serials
Stories in parts
Serials are works published or broadcast in sequential installments—magazine stories released chapter by chapter, television dramas with continuing plots, comic strips that run daily.
The term covers both the format and the works themselves: She prefers serials to standalone episodes.
In libraries, serials include periodicals and journals issued in numbered sequence.
Recurring printed publications
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- newspapersPrinted daily publications
- installmentsPeriodic partial payments
issues · volumes · editions · subscriptions · weekly · monthly · newsstand · pulp
Sequence of fictional events
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- arcCurved line segment
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- protagonistStory's central figure
antagonist · continuity · installments · sequel · prequel · spinoff · saga · subplot
Serialized melodramatic broadcast drama
- dramaTheatrical art or turmoil
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
- miniseriesFinite-episode TV narrative
- telenovelaLatin serialized melodrama
prime time · binge-watch · streaming · episodes · seasons · showrunner · pilot · finale
Recurring arrangement or template
- repeatedDone or said again
- FBIU.S. domestic intelligence agency
- profilerBehavioral pattern analyst
- investigationFormal examination of facts
manhunt · spree · victims · modus operandi · forensics · criminal · consecutive · habitual
periodicals
Recurring printed publications
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- newspapersPrinted daily publications
installments · issues · volumes · editions · subscriptions · weekly · monthly · newsstand · pulp · dime novel
storyline
Sequence of fictional events
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- arcCurved line segment
- charactersPersons in a narrative
protagonist · antagonist · continuity · installments · sequel · prequel · spinoff · saga · subplot · episodic
soap opera
Serialized melodramatic broadcast drama
- dramaTheatrical art or turmoil
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
- miniseriesFinite-episode TV narrative
telenovela · prime time · binge-watch · streaming · episodes · seasons · showrunner · pilot · finale · cliffhanger
pattern
Recurring arrangement or template
investigation · manhunt · spree · victims · modus operandi · forensics · criminal · consecutive · habitual
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- videosvideos, clip, clips, video clip, films
- dramaTV drama, acting, television drama, drama school, playwright
- writingsessay, essays, article, articles, stories
- compilationsanthology, compilation, anthologies, collection, collected stories
- fiction writingfiction, novels, plot, chapters, character
serialsone-shots
Nonrecurring standalone works
miniseries · anthologies · feature films · complete works · limited series
serialscomplete editions
Publications with nothing omitted
collected works · monographs · compilations · bound volumes · graphic novels
- serial killerRecurring lone murderer
- serial numberUnique alphanumeric product identifier
- serial killingSuccessive homicides by one person
- serial murderRepeated homicides over time
- serial rapistCriminal who assaults repeatedly
- radio serialOngoing broadcast fiction program
serial, serially, serialized, serialize, serialization, serializing