# Have there been any weekly scripted TV show with a 52 week season?

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**Created:** [July 3, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-weekly-scripted-tv-show-with-a-52-week-season/967335 "2022-07-03T05:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\
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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman aired 5 days a week for a year and a half with no breaks. 325 episodes.

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It was a soap opera.

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-been-any-weekly-scripted-tv-show-with-a-52-week-season/967335/23 "2022-07-07T02:44:58Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> If close is good enough to be interesting, _[Anger Management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger_Management_(TV_series))_ (which I never watched) _might_ count. It had an unusual arrangement in which if the first ten-episode order was successful enough, the network would pick it up for a further ninety episodes, which aired over two years, or about 45 episodes each year, though some nights more than one episode aired.

This was what I came in here for. A truly unusual arrangement and also astounding. Ask most folks how many episodes of “Anger Management” there were. They’d guess “I dunno, 20?”.

They made 100 and they aired very rapidly. It’s kind of incredible.

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