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Friday night death slot, the Glossary

The "Friday night death slot" or "Friday evening death slot" is a perceived graveyard slot in American television.^[1]

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'Til Death

Til Death is an American sitcom that aired on Fox from September 7, 2006, to June 20, 2010.

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A Different World

A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show.

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A Gifted Man

A Gifted Man is an American fantasy medical drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2011.

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Accidental Family

Accidental Family is an American sitcom broadcast on NBC during the first part of the 1967–68 U.S. television season.

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Actuality Specials

Actuality Specials is an American television series consisting of a collection of documentaries produced by NBC News and broadcast during the 1960s.

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Adam's Rib (TV series)

Adam's Rib is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from September 14 to December 28, 1973.

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)

Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show.

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Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

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Ben 10

Ben 10 is an American media franchise conceived by Man of Action, produced by Cartoon Network Studios, and owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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Benson (TV series)

Benson is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from September 13, 1979, to April 19, 1986.

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Big Eddie

Big Eddie is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from August 23 until November 7, 1975.

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Block programming

Block programming (also known as a strand in British broadcasting) is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united.

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Blue Bloods (TV series)

Blue Bloods is an American police procedural drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 24, 2010.

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Bob (TV series)

Bob is an American sitcom television series created by Bill Steinkellner, Cheri Steinkellner, and Phoef Sutton.

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Bob Newhart

George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024) was an American comedian and actor.

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Boomtown (2002 TV series)

Boomtown is an American action drama television series created by Graham Yost, that aired on NBC from September 29, 2002 to December 28, 2003.

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Boston Public

Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox.

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an American coming-of-age sitcom created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly that aired on ABC for seven seasons between September1993 and May2000.

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Broadcast programming

Broadcast programming is the practice of organizing or ordering (scheduling) of broadcast media shows, typically the radio and the television, in a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or season-long schedule.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on. Friday night death slot and broadcast syndication are television terminology.

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Brothers (2009 TV series)

Brothers is an American sitcom television series which ran on Fox from September 25, 2009 to December 27, 2009.

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Burning off

In American broadcast programming, "burning off" is the custom of quickly airing the remaining episodes of a television program, usually one that has already been or is planned to be cancelled, without the intent to attract a large number of viewers. Friday night death slot and Burning off are television terminology.

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Calucci's Department

Calucci's Department is an American television sitcom broadcast by CBS.

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Camp Lazlo

Camp Lazlo is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray for Cartoon Network.

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Cancellation (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, cancellation refers to when a radio or television program is abruptly ended by orders of the network or syndicator that distributes the show, usually against the intentions of the show's creators or producers.

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Canterbury's Law

Canterbury's Law is an American legal drama television series, which aired from March 10 to April 18, 2008 as a mid-season replacement on Fox.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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CBS Block Party

CBS Block Party (referred to on-air as the CBS Friday Night Block Party) was a programming block that aired on the CBS television network during the 1997–1998 television season.

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Cedric's Barber Battle

Cedric's Barber Battle is an American reality television series that aired on The CW.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chuck (TV series)

Chuck is an American action comedy spy drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak.

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Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction. Friday night death slot and cliffhanger are television terminology.

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Close to Home (2005 TV series)

Close to Home is an American crime drama television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS.

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Code R

Code R is an American action-adventure television series that aired on CBS from January 21 to June 10, 1977.

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Complete Savages

Complete Savages is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from September 24, 2004, to June 17, 2005.

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Constantine (TV series)

Constantine (stylized as Cons♰antįne) is an American occult detective drama television series developed by Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer that aired for one season on NBC, it premiered on October 24, 2014 and concluded on February 13, 2015.

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Conviction (2006 TV series)

Conviction is an American legal drama television series that aired on NBC as a mid-season replacement from March 3 to May 19, 2006.

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Cosby (TV series)

Cosby is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 16, 1996, to April 28, 2000.

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Cow and Chicken

Cow and Chicken is an American animated comedy television series created by David Feiss for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

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Cristela

Cristela is an American multi-camera sitcom television series that aired from October 10, 2014, until April 17, 2015, on ABC.

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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Dark Angel (American TV series)

Dark Angel is an American science fiction drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on October 3, 2000.

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Darkroom (TV series)

Darkroom is an American thriller anthology television series produced by Universal Television that aired on ABC from November 27, 1981, to July 8, 1982.

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Dave's World

Dave's World is an American sitcom television series, created by Fred Barron, that aired on CBS from September 20, 1993, to June 27, 1997.

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Dear John (American TV series)

Dear John is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from October 6, 1988 to July 22, 1992.

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Desi Arnaz

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, musician, producer, and bandleader.

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Designing Women

Designing Women is an American television sitcom created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason that aired on CBS between September 29, 1986 and May 24, 1993, producing seven seasons and 163 episodes.

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Dexter's Laboratory

Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network as the first Cartoon Cartoon.

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Dirty Sally

Dirty Sally is a humorous Western television series about a hard-drinking cantankerous old woman and a young former outlaw traveling to the California gold fields in a wagon pulled by a mule named Worthless.

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Disney Channel

Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Dollhouse (TV series)

Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions.

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Don't Forget the Lyrics!

Don't Forget the Lyrics! is an international music game show.

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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 is an American television sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan.

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Dr. Vegas

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Dracula (2013 TV series)

Dracula is a horror drama television series.

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Duel (American game show)

Duel is an American game show hosted by Mike Greenberg that first aired from December 17 to December 23, 2007, on ABC.

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Dump months

The dump months are what the film community has, before the era of streaming television, called the two periods of the year when there have been lowered commercial and critical expectations for most new theatrical releases from American filmmakers and distributors.

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Dweebs (TV series)

Dweebs is an American sitcom that ran on CBS from September 22 to November 3, 1995.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Eischied

Eischied is an American crime drama television series that aired on NBC from September 21, 1979, to July 1, 1980.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Enlisted (TV series)

Enlisted is an American sitcom that premiered January 10, 2014, on Fox.

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ER (TV series)

ER is an American medical drama television series created by Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning 15 seasons.

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Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American prime time television soap opera created by Earl Hamner Jr. that aired for nine seasons on CBS from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990.

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Family Matters

Family Matters is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC for eight seasons from September 22, 1989, to May 9, 1997, then moved to CBS for its ninth and final season from September 19, 1997, to July 17, 1998.

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Family-friendly

A family-friendly product or service is one that is considered to be suitable for all members of an average family.

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Fastlane (TV series)

Fastlane is an American action/crime drama television series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003.

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Fire Country

Fire Country is an American action drama television series created by Max Thieriot, Tony Phelan and Joan Rater for CBS, starring Thieriot.

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Firefly (TV series)

Firefly is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.

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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an American animated television series created by Craig McCracken for Cartoon Network.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Fox College Football (or Fox CFB, for short, and Big Noon Saturday, for flagship games airing at 12 p.m. ET on Saturdays, and Fox College Football Friday, for Friday night games) is the branding used for broadcasts of NCAA Division I FBS college football games produced by Fox Sports, and broadcast primarily by Fox, FS1, and FS2.

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Fox College Hoops

Fox College Hoops (also known as Fox CBB or Fox Primetime Hoops for games airing in primetime hours) is the branding used for Fox Sports broadcasts of college basketball for Fox, FS1 and FS2.

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FreakyLinks

FreakyLinks is an American science fiction series that combined elements of horror, mystery, and comedy.

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Fresh Off the Boat

Fresh Off the Boat is an American sitcom television series created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for ABC.

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Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci.

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Full House

Full House is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC.

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Game Show Network

Game Show Network (GSN) is an American basic cable channel owned by the television network division of Sony Pictures Television.

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Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer.

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George Schlatter

George Schlatter (born December 31, 1929) is an American television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, founder of the American Comedy Awards, and author of Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy (Unnamed Press 2023).

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Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer is an American supernatural television series, which ran on CBS from September 23, 2005, to May 21, 2010.

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Girl Meets World

Girl Meets World is an American comedy television series created by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly that premiered on Disney Channel on June 27, 2014.

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Golden Age of Television

The first Golden Age of Television is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions.

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Golden Boy (American TV series)

Golden Boy is an American crime drama television series created by Nicholas Wootton and produced by Berlanti Productions, Nicholas Wootton Productions, and Warner Bros. Television.

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Graveyard slot

A graveyard slot (or death slot) is a time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day, and therefore broadcast programming is considered far less important. Friday night death slot and graveyard slot are television terminology.

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Greetings from Tucson

Greetings from Tucson is an American sitcom television series created by Peter Murrieta, which aired on The WB from September 20, 2002 to May 9, 2003, during the 2002-2003 season.

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Hannah Montana

Hannah Montana is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between March2006 and January2011.

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Happy Endings (TV series)

Happy Endings is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from April 13, 2011, to May 3, 2013.

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Harsh Realm

Harsh Realm is an American science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation.

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Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)

Hawaii Five-0 is an American action police procedural television series that centers around a special police major crimes task force operating at the behest of the governor of Hawaii.

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Headmaster (TV series)

Headmaster is an American half-hour television comedy-drama starring Andy Griffith and broadcast by CBS in the United States during the 1970–71 season.

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Hello, Larry

Hello, Larry is an American sitcom television series created by Dick Bensfield and Perry Grant, starring McLean Stevenson.

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Here Come the Brides

Here Come the Brides is an American comedy Western television series from Screen Gems that aired on the ABC television network from September 25, 1968, to April 3, 1970.

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High school football (football au lycée), also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.

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High School Musical 2

High School Musical 2 is a 2007 American musical television film directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Peter Barsocchini.

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Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven is an American fantasy drama television series that ran on NBC from September 19, 1984, to August 4, 1989.

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Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police drama television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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Hot Properties

Hot Properties is an American sitcom featuring four women working together in a Manhattan real estate office.

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Hunter (1977 TV series)

Hunter is a 1977 American drama television series starring James Franciscus and Linda Evans which centered on the exploits of a pair of undercover counterespionage agents.

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I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.

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I'll Fly Away (TV series)

I'll Fly Away is an American television drama series that aired on NBC from October 7, 1991, to February 5, 1993.

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In Justice

In Justice is an American legal drama television series created by Michelle King and Robert King.

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JAG (TV series)

JAG (U.S. military acronym for Judge Advocate General) is an American legal drama television series with a U.S. Navy theme, created by Donald P. Bellisario, and produced by Belisarius Productions in association with Paramount Network Television (now CBS Studios).

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Jerry Van Dyke

Jerry McCord Van Dyke (July 27, 1931 – January 5, 2018) was an American actor and comedian.

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Jessie (2011 TV series)

Jessie is an American comedy television series created by Pamela Eells O'Connell that aired on Disney Channel from September 30, 2011 to October 16, 2015.

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Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia is an American fantasy family drama television series telling the story of teenager Joan Girardi (Amber Tamblyn), who sees and speaks with God and performs tasks she is given.

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John Doe (TV series)

John Doe is an American science fiction drama television series that aired on Fox during the 2002–2003 TV season.

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John Ritter

Johnathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor.

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John Schneider (screen actor)

John Richard Schneider (born April 8, 1960) is an American actor and singer.

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Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo is an American animated comedy television series created by Van Partible for Cartoon Network and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

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Jokebook

Jokebook is an American adult animated comedy series produced by Hanna-Barbera.

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Jonny Zero

Jonny Zero is an American television action-crime drama series, created and written by R. Scott Gemmill and executive produced by John Wells, that premiered on Fox on January 14, 2005.

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Justice (2006 TV series)

Justice is an American legal drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer that aired on Fox in the US and CTV in Canada.

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Key demographic

The key demographic or target demographic is a term in commercial broadcasting that refers to the most desirable demographic group to a given advertiser. Friday night death slot and key demographic are television terminology.

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Killer Instinct (TV series)

Killer Instinct is an American crime drama television series filmed in Vancouver that originally aired on the Fox Network.

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Killian documents controversy

The Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate) involved six documents containing allegations about President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972–73, allegedly typed in 1973.

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Knight Rider (1982 TV series)

Knight Rider is an American action crime drama television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson.

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Kodiak (TV series)

Kodiak is a half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m Eastern time on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season.

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Laredo (TV series)

Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965–67, starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers.

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Last Man Standing (American TV series)

Last Man Standing is an American sitcom created by Jack Burditt for ABC and Fox.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC.

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Law & Order: Trial by Jury

Law & Order: Trial by Jury is an American legal drama television series about criminal trials set in New York City.

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Life with Bonnie

Life with Bonnie is an ABC television sitcom that originally aired from September 17, 2002 to April 9, 2004.

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Lifetime (TV network)

Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company.

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Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector

Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector is an American crime drama television series that premiered on NBC as part of the 2019–20 television season, on January 10, 2020 and ran until March 13, 2020.

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Lipstick Jungle (TV series)

Lipstick Jungle is an American comedy-drama television series created by DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler that aired on NBC from February 7, 2008, to January 9, 2009.

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List of Disney Channel original films

Since its launch on April 18, 1982, American cable and satellite pay television channel Disney Channel airs and/or releases/distributes of original first-run television films under the banner names of Disney Channel Premiere Films until October 1997, Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) until March 2023, and Disney Original Movie thereafter.

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List of television shows notable for negative reception

This list includes a number of television shows which have received negative reception from both critics and audiences alike, some of which are considered the worst of all time.

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Logan's Run (TV series)

Logan's Run is an American science fiction television series, a spin-off from the 1976 film of the same name.

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Lotsa Luck

Lotsa Luck is an American sitcom, broadcast on NBC during the 1973–74 television season.

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Love, American Style

Love, American Style is an anthology comedy television series that aired on ABC from September 29, 1969 to January 11, 1974.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian, producer, and studio executive.

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Luis (TV series)

Luis is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September 19 to October 17, 2003.

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M.A.N.T.I.S.

M.A.N.T.I.S. is an American superhero television series that aired for one season on the Fox Network between August 26, 1994, and March 3, 1995, with its final two episodes airing on Sci-Fi Channel on September 7 and 14, 1997.

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MacGyver (2016 TV series)

MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov that ran on CBS from September 23, 2016 to April 30, 2021, comprising five seasons and 94 episodes.

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Made in Jersey

Made in Jersey is an American legal drama television series that aired on CBS from September 28 to December 29, 2012.

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Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)

Magnum P.I. is an American action drama television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim.

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Major Dad

Major Dad is an American sitcom television series created by Richard C. Okie and John G. Stephens, developed by Earl Pomerantz, that originally ran from September 17, 1989, to May 17, 1993, on CBS, starring Gerald McRaney as Major John D. MacGillis and Shanna Reed as his wife Polly.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Malibu Country

Malibu Country is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from November 2, 2012, to March 22, 2013.

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Manimal

Manimal is an American superhero television series created by Glen A. Larson and Donald R. Boyle, it ran on NBC from September 30 to December 17, 1983.

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Masquerade (TV series)

Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired on ABC from December 15, 1983, until April 27, 1984.

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Max Monroe: Loose Cannon

Max Monroe: Loose Cannon is an American television drama series.

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Maybe It's Me (TV series)

Maybe It's Me is an American television sitcom that aired on The WB network.

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Medical Investigation

Medical Investigation is an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC.

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Medium (TV series)

Medium is an American supernatural drama television series created by Glenn Gordon Caron that originally aired on NBC for five seasons from January 3, 2005, to June 1, 2009, and on CBS for two more seasons from September 25, 2009, to January 21, 2011.

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Meego (TV series)

Meego is an American science fiction sitcom television series that ran for six episodes from September 19 to October 24, 1997, on the CBS television network as part of its Friday night Block Party program block; after its cancellation, seven additional episodes that were produced but left unaired in the United States were aired in some international markets (such as on Sky1 in the United Kingdom).

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Midnight Caller

Midnight Caller is an American drama television series created by Richard DiLello, which aired on NBC from October 25, 1988, to May 10, 1991.

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Midnight, Texas

Midnight, Texas is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC.

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Miss Match

Miss Match is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star and produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Darren Star Productions, and Imagine Television.

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Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)

Mission: Impossible is an American espionage television series that aired on CBS from September 1966 to March 1973, which was financed and filmed by Desilu Productions.

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Mister Sterling

Mister Sterling is an American drama television series created by Lawrence O'Donnell for NBC.

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Modern Family

Modern Family is an American sitcom television series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for ABC.

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Moonlight (American TV series)

Moonlight is an American paranormal romance television drama created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, who was also executive producer for all episodes with Joel Silver, Gerard Bocaccio, Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman.

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Mr. Belvedere

Mr.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV (stylized as myNetworkTV; unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its Fox Television Stations division, and distributed through the syndication structure of Fox First Run.

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Nashville 99

Nashville 99 is an American crime drama series that aired for 4 episodes on CBS from April 1 to April 22, 1977.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Newhart

Newhart is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from October 25, 1982, to May 21, 1990, with a total of 184 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Friday night death slot and Nielsen Media Research are television terminology.

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Numbers (TV series)

Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that originally aired on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010, with a total of six seasons consisting of 118 episodes.

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Odd Man Out (American TV series)

Odd Man Out is an American sitcom that aired on the ABC television network as a part of the TGIF lineup.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Once and Again

Once and Again is an American family drama television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999, to April 15, 2002.

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Once Upon a Time (TV series)

Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy adventure drama television series that aired for seven seasons on ABC from October 23, 2011, to May 18, 2018.

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Outlaw (TV series)

Outlaw is an American legal drama television series created by John Eisendrath that aired on NBC.

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Paramount Network

Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.

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Pasadena Star-News

The Pasadena Star-News is a paid local daily newspaper for the greater Pasadena, California area.

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Penn & Teller: Fool Us

Penn & Teller: Fool Us is a magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller.

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Perfect Strangers (TV series)

Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons, from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network.

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Pink Lady (TV series)

Pink Lady is an American variety show that aired for five weeks on NBC in 1980, starring the Japanese musical duo of the same name.

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Planet of the Apes (TV series)

Planet of the Apes is a 1974 American science fiction television series that was broadcast on CBS.

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Popular (TV series)

Popular is an American teen comedy-drama television series that aired on The WB, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls who reside on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a cruise ship and get married.

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Prison Break

Prison Break is an American drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox.

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Proven Innocent

Proven Innocent is an American legal drama television series created by David Elliot, which premiered on February 15, 2019, on Fox.

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Quantico (TV series)

Quantico is an American thriller drama television series which aired on ABC from September 27, 2015, to August 3, 2018, with 57 episodes broadcast over three seasons.

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Raising Dad

Raising Dad is an American television sitcom that aired on The WB from October 5, 2001, to May 10, 2002.

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Raising Hope

Raising Hope is an American television sitcom created by Greg Garcia that aired on Fox from September 21, 2010, to April 4, 2014.

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Rake (American TV series)

Rake is an American comedy-drama television series and an adaptation of the Australian series of the same name, both of which are created by Peter Duncan.

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Riptide (American TV series)

Riptide is an American detective television series that ran on NBC between January 3, 1984 and April 22, 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray.

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Robbery Homicide Division

Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) is an American police procedural television series that ran on CBS from September 27, 2002 to April 21, 2003, created by Barry Schindel with executive producers Michael Mann and Sandy Climan.

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Rock Center with Brian Williams

Rock Center with Brian Williams was an American weekly television newsmagazine that was broadcast on NBC from October 31, 2011 to June 21, 2013 and hosted by former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.

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Roll Out

Roll Out is an American sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973–1974 television season.

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Room 222

Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television that aired on ABC for 112 episodes, from September 17, 1969, until January 11, 1974.

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Rosewood (TV series)

Rosewood is an American police procedural drama series that aired on Fox from September 23, 2015, to April 28, 2017.

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for six seasons from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network.

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Rural purge

The "rural purge" of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the 1970–71 television season. Friday night death slot and rural purge are television terminology.

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S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)

S.W.A.T. is an American police procedural action drama television series, based on the 1975 television series and the 2003 film adaptation of the same name.

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is an American television sitcom created by Nell Scovell, based on the Archie Comics series of the same name.

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Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack is an American animated action-adventure dystopian television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.

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Sanford (TV series)

Sanford is an American sitcom television series and a sequel to the original 1972–1977 sitcom Sanford and Son.

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Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.

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Sanford Arms

Sanford Arms is an American sitcom television series produced as a spin-off and continuation of Sanford and Son, that aired on NBC from September 16 to October 14, 1977.

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Sara (1976 TV series)

Sara is a 1976 American Western television series starring Brenda Vaccaro centering on a schoolteacher in Colorado in the 1870s.

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Second Chance (2016 TV series)

Second Chance is an American science fiction crime drama television series created by Rand Ravich.

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Series finale

A series finale is the final installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a television series. Friday night death slot and series finale are television terminology.

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Serpico (TV series)

Serpico is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 24, 1976, until January 28, 1977.

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Shirley (TV series)

Shirley is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on NBC from October 26, 1979, until January 25, 1980.

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Sidekicks (TV series)

Sidekicks is a martial arts television series, a spin-off of the Walt Disney 1986 special, The Last Electric Knight.

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Sitcom

A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Friday night death slot and sitcom are television terminology.

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Sleepy Hollow (TV series)

Sleepy Hollow is an American supernatural drama television series that aired on Fox from September 16, 2013, to March 31, 2017.

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Speechless (TV series)

Speechless is an American television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 21, 2016, to April 12, 2019.

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Spencer's Pilots

Spencer's Pilots is an American adventure series that aired on CBS from September 17 to November 19, 1976.

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Standoff (TV series)

Standoff is an American drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on September 5, 2006.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise, originally titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is an American animated television series created by George Lucas.

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Step by Step (TV series)

Step by Step is an American television sitcom created by William Bickley and Michael Warren that ran on ABC as part of its TGIF Friday night lineup from September 20, 1991, to August 15, 1997, then moved to CBS, where it aired from September 19, 1997, to June 26, 1998, with a total of 160 half-hour episodes spanning seven seasons.

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Strange Luck

Strange Luck is an American television series that aired on Fox, created by Karl Schaefer and starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper who constantly stumbles into unusual situations.

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network. Friday night death slot and Streaming media are television terminology.

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Strike Force (TV series)

Strike Force is an American action-adventure/police procedural television series that aired on ABC during the 1981–1982 television season, and was produced by Aaron Spelling Productions.

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Supernatural (American TV series)

Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke.

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Surviving Suburbia

Surviving Suburbia is an American sitcom television series starring Bob Saget and Cynthia Stevenson that aired on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from April 6 to August 7, 2009.

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Switch (American TV series)

Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Television in the United States

Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States.

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (sometimes abbreviated as Terminator: TSCC or simply TSCC) is an American science fiction drama television series.

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TGIF (TV programming block)

TGIF was an American prime time television programming block that has aired on ABC at various points since the late 1980s. Friday night death slot and TGIF (TV programming block) are Friday.

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That's Life (2000 TV series)

That's Life is an American comedy-drama television series created by Diane Ruggiero, that was broadcast on CBS from October 1, 2000 to January 26, 2002.

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The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit.

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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., often referred to as just Brisco or Brisco County, is an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse.

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The Amazing Race (American TV series)

The Amazing Race is an American reality competition show in which teams of two race around the world (except the Family edition which featured 10 teams of four and was contested entirely within North and Central America).

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The Bell Telephone Hour

The Bell Telephone Hour, also known as The Telephone Hour, is a concert series broadcast on NBC Radio Network from April 29, 1940 to June 30, 1958.

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The Bernie Mac Show

The Bernie Mac Show (often shortened to Bernie Mac in syndication) is an American sitcom television series created by Larry Wilmore, that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006.

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The Blacklist

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath.

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The Book of Daniel (TV series)

The Book of Daniel is an American drama television series that was broadcast on NBC.

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The Boys (1993 TV series)

The Boys is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from August 20 until September 17, 1993.

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The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz that aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on ABC.

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The Bradys

The Bradys is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from February 9 to March 9, 1990.

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The Building (TV series)

The Building is an American sitcom television series with dramatic elements created, written by and starring Bonnie Hunt that aired on CBS from August 20 to September 17, 1993.

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The Cool Kids (TV series)

The Cool Kids is an American television sitcom created by Charlie Day and Paul Fruchbom for Fox.

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast is an American series of television specials hosted by entertainer Dean Martin and airing from 1974 to 1984.

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The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes.

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The Defenders (2010 TV series)

The Defenders is an American legal comedy-drama television series that was ordered to series by CBS for the 2010–11 television season.

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The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard is an American action comedy television series created by Gy Waldron, that was aired on CBS from January 26, 1979, to February 8, 1985, with a total of seven seasons consisting of 147 episodes.

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The Ellen Show

The Ellen Show is an American television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres that was broadcast during the 2001–02 season on CBS, airing from September 24, 2001, to January 11, 2002.

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The Ex List

The Ex List is an American comedy-drama television series based on the Israeli series The Mythological X created and written by Sigal Avin.

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The Felony Squad

The Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966, to January 31, 1969.

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The Finder (American TV series)

The Finder is an American procedural drama television series created by Hart Hanson that ran as a midseason replacement on Fox from January 12, 2012, to May 11, 2012.

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The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles.

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The Flying Nun

The Flying Nun is an American fantasy sitcom television series about a community of nuns which included one who could fly when the wind caught her cornette.

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The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)

The Ghost & Mrs.

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The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning seven seasons.

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The Golden Palace

The Golden Palace is an American sitcom television series produced as a sequel to The Golden Girls, a continuation without Bea Arthur (though she did guest star in a double episode) that aired on CBS from September 18, 1992, to May 7, 1993.

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The Good Guys (1968 TV series)

The Good Guys is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 25, 1968, to January 23, 1970.

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The Good Guys (2010 TV series)

The Good Guys is an American action comedy-drama series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective that premiered with a preview episode on Fox on May 19, 2010, and began airing regularly on June 7 of that year.

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The Goode Family

The Goode Family is an American adult animated sitcom that originally aired on ABC from May 27 to August 7, 2009.

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The Green Hornet (TV series)

The Green Hornet is an American action television series broadcast on ABC during the 1966–1967 television season, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.

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The Gregory Hines Show

The Gregory Hines Show is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS.

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The Incredible Hulk (1978 TV series)

The Incredible Hulk is an American television series based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk.

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The Jim Henson Hour

The Jim Henson Hour is an American television series that aired on NBC in 1989.

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The Job (2013 TV series)

The Job is an American reality competition television series that aired on CBS from February 8 to February 15, 2013.

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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen black-and-white one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960 (as opposed to the thirty-minute regular series, I Love Lucy).

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The Neighbors (2012 TV series)

The Neighbors is an American television science fiction sitcom that aired from September 26, 2012, to April 11, 2014, on ABC.

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The New Andy Griffith Show

The New Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on CBS in 1971 on Fridays at 8:30 ET.

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The Norm Show

The Norm Show is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from March 24, 1999, to April 6, 2001.

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The Odd Couple (1970 TV series)

The Odd Couple (titled onscreen Neil Simon's The Odd Couple) is an American sitcom television series broadcast from September 24, 1970, to March 7, 1975, on ABC.

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The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom created by Bernard Slade, which was broadcast in the United States from September 25, 1970, to March 23, 1974, on ABC.

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The Phil Silvers Show

The Phil Silvers Show, originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, is a sitcom which ran on the CBS Television Network from 1955 to 1959.

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The Phoenix (1982 TV series)

The Phoenix is an American science fiction television series starring Judson Scott which aired on ABC for about one month.

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The Popcorn Kid

The Popcorn Kid is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from March 23, 1987 to April 24, 1987.

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The Powerpuff Girls

The Powerpuff Girls is an American superhero animated television series created by animator Craig McCracken and produced by Hanna-Barbera (later Cartoon Network Studios) for Cartoon Network.

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The Return of Jezebel James

The Return of Jezebel James is an American sitcom television series, starring Parker Posey as a successful children's book editor who, unable to have children herself, asks her estranged younger sister (Lauren Ambrose) to carry her baby.

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The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network from September 13, 1974, to January 10, 1980.

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The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show that starred American pop singers Sonny Bono and Cher, who were married to each other at the time.

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The Suite Life on Deck

The Suite Life on Deck is an American teen sitcom created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan, and developed by Kallis and Pamela Eells O'Connell.

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The WB

The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).

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The Wedding Bells

The Wedding Bells is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox from March 7 to April 6, 2007.

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The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Third Watch

Third Watch is an American crime drama television series created by John Wells and Edward Allen Bernero that aired on NBC from September 23, 1999, to May 6, 2005, with a total of 132 episodes spanning over six seasons.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Time shifting

In broadcasting, time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to after the live broadcasting. Friday night death slot and time shifting are television terminology.

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Tom Wopat

Thomas Steven Wopat (born September 9, 1951) is an American actor and singer.

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Touch (American TV series)

Touch is an American drama television series that ran on Fox from January 25, 2012, to May 10, 2013.

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Trekkie

A Trekkie (A portmanteau of "Trek" and "Junkie") or Trekker is a fan of the Star Trek franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise.

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Truth Be Told (2015 TV series)

Truth Be Told, known during production as People Are Talking, is an American sitcom television series created by D. J. Nash and executive produced by D. J. Nash and Will Packer for Universal Television.

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Twins (TV series)

Twins is an American television sitcom that first aired on The WB in the United States and on CTV in Canada from September 16, 2005, to March 3, 2006.

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Two Guys and a Girl

Two Guys and a Girl (titled Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place for the first two seasons) is an American television sitcom created by Rick Wiener, Kenny Schwartz, and Danny Jacobson.

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Two of a Kind (American TV series)

Two of a Kind is an American sitcom that aired on ABC as part of the network's TGIF line-up, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in their first television series since Full House ended in 1995.

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Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta that aired on ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010.

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Uncle Buck (1990 TV series)

Uncle Buck is an American Surreal humour television series starring Kevin Meaney, based on the 1989 film of the same name.

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Undateable

Undateable is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from May 29, 2014, to January 29, 2016, and originally premiered as a mid-season replacement.

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Under Suspicion (TV series)

Under Suspicion is an American police drama television series set in Portland, Oregon.

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The United Football League (UFL) is a professional American football high-level minor league which started play in March 2024.

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Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Mysteries is an American mystery documentary television series, created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer.

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UPN

The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.

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USA Network

USA Network (or simply USA) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Utopia (2014 American TV series)

Utopia is a reality series that premiered on Fox on September 7, 2014.

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Vanished (TV series)

Vanished is an American drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox.

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Vegas (2012 TV series)

Vegas is an American period drama television series that ran on CBS from September 25, 2012 to May 10, 2013.

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Vince McMahon

Vincent Kennedy McMahon (born August 24, 1945) is an American businessman and former professional wrestling promoter.

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VR.5

VR.5 is an American science-fiction television series first broadcast on the Fox network from March 10 to May 12, 1995.

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Wanda at Large

Wanda at Large is an American sitcom starring Wanda Sykes; Sykes also created the series alongside Bruce Helford, Les Firestein, and Lance Crouther.

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WCW Thunder

WCW Thunder, or simply Thunder, is an American professional wrestling show produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) which aired on TBS Superstation from January 8, 1998 to March 21, 2001.

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Webster (TV series)

Webster is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 to May 8, 1987 and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 to March 10, 1989.

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions.

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Who Done It (Dallas)

"Who Done It" is the fourth episode of the fourth season (1980–81 season) and 58th overall of the American television series Dallas.

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Who shot J.R.?

"Who shot J.R.?" is an advertising catchphrase created in 1980 by American network CBS to promote the television soap opera Dallas.

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Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American TV series)

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (sometimes shortened to Whose Line? or WLIIA) is an American improvisational comedy television series, and is an adaptation of the British series of the same name.

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Wizards of Waverly Place

Wizards of Waverly Place is an American fantasy teen sitcom created by Todd J. Greenwald that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between October 2007 and January 2012.

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Women's Murder Club (TV series)

Women's Murder Club is an American police procedural and legal drama that aired on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008.

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Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls is a 13-episode American comedy-drama television series created by Todd Holland and Bryan Fuller.

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World Championship Wrestling

World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).

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World's Funniest

World's Funniest, formerly World's Funniest Fails, is an American reality television series produced by Dick Clark Productions and Jukin Media which made its debut on Fox on January 16, 2015.

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WWE Raw

WWE Raw, also known as Monday Night Raw or simply Raw, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE.

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WWE SmackDown

WWE SmackDown, also known as Friday Night SmackDown or simply SmackDown, is an American professional wrestling television program produced by WWE.

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Young Rock

Young Rock is an American television sitcom based upon the life of professional wrestler and actor Dwayne Johnson, also known by his ring name "The Rock".

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Zap2it

Zap2it is an American website and digital media company that provides television program listings information for areas of the United States and Canada.

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1 vs. 100 (American game show)

1 vs.

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100 episodes

In the U.S. television industry, 100 episodes is the traditional threshold for a television series to enter syndicated reruns. Friday night death slot and 100 episodes are television terminology.

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20/20 (American TV program)

20/20 (stylized as 2020) is an American television newsmagazine that has been broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978.

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2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike

From November 5, 2007 to February 12, 2008, all 12,000 film and television screenwriters of the American labor unions Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) went on strike.

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2013–14 United States network television schedule

The 2013–14 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers primetime hours from September 2013 to August 2014.

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2014–15 United States network television schedule

The 2014–15 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2014 to August 2015.

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2015–16 United States network television schedule

The 2015–16 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2015 to August 2016.

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60 Minutes II

60 Minutes II (also known as 60 Minutes Wednesday and 60 Minutes) was an American weekly primetime news magazine television program that was intended to replicate the "signature style, journalistic quality and integrity" of the original 60 Minutes series.

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8 Simple Rules

8 Simple Rules (originally 8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter) is an American television sitcom originally starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal as middle-class parents Paul and Cate Hennessy, raising their three children.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_night_death_slot

Also known as Friday evening death slot, Friday evening television, Friday night prime time, Friday night slot, Friday night television.

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