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By: Jadzia-Dax (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:56:40 on Aug 31, 2004

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I think TOS was moved to Fridays for its third season. I wasn't born yet, but that's what I remember hearing.

It did. It was on other days of the week before that. Thursdays, if I remember correctly (it's been a LONG time and I know that "Batman" was on Wednesdays and Thursdays on ABC, which was wild - because of the "cliff-hangers"! LOL).

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The Miami Vice example is stretching it. I mean, you're talking about a show that came on the air about 20 years ago.

But after all these years when "everyone" had considered that day the "death slot", it bucked the trend and did incredibly well. And it also became a unexpected lead-in (after local news) of NBC's 11:30pm ET "Friday Night Videos", which became very popular - particularly in those markets that didn't have MTV.

But also note that before "Miami Vice", a couple other shows - most notably "Remington Steele" and also "Knight Rider", were on Friday nights and did well. I think it was more the fact that NBC pulled out all the stops to be "#1" and once and for all, boot ABC out of that slot. It took several years under Tartikoff, but they finally did it and stayed there for at least a decade (until CBS finally began to unseat them).

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How many shows have been seen on Friday nights since?Off the top of my head, shows that have done well on Fridays include X-Files and ABC's TGIF string of kid-friendly comedies. The rest is a blur.

"JAG" is about to start its 10th season there. "Joan of Arcadia" is apparently doing well there and if you want to look at cable, certainly Stargate SG-1 (and now Stargate Atlantis) are on Fridays.

I really do think it's alot of myth that everyone in the world is "out" on Fridays. I know myself and many others prefer to go out on Saturdays or even do "Happy Hours" during the weekdays, etc.

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On more than one occassion I've asked on these boards if my memory is correct that Quantum Leap was on Friday nights for a while. Nobody's given me an answer yet.

I am only now watching QL in re-run (as I was more of a fan of TNG back then), but from a Sci Fi Channel interview of QL creator Donald Bellasario here, yes QL WAS on Fridays, several times, where Bellasario notes as his concluding point:

"I just wanted to say that the show was originally put on Friday and we didn't want it there, so we got it moved to Wednesdays. The fans found it. They tried to move it back to Fridays. We got lost there again. We came back [to Wednesdays]. That first year, the second year, what kept us on — and it was critical — was the fans. They kept us on the air, and now we're going for year five. "

I do remember some of the entertainment media reports during the show's run and questions regarding whether it would renew, etc. And that's because by then, TNG had gone into the stratosphere with respect to ratings - not just against its own genre, but regular network dramas and even sports events, like Monday Night Football. So QL was up against some major competition with respect to TNG and even shows like Fox's "Alien Nation", etc.

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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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