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Originally Posted by JLvatron
Future viewings were actually important.
For some reason, if you surpassed some magic number of episodes, like 90, then there were bigger chances of the show being rerun in syndication.
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The ?unofficial? number of episodes was actually 65, which is why the producers behind the G1 show pushed season 2 to have 49 episodes after season 1 had just 16. Networks liked a show to have a solid number of episodes to air in syndication on weekdays so that they wouldn?t have to air reruns every three weeks.
But I think Saundowaivu was probably referring to the idea that in the 80s, companies probably weren?t thinking ahead too far ahead with regards to home media releases (just imagine how many VHS tapes it would have taken to hold the entire series) and obviously not streaming shows 35 years later on an internet that didn?t exist yet
