This group collects the Television Programming Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them an anthology series (standalone episodes with no continuing storyline or cast, such as Playhouse 90, Studio One, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror) or a limited-run miniseries (Roots, Chernobyl, The Godfather Saga, Faraway Downs, and the standalone BBC television play Cathy Come Home), kept apart from this subcategory's other groups by its fixed, non-ongoing episode structure rather than an open-ended weekly series run.
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Era of EmergenceEarliest documented use of the term "miniseries," per the Oxford English Dictionary; the anthology and limited-run serial practice itself traces to earlier radio and television programming. Browse By
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known use of the word "miniseries" was in 1963, when it was employed (in hyphenated form) by the Connellsville Daily Courier to describe a limited, five-week run of the CBS music show Your Hit Parade.
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