Why does TNT keep skipping certain episodes in syndication? Every rerun cycle skips episode 2.10, 3.10, 4.10, and 5.10...weird!

-- Steve Bittle (srbst27+@pitt.edu), February 08, 2000

Answers

I'm just taking a guess because I have the episodes on tape and don't watch TNT anymore, but they may be skipping the Christmas episodes. Last year they ran all those during Christmas week.

-- Phyl (erfan@flash.net), February 08, 2000.

It is irritating that they do that, I e-mailed TNT last year with exactly that question and I actually got an answer!! They said that certain [?] holiday episodes are only shown when it is "time appropriate." I wish they would just stick with the order. My tape collection is complete except for 310 and 410. Phyl says TNT showed those episodes during the last Christmas season, I don't know how I missed that.

-- Jim Constable (thedude1@mindspring.com), February 09, 2000.

They did show all Christmas episodes (except the current season) towards the end of this past December. Also, it used to be that a show in syndication could not show a particular episode unless that episode has already been shown as a "repeat" on the network station. There are still a handful of episodes which have never been repeated on NBC, so that might be why you do not see them on TNT.

-- John Doe (jdoe@msn.com), February 10, 2000.

yeah this christmas jumping really is annoying. I just was catching up on season (s) that I've missed, as I just recently found ER. And they skipped the christmas episode and I missed a lot of essential stuff. I wish they would stick to the schedule as well.

-- chris (cdbragg@hotmail.com), February 12, 2000.