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== At least 20 years ==
* ''[[Barney and Friends]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: The first videos came out in 1987; the show premiered in 1992.
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* ''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.
* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2000+1989-1987+1981-1979+1975-1971}} years: The TV series has undergone four different eras ([[Kamen Rider (TV series)|1971]]-[[Kamen Rider Stronger|1975]], [[Kamen Rider Skyrider|1979]]-[[Kamen Rider Super-1|1981]], [[Kamen Rider Black|1987]]-[[Kamen Rider Black RX|1989]], [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|2000]]-present, for a total of over twenty years' worth of episodes) and there have also been several films and a few specials. The [[Milestone Celebration|1,000th episode]] aired on [[Kamen Rider OOO|April 3, 2011]].
* ''Landline'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: Australian rural issues program, (1992-).
* ''Love of Life'' – 29 years: (7,315 episodes from 1951–80)
* ''[[Mr. Dressup]]'' – 29 years: Canadian children's show, 1967–96.
* ''[[The Real World]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: (1992-, over 400 episodes, one of the first successful [[Reality TV]] shows and MTV's longest running show.)
* ''[[Saltimbanco]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: a Cirque du Soleil show, hit the 20-year mark in Spring 2012. It originally closed in February 1997, but was brought back in October 1998; as a tent-based tour it ran until 2006, and relaunched as an arena tour in 2007 to visit cities that cannot support the tent tours.
* ''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).
* [[X Japan]] – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2007 + 1997-1982}} years ago: 1982-1997, with a long pause due to disbandment from 1997-2007.
* The following [[Cirque Du Soleil]] troupes:
** ''[[Mystere]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1993}}: (opened in 1993 at Las Vegas' Treasure Island Hotel and Casino; longest nonstop run. Current contract expires in '''2016'''.)
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** ''"O"'' and ''[[La Nouba]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: (both 1998-)
** ''[[Dralion]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: (1999-2010 as a tent show; 2010- in arenas)
* ''[[The Edge of Night]]'' – 28 years: (7,420 episodes from 1956–84)
* ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' – 28 years: Australian variety show, 1971–99.
* ''Talk Soup'' and ''The Soup'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2004 + 2002-1991}} years: ''Talk Soup'' ran from 1991-2002. Its successor, plainly titled ''[[The Soup]]'' has been airing since 2004.
* ''[[WWE 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'', you can add another decade or so to that.
** Due to the unique properties of "Sports Entertainment" (an umbrella Vince popularized), the "primetime entertainment show" designation is debatable.
** ''[[Smack Down]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: Which has been airing regularly since late 1999.
* ''Definitely Not the Opera'' – {{Years or months ago|1994}}: CBC Radio variety show since 1994, named ''Brand X'' 1994-97; hosted by Sook-Yin Lee since 2002.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[The Friendly Giant]]'' – 27 years: Canadian children's show, 1958–85.
* ''[[Police, Camera, Action!]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1994}}: Cop documentary, first broadcast in 1994.
* ''[[Time Shock (game show)|Time Shock]]'' – {{#expr:2012-2008 + 2007-2002 + 1990-1989 + 1986-1969}} years: Japanese quiz show, aired weekly 1969-1986, 1989-1990, and ''Time Shock 21'' in 2000-2002, plus periodic specials 2002–2012.
* ''[[WCW]] Saturday Night'' – 27 years: With a couple of name changes along the way.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' – 26 years: The manga ran from 1988 to 2014.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' – 26 years: Pilot in 1983, full series in 1984, weekly since 1987. Ended in September 2010.
* ''Crossroads'' – 26 years: British soap opera (1964–88 and 2001–03).
* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1995}}: started in 1995, making it one of the oldest webcomics in existence. <!-- so move it to Web Comics -->
* ''[[Reading Rainbow]]'' – 26 years: Sixteen seasons over twenty-six years, appears to have been [[Killed Off for Real]] in 2009, the third longest-running kids show on [[PBS]] behind ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' and ''[[Sesame Street]]''.
* ''[[Thuis]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1995}}: (Belgian soap opera, since 1995)
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* ''Evening at Pops'' – 25 years: PBS Boston Pops concert program, aired 1970-2005
* ''[[The Life of Nob T. Mouse]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: Began in December 1996 and is still going.
* ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: First broadcast in 1996, now have over 227 episodes.
* ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: (started in 1996, not going anywhere soon)
* ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' – 25 years: (1986-2011)
* ''[[Silent Witness]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996}}: (1996-, 13+ seasons)
* ''[[Taggart]]'' – 25 years: Originally a Scottish detective miniseries "Killer" (6-20 Sept 1983); a full series ran from 2 July 1985-7 November 2010 as the longest-running cop show on UK TV.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1996|10}}: A cartoon based on the books by Marc Brown.
* ''[[The Atheist Experience]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Started in 1997, still ongoing.
* ''[[Concentration]]'' – 24 years on NBC and in syndication: {1958-78, 1987-91}, minus a five-month hiatus in 1973)
* ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'' – 24-25 years: (1966–81, 1986–89, 1998-2004; total of 24 years, or 25 if you count ''[[The Match Game Hollywood Squares Hour]]'' {1983-84})
* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Aired on ITV since 1997.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: Started publication in 1997. Over 950 manga chapters in 90+ volumes, more than 800 episodes, fourteen movies, and counting.
** In 2010, the creator announced that the story had reached its halfway point; if this is true, then the series will run for a total of ''26 years.''
** Incredibly ironic given that when Eiichiro Oda initially started the series he planned to end it after 5 years. He scrapped the idea when the story just started writing itself.
* ''Play School'' – 24 years: BBC children's show, 1964–88. Inspired other, similar long runners like ''Play School'' (Australia) and ''Polka Dot Door'' (Canada).
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997|04}}: (14+ years, 700+ episodes, and 14+ movies (one per year).
* ''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.
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* ''[[South Park]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997}}: (1997-).
* ''[[To Tell the Truth]]'' – 24 years: (1956–68, 1969–78, 1980–81, 1990–91, 2000–01; total of 24 seasons)
* ''[[Truth or Consequences]]'' – 24 years: (1950–51, 1954–75, 1977–78, 1987-88) Total of 24 seasons, although it is best known for the 19 years {1956-75} hosted by Bob Barker)
* ''[[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? -->
* ''[[What's My Line?]]'' – 24 years: (1950–67, then 1968-75)
* ''Comedy Central Presents'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: The show has about 30 minutes of [[Stand Up Comedy]] by a different comedian each episode.
* ''The [[Ed Sullivan Show]]'' – 23 years: (1948–71)
* ''[[The Now Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: (first broadcast in 1998 and still airing)
* ''Nick News with Linda Ellerbee'' – 23 years: (1992 to 2015)
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: Since 1998. <!-- move to Web Comics -->
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1997|08}}: has been daily since August 25, 1997.
* ''[[True Life]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: [[MTV]] documentary series, with topics running from "I'm A Staten Island Girl" to "I Need A Transplant", running since 1998, 10 seasons so far.
* ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: Has been running since 1998.
* ''[[X-Play]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1998}}: Has been on the air since 1998, starting as ''[[Game Spot]] TV'' on ZDTV.
* ''Cat and Girl'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: A web comic that has been running since 1999. <!-- so move it to Web Comics... -->
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: ...sort of. Like Degrassi, it has been going off and on and off for a while. It hasn't been going-on ''continuously'' for ten years, but it has been going off and on and off since 1999, with the order going like this: Season 1 aired episodes weekly in 1999, but the next 4 seasons aired episodes once in a while form 1999 to 2007. One final episode in 2008, and the series officially ended in 2009 with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Ed, Edd, n' Eddy's Big Picture Show]].
* ''The Late Show with [[David Letterman]]'' – 22 years (1993-2015; adding the ''Late Night'' years at NBC, 33 years)
* ''[[Law & 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)
* ''[[Naruto]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: Manga first published in 1999 and ended in 2014 with an spin-off mini-series started in 2015. and aired in 2002. Now has 700 chapters in 72 volumes, 600+ episodes, 5 OVA, 1 novel, numerous games, and 10 movies. (With more to come, of course.)
* ''[[Parlamentet]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: (airing on Swedish television since 1999; by contrast, its parent programme, the BBC's ''[[If I Ruled The World]]'', only aired for [[British Brevity|fourteen episodes]] in 1998-99)
* ''[[Poirot]]'' – 22 years: First episode shown in 1989, an occasional break in the 1990s and 2000s and a final series scheduled for 2011.
* ''The Polka Dot Door'' – 22 years: Canadian children's show, 1971–93. One of the earliest programmes on TVOntario (CICA-TV, founded 27 September 1970).
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999}}: (Began in 1999, rose in popularity in 2000, widely considered as the most popular cartoon of the decade and rightfully took its place as one of the most successful cartoons of all time. Of course, still ongoing.)
* ''Brookside'' – 21 years: Channel 4 UK soap opera and one of the channel's first shows (1982-2003)
* ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: (2000-)
* ''[[FC De Kampioenen]]'' – 21 years: 1990-2011 Belgian sitcom.
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1999|12}}: (December 24, 1999 – present)
* ''Issues and Answers'' – 21 years: (1960–81) that, along with ''Meet the Press'' and ''Face the Nation'', represented the height of Sunday- morning political television in the US.
* ''Morningside'' – 21 years: CBC Radio morning show, 9AM-noon weekdays from 1976–97.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000|06}}: (published daily since June 12, 2000...and not missing a single day) <!-- move to Web Comics -->
* ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: has been on the air since 2000.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[The Weakest Link]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000}}: (first broadcast in 2000, around 1,500 episodes in a decade, not including international versions)
* ''[[Claymore]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2001}}: (2001–present, with a 26-episode animé)
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2001|01}}: Started in January 2001 <!-- move to Web comics -->
* ''[[Gunsmoke]]'' – 20 years: (1955–75) Famously the longest running drama series in primetime television, a title it now officially shares with ''Law & Order''. ''Technically'', ''Gunsmoke'' still ran longer; due to changes in the way the year was divided into television seasons, ''Gunsmoke'' ran from September 1955 to September of 1975, with 635 episodes; ''Law & Order'' ran from September 1990 to May 2010 (falling short of 20 years by three months), with 456 episodes.
* ''[[Law & 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]].
* ''[[Look and Read]]'' – sporadically, across about 20 different years: A children's educational programme produced irregularly from 1967-2004.
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' – {{Years or months ago|2000|08}}: Began in August 2000 <!-- move to Web Comics -->
* ''Monitor'' – 20 years: NBC Radio weekend show, 1955–75.
* ''[[Queen for a Day]]'' – 20 years: [[Game Show]], 1945–64 and 1969–70.
* ''[[Rainbow (TV series)|Rainbow]]'' – 20 years: British children's series on Thames TV, 1972–92.
* ''The Red Skelton Show'' – 20 years: (1951–71)
* ''The Secret Storm'' – 20 years: Squeaks in at 20 years and 7 days, 1954–74.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Toonami]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2012+11}} years: [[Cartoon Network]]'s longest running block at over 11 years, from March 17, 1997 - September 20, 2008. Revived on May 26, 2012.
== At least 10 years ==
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