Yet the beginnings of shows featured long flashbacks intended to refresh viewers.

And so the main plot begins as a long flashback.

There is nothing like long flashbacks to double the length of a book.

There is also insufficient point, purpose and narrative clarity in the long flashback that follows.

The first episode is a long flashback, which ends as a family photograph is taken.

What follows is a long flashback to Alia's girlhood and adolescence.

The story he tells Maya is depicted in long flashbacks.

Unlike the original stage version, the main plot of the film is presented as a long flashback.

"Now and Then" is really a long flashback to the summer of 1970, when these four friends were 12 and inseparable.

The plot, interspersed with long and leisurely flashbacks, is complicated.