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GilliganLuver1964 · 06-29-2000, 03:33 PM

why where the shows only 30 mins long?

silentbri · 06-29-2000, 04:36 PM

They would have been longer, but unfortunately all their problems where able to be solve din only half an hour! Therefore, the second half hour would have been nothing more than the castaways standing around doing nothing, just waiting for the next hillarious antics to take place!

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algebra74 · 05-27-2004, 09:00 PM

That is a good question, and I never really thought about it until now. Most comedies, as this show was, were only done in a half-hour. The dramas and westerns of this time were usually the hour-long shows.

06-29-2000, 03:33 PM	#1
GilliganLuver1964 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 27, 2000 Location: Somerset, NJ, US Posts: 70	why? where the shows only 30 mins long why where the shows only 30 mins long?

06-29-2000, 04:36 PM	#2
silentbri Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 20, 2000 Location: Lynnwood, WA, in the good ol' US of A Posts: 399	They would have been longer, but unfortunately all their problems where able to be solve din only half an hour! Therefore, the second half hour would have been nothing more than the castaways standing around doing nothing, just waiting for the next hillarious antics to take place! ------------------ Be sure to click here and check out my web page! What else are you gonna do?

05-27-2004, 09:00 PM	#3
algebra74 Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Apr 14, 2004 Posts: 337	That is a good question, and I never really thought about it until now. Most comedies, as this show was, were only done in a half-hour. The dramas and westerns of this time were usually the hour-long shows.