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Author: triassicranger

Nov 18th 2014 at 9:09:27 AM

[[AC:Live Action Television]]
* 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''.
* 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 toward the end of one of Patrick Troughton's seasons where the episodes all ran five minutes shorter than the usual 25 minutes. This was due to the cast becoming tired at having done a full season and Patrick Troughton had to convince whoever was in charge to keep the episodes cut down as they were all getting tired.
* 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 ''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.