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* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' occasionally has episodes that last a half-hour instead of the usual quarter-hour--two in the first season, three in the second, and four in the third (the season finale being two in a row).
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** ''[[Broly Abridged]]'' is the longest TFS movie, clocking in at a full half-hour. Originally released in two parts.
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** "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E13Potatoland Potatoland]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E8WondersOfTheDeep Wonders of the Deep]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E16KuuLeiMelody Ku'u Lei Melody]]", and "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E19SplitDecisions Split Decisions]]" run seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
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** "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E13Potatoland Potatoland]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E8WondersOfTheDeep Wonders of the Deep]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E16KuuLeiMelody Ku'u Lei Melody]]", and "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E19SplitDecisions Split Decisions]]" and "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E16NewShoes New Shoes]]" run seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
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** The GrandFinale "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (which itself is the last part of a MultiPartEpisode) is an hour-long special.
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** The GrandFinale "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (which itself is the last part of a MultiPartEpisode) is an hour-long special.44-minute-long special. It's split into two episodes in reruns, with the second part titled "Weirdmageddon 4: Somewhere in the Woods".
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** ''WesternAnimation/GooTroop'': The two-part pilot originally aired as a one-hour special.
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** ''WesternAnimation/GooTroop'': ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': The two-part pilot originally aired as a one-hour special.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multipleepisodes.episodes.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': The five-part pilot was originally aired as a two-hour movie special.
** ''WesternAnimation/GooTroop'': The two-part pilot originally aired as a one-hour special.
** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple
** ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': The five-part pilot was originally aired as a two-hour movie special.
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** The three ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody episodes were all originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication. In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
** Another ''Series/FamilyGuy'' example comes in the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "Simpsons Guy".
** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication. In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
** Another ''Series/FamilyGuy'' example comes in the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "Simpsons Guy".
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** The three ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody episodes episodes, plus the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "The Simpsons Guy", were all originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation ofmusic musical clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication. In fact, the only reason reasons this second half exists is because iswerebecause the first half main feature lasted a little longer than over a half hour half-hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not didn't want anything cut, and that FOX wanted the episode to be cut from the episode.
musical-themed as to coincide with their week-long "FOX Rocks" promotion.
**Another ''Series/FamilyGuy'' example comes The episode "Send in the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "Simpsons Guy".Stewie, Please" ran for 30 minutes without commercial interruptions.
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** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan's long-lost twin brother / author of the Journals, Stanford Pines]], originally ran without commercial breaks for a full half hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run in full, with 15 minute episodes of other shows filling out the time.
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** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle [[spoiler:Stanford Pines, Grunkle Stan's long-lost twin brother / and the author of the Journals, Stanford Pines]], Journals]], originally ran without commercial breaks commercials for a full half hour. half-hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run aired in full, with 15 minute 15-minute episodes of other shows filling out the remaining time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and other ''Peanuts'' specials originally ran in a standard 30 minute time slot including commercials, then got [[EditedForSyndication bits chopped out of them]] in order to accommodate more advertising. In more recent years they get run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by one or more unrelated ''Peanuts'' shorts to fill out the hour.
* While most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' followed the TwoShorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long, some episodes, such as "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
* While most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' followed the TwoShorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long, some episodes, such as "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and other ''Peanuts'' specials originally ran in a standard 30 minute time slot 30-minute timeslot including commercials, then got [[EditedForSyndication bits chopped out of them]] in order to accommodate more advertising. In more recent years they get run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by one or more unrelated ''Peanuts'' shorts to fill out the hour.
* While most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' followed the TwoShorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long,some episodes, such as but "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': The episode ''Queen for a Day'' in Season 1 runs, at 56 minutes, for more than twice as long as the normal 22-minutes-episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had three episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or as in the case of the latter episode, took up an hour-long block): "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had three episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or (or, as in the case of the latter episode, took up an hour-long block): "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
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* The ChristmaSpecial of ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', "Anything Can Happen At Christmas", is 60 minutes long as opposed to the usual 30 minutes the show runs for.
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* The ChristmaSpecial ChristmasSpecial of ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', "Anything Can Happen At Christmas", is 60 minutes long as opposed to the usual 30 minutes the show runs for.
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* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and the former two shows also had hour-long episodes.
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* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and the former two shows also had hour-long episodes.
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** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication.In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
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** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication. In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
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* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and these shows also had hour-long episodes.
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* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and these the former two shows also had hour-long episodes. episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' had ''Mumfie's White Christmas'' run for 23 minutes when a usual episode is ten minutes long.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' had five episodes longer than ten minutes: ''Island Adventures'', "[=BBRae=]", "The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day", "Titans Got Talent" and "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular!". While most of these were 30 minutes long, the first and third episodes were an hour in length
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had three episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or as in the case of the latter episode, took up an hour-long block): "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
* ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' had ''Mumfie's White Christmas'' run for 23 minutes when a usual episode is ten minutes long.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' had five episodes longer than ten minutes: ''Island Adventures'', "[=BBRae=]", "The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day", "Titans Got Talent" and "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular!". While most of these were 30 minutes long, the first and third episodes were an hour in length
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had three episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or as in the case of the latter episode, took up an hour-long block): "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
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* The thirteenth and final episode of ''Manga/MadeInAbyss'' was a double episode.
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When two episodes are aired back-to-back (often at the start of a new season), and are explicit in this, it does not count. Additionally, having a Pilot be of an exceptional length is common and examples of such go under ThePilot. Is commonly an element of the StockSitcomGrandFinale.
Distinct from a MultiPartEpisode in that there's a single episode, not multiple sequential episodes with a single plotline. Syndication may blur the lines between them by cutting one episode into several.
Distinct from a MultiPartEpisode in that there's a single episode, not multiple sequential episodes with a single plotline. Syndication may blur the lines between them by cutting one episode into several.
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When two episodes are aired back-to-back (often at the start of a new season), and are explicit in this, it does not count. Additionally, having a Pilot pilot episode be of an exceptional length is common common, and examples of such go under ThePilot.{{Pilot}}. Is commonly an element of the StockSitcomGrandFinale.
Distinct from a MultiPartEpisode in that there's a single episode, not multiple sequential episodes with a single plotline. Syndication may blur the lines between them by cutting one episode into several. Also related to MadeForTVMovie, if the TV movie is really a glorified special episode for an established TV series.
Distinct from a MultiPartEpisode in that there's a single episode, not multiple sequential episodes with a single plotline. Syndication may blur the lines between them by cutting one episode into several. Also related to MadeForTVMovie, if the TV movie is really a glorified special episode for an established TV series.
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** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan's twin brother/author of the journals Stanford Pines]], originally ran without commercial breaks for a full half hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run in full, with 15 minute episodes of other shows filling out the time.
** The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale is an hour-long special.
** The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale is an hour-long special.
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** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan's long-lost twin brother/author brother / author of the journals Journals, Stanford Pines]], originally ran without commercial breaks for a full half hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run in full, with 15 minute episodes of other shows filling out the time.
** The''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale GrandFinale "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (which itself is the last part of a MultiPartEpisode) is an hour-long special.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''[='=]s first story arc, "Jet Fuel Formula," lasted for a whoppin' 40 chapters, book-ending 20 half-hour episodes; Bullwinkle even remarks in the last chapter that the story's been so long, he forgotten why his and Rocky's original motives were. Rocky and Bullwinkle also engaged in another particularly lengthy arc in Season Two, "Upsidasium," which was 36 chapters, book-ending 18 half-hour episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' often has [[MultiPartEpisode sequential episodes that follow directly into each other]], but "Bismuth" and "Gem Harvest" are both double length (22-minute instead of 11-minute) episodes not broken apart by title cards or end credits.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' often has [[MultiPartEpisode sequential episodes that follow directly into each other]], but "Bismuth" and "Gem Harvest" are both double length (22-minute instead of 11-minute) episodes not broken apart by title cards or end credits. The former even has an anime-style EyeCatch for the commercial break (which the normal episodes are too short to have).
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' often has had two [[MultiPartEpisode sequential episodes that follow directly into each other]], but "Bismuth" and "Gem Harvest" are both double length episodes.(22-minute instead of 11-minute) episodes not broken apart by title cards or end credits.
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** The holiday specials ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E21DuckTheHallsAMickeyMouseChristmasSpecial Duck the Halls]]'' and ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E9TheScariestStoryEver The Scariest Story Ever]]" are each a full half-hour long.
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** The holiday specials ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E21DuckTheHallsAMickeyMouseChristmasSpecial Duck the Halls]]'' and ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E9TheScariestStoryEver The Scariest Story Ever]]" Ever]]'' are each a full half-hour long.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Potatoland}}'', part of the Disney Channel series of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' shorts, runs seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Potatoland}}'', part ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'':
** "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E13Potatoland Potatoland]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E8WondersOfTheDeep Wonders of theDisney Channel series of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' shorts, runs Deep]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E16KuuLeiMelody Ku'u Lei Melody]]", and "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E19SplitDecisions Split Decisions]]" run seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
** The holiday specials ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E21DuckTheHallsAMickeyMouseChristmasSpecial Duck the Halls]]'' and ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E9TheScariestStoryEver The Scariest Story Ever]]" are each a full half-hour long.
** "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E13Potatoland Potatoland]]", "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E8WondersOfTheDeep Wonders of the
** The holiday specials ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS3E21DuckTheHallsAMickeyMouseChristmasSpecial Duck the Halls]]'' and ''[[Recap/MickeyMouseS4E9TheScariestStoryEver The Scariest Story Ever]]" are each a full half-hour long.
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* ''WesternAnimantion/TangledTheSeries'': The episode ''Queen for a Day'' in Season 1 runs, at 56 minutes, for more than twice as long as the normal 22-minutes-episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimantion/TangledTheSeries'': ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': The episode ''Queen for a Day'' in Season 1 runs, at 56 minutes, for more than twice as long as the normal 22-minutes-episodes.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, episode 4 "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]" and the series finale, when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated that episode 4 was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, (the season premiere "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E01FirstTimeAgain First Time Again]]", episode 4 "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]" and the series finale, finale "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E16LastDayOnEarth Last Day On Earth]]"), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated that episode 4 was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, episode 4 "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]" and the series finale, when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, episode 4 "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]" and the series finale, when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it that episode 4 was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, ("[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]") and the series finale. when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, ("[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere episode 4 "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]") Here]]" and the series finale. finale, when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had a 90-minute episode ("[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]"), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had a three 90-minute episode episodes during the sixth season: the season premiere, ("[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]"), Here]]") and the series finale. when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* The GrandFinale of ''Series/LateNight with David Letterman'' ran about 5 minutes longer than usual, ending with Dave RidingOffIntoTheSunset on a horse (and implied over to CBS).
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* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had a 90-minute episode (S6E4), ("[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS06E04HeresNotHere Here's Not Here]]"), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales}}'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales}}'': ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
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* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17Threads Threads]]" runs 63 minutes rather the show's usual 45-ish. It's {{recut}} to 45 for syndicated airings.
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* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17Threads "[[Recap/StargateSG1S8E18Threads Threads]]" runs 63 minutes rather the show's usual 45-ish. It's {{recut}} to 45 for syndicated airings.
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* The Director's Cut version of episodes 21--24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trm them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive MindScrew that the series was [[MindScrewdriver actually make sense]].
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* The Director's Cut version of episodes 21--24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trm trim them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive MindScrew that the series was [[MindScrewdriver actually make sense]].
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* Inverted version: the first-season episodes of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' all lasted 50 minutes without commercials (rather than the standard 42-43 minutes), and the series switched to a standard episode run time from the second season onwards.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and other ''Peanuts'' specials originally ran in a standard 30 minute timeslot including commercials, then got [[EditedForSyndication bits chopped out of them]] in order to accomodate more advertising. In more recent years they get run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by one or more unrelated ''Peanuts'' shorts to fill out the hour.
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* ZigZagged with the first episode of ''Series/{{Alias}}'', originally broadcast 69 minutes commercial free - which works out to about a more standard 90 minute episode when commercials are added in.* The GrandFinale of ''Series/LateNight with David Letterman'' ran about 5 minutes longer than usual, ending with Dave RidingOffIntoTheSunset on a horse (and implied over to CBS).
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Sometimes, a TV show will have a special episode that lasts longer than usual.
It is especially common for {{Grand Finale}}s (especially for LongRunners), and {{Very Special Episode}}s to originally be broadcast as these longer episodes. It can also be common (in, say, the USA where programming slots are fairly strict) for both half-hours of an hour-long extended episode to have their own separate plots, so that they can be [[EditedForSyndication re-run independently]].
When two episodes are aired back-to-back (often at the start of a new season), and are explicit in this, it does not count. Additionally, having a Pilot be of an exceptional length is common and examples of such go under ThePilot. Is commonly an element of the StockSitcomGrandFinale.
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!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* The Director's Cut version of episodes 21--24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trm them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive MindScrew that the series was [[MindScrewdriver actually make sense]].
* Season 1 finale of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' (episodes 24-25) were originally aired back-to-back, and split up for reruns.
* The episodes of the 2014 anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ([[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]], particularly) has long episodes, up to 29 minutes long.
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' have several of these every year. In particular, the first episode of the year is usually two hours long.
[[AC:LiveActionTelevision]]
* ''Series/FullHouse'': "Happy Birthday, Babies" and "Michelle Rides Again" were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
* ''Series/That70sShow'': The season eight premiere, as well as the last episode were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The season eight premiere, as well as the final episode were broadcast as hour-long shows.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}''[='=]s fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth season premieres were originally hour-long episodes that were later split into half-hour two-parters for reruns; similarly, Season Seven originally had an hour-long ClipShow that was also split into a half-hour two-parter in syndication. Of course, the GrandFinale was a two hour (minus commercials) TV movie.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' was frequently having more and more hour-long episodes as the series progressed, though people were starting to complain about the frequency of them, not only because they were just going to be split into half-hour two-parters for syndication anyway, but the hour-long episodes were mostly filler that contributed nothing to the stories.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', like ''Series/{{MASH}}'' occasionally did hour-long episodes every once in a while, and they two were split into half-hour two-parters in syndication; two of these were {{Clip Show}}s, while another was the GrandFinale. As far as running time goes, all episodes originally ran for 22 minutes (which was standard practice at the time), except for, "The Yada Yada," which originally ran 26 minutes with limited commercials.
* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17Threads Threads]]" runs 63 minutes rather the show's usual 45-ish. It's {{recut}} to 45 for syndicated airings.
* ''Series/MythBusters'': The "Film/{{Jaws}} Special" (the first time Jamie and Adam hosted "Shark Week") was two hours long. Subsequent repeats on Discovery have either been split into two one-hour segments or edited down to a single hour.
* According to Bob Newhart's autobiography, the last episode of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' lasted a little longer than 30 minutes because the producers couldn't figure out what to edit without affecting the plot.
* "Once More With Feeling", the musical episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It never aired in complete form after the first time.
* Numerous series from the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise have had two-hour long episodes (as opposed to the usual hour long) that are later re-aired as two part episodes. This generally happens to series openers such as "Encounter At Farpoint" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and series finales such as "What You Leave Behind" from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', but has also happened to episodes in the middle of seasons such as "Dark Frontier" from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Numerous episodes of ''Series/DoctorWho'' have been longer than the usual episode length. The final episode of "The Trial of A Time Lord" from the classic series ran slightly longer than 25 minutes. In the new series, where episodes are normally 45 minutes in length, this can happens to episodes introducing the new Doctor, such as the Twelth Doctor's first episode "Deep Breath" and season finales such as "Journey's End", both of which ran for a full hour.
** Conversely, there was a serial in one of Patrick Troughton's seasons where the episodes all ran five minutes shorter than the usual 25 minutes.
** Not counting specials, several episodes of new ''Series/DoctorWho'' have been extra-length by five or ten minutes, most notably the Eleventh Doctor's introduction, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" and every series premiere and finale for the Twelfth Doctor. The longest episode in the revived series is the Twelfth Doctor's introduction "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]", at 76 minutes raw. On BBC America these have been shown at full-length for their first showings and cut down to an hour afterward.
* In each season of ''Series/TracyBeakerReturns'', the opening two episodes would be broadcast together into an hour long format and then split into two 30 minute episodes on later airings. This has also happened with the show's spin-off ''The Dumping Ground''. Funnily enough, it is the compilation broadcasts that ''cut'' material, while the individual episodes are aired intact.
* Season 3 of ''Series/WizardsVsAliens'' opened with its first two episodes joined together, as opposed to being broadcast separately.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' had its multi-part episodes, including its opener "Broken Spell" and the three part episode "Dark Wish" originally broadcast as extra long episodes.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' ended its hugely successful 11-year run with "One for the Road", a 98-minute episode.
* ZigZagged with the first episode of ''Series/{{Alias}}'', originally broadcast 69 minutes commercial free - which works out to about a more standard 90 minute episode when commercials are added in.* The GrandFinale of ''Series/LateNight with David Letterman'' ran about 5 minutes longer than usual, ending with Dave RidingOffIntoTheSunset on a horse (and implied over to CBS).
* The GrandFinale of ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman'' ran 12 minutes over its standard 1:03 running time.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had a 90-minute episode (S6E4), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
* Most ''Series/OddSquad'' episodes are about 11 minutes, but some episodes, especially those important to the story arc, like "Training Day" or "O is Not for Over," are double the length.
* The last two episodes of the seventh season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' were extended to run fifteen minutes (+) more compared to the previous hour-long episodes. The eighth season continues the trend, as it has only six episodes.
* Inverted version: the first-season episodes of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' all lasted 50 minutes without commercials (rather than the standard 42-43 minutes), and the series switched to a standard episode run time from the second season onwards.
* ''Series/BlackMirror'': Consider that the "episodes" are more like shows and aren't episodic, nor regular outside of the particular series of its broadcast (the year).
** ''Recap/BlackMirrorBlackMuseum'' at 70 minutes, and ''Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister'' is 75 minutes, are run as feature-length, compared to the standard for the fourth series shows (between 40 minutes and an hour).
** The third series "series finale" (the last ordered one), ''Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation'' was just short of feature at 89 minutes, compared to the about 60 minute average of series three shows.
** The 2014 Christmas movie, ''Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteChristmas'', coming in at 75 minutes (internally split into three parts that depict related story lines).
** Most of the episodes of the first two series, broadcast with ad breaks on Creator/Channel4, are 45 minutes long, but the second one, ''Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits'' is over 60.
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* The season 9 finale of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'' is over an hour longer than the previous live games had been (3 hours instead of regular 2), probably because the organizers realized that they have run late ''every time''. Before that, the season 8 finale had been 30 minutes longer than the usual episodes, but it wasn't planned to run that long (and was more than likely the final straw that led to the ''[=AcqInc=]'' regular time slot at PAX being officially extended).
* Most movies that comprise the ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' adaptation are about an hour long. Episode five and seven, however, are at least twice that, because they are so pivotal to the plot. The former [[spoiler:resolves the overarching conflict with the BigBad of the series]], while the latter [[spoiler:brings closure to the lead couple's personal arcs]].
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' episodes are normally about 5 minutes long. However, season finale episodes always run 10 to 15 minutes long. [[LampshadeHanging It's lampshaded]], as these episodes are all titled "The Longest [noun]".
* Most episodes of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' are 7 to 10 minutes long, whereas the season finales are around 30 minutes. The first of which was cut into thirds to save bandwidth.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales}}'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The three ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody episodes were all originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication.In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
** Another ''Series/FamilyGuy'' example comes in the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "Simpsons Guy".
* Starting around 2002, later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' began to run for either 40 minutes or even 50 minutes, as opposed to earlier episodes, which ran only 30 minutes.
* From 1984 to 2003, episodes of the animated ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' were four and a half minutes long. After the series ReplacedTheThemeTune in 2004, the episodes were extended to being seven minutes long. Since 2009, after the series' transition to using CGi, as opposed to the live-action scale models of the previous seasons, the episodes are now eight and three-quarter minutes long.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''[='=]s first story arc, "Jet Fuel Formula," lasted for a whoppin' 40 chapters, book-ending 20 half-hour episodes; Bullwinkle even remarks in the last chapter that the story's been so long, he forgotten why his and Rocky's original motives were. Rocky and Bullwinkle also engaged in another particularly lengthy arc in Season Two, "Upsidasium," which was 36 chapters, book-ending 18 half-hour episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Potatoland}}'', part of the Disney Channel series of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' shorts, runs seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan's twin brother/author of the journals Stanford Pines]], originally ran without commercial breaks for a full half hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run in full, with 15 minute episodes of other shows filling out the time.
** The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale is an hour-long special.
* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and other ''Peanuts'' specials originally ran in a standard 30 minute timeslot including commercials, then got [[EditedForSyndication bits chopped out of them]] in order to accomodate more advertising. In more recent years they get run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by one or more unrelated ''Peanuts'' shorts to fill out the hour.
* Another ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' short "Wonders of the Deep" is a half-hour special.
* While most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' followed the TwoShorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long, some episodes, such as "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has had two double length episodes.
* ''WesternAnimantion/TangledTheSeries'': The episode ''Queen for a Day'' in Season 1 runs, at 56 minutes, for more than twice as long as the normal 22-minutes-episodes.
* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and these shows also had hour-long episodes.
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It is especially common for {{Grand Finale}}s (especially for LongRunners), and {{Very Special Episode}}s to originally be broadcast as these longer episodes. It can also be common (in, say, the USA where programming slots are fairly strict) for both half-hours of an hour-long extended episode to have their own separate plots, so that they can be [[EditedForSyndication re-run independently]].
When two episodes are aired back-to-back (often at the start of a new season), and are explicit in this, it does not count. Additionally, having a Pilot be of an exceptional length is common and examples of such go under ThePilot. Is commonly an element of the StockSitcomGrandFinale.
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!Examples
[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* The Director's Cut version of episodes 21--24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trm them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive MindScrew that the series was [[MindScrewdriver actually make sense]].
* Season 1 finale of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' (episodes 24-25) were originally aired back-to-back, and split up for reruns.
* The episodes of the 2014 anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ([[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]], particularly) has long episodes, up to 29 minutes long.
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' have several of these every year. In particular, the first episode of the year is usually two hours long.
[[AC:LiveActionTelevision]]
* ''Series/FullHouse'': "Happy Birthday, Babies" and "Michelle Rides Again" were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
* ''Series/That70sShow'': The season eight premiere, as well as the last episode were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': The season eight premiere, as well as the final episode were broadcast as hour-long shows.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}''[='=]s fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth season premieres were originally hour-long episodes that were later split into half-hour two-parters for reruns; similarly, Season Seven originally had an hour-long ClipShow that was also split into a half-hour two-parter in syndication. Of course, the GrandFinale was a two hour (minus commercials) TV movie.
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' was frequently having more and more hour-long episodes as the series progressed, though people were starting to complain about the frequency of them, not only because they were just going to be split into half-hour two-parters for syndication anyway, but the hour-long episodes were mostly filler that contributed nothing to the stories.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', like ''Series/{{MASH}}'' occasionally did hour-long episodes every once in a while, and they two were split into half-hour two-parters in syndication; two of these were {{Clip Show}}s, while another was the GrandFinale. As far as running time goes, all episodes originally ran for 22 minutes (which was standard practice at the time), except for, "The Yada Yada," which originally ran 26 minutes with limited commercials.
* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S8E17Threads Threads]]" runs 63 minutes rather the show's usual 45-ish. It's {{recut}} to 45 for syndicated airings.
* ''Series/MythBusters'': The "Film/{{Jaws}} Special" (the first time Jamie and Adam hosted "Shark Week") was two hours long. Subsequent repeats on Discovery have either been split into two one-hour segments or edited down to a single hour.
* According to Bob Newhart's autobiography, the last episode of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' lasted a little longer than 30 minutes because the producers couldn't figure out what to edit without affecting the plot.
* "Once More With Feeling", the musical episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. It never aired in complete form after the first time.
* Numerous series from the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise have had two-hour long episodes (as opposed to the usual hour long) that are later re-aired as two part episodes. This generally happens to series openers such as "Encounter At Farpoint" from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and series finales such as "What You Leave Behind" from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', but has also happened to episodes in the middle of seasons such as "Dark Frontier" from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Numerous episodes of ''Series/DoctorWho'' have been longer than the usual episode length. The final episode of "The Trial of A Time Lord" from the classic series ran slightly longer than 25 minutes. In the new series, where episodes are normally 45 minutes in length, this can happens to episodes introducing the new Doctor, such as the Twelth Doctor's first episode "Deep Breath" and season finales such as "Journey's End", both of which ran for a full hour.
** Conversely, there was a serial in one of Patrick Troughton's seasons where the episodes all ran five minutes shorter than the usual 25 minutes.
** Not counting specials, several episodes of new ''Series/DoctorWho'' have been extra-length by five or ten minutes, most notably the Eleventh Doctor's introduction, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" and every series premiere and finale for the Twelfth Doctor. The longest episode in the revived series is the Twelfth Doctor's introduction "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]", at 76 minutes raw. On BBC America these have been shown at full-length for their first showings and cut down to an hour afterward.
* In each season of ''Series/TracyBeakerReturns'', the opening two episodes would be broadcast together into an hour long format and then split into two 30 minute episodes on later airings. This has also happened with the show's spin-off ''The Dumping Ground''. Funnily enough, it is the compilation broadcasts that ''cut'' material, while the individual episodes are aired intact.
* Season 3 of ''Series/WizardsVsAliens'' opened with its first two episodes joined together, as opposed to being broadcast separately.
* ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' had its multi-part episodes, including its opener "Broken Spell" and the three part episode "Dark Wish" originally broadcast as extra long episodes.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' ended its hugely successful 11-year run with "One for the Road", a 98-minute episode.
* ZigZagged with the first episode of ''Series/{{Alias}}'', originally broadcast 69 minutes commercial free - which works out to about a more standard 90 minute episode when commercials are added in.* The GrandFinale of ''Series/LateNight with David Letterman'' ran about 5 minutes longer than usual, ending with Dave RidingOffIntoTheSunset on a horse (and implied over to CBS).
* The GrandFinale of ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman'' ran 12 minutes over its standard 1:03 running time.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had a 90-minute episode (S6E4), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated it was extra-long to help watchers deal with [[spoiler: Glenn's]] apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
* Most ''Series/OddSquad'' episodes are about 11 minutes, but some episodes, especially those important to the story arc, like "Training Day" or "O is Not for Over," are double the length.
* The last two episodes of the seventh season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' were extended to run fifteen minutes (+) more compared to the previous hour-long episodes. The eighth season continues the trend, as it has only six episodes.
* Inverted version: the first-season episodes of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' all lasted 50 minutes without commercials (rather than the standard 42-43 minutes), and the series switched to a standard episode run time from the second season onwards.
* ''Series/BlackMirror'': Consider that the "episodes" are more like shows and aren't episodic, nor regular outside of the particular series of its broadcast (the year).
** ''Recap/BlackMirrorBlackMuseum'' at 70 minutes, and ''Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister'' is 75 minutes, are run as feature-length, compared to the standard for the fourth series shows (between 40 minutes and an hour).
** The third series "series finale" (the last ordered one), ''Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation'' was just short of feature at 89 minutes, compared to the about 60 minute average of series three shows.
** The 2014 Christmas movie, ''Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteChristmas'', coming in at 75 minutes (internally split into three parts that depict related story lines).
** Most of the episodes of the first two series, broadcast with ad breaks on Creator/Channel4, are 45 minutes long, but the second one, ''Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits'' is over 60.
[[AC:Web Original]]
* The season 9 finale of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated'' is over an hour longer than the previous live games had been (3 hours instead of regular 2), probably because the organizers realized that they have run late ''every time''. Before that, the season 8 finale had been 30 minutes longer than the usual episodes, but it wasn't planned to run that long (and was more than likely the final straw that led to the ''[=AcqInc=]'' regular time slot at PAX being officially extended).
* Most movies that comprise the ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' adaptation are about an hour long. Episode five and seven, however, are at least twice that, because they are so pivotal to the plot. The former [[spoiler:resolves the overarching conflict with the BigBad of the series]], while the latter [[spoiler:brings closure to the lead couple's personal arcs]].
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' episodes are normally about 5 minutes long. However, season finale episodes always run 10 to 15 minutes long. [[LampshadeHanging It's lampshaded]], as these episodes are all titled "The Longest [noun]".
* Most episodes of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' are 7 to 10 minutes long, whereas the season finales are around 30 minutes. The first of which was cut into thirds to save bandwidth.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales}}'': There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** The three ''Franchise/StarWars'' parody episodes were all originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
** "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of music clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication.In fact, the only reason this second half exists is because the first half lasted a little longer than a half hour and Creator/SethMacFarlane did not want anything to be cut from the episode.
** Another ''Series/FamilyGuy'' example comes in the [[{{Crossover}} crossover episode]] "Simpsons Guy".
* Starting around 2002, later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' began to run for either 40 minutes or even 50 minutes, as opposed to earlier episodes, which ran only 30 minutes.
* From 1984 to 2003, episodes of the animated ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' were four and a half minutes long. After the series ReplacedTheThemeTune in 2004, the episodes were extended to being seven minutes long. Since 2009, after the series' transition to using CGi, as opposed to the live-action scale models of the previous seasons, the episodes are now eight and three-quarter minutes long.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''[='=]s first story arc, "Jet Fuel Formula," lasted for a whoppin' 40 chapters, book-ending 20 half-hour episodes; Bullwinkle even remarks in the last chapter that the story's been so long, he forgotten why his and Rocky's original motives were. Rocky and Bullwinkle also engaged in another particularly lengthy arc in Season Two, "Upsidasium," which was 36 chapters, book-ending 18 half-hour episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Potatoland}}'', part of the Disney Channel series of ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' shorts, runs seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces [[spoiler:Grunkle Stan's twin brother/author of the journals Stanford Pines]], originally ran without commercial breaks for a full half hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is run in full, with 15 minute episodes of other shows filling out the time.
** The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale is an hour-long special.
* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' and other ''Peanuts'' specials originally ran in a standard 30 minute timeslot including commercials, then got [[EditedForSyndication bits chopped out of them]] in order to accomodate more advertising. In more recent years they get run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by one or more unrelated ''Peanuts'' shorts to fill out the hour.
* Another ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' short "Wonders of the Deep" is a half-hour special.
* While most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' followed the TwoShorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long, some episodes, such as "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has had two double length episodes.
* ''WesternAnimantion/TangledTheSeries'': The episode ''Queen for a Day'' in Season 1 runs, at 56 minutes, for more than twice as long as the normal 22-minutes-episodes.
* There are some Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven, and these shows also had hour-long episodes.
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