The Dark Half is a Belgian miniseries.
 Its success paved the way for two more six-part serials: Quatermass II in 1955 and Quatermass and the Pit in 1958
 The television programming of the 1990s-2000s included a great deal of crime dramas set both in contemporary times (The Criminal Saint Petersburg, 2000, 90 episodes) as well in the Tsarist Russia (The Mysteries of Sankt Petersburg, 1994, 60 episodes)

