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Alan Brady's Hair · 05-02-2017, 06:31 PM

The earliest marathon showing of episodes of a show that I remember watching a lot of was the Dick van Dyke Show on Nick at Night. It looks like it was in 1991. I think that they showed about 20 episodes per night for a week or so.

Were there earlier marathons than this, where a whole series was shown?

edoug · 05-02-2017, 09:13 PM

MTV didn't show all of The Monkees episodes but did show 46 of 58 over 22 1/2 hours.

snowpeck · 05-02-2017, 10:13 PM

Nick at Nite promoted the Donna-thon in 1990 as the first ever week-long marathon of a TV show, but it obviously wasn't the entire Donna Reed Show series because they didn't have the rights to the whole series.

05-02-2017, 06:31 PM	#1
Alan Brady's Hair Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 30, 2014 Posts: 1,825	Earliest marathon of a full series? The earliest marathon showing of episodes of a show that I remember watching a lot of was the Dick van Dyke Show on Nick at Night. It looks like it was in 1991. I think that they showed about 20 episodes per night for a week or so. Were there earlier marathons than this, where a whole series was shown?

05-02-2017, 10:13 PM	#3
snowpeck Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 13, 2001 Location: Atlanta Posts: 759	Nick at Nite promoted the Donna-thon in 1990 as the first ever week-long marathon of a TV show, but it obviously wasn't the entire Donna Reed Show series because they didn't have the rights to the whole series.
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05-02-2017, 09:13 PM	#2
edoug Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Sep 10, 2001 Posts: 128	MTV didn't show all of The Monkees episodes but did show 46 of 58 over 22 1/2 hours.