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The Return of Doctor Mysterio
The Return of Doctor Mysterio (Doctor Misterio) is the Doctor Who 2016 Christmas special, broadcast 25 December 2016. Written by Steven Moffat, it stars Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, Matt Lucas's Nardole, and Justin Chatwin as superhero the Ghost in a Superman-style New York story.
The Return of Godzilla
The Return of Godzilla (ゴジラ, Gojira) is a 1984 Japanese kaiju film by Toho and a direct sequel to the 1954 original, launching the Heisei series.
The Return of Jafar
The Return of Jafar (1994) is Disney's first direct-to-video animated feature, a sequel to Aladdin in which Jafar escapes his lamp for revenge; directed by Shelton, Stones, and Zaslove, it earned $180–200 million on a $3.5 million budget.
The Return of Philip Latinowicz
The Return of Philip Latinowicz (Povratak Filipa Latinovicza) is a 1932 novel by Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, following a painter who returns to his native town after 23 years abroad.
The Return of Superman (슈퍼맨이 돌아왔다) (South Korean TV program)
The Return of Superman (슈퍼맨이 돌아왔다, 슈돌) is a KBS2 South Korean parenting reality show, launched November 3, 2013, in which celebrity fathers raise their children alone for 48 hours; it peaked at 15.5% ratings in 2015 and was exported to China, the US, and Vietnam.
The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣)
The Return of the Condor Heroes (神雕侠侣, Shendiao Xialv) is Jin Yong's 1959–1961 wuxia novel, second of the Condor Trilogy, following Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü's forbidden love during the Mongol invasion of Southern Song.
The Return of the King
The Return of the King is the third and final 1955 volume of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, containing Books V and VI plus the appendices; also Peter Jackson's 2003 New Line Cinema film adaptation.
The Return of the King (1980 film)
The Return of the King (1980) is a Rankin/Bass animated TV movie aired on ABC on May 11, 1980, adapting the final volume of The Lord of the Rings as a sequel to their 1977 The Hobbit, directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass with John Huston as Gandalf.
The Return of the Living Dead
The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American comedy horror film directed by Dan O'Bannon, in which fast-moving, talking zombies reanimated by a gas crave human brains.
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native is Thomas Hardy's sixth novel (1878), serialized in Belgravia and set on Egdon Heath; also a 2007 Rebecca Earle history of Indians in Spanish American nation-making.
The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Blake Edwards comedy starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, with Christopher Plummer as Sir Charles Litton; fourth Pink Panther film, financed by Lew Grade, released 21 May 1975.
The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt)
Rembrandt's late oil painting (c. 1668, 262 x 205 cm, State Hermitage, St Petersburg) of the father embracing the kneeling prodigal son from Luke 15; acquired for Catherine the Great, never lent.
The Return of the Spirit
The Return of the Spirit (عودة الروح) is a 1933 novel by Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, portraying a Cairo household during the 1919 Revolution and considered a founding work of the Arabic realistic novel.
The Returned (novel)
The Returned (novel) refers to three unrelated books: Jason Mott's 2013 NYT-bestselling debut about the dead returning to life, adapted as ABC's Resurrection; Seth Patrick's 2014 novelization of Les Revenants; and Amanda Cassidy's 2023 Irish crime novel.
The Rev
The Rev (James Owen Sullivan, 1981-2009) was the founding drummer and songwriter of Avenged Sevenfold, also of Pinkly Smooth; died December 28, 2009, of accidental overdose; posthumously credited on Nightmare.
The Revelations of St Birgitta
The Revelations of St Birgitta (Liber celestis revelationum), the collected visions of Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373), dictated in Swedish and edited into books by Alfonso of Jaén, translated across Europe, with the Revelationes Extravagantes as supplementary material.
The Revenant (2015 film)
The Revenant (2015) is Alejandro González Iñárritu's survival western starring Leonardo DiCaprio as fur trapper Hugh Glass; shot in natural light, it won three Oscars including Best Actor and Best Director.
The Revenant (novel)
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge is Michael Punke's 2002 historical novel about frontiersman Hugh Glass, mauled by a grizzly and left for dead, adapted into the 2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The Revenge Club
The Revenge Club is a six-part 2025 Paramount+ dark comedy drama, adapted from J.D. Pennington's novel The Othello Club, in which divorce support group members turn from healing to revenge, with pranks escalating to murder.
The Revenge of Alice Cooper
The Revenge of Alice Cooper (2025, earMUSIC) is the reunion album by the original Alice Cooper band, their first full studio album since 1973's Muscle of Love, produced by Bob Ezrin with a posthumous Glen Buxton guitar part and Robby Krieger guesting on Black Mamba.
The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Revenge of Frankenstein is Hammer Films' 1958 horror sequel to The Curse of Frankenstein, directed by Terence Fisher, written by Jimmy Sangster, and starring Peter Cushing as the Baron, who escapes the guillotine and resumes experiments as Dr. Victor Stein in Carlsbruck.
The Revenge of La Llorona
The Revenge of La Llorona is an upcoming 2027 New Line horror sequel to The Curse of La Llorona (2019), directed by Santiago Menghini, written by Sean Tretta, produced by James Wan and Gary Dauberman, releasing theatrically February 26, 2027; distinct from a 2006 film of similar name.
The Revenge of the Snakes
The Revenge of the Snakes (Turkish: Yılanların Öcü) is a Turkish social realist village novel by Fakir Baykurt, serialized in 1958 and published as a book in 1959.
The Revenger's Tragedy
The Revenger's Tragedy is a Jacobean revenge tragedy first printed in 1607, now attributed to Thomas Middleton, following the avenger Vindice in an Italian court.
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Reverend Horton Heat is a Dallas, Texas rockabilly/psychobilly band fronted by guitarist Jim Heath, formed mid-1980s, known for "Psychobilly Freakout," Sub Pop and Interscope albums, and relentless touring.
The Revisionist
The Revisionist is a 2026 American drama, Alex Vlack's narrative feature debut, premiering at Tribeca with Alison Brie, Tom Sturridge, André Holland, and Dustin Hoffman; a blocked novelist manipulates real people into her fiction. Not the 2013 Jesse Eisenberg play.
The Revival of the Religious Sciences
The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din) is an encyclopedic work on Islamic religious knowledge, ethics, and spirituality by the jurist Abu Hamid al-Ghazali.
The Revivalists
The Revivalists are an eight-piece American rock band formed in New Orleans in 2007, led by David Shaw and Zack Feinberg, known for the double-platinum hit "Wish I Knew You" and albums Men Amongst Mountains, Pour It Out Into the Night, and Get It Honest.
The Revolt of the Elites
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy is Christopher Lasch's posthumous 1995 Norton essay collection, reversing Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses; it argues American democracy is betrayed by professional-managerial elites, later influential on Bannon and MAGA populism.
The Revolution (band)
The Revolution, also credited as Prince and the Revolution, is the Minneapolis funk-rock band formed by Prince in 1979; its five-piece lineup recorded Purple Rain (1984), Around the World in a Day and Parade before Prince dissolved it in 1986, and it re-formed in 2016 after his death.