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== At least 10 years ==
* ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2001|09}}: First aired in September 2001.
* ''[[The Bachelor]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2002}}: Began in 2002; by 2020 the franchise has aired 40 seasons - 24 of the Bachelor, 15 of The Bachelorette.
* ''[[Beachcombers]]'' – 19 years: With 387 episodes from 1972–91, the longest dramatic series in Canada/
* ''[[Chilly Willy]]'' – 19 years: Produced by [[Walter Lantz]], ran from 1953 to 1972. As the studio only did an average of three cartoons per year with the character, he only has 50 shorts despite 19 years in production.
* The following [[Cirque Du Soleil]] troupes:
** ''[[Varekai]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2002}}: (2002-)
* ''The Doctors'' – 19 years: 1963–82; 5,280 episodes
* ''Finkleman's 45s'' – 19 years: CBC radio retro music show; October 5, 1985 - June 25, 2005.
* ''
* ''Sally Jessy Raphael'' – 19 years: Ran from 1983-2002; cancelled by distributor Studios USA due to the fading popularity of talk shows. (And yet Jerry's been on continuously since 1991...)
* ''[[
* ''[[Heartbeat]]'' – 18 years: (1992-2010)
* ''[[Iron Chef]]'' – 18 years: Multiple international versions exist (including series run 1993-99 and 2012-13 on Fuji TV in Japan, and another on the Food Network from 2004-12 in USA). Between ''Iron Chef Japan'' and ''Iron Chef America'', that's nearly (but not quite) two decades in one form or another.
* ''[[Match Game]]'' – 18 years: 1962-69 on NBC, 1973-82 on CBS and syndication, 1983-84 as ''The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour'', 1990-91 on ABC and 1998-99 in syndication.
* The ''[[Pyramid]]'' [[Game Show]] series – 18 years: (26 years worth of episodes due to the overlapping syndicated versions):
** 1973-74, CBS (''The $10,000 Pyramid'')
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** 1991, syndicated (''The $100,000 Pyramid'')
** 2002-04, syndicated (''Pyramid'')
* ''[[Tokyo Friend Park II]]'' – 18 years: Japanese game show, aired nearly every week from April 1994 through March 2011, plus another year prior if you count the original ''Tokyo Friend Park'' which aired from October 1992 through September 1993
* ''The Montel Williams Show'' – 17 years: (1991-2008)
* ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' – 17 years: initially ran from 1981-1991 (10 years), and continued for another 7 years with annual Christmas specials.
* ''[[Catchphrase (game show)|Catchphrase]]'' – 16 years: A British game show which outlived the much less successful American version upon which it was based.
* ''[[Gintama]]'' – 16 years: started publication in 2003, and finished its run in 2019 with 77 volumes. The anime adaptation, in several incarnations, ran for 12 years (2006-2018).
* ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2005|03}}: As of 2021, it is the longest-running American primetime medical drama series.
* ''[[Almost Live]]!'' – 15 years: Sketch comedy on NBC affiliate KING-TV Seattle from 1984–99, best known for launching the television career of [[Bill Nye]].
* ''[[Bleach]]'' – 15 years: started publication in 2001 and finished in 2016 with 74 volumes. The anime lasted 8 years (2004-2012), although as of 2020 a final series to wrap off the final manga arc was announced.
* ''[[CSI]]'' – 15 years: Began in 2000 and finished in 2015.
** ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' – 10 years: (2002-2012)
* ''[[Definition]]'' – 15 years: Lasted from 1974 to 1989.
* ''[[ER]]'' – 15 years: (1994-2009)
* ''[[Fifteen to One]]'' – 15 years: British quiz show, 1988-2003
* ''[[Major]]'' – 15 years: Started in 1994, reached 700 chapters.
* ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' – 15 years: (1990-2005, 300 episodes and a movie. Could go for almost thirty years if you count the length of time Steve Smith has been playing the Red Green character, having first done it on ''Smith and Smith'' in the late 1970s.)
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' – 15 years: Debuted in 2005, has its Grand Finale in 2020.
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' – 15 years: (1988-2003) Started out on Radio 4 in 1988, then moved onto [[Channel 4]] the same year, where it lasted for 10 seasons; the show moved to Hollywood in 1998, when it got picked up by [[ABC]]. The show was cancelled in 2003 — and by cancelled, it stopped ''filming'' new episodes; new episodes continued to ''air'' on [[ABC Family]] until November 2006.
* ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' – 14 years: (1952–66) The longest-running American sitcom before ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' – 14 years: Although the animé [[Cut Short|got axed]] when it was going to [[Overtook the Manga|overtake the manga]], the manga itself ran from 1996-2008; the anime came back and finished the story in 2009-2010. That's 14 years if you count the animé as part of its run as well.
* ''[[Knots Landing]]'' – 14 years: [[Spin-Off]] of ''Dallas'' that outlasted its already long running parent show (1979-1993)
* ''[[Mad TV]]'' – 14 years: (1995-2009; is considered ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s longest-running rival sketch show, and like ''SNL'' had its share of cast changes, writer changes, and executive producer changes)
* ''[[Are You Being Served?]]'' – 13 years: Lasted from 1972 to 1985.
* ''Countdown'' – 13 years: Australia; 1974–87.
* ''[[Dallas]]'' – 13 years: (1978–91)
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' – 13 years: Manga started in late 1984, ended in 1995. Animé started in 1986 with and ended in 1997 with GT. ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' may or may not count as additional seasons. It is still quite alive in terms of people finding ways to try and make money out of it.
* ''[[Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids]]'' – 13 years: Lasted from 1972 to 1984 in the original format, plus 1984 to 1985 in first-run syndication.
* ''[[Iketeru Futari]]'' – 13 years: (1997-2010)
* ''[[The Joker's Wild]]'' – 13 years: (originally ran from 1972-75 on CBS, followed by syndicated revivals from 1977–86 and 1990–91; total of 13 seasons)
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' – 13 years: (13 seasons and survivor of FOX's [[Friday Night Death Slot|Sunday Sports Pre-emption Slot]], 1997-2009)
* ''[[Pinwheel]]'' – 13 years: 1977-90. Was [[Nickelodeon]]'s biggest show at 260 episodes until ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]'' dethroned it.
* ''[[Ryan's Hope]]'' – 13 years: (1975–89)
* ''[[Time Team]]'' – 13+ years: British series.
* ''[[
* ''[[Break the Bank (1945 game show)|Break The Bank]]'' – 12 years: Its original run was 1945–57.
* ''[[Caillou]]'' – 12 years: (1998-2010)
* ''[[Darkbolt]]'' – 12 years: (1999-2011) Long manga-style web comic <!-- so move it to Web Comics -->
* ''Fred Penner's Place'' – 12 years: CBC children's show, ran from 1985–97
* ''[[Good Eats]]'' – 12 years: Débuted July 7, 1999 and ran until 2011. Was [[Food Network]]'s longest-running consecutive original program, with 14 seasons and 249 episodes).
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' – 12 years: (1968–80)
* ''[[Loving]]'' – 12 years: (1983–95)
* ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' – 12 years: (1984–96)
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' – 12 years: Disregarding its brief cancellation period and lackluster spin-offs. 177 aired episodes; however, each episode has [[Three Shorts|two (or three in later seasons) stories.]] When you add them all together, include the pilot, the two "Tales From the Crib" movies, and the three feature films, the approximate number of episodes becomes roughly 351.)
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' – 12 years: Ran for ten years on [[Adult Swim]] alone, and then for two more years on [[Game Tap]].
* ''[[Tic-Tac-Dough]]'' – 12 years: Originally ran from 1956-59 on NBC, then in syndication from 1978–86 and 1990–91; total of 12 seasons.
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' – 12 years: (1999-2011 as a web original)<!-- so move it there? -->
* ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]'' – 12 years: (27 series over 12 years in its home country; has versions in lots of countries, some of which are Long Runners themselves).
* ''[[7th Heaven]]'' – 11 years: Including a [[Post Script Season]].
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* ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' – 11+ years:
* ''[[
* ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'' – 11 years: (the manga ran for 11 years, and dramas based on it are still in development)
* ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' – 11 years.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' – 11 years: (1972–83); [[The Korean War]] lasted only three years in [[Real Life]].
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' – 11 years: (1988-99); Originated on KTMA, then moved to [[Comedy Central]], then [[Syfy]])
* ''[[My Family]]'' – 11 years: (2000–11)
* ''[[Strike It Rich]]'' – 11 years: [[Game Show]], June 29, 1947 – January 3, 1958.
* ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'' – 10 years: Lasted from 1982 to 1992, a full decade.
* ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' – 10 years: Ran from 1992-2002 with a reunion episode in 2005.
* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' – 10 years: Premièred on ''[[Oh Yeah Cartoons|Oh Yeah! Cartoons]]'' in September 1998; the show proper débuted in March 2001 and ended on December 2011 (being a quite a bit more than exactly 10 years on air.)
* ''[[Friends]]'' – 10 years: Ran for 10 seasons and 236 episodes, first broadcast between September 22, 1994 and May 6, 2004.
* ''[[JAG]]'' – 10 years: (1995-2005)
* ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' – 10 years: (2001–11)
* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' – 10 years: 1987-97; longest-running live-action sitcom on FOX
* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' – 10 years: (1988–98)
* ''[[Smallville]]'' – 10 years: (2001–11)
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' – 10 years: Longest continuously running [[Sci Fi]] show on U.S. television after ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. Also 5 years for its spinoff, ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''. ''Universe'' picking up immediately after ''Atlantis'' ended means that there has always been a current [[Stargate Verse]] series since 1997.)
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