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 have also had success in syndication with shorter runs. For example, "Lost in Space" ceased production in 1968 after 84 episodes because of declining ratings, but did well in syndication for a number of years. The original "" series had only 79 episodes available when its network run ended in 1969, but after its considerable success in syndication, it spawned multiple feature films and more than six spin-off series. Other examples include "The Prisoner" and "Hondo", both successfully syndicated for more than 30 years despite having only 17 episodes produced. The original 1978 series "Battlestar Galactica" and its spin-off "Galactica