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Prime Time shows are made differently in Britain, and perhaps the biggest sign of this is season length. With few exceptions, Brits do not like Filler. In the United States, prime time showsnote Mainly the ones that air on the major networks generally run 22-24 episodes per full-length season, averaging 5-8 seasons (at least 7 if it’s a sitcom). British shows, on the other hand, tend to produce only up to about thirteen episodes a year if they're dramatic, or about six if they're comedies. This also applies to most European countries and Latin America, although these mostly follow daily schedules (especially in recent years, as it has expanded to primetime) rather than weekly installments. Most Commonwealth nations also follow this model, with relatively short series being the norm on their equivalents of the BBC. There are a number of reasons for this, the simplest being that British shows usually have a fairly small creative team. It's not uncommon for one person to single-handedly write every episode of a show, as Steven Moffat did with Coupling, or David Renwick with Jonathan Creek (compare American sitcoms, which are almost always "written by committee"). The shorter working schedule means that a British show can often focus more on a tighter cast of regular characters, whereas American shows frequently have to create more of an ensemble, to allow their actors to have sufficient breaks during the long, grueling shooting schedule. British TV can also spend a year producing as much screen time as an American show produces in less than two months, resulting in a more concentrated "series" (called a "season" in the US; so a UK series can consist of 10 "series"). The unpredictable weather and long winters in the UK may be a contributory factor, as it may be difficult for production teams to commit to long filming schedules. There's more pressure to succeed, and less of a chance to make a lasting impression or develop long plot arcs. Ruin two episodes and that's a third of a season down the tubes. Some American shows that start off weak can grow their beard when the show would have long been over in the UK. On the other hand, the relatively long amount of time taken to produce such a small amount of content, and the smaller creative teams, can result in some shows which are very, very high quality throughout, even if their total number of high-quality episodes might be less than a well-received American show because of their sheer length. British shows tend to have the entire series filmed before broadcast, so shows are rarely cancelled mid-season, or affected by events like a writers' strike. Additionally, short shows are less vulnerable to dragging out way past their creative prime and Jumping the Shark. Of course, if the show is too awesome for the short time it lasts, it can leave folks starved for more. Short seasons are generally the preserve of big terrestrial channels. The downfall of smaller satellite channels can be that they need long series to fill airtime, and struggle to produce or syndicate enough content without repeating it too often. This sometimes leads to imported British shows being promoted in the USA as Mini Series, sometimes with pairs of consecutive episodes re-edited into double-length ones. British Brevity doesn't apply to every series. Soap Operas, talk shows, kids' programmes and other daytime TV can run for far more than 24 episodes a season, in the UK as elsewhere. Britain's Long-Runners include Coronation Street and Eastenders; Coronation Street alone shows 312 episodes a year. This trope, like the 24-episode US standard it contrasts with, applies mainly to scripted series in prime time and nighttime slots. Since these shows are mainly shot on soundstages, they're less affected by weather than location shoots are. The gap has also narrowed on the other side in recent years. Most cable series have seasons well under 20 episodes. Shows on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon rarely have episode counts in the double digits for one season. Even buzzy network series (e.g. Good Girls, Evil) have been running for shorter periods. Life via cable and streaming services have also downplayed the chance of cancellation for many UK shows in recent years, leading to many of them getting long runs with several yearly seasons to compensate for their same short episode spans. Kids shows and cartoons in particular have thrived through this market compared to earlier on, and will sometimes churn out as many episodes as a US counterpart. Radio, in the 1950s and 1960s, had a number of aversions. The Goon Show clocked up about 26 episodes per series (though the final series only had 6). Others such as Hancock's Half Hour and Round the Horne ran to about 16. It often follows a Layout of a Season structure, if with half the waiting time in-between key points. Compare 12-Episode Anime. Contrast Franchise Zombie – in the UK it's getting renewed that's difficult, rather than calling a halt. |
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The Thick of It consists of four series, the first two of which only contained three 30 minute episodes (barely an hour and a half in total) each while the third one had eight episodes and the fourth (and seemingly final) series had seven. There are also two specials, one of which lasted an hour, and a film Spin-Off, In the Loop. | |
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Episodes, the joint production between the BBC and America, had a comment about how the show that was being remade in America required a lot more episodes than the 24 made in Britain. | |
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Sherlock takes after Inspector Morse, another British detective show that had three to five episodes per series (for a total of 33 episodes), though each is a whopping 100 minutes long. Its spinoff show Lewis followed the same pattern, with six series of four 100-minute episodes each and a final series of three two-part stories for a total of 30 episodes.note ITV have not ruled out the possibility of a final series or one-off episode for 2014. | |
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The Happy Apple ran for one season of 7 episodes. | |
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Ultraviolet (1998): Six two-part episodes. The creator explicitly stated it was exactly as long as he wanted it to be, so as to avoid screwing up the intelligent plots and premise. | |
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Big Love — Five seasons with 12, 12, 10, 9 and 10 episodes respectively. | |
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Come Back Mrs. Noah had only six episodes in its debut season, and its poor reception torpedoed the chance of any more seasons. | |
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Bassie & Adriaan: Each series had between 8 - 12 episodes on average, with De Reis vol Verrassingen being the longest series at 16 episodes. | |
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First Day: The first season has only four episodes running around 25 minutes each, and the second season had the same. | |
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The Carrie Diaries — Two seasons, 26 episodes. | |
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Mrs. Brown's Boys had three series with six episodes each, and two annual specials every Christmas holiday, a tradition still held after the ongoing series ended. It currently totals to 39 episodes (plus a theatrical movie) over a decade. | |
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The 1975 Noddy stop motion series ran for two seasons of 11 and 14 episodes respectively, a conveniently similar total to the Enid Blyton books the show adapted. The 1992 Noddy's Toyland Adventures followed a similar route, though continued running with original stories afterwards, even getting an Uncancelled fourth season in 2000, ending at 53 episodes. Usually subverted with the later CGI cartoons, which are often made overseas and consist of over 100 episodes per show. | |
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The first run of The Jetsons only ran for a single 24 episode season. Twenty years later, a second revival season was made of 41 episodes, bringing the show up to syndication figures. Curiously a third season made of only 10 episodes was made shortly after. | |
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Foreign Affairs (1966) only aired for a six-episode run in 1966. | |
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Gossip Girl — The sixth season consists of 10 episodes. | |
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Bojack Horseman (Netflix) has had six 12-episode seasons (plus one Christmas special). | |
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Back when Tachyon TV was the cult-telly version of News Biscuit, it had a spoof article about the Transatlantic Equivalent of 24: It was called 4, and was about a British special agent who was having the longest mid-afternoon of his life. | |
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Only one series of thirteen episodes of Best of Friends (1963) was made. | |
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Arrow — The eighth season has 10 episodes, as that's how much Stephen Amell was contracted to appear in (in fact, he didn't appear in one of them). Amell originally wanted to move on after season 7, but agreed to return to give the series closure. | |
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Most of Chris Morris' series: The Day Today (6 episodes), Brass Eye (7 episodes), Jam (6 episodes), Nathan Barley (6 episodes... so far). Chris Morris seems never to have made anything with the intention of there being more than one series, though. The exception was Nathan Barley where the writers (Morris and Charlie Brooker) seemed to desperately want a second series but weren't given one because the ratings for the first were pretty dismal. | |
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Girls — Five seasons so far, each with 10 episodes except for the third season which has 12. | |
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Haven — The first four seasons have 13 episodes each. Season 5 was split into two parts, both consisting of 13 episodes. Season 5A aired in 2014, season 5B in 2015, but for narrative purposes are considered 26 episodes of the same season. | |
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Louie — Three seasons of thirteen episodes each, and a fourth with fourteen. | |
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Psych — Eight seasons, the first one having 15 episodes and the subsequent ones 16 with the final season being shortened down to 10. | |
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The American remake of Skins, like its predecessor, had only 10 episodes in its lone season. | |
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Suits — The first season had 12 episodes, and the second is scheduled to have 16. | |
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Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire: The first season had only six episodes. It turned out to be only one season, since the show was canceled, and so that was all. | |
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Zigzagged for Sykes, which started with two 15-16 episodes seasons, with the remaining five consisting of 7 or 8 episodes. It did total to a decent 68 episodes however, and likely would have made more if not for Hattie Jacques' death. | |
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Weeds — Seven seasons, 89 episodes. The first season had 10, the second 12, the third 15, the rest 13 each. | |
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Nowhere Boys ran for only 13 episodes. | |
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Cuckoo the BBC Three comedy ran for five series consisting of six or seven episodes, totalling in at 33. | |
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Jeeves and Wooster was 4 seasons long, each with 6 episodes that clocked in at about 55 minutes each (with the exception of season 1, which only had 5 episodes). And proved ruinously expensive, at that, mostly due to the length of the episodes and the fact that almost all of them were set in stately homes. | |
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The Sarah Silverman Program — Four seasons, one of six, one of seven and two of ten. | |
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Dexter — Eight seasons, all of which are 12 episodes in length. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — So far there have been 14 seasons. Each season averages between 10-13 episodes. The longest season so far has been 15 episodes. | |
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White Collar — The first season had 14 episodes, 16 for seasons 2-4, 13 for season 5, and 6 for the 6th and final season. | |
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The Vicar of Dibley had seasons of four to six episodes each, and then wound down to one or two specials per year – a total of 20 episodes (plus four Comic Relief shorts) across a dozen years. | |
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As noted in the page quote above, The Simpsons joked about it in the 11th season episode "Missionary: Impossible" while showing the fictitious sitcom Do Shut Up. | |
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The entirety of The Steam Video Company consists of six episodes. | |
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Are You Being Served? – 68 episodesnote 69 if the Comedy Playhouse pilot is included, as the full series DVD set does in 10 seasons over 13 years. And a feature film. | |
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Thomas & Friends subverted this by being one of the UK's longest running kids animations, running for 24 seasons from 1984 to 2020 consisting of 18 to 28 episodes. Not counting numerous specials and spin off media, this totalled to 584 episodes. Even in its earliest years as strictly adaptations of The Railway Series this became problematic, with the creative team needing to ask the authors to write new books for story material as they were churning through most of the accessible ones too quickly. | |
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Fringe — Four seasons, ~22 episodes each, Then in late January 2012, Fox and Warner Bros. Television worked on negotiating a lower licensing cost for the show to allow a fifth season to occur; To help Fox reduce its losses on the show and bring the total number of episodes above 100, a critical number for syndication deals for Warner Bros. This ended with getting a final season of 13 episodes, making the total number of episodes exactly 100. | |
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Chance in a Million: The show ran for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series. | |
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Slings & Arrows has three six-episode seasons. | |
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Nurse Jackie — Three seasons, 12 episodes each. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? lasted from 1988 to 1998, totalling 136 episodes. While the length of the seasons (or "series", as they're called in the UK) varied, series 9 lasted for 19 episodes, which is roughly the length of a typical American season (although the American version's seasons lasted as long as 39 episodes). | |
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Feel Good: The first season had six episodes, each only around twenty five minutes long too. In the second season it's the same number, though a few of them are a little longer. | |
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Hi-de-Hi! – 58 episodes in 9 seasons over 8 years, and there almost certainly would have been more if the real-life holiday camp used for all the location shooting hadn't been closed, sold off and bulldozed for housing. | |
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Southland: After NBC canceled it after a 7-episode first season, TNT revived it with a 6-episode second season and three 10-episode seasons. | |
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For Housos, the first season went for nine episodes, although a second season has been confirmed. | |
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The Storyteller - Co-produced by American and British companies. One season of 9 episodes and follow-up season of 4, but Jim Henson regarded it as his artistic masterpiece. | |
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The Good Life was a big enough deal during its run that the Queen herself attended a taping. There are 30 episodes (four series of seven episodes apiece, one Christmas special, and the Royal Command Performance). | |
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Coppers End had only one series of 13 episodes made. | |
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The Newsroom — Three seasons total, the first season consisting of 10 episodes, the second of 9, and the third and final of 6. | |
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The Clangers similarly had only 13 episodes per season, though at least got renewed for a second only a year later, along with an Election Day short in 1974, totalling to 27 episodes. Much like Postman Pat, it got an ongoing revival in the 2010s that averts this trope. | |
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Luther's four series contain six, four, four, and two episodes respectively. The newly-announced fifth series expands this.....all the way back to four. | |
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Mad Men — The first six seasons had 13 episodes each, while the seventh and final season had 14 episodes, split into two seven-episode mini-seasons much like Breaking Bad did. | |
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Bramwell Four series. 7 episodes in the first, 8 in the second, 10 in the third, 2 in the fourth (two two hour movies, to be fair), for a grand total of 27 episodes, slightly more than one typical US TV season. | |
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Mr. Bean posed an enigma to its viewers: when does a TV series stop being a TV series and start being a succession of made-for-television comedy specials? Only 14 episodes proper were made spread through 1990-1995, though with a feature length Clip Show, two theatrical movies and multiple shorts also made afterwards. Subverted with the animated series which ran for 52 episodes, before getting renewed twice for more, totalling to 130. | |
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Mr. Show — Four seasons, 32 episodes (including two best-of specials). | |
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House of Cards (UK) had three seasons of four episodes each, but multi-year gaps in between each season, enough for it to blur the line between TV show and Television Serial. Its American version had six seasons of 13 episodes each. | |
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House of Cards (US), four seasons of 13 episodes each, though given its format, all episodes in one season are released at once. | |
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On Community, the Show Within a Show Cougarton Abbey (the fictional Transatlantic Equivalent of Cougar Town) ran for only six episodes before having all the characters kill themselves. Then inverted with an Affectionate Parody of Doctor Who. | |
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Fireman Sam originally ran for four seasons through 1987 to 1994, each with eight episodes, plus a Christmas Special, totalling to 33 episodes. A one-off claymation revival series of 26 episodes was made in 2005, before the show was rebooted into CGI in 2008, subverting the trope with ongoing 26 episode seasons. Altogether, the show currently totals to over 230 episodes. | |
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Nikita — The fourth season has 6 episodes. | |
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Wire in the Blood has five seasons and a total of 19 episodes (3 in the first season, 4 in the rest), each 90 minutes long. | |
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Black Lightning — The first and final seasons consist of 13 episodes each. | |
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Hannibal — The contract with NBC stipulated that each season would premiere in the second half of the television season and that each season consisted of 13 episodes. Three seasons aired altogether. | |
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CASUAL+Y (1986-present), one of The BBC's, is a definite aversion to this trope; it has aired over 1000 episodes (50-minutes to 1 hour, primetime Saturday) over the last 32 years. The show's first two seasons were a mere 15 episodes long each; the third was 10. After that, each series from 4 to 24 was as long or longer than the preceding series, with series 19 to 24 being 48 episodes long each, airing practically year-round barring a brief summer break of as little as a couple of weeks (with no break at all between series 24 and 25). The series lengths have varied since then, but have never dipped back below 42 episodes per season. There have been several calls over the years to simply extend it to a permanent weekly slot throughout the year, thus cementing its transition into a full-blown medical soap opera, but this has yet to happen. | |
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Poirot and Marple, both shows on ITV loosely based on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, have a special kind of British Brevity, with the former consisting of 70 episodes in all thirteen seasons, over the course of nearly 25 years; and the latter consisting of 23 episodes (with four feature-length episodes in each series except Series 6, which has only three) over the course of nine years. The only difference is that ITV was unable to produce a seventh series of Marple due to BBC's acquiring the rights for the production of Agatha Christie adaptations. Poirot, on the other hand, fared better, having been completed with all of the Hercule Poirot novels and short stories, ending with the final episode, "Curtain", on 13 November 2013. | |
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Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look both run six episode seasons. Peep Show had a final total of 54 episodes after 9 series, which makes it the longest-running sitcom in Channel 4 history. | |
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Rex the Runt fared the same spread as Amazing Adventures of Morph through two 13-episode seasons (not counting several pilots). | |
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Reaper — The second season has 13 episodes. | |
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Industry consists of eight forty five minute episodes. | |
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Sharpe episodes consist of 16 feature length television films, each one clocking in at just under 2 hours. | |
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Channel 4 Sitcom Spaced had seven episodes in each of its two series. Many fans clamored for some sort of concluding special, with the expectation of seeing the two main characters finally hook up, but never received it. The writers did send a little kiss to the fans in the form of the last minute of the Skip To The End Documentary – check out the DVD and, erm... skip to the end. | |
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The 100 — Seasons 1, 4, 5, and 6, have 13 episodes. | |
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The Originals — The last two seasons are 13 episodes long each. | |
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In heavy contrast to the blatant brevity of Wallace and Gromit, its spin off Shaun the Sheep has so far ranked up six seasons ranging anywhere from 20 to 40 episodes each, similarly having over 150 episodes in total. This is not counting movies, specials and other shorts made. | |
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The first BBC TV adaptation of Father Brown was a single 13 episode series in 1974. The second BBC series, started in 2013, runs of seasons ranging from ten to fifteen episodes, though still ongoing with 90 episodes currently, is the BBC's longest running daytime drama. Amusingly, despite this, the 2013 series has still only adapted half as many of the original books as the 1974 series. | |
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Monday Mornings 13 episodes. In true British Brevity style, it aired for only one season. | |
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Root into Europe has even less than six episodes. It's only five episodes long. | |
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Animaniacs — Was a 65 Episode Cartoon in its first season, but due to various complications involving the show's move from FOX to WB the remaining four seasons had 4, 9, 13 and 8 episodes respectively. | |
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Ghosts (UK): 5 series of 6 episodes each plus three Christmas Specials, leading to a total of 33 episodes as of this time of writing. To punctuate this, within the same period, it's US counterpart had started and produced 40 episodes over two seasons. | |
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The Aliens ran for only six episodes (given its cancellation, that's it). | |
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Riverdale — The first season ran for 13 episodes, as it premiered in January. Later seasons avert this, though. | |
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Whites ran one season of six episodes. | |
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Australian-made animated web series Meta Runner ran for 28 episodes averaging 11-20 minutes across three seasons, with the first two seasons having ten episodes, and the third and final one having eight episodes. | |
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The Game (2014) is only 6 episodes. | |
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The Killing (AMC, then Netflix) had two 13-episode seasons and one 12-episode season in its initial run on the former channel, with a 6-episode fourth and final season after its uncancellation by the latter. For the record, Forbrydelsen, the Danish show that inspired it, averted this with a 20-episode first season, but played it quite straight with two more 10-episode seasons. | |
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The Closer — Seven seasons, 15 episodes each, with an extra 6 episodes to set up the spinoff: | |
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Please Like Me had six episodes in the first season, and ten episodes each in the second and third. | |
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American Horror Story — Each season is its own self-contained miniseries twelve or thirteen episodes long. | |
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Torchwood series three, Children of Earth, was five one-hour episodes forming a single serial, in comparison to the two Doctor Who length (13-part) series beforehand. Series 4, Miracle Day, was another single serial but this time ten episodes long. Miracle Day was, however, initially conceived as a 5/6-part series by the British lead writer; it was only after it became a co-production with an American cable network that the series order was increased to 10 episodes. (In fact the network tried to fight for 13 episodes) | |
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Mad Dogs series 1 ran for only 4 episodes. As did series 2 and 3. Series 4, due for release Christmas 2013, is due to be two hour-long episodes long. | |
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While I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue doesn't fit this trope (currently in its 78th series), its Spin-Off, The Doings Of Hamish and Dougal, definitely fits. There are three series of six episodes each (except the first, which has four) and two specials – which is made even worse by the fact that all the regular episodes are fifteen minutes long. One can get through the show's entire run in five hours. | |
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The Benny Hill Show had 32 episodes on BBC in intermittent runs from 1955 to 1968, 9 episodes on ATV in 1957-60 and 1967 and 58 episodes on Thames from 1969 to 1989 (averaging about 3-4 episodes a year). | |
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The third season of Waterloo Road, with 20 60-minute episodes, must set some kind of 21st-century UK record for a non-Soap Opera, being longer in screen time than most American seasons. Since then, each season was made up of two 'terms' of 10 episodes making 20 per season (or three terms in series 7 and 8 for 30 episodes). By the time it ended in 2015, the show had racked up 200 episodes over 10 series. | |
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Care Bears & Cousins (Netflix) - Only six episodes per season. Only two seasons were produced before the show was unceremoniously cancelled. | |
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Spitting Image generally only ran 6 or 7 episodes per season. However usually two seasons were made every year. It made 132 episodes within 12 years. | |
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge played this trope for laughs: Alan's desperation for a second series is obvious by the end of the first season, and is one of the main themes of the Christmas special. Suffice to say, he doesn't get it, for reasons too numerous to list. | |
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Deadwood — Three seasons, 36 episodes. | |
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Curb Your Enthusiasm — 12 seasons, 10 episodes each, sometimes more than a year between two seasons. | |
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Only one series of seven episodes of No Appointment Necessary (1977) was made. | |
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The Young Ones was a very influential 'Alternative Comedy' series, and retains a cult following. Only twelve episodes (two seasons) were ever made. The majority of the actors and writers went on to create Filthy Rich & Catflap, which lasted only six episodes. Bottom, also with Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, did rather better, three seasons and a total of 18 episodes (as well as five stage shows and a movie). Word of God says The Young Ones was only ever meant to have 12 episodes in two seasons, like Fawlty Towers | |
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Sons of Anarchy — Seven seasons, 13 episodes each (except season 4, which had 14). | |
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Misfits had six episodes in its first series, rising incrementally to seven it its second (including a Christmas Special), then eight each in the third, fourth and fifth series. | |
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Sirens (UK) the Channel 4 comedy focused around a group of ambulance-men lasted a total of 6 episodes. | |
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Appropriately enough for a Canadian show, the Degrassi franchise started out this way and has moved away from it over time, with 26 episodes of the original The Kids of Degrassi Street made between 1979-1986 (with a progression from one a year to four a year to an actual series within that), and The Revival having 48 episodes in the 10th season alone. | |
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Podcast Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown has been running for 5 series. The first two have 6 episodes in its run, but from series three onwards, there have only been 4. If you also include the 3 specials, then that means so far a total of 27 episodes have been released altogether. | |
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Shine a Light had only one series of six episodes made. | |
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Red Dwarf consists of six 6-episode series (broadcast 1988-1993), followed by two 8-episode series (1997 & 1999), a 3-episode special (2009), then another three 6-episode series (2012 & 2016-2017) followed by a television special (2020). This makes for an uncommonly mighty total of 74 episodes, but spread over 32 years. | |
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland was planned as a single season format from the beginning as a precaution, with the story developing afterwards. As it was never picked up for season 2, it works out fine telling a coherent 13 episode story, adding to the "Once" mythos and giving plotted character arcs from the beginning. | |
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Absolutely Fabulous was a big hit in both Britain and America. Its original run had just 20 episodes, over three series plus a two-part special. It has since been revived twice in both new series and specials, for a total of 39 episodes. | |
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The Rising: The first season (which, due to its cancellation, was it) consists of only eight episodes. | |
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Call the Midwife both plays this straight - no more than 8 episodes per series—and averts this—10 series since 2012 with plans to air until 2026 at least. | |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — Five seasons, of ten episodes each, each episode being 11 minutes long. | |
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Faking It ran 8 episodes in its first season. The second season was officially 20 episodes, with a mid-season break after episode 10... that lasted for ten months, virtually enough for it to count as two seperate 10-episode seasons. The third season was confirmed cancelled midway through, wrapping up after the 10th. | |
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The first seven seasons of Law & Order: Criminal Intent were a typically chunky 21-23 episodes. Seasons 8 and 9 cut this down to 16. Season 10, which very nearly never happened and when it did was meant as a coda for the series and for the main characters Goren and Eames, cut it further to a very tight and succinct eight episodes. | |
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The Shield — Seven seasons. One is 15 episodes long, four are 13 episodes long, one is 11 episodes long, and one is 10 episodes long. | |
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Posh Nosh may be an extreme example, 8 episodes that were only 9 minutes each. | |
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This doesn't apply only to TV shows: comics such as 2000 AD usually have each story told in seven pages, tops, per issue, unlike the American standard of issue-long stories told in 22 pages. | |
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The Tudors — Four seasons of eight to ten episodes each. | |
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The Tunnel: The first season is ten episodes long, the second eight, and the third only six. | |
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The Goes Wrong Show consists of two seasons of six episodes each thus far. | |
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Liar (2017): It ran for two seasons with only six episodes each. | |
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Snuff Box was in a unique position: it was created by two The Mighty Boosh alums to replace a show called Popetown, which was canceled before it aired because of protesting Catholic groups. So Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher were given six episodes to do whatever the hell they wanted, was guaranteed to air, and had no Executive Meddling whatsoever. They turned in one of the most bizarre and bizarrely funny shows ever made, which hovered somewhere between sketch comedy and sitcom, about two hangmen at an exclusive club for executioners. Needless to say, it was not recommissioned. | |
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Intergalactic: The first season had only eight episodes. | |
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Top Gear (UK) tends to vary. Various series range from six episodes to eleven. However, two series are produced a year: a summer and a winter one. | |
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Oddly enough, the long-awaited fifth season of The Venture Brothers was only 8 episodes. Some fans were less than amused. | |
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iZombie — With the exception of the second, all seasons ran for 13 episodes. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) had two seasons, each 13 episodes, curiously brief for a kids' show. It was planned to have a third season which would presumably have been the same length. | |
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Damages (FX, then Netflix and DirecTV) had 13 episodes per season for three seasons and a fourth and fifth season with 10 each. | |
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Danger 5 is a series consisting of six 25-min episodes. | |
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The Inbetweeners is unusually short even for an examples on this page. 18 episodes - three series with each six episodes - though the series has been followed up by two feature-length films - one from 2011 and a sequel which was released in August 2014. | |
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Downplayed with Desmond's, which often used the 13 episode-or-less series run, but lasted six series. At 71 episodes (plus a brief spin-off), it remains Channel 4's longest running sitcom. | |
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries consists of a mere 23 episodes (at five complete seasons, a double-length pilot and an aborted sixth season) of ninety minutes each. | |
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The Walking Dead — Particularly the first two seasons; the first had only six episodes, while the second had 13. The third, fourth, and fifth seasons have 16 episodes, though they're split in half. | |
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Arthur: Most seasons have around 10 episodes, but this isn't so bad since it's a Long Runner, and each episode does have Two Shorts. However, since Season 22, the seasons have been shortened down to 3-4 episodes. | |
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The Fades had one season of six episodes. | |
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The Amazing Mrs Pritchard got one series of six episodes (before being shitcanned due to shoddy ratings). | |
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Only one series of six episodes of Friends and Neighbours (1954) was made. | |
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The Following — Season premieres are always in the spring, each consisting of 15-episode seasons. | |
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Centaurworld (Netflix) - A total of 18note or 20, since the final triple length episode originally was meant to be three separate episodes episodes across two seasons. | |
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Annika (2021): Alibi ran the show for six episodes. A second series aired in August 2023. | |
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Better Call Saul — Six seasons, with the first five each being just ten episodes, with the final one getting a standard lengthening to 13 episodes. | |
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The seasons of The Mighty Boosh were all about 6 or 7 episodes long each, with 20 episodes altogether. | |
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Doc Martin has currently made 9 seasons consisting of 6-8 episodes, totalling at 70 through 15 years. | |
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Warehouse 13 — The first three seasons ran for 12, 13, and 13 episodes respectively. Season four is scheduled for 20 episodes, but with a seven-month break between the two halves of the season, and the last season is 6 episodes, which makes seasons 4-5 the equivalent of having two 13 episode seasons and splitting them up differently. | |
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The Last of the Baskets only ran for thirteen episodes over two series. | |
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Black Mirror only had three episodes in each of its first two series, with a Christmas special. It was not a serialized format however, but a trilogy of drama short films in completely independent worlds. When the Americans acquired it, they doubled the series output to six, which still counts, but did put out series 3 and 4 in consecutive years, rather than waiting a few. | |
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Yes, Minister consisted of three series of seven episodes each plus an hour-long special, while the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister had two series of eight episodes each. | |
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Dad's Army – 80 episodes in 9 seasons over 9 years. And a feature film. | |
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Chockablock: Only thirteen episodes were made of this 1980s kids' show, but they were repeated regularly between 1981 and 1989. | |
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The Newsreader: Seasons 1 & 2 consist of six episodes each. | |
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Channel Zero — Each season expands a Creepypasta story into six episodes. | |
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All too common in BBC children's animations made before the 90s. Mr. Benn, Bagpuss, Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley all had just 13 episodes each, which were repeated (to rapt audiences of youngsters) over and over during the 70s and 80s. | |
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ITV soap Coronation Street began in 1960 and aired its 10,000th episode in 2020. Actor William Roache has played the character Ken Barlow since the show's beginning. | |
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Initially played straight with the first three series of Taskmaster, which only had 6, 5, and 5 episodes each. Series 4 and 5 got a slightly longer run with 8 episodes; but then series 6-9 was commissioned with 10 episodes. | |
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Doctor in the House and its sequel series sometimes followed this path and sometimes averted it. Doctor in the House aired for two series of 13 episodes each in 1969 and 1970, Doctor at Sea aired for a single 13-episode series in 1974, Doctor on the Go aired for two series of 13 episodes each in 1975 and 1977, Doctor Down Under aired for 13 episodes across two series in 1979, and Doctor at the Top aired for a single 7-episode series in 1991. However, Doctor at Large aired for a single 29-episode series in 1971, and Doctor in Charge aired for 43 episodes across two series in 1972 and 1973. | |
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KYTV had three seasons, each with six episodes, making for a total of eighteen episodes plus pilot. Its radio predecessor, Radio Active, clocked in at an impressive 54 episodes, over seven seasons, including a pilot and a later one-shot special. | |
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Lost started off with the usual American style of 22-25 hour-long episodes per season for the first three years (25, then 23, then 22, respectively). The final three seasons, however, were shortened — each was going to have 16 episodes originally before the 2007 Writer's Strike forced the creative team to modify their plan. The final result: about 70 episodes from the first three seasons, around 50.5 from the last three seasons (the last episode being 2 1/2 hours, including commercials). | |
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Reba — The sixth season has 13 episodes. This was a compromise; the network originally wanted to cancel it, but was forced to continue because its predecessor The WB had given it an early renewal. | |
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ITV 1's detective show Vera has thus far had ten series of four episodes. | |
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Murder in Mind had 7 episodes in its first series, and 8 in each of the second two out of three. | |
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The Brittas Empire: 52 episodes over 7 series, with each series consisting of 6-9 episodes each. This number also includes two Christmas Specials. | |
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Man About the House had 39 episodes in six seasons, in contrast with its American remake Three's Company, which had 172 episodes. The first season of Three's Company followed the trope, with just six episodes. | |
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Dollhouse — Two seasons, 13 episodes each. This was justified in the first season by it being a mid-season pickup, and in the second by Executive Meddling. | |
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Round the Twist has four seasons, about 13 episodes each. The last two seasons were a late revival commissioned about ten years after the show first aired. | |
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Sleepy Hollow— The first season ran for 13 episodes, and was soon renewed for a second season. This is likely due in some part to the show's somewhat spooky nature, meaning it works well around the Halloween season in the fall, but not so much during the spring. | |
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Two new examples from 2012 are The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff (Christmas special + 3 episodes) and Dirk Gently (pilot + 3 episodes). | |
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Department S ran for 28 episodes. Its Spin-Off, Jason King, was similarly brief, with 26 episodes. | |
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Chris Lilley has done four one-season shows so far: Summer Heights High ran 8 episodes and We Can Be Heroes ran 6 episodes. His new show Angry Boys ran for 12 episodes. The Summer Heights High Sequel Series Ja'mie: Private School Girl also ran 6 episodes. | |
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Aardman's first ongoing animated series The Amazing Adventures Of Morph did relatively better with a series of 26 five minute shorts. It's 2020 revival series, The Epic Adventures of Morph currently consists of 15 shorts. Granted this isn't counting the endless minute long skits from Take Hart, Smart and Aardman's Youtube channel to rank up. | |
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Have I Got News for You: 503 episodes aired (as of July 2019) across 57 series. | |
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Only one series of six episodes of You're Only Young Twice (1971) was made. | |
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The Good Place uses the trope to make a joke. When British socialite Tahani attempts to bond with American Jerk with a Heart of Gold Eleanor, Tahani introduces her to Dierdre and Margaret, a favourite British sitcom which happens to be ironically similar to their situation. Tahani advises Eleanor that it ran for 16 years on the BBC, and in that time produced a whopping almost 30 episodes. | |
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The British version of Shameless went on for 11 series (139 episodes in total), starting in 2004 and ending in 2011. | |
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Most of Ragdoll Productions' shows have run for more than 13 episodes a season, including Teletubbies, Rosie & Jim and Tots TV. | |
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The Men from the Ministry, BBC's political satire that made fun of civil servants, ran thirteen series from 1962-1977 with a grand total of 147 episodes, with series 2 and 6 having 14 episodes, series 1, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 having 13 episodes, series 8, 12 and 13 having 8 episodes and series 5 a meager 6 episodes, and two specials being made in 1964 and 1971. There was also a 14th series consisting of re-recordings being made in 1980, which was made for BBC Transcription Services and was never aired in the UK. | |
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Only twelve episodes of On the House were produced in two years. | |
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Hart of Dixie — The fourth season has 10 episodes. | |
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'Allo 'Allo! had 6-10 episodes per series with the notable exception of series 5, which had 26 episodes – as much as the previous four series combined. They planned to sell the series for syndication in America. Each episode was only 25 minutes, to account for commercial breaks. When the plans failed, Series 6-9 returned to the regularly scheduled British Brevity, though still ended on a commendable 85 episodes. | |
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The Hollowmen has six episodes a series, with two series over one year. | |
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Played straight with the first series of Robot Wars, which only had six episodes. Somewhat justified since they had to throw in some stock robots that weren't allowed to win to fill even that number. Averted with the following series until the show's cancellation, but then played straight again with the three revival series which went back to six episodes each. | |
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Jonathan Creek has five seasons of 3-6 episodes, and a half-dozen specials. | |
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The Doug Anthony All Stars' series DAAS Kapital ran for two seasons, with seven episodes in each. | |
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James May's Man Lab had three episodes in series one, and five episodes each in series two and three. | |
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Trollhunters (Netflix) - The first season has 26 episodes, but consists of two 13-episode arcs. The second season has 13 episodes. | |
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The classic BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine which ran from 1973 to 2010 for a grand total of 295 episodes, with seasons that were usually six to ten episodes long. | |
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Only one series of six episodes of Birds on the Wing was made. | |
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Father Ted achieved iconic status in the UK and Ireland despite producing just 25 episodes over three seasons. Contrary to popular belief, this was always intended to be the limit, and the show was not cut short due to Dermot Morgan's death shortly afterwards. | |
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The Italian series Il Commissario Montalbano started in 1999 and, as of March 2021, it has 15 seasons and 37 episodes, as the seasons either have two or four episodes, with the exception of season 15 which has only one episode. Each episode is 90-minute long, though. | |
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Only six episodes of The Trouble With You Lilian were produced in one year. | |
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Ever Decreasing Circles, written by the same duo as The Good Life, also ran for four seasons plus a Grand Finale for a total of 27 episodes. | |
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Life on Mars wound up its plot after two seasons of eight episodes each. Its follow-on series Ashes to Ashes (2008) mustered three seasons, or twenty-four episodes total: about the same as one US season. The whole lot together made forty episodes in five years. | |
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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was only 6 episodes. The DVD adds two half-hour long supplements which could be considered parts of the show within the context of the framing device. | |
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The original UK version of Kitchen Nightmares ran for six series between 2004 and 2014, with between four and eight episodes per season, plus one special double-length episode for a total of 35 episodes in ten years. Taking into account that a number of these episodes were revisits to restaurants from the previous season, the total number of restaurants featured was 28. Contrast the US version with eight seasons having between 10 and 17 episodes each, for a total of 88 restaurants featured across 102 episodes. | |
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Game of Thrones — The first six seasons have ten episodes each. The final two seasons are even shorter. | |
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Six Feet Under — Five seasons, 63 episodes. | |
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Derry Girls lasted for three series with six episodes each, plus an extended Grand Finale in the third series. In total, that amounts to nineteen episodes. | |
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Nathan for You — 32 episodes total: four seasons of 8 episodes (the final season started with a one-hour Clip Show and ended with a two-hour Grand Finale). Nathan Fielder said that the complex process of planning and executing the show's schemes limited the number of episodes he could do. | |
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The IT Crowd, also created by Graham Linehan, follows the same formula into four series, although it should be noted that an hour long special was produced three years after the fourth series concluded. | |
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Leverage — Seasons hovered between 13-15 episodes, with season four being the highest at 18 episodes. | |
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The Thin Blue Line: Only two series of 7 episodes each were made. | |
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The Wallace & Gromit series has been active since 1989. In those thirty plus years, there have been a grand total of five full-length instalments, only one of which was a film (though there have also been a number of >5min shorts). In addition, there was a TV series, Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention, that only lasted six episodes. | |
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Perhaps most notable is Fawlty Towers; one of the more famous and well-regarded sitcoms – and indeed television series of any kind – ever made, and there were only ever twelve episodes, from two seasons made four years apart. | |
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Played with for Postman Pat, which initially featured just 13 episodes throughout the 80s, though huge popularity led to a 10th anniversary special in 1991, further specials in 1992 and 1995, a one-off series of 13 more episodes in 1997 and, finally, regular ongoing series from 2004 on. | |
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Rumpole of the Bailey was aired on ITV from 1978 to 1992 (14 years) for a grand total of 42 episodes of Seven Series, plus one feature-length special in between Series Two and Three, not to mention the pilot that aired on the BBC in 1975 as an episode of Play for Today. | |
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Taggart has reached the age of 26 years with only 100 "stories"; most of these are single episodes, but many earlier stories consisted of three one-hour episodes. Some of these were later edited down to a single episode of around two hours (without adverts). | |
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The Royle Family made only three seasons of six episodes each, though with one-off Christmas Specials a common tradition for a few years afterwards. It totalled to 25 episodes by its last special in 2012. | |
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The first season of Lockwood & Co. (2023) consists of eight episodes, covering the events of the first two books. | |
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The Ink Thief lasted for all of seven episodes. Ever. | |
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Black Books has three seasons, each with 6 episodes each. This results in three remarkably short, but incredibly consistent and humorous series. | |
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Only Fools spin-off The Green Green Grass churned out episodes at a slightly faster pace, with 7-9 per yearly season. Lasting between 2005 and 2009, it produced 32 episodes, exactly half of Only Fools and Horses' final total, before being cancelled due to its higher production costs filming in the countryside. | |
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Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin and Terry Jones had one pilot episode (and originally it wasn't clear whether this was actually meant to be a pilot or a one-off), followed by five episodes in its first season and only three in its second season. | |
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Only five episodes of The Culture Vultures were made over one year. More were planned but never filmed due to Leslie Phillips' health issues at the time. | |
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Blackadder is actually four different six-episode series (set at different periods of history but including Identical Grandson characters), each one launched with no expectations of making another. In fact, each series was picked up a year after its predecessor had ended. Counting a couple specials made in between, plus a Grand Finale made in 1999, the franchise totalled to 27 episodes. | |
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Robin of Sherwood had three seasons of successively six, seven, and thirteen episodes. The differing lengths led to the second Robin appearing in as many episodes as the first, but only half as many seasons. | |
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BBC flagship show Doctor Who. The classic run from 1963 to 1989 ran for total of 695 episodes - 696 if you want to include the 1996 TV movie as the last proper episode of the classic run; season length depended on the Doctor and the show's popularity - during the First and Second Doctor era, seasons were on average roughly 40 episodes long. Beginning with the Third Doctor, seasons were roughly 25 episodes long. When the show's popularity took a nose dive around the Sixth Doctor, seasons were cut to around 14 episodes. The Revival, which began in 2005, usually runs between 10 and 13 episodes per season, not counting the yearly Christmas Special. Technically, though, the episode count can be considered artificially-inflated if one takes each story as its own without consideration for episodes/parts, especially if a part was padded (i.e. with corridor-running) to fill out the weekly runtime. (i.e. A four-part story is one episode, another one, maybe 5-6 parts, is another, even the ten-part "The War Games" can be one.) We should point out that while the episode count shrank with the '05 run over vintage Who, the episode run time jumped from 25-ish minutes to 50, so it balanced out. However, the Thirteenth Doctor's era stays true to this trope with only 10 episodes (excluding specials) for series 11 and 12 each, which was further reduced to 6 episodes in series 13 due to the COVID pandemic. |
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Redfern Now had two six-episode seasons. | |
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The faux TV magazine sequel This Time With Alan Partridge thus far has reached a similar total of two six-episode series, which could be considered a relative success in Alan's career. | |
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The Bill is also an example of averting this trope – even before it became a Crime Time Soap, this British Police Procedural would regularly have clocked up 150+ episodes every single year. The secret? Each season was broadcast all year round, with no production gaps. That must have been really gruelling work for the writers and the actors. No wonder there's a high cast turnaround... | |
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The Slap ran for only 8 episodes. | |
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The Wire — Five seasons, two of 13, two of 12, one 10. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus lasted from 1969 to 1974, with three 13-episode seasons and one final six-episode season. The movies, not counting 1971's And Now for Something Completely Different (a compilation of older TV sketches re-shot on film for the American market, who had yet to see the original series) were released in 1975, 1979, and 1983 respectively. | |
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Thank God You're Here has 13 episodes a series. | |
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Roger & Val have Just Got In ran for 2 series of 6 episodes each. | |
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Shadowhunters — There are technically five seasons of 10 each, as the second and third seasons are split in half. The second half of the third season got two additional episodes to Wrap It Up. | |
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Only two series totalling twelve episodes of Inside George Webley were made. | |
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Shoestring ran for two seasons, with eleven episodes in the first season and ten in the second. | |
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One Tree Hill — The ninth season has 13 episodes. | |
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Oz — Six seasons altogether. Each one has eight episodes except for season 4, which was 16 episodes long and split into two blocks. | |
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Police Squad! — One season, six episodes. Although the producers did not choose to end the series (it had been cancelled by ABC after a few episodes aired), said producers later revealed that it was probably for the best, as by the sixth episode, they felt their ideas were already running thin, and the recurring gags were starting to wane. They said there was probably no way they could keep up the quality doing 24 episodes a year. | |
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The Wombles and Paddington (1975) were rare stop-motion aversions of their time. Not only were they both renewed for a second season but totalled to a healthy 60 and 56 episodes respectively, along with a handful of specials each. The Wombles even got a nineties revival which similarly consisted of 56 episodes through multiple seasons. | |
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Crime Traveller's only season lasted for eight episodes. | |
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Referenced in Sam & Max: Freelance Police: The Devil's Playhouse when Max says that six-episode seasons are good for his short attention span. It's also a bit of tongue-in-cheek self-mockery related to the episodic release of Sam & Max: Freelance Police games, as each season has five or six episodes. | |
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Teen Wolf — Six seasons. Seasons 1, 2 and 4 consists of 12 episodes each. Season 3 is 24 episodes split into two distinct 12-episode arcs (referred to as 3a and 3b) with a three-month break in-between. Likewise, seasons 5 and 6 are 20 episodes long and split into two halves. | |
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South Park — Though mitigated by being a Long Runner (currently 300+ episodes), most early seasons consisted of roughly 14 episodes, with later ones dialled down further back to 10 episodes. Dialed down even further starting in 2020, with season 24 consisting only of four specials, season 25 of six episodes and two specials, and season 26 of just six episodes. | |
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The 4400 — Began as a five-episode miniseries, followed by three more seasons of 13 episodes each. | |
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The Straits ran for only 10 episodes. | |
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The Train Now Standing... only ran for fifteen episodes over two series. | |
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True Blood — Six seasons so far, 12 episodes each, except for season six, which had 10. | |
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Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt - The show was only ordered for 40 episodes plus a special, so Netflix sliced them up into 4 seasons, each with 10 episodes. The show is highly unusual because its hiatuses are extremely short, especially in comparison to other Netflix shows. There was a mere 2-month gap between seasons 1 and 2, another 2-month gap between seasons 2 and 3, a one month gap between seasons 3 and 4, and a two-month gap between season 4 (October 27) and the Christmas special (December 3). This all happened in the span of just one year — 2020. The show is partially produced in Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom, so it's very tangentially an example of British Brevity, even though it's also produced in the USA and has American voice actors. | |
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Life Unexpected — Two seasons, 26 episodes. | |
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The Prisoner (1967) was originally planned as 7 episodes, but extended to 17 at the request of Lew Grade to make the series more attractive to overseas (i.e. American) markets. Patrick McGoohan just couldn't see it stretching to a full 26. | |
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Major Crimes — Well, the first season had 10 episodes, anyway. | |
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Nightingales had two series, aired on Channel 4 two and a half years apart: one of 6 episodes and one of 7. | |
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The BBC 4 radio sitcom Fabulous (not to be confused with the unrelated BBC television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) ran for three series with the first series having six 'half-length' 15 minute episodes and the second and third series having four thirty minute episodes each. | |
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Henkei Shoujo: This anime miniseries consists of five episodes, all just a minute long, making the entire show a mere 5-minute sit. | |
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Only seven episodes of Room at the Bottom (1967) following a Pilot were produced in two years. | |
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Bad Robots only had six episodes per season, and only two seasons have aired so far, the last one airing in 2015. | |
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Girlfriends — The eighth season has 13 episodes, partly because of Executive Meddling and partly because of the 2007-08 WGA strike. | |
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Slacker Cats — Two seasons, six episodes each. | |
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The Librarians (2007) had six episodes in its first series. | |
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — Seasons 2 and 3 consist of 13 episodes. | |
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A Prince Among Men: 2 series of 6 episodes each and that's it. | |
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Sticking with New Zealand, detective show The Brokenwood Mysteries has had seven series to date, with only four episodes in each of the first six series, with a whopping six episodes in series seven. | |
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BBC radio soap The Archers began in 1951 and has aired more than 19,000 12-15 minute episodes. | |
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Primeval had six episodes in its first season, and seven in the second, giving it a grand episode count of thirteen episodes. It got a surprisingly larger 10 episodes in its third season, while Series 4 and 5 had seven and six episodes respectively, for a total of 36 episodes. | |
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The Bisexual: It's a miniseries of just six episodes, each about 27-30 minutes each. | |
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Breaking Bad — Five seasons, 62 episodes. The first season had seven episodesnote cut short by a writer's strike, the following three had 13 each, and the fifth and final season had 16 episodes split over two eight-episode mini-seasons. | |
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Gavin & Stacey: Three series of 6, 7 and another 6 episodes, plus a Christmas special in 2008. And then nothing until Christmas Day 2019 - another one-off episode, leading to a grand total of 21 episodes. | |
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Only one series of six episodes of Two Up, Two Down was made. | |
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Getting On had three series, containing 3, 6 and 6 episodes respectively. Similarly, its American counterpart had three seasons which were each six episodes long. |
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Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby: two seasons, seven episodes each. | |
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Beauty and the Beast (2012) — Seasons 3 and 4 each got a 13-episode order because of low ratings. | |
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The Upper Crusts only ran for six episodes in one series. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Season 1 consists of a mere seven episodes, while Season 2 is planned to contain eight. | |
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Only six episodes of If It Moves, File It were produced in one year. | |
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Awkward.'s first two seasons had 12 episodes. The third had 20 and the fourth originally had a 10 episode order before MTV extended it to 20. | |
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The Sopranos — Ran for six seasons and 86 episodes, broadcast over the course of 8 1/2 years. | |
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Also zigzagged for Henry's Cat which had a first season of 20 episodes, and a second of 15. After the show was retooled from 5 to 15 minute format, the third and fourth seasons had only 6 episodes, with an Uncancelled fifth season consisting of only four, totalling at 51 episodes. | |
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Rock & Chips (a prequel to Only Fools and Horses) ran for three 90-60 minutes specials (January 2010 pilot, Christmas 2010 special and Easter 2011 special), but creator and writer John Sullivan died before a full series could be made. | |
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Charley's Grants had only one series of six episodes made. | |
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Chuckle Vision generally ran for Seasons of 13 to 15 episodes (with the last two seasons consisting of only six each plus a Christmas special sandwiched in between). Due to being ongoing yearly from 1987 to 2009 however, it made a whopping 292 episodes. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared had six installments spread out over six years. When it was made into a TV series in 2022, it was in the form of one six-episode season. | |
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Downton Abbey has 7 episodes in the first series, 8 in the second through sixth series—depending on whether you count the Christmas specials, which properly speaking make it 9 episodes each for series 2-6. | |
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Law & Order: UK. Despite the typical briefness of each series/season as mentioned above (6-7 episodes per series, 13 episodes per season when aired in the US), the show lasted 8 series, including a landmark 50th episode and replaced all but one of its original cast throughout its tenure. | |
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The Shadow Line, which consists of just one self-contained series of seven episodes. | |
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