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Barker TPIR coming to Pluto TV 12/1/20 (Confirmed)
curtking:
--- Quote from: MSTieScott on July 03, 2020, 03:38:18 PM ---I for one am looking forward to around-the-clock content recently created by the 96-year-old Barker.
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You win, sir.
tpirfan28:
--- Quote from: aaron sica on July 03, 2020, 03:33:18 PM ---Or his appearances on Feud, Tattletales and Match Game. 24/7 ad nauseum.
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Serious question: do we have any idea how much content that would be? I would imagine only about three days' worth.
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: tpirfan28 on July 04, 2020, 02:42:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: aaron sica on July 03, 2020, 03:33:18 PM ---Or his appearances on Feud, Tattletales and Match Game. 24/7 ad nauseum.
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Serious question: do we have any idea how much content that would be? I would imagine only about three days' worth.
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In the Plutoverse, that’s just right. A lot of their channels cycle through their content in way less time.
TimK2003:
It could always be a 24/7 infomerical shopping channel for the Bob Barker Company:
https://www.bobbarker.com/https://www.bobbarker.com/
Casey Buck:
Let's say hypothetically, there was a marathon of all of Bob's daytime episodes. Let's do some math:
Judging by Steve Gavazzi's season-by-season episode count that he recently posted and his FAQ, there were 6,731 episodes in TPiR's first 35 seasons. Of those, Seasons 1-3, 8 of the first 9 weeks of Season 4, 16 episodes throughout Seasons 4-7 (for CBS Magazine), plus another 6 episodes from 1984-1994 (for the Pillsbury Bakeoff) were all half hour episodes.
There were 736 episodes in Seasons 1-3. So, 736 + 40 + 16 + 6 = 798 half-hour episodes, which leaves 5,933 hour-long episodes.
798 * 22 minutes = 17,556 minutes, 292.6 hours, or 12.19 days
5933 * 42 minutes (an average of run times from 1975-2007) = 249,186 minutes, 4,153.1 hours, or 173.05 days
This means that it would take about 185 days for every Barker episode to run back-to-back with no commercials.
Of course, there's the tiny matter of converting all those tapes, which will probably take something like 25 years, at the rate they're going with Buzzr.
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