I'm pretty sure "Daniel Boone" jumped around timewise. For example, wikipedia (Yes, I know not always accurate), says that the 1806 ep was in the 2nd season while another ep in that season took place before the Revolution. So yeah, the 2nd season spanned more than 30 years.
Although not nearly as bad, I seem to remember "The Fugitive" would jump around timewise too. Like say in the first season, the narrater would say Kimble has been running six months and then in a later episode he's been running four months.
Little aside on "The Fugitive" from what I read, network execs were planning to end the show with no resolution. Evidently, it never occured to them that anyone would care enough about a tv show to need a resolution.
Hah, they should have revived the show as "Again, The Fugitive" where he remarries, finds his second wife murdered and is once again wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. No one believes his story that just before finding his murdered second wife's body, he saw a one legged man clomping on his pegleg from the vicinity of his home. I mean, how likely is it that his wives keep getting murdered by men with missing limbs?
Back to TOS, although they did make the stardates more or less sequential, they would have the Enterprise jumping between locations and functions from episode to episode. For example, charting unknown space in "Corbomite" and then patrolling known space lanes and arresting Harry Mudd a short time later.
One episode that stands out to me is "Return To Tomorrow". The Enterprise is as Spock puts it, hundreds of light years beyond where any Earth ship has gone. Then in the next episode, they're suddenly back in known space again.
Robert
