That said, I’m surprised that there are 900 episodes and nearly 840 hours. Considering most of those episodes would be about 40–45 minutes, and a decent chunk are half that length. How can it be more than 675 hours. Unless I’m missing something, either the OP is a severe understatement, or the CBR article is a severe overestimate.
One thing you might be missing is that commercial breaks used to be shorter back in the day, so TOS episodes are 50 minutes long.
But it still only brings us up to 750 hours even if all 900 episodes of Trek were 50 minutes, from TOS through the TNG era and the three animated shows.
There aren’t that many two-parters anyway, are there? I can’t imagine it would make up the difference.
My thought was that the extra few minutes of TOS episodes, the added time of two-parters counting as one, and maybe another factor or two we haven’t thought of yet would add up to account for it.
One thing you might be missing is that commercial breaks used to be shorter back in the day, so TOS episodes are 50 minutes long.
That’s very interesting, I didn’t know that.
But it still only brings us up to 750 hours even if all 900 episodes of Trek were 50 minutes, from TOS through the TNG era and the three animated shows.
Is the “900 episodes” figure counting two-parters as one episode or two?
Great question. One would hope it counts them as 2, but who knows.
There aren’t that many two-parters anyway, are there? I can’t imagine it would make up the difference.
My thought was that the extra few minutes of TOS episodes, the added time of two-parters counting as one, and maybe another factor or two we haven’t thought of yet would add up to account for it.