Short lived shows that aired for years

[onairb]

Shows that did not even have 100 episodes.
Brady Bunch only had five seasons but ran a longtime in Syndication

Brady Bunch had (I believe) 116 episodes in those five seasons.

117, according to Wiki...which is wrong about a lot, but usually right about this kind of thing!
'Gillian's Island' just missed the century mark, with 98 episodes; there were plans for a fourth season, but we know how that turned out...

 

[Mr. Mike]

Another four-season wonder (which ran from 1985-1989 and lasted 96 episodes) was the small kind--if you know what I mean. (OK, fine. I'll give you a hint: "She's a ______ ______..." [fill in the blanks; bonus points if you can post all the lyrics].)

Here in Los Angeles, the show of which I write was rerun on KTTV channel 11, my local Fox affiliate until the end of the summer of 1996!

BTW, the first two seasons are on DVD.

The show you're referring to is Small Wonder, and I remember it airing on KPLR Channel 11 in my hometown on Saturday evenings in the latter part of the 1980s, and then airing weekday afternoons in the 1990s as well.

As for the rest of the lyrics, I don't have them right now.

 

[Limp73]

Shows that did not even have 100 episodes.

There's a lot of shows that fit into that category. "Gilligan's Island" and "Star Trek" each ran for three seasons -- and those three season's worth of episodes were then reran constantly for two decades.

"The Munsters", "The Adams Family", and "F Troop" all originally ran for two seasons -- and stayed in syndication for a long time, as well. On the drama side, "The Outer Limits" and "The Invaders" each ran for 1 1/2 seasons, and still managed to stay around in reruns for years.

The original version of "Battlestar Galactica" ran one season -- and that single season was sold into syndication and reran intermittently for most of a decade.

I'm sure others here can cite other examples, but those are the ones that come to my mind quickly.

Just goes to show that family-freindly shows as such have longentivity...in spite of what Cleveland Amory,Judith Crist in TV Guide and the like said with much arrogance and negativity...I might as well also consider the A.C. Nielsen folks (who never offered my parents one of their "people meters" back then) equally as snoobish,but hey...people who punch a clock for a living to raise their children in a safe enviroment have no credibility.

 

[cowboybud]

Shows that did not even have 100 episodes.
Brady Bunch only had five seasons but ran a longtime in Syndication

Brady Bunch had (I believe) 116 episodes in those five seasons.

117, according to Wiki...which is wrong about a lot, but usually right about this kind of thing!
'Gillian's Island' just missed the century mark, with 98 episodes; there were plans for a fourth season, but we know how that turned out...

117 episodes (116 plus the pilot) according to the episode guide in Barry Williams' book.

 

[Ultimajock]

...and then there's one instance where even the producers and participants in the show didn't know it was being rerun: The Bay City Rollers Show. Starting in October 1978, Sid & Marty Krofft aired half-hour edits of their eight-episode Krofft Superstar Hour over NBC on Saturday mornings, extending the 13-week run of new episodes to what they thought was a 13-month run under the Bay City Rollers title, ending on 28 November 1979. Thing was, starting in December 1979 NBC kept feeding the show to affiliates for a half hour before the official Saturday morning schedule start time of 7:00 AM, and many affiliates took the feed and aired it as late as 1982, according to the show's chief writer, Mark Evanier, who caught one of those late screenings on a trip to Birmingham, Alabama, that year. The bizarre thing was, NBC never let the Kroffts, or the Bay City Rollers for that matter, know the show was being aired later than Thanksgiving Weekend of 1979; in fact, by the terms of their contract with the Kroffts, NBC didn't even have the right to run the show that late in the first place. (Apparently, either KNBC/4 Los Angeles itself didn't take the feed, or they did but the Kroffts didn't wake up on Saturday mornings until sometime after 7:00 AM)...