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Friendly reminder before the 1980s and Miami Vice and 21 Jump Street TV series generally did not have episode-to-episode continuity

Dallas? The Fugitive?

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Well Dallas was the “prime time soap” (we\ufffc\ufffc were having a renaissance back with The OC by way of the FOX and WB youth dramas), soaps had nothing but continuity\ufffc, but they couldn’t run “* see issue 143!” boxes in the corner like comics so they had like, secondary reading booklets in the supermarket checkout aisle every week

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