Boston Public episode order. Was Chapter 34 aired out of order in the original run? Why?
In Boston Public Episode "Chapter 36", there is a sub-story about Zach Del Ray asking Ronnie Cooke to prom. This is odd because in Episode "Chapter 34", Zach Del Ray dies in a car accident. In my copy of the episodes, they are in "Chapter order," so I saw Zach Del Ray die 2 episodes earlier. However, after looking up the episode guide on Wikipedia:
The episodes are listed as:
S02e11 - Chapter 33
S02e12 - Chapter 35
S02e13 - Chapter 36
S02e14 - Chapter 34
S02e15 - Chapter 37
This is the first instance of the "Chapter order" (chronological order of the story) not being the same as the "episode order" (chronological order of the episodes)
It also seems that in Season 4, this happens a few more times:
S04e01 - Chapter 67
S04E02 - Chapter 69
S04E03 - Chapter 68
S04E04 - Chapter 70
//...
S04E08 - Chapter 74
S04E09 - Chapter 76
S04E10 - Chapter 75
S0rE11 - Chapter 77
For the rest of the series, the "Chapter Order" and "Episode Order" are the same.
I never noticed that the season 4 episodes were out of chronological order until researching this question, but the season 2 thing has always bothered me, since the "back from the dead" thing is such a glaring inconsistency.
Why did they do this? I get that there are any number of reasons to progress a story out of chronological order for storytelling purposes, but I don't understand what is to be gained here, and why it was done for just a handful of episodes. Was it a scheduling conflict in producing the show? It just seems very strange, especially for a show where every single episode is named "Chapter XX"
If you do know why, has that happened on other shows?
Best Answer
Boston Public: Season 2, Episode 14: Chapter Thirty-Four
This episode aired out of order so as to make more sense. Zach dies in this episode, but if the episodes are aired in the original order, he's alive again two episodes later.
Boston Public: Season 4, Episode 10: Chapter Seventy-Five
This episode was originally scheduled to air December 12, but was preempted for A Minute With Stan Hooper.
Can't find anything WRT the switch of episodes 68 and 69.
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Well, there's a trope for it, so apparently it happens often enough.
I knew this had happened with Star Trek: TOS and Lost, but that link above has quite a few other examples.
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