Sometimes, a TV show will have a special episode that lasts longer than usual.
It is especially common for Grand Finales (especially for Long-Runners), double-length premieres, and Very Special Episodes to originally be broadcast as these longer episodes. It can also be common (in, say, the USA where programming slots are fairly strict) for both half-hours of an hour-long extended episode to have their own separate plots, so that they can be re-run independently.
When two episodes are aired back-to-back (often at the start of a new season), and are explicit in this, it does not count. Additionally, having a pilot episode be of an exceptional length is common, and examples of such go under Pilot. Is commonly an element of the Stock Sitcom Grand Finale, as well as the Finale Production Upgrade.
Distinct from a Multi-Part Episode in that there's a single episode, not multiple sequential episodes with a single plotline. Syndication may blur the lines between them by cutting one episode into several. Also related to Made-for-TV Movie, if the TV movie is really a glorified special episode for an established TV series.
Compare Inconsistent Episode Lengths, where some episodes are longer than others, but there is no standard length. For the video game equivalent, see Prolonged Video Game Sequel (for whole games) and Marathon Level (for specific levels). For music examples, see Longest Song Goes First and Longest Song Goes Last.
Examples:
- In Ace Attorney (2016), the thirteenth episode of the second season, an adaptation of the first case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, is twice as long as other episodes.
- Astra Lost in Space was double length for its first and last episodes.
- The Grand Finale of Attack on Titan was initially released in the anime as two 60-minute episodes, each adapting the final two volumes of the manga.
- The final episode of the anime adaptation of Banana Fish ran for forty minutes instead of the usual 20-or-so minutes.
- Blood Blockade Battlefront ends with a double-length episode.
- Case Closed have several of these every year. In particular, the first episode of the year is usually two hours long.
- Chitose Is In The Ramune Bottle premiered its anime adaptation with a 50 minute long episode, although the anime episode itself was actually 34 minutes long (still ten minutes more than a normal episode). The remaining runtime switched to a live action segment where two of the female characters' voice actresses, Ikumi Hasegawa and Rumi Ōkubo, did a food tour of the story's setting of Fukui City to promote local restaurants. That segment itself was also a specially edited and shortened version of a fuller episode of the tour on Kadokawa's Youtube channel.
- CITY: The Animation has its episodes last an average of 26 and a half minutes long, which is about 3 minutes longer than usual anime episode runtimes. Episode 5 gets special mention for breaking the 28 minute mark, and for also having a special credits sequence that tells its own story.
- The season 1 finale of Code Geass (episodes 24-25) were originally aired back-to-back, and split up for reruns.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba's anime adaptation started doing this regularly for its season premiers and finales beginning with the second season:
- Season 2: Red Light District, had a premier with a double length of 47 minutes, while its finale was 33 minutes long, roughly ten minutes longer than usual.
- Season 3: Swordsmith Village, repeated this with its premier being a double length 47-minute episode and its finale being even longer with a whopping 52 minute runtime.
- Season 4: Hashira Training, would reuse the 52 minute runtime again for its premier episode. Its second-to-last episode was 34 minutes long, while its finale was 40 minutes long.
- The Detective is Already Dead has a double-length premier episode which rearranges some scenes to emphasize how much Siesta meant to Kimi before her death.
- Fate/Zero's first episode is a double-length episode of 45 minutes long. The next Fate TV series, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], has three double episodes: Episode 0(the prologue from Rin's POV), Episode 1(the same events from Shirou's POV), and Episode 12.
- Fullmetal Alchemist started publishing very long chapters as it approached the end of the story, with page counts surpassing the triple digit mark (as opposed to its more typical 40-page long chapters), so that the manga would be able to end in the same month that its anime adaptation Brotherhood ended, and also end at 108 chapters. Because of this, the 27th and final manga volume only has the final two chapters, despite having a similar page count to other volumes.
- Most movies that comprise the The Garden of Sinners adaptation are about an hour long. Episode five and seven, however, are at least twice that, because they are so pivotal to the plot. The former resolves the overarching conflict with the Big Bad of the series, while the latter brings closure to the lead couple's personal arcs.
- The first episode of Great Teacher Onizuka is 48 minutes long, almost twice the length of all the other episodes.
- High School D×D New episodes run 27 minutes, three minutes longer than the usual TV anime episode length.
- Inuyasha had three double-length episodes that would be split into two-parters marked as "Part I/Part II" later: "The Woman Who Loved Sesshomaru", "The Tragic Love Song Of Destiny", and the original finale "The Bond Between Them, Use The Sacred Jewel Shard!". (The full-length versions would be used for home media and streaming.)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Stardust Crusaders: The anime has long episodes, up to 29 minutes long.
- Steel Ball Run: The anime's first episode is at a 47-minute-long length.
- Kimi ni Todoke's third season consisted of 5 episodes that were an hour long each.
- The season 1 finale of Made in Abyss was a double episode. The same thing happened with its second season finale.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion:
- The Director's Cut version of episodes 21—24 are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trim them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive Mind Screw that the series was actually make sense.
- 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time, the final entry in the Rebuild of Evangelion series (as well as the Grand Finale for Evangelion as a whole), has the distinction of being the fourth longest anime film ever released, clocking in at 155 minutesnote .
- The finale of Orange was a double episode.
- The first episode of Oshi no Ko is more akin to a feature-length film at a whopping 82 minutes long. This is intentionally done so that Ai's death occurs at the end of the first episode.
- Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World's anime adaptation had its second season skip the opening and ending themes for five episodes in a row from episodes 7 to 11, meaning almost half the season had episodes that were 24-25 minutes long. It would not be until the season finale when the OP and ED finally played again.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: "Les Diaboliques", "Panty and Stocking: Homecoming" and "The Angel Brothers Appear" all abandon the Two Shorts format in favor of being a single 24-minute episode.
- All 8 episodes of Psycho-Pass 3 are 40-45 minutes long.
- The Rascal Does Not Dream anime's second season has its ED sequences lasting only 1 minute long instead of the industry standard of 90 seconds, which allows each of its episodes to be 30 seconds longer than normal.
- The first episode of Re:Zero was double-length. For the rest of the series, the show had many instances where either the OP or ED sequence (or both) was skipped, allowing the studio to squeeze additional time into the episodes, and in some instances even commercial breaks were skipped. This allowed for many episodes to have runtimes that were closer to 26-27 minutes long (vs. the typical 21-23 minutes a normal anime series would get). In what must be some kind of record, the last ten episodes of Season 2 were all over 29 minutes long. The third season opened with a 90 minute long premier, which is long enough to qualify as a theatrical movie, and its seventh and twelfth episodes were also 29 and 28 minutes long, respectively.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero's anime adaptation starts with a double-length episode.
- Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu had a double-length first episode.
- The second season of Sound! Euphonium begins with a double-length episode.
- The premiere episode of Stitch! ~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~ (the show's second season) originally broadcast as a regular-length episode, but it received an extended version for the DVD release, which made it twice as long as nearly any other episode of that show. Interestingly, the international edit (which the English dub uses) used the extended version as basis for the re-version, albeit splitting it into two parts. Sadly, Disney+ in Japan and Singapore uses the original Japanese broadcast version instead of the extended version on the streaming service.
- Sword Art Online: Alicization started off with a double-length episode.
- Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō: The anime adaptation premiered with a 53 minute long episode.
- Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee had a first chapter that was much longer than most of the monthly chapters (which are obviously longer than their weekly counterparts), since it tells the story of how Lag met Gauche when the latter brought him to live with his aunt in Cambel Litus. The anime adaptation had to split it into two episodes.
- Warlords of Sigrdrifa debuted with a 45 minute long episode.
- The Season 6 finale of Flower Angel is a downplayed example, being only three minutes longer than the standard 13 minutes.
- The first two episodes of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi's Animated Adaptation, both parts of a Multi-Part Episode, are 35 minutes long rather than the standard 20 to 25 minutes.
- Big Finish Doctor Who: When flagship releases came out on a monthly basis, most stories were an average of 100 minutes in length. Some go over this, as suits the story, and a few, such as "The Acheron Pulse" and "Year of the Pig", significantly break the limit. Then, there's "Zagreus", which is four hours long. The only stories which beat it are UNIT: Dominion (a few minutes longer) and "Hooklight" (two more hours longer), and neither has the excuse of being a Milestone Celebration.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The penultimate chapter is by far the lengthiest chapter of the story.
- Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K:
- Most episodes in Season 1 are around 20–30 minutes long. The Season 1 finale "Dark Horizons" is nearly 50 minutes long minus the after-episode commentary. This is also the episode where nearly all the Season 1 storylines converge and sets up the Battle of Axum, which becomes the main focus for Seasons 2–3.
- The series has very Inconsistent Episode Lengths, though by late Season 2 to early Season 3, episodes normally range somewhere between 1–2 hours with the exception of multi-parters which are usually 20–50 minutes long for each part. "The Lords of Catastrophe", however, is over three hours in length, making it by far the longest single episode out of the entire series. This episode is also rather significant as it resolves several plot threads and cliffhangers from previous episodes.
- Avengers: Endgame: Clocking in at a little over three hours long, this is the longest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date (as of its release date of 2019, in comparison to the twenty-two films that came before it) and has the epicness to match. It's even the longest theatrically released superhero film by length barring extended cuts and streaming, and, more impressively, the longest film ever released by Disney.
- In the DC Extended Universe, Zack Snyder's films are the longest by far. The extended version of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice clocks in at three hours and three minutes, and Zack Snyder's Justice League clocks in at a length of 242 minutes — four hours and two minutes.
- At 125 minutes in total running time, Godzilla: Final Wars was by far the longest Japanese Godzilla movie ever made at the time, when none exceeded 110 minutes (since then, Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One have almost equaled it in length). Not too surprising, considering this was 50th anniversary Milestone Celebration depicting a massive Boss Rush where Godzilla rematches most of his Showa Era rogues' gallery in rapid succession.
- Jurassic Park: Inverted. All of the movies in the series run over 120 minutes, except for Jurassic Park III, which is only 92 minutes total.
- Kaamelott: Second Installment - Part I is 20 minutes longer than Kaamelott: First Installment, and it's only the first part of Second Installment.
- The films of the Mission: Impossible series used to average 120 minutes (2 hours), give or take 10 minutes. That changed with Fallout, which is 147 minutes long. Dead Reckoning further upped the ante with 163 minutes. The Final Reckoning even goes the extra mile with 171 minutes.
- The standard running time for a James Bond film is around 120 minutes.
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service clocked in at 140 minutes, the longest of the pre-Daniel Craig films.
- Licence to Kill and Die Another Day both reached 133 minutes. Both happened to be the finale for their actor, respectively Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.
- The Daniel Craig era broke the previous runtime thresholds with Casino Royale (144 minutes), Skyfall (143 minutes), Spectre (148 minutes) and the longest Bond movie ever, No Time to Die (163 minutes), which is Craig's Grand Finale in the role. The only anomaly is Quantum of Solace, an extra-short episode (the shortest Bond movie ever, at 106 minutes).
- The New Adventures of Tarzan: While most Film Serials of the studio era consisted of individual episodes that were roughly 20 minutes long, the first episode of this serial runs for a full hour. The reason is the first episode was designed to serve as the basis of a stand-alone feature film for movie theaters that preferred to run a feature instead of a serial.
- Many of the novels of Charles Dickens and other 19th century authors were published in monthly installments of three or four chapters. These novels ended with an extra-long installment known as a "double number," giving the author space to wrap up all the subplots.
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades: As noted by the translator on Twitter
, Volume 10 is at least half-again as long most other books in the series, due to the amount of material that it had to wrap up to conclude Year 3 (which itself is four volumes in length instead of the usual three): the seniors' Tournament Arc concludes in a rematch between Godfrey and Echevalria, the election for Student Council President takes place, the surviving seventh-year cast members graduate from Kimberly, Oliver and Nanao reconcile after the end of volume 9 and finally become a couple, and Oliver assassinates Demitrio Aristides in our first-ever look at a Duel to the Death between two Spellblade wielders (the chapter that contains this is half the book's length all by itself).
- Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Volume IX is enormous compared to the rest of the series, with its English translation clocking in at a whopping 360 pages long (all other volumes average out to around 200 to 250 pages; the second longest, Volume III, still falls short at 336 pages). This is because it was originally meant to be the Grand Finale of the series, but AGGO had proven so popular it ended up continuing past that point.
By Creator:
- Kurt Sutter became notorious for this during the run of Sons of Anarchy with episodes runtimes being "however much script Kurt wrote" by the end, typically as mush as 40 minutes over its original hour. He has continued this with his series Mayans M.C., with no episode confined to a typical hour timeslot.
- FX seems to encourage this across its series, with episodes of American Horror Story running typically anywhere from five to 15 minutes over and ditto The Americans.
By Series:
- 30 Rock has "100", "Hey Baby, What's Wrong?", and "Hogcock/Last Lunch", which all aired in an hour-long timeslot as opposed to the usual half-hour, and all got split into two for syndication.
- Zig-Zagged with the first episode of Alias, originally broadcast 69 minutes commercial free - which works out to about a more standard 90 minute episode when commercials are added in.
- The Barnaby Jones Vacation Episode "Nightmare In Hawaii" was a double-length episode.(Shown in syndication in two parts.
- The Better Call Saul finale "Saul Gone" is 70 minutes long, making it by far the longest episode from both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad (not counting the feature-length epilogue film, El Camino), which otherwise range between 47-58 minutes in length.
- Beverly Hills, 90210 would have two hour long episodes for its season finales.
- Birds of a Feather (1989) had eight episodes which ran over the normal episode length (about 30 minutes during the BBC run and 22 minutes during the ITV run) for the show. These were typically Christmas Episodes, with the longest one being the 1990 one ("Falling in Love Again") at 75 minutes.
- Black Mirror: Consider that the "episodes" are more like shows and aren't episodic, nor regular outside of the particular series of its broadcast (the year).
- "Black Museum", at 70 minutes, and "USS Callister", at 75 minutes, are run as feature-length, compared to the standard for the fourth series shows (between 40 minutes and an hour).
- The third series "series finale" (the last ordered one), "Hated in the Nation", was just short of feature at 89 minutes, compared to the about 60 minute average of series three shows.
- The 2014 Christmas movie, "White Christmas", came in at 75 minutes (internally split into three parts that depict related story lines).
- Most of the episodes of the first two series, broadcast with ad breaks on Channel 4, are 45 minutes long, but the second one, "Fifteen Million Merits", is over 60.
- "Once More With Feeling", the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It never aired in complete form after the first time.
- Cheers ended its hugely successful 11-year run with "One for the Road", a 98-minute episode.
- Crocodile Hunter had a 90-minute special, fittingly titled "Steve's Story (Special Edition)", and a 3-hour Grand Finale, "Steve's Last Adventure''.
- Doctor Who:
- Inverted with "The Mind Robber": all five episodes ran five minutes shorter than the usual 25. It was made at the end of the fifth season's production block, by which point the show had been in production for 46 consecutive weeks. Lead actor Patrick Troughton was already exhausted, and then found out the first episode of the serial was a Bottle Episode only featuring the three regulars, which was too much for him. He made his feelings known to the production team and the scripts were edited down out of sympathy for him.
- "Resurrection of the Daleks" was produced as the usual four 25-minute episodes, but due to The BBC's coverage of the 1984 Olympic Games making it difficult to air the story in its usual slots, it was instead put out as two 45-minute episodes (reruns and most home media releases use the four-part version). The next season of the show switched to having 45 minutes as the standard episode length. For the season after that, when the show returned from hiatus, the episode length switched back to 25 minutes.
- Part two of "The Ultimate Foe" clocks in at half an hour, rather than the usual 25 minutes, owed to producer John Nathan-Turner finding it too difficult to truncate it to a conventional length even after cutting down the even longer first draft.
- Not counting the specials (the final Tenth Doctor stories, the Christmas shows, etc.), several episodes of the new series have been extra-length by five to thirty minutes, most notably the Eleventh Doctor's first and last episodes, "The Eleventh Hour" and "The Time of the Doctor", and every series premiere and finale for the Twelfth Doctor. The longest episode in the revived series is the Thirteenth Doctor's finale, "The Power of the Doctor", at 87 minutes raw. While BBC America's usual policy is to show such episodes at full-length for their premieres and cut them down to 45 minutes afterward, "Deep Breath", "Hell Bent" and "The Doctor Falls" are skipped because such edits would make them too hard to follow, which in conjunction with all of his Christmas episodes being skipped leaves many major plot points of Twelve's tenure unresolved in the standard rerun rotation.
- The longest single episode of Doctor Who to date is not the TV movie as one might assume. It's the 20th anniversary special, "The Five Doctors", which clocks in at 90 minutes, just barely beating the movie's 89 minutes.
- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman would occasionally have two hour long episodes during sweeps periods (November, February, May).
- Downton Abbey: regular episodes were 60 minutes (including commercials) but the season premieres and finales were 90 minutes and the Christmas specials were two hours.
- Easy is a half-hour anthology series whose episodes usually run anywhere from twenty-seven to thirty-three minutes long. Season 3's "Swipe Left", however, is a full fifty-two minutes—and the final installment of one of the show's longest-running recurring arcs—half of which is dedicated to one very long conversation that Kyle and Andi have in a bar about the state of their marriage.
- ERs first and final episodes were two hours long.
- The Expanse has a Grand Finale that clocks in at over 60 minutes, unlike the usual ~45 minute length.
- Friends has several "supersized" 40 minute episodes, which led NBC to create quick Thursday Night Live episodes to fill the remainder of the timeslot. Beginning with the end of the fourth season, they also started turning out hour long episodes for the season finales.
- Inverted version: the first-season episodes of Fringe all lasted 50 minutes without commercials (rather than the standard 42-43 minutes), and the series switched to a standard episode run time from the second season onward.
- Full House: "Happy Birthday, Babies" and "Michelle Rides Again" were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
- The last two episodes of the seventh season of Game of Thrones were extended to run fifteen minutes (+) more compared to the previous hour-long episodes. The eighth season continued the trend, as it had only six episodes.
- Glee: Season 2 episode 18, "Born This Way", is 58 minutes long and originally aired on TV for 90 minutes including commercials.
- How I Met Your Mother: The season eight premiere, as well as the final episode were broadcast as hour-long shows.
- For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the series I Survived aired a 90-minute commercial-less episode featuring survivors of the attacks.
- Jejak Suara Adzan episodes usually run for about 36 minutes, never passing the 40-minutes mark, but the finale run for 49 minutes instead.
- The Grand Finale of Late Night with David Letterman ran about 5 minutes longer than usual, ending with Dave Riding into the Sunset on a horse (and implied over to CBS).
- The Grand Finale of The Late Show with David Letterman ran 12 minutes over its standard 1:03 running time.
- Llan-ar-goll-en has a Christmas Episode ("Ceirw Coll Siôn Corn") that is 26 minutes long, while the other episodes are only 12–14 minutes long approx. This could also a likely explanation for why there are only 51 episodes of the show instead of 52, although the Christmas special doesn't air separated into two parts.
- M*A*S*H's fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth season premieres were originally hour-long episodes that were later split into half-hour two-parters for reruns; similarly, Season Seven originally had an hour-long Clip Show that was also split into a half-hour two-parter in syndication. Of course, the Grand Finale was a two hour (minus commercials) TV movie.
- The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour is this for both Match Game and The Hollywood Squares, being an hour-long combination of both series. Even Buzzr considers it this, as when they added the show, they said that it added more Match Game episodes to the network's library.
- MythBusters: The "Jaws 1 Special" (the first time Jamie and Adam hosted "Shark Week") was two hours long. Subsequent repeats on Discovery have either been split into two one-hour segments or edited down to a single hour.
- According to Bob Newhart's autobiography, the last episode of Newhart lasted a little longer than 30 minutes because the producers couldn't figure out what to edit without affecting the plot.
- The Noddy Shop's Christmas Special, "Anything Can Happen At Christmas", is 60 minutes long as opposed to the usual 30 minutes the show runs for.
- Most Odd Squad episodes are about 11 minutes, but some episodes, especially those important to the story arc, like "Training Day" or "O is Not for Over", are double the length.
- The Office (US) started out slowly with this, with the season 2 finale "Casino Night" running a few minutes longer than normal (a format that came to be called a "super-sized" episode) and its first hour-long episode ("A Benihana Christmas") early in season 3. By the end of that season and the start of season 4, the super-sized and hour-long episodes started coming in hot and heavy. The first four episodes of season 4 were hour-long ones, and the next few seasons had multiple cases, to the point that people were starting to complain about the frequency of them, not only because they were just going to be split into half-hour two-parters for syndication anyway, but the hour-long episodes were mostly filler that contributed nothing to the stories. Seemingly in response, season 8 had zero extended episodes, but the final stretch of season 9 (the show's last season) included three hour-longs and the 75-minute Grand Finale.
- One Foot in the Grave had several: it was a given that the Christmas specials would be extended (the 1994 special One Foot In the Algarve is so long, it's effectively a Made-for-TV Movie). Even "The Man Who Blew Away", which was intended as a regular episode but which aired on Christmas Day, was extended to 40 minutes (the first ten minutes are basically a self-contained mini-episode before the main plot starts). The Grand Finale episode was also extended to 40 minutes, but in addition, every episode in the final series overran its official half-hour slot.
- Power Rangers Mystic Force had its multi-part episodes, including its opener "Broken Spell" and the three part episode "Dark Wish" originally broadcast as extra long episodes.
- Quantum Leap had "Lee Harvey Oswald" the fifth season premiere; in Britain it aired on BBC Two on the 30th anniversary of JFK's assassination with the rest of the fifth season airing in 1994.
- Rhoda: The first-season Wedding Episode where Rhoda and Joe get married is fifty minutes long, which is twice the length of the show's usual episodes. It was split into two parts in syndication.
- SEAL Team had the two-part "Siege Protocol" episodes air back-to-back a little over halfway into its third season. It did it again with its fourth season premier with the episodes "God of War" and "Forever War" airing at the same time. In the latter case, those two episodes were supposed to have been the third season's finale until production on the show was forcibly shut down by the state of California as part of its debatable response to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-2020. Its seventh and final season did this one last time with the two-part season premier "Chaos in the Calm" episodes airing on the same day.
- Seinfeld, like M*A*S*H occasionally did hour-long episodes every once in a while, and they two were split into half-hour two-parters in syndication; two of these were Clip Shows, while another was the Grand Finale. As far as running time goes, all episodes originally ran for 22 minutes (which was standard practice at the time), except for, "The Yada Yada," which originally ran 26 minutes with limited commercials.
- Since Sesame Street was cut to 30 minutes in 2014, any specials made since that year, including The Magical Wand Chase and The Cookie Thief, could be considered this. Elmo's Playdate is the lone exception, as it runs the same length as a typical episode.
- Shining Time Station had four hour-long Family Specials.
- Side Hustle normally runs for 22 minutes, but the five way Crossover episode "When Worlds Collide" ran for 32 minutes (or 39 minutes with commercials).
- The series finale of Sisters was two hours long.
- Stargate SG-1: "Threads" runs for 63 minutes rather than the show's usual 42-ish, and originally aired on TV for 90 minutes including commercials. It's Re-Cut to standard length for syndicated airings.
- Star Trek:
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint" and series finale "All Good Things..." each originally aired as double-length episodes, and were split into two standard-length episodes for later syndication.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The series premiere "Emissary", season 4 premiere "The Way of the Warrior" and series finale "What You Leave Behind" each originally aired as double-length episodes, and were split into two standard-length episodes for later syndication.
- Star Trek: Voyager: The series premiere "Caretaker", season 4's "The Killing Game", season 5's "Dark Frontier", season 7's "Flesh and Blood" and the series finale "Endgame" each originally aired as double-length episodes, and were split into two standard-length episodes for syndication.
- Star Trek: Enterprise: The series premiere "Broken Bow" originally aired as a double-length episode, and was split into two standard-length episodes for syndication.
- Star Trek: Discovery: Although the series has Inconsistent Episode Lengths, a couple of episodes stand out as being longer than the average range: the season 2 finale "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2'' at 65 minutes, and the series finale "Life, Itself" at a staggering 87 minutes.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In season 1, the finale "A Quality of Mercy" stood out at 62 minutes as distinctly longer than the rest. However, episode runtimes got longer on average in season 2, with several more episodes that were of similar length to "A Quality of Mercy".
- Michael Douglas' final episode of The Streets of San Francisco, "The Thrill Killers" made to air as Extra-long Episode Executive Meddling put a stop to that.
- For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I Survived aired a 90-minute commercial-less episode featuring stories of survivors of the attacks.
- That '70s Show: The season eight premiere, as well as the last episode were both originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
- Stranger Things:
- The finale of Season 3 clocked at 78 minutes due to closing numerous subplots introduced at the beginning of that season.
- The entirety of Season 4 is this compared to the previous seasons. All of Season 4's episodes are above the runtime of an hour, with the shortest one being 64 minutes long (already a massive episode in comparison to most of the previous ones). In particular, the respective finales of the season's two volumes run at 98 minutes and 142 minutes, which is longer than many full-length movies.
- The final episodes of the fifth and final season are respectively 97 minutes and 2 hours and 5 minutes.
- In each season of Tracy Beaker Returns, the opening two episodes would be broadcast together into an hour-long format and then split into two 30-minute episodes on later airings. This has also happened with the show's spin-off The Dumping Ground. Funnily enough, it is the compilation broadcasts that cut material, while the individual episodes are aired intact.
- The Walking Dead had three 90-minute episodes during the sixth season (the season premiere "First Time Again", episode 4 "Here's Not Here" and the season finale "Last Day On Earth"), when most of their episodes are an hour. Some people speculated that episode 4 was extra-long to help watchers deal with Glenn's apparent death in the previous episode, when actually it ratcheted up tension by not dealing with it at all.
- Season 3 of Wizards vs. Aliens opened with its first two episodes joined together, as opposed to being broadcast separately.
- The January 18, 1994 episode of ECW Hardcore TV ran 90 minutes as opposed to the usual 60 for the NWA ECW Heavyweight Champion
Terry Funk vs. "The Franchise" Shane Douglas match, which went to a 45-minute draw. The match was building up to The Night The Line Was Crossed on February 5th, which featured a famous 60-minute draw with Funk, Douglas and Sabu.
- Most editions of WrestleMania had fallen within 3 and 4 hours in length, but 32 began to flirt with the five-hour mark. And this is excluding pre-shows. This was taken to its logical extent as the pandemic began, as 36 took place over two nights, as has every WM since as live attendance resumed.
- The season 9 finale of Acquisitions Incorporated is over an hour longer than the previous live games had been (3 hours instead of regular 2), probably because the organizers realized that they have run late every time. Before that, the season 8 finale had been 30 minutes longer than the usual episodes, but it wasn't planned to run that long (and was more than likely the final straw that led to the AcqInc regular time slot at PAX being officially extended).
- The sixth episode of The Amazing Digital Circus has a length of 33:54, while the first five are all between 23 and 26 minutes. This is lampshaded in the trailer:
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- Most episodes are 7 to 10 minutes long, whereas the the first two season finales are around 30 minutes. The third season finale more than doubled that at 67 minutes long, split into three parts.
- Broly Abridged is the longest TFS movie, clocking in at a half-hour. Originally released in two parts.
- The G0ATFAC3 Corner episodes generally range from 5 to 10 minutes, with Sidequests and the final parts of season finales hitting the 15-minute mark at minimum:
- Season 1's final episode, "GREYSCALE+", clocks in at 17:36, with its Sidequest, "ANARCHIST!" hitting 15:31.
- Season 2 capped off with "DEATH IN BLUE", whose fifth and final part clocked in at 17:35.
- Season 2's sidequest, the RushCity.ca Smash Tournament, was eight parts long, with its final part clocking in at 16:29.
- Season 3 plays with this in both timelines:
- Side A plays it straight - its Sidequest, "HOSTILE TAKEOVER", clocks in at 21:53, whilst the final episode, "RED RUNS THROUGH, PART 3" clocks in at 34:17.
- Side B, by contrast, averts this - all four episodes in that timeline are under ten minutes long, with its longest, "YOUR GOOD ENDING", coming in at a relatively brief 9:31.
- Homestar Runner skits are generally around 5 minutes long at max, with the biggest exception being "Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 17.2", which clocks in at 31 minutes long.
- Kurzgesagt videos are usually around 10 minutes long, but their 10th anniversary special is about the Geologic Time Scale scaled into a 1-hour video. They tout it as their first animated "movie".
- McBusters: The first two videos run for around five minutes, while the third and final entry lasts over twelve minutes.
- Meta Runner: While the previous 27 episodes averaged between 11-19 minutes including credits, "The End", the show’s Grand Finale, breaks the 20 minute mark for the first time with a runtime of just over 23 and a half minutes.
- Red vs. Blue never crossed the 8 minute mark until the season 2 finale was 13 minutes long. Season 3 had longer episodes, with the series' 50th being 16 and a half minutes. Season 5 ended with a conclusion to the Blood Gulch Chronicles that went over 17 minutes. The conclusion of season 10, and another arc, was 13 minutes. The anthology of season 14 had two of them, the DEATH BATTLE! episode (17:39) and the season finale where the Reds and Blues go to the real world (23:41). And the endings to seasons 16 and 17 surpassed 20 minutes.
- RWBY ended volume 3 by breaking 20 minutes for the first time (28:05). The ending of volume 4 was only slightly shorter (27 minutes). The following two volumes downplayed it with longer episodes overall, but volumes 7 and 8 had the season finales being the only 20+ minute episodes.
- Some More News episodes are normally 20 - 30 minutes long, occasionally 40. The Ben Shapiro episodes and the one devoted to coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests each top an hour, and the one about dystopian movies is two hours and fifteen minutes long.
- Ultra Fast Pony episodes are normally about 5 minutes long. However, season finale episodes always run 10 to 15 minutes long. It's lampshaded, as these episodes are all titled "The Longest [noun]".
- Up From The Depths: Most of the reviews last around five minutes, with a brief summary of the plot, discussion on the film's strong and weak points, then giving it a rating between one and five stars, with a summation of what makes this film interesting to what kind of giant monster movie fan. Other videos going in-depth on certain topics can last twenty minutes or more, and the livestreams last for hours.
- World War Two: Episode 38 - "Blitzkrieg in the West" covering the week of May 18, 1940 is twice as long as a regular episode, slightly over twenty minutes instead of the usual ten.
By Franchise:
- A Charlie Brown Christmas and other Peanuts specials originally ran in a standard 30-minute timeslot including commercials, then got bits chopped out of them in order to accommodate more advertising. When they aired on ABV, they got run in hour long blocks so that the original can run in its entirety in 32-35 minutes, followed by another Peanuts special:
- Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales, which is a series of shorts packaged together, aired after “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
- “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” was followed either by “He’s a Bully, Charlie Brown”, or and The Mayflower Voyage, which was originally an episode of This Is America, Charlie Brown.
- “It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” was followed by “You're (Not) Elected, Charlie Brown”.
By Network:
- The Disney Afternoon:
- DuckTales (1987): There were a number of five-part episodes that were originally broadcast as two-hour movies before being split into multiple episodes.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The five-part pilot was originally aired as a two-hour movie special.
- Goof Troop: The two-part pilot originally aired as a one-hour special.
- There are some Nicktoons that usually run 11 minutes but then have longer episodes. The special episodes of Rugrats, SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House are usually 30 minutes, when the stories are eleven. All three shows also had hour-long episodes.
By Series:
- Alice's Wonderland Bakery has a Two Shorts format, but "The Gingerbread Palace" and "Alice's First Day In Wonderland" are 24 minute specials.
- Amphibia:
- Most episodes are 11-minute segments, but the episodes "Reunion", "Marcy at the Gates", "The Shut-In!", "True Colors", "The New Normal", "Froggy Little Christmas" and "Escape to Amphibia" are all 22 minutes.
- The penultimate episode "All In" is runs 44 minutes. The following episode, "The Hardest Thing" runs a full 30 minutes if shown without ad breaks.
- Animaniacs, which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had five episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or, as in the case of the latter episode, an hour-long block): "Taming Of The Screwy", "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo Clock" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".
- Every episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force usually runs for 11 minutes. However, the emotional Series Fauxnale, The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We Fucking Mean It), runs for 22-minutes, focusing on the Aqua Teens traveling to an unknown planet to save Frylock and Master Shake's lives as their respective jewels run out of energy. Averted for the true finale, "The Greatest Story Ever Told", which ran for a typical 11 minutes.
- The Backyardigans episodes "International Super Spy", "Tale of the Mighty Knights", and "Robot Rampage" run for somewhere around 45 minutes when a typical Backyardigans episode is more around 24 minutes. However, they were split into two separate parts when aired outside of the US.
- Bluey:
- While most episodes are 7 minutes, "Sleepytime" and "Dragon" are seven and a half minutes and "Pass The Parcel" and "Tradies" run for eight minutes.
- The penultimate episode of Season 3, "The Sign", runs for 28 minutes.
- An interesting variation happened with "Exercise". It originally ran for the same length as most Bluey episodes, but due to complaints about the original intro to the episode being "fat-shaming", the episode was re-edited with almost a minute trimmed out, making it six minutes and eleven seconds long.
- "Adventure Camp" from the CBeebies cartoon Boj was 22-minutes long instead of the normal 10-minute runtime.
- Bugs Bunny Builders episodes are normally 11 minutes long, but "Looneyberg Lights" is a 22 minute episode.
- Bump in the Night typically followed the Three Shorts format with every episode consisting of two ten-minute episodes and a Karaoke Café song, but two episodes broke this pattern.
- "Party Poopers" is a twenty-minute episode with a Karaoke Cafe segment coming afterwards.
- The Christmas Episode "'Twas the Night Before Bumpy" ran for one hour and four minutes.
- Centaurworld has its episodes usually clock in at 22 minutes while the series finale, "The Last Lullaby", is over 70 minutes.
- The majority of ChalkZone's episodes consist of three 7-minute segments or two 11-minute segments and a song. The three main exceptions are Skrawl and Crainiac's Villain Team-Up episode "Double Trouble" and the Christmas Episode "When Santas Collide' (both of which run for a half-hour) and "The Big Blow-Up" (an hour-long special).
- While most episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog followed the Two Shorts format, with each short being 11 minutes long, but "The Tower of Dr. Zalost" and "The Mask" were full 22-minute episodes.
- The second Christmas Episode of Creature Comforts runs 22 minutes, against the 9 minutes of other episodes.
- Curious George (TV Series, 2006): Starting with season 10, there have been a few 22-minute episodes: "Bill on Wheels", "Curious George and the Snow Festival", "In Search of Space Monkeys", "Jurassic George", "The Great Train Birthday", "A Knight to Remember", and "Hawaii".
- DuckTales (2017):
- The premiere episode "Woo-oo!" is 44-minutes as opposed to the show's usual 22-minutes; the episode is sometimes split in reruns and on Disney+, wherein the second half is titled "Escape To/From Atlantis!"
- The Season 1 finale "The Shadow War!" is also a double-length episode, with its two halves called "The Night of De Spell!" and "The Day of the Ducks!" when aired separately.
- The season 2 finale "Moonvasion!" is also a two-parter released as an hour long episode. In addition, Word of God states that it, along with the preceding three episodes ("Timephoon!", "GlomTales" and "The Richest Duck in the World!"), are all meant to be a homage to the above-mentioned five-part episodes from the original DuckTales.
- The season 3 episode "Let's Get Dangerous!" is significant for being the first two-parter in the show that isn't a season premier or finale,
- The Grand Finale "The Last Adventure!" is a three-parter, which is usually split into "A Tale of Three Webbys!", "The Lost Library of Isabella Finch!", and "Tale's End!" in reruns and on Disney+. All of these episodes total to 74 minutes overall when the runtime's combined.
- Elinor Wonders Why episodes are usually 22 minutes with Two Shorts, but the TV movie A Wonderful Journey is around 56 minutes.
- Family Guy:
- The three Star Wars parody episodes, plus "And Then There Were Fewer", "Road to the North Pole" and "The Simpsons Guy", were all originally broadcast as hour-long episodes.
- "Brian and Stewie" was originally broadcast as an hour-long show, with the first half hour being the main feature, and the second half having Brian and Stewie host a compilation of musical clips from the show. In this case, the episode is not split into two halves, as the second half isn't seen in syndication. In fact, the second half only exists because the main feature lasted a little over a half-hour, Seth MacFarlane didn't want anything cut, and FOX wanted the episode to be musical-themed as to coincide with their week-long "FOX Rocks" promotion.
- The episode "Send in Stewie, Please" ran for 30 minutes without commercial interruptions.
- The Fairly OddParents!: The show frequently did 22-minute episodes, and would sometimes go even longer.
- 22-minute episodes: "Christmas Everyday!", "Information Stupor Highway", "Scary Godparents", "Love Struck!", "The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker!", "Shelf Life", "The Big Superhero Wish!", "Crash Nebula", "The Fairly Oddlympics", "Merry Wishmas", "Anti-Poof", "Love Triangle", "Invasion of the Dads", "When L.O.S.E.R.S. Attack", "Meet the OddParents", "Fairly OddPet", "Scary GodCouple", "Fairly Old Parent", "School of Crock", "Dimmsdale Tales", "The Past and the Furious", "The Fairy Beginning", "Fairly Odd Fairy Tales", "Man's Worst Friend", "The Big Fairy Share Scare!", "Booby Trapped", and "Certifiable Super Sitter".
- 44-minute episodes: all three Jimmy Timmy Power Hours, "School's Out! The Musical", "Fairy Idol", "Fairly OddBaby", and "Timmy's Secret Wish!"
- TV movies (around an hour): "Abra-Catastrophe!" and "Channel Chasers".
- "Wishology" runs for over two hours at 135 minutes. It takes up a large chunk of its season.
- Fanboy and Chum Chum: Most episodes consist of two 11-minute segments paired together, but "Brain Freeze", "There Will Be Shrieks", "A Very Brrr-y Icemas" and "Super Chums" all run for a full half-hour.
- Fireman Sam: Most episodes are 10 minutes long, however, there have two 20-minute episodes - Series 2's "Snow Business", and Series 9's "The Return of Norman-Man".
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: The show mostly consists of 22-minute episodes, however there are times when it breaks that format.
- 11-minute episodes: "Seeing Red", "Phone Home", "Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way", "Everyone Knows It's Bendy", "Sight for Sore Eyes" and "Bloo's Brothers".
- TV movies (from 44-minutes to an hour): "House of Bloo's", "Good Wilt Hunting", "Destination Imagination"
- Gravity Falls:
- The episode "A Tale of Two Stans", which introduces Stanford Pines, Grunkle Stan's long-lost twin brother and the author of the Journals, originally ran without commercials for a full half-hour. Rather than cutting it down for rebroadcast, the show is aired in full, with 15-minute episodes of other shows filling out the remaining time.
- The Grand Finale "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls" (which itself is the last part of a Multi-Part Episode) is an 44-minute-long special. It's sometimes split into two episodes in reruns and on Disney+, with the second part titled "Weirdmageddon 4: Somewhere in the Woods".
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy was typically a Two Shorts programme (or earlier on, Three Shorts, when it was a bundle programme with Evil Con Carne) but had an increasing amount of full 22-minute stories as it went along. The first of these was the Halloween Special, "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween", while other notable examples included "The Secret Snake Club", "Prank Call of Cthulhu", "Keeper of the Reaper", "My Fair Mandy", "Billy & Mandy Moon the Moon", and the Vignette Episode "Wishbones". There was also "Billy and Mandy Save Christmas", which ran for 35 minutes, and the two Made-for-TV movies.
- Episodes of Jelly Jamm are typically 10-11 minutes long, but the final episode, "Holding Hands", is instead 23 minutes long.
- Episodes of Kaeloo are usually seven minutes long, but Episode 105, titled "Let's Play the Very Special Episode", is 26 minutes long.
- Kamp Koral: "The Jellyfish Kid", "Are You Afraid of the Dork?", and "End of Summer Daze" are 22 minutes, about twice as long as a regular segment.
- Let's Go Luna!: : "Luna's Christmas Around the World" is about 45 minutes long, unlike normal episodes which are 22-minute-long episodes consisting of Two Shorts.
- Magic Adventures of Mumfie: Mumfie's White Christmas runs for 23 minutes when a usual episode is ten minutes long.
- Mickey Mouse (2013):
- "Potatoland", "Wonders of the Deep", "Ku'u Lei Melody", "Split Decisions", "New Shoes" and "Surprise!" run seven minutes, about twice the length of the other shorts, and about the same length as the original Classic Disney Shorts.
- The holiday specials Duck the Halls and The Scariest Story Ever are each a full half-hour long.
- Milo Murphy's Law typically operates in a Two Shorts format, but Story Arc-heavy episodes tend to be 44 minutes, like "Missing Milo", "Fungus Among Us", and the Season 2 premiere "The Phineas and Ferb Effect". The Christmas Episode and Halloween Episode are both 22 minutes.
- Molly of Denali: "Molly and the Great One" is the show's first 55-minute special.
- Some episodes of The New Shmoo ran for approximately a half-hour, whereas others were shorter at 10-11 minutes.
- There are three episodes of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes that are double the Quarter Hour Short length of the others, those being "You're in Control" (the Season 1 finale), "Dark Plaza" (the Season 2 finale), and "Let's Fight to the End" (the penultimate episode of Season 3 and of the overall series).
- The Owl House: While all three Season 3 episodes exceed the preceding episodes, each about 22-ish minutes, in length, "Watching and Dreaming" is by far the most extensive, lasting a whopping 55 minutes.
- The Patrick Star Show: "The Yard Sale", "Terror at 20,000 Leagues", "Something Stupid This Way Comes", "Thanks But No Thanksgiving", "Squidina's Holidaze Special", and "Terror on Tape" are 22 minutes long, while the show usually runs in Two Shorts.
- Depending on the network, PAW Patrol usually runs as either Two Shorts or as quarter hour shorts. The show has had several 23-minute stories, which is usually done to introduce Sixth Rangers or for sub-series like Ultimate Rescue and Sea Patrol , as well as occasional hour-long specials, which, interestingly enough, were played in theaters in several countries.
- Phineas and Ferb typically operates in a Two Shorts format, though a handful of episodes bump it up to 22 minutes, and rarer still are 44-minute specials (usually split into two parts on streaming services) — "Christmas Vacation", "Summer Belongs To You", "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel", "Save Summer", "Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars", "Night of the Living Pharmacists", and "Last Day of Summer".
- Primos episodes are typically 11 minutes long, but "Summer Of Sueños" is 23 minutes long.
- Most Princess Power episodes are 11 minutes long, but the show has specials like "The Princesses And The Frosty Fruitdom Fiasco" and "Princesses Seas The Day" that can be anywhere from 22-30 minutes long.
- Rosie's Rules has the half-hour long "Rosie's Christmas In Mexico", which breaks away from the usual Two Shorts format of the series.
- Rugrats: Episodes are typically 11 minutes long, but there's the occasional double-length special. Starting in Season 6, some extended episodes were spread out even more than the half-hour time slot.
- The pre-hiatus era has "Tommy's First Birthday", "The Santa Experience" and "Passover".
- Season 4 has four: "Chanukah", "Mother's Day", "Vacation" and "The Turkey Who Came to Dinner".
- The Season 5 finale, "The Family Tree".
- Season 6: "Runaway Reptar" is an hour-long episode while the last three episodes ("No Place Like Home", "Be My Valentine" and "Discover America") are double length.
- "Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts" is a three-part miniseries with each episode extended to double length.
- Season 7 also has the double length "Finsterella" and "Kwanzaa" episodes and the hour-long special "All Growed Up".
- Season 8's 22-minute episodes are "Preschool Daze", "Curse of the Werewuff", "Bow Wow Wedding Vows" and "Murmur on the Ornery Express".
- Season 9 has two half-hour episodes: "Club Fred" and "The Perfect Twins". The last extended episode is "Babies in Toyland", an hour-long special.
- The Simpsons has had two double-length episodes, "The Great Phatsby" and "O C'mon All Ye Faithful", both running 44 minutes instead of the usual 22 minutes.
- Skylanders Academy: The pilot episode, "Skylanders Unite!", is the only episode to be 44 minutes long instead of the show's normal runtime of 22 minutes.
- Sofia the First has had several, which are split into multi-part episodes on Disney+:
- The Floating Palace is the first of the series proper, which is 44 minutes long instead of the usual 22, following the Pilot Movie Once Upon a Princess.
- The Curse Of Princess Ivy runs for 46 minutes.
- The Mystic Isles is 1 hour and 4 minutes long.
- The Grand Finale, Forever Royal, is 1 hour and 7 minutes long.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: 22-minute specials aren't uncommon for the series, while some will reach even 44 minutes. Other episodes are only slightly longer, and their paired episodes are shorter than usual to make up for it.
- Episodes that are longer than usual, but not specials: "Squidferatu" is 14 minutes. "Shanghaied", "Back to the Past", "Handemonium", "Swamp Mates", "Dopey Dick", and "The Haunted Bucket" are all around 15-16 minutes; the first aformentioned is only 13 minutes without the Patchy segments. "Squirrel Jelly" is 16 minutes.
- Double-length specials: "Christmas Who?", "Party Pooper Pants", "Ugh", "The Sponge Who Could Fly", "Have You Seen This Snail?", "Dunces and Dragons", "Friend or Foe", "Pest of the West", "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?", "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One", "The Clash of Triton", "SpongeBob's Last Stand", "The Great Patty Caper", "Frozen Face-Off", "A SquarePants Family Vacation", "Ghoul Fools", "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!", "Hello Bikini Bottom!", "It Came from Goo Lagoon", "SpongeBob You're Fired", "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?", "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom", "Goons on the Moon", "Escape from Beneath Glove World", "SpongeBob's Road to Christmas", "Snow Yellow and the Seven Jellies", and "Sandy's Country Christmas".
- Over 22 minutes: "Atlantis SquarePantis", "SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout", and "Kreepaway Kamp" are 44 minutes, with the former only being 32 minutes without Patchy's segments. "Truth or Square" comes in at a whopping 58 minutes, which would also only be 32 minutes without the Patchy segments.
- Star Trek: Prodigy: The series premiere "Lost and Found" is a double-length episode, but is structured so it can be split into two standard-length episodes and is officially counted as episodes 1 and 2.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil occasionally has episodes that last a half-hour instead of the usual quarter-hour—two in the first season, three in the second, four in the third (the season finale being two in a row), and five in the fourth (the last coming at the end of a mostly-continuous nine-episode Story Arc).
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch: "Aftermath" (the series premiere) is 70 minutes long, while most episodes are 20–30 minutes.
- Steven Universe often has sequential episodes that follow directly into each other, but "Bismuth", "Gem Harvest" and "Reunited" are all double-length (22-minute instead of 11-minute) episodes not broken apart by title cards or end credits. The first even has an anime-style Eye Catch for the commercial break (which the normal episodes are too short to have). The Season 5 finale, "Change Your Mind", would go on to be a quadruple-length episode (forty-four minutes long).
- Tangled: The Series: Each season had three hour-long episodes: one for the premiere, one marking the midseason, and one for the finale.
- Season 1 has "Before Ever After" (the movie-length premiere), "Queen for a Day", and "Secret of the Sun Drop".
- Season 2 has "Beyond the Corona Walls," "Rapunzel and the Great Tree," and "Destinies Collide."
- Season 3 has "Rapunzel's Return," "Cassandra's Revenge," and "Plus Est en Vous."
- Teen Titans Go! had five episodes longer than ten minutes: Island Adventures, "BBRae", "The Day the Night Stopped Beginning to Shine and Became Dark Even Though it Was the Day", "Titans Got Talent" and "The Self-Indulgent 200th Episode Spectacular!". While most of these were 30 minutes long, the first and third episodes were an hour in length.
- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum:
- "I Am Madam President" is 58 minutes long.
- While most episodes are 11-minutes, "I Am Harriet Tubman" and "I Am Fred Rogers" are both 22-minutes. Rule of thumb: if an episode is 22-minutes, it will be a major turning point for the series.

