How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
End of Watch Call of the police procedural "Elementary". The practice of the Los Angeles Police Department was shown in "Reckoning," an episode of "Southland". On the soap opera "General Hospital", the character Jordan Ashford uses the radio to make the Last Call to Nathan West, an officer killed in the line of duty by his father, Cesar Faison. An End of Watch call also occurs in one of the final episodes of the dramatic comedy "The Mysteries of Laura", starring Debra Messing and Josh Lucas. End of Watch Call The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which,