Bryan Cranston played Dr. Tim Whatley on a NBC dramatic miniseries.
 He also had a guest role in late 2006 on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, playing Ted Mosby's obnoxious co-worker and former boss Hammond Druthers
 In Halliwell's Television Companion (1987), Leslie Halliwell and Philip Purser suggested that miniseries tend to "appear in four to six episodes of various lengths", while Stuart Cunningham in Textual Innovation in the Australian Historical Mini-series (1989) defined a miniseries as "a limited run program of more than two and less than the 13-part season or half season block associated with serial or series programming"

