'Never Leave Me'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Gus, you said the numbers confused you, and Jessica said that the numbers (that is, the audience numbers) determine if something continues to air. Not a particular number.
But anyway: westerns. Rawhide had 217 episodes. The Virginian, 249. Gunsmoke, 341. Bonanza, 430.
More recently, I'm pretty sure NYPD Blue made it past 200.
t Note to self: Do not do numbers with Buffistas. They will chew off your leg to the hip-socket.
I went from a 40 pant to a 33 since then.
Dude, that's impressive. Although when DH was in 33's, I found that they were wicked hard to find in most stores. although that could have just been because of the 30 inseam. (We are short, round people.)
I always try to explain to non-scifi people that it's the story that counts--the aliens, robots and spaceships are just a bonus.
edited--that first sentence just ran on and on....
Not to mention Law and Order.
Even Beverly Hills 90210 almost got to 300.
With the exception of The Simpsons, everyone's list of long-runners is a litany of crap-tastic stuff.
I don't know, maybe the true metric is how well it runs, rather than how long.
Not when the question is WHY DOESN'T SF SEEM TO LAST ON TV?
M*A*S*H ran for a long time, didn't it?
No need to shout. I am sure that Tim has a well-supported argument. I am fiddling around with the defintions of "TV" and "last"-ing.
In recent years, TV has gone to larger channel numbers, for me. If Tim is doing a history lesson on TV ... nah. He is talking about current and coming events.
M*A*S*H ran for a long time, didn't it?
11 years if memory serves.
Grr. The audience for SF on TV is smaller because the audience for SF is smaller in the population.
SF people are not necessarily smarter than anyone else, or better in any other way. They just have the SF-gene.