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* ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1951|12}}: Airing on various networks since December 1951.
* ''[[Today]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|01}}: [[NBC]] morning news show, running daily in the US since January 1952.
* ''Come Dancing'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2004+1995-1949}} years: The BBC televised ballroom dancing competition, originally ran from 1949–95, with intermittent specials in 1996 and 1998. Its revival with celebrity contestants as ''Strictly Come Dancing'' has aired since 2004.
* ''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.
* ''Panorama'' – {{Years or months ago|1953}}: Current affairs show airing on the BBC since 1953. Presently the longest-running program in the history of British television.
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* The Major League Baseball ''Game of the Week'' – {{Years or months ago|1953}}: Ran on various networks from 1953–93; has aired on FOX since 1996.
* ''Brain of Britain'' – {{Years or months ago|1953}}: Britain's longest-running quiz program in any medium, began as a segment of ''What Do You Know?'' on BBC Radio in 1953, and has been a standalone program on Radio 4 since 1967. It has only had three regular presenters: Franklin Engelmann from 1953–72, Robert Robinson from 1973-2008, and Russell Davies since 2009.
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s theatrical play ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|11}}: Has been running on the West End since November 1952.
* ''Face the Nation'' – {{Years or months ago|1954}}: Airing weekly on CBS since 1954.
* ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1954}}: Airing on NBC since 1954.
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* ''Today'' (AKA ''The Today Programme'') – {{Years or months ago|1957|10}}: British news daily, on BBC Radio running since October 1957. There is a (probably apocryphal) story that if a British nuclear submarine commander failed to receive the ''Today'' program three days in a row, they were to assume Britain had been nuked and open their sealed orders.
* ''[[Blue Peter]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1958}}: (4,000+ episodes since 1958, the longest-running children's show ever)
* ''Come Dancing'' – {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}-2004+1995-1949}} years: The BBC televised ballroom dancing competition, originally ran from 1949–95, with intermittent specials in 1996 and 1998. Its revival with celebrity contestants as ''Strictly Come Dancing'' has aired since 2004.
* ''Studio Sport'' – {{Years or months ago|1959}}: Dutch sports program, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009.
* [[Supergirl]] – {{Years or months ago|1959|05}}: Created in May 1959, and has been an important part of the [[DC]] universe since. The character has starred in solo books and anthologies, and shows up in movies, TV shows, and cartoons.
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s theatrical play ''[[The Mousetrap]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1952|11}}: Has been running on the West End since November 1952.
* 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''.
* ''[[The Nature of Things]]'' – {{Years or months ago|1960|11}}: Science documentary series on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] since November 1960; hosted continuously by zoologist and environmentalist David Suzuki since 1979.
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