> When your audience gets one episode a week, with mid-season breaks, schedule slips, and multi-year gaps between seasons Multi-year gaps between seasons is a

> When your audience gets one episode a week, with mid-season breaks, schedule slips, and multi-year gaps between seasons Multi-year gaps between seasons is a modern thing, not from the era you're talking about. Back then there would reliably be a new season every year, often with only a couple of months between the end of one and the beginning of the next.