avi@pegasus.UUCP (02/06/84)
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