Time was you used to go out to the pictures to see something new, to escape endless reruns of old TV shows.

The durable "Star Trek" franchise continues with "Deep Space Nine" and "Voyager," not to mention endless reruns.

This was a tired, old drama, an endless rerun of a painful play.

The shows may have been made aeons ago, but endless reruns have ensured kitsch classic status for information obsessives.

During endless 2am reruns I laughed at the cardboard sets and cheered Kirk's fistfighting technique and practised saying "Bones!"

Instead of endless reruns of the same programs, television stations will now have a lot more choices of programs to show.

The show expired in 1969 but, thanks to endless reruns, still retains a cult following with some 450 fan clubs around the world.

In endless reruns characters repeat the same actions and recite the same words until we know them by heart.

So I'll go back to books, news, films and endless reruns of MASH and Are You Being Served?