miniseriesn.
/ˈmɪnɪˌsɪərɪz/, U.S. /ˈmɪniˌsɪriz/ Originally U.S.
A television or radio series usually consisting of three or four episodes on a particular theme; esp. a television drama presented as a small number of feature-length episodes, often on consecutive nights.
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news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
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school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
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1963 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 28 July (TV section) 1/2 Your Hit Parade..premieres Friday at 8 p.m. on the CBS Network. It will appear as a five-week mini-series each Friday in August.
1970 Ottawa Citizen 5 Feb. 29/1 The CBC's second episode of its mini-series, The Manipulators, came to us without benefit of commercials.
1984 Listener 5 Jan. 10/1 At this stage, a big budget movie rather than a television miniseries was in prospect.
1992 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. ix. 9/2 (caption) Ross Perot and his famous charts made for a goofily engaging infomercial that some people hoped might become a miniseries.
2010 J. De Vito & F. Tropea Epic Television Miniseries Introd. 1 Traditionally, the epic miniseries functioned much like some great oral epic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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