1.   A weekly hourlong series, the program started on the paranormal-friendly Fox network, moved to syndication and in the fall moves to the Sci-Fi Channel.

2.   Hourlong dramatic series about a minister trying to rebuild a church and its congregation on a rural island near Seattle.

3.   Hourlong dramatic series about the people who work at a San Francisco drop-in center.

4.   Influential is not a word we generally apply to soap operas, those hourlong daytime series where buff and beefy and bosomy are acting prerequisites.

5.   It is the first hourlong series to focus on the daily lives of an extended black family.

6.   Premiere of an hourlong dramatic series about a Louisiana judge and his prominent family.

7.   The shows also do not have an afterlife in syndication, but they cost much less than any other hourlong series to produce.