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ZandrickEllison t1_j0nx12l wrote

Back in the old old days (like I Love Lucy) shows did like 40 episodes a year. The answer as always is about money. US TV makes more with syndication which is why they wanted to go 100+ episodes.

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revjor t1_j0o4kxs wrote

They did 39-40 in the earliest days of TV because that was a hold over from they scheduled radio shows.

It wasn’t til a bit after that when they started to dial in the best schedule for TV broadcasting.

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ZandrickEllison t1_j0o4zd7 wrote

Yes but again it all had to do with money and advertising . The summer wasn’t big money so they took that off.

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