100 episodes game shows that ran less than 100 episodes, including "Greed" (44 episodes), "Dog Eat Dog" (26 episodes), "Power of 10" (18 episodes), and perhaps the most extreme case, "Million Dollar Password", which ran for only 12 episodes. Even among shows with hundreds (and even thousands) of episodes, since the early 2010s, GSN typically has only acquired the rights to 50 to 65 episodes at a time for most series. Rerunning children's programming generally requires fewer episodes than programming for adults. For most children's series, reruns are aired for a short period of time after the series finishes production, then are
100 episodes infamy after the fact). "American Idol Rewind", which repackaged the first five seasons of the popular reality contest "American Idol", ran for four seasons in syndication, with one of the five seasons being compressed into three half-hour episodes because of problems securing rights to the music for that season. 100 episodes In the U.S. television industry, 100 episodes is the traditional threshold for a television series to become viable for syndication. One hundred episodes are advantageous for stripped syndication because it allows for 20 weeks of weekday reruns (depending on the number of episodes produced once the program debuts in