Future installments include a sesion on "The History of Recreation on Peconic Bay," Feb. 19; "Archeological Excavation of Shelter Island's Sylvester Island," Feb. 26; "A History of Housework and Technology," March 18; and "Victorian Dining Room Decoration," March 30.
Later installments include Killing Jesus: A History (2013), a biography of Jesus of Nazareth; Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (2014), an investigation of the demise of U.S. Gen. George Patton; Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed a Presidency (2015), a chronicle of the 1981 assassination attempt on U.S. Pres.
Its popularity led to subsequent cinematic installments, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), and Star Trek: Generations (1994).
Charles Dickens is well known for having serialized his novels (Oliver Twist in Bentley's Miscellany, The Old Curiosity Shop in Master Humphrey's Clock), but other novelists who published in weekly installments include Alexandre Dumas and Gustave Flaubert, all the way up to Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities ran in Rolling Stone).
Further installments include Balashov (2009), Sattig (2006), Miller (2004), Harrington (2005), Gibson and Pooley (2006).
