History Main / ExtraLongEpisode

* For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, ''I Survived'' aired a 90-minute commercial-less episode featuring stories of survivors of the attacks.

* Most editions of Wrestling/WrestleMania have fallen within 3 and 4 hours in length, but 32 began to flirt with the five-hour mark. And this is ''excluding'' pre-shows.

* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' was frequently having more and more hour-long episodes as the series progressed, though people were starting to complain about the frequency of them, not only because they were just going to be split into half-hour two-parters for syndication anyway, but the hour-long episodes were mostly filler that contributed nothing to the stories.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', which was comprised of multiple short segments that ranged anywhere from 30 seconds to ten minutes, had three episodes with one segment that took up the entire show (or, as in the case of the latter episode, an hour-long block): "Spellbound", "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special" and "Hooray For North Hollywood".

** "The Curse Of Princess Ivy" runs for 46 minutes.
** "The Mystic Isles" is 1 hour and 4 minutes long.
** The GrandFinale, "Forever Royal", is 1 hour and 7 minutes long.

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': ''The Floating Palace'' is the first of the series proper, which is 44 minutes long instead of the usual 22, following the PilotMovie ''Once Upon a Princess''. Disney+ splits it into a [[MultiPartEpisode two-parter episode, however.]]

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'' tops most of the anime listed here as its first episode is ''2 hours long''.

Compare InconsistentEpisodeLengths, where some episodes are longer than others, but there is no standard length.

* The Director's Cut version of episodes 21--24 of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are several minutes longer than the others. Some scenes were cut out in their Original Airing to trim them down to the normal length, despite their vital role in making the massive MindScrew that the series was [[MindScrewdriver actually make sense]].

* Kurt Sutter became notorious for this during the run of ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' with episodes runtimes being "however much script Kurt wrote" by the end, typically as mush as 40 minutes over its original hour.
** He has continued this with his series ''Series/MayansMC'', with no episode confined to a typical hour timeslot.
** FX seems to encourage this across its series, with episodes of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' running typically anywhere from five to 15 minutes over and ditto ''Series/TheAmericans''.

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'' tops most of the anime listed here as its first episode is scheduled to be ''2 hours long''.

** ''Film/LicenceToKill'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' both reached 133 minutes.
** The Creator/DanielCraig era broke the previous runtime thresholds with ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' (144 minutes), ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (143 minutes), ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' (148 minutes) and the longest ''Bond'' movie ever, ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' (163 minutes). The only anomaly is ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', an extra-''short'' episode (the shortest ''Bond'' movie ever, at 106 minutes).

** The Creator/DanielCraig era broke the previous average threshold of 133 minutes (''Film/LicenceToKill'' and ''Film/DieAnotherDay'') with ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'' (144 minutes), ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' (143 minutes), ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' (148 minutes) and the longest ''Bond'' movie ever, ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' (163 minutes). The only anomaly is ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', an extra-''short'' episode (the shortest ''Bond'' movie ever, at 106 minutes).

* The films of the ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries Mission: Impossible]]'' series used to average 120 minutes (2 hours), give or take 10 minutes. That changed with ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleFallout Fallout]]'', which is 147 minutes long. ''[[Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne Dead Reckoning Part One]]'' further upped the ante with 163 minutes.

** Double-length specials: "Christmas Who?", "Party Pooper Pants", "Ugh", "The Sponge Who Could Fly", "Have You Seen This Snail?", "Dunces and Dragons", "Friend or Foe", "Pest of the West", "What Ever Happened to [=SpongeBob=]?", "[=SpongeBob SquarePants=] vs. The Big One", "The Clash of Triton", "[=SpongeBob=]'s Last Stand", "The Great Patty Caper", "Frozen Face-Off", "A [=SquarePants=] Family Vacation", "Ghoul Fools", "It's a [=SpongeBob=] Christmas!", "Hello Bikini Bottom!", "It Came from Goo Lagoon", "[=SpongeBob=] You're Fired", "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?", "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom", "Goons on the Moon", "Escape from Beneath Glove World", and "[=SpongeBob=]'s Road to Christmas".

* The Season 6 finale of ''Animation/FlowerFairy'' is a downplayed example, being only three minutes longer than the standard 13 minutes.

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* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' episodes are normally about 5 minutes long. However, season finale episodes always run 10 to 15 minutes long. [[LampshadeHanging It's lampshaded]], as these episodes are all titled "The Longest [noun]".

* ''WebVideo/WorldWarTwo'': Episode 38 - "Blitzkrieg in the West" covering the week of May 18, 1940 is twice as long as a regular episode, slightly over twenty minutes instead of the usual ten.

* ''WebAnimation/McBusters'': The first two videos run for around five minutes, while the third and final entry lasts over twelve minutes.
* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'': While the previous 27 episodes averaged between 11-19 minutes including credits, "The End", the show’s GrandFinale, breaks the 20 minute mark for the first time with a runtime of just over 23 and a half minutes.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Llanargollen}}'' has a ChristmasEpisode ("Ceirw Coll Siôn Corn") that is ''26 minutes long'', while the other episodes are only 12–14 minutes long approx. This could also a likely explanation for why there are only 51 episodes of the show instead of 52, although the Christmas special doesn't air separated into two parts.

** 44-minute episodes: "School's Out!: The Musical", "Fairy Idol", "Fairly [=OddBaby=]", and "Timmy's Secret Wish!"
** TV movies (around an hour): "Abra-Catastrophe!" and "Channel Chasers".
** "Wishology" runs for ''over two hours'' at 135 minutes. It takes up a large chunk of its season.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs. Warhammer 40K]]'': Most typical episodes tend to run between 20 minutes and an hour. "The Lords of Catastrophe", however, is over ''three hours'' in length, making it by far the longest single episode out of the entire series. This episode is also rather significant as it resolves several plot threads and cliffhangers from previous episodes.

** The season 3 episode "Let's Get Dangerous!" is significant for being the first two-parter in the show that isn't a season premier or finale, totalling up to 74 minutes overall.
** The GrandFinale "The Last Adventure!" is a three-parter, which is usually split into "A Tale of Three Webbys!", "The Lost Library of Isabella Finch!", and "Tale's End!" in reruns.

** The season 3 episode "Let's Get Dangerous!" is significant for being the first two-parter in the show that isn't a season premier or finale.