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How many hours?

  • 14-04-2006 7:42pm
    #1
    Pigman II
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    Bit of an odd request here but does anyone here know if there's a website out there that can tell me (for any given show) HOW MANY HOURS of the show in total have actually been produced?

    eg for "Star Trek the Next Generation" 178 episodes x 44mins = 131hours
    or "Lost" 43(?) episodes x 44(?)mins = 31hours
    or "Batman The Animated Series" 85 episodes x 22mins = 31hours etc etc

    Ideally something that was just a single page A to Z list of the show title and beside it Total Hours would be what I'm looking for.

    BTW doesn't have to have currently running shows either. I'm mainly interested in shows that have been cancelled and their totals.


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  • #2
    John R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,107 ✭✭✭John R


    I doubt there will be a website with them all listed like that.

    IMDB gives the number of episodes on the details page of most shows

    http:www.epguides.com also has the total number of episodes.

    You could roughly work out how many hours in total from that. US Network shows are about 40-42mns long now. They are getting shorter though, 10 years ago 42-45mns would have been the norm.

    Also bear in mind that they are about 1m30sec shorter here than in the US due to the standards conversion.

    any particular reason you're looking for that info?


  • #3
    irlrobins
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    John R wrote:
    Also bear in mind that they are about 1m30sec shorter here than in the US due to the standards conversion.
    I don't understand what you mean by this.


  • #4
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    He's talking about frame rates I reckon?

    In America they use only 24frames per second (whereas we use 25 frames per second) so when we watch tv or a movie from there it actually sped up and takes ((25/24 * 100) - 100) = 4% less time for us to get thru it. Interesting this also increases the pitch of the voices of the actors too :)

    (^^ don't quote me on that btw. It's all from very sketchy memory)

    JohnR. No real reason for wanting to get these figures. Just compiling a list of old shows I used to watch and was looking for hour-totals.
    Thanks for www.epguides.com btw. Not exactly what I wanted but certainly not as unwieldly as tv.com


  • #5
    irlrobins
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    wow, never knew that. Interesting. Guess it's true, American's don't think as fast as we do! :p


  • #6
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    ...... America uses 29.97 Drop Frame for TV, We use 25 frame for TV, and we both use 24 frames for Film....

    John


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