Dial
Show
Show noun - An outward and often exaggerated indication of something abstract (as a feeling) for effect.
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But decades before that show premiered, the concept was used in a DC Comics series titled Dial H For Hero.The series began as a feature in DC's House of Mystery anthology comic, in 1966.
Source: Comic Book / Dial H For Hero - Every once in a while on Negativland's "Over the Edge" weekly show on KPFA, this gets played on a DTMF tone generator (a device that creates the sounds heard on telephone touch-tone dial pads).
Source: Mocking Sing-Song - It was shown a few times in the show that KITT was capable of being reprogrammed by turning a dial and messing around with the circuitry under his dashboard.
Source: Motive Decay / Live-Action TV
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Show and Dial. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dial/show
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