They’d typically still have a central cast that played a major role in every episode. For instance, on the various broadcast TV Star Trek shows the captain would almost always have a major role. I’m talking about separating things to the point that the different episode-types could have their own cast and crew and film simultaneously.
That’s what episodic tv used to do.
They’d typically still have a central cast that played a major role in every episode. For instance, on the various broadcast TV Star Trek shows the captain would almost always have a major role. I’m talking about separating things to the point that the different episode-types could have their own cast and crew and film simultaneously.
They used to do that but in the same episode. Is one of the reasons hour long shows often had an A story and B story.
It also made commercial breaks less jarring as you were already used to bouncing between stories.