60 Episode Seasons

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wierschb

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Are there still shows with 60+ episode seasons? I remember as a kid that shows like Batman, Animaniacs, Power Rangers, etc had 60 episode seasons.
 
I do not believe so. I have little knowledge on the subject, but I believe that syndication may have had some role in the larger seasons that you’ve described. I am sure others could speak more clearly on the subject, as I know next to nothing about syndication, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t as common in this day and age as it used to be.

The largest season order that I’ve seen in recent years is the second season of “Yin Yang Yo!”, which contains 39 episodes.
 
60 to 65 episode seasons were a product of syndication, when a show had to be on five days a week for several months without too many reruns. Nowadays, the standard seems to be a 13 episode season that gets rerun to death within two months.
 
The rule was 13 episodes a season for a weekly Saturday morning series and 65 episodes a season for weekday syndicated series. Either way, it's 13 weeks of new episodes.
 
I believe the last American made animated show to get a truly large season was Lilo & Stitch at 39 episodes (for the first season, S2 got 26 additional eps), and that was probably because it was intended to be on Disney's syndicated One Too block before it got axed and L&S was moved over to Disney Channel.

The odd things about syndication is that a lot of shows got 65 episode orders that built up over several seasons:

G.I. Joe: The two original 5 episode mini series, then a 55 episode addtion afterwards. (then 30 additional episodes, plus the movie)

Teeanage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The original 5 part mini, a 13 ep second season, and 47 episodes for it's 3rd year. (After that, it moved to CBS as well as got a 15 episode 4th syndicated season)
 
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