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When you think about the production schedules are serial television of the time, it was also kind of insane: i.e. TNG was producing 26 episodes a season. They w
by XorNot 4y ago
When you think about the production schedules are serial television of the time, it was also kind of insane: i.e. TNG was producing 26 episodes a season. They were basically scheduled to have to kick out an episode every 2 weeks for the run of the show. A lot of the rougher scripts of the era definitely make more sense when you realize the kind of crunch the production actually was under.
- KingMob 4y agoWasn't it every week for half the year, then? Barring stuff like holidays, seasons mostly kept to a once/week schedule.
- XorNot 4y agoThat was the release schedule, but the average is one every two weeks to hit it. If you were trying to get it all in the can before anything aired you'd be committing to finishing an episode per week. My understanding is that they split the difference: you needed to do most of your principle photography in the first half of the year, and then post-prod earlier episodes to account for delays.