ACV?

Hey.. I just wondered what the ACV in for example 1ACV01 stands for?. Thanks!

// Anders

Anders Clerwall wrote in message news:hSIg4.2281$[email]...

I always assumed it was Alternating Current (as in AC/DC) Voltage. Sounds kind of sci-fi-esque

Then again, i'm probably wrong.

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "ACV?" thread, Anders Clerwall wrote:

I have a theory that it stands for, "A unique bunch of characters to use in production codes." In the past, shows produced and distributed under the Fox system used production codes like this:

9X00

Where 9 was a number (or letter, if your show ran more than nine seasons), 00 is an episode number, and X was a show identifier. There are a couple of extra complications to this system, but that's the gist of it.

The new system works just like the old one, except the identifier is now *three* characters, instead of just one. My guess is that Fox noticed they're running out of identifier codes. The codes I've seen have no meaning that I can determine, but they don't need to have one. They just need to be something that won't get confused with another Fox show. With three letters, there are 17,576 combinations [*] which, at the rate Fox is cancelling shows, will last well into next year.

[*] Including things like "ASS," that will never get used.

In article , [email] (Benjamin Robinson) wrote:

So, if they are doing it in a logical fashion, Futurama is the 73rd show, assuming A is 0?

Ben