11.   In the early episodes of that film, the Louds, a well-to-do family in Santa Barbara, Calif., seemed like an advertisement for the American dream.

12.   In the early episodes, his lack of training shows.

13.   In the process, it loses some of the wit that kept its early episodes lively.

14.   Last season and in early episodes this autumn, I occasionally squirmed through what felt like a kind of silence.

15.   One early episode consists entirely of the cast gathered around a television set, watching a high-speed car chase.

16.   The show, the best new comedy of the season, has maintained the edgy satire of its early episodes.

17.   Viewers learned in an early episode that it had been lent to Nash by his older brother, Bobby, when Bobby left to serve in Vietnam.

18.   When in doubt, she looks back on an early episode which she feels defined her as an actress and as a feminist.

19.   Writers obviously will have to make Kimble a lot less single-minded than in these early episodes, more like he was in the original series.

20.   In an early episode, Bartlet wants a massive retaliation for a terrorist attack in the Middle East.