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* [[Superman]] – {{Years or months ago|1938|06}}: First appeared in ''[[Action Comics]]'' in June 1938. Many years, radio, TV and film spinoffs later he's still one of the most popular fictional characters ever.

* ''The National Research Council Time Signal'' – {{Years or months ago|1939|11}}: Heard at 1:00 PM ET every day since November 5, 1939 on the CBC radio network.

 

== At least 70 years ==

* ''[[Meet the Press]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1945|11}}: Weekly on television since November 6, 1947; debuted on radio in 1945 as ''American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press''.

* ''Arbeidsvitaminen'' (''Work vitamins'') – {{Years or months ago|1946|02}}: A music programme on AVRO in the Netherlands. The longest running daily radio show in the world, having started in February 1946.

* ''[[The Archers]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951}}: Has run since 1951 on [[The BBC|BBC radio]], and is now the world's longest-running extant [[Soap Opera]] in any medium (since the cancellation of ''[[Guiding Light]]'').

* ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951|12}}: Airing on various networks since December 1951.

 

== At least 60 years ==

* ''Tagesschau'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|12}}: The news programme has aired in the same 20:00 time slot on NWDR in Germany since Boxing Day 1952; it went to being broadcast seven days a week in 1961. The programme now serves as ARD's flagship news brand.

* [[Agatha Christie]]'s theatrical play ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|11}}: Has been running on the West End since November 1952, pausing only for seven months in 2020 because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].

* ''[[Coronation Street]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1960|12}}: ~7,500 episodes since December 1960

* ''It's Academic'' – {{Years or months ago|1961}}: Washington, D.C. televised academic game show, continually produced since 1961; listed in the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the longest running quiz show in television history.

* ''Four Corners'' – {{Years or months ago|1961|08}}: Australian current-affairs show, running since August 1961

 

== At least 50 years ==

* Ireland's ''The Late Late Show'' – {{Years or months ago|1962|07}}: Since July 1962, has only had three regular presenters (Gay Byrne (1962–99), Pat Kenny (1999-2009), Ryan Tubridy (since 2009)). Not to be confused with the American ''[[The Late Late Show]]'', which has "only" been running since 1995.

* ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1963}}: The books began appearing in 1963. New ones were being published as late as 2011.

* ''[[Die Sendung mit der Maus]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1971}}: German [[Edutainment Show]] for children, airing since 1971

* ''[[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.

* ''Emmerdale'' (formerly ''Emmerdale Farm'') – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: British soap opera (began in 1972)

* ''Great Performances'' – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: PBS performing arts series, airing since 1972.

* ''The Las Vegas Folies Bergère'' – 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.

* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: Manga came around in 1972. An anime show and a second, manga series parallel to the original one were made in that same year, two sequels and several movies in that same decade, a related animé show ([[God Mazinger]]) in the eighties, an OVA series and movie in 2001 and a reboot in 2009. And then you have to count several alternate manga versions and one-shots produced throughout four decades. And this year [[Go Nagai|the creator]] [[Word of God|has stated]] he intends to make more Mazinger manga and anime.

* ''Marketplace'' – {{Years or months ago|1972|10}}: Consumer advocacy program on CBC-TV, loathed by manufacturers nationwide since October 1972.

* ''[[Mastermind]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1972|10}}: British quiz show airing since September 1972; from 1972-97 on BBC1 with Magnús Magnússon, 1998-2000 on BBC Radio 4 with Peter Snow, 2001-02 on Discovery with Clive Anderson, and 2003–present on BBC2 with John Humphrys

* ''[[Kochikame|Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kôen Mae Hashutsujo]]'' – 40 years: 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 and ran until 2016, with 1,960 chapters collected in 200 tankoban volumes. It ''also'' has a 367-episode anime adaptation and two movies.

* ''[[Wetten, dass...?]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1981}}: German language show, broadcast in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1981.

 

== At least 30 years ==

* ''[[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 spin-offs, revivals, and movies. It didn't even stop for the [[World War II|darkest days of war]] as it had [[Wartime Cartoon#Warner Brothers|a duty]] to fulfill.

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

* ''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.

* ''The Phil Donahue Show'' – 30 years: (1967-96 on national TV, 3 years on Dayton, Ohio local TV) The show that inspired most [[Talk Show]]s after it, including Oprah and Sally Jessy Raphael.

* ''[[Barney and Friends]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: The first videos came out in 1987; the show premiered in 1992.

* ''[[Dateline (TV series)|Dateline]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1992}}: NBC news magazine running continuously since 1992.

* ''Donahue'' – 29 years: (1967-70 as a local series, then nationally until 1996)

* ''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.

* ''[[Time Team]]'' - 20 years: 1994-2014.

* ''[[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 ==

* ''[[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.