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== At least 40 years ==
* ''[[All My Children]]'' – 41 years: 10,712 episodes from 1970-2011▼
* ''[[The Fantasticks]]'' – 42 years: ran off-Broadway from 1960-2002.▼
* ''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.▼
* ''[[Golgo 13]]'' – 40 years: 142 volumes spread across four decades; started in 1969.▼
* ''[[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.▼
* ''[[One Life to Live]]'' – 44 years: (11,096 episodes from 1968-2012)▼
* ''Romper Room'' – 41 years: 1953–94, in various local franchised versions. TVOntario ran a very similar programme as the ''Polka Dot Door'' (1971-1993), which initially was based heavily on the [[BBC]] (UK) version of ''[[Play School]]'' (1964-1988).▼
* ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' – 42 years: Started in 1964; weekly show stopped in 2006, but lives on in special editions.▼
* ''[[20/20]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1978}}: ABC's US newsmagazine, airing since 1978.▼
* ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: The first specials appeared in 1977. The proper series started in 1977 and is still ongoing.▼
* ''[[Bassie En Adriaan]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1978}}: Since 1978.▼
* ''Depeche Mode'' – {{Years or months ago|1980}}: 14 studio albums, six live albums, ten compilation albums, 15 box sets, 13 videos since 1980.▼
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2005+1989-1963}} years: Ran from 1963 to 1989, and again from 2005 onward.▼
* ''[[Doraemon]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1979+1974-1973}} years: (second longest-running animé ever, until recently with the same principal voice cast. Aired one season in 1973, then continuously on a different network since 1979. They tried canning it in 2005, an idea which lasted all of a month before it was [[Uncancelled]].)▼
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1974}}: Has been around since 1974.▼
* ''Emmerdale'' (formerly ''Emmerdale Farm'') – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: British soap opera (began in 1972)
* ''The Fifth Estate'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: CBC-TV newsmagazine program, since 1975.▼
* ''Good Morning America'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: ABC weekday morning show, airing since 1975.▼
* ''Great Performances'' – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: PBS performing arts series, airing since 1972.
* ''[[Gundam]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: 16 TV and OAV series', 11+ movies, more manga and video games (separate and original stories mind you, ''not'' just adaptations) than we dare to count, and ''good Lord'', the model kits! If one were to watch every ''Gundam'' animated work continuously, not counting eating, sleeping, or bathroom breaks, the total runtime would last longer than [[The Bible|Noah]]'s voyage aboard the Ark, as there<!-- more than '''one week'''. There--> are literally over a thousand hours' worth of ''Gundam'' animated work.<!--to be verified? as a week is 168 hours, a thousand hours is 41 + 2/3 days -->▼
* ''The House'' – {{Years or months ago|1977|10}}: CBC Radio parliamentary affairs show, year-round since October 1977▼
* ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: Some incarnation of the show has existed since the late 1970s▼
* ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1972}}: Has been running on BBC Radio 4 since 1972. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden have been regular panellists since the very beginning (except for occasional breaks due to medical problems or other commitments), and Barry Cryer has been a regular panellist since the second series after alternating with Humphrey Lyttelton in the moderator's chair for the first series.
* ''Inside The NFL'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: 1977-2008 on HBO, Showtime 2008-present▼
* ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1984+12}} years: (12 years with Art Fleming {1964-75 and 1978-79}, 26+ years with [[Alex Trebek]] {1984–Present})
▲* ''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.
* ''[[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.▼
▲* ''[[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
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* ''Panel Quiz Attack 25'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: Japanese quiz show, has been on the air since 1975.
* ''[[Pobol y Cwm]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1974|10}}: Welsh-language [[Soap Opera]], [[The BBC]]'s longest-running television soap began in October 1974 and is still going.
* ''[[Question Time]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: British current affairs debate show, running since 1979.▼
* ''Quirks and Quarks'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: General-interest science program on CBC Radio since 1975.
* ''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]]''.
* ''This Old House'' – {{Years or months ago|1980}}: PBS home improvement show, airing since 1980. Originally hosted by Bob Vila. Its spinoff program ''The New Yankee Workshop'' had a 20-year run in its own right, 1989-09.▼
* ''This Week in Baseball'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: (in syndication 1977-1998, on FOX 2000-present)▼
* ''[[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
* ''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.
* ''The Woodwright's Shop'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: (1979-), an American woodworking show on PBS.▼
* ''[[Yeralash]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1975}}: (1975-), a Soviet/Russian comedy show for kids.
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* ''[[Oke no Monshou]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1976}}: [[Shoujo]] manga by Chieko Hosokawa, has been running ever since 1976 just like ''[[Glass Mask]]''. Had a short video drama as well.
▲* ''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.
▲* ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: The first specials appeared in 1977. The proper series started in 1977 and is still ongoing.
▲* ''Inside The NFL'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: 1977-2008 on HBO, Showtime 2008-present
▲* ''[[
▲* ''[[One Life to Live]]'' – 44 years: (11,096 episodes from 1968-2012)
▲* ''This Week in Baseball'' – {{Years or months ago|1977}}: (in syndication 1977-1998, on FOX 2000-present)
▲* ''[[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.
▲* ''[[20/20]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1978}}: ABC's US newsmagazine, airing since 1978.
▲* ''[[Bassie En Adriaan]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1978}}: Since 1978.
▲* ''[[Doraemon]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-1979+1974-1973}} years: (second longest-running animé ever, until recently with the same principal voice cast. Aired one season in 1973, then continuously on a different network since 1979. They tried canning it in 2005, an idea which lasted all of a month before it was [[Uncancelled]].)
▲* ''The House'' – {{Years or months ago|1977|10}}: CBC Radio parliamentary affairs show, year-round since October 1977
▲* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2005+1989-1963}} years: Ran from 1963 to 1989, and again from 2005 onward.
▲* ''[[The Fantasticks]]'' – 42 years: ran off-Broadway from 1960-2002.
▲* ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' – 42 years: Started in 1964; weekly show stopped in 2006, but lives on in special editions.
▲* ''[[Gundam]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: 16 TV and OAV series', 11+ movies, more manga and video games (separate and original stories mind you, ''not'' just adaptations) than we dare to count, and ''good Lord'', the model kits! If one were to watch every ''Gundam'' animated work continuously, not counting eating, sleeping, or bathroom breaks, the total runtime would last longer than [[The Bible|Noah]]'s voyage aboard the Ark, as there<!-- more than '''one week'''. There--> are literally over a thousand hours' worth of ''Gundam'' animated work.<!--to be verified? as a week is 168 hours, a thousand hours is 41 + 2/3 days -->
▲* ''[[Howard Stern|The Howard Stern Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: Some incarnation of the show has existed since the late 1970s
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▲* ''The Woodwright's Shop'' – {{Years or months ago|1979}}: (1979-), an American woodworking show on PBS.
▲* ''[[All My Children]]'' – 41 years: 10,712 episodes from 1970-2011
▲* ''Depeche Mode'' – {{Years or months ago|1980}}: 14 studio albums, six live albums, ten compilation albums, 15 box sets, 13 videos since 1980.
* ''[[Newsnight]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1980}}: broadcast on the same channel since 1980 if you don't count its predecessor.
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▲* ''Romper Room'' – 41 years: 1953–94, in various local franchised versions. TVOntario ran a very similar programme as the ''Polka Dot Door'' (1971-1993), which initially was based heavily on the [[BBC]] (UK) version of ''[[Play School]]'' (1964-1988).
▲* ''[[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.
▲* ''This Old House'' – {{Years or months ago|1980}}: PBS home improvement show, airing since 1980. Originally hosted by Bob Vila. Its spinoff program ''The New Yankee Workshop'' had a 20-year run in its own right, 1989-09.
* ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1981}}: Started in 1981 and is still in production.
▲* ''[[Golgo 13]]'' – 40 years: 142 volumes spread across four decades; started in 1969.
* ''Jubilee!'' – {{Years or months ago|1981}}: The sole remaining traditional showgirl revue in Las Vegas, has been running at Bally's Hotel and Casino since 1981.
▲* ''[[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 ==
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