List of longest-running American television series

This is a list of the longest-running United States television series, ordered by number of years the show has been aired. This list includes only first-run series originating in North America and available throughout the United States via national broadcast networks, U.S. cable networks, or syndication. Series continuations (with name changes and/or changes in network) are noted. Series broadcast within the U.S. but produced in other countries, such as Coronation Street (60 years) and Doctor Who (57 years) are not included (see: List of longest-running UK television series).

Series shaded in light blue with bold are currently in production.

At least 60 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
76 years	70	Meet the Press(NBC News)	NBC	November 6, 1947	Present		Longest-running show.
75 years	'	CBS Evening News(CBS News)	CBS	May 3, 1948	Present	16,400+	Longest-running network newscast.
74 years	74	Music & the Spoken Word	Syndicated	October 1949	Present		Longest-running non-news television program.
72 years	'	Hallmark Hall of Fame	NBC	December 24, 1951*	December 17, 1978		Not broadcast on a regular schedule, with only a limited number of productions per year.
			CBS	November 14, 1979	April 30, 1980
			PBS	February 9, 1981	May 6, 1981
			CBS	December 1, 1981	January 29, 1989
			ABC	April 30, 1989	April 23, 1995
			CBS	December 10, 1995	April 24, 2011
			ABC	November 27, 2011	April 20, 2014
			Hallmark Channel	November 30, 2014	Present
70 years	2	The Victory Hour	WTVR	January 13, 1952	1966		Longest-running Christian television program
			WWBT	1966	Present
72 years	'	Today (NBC News)	NBC	January 14, 1952	Present		Longest-running morning show.
70 years	70	Backyard Farmer	Nebraska Educational Telecommunications	June 1, 1953	Present	(over) 1280 as of January 2017	Longest running show for home lawn and gardening (The show claims to be "The longest running locally produced program in television history.")
70 years	70	ABC World News Tonight	ABC	September 1953	Present	15,722+
69 years	69	The Tonight Show	NBC	September 27, 1954	January 25, 1957	2,000 episodes before the Carson era.	Hosted by Steve Allen. Tonight Starring Steve Allen.
				July 29, 1957	March 30, 1962		Hosted by Jack Paar. Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
				October 1, 1962	May 22, 1992		Hosted by Johnny Carson. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
				May 25, 1992	May 29, 2009	3,775	First time Hosted by Jay Leno. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
				June 1, 2009	January 22, 2010		Hosted by Conan O'Brien. The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
				March 1, 2010	February 6, 2014	835	Second time Hosted by Jay Leno. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
				February 17, 2014	Present		Hosted by Jimmy Fallon. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
69 years	'	The Wonderful World of Disney	ABC	October 27, 1954	June 11, 1961		Anthology television series featuring wide variety of topics ranging from Disney animation to live-action and documentaries. Walt Disney was the original host from show's inception until his death in 1966. From 1991 to 1997 and since 2008, the series only airs sporadically as a special presentation a few times a year.
			NBC	September 24, 1961	August 16, 1981
			CBS	September 26, 1981	May 3, 1983
			ABC	February 2, 1986	May 22, 1988
			NBC	October 9, 1988	August 26, 1990
			Disney Channel	September 23, 1990	August 25, 1996
			ABC	September 28, 1997	December 24, 2008
				December 12, 2015	Present
69 years	'	Face the Nation (CBS News)	CBS	November 7, 1954	Present
68 years	68	It Is Written	Syndicated	March 1, 1956	Present		Longest-running religious television program to broadcast in color.
67 years	67	The Open Mind	Syndicated	May 1956	Present		Longest-running public television program.
67 years	'	NFL on CBS	CBS	September 30, 1956	January 23, 1994		CBS originally broadcast NFL games from 1956 to its merger with the AFL in 1970. It continued to broadcast NFC regular and playoff games until 1994 when CBS lost the rights to broadcast these games to Fox. The network returned its football broadcasts by 1998 after CBS acquired the rights to broadcast AFC regular and playoff games from NBC. It also airs Super Bowl matches.
				September 6, 1998	Present
67 years	28	To Tell the Truth	CBS	December 18, 1956	September 6, 1968
			Syndicated	1969	1978
				1980	1981
			NBC	1990	1991
			Syndicated	2000	2002
			ABC	2016	Present
67 years		Divorce Court	Syndicated	1957	1962		Broadcast in Black & White 1957–1962.
				1967	1969
				1984	1993
				September 15, 1999	Present		Produced by 20th Television.
64 years	'	CBS Sports Spectacular	CBS	January 3, 1960	Present
years	'	NFL on NBC	NBC	October 22, 1939	January 25, 1998	5,000+	GrandStand was the original name of the program. NBC originally carried many NFL games including the Pro Bowl. It later carried AFL/AFC games until 1997 when NBC lost its AFC contract to CBS. NBC later resumed its NFL coverage with NBC Sunday Night Football. It currently airs a Sunday night game every week and the NFL's kick-off games, along with the Super Bowl.
				August 6, 2006	Present
62 years	'	The NFL Today	CBS	September 17, 1961	January 23, 1994		Is the pre-game show counterpart to the NFL on CBS. Originally was 15 minutes long.
				September 6, 1998	Present
62 years	62	It's Academic	WRC-TV WJZ-TV WVIR-TV	October 7, 1961	present		Longest-running game show of any type. Longest-running high school quiz show (broadcast in the Baltimore, Charlottesville, and Washington, D.C. areas only).

50–59 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
63 years	36	NASCAR on ABC	ABC	February 26, 1961	August 5, 2000
			ESPN	March 10, 2007	October 11, 2014
62 years	62	Professional Bowlers Tour	ABC	January 27, 1962	June 21, 1997		ESPN airs some of the tours on ABC.
			CBS	1998	1999
			Fox Sports	1999	2000
			ESPN	2000	present
61 years	61	General Hospital (ABC Daytime)	ABC	April 1, 1963	present	14,000	Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) still in production.
60 years	53	CBS Morning News	CBS	September 2, 1963	1979		This version of the program was replaced by CBS This Morning, and later by The Early Show. The program was on hiatus for two years, then retooled and reintroduced in 1982.
				October 4, 1982	present
60 years	29	Let's Make a Deal	NBC	December 30, 1963	December 27, 1968	3,200	Originally hosted by Monty Hall. Current host is Wayne Brady.
			ABC	December 30, 1968	July 9, 1976
			Syndicated	1971	1977	281
				1980	1981	195
				1984	1986	340
			NBC	1990	1991	128
				2003	2003	3
			CBS	2009	Present	1,500+
60 years	47	Jeopardy!	NBC	March 30, 1964	January 3, 1975	2,753	Originally presented by Art Fleming.
			Syndicated	September 1974	September 1975	39
			NBC	October 2, 1978	March 2, 1979	108
			Syndicated	September 10, 1984	present	7,000+	Originally presented by Alex Trebek. Currently presented by a rotation between Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings.
57 years	57	Guiding Light(CBS Daytime)	CBS	June 30, 1952	September 18, 2009	15,762	Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) of any genre. Longest-running daytime drama. *While its television debut was on June 30, 1952, The Guiding Light's first incarnation was as a radio show, which premiered on January 25, 1937, giving the production a total runtime of 72 total years.
58 years	58	Days of Our Lives (NBC Daytime)	NBC	November 8, 1965	present
58 years	58	The 700 Club	Syndicated	1966	present
			CBN & Freeform	1977	present
57 years	'	Washington Week	NET, PBS	February 23, 1967	present		Longest continuous running Public Television show on PBS, having started on its predecessor NET and carrying over to PBS, along with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and others in 1970.
54 years	20	I've Got a Secret	CBS	June 19, 1952	April 3, 1967		Presented by Garry Moore and Steve Allen.
			Syndicated	September 11, 1972	September 9, 1973		Presented by Steve Allen.
			CBS	June 15, 1976	July 6, 1976		Presented by Bill Cullen.
			Oxygen	2000	2001		Presented by Stephanie Miller.
			GSN	April 17, 2006	June 9, 2006		Presented by Bil Dwyer.
years	'	As the World Turns (CBS Daytime)	CBS	April 2, 1956	September 17, 2010
56 years	56	NFL Films Presents	Syndicated	September 17, 1967	January 26, 1997
			ESPN	August 31, 1997	present
			NFL Network	November 4, 2003	present
years	'	Sábado Gigante	Univision	August 8, 1962	September 19, 2015	2,800+	Longest-running imported TV show.
55 years	'	60 Minutes (CBS News)	CBS	September 24, 1968	present
54 years	29	Scooby-Doo	CBS	September 13, 1969	October 27, 1973		Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
				September 9, 1972	October 27, 1973		The New Scooby-Doo Movies
			ABC	September 11, 1976	December 23, 1978		The Scooby-Doo Show
				September 22, 1979	January 5, 1980		Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
				November 8, 1980	December 18, 1982		Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
				September 10, 1983	December 1, 1984		The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
				September 7, 1985	December 7, 1985		The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
				September 10, 1988	August 17, 1991		A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
			Kids' WB (The WB)	September 14, 2002	July 21, 2006		What's New, Scooby-Doo?
				September 23, 2006	March 15, 2008		Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
			Cartoon Network	April 5, 2010	April 5, 2013		Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
			Cartoon Network/Boomerang	October 5, 2015	March 18, 2018		Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
			Cartoon Network/Boomerang/HBO Max	June 27, 2019	present		Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
54 years		Sesame Street	NET	November 10, 1969	October 2, 1970		Longest-running children's show. While Sesame Street remains on the PBS schedule, new episodes now premiere on HBO and become available to PBS nine months later. This also applied to HBO Max starting to Season 51 when the show moved to HBO Max.
			PBS Kids (PBS)	October 5, 1970	present
			HBO	January 16, 2016	July 11, 2020
			HBO Max	November 21, 2020	Present
54 years		Hour of Power	Syndicated	February 1970	present
53 years		Monday Night Football	ABC	September 21, 1970	December 26, 2005		Since 2016 and 2018 respectively, ABC has simulcast ESPN's coverage of its NFL Wild Card playoff game and the Pro Bowl. In 2020, ABC simulcasted three select ESPN Monday Night Football games. Starting in 2021, ABC will get expanded broadcast rights, including exclusive games, Week 18 Saturday doubleheader simulcasts, and Super Bowl rights. Per NFL Policy, all games that are broadcast via cable or satellite television on a Pay TV Network must also be made available on over-the-air television stations in each participating team's local market.
				January 9, 2016	Present
			ESPN	September 11, 2006	present
53 years		NBC Nightly News (NBC News)	NBC	August 3, 1970	present		NBC has had an evening broadcast since 1948, starting with Camel News Caravan, lasting until 1956, when it was replaced by Nightly News' predecessor the Huntley-Brinkley Report.
53 years	46	Masterpiece Theatre	PBS	January 10, 1971	present
51 years		The Price Is Right (CBS Daytime)	CBS	September 4, 1972	present	9,515 (as of End of Season 50)	Longest-running game show to be broadcast nationally. Originally hosted by Bob Barker. Current Host is Drew Carey.

40–49 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
51 years		Great Performances	PBS	November 4, 1972	present
51 years	51	The Young and the Restless (CBS Daytime)	CBS	March 26, 1973	present
48 years	48	Day of Discovery	Syndicated	May 5, 1968	February 6, 2016
48 years	34	Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom	NBC	January 6, 1963	April 11, 1971		Wild Kingdom was on hiatus 1988-2002 and ultimately was cancelled in 2011. The original host, Marlin Perkins, died in 1986.
			Syndicated	1971	1988
			Animal Planet	September 17, 2002	May 22, 2011
47 years	16	The Joker's Wild	CBS	September 4, 1972	June 13, 1975	3,026
			Syndicated	September 5, 1977	May 23, 1986
			Syndicated	September 10, 1990	March 8, 1991
			TBS & TNT	October 24, 2017	March 27, 2019
50 years		Unique New York	PBS	January 1, 1974	present
50 years		Nova	PBS	March 3, 1974	present
49 years	40	Wheel of Fortune	Syndicated	September 19, 1983	present	7,000+	Syndicated version normally runs in the evening. 2nd longest-running game show. Hosted by Pat Sajak.
	16		NBC	January 6, 1975	June 30, 1989		Network version normally ran in the late morning. Originally hosted by Chuck Woolery (1975-1981), followed by Pat Sajak (1981-1989), Rolf Benirschke (1989), and Bob Goen (1989-1991).
			CBS	July 17, 1989	January 11, 1991
			NBC	January 14, 1991	September 20, 1991
49 years		The Victory Garden	PBS	April 16, 1975	present
46 years		Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon	Syndicated/ABC	September 4, 1966	August 31, 2014		Annual broadcast; was broadcast as a two-hour special on ABC in 2013 and 2014.
48 years	49	Saturday Night Live	NBC	October 11, 1975	present	962	The longest-running sketch comedy show on American television, as well as the longest-running variety show in U.S. history.
48 years	48	PBS NewsHour	PBS	October 20, 1975	present		Was hosted by Robert MacNeil (1975–1995) and Jim Lehrer (1976–2011).
48 years		Good Morning America	ABC	November 3, 1975	present	9,914+
48 years	48	Austin City Limits	PBS	1976	present
48 years	48	Creative Living with Sheryl Borden	Syndicated	1976	present
48 years		Live from Lincoln Center	PBS	January 30, 1976	present
47 years	23	Family Feud	ABC	July 12, 1976	June 14, 1985	2,311	Hosted by Richard Dawson
			Syndicated	September 19, 1977	May 17, 1985	976	Hosted by Richard Dawson
			CBS	July 4, 1988	March 26, 1993		Hosted by Ray Combs
			Syndicated	1988	May 26, 1995		Originally hosted by Ray Combs (1988-1994), Followed by Richard Dawson (1994-1995).
			Syndicated	September 20, 1999	Present		Originally hosted by Louie Anderson (1999-2002), Followed by Richard Karn (2002-2006), John O’Hurley (2006-2010), and Current Host Steve Harvey (2010-).
46 years		The Letter People	PBS	December 14, 1977	present
46 years		The Letter People	PBS	December 16, 1977	present
45 years		Wide World of Sports (ABC Sports)	ABC	April 29, 1961	August 2006
45 years	45	Agronsky & Co./Inside Washington	Syndicated	1969	December 20, 2013
45 years		One Life to Live (ABC Daytime)	ABC	July 15, 1968	January 13, 2012
46 years	41	Inside the NFL	HBO	September 14, 1977	February 6, 2008		Len Dawson and Nick Buoniconti hosted the show together 1978–2001.
			Showtime	September 10, 2008	present
45 years		20/20 (ABC News)	ABC	June 6, 1978	present		Long time hosts were Hugh Downs (1978–99) and Barbara Walters (1979–2004, 2013–14).
45 years		The Woodwright's Shop	PBS	1979	present
45 years		CBS News Sunday Morning	CBS	January 28, 1979	present		Originally hosted by Charles Kuralt (1979–1994), followed by Charles Osgood (1994–2016), and Jane Pauley (2016–present).
45 years		This Old House	PBS	February 20, 1979	present		Originally hosted by Bob Vila until 1989. Norm Abrams is the only original personality still appearing on the show.
44 years		SportsCenter	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews	September 7, 1979	present
44 years		Nightline	ABC	March 24, 1980	present		Hosted by Ted Koppel (1980-2005).
43 years	36	Washington Journal	C-SPAN	October 7, 1980	present
41 years	41	Romper Room/Romper Room & Friends	Syndicated	February 9, 1953	September 1994
41 years	42	All My Children (ABC Daytime)	ABC	January 5, 1970	September 23, 2011		While the show had ceased airing as a television series it was still in production for a brief time after. On April 29, 2013, the show had resumed airing now as a web series on the internet and could be seen through Hulu, iTunes and YouTube until September 2, 2013, before being confirmed as being discontinued again on November 11, 2013.
years		Nightly Business Report	PBS	January 22, 1979	December 27, 2019
40 years	40	NASCAR on CBS	CBS	February 12, 1960	July 15, 2000
40 years	40	The Bugs Bunny Show	ABC (1960-1968, 1986–2000), CBS (1968-1985)	October 11, 1960	September 2, 2000	1040 episodes, including at least 5,000 total shorts being aired, although many were re-runs.	Longest-running cartoon program on broadcast television, the last non-Disney ABC Kids show, and the last non-Educational and Informational (E/I) Saturday morning cartoon on broadcast TV.

35–39 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
42 years	32	The People's Court	Syndicated	September 14, 1981	May 17, 1993	2,484	Judged by Joseph Wapner.
				September 8, 1997	1999	1,500+	Judged by Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City.
				1999	2001		Judged by Jerry Sheindlin, the husband of Judy Sheindlin of Judge Judy.
				2001	Present		Judged by Marilyn Milian.
42 years	35	Noticiero Univision	Univision	June 1, 1981	present
42 years		Entertainment Tonight	Syndicated	September 14, 1981	present	11,675	Longest-running entertainment news program.
42 years		MotorWeek	PBS	October 15, 1981	present
42 years		This Week	ABC	November 15, 1981	present		Originally hosted by David Brinkley (1981–1996), currently hosted by George Stephanopoulos (2002-2010, 2012–Present).
42 years	38	Late Night	NBC	February 1, 1982	June 21, 1993		... with David Letterman
				September 13, 1993	February 20, 2009		... with Conan O'Brien
				March 2, 2009	February 7, 2014		... with Jimmy Fallon
				February 24, 2014	present		... with Seth Meyers
42 years	35	The McLaughlin Group	Syndicated	January 1, 1982	August 12, 2016		The show ended its run when John McLaughlin died in 2016, but was then revived in 2018 with new host Tom Rogan.
41 years		Wild America	PBS/Syndicated	September 14, 1982	present	120	Hosted by Marty Stouffer.
41 years		Nature	PBS	October 10, 1982	present
41 years	31	Gilad's Bodies in Motion	ESPN	1983	1994
			Fox Sports	1994	1995
			Discovery Health	1995	2004
			FitTV	2004	2011
			Discovery Life	2011	2015
			JLTV	2015	Present
41 years	37	Frontline	PBS	January 17, 1983	present
38 years		Hollywood Squares	NBC	October 17, 1966	June 20, 1980	3,536	NBC Daytime
				January 12, 1968	September 13, 1968		NBC Primetime
				January 4, 1969	August 30, 1969	46	Saturday morning
			Syndicated	September 9, 1972	April 10, 1981
			NBC	October 31, 1983	July 27, 1984	192	NBC Daytime
			Syndicated	September 15, 1986	June 16, 1989	585
				September 14, 1998	June 4, 2004	1,050
37 years	37	American Bandstand	WFIL-TV	October 7, 1952	October 7, 1957		Hosted by Dick Clark (1956–1989).
			ABC	October 7, 1957	September 5, 1987
			Syndicated	September 19, 1987	June 4, 1988
			USA	April 8, 1989	October 7, 1989
39 years	32	Real Videos	TBN, JCTV	October 4, 1984	present	900+
39 years	29	National Geographic Explorer	Nickelodeon	1985	1986
			TBS	1986	1999
			CNBC	1999	2001
			MSNBC	2001	2005
			National Geographic	2005	present
38 years	31	Grand Ole Opry Live	TNN	April 20, 1985	August 2001
			CMT	August 2001	2003
			GAC	2003	present
37 years	37	American Masters	PBS	June 22, 1986	Present
37 years	27	NFL Primetime	ESPN	1987	present
37 years	27	College GameDay (football series)	ESPN	September 1987	present
35 years		Columbo	NBC	February 20, 1968	May 13, 1978		Was on hiatus from 1978 to 1989, during the change in broadcast networks.
			ABC	February 6, 1989	January 30, 2003
years		Search for Tomorrow (CBS & NBC Daytime)	CBS	September 3, 1951	March 23, 1982
			NBC	March 26, 1982	December 26, 1986
35 years		Another World (NBC Daytime)	NBC	May 4, 1964	June 25, 1999		Longest-running continuous title sequences on television.
35 years	35	Bobby Jones Gospel	BET	January 27, 1980	July 31, 2016
35 years	35	Soul Train	Syndicated	October 2, 1971	March 25, 2006
35 years	35	Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser	PBS	November 20, 1970	June 24, 2005		Since 2016, a new version of the program is now airing on the Fox Business.

30–34 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
37 years	29	Biography	A&E	April 6, 1987	August 2006		Biography was cancelled in 2012, and later revived in 2017.
			Biography Channel	August 2006	present
37 years	31	The Bold and the Beautiful	CBS	March 23, 1987	present
36 years	18	CBS This Morning	CBS	November 30, 1987	October 29, 1999	3,110
				January 9, 2012	present	1,667+
36 years		48 Hours	CBS	January 2, 1988	present
34 years	34	Evening at Pops	PBS	July 12, 1970	August 29, 2004
33 years		Mister Rogers' Neighborhood	NET	February 19, 1968	May 1, 1970		Fred Rogers died in 2003 due to a digestive cancer.
			PBS	February 15, 1971	August 31, 2001
33 years	24	Concentration	NBC	August 25, 1958	March 23, 1973	3,770	Presented by Hugh Downs and Bob Clayton.
			Syndicated	September 10, 1973	September 8, 1978	975	Presented by Jack Narz.
			NBC	May 4, 1987	September 20, 1991	1,020	Presented by Alex Trebek.
33 years		Firing Line	Syndicated	April 4, 1966	1971		Longest-running public affairs program to have a single host.
			PBS	1971	December 26, 1999
35 years	27	NBA on TNT	TNT	October 30, 1988	present
35 years		American Experience	PBS	October 1, 1988	present
35 years		Live with Kelly and Ryan	Syndicated	September 5, 1988	present
35 years		POV	PBS	July 5, 1988	Present
35 years		Inside Edition	Syndicated	January 9, 1989	present
34 years		America's Funniest Home Videos	ABC	November 26, 1989	present
34 years		The Simpsons	FOX	December 17, 1989	present		Longest-running animated American series, longest running American sitcom, and longest running scripted prime-time series.
32 years	24	Crossfire	CNN	1982	June 3, 2005		Was on hiatus from 2005 to 2013.
				September 9, 2013	October 15, 2014
33 years		Cops	FOX	March 11, 1989	May 4, 2013	1,141	Cancelled in response to national protests against the murder of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. New episodes will air on the streaming service Fox Nation in October 2021.
			Spike	September 14, 2013	November 13, 2017
			Paramount Network	January 22, 2018	May 11, 2020
			FOX	October 1, 2021	present
31 years	29	This Week in Baseball	Syndicated	April 1, 1977	September 26, 1998		The program was on hiatus 1998–2000. Original version hosted by Mel Allen (1977–1996), Warner Fusselle (1996), and Ozzie Smith (1997–1998)
			FOX	April 8, 2000	September 24, 2011
31 years	31	Faith for Today	ABC	May 21, 1950	1955
			Syndicated	1955	1981
31 years	31	Lamp Unto My Feet	CBS	1948	1979
34 years		Baseball Tonight	ESPN	March 19, 1990	present
34 years	27	ESPN Major League Baseball	ESPN, ESPN2	April 15, 1990	present
33 years	33	Outside the Lines	ESPN	May 7, 1990	present
33 years	19	NBA Inside Stuff	NBC	October 27, 1990	August 31, 2002		Was on hiatus from 2006 to 2013.
			ABC	September 7, 2002	January 15, 2006
			NBA TV	November 2, 2013	Present
32 years	32	E! News	E!	September 1, 1991	present
32 years	32	Maury	Syndicated	September 9, 1991	Present		Presented by Maury Povich.
32 years	32	Reliable Sources	CNN	March 7, 1992	August 21, 2022
32 years		Dateline NBC	NBC	March 31, 1992	present	1,700+
32 years		To the Contrary	PBS	April 1, 1992	present
32 years		Monday Night Baseball	ESPN	April 13, 1992	present
31 years		The Real World	MTV	May 21, 1992	present		Longest-running MTV reality series. Episodes were 30 minutes long until 2008, after that each was one hour long.
30 years		Roseanne	ABC	October 18, 1988	May 22, 2018		Was on hiatus 1997–2018.
30 years		Murphy Brown	CBS	November 14, 1988	December 20, 2018		Was on hiatus 1998–2018.
30 years	30	NASCAR on ESPN	ESPN, ESPN2, ABC	1981	2002
				2007	2014

25–29 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
29 years		Captain Kangaroo	CBS	October 3, 1955	December 8, 1984		Bob Keeshan died in 2004.
29 years	29	Lou Dobbs Tonight	CNN	June 1, 1980	November 11, 2009
29 years	29	Lilias, Yoga and You	PBS	1976	1999
29 years		Hometime	PBS	November 1, 1986	January 30, 2016
29 years	29	The Sports Reporters	ESPN	October 9, 1988	May 7, 2017
29 years	29	The Phil Donahue Show	Syndicated	1969	1996
years		The David Susskind Show	Syndicated	1961	1987		David Susskind died in 1987.
29 years	29	WCW Saturday Night	TBS	December 25, 1971	August 19, 2000
years		The Edge of Night	CBS	April 2, 1956	November 28, 1975
			ABC	December 1, 1975	December 28, 1984
28 years		Love of Life	CBS	September 24, 1951	February 1, 1980
28 years		Hee Haw	CBS	June 15, 1969	February 23, 1971
			Syndicated	September 18, 1971	June 26, 1993
			TNN	November 23, 1996	December 27, 1997
28 years	28	ESPN SpeedWorld	ESPN	1979	2006
28 years	28	Mystery!	PBS	February 5, 1980	2008
31 years		WWE Raw	USA Network	January 11, 1993	September 18, 2000		Longest-running professional wrestling program on national television (while WCW Saturday Night ran for longer overall, the first 5 years of the program were only locally broadcast; some locally televised promotions such as Portland and Houston ran as long as 40 years).
			TNN/Spike TV	September 25, 2000	September 26, 2005
			USA Network	October 3, 2005	present
30 years	26	Power Rangers	FOX	August 28, 1993	September 7, 2002	919+	Longest-running United States Tokusatsu series.
			ABC Family	March 3, 2002	August 31, 2006
			Toon Disney	February 14, 2004	February 12, 2009
			ABC	September 14, 2002	August 28, 2010
			The CW	August 25, 2012	January 12, 2013
			Nickelodeon	February 7, 2011	April 17, 2021
			Nicktoons	February 11, 2011	present
			Netflix	June 15, 2021	present
30 years	27	The Late Show	CBS	August 30, 1993	May 20, 2015		Hosted by David Letterman. Late Show with David Letterman.
				September 8, 2015	Present		Hosted by Stephen Colbert. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
30 years	30	NFL Matchup	ESPN, ESPN2	September 5, 1993	Present	Produced by NFL Films.
30 years	30	Monday Night Countdown	ESPN	September 6, 1993	present
30 years		The X-Files	FOX	September 10, 1993	May 19, 2002		The program was on hiatus 2002–2016. Two new seasons have since been produced.
				January 24, 2016	March 21, 2018
30 years	22	Entertainers with Byron Allen	Syndicated	September 30, 1993	present
30 years	22	Kickin' It with Byron Allen	Syndicated	1994	present
30 years		Where will my feet take me today?	PBS	January 1, 1994	present
29 years		NFL on Fox	FOX	August 12, 1994	present		Fox currently holds rights to NFC matches, the NFC Playoffs as well as select Super Bowl matches since Super Bowl XXXI where it rotates with other broadcasters. It has also aired Thursday Night Football Matches from 2018 to 2022 where it shares the rights with some matches with Amazon Prime Video and the NFL Network.
29 years		Inside the Actors Studio	Bravo	August 14, 1994	present
29 years		Extra	Syndicated	September 5, 1994	present
29 years		Fox NFL Sunday	FOX	September 18, 1994	present
29 years	23	The Late Late Show	CBS	January 9, 1995	March 26, 1999	777	Hosted by Tom Snyder.
				March 29, 1999	August 27, 2004	1,190	Hosted by Craig Kilborn.
				September 20, 2004	December 31, 2004	79	Hosted by Guest Hosts.
				January 3, 2005	December 19, 2014		Hosted by Craig Ferguson.
				January 5, 2015	March 20, 2015	45	Hosted by Guest Hosts.
				March 23, 2015	present		Hosted by James Corden.
29 years		Golf Central	Golf Channel	January 17, 1995	present
29 years		Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel	HBO	April 2, 1995	present
28 years	28	Squawk Box	CNBC	August 7, 1995	present
28 years	19	A Wedding Story	TLC	1996	present
28 years	28	Private Screenings	TCM	January 1, 1996	present		Hosted by Robert Osborne.
27 years		Fox News Sunday	FOX	April 28, 1996	present		Currently hosted by Chris Wallace.
27 years		Fox Major League Baseball	FOX	June 1, 1996	Present
27 years	25	The Daily Show	Comedy Central	July 22, 1996	present	The Daily Show	Hosted by Craig Kilborn (1996–98), Jon Stewart (1999–2015), and Trevor Noah (2015–present).
27 years		Access Hollywood	Syndicated	September 9, 1996	present
27 years	20	MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon	Syndicated	October 1, 1996	present	950+
27 years	27	Your World with Neil Cavuto	Fox News	October 6, 1996	present		Hosted by Neil Cavuto.
27 years		My Classic Car	TNN, MAVTV & Motor Trend	1997	present
27 years		Antiques Roadshow	PBS	January 9, 1997	present
27 years		¡Despierta América!	Univision	April 14, 1997	present
26 years	10	Bear in the Big Blue House	Disney	October 20, 1997	present	360	Currently hosted by Noel MacNeal and the kids Gerald Robinson (born 2012), Ashleigh June Carter (born 2010), Sawyer Shemin (born 2009) and Tyler Bunch Jr. (born 2011).
27 years	27	The Lawrence Welk Show	ABC	July 2, 1955	September 4, 1971		Lawrence Welk died in 1992.
			Syndicated	1971	February 1982
27 years		The Jerry Springer Show	Syndicated	September 20, 1991	July 26, 2018
26 years		Hardball with Chris Matthews	America's Talking	1994	1996		Hosted by Chris Matthews.
			CNBC	1997	1999
			MSNBC	1999	February 28, 2020
26 years	25	Charlie Rose	PBS	September 30, 1991	November 17, 2017
25 years	25	Arthur	PBS	October 7, 1996	February 21, 2022	253 (493 segments)	Longest-running animated series on PBS, longest-running animated children's series on U.S. television, and second longest-running animated series on American television.
31 years		WWE Raw	USA Network	January 11, 1993	September 18, 2000		Longest-running professional wrestling program on national television (while WCW Saturday Night ran for longer overall, the first 5 years of the program were only locally broadcast; some locally televised promotions such as Portland and Houston ran as long as 40 years).
			TNN/Spike TV	September 25, 2000	September 26, 2005
			USA Network	October 3, 2005	present
				May 18, 1954	September 24, 1965
			Syndicated	1966	1974
				1977	1978
				1987	1988
25 years		What's My Line?	CBS	February 16, 1950	September 3, 1967
			Syndicated	September 1968	September 1975
25 years	25	Camera Three	CBS	January 22, 1956	1979
			PBS	1979	July 1, 1980
25 years		Sunrise Semester	CBS	September 9, 1957	October 1, 1982
25 years		Insight	Syndicated	October 2, 1960	January 21, 1985
25 years	25	Larry King Live	CNN	June 3, 1985	December 16, 2010		King hosted Larry King Now afterwards, which was very similar.
25 years		The Oprah Winfrey Show	Syndicated	September 8, 1986	May 25, 2011
25 years		Judge Judy	Syndicated	September 16, 1996	July 23, 2021		Of the single series run court shows without cancellation/revival gaps, the longest-running reality courtroom show, hosted by Judy Sheindlin.

20–24 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
24 years		At the Movies	Syndicated	September 18, 1986	August 14, 2010
			PBS	January 2011	December 2011
24 years		America's Most Wanted	FOX	February 7, 1988	April 21, 2012	1,186
			Lifetime	December 2, 2011	October 12, 2012
23 years		Nick News with Linda Ellerbee	Nickelodeon	April 18, 1992	December 15, 2015		Longest-running Nickelodeon series
23 years		Showtime at the Apollo	Syndicated	September 12, 1987	May 24, 2008		Was on hiatus in 2008–2016. Three specials were aired in 2016 and 2017
			FOX	March 1, 2018	May 24, 2018
23 years		Primetime(ABC News)	ABC	August 3, 1989	May 18, 2012		Originally hosted by Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer.
23 years		Death Valley Days	Syndicated	March 1, 1952	August 1, 1975
23 years		The Ed Sullivan Show	CBS	June 20, 1948	June 6, 1971
23 years	23	The George Michael Sports Machine	NBC	September 2, 1984	September 8, 1991		George Michael died in 2009.
			Syndicated	September 15, 1991	March 25, 2007
23 years	23	The Merv Griffin Show	NBC	October 1962	March 1963		Merv Griffin died in 2007.
			Syndicated	1965	1969
			CBS	August 18, 1969	February 11, 1972
			Syndicated	1972	September 1986
23 years		Reading Rainbow	PBS	June 6, 1983	November 10, 2006
22 years	22	The Original Amateur Hour	DuMont	January 18, 1948	October 1949
			NBC	October 1949	September 1954
			ABC	October 1955	June 1957
			NBC	July 1957	October 1958
			CBS	May 1959	October 1959
			ABC	March 1960	September 26, 1960
			CBS	October 2, 1960	September 27, 1970
26 years		The View	ABC	August 11, 1997	present
26 years		South Park	Comedy Central	August 13, 1997	present		Longest-running Comedy Central series and the third longest-running animated series on American television.
26 years		Fox & Friends	Fox News	February 1, 1998	present
25 years		The Challenge	MTV	June 1, 1998	present
25 years		Whose Line Is It Anyway?	ABC	August 5, 1998	September 4, 2004	173
			ABC Family	January 17, 2005	December 15, 2007	46
			The CW	July 16, 2013	Present	108
25 years		Will & Grace	NBC	September 21, 1998	May 18, 2006		Show was on hiatus from 2006 to 2017.
				September 28, 2017	April 23, 2020
25 years		Fox College Football	FOX & Fox Sports	January 1, 1999	Present
25 years		Family Guy	FOX	January 31, 1999	November 9, 2003		Fox's second longest-running American animated series and the fourth longest-running animated series on American television.
				May 1, 2005	Present
24 years		WWE SmackDown	UPN	April 29, 1999	September 15, 2006
			The CW	September 22, 2006	September 26, 2008
			MyNetworkTV	October 3, 2008	September 24, 2010
			Syfy	October 1, 2010	December 31, 2015
			USA	January 7, 2016	September 24, 2019
			FOX	October 4, 2019	Present
24 years		SpongeBob SquarePants	Nickelodeon	May 1, 1999	Present		Second longest-running Nickelodeon series from the 90s, longest-running Nickelodeon animated series, the first and (so far) only Nicktoon to get an eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth season, the second longest-running animated children's show on U.S. television, and the fifth longest-running animated series on U.S. television.
24 years		Independent Lens	PBS	August 9, 1999	Present
24 years	19	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?	ABC	August 16, 1999	June 27, 2002		Although Millionaire has multiple versions known around the world, the American version is the longest running.
			Syndicated	September 16, 2002	Present
			ABC	April 8, 2020	Present
24 years		Early Today	NBC	September 9, 1999	Present		Lead in to the Today show.
24 years	24	Judge Mathis	Syndicated	September 13, 1999	Present		Of the court shows with a continuous, single series run, longest-running reality court show that is currently still in production, hosted by Greg Mathis.
24 years	24	Family Feud (second revival)	Syndicated	September 20, 1999	Present	2,390+	Original series ran from 1976 to 1985 (on ABC and in syndication); an earlier revival aired from 1988 to 1995 (on CBS from 1988 to 1993 and in syndication from 1988 to 1995).
24 years		Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	NBC	September 20, 1999	Present		The longest running currently-running scripted non-animated U.S. prime-time television series; longest running television spinoff.
24 years		The Between the Lions	PBS	April 3, 2000	present
23 years		Secrets of the Dead	PBS	May 15, 2000	Present
23 years		Survivor (U.S. series)	CBS	May 31, 2000	Present		Features two seasons per year.
23 years	21	Big Brother (U.S. series)	CBS	July 5, 2000	present	719	Big Brother has multiple versions known around the world; the U.S. version is the second-longest-running. Episode count also includes one Celebrity Edition.
23 years		Rick Steves' Europe	PBS	September 3, 2000	Present		Hosted by travel writer Rick Steves.
23 years		Curb Your Enthusiasm	HBO	October 15, 2000	present		Longest-running scripted HBO program.
23 years		Cheaters	Syndicated	October 21, 2000	Present
23 years		The Essentials	TCM	2001	Present
23 years		NASCAR on Fox	FOX	February 11, 2001	Present
22 years	4	The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss	PBS	January 8, 2002	present	60
21 years		The O'Reilly Factor	Fox News	October 6, 1996	April 21, 2017		Final three episodes (April 19–21, 2017) were simply titled The Factor, with hosts Dana Perino (April 19–20) and Greg Gutfeld (April 21).
21 years	21	Issues and Answers	ABC	1960	1981
21 years		Mike Douglas Show	Syndicated	1961	1982		Mike Douglas died in 2006.
21 years	21	Style with Elsa Klensch	CNN	June 1, 1980	January 2001
21 years	21	Cookin' Cheap	PBS	1981	October 2002
21 years		The New Yankee Workshop	PBS	January 1988	June 27, 2009
21 years	21	Sneak Previews	PBS	1975	1996		Had been hosted by: Roger Ebert (1975–1982), Gene Siskel (1975–1982), Neal Gabler (1982–1985), Jeffrey Lyons (1982–1996), and Michael Medved (1985–1996).
20 years		The Red Skelton Show	NBC	September 30, 1951	June 21, 1953
			CBS	September 22, 1953	June 23, 1970
			NBC	September 14, 1970	August 29, 1971
20 years	31	For Your Home	PBS	1996	2016
years		Modern Marvels	History Channel	January 1, 1995	April 11, 2015
20 years	20	Gunsmoke	CBS	September 10, 1955	September 1, 1975	635	Tied longest-running prime-time drama.
years		Law & Order	NBC	September 13, 1990	May 24, 2010		Tied longest-running prime-time drama.
20 years	20	The Secret Storm	CBS	February 1, 1954	February 8, 1974
20 years	20	Investigative Reports	A&E	September 27, 1991	2011		Hosted by Bill Kurtis.
20 years	20	Faith 20	Syndicated	1977	1997
20 years	20	The Doctors	NBC	April 1, 1963	December 31, 1982
20 years	20	Evans and Novak	CNN	September 1982	November 9, 2002		Originally hosted by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak; later joined by Al Hunt and Mark Shields.

15–19 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
22 years		The Bachelor	ABC	March 25, 2002	Present
28 years		E! True Hollywood Story	E!	1996	present		The program has been on hiatus since 2014, but is expected to return.
13 years	13	Gardening by the Yard	HGTV	1996	2009
15 years		Supernatural	The WB	September 13, 2005	May 4, 2006
			The CW	September 28, 2006	November 19, 2020
11 years	11	Denise Austin's Daily Workout	ESPN2 & Lifetime	1997	2008		Was hosted by Denise Austin.
18 years	22	Ben 10	Cartoon Network	December 27, 2005	April 15, 2008		Ben 10 (2005)
				April 18, 2008	March 26, 2010		Ben 10: Alien Force
				April 23, 2010	March 31, 2012		Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
				September 22, 2012	November 14, 2014		Ben 10: Omniverse
				April 10, 2017	April 11, 2021		Ben 10 (2017)
19 years		Lassie	CBS	September 12, 1954	May 1971
			Syndicated	September 1971	March 24, 1973
19 years	19	The Porter Wagoner Show	Syndicated	1960	1979
19 years	19	Computer Chronicles	PBS	1983	June 25, 2002		Was presented by Stewart Cheifet.
19 years	19	Friday Night Videos	NBC	July 29, 1983	May 24, 2002
19 years	19	ESPN Sunday Night Football	ESPN	November 8, 1987	January 1, 2006
18 years	18	Art Linkletter's House Party	CBS	September 1, 1952	September 5, 1969		Was hosted by Art Linkletter.
			NBC	December 29, 1969	September 25, 1970
18 years	18	NASCAR on TBS	TBS	February 27, 1983	October 8, 2000
15 years	15	WWF Superstars	Syndicated	September 6, 1986	1996	924
			USA	1996	2000
			TNN	2000	August 2001
22 years		Cyberchase	PBS	January 21, 2002	present		Second longest running PBS animated show and sixth longest-running American animated series.
17 years		NBA on CBS	CBS	October 20, 1973	June 14, 1990
17 years	17	Showbiz Today	CNN	October 29, 1984	2001
16 years	16	USA Tuesday Night Fights	USA	March 30, 1982	August 25, 1998
17 years	17	Capital Gang	CNN	September 7, 1988	2005
17 years		The Montel Williams Show	Syndicated	September 30, 1991	May 16, 2008		Was hosted by Montel Williams.
16 years	16	MTV Unplugged	MTV	November 26, 1989	March 2, 2007	108
16 years		Booknotes	C-SPAN	April 2, 1989	December 5, 2004		Had been presented by Brian Lamb. The program lead to Book TV becoming regular weekend programming on C-SPAN2.
20 years		The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Syndicated	September 8, 2003	May 28, 2022		Hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
16 years		Fight Back! with David Horowitz	Syndicated	September 20, 1976	1992		Was hosted by David Horowitz.
16 years		Forensic Files	TLC & TruTV	April 23, 1996	June 17, 2011
16 years		The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	ABC	October 3, 1952	April 23, 1966
22 years		America's Test Kitchen	Syndicated	August 4, 2001	Present
16 years		The Fairly OddParents	Nickelodeon	March 30, 2001	November 25, 2006		Longest-running Nickelodeon animated series from the 2000s and the seventh longest-running American animated series.
				February 18, 2008	July 26, 2017
15 years	15	Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures	Syndicated	October 2, 1993	May 24, 2008		Was hosted by Jack Hanna.
15 years		Sportsworld	NBC	1978	1992
15 years		Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Adult Swim	December 30, 2000	August 30, 2015		Longest-running Adult Swim series and the eighth longest-running animated series on U.S. television. The episode "Boston" was never released.
18 years		Barney & Friends	PBS	April 6, 1992	November 2, 2010
19 years		Ghost Hunters	Syfy	October 6, 2004	Present		The program was on hiatus 2016–2019.
15 years		The Jack Benny Program	CBS	October 28, 1950	September 15, 1964		Starred Jack Benny.
			NBC	September 25, 1964	April 16, 1965
15 years	15	That Good Ole Nashville Music	Syndicated	1970	1985
15 years	15	Scientific American Frontiers	PBS	October 3, 1990	April 13, 2005	97
15 years	15	Newton's Apple	PBS	October 15, 1983	October 31, 1999	195
15 years		ER	NBC	September 19, 1994	April 2, 2009
15 years	15	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	CBS	October 6, 2000	September 27, 2015
22 years		The Amazing Race (U.S. series)	CBS	September 5, 2001	Present		Two seasons per year.
22 years	15	Don Francisco Presenta	Univision	October 10, 2001	January 30, 2012
22 years	15	BET's Top 25	BET	September 22, 2001	Present
17 years		Last Call with Carson Daly	NBC	January 8, 2002	May 24, 2019		Hosted by Carson Daly.
22 years	22	Closing Bell	CNBC	February 4, 2002	Present
21 years		Real Time with Bill Maher	HBO	February 21, 2003	Present		Hosted by Bill Maher.
20 years	20	Morning Joe First Look	MSNBC	2004	Present
19 years		Sally	Syndicated	October 17, 1983	May 24, 2002		Was hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael.
13 years		The Apprentice	NBC	January 8, 2004	February 13, 2017		The first 14 seasons were presented by Donald Trump.
16 years		Keeping Up with the Kardashians	E!	October 14, 2007	June 20, 2021
19 years		The First 48	A&E	June 3, 2004	Present
13 years		Storage Wars	A&E	December 1, 2010	Present
17 years	17	The Dating Game	ABC Daytime	December 20, 1965	July 6, 1973		Hosted by Jim Lange.
			ABC Primetime	October 6, 1966	January 17, 1970
			Syndicated	September 10, 1973	September 1974
			Syndicated	September 4, 1978	September 1980
			Syndicated	September 15, 1986	September 8, 1989		Hosted by Elaine Joyce (1986–1987) & Jeff MacGregor (1987–1989).
			Syndicated	September 9, 1996	September 1999		Hosted by Brad Sherwood Brad Sherwood & Chuck Woolery (1997–1999).

10–14 years

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes
14 years	15	On the Record	Fox News	February 12, 2002	September 6, 2016		...with Greta Van Susteren
				September 7, 2016	November 11, 2016		...with Brit Hume
14 years		Ryan's Hope	ABC	July 7, 1975	January 13, 1989
14 years		Davey and Goliath	Syndicated	February 25, 1961	June 29, 1975
11 years		Elmo's World	PBS	November 16, 1998	November 10, 2009
14 years	15	An Evening at the Improv	A&E	February 3, 1982	January 1, 1996
14 years		MythBusters	Discovery & TLC	January 23, 2003	March 5, 2016
11 years	7	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Cartoon Network	October 3, 2008	March 2, 2013	108
			Netflix	March 7, 2014		13
			Disney+	February 21, 2020	May 4, 2020	12
13 years	12	Bob's Burgers	Fox	January 9, 2011	present	238
13 years	5	Bubble Guppies	Nick Jr.	January 24, 2011	present	95
14 years		Futurama	FOX	March 28, 1999	August 10, 2003
			Comedy Central	March 23, 2008	September 4, 2013
			Hulu, Disney +	2023	Present
18 years		Dora the Explorer	Nickelodeon	August 14, 2000	June 5, 2014		Third longest-running Nickelodeon series, the ninth longest-running animated U.S. series, and the longest-running Nick Jr. series. The program was on hiatus from 2014 to 2019.
				July 7, 2019	August 9, 2019
14 years	14	Watch Mr. Wizard	NBC	May 26, 1951	June 27, 1965		Don Herbert was Mr. Wizard.
14 years	14	The Jack LaLanne Show	Syndicated	1956	1970
14 years	10	Adventure Time	Cartoon Network	April 5, 2010	September 3, 2018	283	Longest-running Cartoon Network original series from the 2010s
			HBO Max	June 25, 2020	September 2, 2021	4	Distant Lands specials
12 years	10	The Amazing World of Gumball	Cartoon Network	May 3, 2011	June 24, 2019	240	Second Longest-running Cartoon Network original series from the 2010s
				December 14, 2019	present	14	Darwin's Yearbook and The Gumball Chronicles specials
10 years	6	Mickey Mouse	Disney Channel	June 28, 2013	July 20, 2019		Longest-running Disney animated series from the 2010s
			Disney+	November 18, 2020	present		Continuing with The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
7 years	3	The Penguins of Madagascar	Nickelodeon	November 28, 2008	November 10, 2012		Longest-running animated series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television.
			Nicktoons	December 24, 2013	December 19, 2015
14 years		Bonanza	NBC	September 12, 1959	January 16, 1973
14 years		Knots Landing	CBS	December 27, 1979	May 13, 1993
14 years	14	The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show	ABC	September 13, 1986	September 2, 2000	387+
years		Criminal Minds	CBS	September 22, 2005	February 19, 2020
years		Marty Stouffer's Wild America	PBS	1982	1994
14 years	14	Speed Week	ESPN	1983	1997
15 years	15	Video Soul	BET	June 26, 1981	September 1996
14 years	14	MADtv	FOX	October 14, 1995	May 16, 2009	321	Longest running rival sketch show to Saturday Night Live; longest-running Fox sketch show.
14 years	14	X-Play	G4	July 4, 1998	January 23, 2013
13 years	14	NASCAR on TNT	TNT	July 22, 2001	July 13, 2014
22 years	14	Illegal Knowledge	Access Tucson	March 24, 2002	present	66+
21 years	14	Barefoot Contessa	Food Network	November 30, 2002	present	275
21 years		American Idol	FOX	June 11, 2002	April 7, 2016
			ABC	March 11, 2018	present
21 years	21	Shepard Smith Reporting	Fox News	August 2002	October 11, 2019		Hosted by Shepard Smith. Originally titled Studio B with Shepard Smith.
21 years	21	The Daily Buzz	Syndicated, The CW Plus	September 16, 2002	present
21 years		Dr. Phil	Syndicated	September 16, 2002	present		Hosted by Phil McGraw.
21 years	21	Around the Horn	ESPN	November 4, 2002	Present		Currently moderated by Tony Reali.
21 years	21	NBA Countdown	ESPN	December 25, 2002	present
21 years	21	NBA on ESPN	ESPN & ABC	December 25, 2002	Present		Sometimes broadcast on ABC as NBA on ABC.
15 years		The Venture Bros.	Adult Swim	February 16, 2003	October 7, 2018
13 years		Good Eats	Food Network	July 7, 1999	April 29, 2010
			Cooking Channel	May 27, 2010	February 10, 2012
13 years	13	Howdy Doody	NBC	December 27, 1947	September 24, 1960		Was in Black & White until 1956, and color thereafter.
13 years		Armstrong Circle Theatre	NBC	June 6, 1950	June 1957
			CBS	October 1957	August 28, 1963
13 years		The 20th Century	CBS	October 20, 1957	January 4, 1970		Was hosted by Walter Cronkite.
9 years		Schooltown	NBC	October 20, 1997	April 28, 2006
13 years		Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids	CBS	September 9, 1972	October 24, 1981		Presented by Bill Cosby.
			Syndicated	September 1, 1984	August 10, 1985
13 years		Dallas	CBS	April 2, 1978	May 3, 1991
13 years	13	PM Magazine	Syndicated	September 1978	August 30, 1991
13 years	13	Later	NBC	August 22, 1988	January 18, 2001		Originally hosted by Bob Costas.
15 years		Unsolved Mysteries	NBC	January 20, 1987	September 5, 1997
			CBS	November 13, 1997	June 11, 1999
			Lifetime	July 2, 2001	September 20, 2002
			Spike TV	October 13, 2008	April 27, 2010
13 years	13	Tim Russert	CNBC	1994	2008
13 years		King of the Hill	FOX	January 12, 1997	May 6, 2010		Third longest running Fox animated series.
13 years	13	Hannity & Colmes	Fox News	October 6, 1996	January 9, 2009
12 years		Rugrats	Nickelodeon	August 11, 1991	August 1, 2004 (2004-08-01)		First longest-running Nickelodeon animated series from the 90s.
20 years		NCIS	CBS	September 23, 2003	present
15 years		America's Next Top Model	UPN	May 20, 2003	May 17, 2006	72
			The CW	September 20, 2006	December 4, 2015	316
			VH1	December 8, 2016	Present	30
12 years	13	Road Rules	MTV	July 19, 1995	May 9, 2007
11 years		NASCAR on Speed	Speed	February 11, 2002	August 17, 2013
years		Star Search	Syndicated	September 10, 1983	May 20, 1995		Originally presented by Ed McMahon.
			CBS	2003	April 2004
12 years	12	American Sports Cavalcade	TNN	1983	1995
12 years		The Joy of Painting	PBS	January 11, 1983	May 17, 1994		Starred Bob Ross.
12 years	12	CBS Reports	CBS	October 27, 1959	September 7, 1971
12 years		My Three Sons	ABC	September 29, 1960	September 2, 1965
			CBS	September 16, 1965	August 24, 1972
12 years		NYPD Blue	ABC	September 21, 1993	March 1, 2005
12 years		Murder, She Wrote	CBS	September 30, 1984	May 19, 1996
12 years		Hawaii Five-O (original series)	CBS	September 26, 1968	April 26, 1980
12 years	12	Loving	ABC	June 26, 1983	November 10, 1995
12 years	12	Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous	Syndicated	January 1984	September 1996
12 years		Lockup	MSNBC	June 4, 2005	February 11, 2017
12 years	12	House of Style	MTV	January 1, 1989	2000
12 years		The Jenny Jones Show	Syndicated	September 16, 1991	September 12, 2003
12 years	12	Room by Room	HGTV	December 31, 1994	2006
12 years	12	NBA on NBC	NBC	1990	2002	"Arthur" 1996-2022 PBS
19 years		American Dad!	FOX	February 6, 2005	September 21, 2014		Fox's third longest-running animated series and second longest-running Seth MacFarlane show.
			TBS	October 20, 2014	present
19 years		Robot Chicken	Adult Swim	February 20, 2005	present
19 years		Intervention	A&E	March 6, 2005	Present
19 years		Iron Chef America	Food Network	March 6, 2005	Present
19 years		Grey's Anatomy	ABC	March 27, 2005	present
19 years		Deadliest Catch	Discovery	April 12, 2005	Present
18 years		Hell's Kitchen	FOX	May 30, 2005	present
18 years		Dancing with the Stars	ABC	June 1, 2005	present
18 years		Food Network Star	Food Network	June 5, 2005	Present
18 years		So You Think You Can Dance	FOX	July 20, 2005	Present
18 years		It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	FX	August 4, 2005	December 20, 2012		The longest running U.S. live-action sitcom.
			FXX	September 4, 2013	present
18 years		Squidbillies	Adult Swim	October 16, 2005	present
18 years		Cash Cab	Discovery	December 5, 2005	Present		Was on Hiatus 2012–2017.
18 years		Top Chef	Bravo	March 8, 2006	Present
18 years		The Real Housewives of Orange County	Bravo	March 21, 2006	Present		Part of The Real Housewives franchise.
17 years		America's Got Talent	NBC	June 21, 2006	Present
17 years		Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles	Bravo	August 29, 2006	Present
17 years		Curious George	PBS Kids	September 4, 2006	April 1, 2015
			Family Jr.	September 3, 2018	February 21, 2020
			Peacock	July 15, 2020	present
17 years		Rachael Ray	Syndicated	September 18, 2006	Present		Hosted by Rachael Ray.
17 years		Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern	Travel Channel	November 1, 2006	present
16 years		Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives	Food Network	April 23, 2007	Present
16 years		American Greed	CNBC	June 21, 2007	Present
16 years		Flipping Out	Bravo	July 31, 2007	2018
16 years		The Steve Wilkos Show	Syndicated	September 10, 2007	Present		Hosted by Steve Wilkos.
14 years		The Hoobs	ABC Kids (2009–2011) and Freeform (2011–present)	October 5, 2009	present	List of The Hoobs episodes	Tiddlypeep segments filming in Texas (San Antonio, Houston, Galveston, Dallas, McAllen and Brownsville), California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and Los Angeles), Louisiana (New Orleans), Georgia (Atlanta), Florida (Tampa, Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville), Missouri (Kansas City and St. Louis), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh and Philadelphia) and New York City.
12 years		Two and a Half Men	CBS	September 22, 2003	February 19, 2015
11 years	11	The Chris Matthews Show	Syndicated	September 22, 2002	July 21, 2013		Was hosted by Chris Matthews.
11 years		Kraft Television Theatre	NBC	May 7, 1947	October 1, 1958
11 years	11	Homes Across America	HGTV	December 1994	October 12, 2005
11 years	11	The Voice of Firestone	NBC	September 5, 1949	June 1954		Was previously on NBC radio.
			ABC	June 1954	June 1959
			ABC	September 1962	June 16, 1963
11 years	11	You Bet Your Life	NBC	October 5, 1950	June 29, 1961		Was presented by Groucho Marx. Previously was on multiple radio networks.
11 years	11	The Andy Williams Show	CBS	1957	1959		Starred Andy Williams.
			NBC	1962	1971
11 years	11	Beat the Clock (original series)	CBS	March 23, 1950	September 12, 1958
			ABC	October 13, 1958	January 30, 1961
11 years		The General Electric College Bowl	CBS	January 4, 1959	1963
			NBC	1963	June 14, 1970
11 years	11	The Wilburn Brothers Show	Syndicated	1963	1974	354
11 years		The Carol Burnett Show	CBS	September 11, 1967	March 29, 1978		Starred Carol Burnett.
11 years	11	Happening Now	Fox News	November 5, 2007	June 8, 2018
10 years		Wonder Pets!	Nickelodeon	March 3, 2006	September 3, 2016	Shorts: 2 Full-length episodes: 62	Fifth longest-running Nickelodeon show and second longest-running Nick Jr. series.
11 years		M*A*S*H	CBS	September 17, 1972	February 28, 1983
11 years	11	The Howard Stern Show	E!	June 18, 1994	July 8, 2005		Hosted by Howard Stern.
11 years		Geraldo	Syndicated	1987	1998		Last two seasons aired as The Geraldo Rivera Show.
11 years	11	Love Connection	Syndicated	September 19, 1983	July 1, 1994	2,425
11 years		The Danny Thomas Show	ABC	September 29, 1953	July 1957	344
			CBS	September 1957	September 14, 1964
11 years		Talk Soup	E!	January 7, 1991	May 17, 2002
11 years	11	Martha Stewart Living	Syndicated	September 1993	2004		The very similar The Martha Stewart Show aired 2005–2012.
11 years		The Crocodile Hunter	Animal Planet	October 25, 1996	September 4, 2007		Longest-running Animal Planet series.
11 years		ToonHeads	Cartoon Network	October 2, 1992	July 1, 2001
			Adult Swim	November 4, 2001	November 23, 2003
11 years		Ricki Lake	Syndicated	September 13, 1993	May 21, 2004		Was hosted by Ricki Lake.
11 years		All That	Nickelodeon	April 16, 1994	present		Was on hiatus from 2005 to 2019.
11 years		7th Heaven	The WB	August 26, 1996	May 8, 2006
			The CW	September 25, 2006	May 13, 2007
11 years	11	Imus in the Morning	MSNBC	September 2, 1996	April 11, 2007		Was hosted by Don Imus.
11 years	11	Fox News Live	Fox News	October 6, 1996	February 24, 2008
11 years		The Jeffersons	CBS	January 18, 1975	July 23, 1985
11 years	11	Paula's Home Cooking	Food Network	2002	2013
10 years		Married... with Children	FOX	April 5, 1987	June 9, 1997
10 years		Happy Days	ABC	January 15, 1974	September 24, 1984
10 years		Go!	NBC	April 3, 2000	November 22, 2010
21 years	16	NFL Total Access	NFL Network	2003	present	297
12 years		Bones	FOX	September 13, 2005	March 28, 2017
11 years	12	The Big Bang Theory	CBS	September 24, 2007	May 16, 2019	279
11 years	17	Bad Girls Club	Oxygen	December 5, 2006	May 2, 2017	275
14 years		Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Cartoon Network	April 15, 1994	July 22, 2001	80	Second longest-running Cartoon Network original series.
			Adult Swim	September 2, 2001	April 12, 2004	13
			GameTap	April 12, 2006	May 31, 2008	17
10 years		Intimate Portrait	Lifetime	January 3, 1994	October 3, 2005
10 years	10	American Morning	CNN	September 12, 2001	December 30, 2011
10 years		Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts	CBS	December 6, 1948	January 1, 1958		Starred Arthur Godfrey.
10 years		Arthur Godfrey and His Friends	CBS	January 12, 1949	April 28, 1959
20 years		Total Request Live	MTV	September 14, 1998	November 16, 2008
				October 2, 2017	November 2018
10 years		Mickey Mouse Clubhouse	Playhouse Disney	May 5, 2006	January 3, 2011	79	Longest-running Disney animated series from 2000s
			Disney Junior	February 14, 2011	November 6, 2016	46
9 years		Blue's Clues	Nickelodeon	September 8, 1996	August 6, 2006		Sixth longest-running Nickelodeon show and third longest-running Nick Jr. series.
10 years		Studio One	CBS	November 7, 1948	September 29, 1958
10 years	10	Pantomime Quiz	CBS	October 4, 1949	August 28, 1951
			NBC	January 2, 1952	March 26, 1952
			CBS	July 4, 1952	September 1952
			CBS	July 1953	August 28, 1953
			DuMont	October 20, 1953	April 13, 1954
			CBS	July 9, 1954	August 27, 1954
			ABC	January 1955	March 1955
			CBS	July 8, 1955	September 6, 1957
			ABC	April 1958	September 1958
			ABC	January 1959	September 1959
10 years	10	The Arthur Murray Party	ABC	July 20, 1950	September 1950		The first series to be shown on four U.S. broadcasting networks
			DuMont	October 1950	March 1951
			ABC	April 1951	May 1952
			CBS	July 1952	August 1952
			DuMont	October 1952	April 1953
			CBS	June 1953	October 1953
			NBC	October 1953	September 1955
			CBS	April 1956	September 1956
			NBC	July 1957	September 6, 1960
10 years	10	Smilin' Ed's Gang	NBC	August 26, 1950	May 19, 1951
			CBS	August 11, 1951	April 11, 1953
			ABC	August 22, 1953	April 23, 1955
			CBS	August 20, 1955	December 31, 1960
10 years	10	A Current Affair	Syndicated	July 28, 1986	August 30, 1996
11 years		Cheers	NBC	September 30, 1982	May 20, 1993
11 years		Frasier	NBC	September 16, 1993	May 13, 2004
10 years	10	Getting Fit	ESPN	1987	1997
10 years	10	American Chopper	Discovery & TLC	September 29, 2002	December 17, 2012	233
10 years	10	Friends	NBC	September 22, 1994	May 6, 2004	236
10 years		Beverly Hills, 90210	FOX	October 4, 1990	May 17, 2000
10 years	10	NASCAR on TNN	TNN	1991	2000
10 years		Stargate SG-1	Showtime & Syfy	July 27, 1997	March 13, 2007	214 + 2 DVD films	Spawned two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth. Syfy's longest running series.
10 years	10	The French Chef	PBS	February 11, 1963	February 11, 1973	201	Starred Julia Child.
8 years		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	CBS	December 28, 1987	November 2, 1996		Spawn many TV series spin-offs including its most recent series.
10 years		Ed, Edd n Eddy	Cartoon Network	January 4, 1999	November 8, 2009		Longest-running Cartoon Network original series from the 90s Longest-running Cartoon Cartoon
10 years		The Boondocks	Adult Swim	November 6, 2005	June 23, 2014
10 years		Smallville	The WB	October 16, 2001	May 11, 2006
			The CW	September 28, 2006	May 13, 2011
10 years		Law & Order: Criminal Intent	NBC & USA	September 30, 2001	June 26, 2011		Moved to USA in 2007.
10 years		JAG	CBS	September 23, 1995	April 29, 2005
14 years		NCIS: Los Angeles	CBS	September 22, 2009	Present
14 years	12	Archer	FX	September 17, 2009	June 2, 2016
			FXX	April 5, 2017	present
10 years		CSI: Miami	CBS	September 23, 2002	April 8, 2012
14 years		Modern Family	ABC	September 23, 2009	April 8, 2020
10 years		The United States Steel Hour	ABC & CBS	October 27, 1953	June 12, 1963	253	Moved to CBS in 1955.
11 years		Baywatch	NBC	September 22, 1989	April 6, 1990
			Syndicated	September 23, 1991	May 14, 2001
21 years		The Bachelorette	ABC	January 8, 2003	Present
21 years		Jimmy Kimmel Live!	ABC	January 26, 2003	Present		Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
14 years		Shark Tank	ABC	August 9, 2009	Present
14 years		American Ninja Warrior	NBC	December 12, 2009	Present
12 years		The Voice	NBC	April 26, 2011	Present
10 years		General Electric Theater	CBS	February 1, 1953	June 3, 1962		Was presented by Ronald Reagan.
16 years		The Real Housewives of New York City	Bravo	March 4, 2008	Present		Part of The Real Housewives franchise.
15 years		The Wendy Williams Show	Syndicated	July 14, 2008	Present		Hosted by Wendy Williams.
15 years		The Real Housewives of Atlanta	Bravo	October 7, 2008	Present		Part of The Real Housewives franchise.
14 years		Worst Cooks in America	Food Network	January 3, 2010	Present
10 years		Guy's Grocery Games	Food Network	October 20, 2013	Present
10 years		Beat Bobby Flay	Food Network	August 24, 2013	Present		Hosted by Bobby Flay.
15 years		Chopped	Food Network	January 13, 2009	Present
14 years	10	Tosh.0	Comedy Central	June 4, 2009	November 24, 2020	258
14 years		Pawn Stars	History	July 19, 2009	Present
14 years		American Pickers	History	January 18, 2010	Present
15 years		Ancient Aliens	History	March 8, 2009	Present
10 years		Ice Road Truckers	History	June 17, 2007	November 9, 2017
13 years		Swamp People	History	August 22, 2010	Present
15 years		Fareed Zakaria GPS	CNN	June 1, 2008	Present		Hosted by Fareed Zakaria.
years		USA Up All Night	USA	January 7, 1989	March 7, 1998
35 years	12	Mystery Science Theater 3000	KTMA-TV	November 24, 1988	1989	217	Was on Hiatus from 1999 to 2017.
			Comedy Channel	1989	1991
			Comedy Central	1991	1996
			Syfy	1997	1999
			Netflix	April 14, 2017	November 22, 2018
			Gizmoplex	March 4, 2022	Present
20 years	20	Anderson Cooper 360°	CNN	September 8, 2003	Present		Hosted by Anderson Cooper.
16 years		What Would You Do?	ABC	February 26, 2008	Present
10 years	10	Nashville Now	TNN	March 8, 1983	October 15, 1993
13 years	11 seasons	Shameless (US TV series)	Showtime	January 9, 2011	April 11, 2021	134	Showtime's longest-running original scripted series
13 years	11 seasons	Blue Bloods	CBS	September 24, 2010	present	225 episodes (and counting)	Stars Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahlberg, Will Estes, and Len Cariou; currently airing its 11th season

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Further reading

• Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–present. ISBN 0-345-45542-8 Search this book on ..
• TV Guide Guide to TV (2006). ISBN 0-7607-7572-9 Search this book on ..

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