[hole_n_one]

Remember in the old days when you watched tv shows such as Mannix, Cannon, Barnaby Jones and Columbo, each episode had a beginning, a middle and an end.

There was very little plot carry over from one episode to the next. You could miss 2 episodes and watch the next episode without having to rely on what had happened in the previous two episodes.

Now, most tv shows have multiple story lines that carry over from one episode to the next with little if any resolution. If the show gets cancelled prematurely, you are left with no closure and a bunch of open, unresolved plot lines

Try watching the series Lost with a missing episode.

You will be Lost.

....and we didn't have those new fangled DVR's.
We watched the show when it was on...with all the commercials.
and that's the way it was...
and we liked it!

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, you’re right. Now you skip a single show and five characters are lost and another five have been added.

As for soaps, in the old days you could miss a daytime series for months at a time, and the first show you viewed after that period, you picked it right up seemingly where you left off. I can remember looking in on the show as much as five years later, and still knew most of the characters.

My grandmother liked a couple of them. As the World Turns and the Edge of Night. LOL

Some of those early SNL guys were excellent comedians.

I still miss Garric Morris. Chico Esquela... or something close to that. The Dominican baseball player character.

[LouieFisk]

“There was very little plot carry over from one episode to the next. You could miss 2 episodes and watch the next episode without having to rely on what had happened in the previous two episodes.”
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Yup.

“Columbo”
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Still one of my favorites.