Long Runners: Difference between revisions

* ''The World at Six'' – {{Years or months ago|1966}}: Flagship dinner-hour newscast on CBC Radio One since 1966.

* ''Radio Rochela'' – 51 years: Venezuelan longest-running comedy show. Began as a sketch section in a variety show in 1959, got its own timeslot in 1961, and ran almost uninterruptedly until 2010, only ending because their networks' closing.

 

== At least 40 years ==

* ''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'').

* ''[[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]]''.

* ''[[Casualty]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1986}}: First broadcast 1986, as a cross between medical drama and soap opera.

** Its spin-off ''[[Holby City]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: has already had a 20+ year run in its own right (since 1999)

* ''[[COPS (series)|COPS]]'' – 33 seasons (1987-2020), including 24 years (1989-2013) on FOX (where it was the second longest-running show on the network and the longest-running [[Reality Show]] on TV).

* ''[[Countdown]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1982}}: (Britain; the first program on Channel 4, started in '82, 5000+ episodes)

** ''[[Dralion]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: (1999-2010 as a tent show; 2010- in arenas)

* ''Comedy Central Presents'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: The show has about 30 minutes of [[Stand Up Comedy]] by a different comedian each episode.

* ''Crossroads'' – 26 years: British soap opera (1964–88 and 2001–03).

* ''[[CSI]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: Began in 2000 and still going.

* ''[[The Friendly Giant]]'' – 27 years: Canadian children's show, 1958–85

* ''[[Funday Pawpet Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999|11}}: (November 1999-; 466 [http://pawpet.tv/episode_guide 4-hour episodes] as of July 18, 2010)

* ''Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: German soap with 4,000+ episodes, running since 1992; based on a Dutch soap called ''Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden'', which has run for 3,500 episodes since 1990.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999|12}}: (December 24, 1999 – present)

* ''Love of Life'' – 29 years: (7,315 episodes from 1951–80)

* ''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.

* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Aired on ITV since 1997, with plans to continue beyond star John Nettles' departure in 2011.

* ''Monitor'' – 20 years: NBC Radio weekend show, 1955–75.

* ''[[Says You!]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Has been running since 1997.

* ''Saber y Ganar'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Spanish daily quiz show, started on 17 February 1997. Since October 2011, it runs all seven days a week. It has consistently been the most viewed show in its channel since 2004.

* ''The Secret Storm'' – 20 years: Squeaks in at 20 years and 7 days, 1954–74.

* ''Shortland Street'' – {{Years or months ago|1992|05}}: is Television New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, first aired on May 25, 1992 and still going strong (as of early 2010).

* ''The Doctors'' – 19 years: 1963–82; 5,280 episodes

* ''[[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.

* ''[[ER]]'' – 15 years: (1994-2009)

* ''[[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.)

* ''[[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]])

* ''The Montel Williams Show'' – 17 years: (1991-2008)

* ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' – 12 years: (1984–96)

* ''[[Ryan's Hope]]'' – 13 years: (1975–89)

* ''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...)

* ''[[Smallville]]'' – 10 years: (2001–11)

* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' – 12 years: Ran for ten years on [[Adult Swim]] alone, and then for two more years on [[Game Tap]].