Episodes Canceled/Altered/Postponed Due to World Events

[Stanislav]

I was working on a transcript of that 1/2 hour recently, and this is the appoximate sequence of events as televised (times are approximate, based on watching a web video of the episode):

1:30:00 – Opening theme and intro to ATWT

...

1:42:00 – ATWT Bumper, “Route 66” promo, CBS “Eye” logo ID

1:42:30 – 30-second local break (network feed dark)

1:43:00 – ATWT Bumper...

I find it unusual that they went to a station break 12 minutes into the program, instead of the standard periods at the hour and half-hour. For a half-hour soap like ATWT (at the time), I thought they wouldn't throw it to stations until the show was over.

Well, that wasn't a full-fledged "station break" with local ID and such like you would have on the hour and half-hour. I think it was fairly common for there to be one or two 30-second slots during a network show (maybe one in a half-hour show, two in an hour) for affiliates to run local advertising.

 

[tlyle]

It is amazing that they could even tell a story in 15 minutes as it takes now 1 hour (I know commercials are included). I would imagine that they probably filmed 12 minutes at that time and had 3 minutes for commercials.