The premiere will also be the first one hour episode for the series.
In 1998 the broadcast format changed to two, one hour episodes each week.
In each two hour episode Ed has guests over to watch (and make fun of) a bad movie.
The show also expanded from 13 half hour episodes to 21.
Seasons twenty through the current season air one hour episodes.
It expanded to one hour episodes on February 4, 1980.
The trip was covered in a single one hour episode.
It premiered in the 2004-2005 television season with eight half hour episodes.
The show was not a huge success running to only 52 one hour episodes.
Each half hour episode is filmed in a different location around the country.