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* ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1931|11}}: Began airing on radio in November 1931 and moved to television in November 1952 (the first year of regular television broadcasts in Canada), and is the world's longest-running sports show.
* The ''Metropolitan Opera'' – {{Years or months ago|1931|12}}: Airs a radio broadcast season each year. Although going since Christmas of 1931 (and broadcast in January 1910 over experimental radio broadcasts), unlike ''The Guiding Light'' it only airs episodes during a season and is not continuous.
* The original ''Folies Bergère'' in Paris - {{Years or months ago|1869|05}}. The cabaret/music hall opened in 1869 and has run shows continuously since.
 
== At least 80 years ==
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== At least 70 years ==
* ''[[The Guiding Light]]'': 72 years, 7 months, 26 days (57 of those on television), from January 25, 1937 to September 19, 2009. It ''was'' listed in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the longest continuously-running program on any medium, in any genre, until the ''CBS World News Roundup'' broke its record in November 2010. It would take a listener [[Archive Panic|over eighteen months, 24 hours a day, to listen to it from beginning to end]] (although the large number of [[Missing Episode]]s from the first 40 years would make such an archive binge impossible). It may be the largest single work of fiction in human history.
* ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1942|01}}: Has been airing on BBC Radio since 29 January 1942, making it the longest-running program in the history of British broadcasting. It still uses the original theme tune, Eric Coates' "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (with overdubbed seagull noises), and has only had four regular presenters (Roy Plomley, Michael Parkinson, Sue Lawley, Kirsty Young).
* ''Arbeidsvitaminen'' (''Work vitamins'') – {{Years or months ago|1946}}: A music programme on AVRO in the Netherlands. The longest running daily radio show in the world, having started in February 1946.
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* ''All Things Considered'' – {{Years or months ago|1971}}: News magazine program airing on [[NPR]] since 1971, airing its first instalment just months after NPR itself began broadcasting.)
* ''[[The Fantasticks]]'' – 42 years: ran off-Broadway from 1960-2002.
* ''The Las Vegas Folies BergereBergère'' – 49 years: One of the original Las Vegas showgirl extravaganzas, inspired by the original ''Folies Bergère'' in Paris, it opened in 1959 at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino and closed a few months shy of what would have been its 50th anniversary in 2009.
* ''[[Golgo 13]]'' – 40 years: 142 volumes spread across four decades; started in 1969.
* ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1971}}: has aired on PBS since 1971, although it's just called ''Masterpiece'' now; its sister program, ''Mystery!'' {now known as ''Masterpiece Mystery''}, has aired since 1980.
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* ''Quote Unquote'' – {{Years or months ago|1976}}: That innocuous literary quiz that appears at lunchtimes, has been on BBC Radio 4 with the same host (Nigel Rees) since 1976.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: Premièred October 11, 1975 and is still going with more than 800 episodes ([[Archive Panic|and that's not even counting the clip shows and anniversary episodes]]) in its first 45 completed seasons. Survived cast changes, writer changes, executive producer changes (with [[Lorne Michaels]], who was executive producer from 1975 to 1980, left for five years, then returned in 1985, as the most prominent), four directors (Don Roy King is the current director), three announcers [with Don Pardo as their most-used], [[Seasonal Rot]] leading to threats of cancellation in its 6th, 11th, and 20th seasons, several rival sketch shows that aired alongside it, fickle fans, cynical critics, seven cast member deaths (John Belushi,<ref>Died 1982 of a drug overdose</ref> Gilda Radner,<ref>Died 1989 from ovarian cancer</ref> Danitra Vance,<ref>Died 1994 from breast cancer</ref> Michael O'Donoghue,<ref>Also died in 1994 from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by years of migraine headaches</ref> Chris Farley,<ref>Died late 1997 from a drug overdose, much like Belushi did back in '82</ref> Phil Hartman,<ref>Died 1998; was shot and killed by his wife, Brynn, who committed suicide before the police could arrest her</ref> and Charles Rocket <ref>Died 2005 from a slashed-throat suicide</ref>), four writers' strikes (with the 2007-08 one being the most recent), eight Presidential administrations (starting with [[Gerald Ford]]), controversial events behind the scenes (Nora Dunn's boycotting the Andrew "Dice" Clay episode, Chevy Chase's fight with [[Bill Murray]] backstage, Garrett Morris' cocaine-induced nervous breakdown after being forced to play a monkey in a Canadian ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' parody, etc), and a boatload of modern historical events and pop culture trends that have changed society for better and worse (some of which were mocked by ''SNL'').
* ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby -Doo]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1969|09}}: Multiple series; at least one series was in first-run almost every year from 1969–91 and since 2002, plus one or more direct-to-video movies each year since 1998.
* ''[[Sports Center]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979|09}}: Celebrated its 30th anniversary September 7, 2009; runs for at least two hours every day {the latter of which is repeated throughout the following morning}, and quite a bit more as of August 2008. According to [[The Other Wiki]], it stands above 31,000+ episodes, usually 60 or 90 minutes each.
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: Multiple series, spanning at least 1975-1977, 1979–Present<ref>''[[Himitsu Sentai Goranger]]'' and ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]]'' were not originally considered part of the franchise and were only retroactively recognized in years later.</ref> Whether it counts depends on the definition of a "show", since each year the program in the time slot is set in a different [[The Verse|world]] with a different team of superheroes (or "rangers") in color-coded uniforms who ride giant transforming and combining robots. It does have a series of crossover films between different teams set outside the television continuity (the ''Super Sentai Versus Series'') and the [[Milestone Celebration|35th series]], ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', was a ''year-long'' crossover involving all the previous teams. If you count it, it's the longest running sci-fi program in the world just by number of years, and the fact that it airs an episode a week with no Summer break (nearly 1,800 episodes and counting) means it vastly exceeds most rivals' lengths in total airtime, including ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
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* ''[[Top Gear]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: 1977-2001, 2002–Present; if you include ''Wheelbase'', ''[[Top Gear]]'' has been running in one form or another since 1964.
* ''The Victory Garden'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: PBS gardening program, airing since 1975
* The [[w:Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney anthology television series]] – {{Years or months ago|1959}}: Nine different series airing continuously since the premiere of ''Walt Disney's Disneyland'' in 1954 and most recently incarnated as ''The Wonderful World of Disney''.
* ''What? Where? When?'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: The original Russian version of ''[[Million Dollar Mind Game]]'', since 1975.
* ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1975|01}}: Since January 6, 1975 on NBC, CBS, and in syndication.
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* ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' – 30 years: 1954–84
* ''[[Car Talk]]'' – 35 years: Locally on WBUR Boston since 1977, nationally on [[NPR]] since 1987, last new episodes in 2012. Reruns are still on-air on some platforms.
* ''[[The Dark Tower|Dark Tower]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1982}}: The first book was released in 1982. An [[Interquel]] taking place between books four and five was scheduled for release in 2012.<!-- should be in [[Print Long Runners]], not here? -->
* The ''Degrassi'' franchise – about 31 years across five main series: It hasn't been on ''continuously'' for 40 years, but it has been going off on and on from 1979-2019, with some gaps. The order looks somewhat like this: ''The Kids of Degrassi Street'' 1979-1986; ''[[Degrassi Junior High]]'' 1987-1989; ''[[Degrassi High]]'' 1989-1992 (counting [[The Movie|the Made-for-TV-Movie]]), ''[[Degrassi|Degrassi: The Next Generation]]''<ref>[[Officially Shortened Title|now titled simply ''Degrassi'']]</ref> (2001–2014) and ''Degrassi: Next Class'' (until 2019).
* ''Don McNeill's Breakfast Club'' – 35 years: Aired on NBC Blue (later ABC Radio) from 1933-68.
* ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1981}}: Started in 1981 and is still in production.
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* ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' – 37 years: British [[Sitcom]], 1973-2010.
* ''[[Look and Read]]'' – sporadically, across about 20 different years: A children's educational programme produced irregularly from 1967-2004.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' – 39 years: The original theatrical series ran from 1930-69. In that period it went through various directors, animators, producers, and not to mention characters. And that's not counting the various spinoffsspin-offs, revivals, and movies. It [[Wartime Cartoon|didn't even stop]] for the [[World War II|darkest days of war]] as it had a duty to fulfilfulfill.
* ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' – 33 years: 1968-2001. Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) [[Author Existence Failure|is no longer with us]], although reruns still air.
* ''Mr. Squiggle'' – 36 years: Australian children's show, 1959–95.
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* ''Wetten, dass...?'' – {{Years or months ago|1981}}: German language show, broadcast in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1981.
* ''[[Wide World of Sports]]'' – 37 years: (1961–98)
* ''[[Wonderama]]'' – 31 years: A weekly children's show that ran on New York's WNEW and other stations owned by the Metromedia syndicate. The 1955-1986 timespan runs from just before the demise of the [[DuMont]] network (Metropolitan Broadcasting/Metromedia were DuMont's former owned-and-operated station group) to their relaunch as [[FOX]] thirty years later.
* ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' – 32 years, plus sequels: He made his first appearance in 1940 (although he wouldn't get his own series until the next year) and his theatrical cartoons lasted all the way up to 1972 (and are still being re-run on television in some parts of South America). He also had a brief revival in the late 1990s.
 
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* ''Brookside'' – 21 years: Channel 4 UK soap opera and one of the channel's first shows (1982-2003)
* ''[[Casualty]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1986}}: First broadcast 1986, as a cross between medical drama and soap opera.
** Its spinoffspin-off ''[[Holby City]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: has already had a 10+ year run in its own right (since 1999)
* ''[[Concentration]]'' – 24 years on NBC and in syndication: {1958-78, 1987-91}, minus a five-month hiatus in 1973)
* ''[[COPS (series)|COPS]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1989}}: The second longest-running show on [[FOX]] (1989) and the longest-running [[Reality Show]] on TV.
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* ''[[Kochikame|Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kôen Mae Hashutsujo]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1976}}: Called ''Kochikame'' for short, and for good reason—it's the longest continuously-running manga series in terms of number of volumes, though ''Golgo 13'' beats it in years. Started in 1976, with 1,400+ chapters in 162+ tankoban volumes, '''it's still running.''' It ''also'' has a 367-episode anime adaptation and two movies.
* ''[[Late Night]] with...'' – {{Years or months ago|1982}}: Since 1982- on NBC; hosted by [[David Letterman]] {1982-93}, [[Conan O'Brien]] {1993-2009}, and Jimmy Fallon {2009-}
* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' – 20 years: September 13, 1990 - May 24, 2010. Fell just short of beating ''Gunsmoke'''s record, though at least they're now tied. Was the longest-running first-run drama series in primetime for all of [[The Noughties]].
* ''Legends in Concert'' – {{Years or months ago|1983}}: A celebrity impersonator revue, opened at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV in 1983 and ran there until 2009—when it moved next door to Harrah's Hotel and Casino and picked up where it left off. Sister productions in Atlantic City, NJ, Branson, MO, and Myrtle Beach, SC have all had decade-plus runs; the latter two are still performing.
<!-- * ''[[The Letter People]]'': First broadcast in 1976, it ran clear into the 1990s. This looks to be one set of sixty 15-minute episodes which were rerun for years, until being updated once in 1996. -->
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== At least 10 years ==
* ''[[7th Heaven|Seventh Heaven]]'' – 11 years: Including a [[Post Script Season]].
* ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' – 14 years: (1952–66) The longest-running American sitcom before ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
* ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]'' – 12 years, intermittent: Ran on and off from 1978-90.
* ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]'' – 10 years: Lasted from 1982 to 1992, a full decade.
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2001|09}}: First aired in September 2001.
* ''[[Are You Being Served?|Are You Being Served]]'' – 13 years: Lasted from 1972 to 1985.
* ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996|10}}: A cartoon based on the books by Marc Brown.
* ''[[As Time Goes By]]'' – 10 years: Ran from 1992-2002 with a reunion episode in 2005.
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* ''[[Definition]]'' – 15 years: Lasted from 1974 to 1989.
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1994}}: In publication since 1994 and on the air since 1996 with 600+ episodes, 15 movies, and 70+ volumes. It's still going in both animé and manga form.
<!-- * ''[[Degrassi]]: The Next Generation'' – {{Years or months ago|2001}}: One of multiple series; this one has been running since 2001. Now known as ''Degrassi'' 261 episodes in 10 1/2 seasons so far; the very first incarnation of it was actually in 1979 with ''Kids of Degrassi Street'' MOD: Already cited in the general entry for the Degrassi franchise above. -->
* ''The Doctors'' – 19 years: 1963–82; 5,280 episodes
* ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: (2000-)
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* ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'' – 11 years: (the manga ran for 11 years, and dramas based on it are still in development)
* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999|12}}: (December 24, 1999 – present)
* ''[[Hawaii Five-O|Hawaii Five O]]'' – 12 years: (1968–80)
* ''Hannity and Colmes'' – 12+ years: (12 and a half years, plus ''Hannity'')
* ''[[Heartbeat]]'' – 18 years: (1992-2010)
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* ''The Late Late Show'' – {{Years or months ago|1995}}: Since 1995 on CBS; hosted by Tom Snyder {1995-99}, Craig Kilborn {1999-2005}, [[Craig Ferguson]] {2005-}
* ''The Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1993}}: (1993-; adding the ''Late Night'' years at NBC, 27 years)
* ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: (1999-; 12 years as of 2010, when it also became the longest-running first-run drama series in prime time, carrying on the mantle of its parent series)
** ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' – 10 years: (2001–11)
* ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse|The Life of Nob T Mouse]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: Began in December 1996 and is still going.
* ''[[Loving]]'' – 12 years: (1983–95)
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|MashM*A*S*H]]'' – 11 years: (1972–83); [[The Korean War]] was three years in [[Real Life]].
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Major]]'' – 15 years: Started in 1994, reached 700 chapters.
* ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]'' – 10 years: 1987-97; longest-running live-action sitcom on FOX
* ''[[Match Game|The 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.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' – 11 years: (1988-99); Originated on KTMA, then moved to [[Comedy Central]], then [[Syfy]])
* ''Maury'' – {{Years or months ago|1991}}: Maury Povich's talk show; started in 1991 and still going strong. Switched distributors from Paramount to Universal in 1998.
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* ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: has been on the air since 2000.
* ''Talk Soup'' and ''The Soup'' – {{Years or months ago|1991}}: ''Talk Soup'' ran from 1991-2002. It's successor, plainly titled ''[[The Soup]]'' has been airing since 2004, putting total air time near the twenty-year mark.
<!-- * ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2001}}: Started as a fan-made [[Tabletop RPG]] expansion pack in the mid-1990s, still has a couple of people writing short stories set in that universe today. <!-- looks to be a tabletop RPG, not a series in any medium, so not this trope. MOD: We have other Roleplaying games listed above, including D&D and Shadowrun. No need to disqualify it on those grounds. -->
* ''[[This American Life]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: Has aired nationally since 1996 (beginning locally one year earlier as ''Your Radio Playhouse''), as well as a Showtime TV series from 2007-09.
* ''[[Thuis]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1995}}: (Belgian soap opera, since 1995)
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* ''[[User Friendly]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Has published daily since 1997, with only short hiatus periods lately due to serious losses in the author's family.<!-- move to subtrope as publication? -->
* ''[[The Vinyl Cafe|The Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean]]'' – 21 years: CBC Radio music-variety show, 1994 – 2015 (Summer replacement 1994-97, weekly since 1997). Andrew Stuart McLean died from cancer on 15 February 2017.
* ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: Has been running since 1998.
* ''[[The Weakest Link]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: (first broadcast in 2000, around 1,500 episodes in a decade, not including international versions)
* ''[[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).
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|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.
* ''[[WWE]]'' ''[[WWE Raw|RAW]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1993}}: (airing since 1993, has aired over 900 episodes, the most of any weekly primetime entertainment show in US history)
** And if one is inclined to say Raw is a [[Retool]] of ''Prime Time Wrestling'', this one's a two-and-a-half decade show.
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