Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!avi From: avi@pegasus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Why doesn't Hill Street Blues number their shows Message-ID: <911@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 14:07:37 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.911 Posted: Mon Feb 6 14:07:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:43:58 EST References: <954@uw-june> <552@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 16 pyuxa!wetcw raises the fact that Hill Street broadcast reruns during the viewing season in January -- and that this may account for slumping audience share statistics. This raises the general question of how the user can figure out what is happening on a show that maintains a plot line continuously. Many of the daytime soaps are just never broadcast a second time. This effectively solves the problem. The nighttime soaps do have this problem. Why can't they just number them and print the "serial number" (for example year-3, episode-12) at the beginning of each show -- and also display it in places like TV guide? Is this information already available, or is there no way of sequencing these things? I seem to remember that many old TV shows (even though their plots were limited to one episode) were shown along with some serial number. I doubt that this would increase ratings, however. -- -=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241 suggested paths: [ihnp4, allegra, cbosg, hogpc, ...]!pegasus!avi