The TNG bridge was nearly the same size as the TOS bridge, just two feet deeper.
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The TNG bridge was nearly the same size as the TOS bridge, just two feet deeper.
And, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, it was the number of seasons then-needed to "strip" a how in syndication.
No, back then, seasons were typically 26 episodes or longer, so you would've only needed four seasons to reach the "magic number" of 100 episodes. The drop to 22-episode seasons, and thus the need for at least five years to reach the "magic number," didn't happen until the early '90s, I think.
Five 26-episode seasons, though, mean that a station could air a show five days a week and go for almost six months without any repeats, thus making it more attractive to syndicators. Star Trek, with 79 episodes, just got in under the wire, helped along by the show having a dedicated following and one of the big syndicators being something of a fan (and still being frustrated over missing his shot at "The Twilight Zone").
And, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, it was the number of seasons then-needed to "strip" a how in syndication.
No, back then, seasons were typically 26 episodes or longer, so you would've only needed four seasons to reach the "magic number" of 100 episodes. The drop to 22-episode seasons, and thus the need for at least five years to reach the "magic number," didn't happen until the early '90s, I think.
DS9Sega is right.
In those days 100 episodes was not considered any kind of "magic number" (I'm not sure that it is now). As a rule of thumb, independent stations liked to be able to "strip" a series without reruns for about six months at a time - which works out to 5 times...26. The "five year" yardstick of success is mentioned several times, at least in passing, in Whitfield's "The Making Of Star Trek" - page 222, for example. The book was written during the time Trek was in production, and it is pretty likely that Roddenberry pulled the "five year" number from that hoped-for goal.
^Good point.
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