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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 219768" data-attributes="member: 27">Yes, NBC re-edited the 'greatest hits' of Shockwave and aired it as a prime-time special.  But I think it aired on a Friday night when few people saw it.  I watched it.  As a fan of the soap genre in general, I watched it not only because the original plotline was entertaining, but mostly because I wanted to see if they could re-purpose six weeks (yes, six weeks of episodes) into a coherent, self-contained event.  I don't recall it being particularly bad or anything being particularly brilliant, but they deserve some credit for being able to do it.  I also can't recall if it was one hour or two--I tend to lean toward two hours, since boiling 30 hours of plot into one hour might be too much even for the edit wizards at NBC.</blockquote>