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This is a '''list of the longest-running United States [[television program|television series]]''', ordered by number of years the show has been aired. This list includes only [[Broadcast syndication|first-run]] series originating in North America and available throughout the United States via national [[broadcast network]]s, U.S. [[Cable channel|cable network]]s, or [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]]. Series continuations (with name changes and/or changes in network) are noted, but series' revivals are treated as separate from the originals (see ''[[The People's Court]]'' and ''[[Jeopardy!]]''). Series broadcast within the U.S. but produced in other countries, such as ''[[Coronation Street]]'' (50+ years) and ''[[Doctor Who]]'' are not included (''see'': [[List of longest-running UK television series]]).

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|Series shaded in light blue with '''bold''' are currently in production.
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==Over 60 years==

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! width="20" | Length !! width="15" | Number of seasons !! width="80" | Series !! width="20" | Network !! width="30" | First broadcast !! width="30" | Last broadcast !! width="20" data-sort-type="number"| Number of episodes !! width="60" | Notes
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1947|11|6}} years
|'''{{Template parameter value|Meet the Press|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| ''[[Meet the Press]]''<ref group=note>Only its time on television is counted here; it began on radio (as ''[[The American Mercury|American Mercury]] Presents: Meet the Press'') in 1945</ref><br><small>(NBC News)</small><br/>
| [[NBC]]
| November 6, 1947<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3403008/ns/meet_the_press-about_us/|title=Meet the Press|work=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121231174208/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3403008/ns/meet_the_press-about_us/|archive-date=December 31, 2012}}</ref>
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Meet the Press|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running show.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1948|5|3}} years
|'''{{Template parameter value|CBS Evening News|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| ''[[CBS Evening News]]''<ref group=note>''CBS Television News'' 1948–1951, ''Douglas Edwards with the News'' 1951–1963</ref><br><small>(CBS News)</small><br/>
| [[CBS]]
| May 3, 1948
| present
| 16,400+
| Longest-running network newscast.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1949|10|1}} years
|'''{{age|1949|10|1}}'''
| ''[[Music & the Spoken Word]]''<ref group=note>Only its time on television is counted here; it began on radio July 15, 1929.</ref>
| Syndicated
| October 1949
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Music & the Spoken Word|Infobox radio show||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running non-news television program.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="8"| {{age|1951|12|24}} years
| rowspan="8"|'''{{Template parameter value|Hallmark Hall of Fame|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| rowspan="8"|''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''Hallmark Playhouse'' radio series, was ''Hallmark Television Playhouse'' (1951–1954)</ref>
| NBC
| December 24, 1951*
| December 17, 1978
| rowspan="8"| {{Template parameter value|Hallmark Hall of Fame|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="8"| Not broadcast on a regular schedule, with only a limited number of productions per year.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| CBS
| November 14, 1979
| April 30, 1980
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[PBS]]
| February 9, 1981
| May 6, 1981
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| CBS
| December 1, 1981
| January 29, 1989
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| April 30, 1989
| April 23, 1995
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| CBS
| December 10, 1995
| April 24, 2011
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| ABC
| November 27, 2011
| April 20, 2014
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Hallmark Channel]]
| November 30, 2014<ref>{{cite web|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|url=http://deadline.com/2014/09/hallmark-hall-of-fame-moves-hallmark-channel-833722/|title=Hallmark Hall Of Fame Moving To Cable, Will Air On Hallmark Channel|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|date=September 12, 2014|accessdate=March 21, 2016}}</ref>
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1952|1|14}} years
|'''{{Template parameter value|Today (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}''' <!--Episode count can be edited in the info box of the Today (U.S. TV program) page. -->
| ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]]'' <br><small>(NBC News)</small><br/>
| NBC
| January 14, 1952
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Today (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}} <!--Update this stat on the Today (U.S. TV program) wiki page, it will then auto-populate to here-->
| Longest-running morning show.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1953|9|1}} years
|'''{{age|1953|9|1}}'''
| ''[[ABC World News Tonight]] ''<ref group=note>''ABC Evening News'' 1953–1965 and 1967–1978; ''[[Peter Jennings]] and the News'' 1965–1967; ''World News Tonight'' 1978–2006; ''World News with [[Charles Gibson]]'' 2006–2009; ''ABC World News with [[Diane Sawyer]]'' 2009–2014</ref>
| ABC
| September 1953
| present
| 15,722+
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="7"| {{age|1954|9|27}} years
| rowspan="7"|  '''{{age|1954|9|27}}''' 
| rowspan="7"| ''[[The Tonight Show]]''<ref group=note>There have been six major hosts of the Tonight Show during seven tenure periods.</ref>
| rowspan="7"| NBC
| September 27, 1954
| January 25, 1957
| rowspan="2"|2000 episodes before the Carson era. <ref  group=note>There were various other hosts for some short periods during the pre-Carson years. Please see the [[The Tonight Show#Hosting_history|hosting history]] for further details.</ref>
| Hosted by [[Steve Allen]]. [[Tonight Starring Steve Allen]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| July 29, 1957
| March 30, 1962 
| Hosted by [[Jack Paar]]. [[Tonight Starring Jack Paar]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| October 1, 1962
| May 22, 1992
| {{Template parameter value|The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[Johnny Carson]]. [[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]. 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| May 25, 1992
| May 29, 2009
| 3,775
| First time Hosted by [[Jay Leno]]. [[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| June 1, 2009
| January 22, 2010
| {{Template parameter value|The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[Conan O'Brien]]. [[The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| March 1, 2010
| February 6, 2014
| 835 <ref>The total number of episodes hosted by Jay Leno combined is 4,610.</ref>
| Second time Hosted by [[Jay Leno]]. [[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]  
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| February 17, 2014
| Present
| {{Template parameter value|The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon|Infobox television||num_episodes|}} <ref group=note> The total number of episodes is <!--Episode count can be edited in the info box of the main page. This was added so that all pages with this data will be updated and synchronized all at the same time with the convenience of only making a singe edit. THIS COUNTS EVERY EPISODE OF THE TONIGHT SHOW, NOT JUST EPISODES HOSTED BY JIMMY FALLON-->{{:The Tonight Show}}.</ref> 
| Hosted by [[Jimmy Fallon]]. [[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon]]  
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1954|11|7}} years
|'''{{Template parameter value|Face the Nation|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| ''[[Face the Nation]]'' <br><small>(CBS News)</small><br/>
| CBS
| November 7, 1954
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1956|3|1}} years
|'''{{age|1956|3|1}}'''<ref name="Land"/>
| ''[[It Is Written]]''
| Syndicated
| March 1, 1956<ref name="Land">{{cite book|page=310|title=Historical Dictionary of the Seventh-Day Adventists (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series)|first=Gary|last=Land|year=2005|publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]]|isbn=978-1442241879}}</ref>
| present
|
| Longest-running religious television program to broadcast in color.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1956|5|1}} years
|'''{{age|1956|5|1}}'''
| ''[[The Open Mind (TV series)|The Open Mind]]''
| Syndicated<ref>Normally to PBS stations.</ref>
| May 1956<ref>{{Cite news|issn=0362-4331|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=Richard D. Heffner, Host of 'The Open Mind,' Dies at 88|work=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=September 2, 2014|date=December 19, 2013|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/arts/television/richard-d-heffner-host-of-the-open-mind-dies-at-88.html }}</ref>
| present
|
| Longest-running public television program.
|-
|}

==50–59 years==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
! width="20" | Length !! width="15" | Number of seasons !! width="80" | Series !! width="20" | Network !! width="30" | First broadcast !! width="30" | Last broadcast !! width="20" data-sort-type="number"| Number of episodes !! width="60" | Notes
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{age|1956|09|30}} years
| rowspan="2" | '''{{Template parameter value|NFL on CBS|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[NFL on CBS]]''
| rowspan="2" | [[CBS]]
| September 30, 1956
| January 23, 1994
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|NFL on CBS|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | CBS originally broadcast NFL games from 1956 to its [[AFL–NFL merger|merger with the AFL]] in 1970. It continued to broadcast [[National Football Conference|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 [[American Football Conference|AFC]] regular and playoff games from NBC.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 6, 1998
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|NFL on NBC|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| rowspan="2" | '''{{Template parameter value|NFL on NBC|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[NFL on NBC]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''GrandStand'', then changed name to reflect year; was also ''NFL Live'' 1987–1997</ref>
| rowspan="2" | [[NBC]]
| 1939
| 1998
| rowspan="2" | 5,000+
| rowspan="2" | GrandStand was the original name of the program.  NBC Originally carried many NFL Games including the Pro Bowl. It later carried [[American Football League|AFL]]/[[American Football Conference|AFC]] games until 1997 when NBC Lost it's AFC contract to CBS. NBC later resumed it's 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.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 2006
| present
|-
| 57 years
|'''57'''
| ''[[Guiding Light]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''The Guiding Light''. Only its time on television is counted here; it began on radio January 25, 1937.</ref><br><small>(CBS Daytime)</small><br/>
| 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.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1961|10|7}} years
|'''{{age|1961|10|7}}'''
| ''[[It's Academic]]''
| [[WRC-TV]] <br> [[WJZ-TV]] <br> [[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).
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="4"| {{age|1962|1|27}} years
| rowspan="4"|'''{{age|1962|1|27}}'''
| rowspan="4"|''[[Professional Bowlers Tour]]''<ref group=note>Name often altered to reflect primary sponsor. Name on current broadcasts: ''Denny's PBA Tour''</ref>
| ABC<ref>In addition, NBC televised the fall tour, 1984–1991</ref>
| January 27, 1962
| June 21, 1997
| rowspan="4"|
| rowspan="4"| [[ESPN]] airs some of the tours on ABC.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| CBS
| 1998<ref group=note>1998–2000 broadcast seasons were shared by CBS and ESPN</ref>
| 1999
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Fox Sports Net]]
| 1999
| 2000
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[ESPN]]
| 2000
| present
|-
| {{Template parameter value|As the World Turns|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
|'''{{Template parameter value|As the World Turns|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}'''
| ''[[As the World Turns]]'' <small>(CBS Daytime)</small>
| CBS
| April 2, 1956
| September 17, 2010
| {{Template parameter value|As the World Turns|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1963|4|1}} years
|'''{{age|1963|4|1}}'''
|''[[General Hospital]]'' <small>(ABC Daytime)</small>
| ABC
| April 1, 1963
| present
| {{Template parameter value|General Hospital|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) still in production.<ref name="GH Ep14000">Various citations concerning the 14,000th episode of ''General Hospital'':
* {{cite news|author=SOD|authorlink=Soap Opera Digest|title=GH Airs 14,000th Episode|url=https://www.soapoperadigest.com/photos/gh-airs-14000th-episode/|accessdate=February 23, 2018|work=Soap Opera Digest|agency=Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc.|publisher=[[American Media, Inc.]]|date=February 23, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223191953/https://www.soapoperadigest.com/photos/gh-airs-14000th-episode/|archivedate=February 23, 2018|location=United States|url-status=live}}
* {{cite news|last=Eades|first=Chris|title=''General Hospital'' Celebrates Its 14,000th Episode — See the Fun Backstage Pics!|url=http://www.abc.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital-14000-episode-gallery-154535|accessdate=February 23, 2018|work=[[ABC Soaps In Depth]]|publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]]|date=February 23, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223192202/http://www.abc.soapsindepth.com/posts/general-hospital-14000-episode-gallery-154535|archivedate=February 23, 2018|location=United States|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web|last=Fairman|first=Michael|title=TODAY: ''General Hospital'' Airs Its 14,000 Episode!|url=http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/today-general-hospital-airs-its-14000-episode/2018/02/23/|website=[[On-Air On-Soaps]]|publisher=Michael Fairman Soaps, Inc.|accessdate=February 23, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223190927/http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/news/today-general-hospital-airs-its-14000-episode/2018/02/23/|archivedate=February 23, 2018|location=United States|date=February 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
<!-- The above reference was copied from the main General Hospital article.  -->
|-
| rowspan="7"| 54 years
| rowspan="7"|'''53'''
| rowspan="7"|''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|The Wonderful World of Disney]]''<ref>[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Disney anthology television series]] aired under a variety of titles, including ''Disneyland'', ''Disney's Wonderful World of Color'' and ''The Magical World of Disney''. The current title is ''The Wonderful World of Disney''. See the main article for a complete broadcast history</ref>
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| October 27, 1954
| June 11, 1961
| rowspan="7"| {{Template parameter value|Walt Disney anthology television series|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="7"| 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
|-
| {{Template parameter value|Sábado Gigante|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Sábado Gigante|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Sábado Gigante]]''
| [[Univision]]
| August 8, 1962
| September 19, 2015
| 2,800+
| Longest-running imported TV show. 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1965|11|8}} years
|51
| ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' <small>(NBC Daytime)</small>
| NBC
| November 8, 1965
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Days of Our Lives|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|{{age|1967|2|23}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Washington Week|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Washington Week]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''Washington Week in Review''</ref>
| [[National Educational Television|NET]], [[PBS]]
| February 23, 1967
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Washington Week|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest continuous running Public Television show on [[PBS]], having started on its predecessor [[National Educational Television|NET]] and carrying over to PBS, along with [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]], [[Sesame Street]] and others in 1970.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3"|{{age|1967|9|17}} years
| rowspan="3"|{{age|1967|9|17}}
| rowspan="3"|''[[NFL Films]] Presents''
| Syndicated
| September 17, 1967<ref>{{cite book|title=Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League|isbn=0-06-270174-6|author1=Michael Gershman |author2=David S. Neft |author3=Bob Carroll  |name-list-style=amp |year=1997|publisher=Harper Resource}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-1932994360|publisher=[[Sports Illustrated]]|year=2005|author= Editors at the NFL|title=NFL Record and Fact Book}}</ref>
| January 26, 1997
|
| rowspan="3"|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[ESPN]]
| August 31, 1997
| present
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[NFL Network]]
| November 4, 2003
| present
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1968|5|5}} years
|48
| ''[[Day of Discovery]]''
| Syndicated
| May 5, 1968
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1968|9|24}} years
| {{Template parameter value|60 Minutes|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[60 Minutes]]'' <br><small>(CBS News)</small><br/>
| CBS
| September 24, 1968
| present
| {{Template parameter value|60 Minutes|Infobox television||num_episodes|}} <!-- Episode count can be edited in the info box of the main 60 Minutes entry -->
|
|-
|}

==40–49 years==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="6"|{{age|1969|9|13}} years
| rowspan="6"|27
| rowspan="6"|''[[Scooby-Doo]]''
| [[CBS]]
| September 13, 1969
| October 27, 1973
| rowspan="6"| 384
| rowspan="6"|Longest-running [[Hanna-Barbera]] television franchise.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| September 11, 1976
| August 17, 1991
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[The WB]]
| September 14, 2002
| April 16, 2005
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[The CW]]
| September 23, 2006
| March 15, 2008
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Cartoon Network]]
| April 5, 2010
| March 12, 2016
|- bgcolor=cfecec
| [[Boomerang (TV channel)|Boomerang]]
| June 20, 2017
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|-
| 46 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| ''[[The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon|Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon]]''<ref group=note>[[Jerry Lewis]] died in 2017.</ref>
| Syndicated/ABC
| September 4, 1966<ref name=TheTelethonYearsHistory>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetelethonyears.com/showhistory.htm|title=How it all began?|work=The Telethon Years|accessdate=March 30, 2016}}</ref>
| August 31, 2014
| {{Template parameter value|The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Annual broadcast; was broadcast as a two-hour special on ABC in 2013 and 2014.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3"|{{age|1969|11|10}} years
| rowspan="3"|{{Template parameter value|Sesame Street|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="3"|''[[Sesame Street]]''
| [[National Educational Television|NET]]
| November 10, 1969
| October 4, 1970
| rowspan="3"|{{Template parameter value|Sesame Street|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="3"| Longest-running children's show.<ref group=note>This only applies to the time that a children's program has broadcast nationwide. Technically, a few other children's programs may have run longer in years/seasons than ''Sesame Street'' without being broadcast nationwide.</ref> While ''Sesame Street'' remains on the PBS schedule, new episodes now premiere on HBO and become available to PBS nine months later.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[PBS]]
| October 5, 1970
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[HBO]]
| January 16, 2016
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1970|2|1}} years
|{{Template parameter value|Hour of Power|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Hour of Power]]''
| Syndicated
| February 1970
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Hour of Power|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"|{{age|1970|9|21}} years
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|Monday Night Football|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Monday Night Football]]''
| ABC
| September 21, 1970
| December 26, 2005
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|Monday Night Football|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| Per NFL Policy, all games that are broadcast via [[cable television|cable]] or [[direct broadcast satellite|satellite television]] on a Pay TV Network must also be made available on [[terrestrial television|over-the-air]] [[television station]]s in each participating team's local market.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|[[ESPN]]
| September 11, 2006
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1970|8|3}} years
| {{Template parameter value|NBC Nightly News|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[NBC Nightly News]]'' <small>(NBC News)</small>
| [[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]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1971|1|10}} years
|46
| ''[[Masterpiece (TV series)|Masterpiece Theatre]]''<ref group=note>Was renamed to ''Masterpiece'' in 2008.</ref>
| PBS
| January 10, 1971
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1972|9|4}} years
|{{Template parameter value|The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' <small>(CBS Daytime)</small><ref>Originally ''The New Price Is Right''; longest-running game show in American television history.</ref>
| CBS
| September 4, 1972
| present
| 8,000+
| Longest-running game show to be broadcast nationally.
|-
| 45 years
|{{Template parameter value|Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series)|Wide World of Sports]]'' <br><small>(ABC Sports)</small>
| ABC
| April 29, 1961
| August 2006<ref group=note>Weekly broadcasts ended January 1, 1997; irregular airings afterward; officially ended with the absorption of ABC Sports into ESPN</ref>
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|{{age|1961}} years
| rowspan="2"|36
| rowspan="2"|''[[NASCAR on ESPN|NASCAR on ABC]]''
| ABC
| February 26, 1961
| August 5, 2000
| 
|
|-
| ESPN
| March 10, 2007
| October 11, 2014
| 
| 
|-
| 45 years
|45
| ''[[Inside Washington|Agronsky & Co./Inside Washington]]''
| Syndicated <ref>Primarily to public television</ref>
| 1969
| December 20, 2013
|
|
|-
| 45 years
| {{Template parameter value|One Life to Live|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[One Life to Live]]'' <br><small>(ABC Daytime)</small><br/>
| ABC
| July 15, 1968
| January 13, 2012
| {{Template parameter value|One Life to Live|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| 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 August 19, 2013 before being confirmed as being discontinued again on September 3, 2013.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1972|11|4}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Great Performances|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Great Performances]]''
| PBS
| November 4, 1972
| present
|
|
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1973|3|26}} years
| {{age|1973|3|26}}
| ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'' <br><small>(CBS Daytime)</small><br/>
| CBS
| March 26, 1973
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Young and the Restless|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| <ref name="11,000th Episode">{{cite news|last1=Strohm|first1=Emily|title=''The Young and the Restless'' Celebrates 11,000 Episodes and 43 Years on Air!|url=http://www.people.com/article/young-restless-celebrates-43-years-11000-episodes?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag|accessdate=July 18, 2016|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|date=July 18, 2016|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6j6ag7MmH?url=http://www.people.com/article/young-restless-celebrates-43-years-11000-episodes?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag|archivedate=July 19, 2016|location=United States|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
<!-- Copied the above reference from the main The Young and the Restless wiki article. -->
|-
| 41 years
| 41
| ''[[Romper Room|Romper Room/Romper Room & Friends]]''<ref group=note>Was available to stations in both franchised and syndicated versions as ''Romper Room'' from 1953 to 1981; was retitled ''Romper Room & Friends'' in 1981 and became a syndicated-only series as the local versions ended production</ref>
| Syndicated
| February 9, 1953<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-nancyclasterobit-story.html|accessdate=March 22, 2016|date=April 26, 1997|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|title=1st 'Romper Room' teacher Nancy Claster dies at 82|first=Fred|last=Rasmussen|publisher=[[Tribune Publishing]]}}</ref>
| September 1994
|
|
|-
| 41 years
|42
| ''[[All My Children]]'' <br><small>(ABC Daytime)</small><br/>
| ABC
| January 5, 1970
| September 23, 2011
| {{Template parameter value|All My Children|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| 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.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|{{age|1974|3|3}} years
|{{Template parameter value|Nova (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Nova (TV series)|Nova]]''
| PBS
| March 3, 1974
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Nova (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1975|4|15}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Victory Garden (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Victory Garden (TV series)|The Victory Garden]]''<ref group=note>Known as ''Jim Crockett's Victory Garden'' from 1975 to 1979</ref>
| PBS
| April 16, 1975
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|{{age|1975|10|11}} years
|{{Template parameter value|Saturday Night Live|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''NBC's Saturday Night''</ref>
| NBC
| October 11, 1975
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Saturday Night Live|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| The longest-running sketch comedy show on American television, as well as the longest-running variety show in U.S. history.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1975|10|20}} years
| {{age|1975|10|20}}
| ''[[PBS NewsHour]]''<ref group=note>Previously ''The Robert MacNeil Report'' (1975), ''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' (1975–1983), ''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' 1975–1995, & ''The News Hour with Jim Lehrer'' 1995–2009.</ref>
| PBS
| October 20, 1975
| present
|
| Was hosted by [[Robert MacNeil]] (1975–1995) and [[Jim Lehrer]] (1976–2011). 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1975|11|3}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Good Morning America|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Good Morning America]]''
| ABC
| November 3, 1975
| present
| 9,914+
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1976|1|1}} years
| {{age|1976|1|1}}
| ''[[Austin City Limits]]''
| PBS
| 1976
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Austin City Limits|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1976|1|11}} years
| {{age|1976|1|11}}
| ''[[Creative Living with Sheryl Borden]]''
| Syndicated
| 1976
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1976|1|30}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Live from Lincoln Center|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Live from Lincoln Center]]''
| PBS
| January 30, 1976
| present<ref>Not currently on a regular schedule</ref>
| {{Template parameter value|Live from Lincoln Center|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1977|9|14}} years
| rowspan="2"| 41
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Inside the NFL]]''
| HBO
| September 14, 1977
| February 6, 2008
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| [[Len Dawson]] and [[Nick Buoniconti]] hosted the show together 1978–2001.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Showtime (TV channel)|Showtime]]
| September 10, 2008
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1978|6|6}} years
| {{Template parameter value|20/20 (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[20/20 (U.S. TV program)|20/20]]'' <small><br>(ABC News)<br/></small>
| ABC
| June 6, 1978
| present
| {{Template parameter value|20/20 (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Long time hosts were [[Hugh Downs]] (1978–99) and [[Barbara Walters]] (1979–2004, 2013–14).
|-
| 40 years
|40
| ''[[NASCAR on CBS]]''
| CBS
| February 12, 1960
| July 15, 2000
| 
|
|-
| 40 years
| 40
|  ''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|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 Informal (E/I) Saturday morning cartoon on broadcast TV.
|-
|}

==35–39 years==

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"|{{age|1966|4|1}} years
| rowspan="2"|38
| rowspan="2"|''[[The 700 Club]]''<ref group=note>Aired locally on [[WGNT|WYAH-TV]] [[Portsmouth, Virginia]],  1966–1977; evolved from locally broadcast telethons 1962–1966</ref>
| Syndicated<ref>Simulcast with cable network transmission</ref>
| 1966
| present
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Christian Broadcasting Network|CBN]] & [[Freeform (TV channel)|Freeform]]
| 1977
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1979|1|22}} years
| 38
| ''[[Nightly Business Report]]''<ref group=note>Broadcast locally only on [[WPBT]], 1979–1981</ref>
| [[PBS]]
|January 22, 1979
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1979|1|28}} years
| {{Template parameter value|CBS News Sunday Morning|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[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).
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1979|2|20}} years
| {{Template parameter value|This Old House|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[This Old House]]''
| PBS
| 1979
| present
| {{Template parameter value|This Old House|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Originally hosted by [[Bob Vila]] until 1989. 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1979}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Woodwright's Shop|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Woodwright's Shop]]''<ref group=note>Broadcast only in North Carolina, 1979–1981</ref>
| PBS
| 1979
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Woodwright's Shop|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1979|9|7}} years
| {{Template parameter value|SportsCenter|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[SportsCenter]]''
| [[ESPN]], [[ESPN2]], [[ESPNews]]
| September 7, 1979
| present
| {{Template parameter value|SportsCenter|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| More episodes than any other television series.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1980|3|24}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Nightline|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Nightline]]''<ref group=note>Evolved from ''The Iran Crisis – America Held Hostage'' (1979–80).</ref>
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| March 24, 1980
| present
|
| Hosted by [[Ted Koppel]] (1980-2005). 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1980|10|7}} years
| 36
| ''[[Washington Journal]]''<ref group=note>Weekend editions are simulcast on the [[BBC Parliament]] channel with the name ''America This Week''</ref>
| [[C-SPAN]]
| October 7, 1980
| present
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|Search for Tomorrow|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|Search for Tomorrow|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan=2|''[[Search for Tomorrow]]'' <br><small>(CBS & NBC Daytime)</small><br/>
| CBS
| September 3, 1951
| March 23, 1982
| rowspan=2|{{Template parameter value|Search for Tomorrow|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan=2|
|-
| [[NBC]]
| March 26, 1982
| December 26, 1986
|-
| 35 years 
| {{Template parameter value|Another World (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'' <br><small>(NBC Daytime)</small><br/>
| NBC
| May 4, 1964
| June 25, 1999
| {{Template parameter value|Another World (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running continuous title sequences on television.
|- 
| 35 years
| 35
| ''[[Bobby Jones Gospel]]''
| [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]]
| January 27, 1980
| July 31, 2016
|
|
|-
| 35 years
|35
| ''[[Soul Train]]''
| Syndicated
| October 2, 1971
| March 25, 2006<ref>Date of airing of last first-run episode. Since then, reruns have been syndicated as ''Best of Soul Train''</ref>
| {{Template parameter value|Soul Train|infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 35 years
|35
| ''[[Wall Street Week|Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser]]''<ref group=note>Became ''Wall Street Week with Fortune'' after original host was fired in 2002</ref><ref group=note>[[Louis Rukeyser]] died in 2006.</ref>
| PBS
| November 20, 1970
| June 24, 2005
|
| Since 2016, a new version of the program is now airing on the [[Fox Business Network|Fox Business]]. <ref group=note>Current host is [[Maria_Bartiromo]].</ref>
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1981|6|1}} years
| 35
| ''[[Noticiero Univision]]''<ref group=note>Originally titled ''Noticiero SIN'' when [[Univision]] was known as SIN (Spanish International Network).</ref>
| [[Univision]]
| June 1, 1981
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|1981|9|14}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Entertainment Tonight|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Entertainment Tonight]]''
| Syndicated
| September 14, 1981
| present
| 11,675 <ref>{{small|({{as of|lc=1|df=us|2018|12|28}}; 9,730 weekdays; 1,945 weekend)}}</ref>
| Longest-running entertainment news program.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1981|10|15}} years
| {{Template parameter value|MotorWeek|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[MotorWeek]]''<ref group=note>Also syndicated, 1982–present</ref>
| PBS
| October 15, 1981
| present
|
| 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1981|11|15}} years
| {{Template parameter value|This Week (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[This Week (U.S. TV program)|This Week]]''<ref group=note>Succeeded ''[[Issues and Answers]]''; full title throughout its run is ''This Week With (host's name)'', beginning with [[David Brinkley]], 1981–1996. Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson co-anchored from 1996–2002. [[George Stephanopoulos]] was host from 2002 to 2010. [[Christiane Amanpour]] took over as host in 2010.</ref>
| ABC
| November 15, 1981
| present
|
| Originally hosted by [[David Brinkley]] (1981–1996), currently hosted by [[George Stephanopoulos]] (2002-2010, 2012-Present).
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="4"| {{age|1982|2|1}} years
| rowspan="4"| 38
| rowspan="4"|''[[Late Night (TV series)|Late Night]]''<ref group=note>''Late Night'', as an entity, is in its 38th season. Over that period it has had four hosts, listed in the notes column.</ref>
| rowspan="4"|NBC
| February 1, 1982
| June 21, 1993
| {{Template parameter value|Late Night with David Letterman|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Late Night with David Letterman|... with David Letterman]]
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 13, 1993
| February 20, 2009
| {{Template parameter value|Late Night with Conan O'Brien|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Late Night with Conan O'Brien|... with Conan O'Brien]]
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| March 2, 2009
| February 7, 2014
| {{Template parameter value|Late Night with Jimmy Fallon|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Late Night with Jimmy Fallon|... with Jimmy Fallon]]
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| February 24, 2014
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Late Night with Seth Meyers|Infobox television||num_episodes|}} <ref>The total number of episodes, for each host all combined, is 6,298, as as January 21, 2019.</ref>
| [[Late Night with Seth Meyers|... with Seth Meyers]]
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1982|10|10}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Nature (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Nature (TV series)|Nature]]''
| PBS
| October 10, 1982
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Nature (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1983|1|17}} years
| 37 <ref>Number of seasons can be found at the [[List of Frontline (U.S. TV program) episodes|List of Frontline episodes]].</ref>
| ''[[Frontline (U.S. TV program)|Frontline]]''
| PBS
| January 17, 1983
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Frontline (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|35 years
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Columbo|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Columbo]]''
| NBC
| February 20, 1968
| May 13, 1978
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|Columbo|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| Was on hiatus from 1978-1989, during the change in broadcast networks.
|-
| ABC
| February 6, 1989
| January 30, 2003
|}

==30–34 years==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes

|-
| 34 years
| 34
| ''[[Evening at Pops]]''
| [[PBS]]
| July 12, 1970
| August 29, 2004
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1982|1|1}} years
| 35
| ''[[The McLaughlin Group]]''
| Syndicated, primarily to public television
| January 1, 1982
| August 12, 2016
|
| The show ended its run when [[John McLaughlin (host)|John McLaughlin]] died in 2016, but was then revived in 2018 with new host [[Tom Rogan]].
|-
| rowspan="2"|33 years
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]''
| [[National Educational Television|NET]]
| February 19, 1968
| May 1, 1970
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| 
|-
| PBS
| February 15, 1971
| August 31, 2001
|-
| rowspan="2"|33 years
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|Firing Line (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Firing Line (TV series)|Firing Line]]''
| Syndicated
| April 4, 1966<ref>Pilot taped April 4, 1966</ref>
| 1971
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Firing Line (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| Longest-running public affairs program to have a single host.
|-
| PBS
| 1971
| December 26, 1999
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1983|9|19}} years
| 35
| ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' <small>(prime time)</small>
| Syndicated
| September 19, 1983
| present
| 6,000+ <ref>As of April 11, 2014.</ref>
| 2nd longest-running game show; daytime version aired from 1975 to 1991.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1984|9|10}} years
| 34
| ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' <small>(revival)</small><ref>Hosted by [[Alex Trebek]]</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 10, 1984
| present
| 7,000+ <ref name="Jeopardy 7000th Episode minisite">{{cite web|title=''Jeopardy!'' 7,000|url=http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/7000/|publisher=Sony Pictures|accessdate=May 21, 2015|quote=Tune in May 20th to celebrate with us.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516014149/http://www.jeopardy.com/minisites/7000|archivedate=May 16, 2015}}</ref> <!-- reference copied from the Jeopardy wiki page. -->
| 3rd longest-running game show; daytime version aired from 1964 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1984|10|4}} years
| 32
| ''Real Videos''
| TBN, JCTV
| October 4, 1984<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.in.com/matthew-crouch/biography-191375.html|title=Celebrity Photo Gallery, Celebrity Wallpapers, Celebrity Videos, Bio, News, Songs, Movies|work=In.com|accessdate=5 October 2014}}</ref>
| present
| 900+
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|31 years
| rowspan="2"|31
| rowspan="2"|''Faith for Today''<ref>Also ''Westbrook Hospital'', 1975–1981</ref>
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| May 21, 1950
| 1955
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| Syndicated
| 1955
| 1981
|-
| 31 years
| 31
|''[[Lamp Unto My Feet]]''<ref>{{cite news | author = | title =George Crothers, 89, Television Producer | work =The New York Times | date =December 7, 1998 | url =https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E3DA163AF934A35751C1A96E958260 | accessdate=2009-03-08}}</ref>
| [[CBS]]
| 1948
| 1979
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="5"|30 years
| rowspan="5"|31
| rowspan="5"|''[[Gilad Janklowicz|Gilad's Bodies in Motion]]''
| [[ESPN]]
| 1983
| 1994
| rowspan="5"|
| rowspan="5"|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| Fox Sports Net
| 1994
| 1995
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Discovery Health Channel|Discovery Health]]
| 1995
| 2004
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[FitTV]]
| 2004
| 2011
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Discovery Fit & Health]]
| 2011
| 2015
2015 – present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3"| {{age|1985|4|20}} years
| rowspan="3"|31
| rowspan="3"|''[[Grand Ole Opry|Grand Ole Opry Live]]''<ref>Oldest continuously running radio program, airing on [[WSM (AM)|WSM]] radio, [[Nashville|Nashville, Tennessee]]</ref>
| [[Spike (TV channel)|TNN]]
| April 20, 1985
| August 2001
| rowspan="3"|
| rowspan="3"|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Country Music Television|CMT]]
| August 2001
| 2003
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Great American Country|GAC]]<ref>As ''Grand Ole Opry Live!''</ref>
| 2003
| present
|-
| rowspan="2"|30 years
| rowspan="2"|30
| rowspan="2"|''[[NASCAR on ESPN]]''
| rowspan="2"|ESPN, [[ESPN2]], ABC
| 1981
| 2002
|
|
|-
| 2007
| 2014
|
|
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1987|4|6}} years
| rowspan="2"| 29
| rowspan="2"|''[[Biography (TV series)|Biography]]''<ref>Originated on [[CBS]]</ref>
| [[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]
| April 6, 1987<ref group=note>Reran CBS originals, 1984–1987</ref>
| August 2006
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| Biography was cancelled in 2012, and later revived in 2017.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[The Biography Channel|Biography Channel]]
| August 2006
| present<ref>Rebroadcast A&E originals, 1999–2006</ref>
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1987|3|23}} years
| 31
| ''[[The Bold and the Beautiful]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/the_bold_and_the_beautiful/about/|title=The Bold and the Beautiful - About|work=cbs.com|accessdate=12 September 2018}}</ref>
| CBS
| March 23, 1987
| present
|{{Template parameter value|The Bold and the Beautiful|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| <ref name="8,000th Episode">{{cite news |author=SOD |authorlink=Soap Opera Digest |title=B&B Airs 8,000th Episode |url=https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/bb-airs-8000th-episode/ |accessdate=December 15, 2018 |work=[[Soap Opera Digest]] |agency=Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc |publisher=[[American Media, Inc.]] |date=December 13, 2018 |location=United States |url-status=live}}</ref>  <!-- Copied reference note from main The Bold and the Beautiful page. -->
|}

==25–29 years==

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes

|-
| 29 years
| {{Template parameter value|Captain Kangaroo|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]''<ref group=note>Reruns aired in syndication, 1984–1992</ref>
| [[CBS]]
| October 3, 1955
| December 8, 1984
| {{Template parameter value|Captain Kangaroo|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Bob Keeshan]] died in 2004.
|-
| 29 years
| 29
| ''[[Lou Dobbs Tonight]]''<ref group=note>Began as ''Moneyline''. Became ''Lou Dobbs Moneyline'' in 2001, ''[[Lou Dobbs Tonight]]'' in 2003</ref>
| [[CNN]]
| June 1, 1980
| November 11, 2009
|
|
|-
| 29 years
| {{Template parameter value|Hometime (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Hometime (U.S. TV series)|Hometime]]''
| [[PBS]]
| November 1, 1986
| January 30, 2016
|
|
|-
| 29 years
| 29
| ''[[WCW Saturday Night]]''<ref group=note>Broadcast locally on [[WXIA|WQXI]] in 1971 and moved to WTBS starting in 1972. Went national when WTBS launched their satellite feed in 1976. Began as ''Georgia Championship Wrestling'' in 1971. Became ''World Championship Wrestling'' in 1981 and ''WCW Saturday Night'' in 1992. Ended as ''WCW Saturday Morning'' in 2000.</ref>
| WTBS/TBS
| December 25, 1971
| August 19, 2000
|
| 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{age|1987|11|30}} years
| rowspan="2" | 18
| rowspan="2" | [[CBS This Morning]]
| rowspan="2" | CBS
| November 30, 1987
| October 29, 1999
| 3,110
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| January 9, 2012
| present
| 1,667+
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="5"|{{age|1985|4|7}} years
| rowspan="5"|29
| rowspan="5"|''[[National Geographic Explorer]]''<ref>Host: [[Tom Chapin]] (1985–1988), [[Robert Urich]] (1988–1995), [[Robert Ballard]] (1988–1995), [[Boyd Matson]] (1995–2003), [[J. Michael Fay|Michael Fay]] (2001), [[Lisa Ling]] (2003–)</ref>
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| 1985
| 1986
| rowspan="5"| {{Template parameter value|National Geographic Explorer|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="5"|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|WTBS/TBS]]
| 1986
| 1999
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[CNBC]]
| 1999
| 2001
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[MSNBC]]<ref group=note>Show renamed ''National Geographic Ultimate Explorer'' 2003–2005</ref>
| 2001
| 2005
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[National Geographic Channel|National Geographic]]
| 2005
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1988|1|2}} years
| {{Template parameter value|48 Hours (TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[48 Hours (TV program)|48 Hours]]''<ref group=note>Also called ''48 Hours Investigates''</ref>
| CBS
| January 2, 1988
| present
| {{Template parameter value|48 Hours (TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|The Edge of Night|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|The Edge of Night|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[The Edge of Night]]''
| CBS
| April 2, 1956
| November 28, 1975
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|The Edge of Night|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| ABC
| December 1, 1975
| December 28, 1984
|-
| 28 years
| {{Template parameter value|Love of Life|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Love of Life]]''
| CBS
| September 24, 1951
| February 1, 1980
| {{Template parameter value|Love of Life|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|1988|9|5}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Live with Kelly and Ryan|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Live with Kelly and Ryan]]''<ref group=note>Other names: ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee'' (1988–2000), ''Live with Regis'' (2000–2001), ''Live with Regis and Kelly'' (2001–2011), ''Live with Kelly and Michael'' (2012–2016).</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 5, 1988<ref group=note>Date of first episode distributed nationally; was aired by [[WABC-TV|WABC]] locally at ''The Morning Show'', 1983–1988</ref>
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Live with Kelly and Ryan|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
|-
| rowspan="3"|28 years
| rowspan="3"| {{Template parameter value|Hee Haw|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="3"|''[[Hee Haw]]''<ref group=note>Renamed "The Hee Haw Show" for 1991–92 season, and ''Hee Haw Silver'' for 1992–1993 season ("greatest hits")</ref>
| CBS
| June 15, 1969
| February 23, 1971
| rowspan="3"| {{Template parameter value|Hee Haw|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="3"|
|-
| [[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
| September 18, 1971
| June 26, 1993
|-
| [[The Nashville Network|TNN]]
| November 23, 1996
| December 27, 1997
|-
| 28 years
| 28
| ''[[ESPN SpeedWorld]]''
| [[ESPN]]
| 1979
| 2006
|
|
|-
| 28 years
| 28
| ''[[Mystery!]]''<ref group=note>Started in 2008, ''Mystery!'' was absorbed into ''Masterpiece'' (the former ''Masterpiece Theatre'') and airs under the banner ''Masterpiece Mystery!''</ref>
| PBS
| February 5, 1980
| 2008
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|27 years
| rowspan="2"|27
| rowspan="2"|''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''<ref group=note>Originally ''The Dodge Dancing Party''; reruns have been airing since 1982 on various [[PBS]] stations, oftentimes recut and spliced with new footage from surviving cast members to give the illusion of new episodes.</ref>
| ABC
| July 2, 1955
| September 4, 1971
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|The Lawrence Welk Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Lawrence Welk]] died in 1992. 
|-
| Syndicated
| 1971
| February 1982
| 
|-
| 29 years
| 29
| ''[[The Phil Donahue Show]]''<ref>Originally ''The Phil Donahue Show''</ref>
| Syndicated
| 1969
| 1996
| {{Template parameter value|The Phil Donahue Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| {{Template parameter value|The David Susskind Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The David Susskind Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The David Susskind Show]]''<ref>Originally ''Open End''; prior to syndication, aired on [[WNET|WNTA-TV]] 1958–1961</ref>
| Syndicated
| 1961
| 1987
|
| [[David Susskind]] died in 1987.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 26 years
| 27
| ''[[College GameDay (football)|College GameDay]]'' <small>(football series)</small>
| ESPN
| September 1987
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 26 years
| 27
| ''[[NFL Primetime]]''
| ESPN
| 1987
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 25 years
| {{Template parameter value|Showtime at the Apollo|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Showtime at the Apollo]]''<ref group=note>Also known as ''Showtime in Harlem'', ''Showtime'', and ''Live in Hollywood''</ref>
| Syndicated
| 1987
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Showtime at the Apollo|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Was on hiatus in 2008-2016.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1989|1|9}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Inside Edition|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Inside Edition]]''
| Syndicated
| January 9, 1989
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Inside Edition|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1989|3|11}} years
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Cops (TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Cops (TV program)|Cops]]''
| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
| March 11, 1989
| 2013
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Cops (TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| <ref name="cops1000">[http://deadline.com/2017/07/spike-tv-cops-beyond-the-bust-cops-terry-crews-john-langley-1202136657/ ‘Cops Beyond The Bust’: Spike Sets Special To Mark 1,000th Episode Of ‘Cops’] ''Deadline Hollywood'', July 26, 2017</ref>
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Spike (TV network)|Spike]]
| 2013
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1988|10|1}} years
| {{Template parameter value|American Experience|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[American Experience]]''
| PBS
| October 1, 1988
| present
| {{Template parameter value|American Experience|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 29 years
| 29
| ''[[The Sports Reporters]]''<ref group=note>Full title ''ESPN Magazine's Sport Reporters''</ref>
| ESPN<ref>Program rebroadcast later the same day on [[ESPNews]]</ref>
| October 9, 1988
| May 7, 2017
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|1988|10|30}} years
| 27
| ''[[NBA on TNT]]''
| TNT
| October 30, 1988
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|1989|12|17}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Simpsons|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''<ref group=note>Only its time as its own television show is counted here; it began on ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]'' as animated shorts. It is currently the longest-running prime time entertainment program with a consistent setting and recurring characters. While other prime-time shows have run longer, they are all news, sports, anthology or variety programs.</ref>
| Fox
| December 17, 1989
| present
| <!--Episode count can be edited in the info box of the main page. This was added so all pages with this data will be updated and synchronized all at the same time with the convenience of only making a singe edit. -->{{Template parameter value|The Simpsons|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running animated American series, longest running American sitcom, and [[List of longest-running scripted U.S. primetime television series|longest running scripted prime-time series]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1989|11|28}} years
| {{Template parameter value|America's Funniest Home Videos|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]''
| ABC
| November 26, 1989
| present
| {{Template parameter value|America's Funniest Home Videos|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1990|4|15}} years
| 27
| ''[[ESPN Major League Baseball]]''<ref>Includes ''Sunday Night Baseball'', ''Wednesday Night Baseball'', etc.</ref>
| ESPN, [[ESPN2]]<ref group=note>ESPN2 started broadcasting major league baseball games in 2002 in addition to those offered by ESPN</ref>
| April 15, 1990
| present
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 25 years
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|What's My Line?|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[What's My Line?]]''<ref>Longest-running game show in prime time network television</ref>
| CBS
| February 16, 1950
| September 3, 1967
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|What's My Line?|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| Syndicated
| September 1968
| September 1975
|-
| 25 years
| {{Template parameter value|Sunrise Semester|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Sunrise Semester]]''
| CBS
| September 9, 1957
| October 1, 1982
| {{Template parameter value|Sunrise Semester|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 25 years
| {{Template parameter value|Insight (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Insight (TV series)|Insight]]''
| Syndicated
| October 2, 1960
| January 21, 1985
| {{Template parameter value|Insight (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|25 years
| rowspan="2"|25
| rowspan="2"|''[[Camera Three]]''
| CBS
| January 22, 1956
| 1979
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| PBS
| 1979
| July 1, 1980
|-
| rowspan="3"| 48 years
| rowspan="3"| 34
| rowspan="3"|''[[Wild Kingdom|Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom]]''
| NBC
| January 6, 1963
| April 11, 1971
| rowspan="3"|
| rowspan="3"| Wild Kingdom was on hiatus 1988-2002 and ultimately was cancelled in 2011. The original host, [[Marlin Perkins]], died in 1986.
|-
| [[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]]
| 1971
| 1988
|-
| [[Animal Planet]]
| September 17, 2002
| May 22, 2011
|-
| rowspan="2"|25 years
| rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|The Jetsons|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[The Jetsons]]''
| ABC
| September 23, 1962
| March 17, 1963
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|The Jetsons|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| Was on hiatus 1963-1985.
|-
| Syndicated
| September 16, 1985
| November 12, 1987
|-
| 25 years
| 25
| ''[[Larry King Live]]''
| CNN
| June 3, 1985
| December 16, 2010
| {{Template parameter value|Larry King Live|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Since 2012, [[Larry King|King]] now hosts [[Larry King Now]] that is very similar. 
|-
| 25 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Oprah Winfrey Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 8, 1986
| May 25, 2011
| {{Template parameter value|The Oprah Winfrey Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1991|9|1}} years
| {{age|1991|9|1}}
| ''[[E! News]]''<ref>Previously ''E! News Daily'' and ''E! News Live''</ref>
| [[E!]]
| September 1, 1991
| present
| {{Template parameter value|E! News|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 27 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Jerry Springer Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 20, 1991
| July 26, 2018
| {{Template parameter value|The Jerry Springer Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''Investigative Reports''
| [[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]
| September 27, 1991
| 2011 <ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290358/</ref>
|
|  Hosted by [[Bill Kurtis]].
|-
| 26 years
| 25
| ''[[Charlie Rose (talk show)|Charlie Rose]]''
| PBS
| September 30, 1991
| November 17, 2017
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1992|3|31}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Dateline NBC|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Dateline NBC]]''<ref group=note>Also known as ''Dateline (day of week it airs)'', ''Dateline With [[Stone Phillips]]''</ref>
| NBC
| March 31, 1992
| present
| 1,700+
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1992|3|7}} years
| {{age|1992|3|7}} 
| ''[[Reliable Sources]]''
| CNN
| March 7, 1992
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1992|5|21}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Real World (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Real World (TV series)|The Real World]]''
| [[MTV]]
| May 21, 1992
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Real World (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running MTV reality series. Epsides were 30 minutes long until 2008, after that each was one hour long.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3"| {{age|1993|1|11}} years
| rowspan="3"| {{Template parameter value|WWE Raw|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="3"|''[[WWE Raw]]''
| [[USA Network]]
| January 11, 1993
| September 18, 2000
| rowspan="3"| {{Template parameter value|WWE Raw|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="3"| 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).
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Paramount Network|TNN/Spike TV]]
| September 25, 2000
| September 26, 2005
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| USA Network
| October 3, 2005
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan ="7"| {{age|1993|8|28}} years
| rowspan ="7"| 24 <ref group=note>In 2010, in between the ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' season and the ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' season of the show, [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] chose to create and broadcast a "newly re-versioned" season of episodes instead of an actual new season. Since this season is not actual new episodes in of themselves, but rather old episodes with new special effects thrown in them, this season is not usually counted by fans or the current owner of the show (Saban Brands) towards the total season count (making the current season count one less than expected despite being on for {{age|1993|8|28}} years). However, it is mentioned here anyway because the current owner of the show, from a production standpoint, does consider its existence as an official season in addition to the other seasons despite not including it in the total season count.</ref><ref group=note>Also see [[List of Power Rangers episodes]].</ref>
| rowspan="7"|''[[Power Rangers]]''<ref group=note>While the show takes place in the same fictional universe for its entire run, it is often renamed on a yearly basis as the central location, theme, and characters change almost completely on a season-by-season basis.</ref>
| Fox<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on August 28, 1993. Premiered new episodes from August 28, 1993 till August 10, 2002. Last broadcast episodes on September 7, 2002. In select markets was aired on another station other than Fox; such as independent stations, UPN or The WB (see [[Fox Kids#Broadcasting ambiguities|Fox Kids broadcasting ambiguities]]).</ref>
| August 28, 1993
| September 7, 2002
| rowspan="7"|860+
| rowspan="7"| Longest-running United States [[Tokusatsu]] series.<ref group=note>Costumes and footage loosely adapted from ''[[Super Sentai]]''.</ref>
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| ABC Family<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on March 3, 2002. Premiered new episodes from February 14, 2004 till July 10, 2005. Last broadcast episodes on August 31, 2006.</ref>
| March 3, 2002
| August 31, 2006
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| Toon Disney<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on February 14, 2004. Premiered new episodes from July 16, 2005 till November 3, 2008. Last broadcast episodes on February 12, 2009.</ref>
| February 14, 2004
| February 12, 2009
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| ABC<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on September 14, 2002. Premiered new episodes from September 14, 2002 till November 15, 2003; then again from March 7, 2009 till December 26, 2009. Premiered broadcasts of old episodes "[[Re-version|newly re-versioned]]" from January 2, 2010 till August 28, 2010. Last broadcast episodes on August 28, 2010.</ref>
| September 14, 2002
| August 28, 2010
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| The CW<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on August 25, 2012. Never premiered a new episode and never reran new episodes as encore airings shortly after they premiered. All airings were reruns from an older season. Last broadcast episodes on January 12, 2013.</ref>
| August 25, 2012
| January 12, 2013
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| Nickelodeon<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on February 7, 2011. Premiered new episodes from February 7, 2011 till the present. Has yet to make its last broadcast.</ref>
| February 7, 2011
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| Nicktoons<ref group=note>First broadcast episodes on February 11, 2011. As of the present has never premiered a new episode, but does rerun them as encore airings shortly after they premiere. Also airs reruns from previous seasons. Has yet to make its last broadcast.</ref>
| February 11, 2011
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1993|9|6}} years
| {{age|1993|9|6}}
| ''[[Monday Night Countdown]]''
| ESPN
| September 6, 1993
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1993|9|5}} years
| {{age|1993|9|5}}
| ''[[NFL Matchup]]''
| ESPN, ESPN2<ref group=note>Presently, each episode first airs on ESPN2 on Fridays, then is repeated on ESPN two days later.</ref>
| September 5, 1993
| present
|
| Produced by [[NFL Films]]. 
|}

==20–24 years==

{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes

|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{age|1963|9|2}} years
| rowspan="2" | 53<ref>The number of years -2, as it was off the air for two years.</ref>
| rowspan="2" | ''[[CBS Morning News]]''
| rowspan="2" | [[CBS]]
| September 2, 1963 
| 1979 <ref>This version of the program was replaced by [[CBS This Morning]], and later by [[The Early Show]].</ref>
| rowspan="2" | 
| rowspan="2" | The program was on hiatus for two years, then retooled and reintroduced in 1982.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| October 4, 1982
| present
|-
| rowspan="4"|24 years
| rowspan="4"|24
| rowspan="4"|''[[Truth or Consequences]]''<ref>Originated on NBC Radio 1940–1951.</ref>
| CBS<ref>Hosted by [[Ralph Edwards]]</ref>
| September 7, 1950
| May 1951
| rowspan="4"|
| rowspan="4"|
|-
| [[NBC]]<ref>Hosted by [[Jack Bailey (actor)|Jack Bailey]]</ref>
| 1952
| 1952
|-
| NBC
| May 18, 1954<ref>Hosted by [[Bob Barker]]; [[Stephen Dunne (actor)|Steve Dunne]] also hosted a prime-time version on NBC, 1958</ref>
| September 24, 1965
|-
| Syndicated<ref>Hosted by [[Bob Barker]]</ref>
| 1966
| 1974
|-
|rowspan="2"|24 years
|rowspan="2"|{{Template parameter value|At the Movies (1986 TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
|rowspan="2"|''[[At the Movies (1986 TV program)|At the Movies]]''<ref>Title through 1986. Subsequent titles: ''Siskel & Ebert & the Movies'' (1986–1989), ''Siskel & Ebert'' (1989–1999), ''Roger Ebert & the Movies'' (1999–2000), ''Ebert & Roeper and the Movies'' (2000–2001), ''Ebert & Roeper'' (2001–2007), ''At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper'' (2007–2008), ''At the Movies'' (2009–2010), ''Ebert presents At the Movies'' (2011).</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 18, 1986
| August 14, 2010
|rowspan="2"|
|rowspan="2"|
|-
| [[PBS]]
| January 2011
| December 2011
|- 
| rowspan="2"|32 years
| rowspan="2"|24
| rowspan="2"|''[[Crossfire (U.S. TV program)|Crossfire]]''
| [[CNN]]
| 1982
| June 3, 2005
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"|
|- 
| CNN
| September 9, 2013
| October 15, 2014
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1990|3|19}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Baseball Tonight|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Baseball Tonight]]''
| [[ESPN]]
| March 19, 1990
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3"| {{age|1990|10|27}} years
| rowspan="3"| 19<ref>Orignal series ran for 15 seasons, four seasons of the revival. </ref>
| rowspan="3"| ''[[NBA Inside Stuff]]''
| NBC
| October 27, 1990
| 2002
| rowspan="3"|
| rowspan="3"| Was on hiatus from 2005 to 2013.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| 2002
| 2005
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[NBA TV]]
| November 2, 2013
| Present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1990|5|7}} years
| {{age|1990|5|7}}
| ''[[Outside the Lines]]''
| ESPN
| 1990
| present
|
|
|-
| 23 years
| {{Template parameter value|Nick News with Linda Ellerbee|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Nick News with Linda Ellerbee]]''
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| April 18, 1992
| December 15, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|Nick News with Linda Ellerbee|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{age|1993|9|10}} years
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|The X-Files|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2" | ''[[The X-Files]]''
| rowspan="2" | [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]]
| September 10, 1993
| May 19, 2002
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|The X-Files|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | The program was on hiatus 2002-2016.  Two new seasons have since been produced.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| January 24, 2016
| present
|-
| 23 years
| {{Template parameter value|Death Valley Days|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Death Valley Days]]''
| Syndicated
| March 1, 1952
| August 1, 1975
| {{Template parameter value|Death Valley Days|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 23 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Ed Sullivan Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''<ref>Aired as ''Toast of the Town'' until 1955</ref>
| CBS
| June 20, 1948
| June 6, 1971
| {{Template parameter value|The Ed Sullivan Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|23 years
| rowspan="2"|23
| rowspan="2"|''[[The George Michael Sports Machine]]''<ref>Evolved from ''George Michael's Sports Final'', 1980–1984 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111600669.html)</ref>
| NBC
| September 2, 1984
| September 8, 1991
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| [[George Michael (sportscaster)|George Michael]] died in 2009.
|-
| Syndicated
| September 15, 1991
| March 25, 2007
|-
| rowspan="2"|24 years
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|America's Most Wanted|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[America's Most Wanted]]''
| FOX
| February 7, 1988
| April 21, 2012
| rowspan="2"| 1,186
| rowspan="2"|
|-
| [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]]
| December 2, 2011
| October 12, 2012
|-
| 29 years
| 29
| ''[[Lilias, Yoga and You]]''<ref>Local transmission only ([[WCET (TV)|WCET]]), 1972–1996</ref>
| PBS
| 1976
| 1999
| {{Template parameter value|Lilias, Yoga and You|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 23 years
| {{Template parameter value|Reading Rainbow|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Reading Rainbow]]''
| PBS
| June 6, 1983
| November 10, 2006
| {{Template parameter value|Reading Rainbow|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="7"|22 years
| rowspan="7"|22
| rowspan="7"|''[[The Original Amateur Hour]]''<ref>Originated on radio as ''Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour'', 1934–1946</ref>
|[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]
| January 18, 1948
| October 1949
| rowspan="7"|
| rowspan="7"|
|-
|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
|-
| rowspan="4"|23 years
| rowspan="4"|23
| rowspan="4"|''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]''
|NBC
| October 1962
| March 1963
| rowspan="4"| {{Template parameter value|The Merv Griffin Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="4"| [[Merv Griffin]] died in 2007. 
|-
|Syndicated
| 1965
| 1969
|-
|CBS
| August 18, 1969
| February 11, 1972
|-
|Syndicated
| 1972
| September 1986
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1993|8|30}} years
| rowspan="2"| 27 <!-- As of January, 2019. CBS counts 23 Letterman seasons, and 4 by Colbert. -->
| rowspan="2"|''[[The Late Show (franchise)|The Late Show]]''
| rowspan="2"| CBS
| August 30, 1993
| May 20, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|Late Show with David Letterman|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[David Letterman]]. [[Late Show with David Letterman]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 8, 2015
| Present
| {{Template parameter value|The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[Stephen Colbert]]. [[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1994|8|12}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Fox NFL|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Fox NFL|NFL on Fox]]''
| FOX
| August 12, 1994
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1994|8|14}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Inside the Actors Studio|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Inside the Actors Studio]]''
| [[Bravo (U.S. TV channel)|Bravo]]
| August 14, 1994
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Inside the Actors Studio|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 21 years
| 22
| ''Kickin' It with Byron Allen''<ref>Evolved from ''Jammin' '' (1991–1994)</ref>
| Syndicated
| 1994
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1994|9|5}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Extra (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Extra (U.S. TV program)|Extra]]''<ref>Originally ''Extra:The Entertainment Magazine''</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 5, 1994
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Extra (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1994|9|18}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Fox NFL Sunday|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Fox NFL Sunday]]''
| FOX
| September 18, 1994
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1993|9|30}} years
| 22
| ''[[Entertainers with Byron Allen]]''<ref>Originally ''Entertainers''</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 1993
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Entertainers with Byron Allen|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| {{Template parameter value|Modern Marvels|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Modern Marvels|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Modern Marvels]]''
| [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]]
| January 1, 1995
| April 11, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|Modern Marvels|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="6"| {{age|1995|1|9}} years
| rowspan="6"|  23 <ref>[[Tom Snyder]] hosted for 4 seasons, [[Craig Kilborn]] for 5, [[Craig Ferguson]] {{Template parameter value|The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} for and [[James Corden]] for {{Template parameter value|The Late Late Show with James Corden|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}.</ref>
| rowspan="6"| ''[[The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)|The Late Late Show]]''<ref>Host: [[Tom Snyder]] 1995–1999, [[Craig Kilborn]] 1999–2004, [[Craig Ferguson]] 2004–2014, [[James Corden]] 2015–Present.</ref>
| rowspan="6"| CBS
| January 9, 1995
| March 26, 1999
| 777
| Hosted by [[Tom Snyder]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| March 29, 1999
| August 27, 2004
| 1,190
| Hosted by [[Craig Kilborn]]. 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 20, 2004
| December 31, 2004
| 79
| Hosted by Guest Hosts.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| January 3, 2005 
| December 19, 2014 
| {{Template parameter value|The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson|Craig Ferguson]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| January 5, 2015
| March 20, 2015
| 45
| Hosted by [[List of The Late Late Show episodes (2015 guest hosts)|Guest Hosts]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| March 23, 2015
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Late Late Show with James Corden|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}<ref>The total number of episodes, for each host all combined, is 4,733 as as January 24, 2019. </ref>
| Hosted by [[The Late Late Show with James Corden|James Corden]].  
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1995|1|17}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Golf Central|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Golf Central]]''
| [[Golf Channel]]
| January 17, 1995
| present
| 
|
|-
| 21 years
| 21
| ''[[Issues and Answers]]''<ref>Originally ''ABC Press Conference''; succeeded in time slot by ''[[This Week (ABC TV series)|This Week]]''</ref>
| ABC
| 1960
| 1981
|
|
|-
| 21 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Mike Douglas Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Mike Douglas Show|Mike Douglas Show]]''
| Syndicated
| 1961
| 1982
| {{Template parameter value|The Mike Douglas Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Mike Douglas]] died in 2006. 
|-
| 21 years
| 21
| ''[[Sneak Previews]]''<ref>Originally ''Opening Soon at a Theater Near You'' (1975–1977); ''Sneak Previes Goes Video'' 1989–1991</ref>
| PBS
| 1975
| 1996
|
| Had been hosted by: <br>[[Roger Ebert]] (1975–1982), <br>[[Gene Siskel]] (1975–1982), <br>[[Neal Gabler]] (1982–1985), <br>[[Jeffrey Lyons]] (1982–1996), <br>and [[Michael Medved]] (1985–1996).
|-
| rowspan="2"|31 years
| rowspan="2"|29
| rowspan="2"|''[[This Week in Baseball]]''
| Syndicated
| April 1, 1977
| September 26, 1998
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| 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
|-
| 21 years
| 21
| ''[[Style with Elsa Klensch]]''
| CNN
| June 1, 1980
| January 2001
|
|
|-
| 21 years
| 21
| ''[[Cookin' Cheap]]''
| PBS
| 1981
| October 2002
|
|
|-
| 21 years
| {{Template parameter value|The New Yankee Workshop|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The New Yankee Workshop]]''
| PBS
| January 1988
| June 27, 2009
|{{Template parameter value|The New Yankee Workshop|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1995|4|2}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel]]''
| [[HBO]]
| April 2, 1995
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1995|8|7}} years
| {{age|1995|8|7}}
| ''[[Squawk Box]]''
| [[CNBC]]
| August 7, 1995
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|1|1}} years
| {{age|1996|1|1}}
| ''Private Screenings''
| [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]]
| January 1, 1996
| present
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|20 years
| rowspan="3"| {{Template parameter value|The Red Skelton Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="3"|''[[The Red Skelton Show]]''
| NBC
| September 30, 1951
| June 21, 1953
| rowspan="3"|{{Template parameter value|The Red Skelton Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="3"|
|-
| CBS
| September 22, 1953
| June 23, 1970
|-
| NBC
| September 14, 1970
| August 29, 1971
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''[[Gunsmoke]]''<ref>It was at one time, prior to ''[[The Simpsons]]'' succeeding them, known as the longest-running prime time entertainment program with a consistent setting and recurring characters. While other prime-time shows have run longer, they are all news, sports, anthology or variety programs.</ref>
| CBS
| September 10, 1955
| September 1, 1975
| 635
| Tied longest-running prime-time drama.
|-
| {{Template parameter value|Law & Order|Infobox television||num_seasons|}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Law & Order|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Law & Order]]''
| NBC
| September 13, 1990
| May 24, 2010
| {{Template parameter value|Law & Order|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Tied longest-running prime-time drama.
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''[[The Secret Storm]]''
| CBS
| February 1, 1954
| February 8, 1974
| {{Template parameter value|The Secret Storm|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''[[Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields|Evans and Novak]]''<ref>Other names: ''Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields'' (1998–2001), ''Novak, Hunt, and Shields'' (2001–2002)</ref>
| CNN
| September 1982
| November 9, 2002
|
| Originally hosted by [[Rowland Evans]] and [[Robert Novak]]; later joined by [[Al Hunt]] and [[Mark Shields]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997}} years
| {{Template parameter value|My Classic Car|infobox television||num_seasons|}}
|''[[My Classic Car]]''
| Velocity, MAVTV
| 1997
| present
| {{Template parameter value|My Classic Car|infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''[[Back to God Ministries International|Faith 20]]''
| Syndicated
| 1977
| 1997
| 
|
|-
| 20 years
| 20
| ''[[The Doctors (1963 TV series)|The Doctors]]''
| NBC
| April 1, 1963
| December 31, 1982
| {{Template parameter value|The Doctors (1963 TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|7|22}} years
| 25 <ref>[[List of The Daily Show episodes]]</ref>
| ''[[The Daily Show]]''
| [[Comedy Central]]
| July 22, 1996
| present
| <!--Episode count can be edited in the info box of the main page. This was added so all pages with this data will be updated and synchronized all at the same time with the convenience of only making a singe edit. -->{{:The Daily Show}}
| Hosted by [[Craig Kilborn]] (1996–98), [[Jon Stewart]] (1999–2015), and [[Trevor Noah]] (2015–present). 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|9|2}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Arthur (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]''
| PBS
| October 7, 1996
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Arthur (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running animated series on PBS, longest-running animated children's series on U.S. television, and second longest-running animated series on U.S. television.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|9|9}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Access (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Access (U.S. TV program)|Access Hollywood]]''
| Syndicated
| September 9, 1996
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Access (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|9|16}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Judge Judy|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Judge Judy]]''
| Syndicated
| September 16, 1996
| present
|2,612
| Longest-running reality courtroom show. Hosted by [[Judy Sheindlin]]. 
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|10|1}} years
| 20
| ''MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon''
| Syndicated
| October 1, 1996
| present
| 950+
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|10|6}} years
| {{age|1996|10|6}}
| ''[[Your World with Neil Cavuto]]''
| [[Fox News]]
| October 6, 1996
| present
|
| Hosted by [[Neil Cavuto]].
|- 
| 20 years
| {{Template parameter value|The O'Reilly Factor|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]''<ref>Originally titled ''The O'Reilly Report'' (1996–98).</ref>
| 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).
|-
|}

==15–19 years==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"|Number of episodes !!class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| 13 years
| 13
| ''[[Gardening by the Yard]]''
| [[HGTV]]
| 1996
| 2009
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996}} years
| {{Template parameter value|E! True Hollywood Story|infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[E! True Hollywood Story]]''
| [[E!]]
| 1996
| present
| {{Template parameter value|E! True Hollywood Story|infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| The program has been on hiatus since 2014, but is expected to return.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Petski|first1=Denise|title=E!: Ashlee Simpson-Ross & Evan Ross, Busy Philipps Series, 'E! True Hollywood Story' Return Among Series Greenlights|url=http://deadline.com/2018/05/e-ashlee-simpson-ross-evan-ross-busy-philipps-series-e-true-hollywood-story-return-among-series-greenlights-1202380387/|website=Deadline|accessdate=1 May 2018|date=1 May 2018}}</ref>
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1996|4|28}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Fox News Sunday|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Fox News Sunday]]''
| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]]<ref>Is repeated in the afternoon of the same day on [[Fox News|Fox News Channel]]</ref>
| 1996
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Fox News Sunday|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Currently hosted by [[Chris Wallace]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 22 years
| 19
| ''A Wedding Story''
| [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]]
| 1996
| present
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''Denise Austin's Daily Workout''
| [[ESPN2]] & [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]]
| 1997
| 2008
|
| Was hosted by [[Denise Austin]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1997}} years
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1997}} 
| rowspan="2"|''[[Hardball with Chris Matthews]]''<ref>Originally ''Politics with Chris Matthews''</ref>
| [[CNBC]]
| 1997
| 1999
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| Hosted by [[Chris Matthews]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[MSNBC]]
| 1999
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997}} years
| {{age|1997}}
| ''[[WNBA on ESPN]]''
| [[ESPN]]
| 1997
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997|1|9}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV program)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| [[Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV program)|Antiques Roadshow]]
| [[PBS]]
| January 9, 1997
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997|4|14}} years
| {{Template parameter value|¡Despierta América!|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[¡Despierta América!]]''
| [[Univision]]
| April 14, 1997
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997|8|11}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The View (talk show)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The View (talk show)|The View]]''
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| August 11, 1997
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The View (talk show)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| <ref name="View4000">{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/03/27/the-view-celebrates-4000-episodes/70544714/|title='The View' celebrates 4,000 episodes|website=[[USA Today]] |publisher=|accessdate=September 1, 2017|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831224113/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/03/27/the-view-celebrates-4000-episodes/70544714/|archivedate=August 31, 2017}}</ref>  <!-- Copied the reference from The View wiki page. -->
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1997|8|13}} years
| {{Template parameter value|South Park|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[South Park]]''
| [[Comedy Central]]
| August 13, 1997
| present
| {{Template parameter value|South Park|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running Comedy Central series and the third longest-running animated series on American television.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="4"| {{age|1981|9|14}} years
| rowspan="4"| 32<ref>{{Template parameter value|The People's Court|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}</ref>
| rowspan="4"| ''[[The People's Court]]''
| rowspan="4"| [[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]]
| September 14, 1981
| May 17, 1993<ref>Show went on hiatus from 1993 to 1997.</ref>
| rowspan="4"| 1,500+
| Judged by [[Joseph Wapner]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 8, 1997<ref>Show was on hiatus from 1993 to 1997.</ref>
| 1999
| Judged by [[Ed Koch]], former mayor of [[New York City]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 1999
| 2001
| Judged by [[Jerry Sheindlin]], the husband of [[Judy Sheindlin]] of [[Judge Judy]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| 2001
| Present
| Judged by [[Marilyn Milian]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2000|10|15}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Curb Your Enthusiasm|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| [[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]
| [[HBO]]
| October 15, 2000
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Curb Your Enthusiasm|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Longest-running scripted HBO program.
|-
| rowspan=2| 19 years
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|Lassie (1954 TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan=2|''[[Lassie (1954 TV series)|Lassie]]''
| [[CBS]]
| September 12, 1954
| May 1971
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|Lassie (1954 TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan=2|
|-
| Syndicated
| September 1971
| March 24, 1973
|-
| 19 years
| 19
| ''[[Porter Wagoner|The Porter Wagoner Show]]''
| Syndicated
| 1960
| 1979
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan=2| {{age|1961|9|17}} years
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|The NFL Today|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan=2| ''[[The NFL Today]]''<ref>{{Template parameter value|The NFL Today|Infobox television||show_name_2 |}}.</ref>
| rowspan=2| CBS
| September 17, 1961 
| January 23, 1994
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2| Is the pre-game show counterpart to the [[NFL on CBS]]. Originally was 15 minutes long. 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| September 6, 1998
| Present
|-
| 19 years
| 19
| ''[[Computer Chronicles]]''
| PBS
| 1983
| June 25, 2002
|
| Was presented by [[Stewart Cheifet]].
|-
| 19 years
| 19
| ''[[Friday Night Videos]]''<ref>Name changed to ''Friday Night'' 1994–2000, ''Late Friday'' 2001–2002. In both cases, the name change accompanied a change in program format</ref>
| [[NBC]]
| July 29, 1983
| May 24, 2002
|
|
|-
| 19 years
| 19
| ''[[ESPN Sunday Night Football]]''<ref>Moved to [[NBC]] in 2006, at which time ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' moves from [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to ESPN</ref>
| ESPN
| November 8, 1987<ref>''Sunday Night Football'' shared with [[TNT (U.S. TV network)|TNT]], with TNT getting the first half of the season, ESPN the second half, 1990–1997</ref>
| January 1, 2006
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1998|2|1}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Fox & Friends|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
|''[[Fox & Friends]]''
| [[Fox News]]
| February 1, 1998
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1998|6|1}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Challenge (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Challenge (TV series)|The Challenge]]''<ref>Originally known as Road Rules: All Stars, followed by Real World/Road Rules Challenge.</ref>
| [[MTV]]
| June 1, 1998
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Challenge (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="3" | {{age|1998|8|5}} years
| rowspan="3" | {{Template parameter value|Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="3" |''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)|Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]''
| ABC
| August 5, 1998
| September 4, 2004
| 173 <ref>[[List of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series) episodes]].</ref>
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[ABC Family]]<ref>Now called the [[Freeform (TV channel)|Freeform]] channel.</ref>
| January 17, 2005
| December 15, 2007
| 46
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[The CW]]
| July 16, 2013
| present
| 108 <ref>All episodes total: {{Template parameter value|Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}} (as of February, 2019).</ref>
|
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" | {{age|1998|9|21}} years
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|Will & Grace|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2" |''[[Will & Grace]]''
| rowspan="2" |NBC
|September 21, 1998
|May 18, 2006
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|Will & Grace|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | Show was on hiatus from 2006 to 2017.
|-bgcolor=#cfecec
|September 28, 2017
|present
|-
| rowspan="2"| 18 years
| rowspan="2"| 18
| rowspan="2"|''[[House Party (radio and TV show)|Art Linkletter's House Party]]''<ref>Also on CBS Radio, 1945–1967</ref>
| CBS
| September 1, 1952
| September 5, 1969
| rowspan="2"|
| rowspan="2"| Was hosted by [[Art Linkletter]].
|-
| NBC
| December 29, 1969
| September 25, 1970
|-
| 18 years
| 18
| ''[[NASCAR on TBS]]''
| [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]]
| February 27, 1983
| October 8, 2000
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3"|15 years
| rowspan="3"|15
| rowspan="3"|''[[WWF Superstars of Wrestling|WWF Superstars]]''
| Syndicated
| September 6, 1986 
| 1996
| rowspan="3"|924
| rowspan="3"|
|-
| [[USA Network|USA]]
| 1996
| 2000
|-
| [[Spike (TV channel)|TNN]]<ref>Relaunched as Paramount Network in 2018. </ref>
| 2000
| August 2001
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2"| {{age|1998|12|20}} years
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Family Guy|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Family Guy]]''
| rowspan="2"|Fox
| January 31, 1999
| November 9, 2003
| rowspan="2"| {{Template parameter value|Family Guy|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2"| Fox's second longest-running American animated series and the fourth longest-running animated series on American television.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|May 1, 2005
|present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1999|5|1}} years
| {{Template parameter value|SpongeBob SquarePants|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| May 1, 1999
| present
| {{Template parameter value|SpongeBob SquarePants|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|Longest-running Nickelodeon series, longest-running Nicktoon, the only remaining '90s series on Nickelodeon currently on the air and in production, the first and only Nicktoon to get an eleventh season, the second longest-running animated children's show on U.S. television, and the fifth longest-running animated series on U.S. television.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1999|9|15}} years
| {{age|1999|9|15}}
| ''[[Divorce Court]]'' <small>(revival reality show)</small>
|Syndicated  <br><small>(Fox Twentieth Television)</small>
|September 15, 1999
|Present
|2,076
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1999|9|20}} years
| {{age|1999|9|20}}
|''[[Family Feud]]'' <br><small>(second revival)</small>
| Syndicated
| September 20, 1999
| present
| 2,390+
| Original series ran from 1976 to 1985 (on ABC and in syndication); an earlier revival aired from 1998 to 1995 (on CBS from 1988–1993 and in syndication from 1988–1995). 
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|1999|9|20}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''
| NBC
| September 20, 1999
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| The longest running currently-running scripted non-animated U.S. prime-time television series; longest running television spinoff.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan=5| {{age|1999|4|29}} years
| rowspan=5| {{Template parameter value|WWE SmackDown|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan=5|''[[WWE SmackDown]]''
| [[UPN]]
| April 29, 1999
| September 15, 2006
| rowspan=5| {{Template parameter value|WWE SmackDown|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan=5|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| The CW
| September 22, 2006
| September 26, 2008
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[MyNetworkTV]]
| October 3, 2008
| September 24, 2010
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| [[Syfy]]
| October 1, 2010
| December 31, 2015
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| USA
| January 7, 2016<ref name="USA">{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/04/07/wwe-smackdown-moves-to-usa-network-in-2016/386011/|title='WWE SmackDown' Moves to USA Network in 2016|last=Kondolojy|first=Amanda|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|publisher=[[Tribune Media|Tribune Digital Ventures]]|date=April 7, 2015|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Weekly">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/07/usa-network-wwe-smackdown|title=WWE SmackDown moves to USA Network|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|publisher=[[Time Inc.]]|last=Bacle|first=Ariana|date=April 7, 2015|accessdate=March 12, 2016}}</ref>
| present
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| rowspan="2" |{{age|1999|8|16}} years
| rowspan="2" | 19<ref>{{Template parameter value|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. game show)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}</ref>
| rowspan="2" |''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]''<ref name="Gameshow Hall of Fame">{{Cite episode|title=Who Wants to Be a Millionaire|series=Gameshow Hall of Fame|publisher=GSN|airdate=January 21, 2007}}</ref>
| ABC
| August 16, 1999
| June 27, 2002
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. game show)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | Although ''Millionaire'' has multiple versions known around the world, the American version is the longest running.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| Syndicated
| September 16, 2002
| present
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2000|7|5}} years
| 21
| ''[[Big Brother (U.S. TV series)|Big Brother]]'' <br><small>(U.S. series)</small>
| CBS
| July 5, 2000
| present
| 719<ref>For list of episodes, [[Big Brother (U.S. TV series)#Main edition|see here]].</ref>
| Although ''Big Brother'' has multiple versions known around the world, the U.S. version is the second longest running. Also includes one Celebrity Edition.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2000|5|31}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Survivor]]'' <br><small>(U.S. series)</small>
| CBS
| May 31, 2000
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Survivor (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Features two seasons per year.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2000|10|21}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Cheaters|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Cheaters]]''
| Syndicated
| October 21, 2000
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Cheaters|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 17 years
| {{Template parameter value|NBA on CBS|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[NBA on CBS]]''
| CBS
| October 20, 1973
| June 14, 1990
|
|
|-
| 17 years
| 17
| ''[[Showbiz Tonight#Showbiz Today|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
| {{Template parameter value|The Montel Williams Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Montel Williams Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 30, 1991
| May 16, 2008
| {{Template parameter value|The Montel Williams Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Was hosted by [[Montel Williams]].
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2000|09|1}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Rick Steves' Europe|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Rick Steves' Europe]]''
| PBS
| September 3, 2000
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Rick Steves' Europe|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by travel writer [[Rick Steves]].
|-
| 16 years
| 16
| ''[[MTV Unplugged]]''
| MTV
| November 26, 1989
| March 2, 2007<ref>New episodes sporadic after 2001.</ref>
| 108
|
|-
| 16 years
| {{Template parameter value|Booknotes|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Booknotes]]''
| [[C-SPAN]]
| April 2, 1989
| December 5, 2004
| {{Template parameter value|Booknotes|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Had been presented by [[Brian Lamb]]. The program lead to [[Book TV]] becoming regular weekend programming on [[C-SPAN2]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2003|9|8}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Ellen DeGeneres Show|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 8, 2003
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Ellen DeGeneres Show|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[Ellen DeGeneres]].
|-
| rowspan="3"|16 years
| rowspan="3"|16
| rowspan="3"|''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' <br><small>(daytime)</small>
| NBC
| January 6, 1975
| June 30, 1989
| rowspan="3"|
| rowspan="3"|Also has run as a syndicated evening show starting in 1983 to present.
|-
| CBS
| July 17, 1989
| January 11, 1991
|-
| NBC
| January 14, 1991
| September 20, 1991
|-
| 16 years
| {{Template parameter value|Fight Back! with David Horowitz|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Fight Back! with David Horowitz]]''
| Syndicated
| September 20, 1976
| 1992
| {{Template parameter value|Fight Back! with David Horowitz|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Was hosted by [[David Horowitz (consumer advocate)|David Horowitz]].
|-
| 16 years
| {{Template parameter value|Forensic Files|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Forensic Files]]''
| [[TLC (TV network)|TLC]] & [[TruTV]]
| April 23, 1996
| June 17, 2011
| {{Template parameter value|Forensic Files|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 16 years
| {{Template parameter value|The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]''<ref>Longest-running U.S. live-action [[sitcom]].</ref>
| ABC
| October 3, 1952 
| April 23, 1966
| {{Template parameter value|The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| The longest running U.S. live-action sitcom.
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2001|1|4}} years
| {{Template parameter value|America's Test Kitchen|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[America's Test Kitchen]]''
| Syndicated
| August 4, 2001
| present
| {{Template parameter value|America's Test Kitchen|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
|  {{age|2001|2|18}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Fox NASCAR|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Fox NASCAR]]''
| Fox
| February 11, 2001
| present
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 16 years
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|The Fairly OddParents|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2" | ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]''
| rowspan="2" | Nickelodeon
| March 30, 2001
| November 25, 2006
| rowspan="2" |{{Template parameter value|The Fairly OddParents|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" |Second longest-running Nickelodeon animated series and the sixth 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
| {{Template parameter value|Sportsworld (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Sportsworld (U.S. TV series)|Sportsworld]]''<ref>Was also known as NBC SportsWorld.</ref>
| NBC
| 1978
| 1992
| 
| 
|-
| 15 years
| {{Template parameter value|Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''
| [[Adult Swim]]
| December 30, 2000
| August 30, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| <small>Longest-running [[Adult Swim]] series and the seventh longest-running animated series on U.S. television. The episode "Boston" was never released.</small>
|-
| 15 years
| {{Template parameter value|Barney & Friends|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Barney & Friends]]''<ref>Reruns only (no first-run episodes) in 1994, 1996, and 2001</ref>
| PBS
| April 6, 1992
| September 18, 2009
| {{Template parameter value|Barney & Friends|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 20 years
| 31 <ref>https://www.foryourhome.com/for-your-home-season-31/</ref>
| ''[[For Your Home]]''
| PBS
| 1996
| 2016
|
|
|-
| rowspan=5| 54 years
| rowspan=5| 20
| rowspan=5| ''[[I've Got a Secret]]''
| CBS
| June 19, 1952
| April 3, 1967
| rowspan=5| {{Template parameter value|I've Got a Secret|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| 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 (TV channel)|Oxygen]] 
| 2000
| 2001
| Presented by [[Stephanie Miller]].
|-
| [[Game Show Network|GSN]]
| April 17, 2006
| June 9, 2006
| Presented by [[Bil Dwyer]].
|-
| rowspan=3| 33 years
| rowspan=3| 24
| rowspan=3| ''[[Concentration (game show)|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]]. 
|-
| rowspan=2| 15 years
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|The Jack Benny Program|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan=2|''[[The Jack Benny Program]]''
| CBS
| October 28, 1950
| September 15, 1964
| rowspan=2| {{Template parameter value|The Jack Benny Program|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan=2| 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, 1998
| 195
|
|-
| 15 years
| {{Template parameter value|ER (TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]''
| NBC
| September 19, 1994
| April 2, 2009
| {{Template parameter value|ER (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 15 years
| 15
| ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]''
| CBS
| October 6, 2000
| September 27, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2001|9|5}} years
| {{Template parameter value|The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)|The Amazing Race]]'' <br><small>(U.S. series)</small>
| CBS
| September 5, 2001
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Amazing Race (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Two seasons per year.
|-
| {{age|2001|10|10}} years
| 15
| ''[[Don Francisco Presenta]]''
| Univision
| October 10, 2001
| January 30, 2012
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2001|9|22}} years
| 15
| ''[[BET's Top 25]]''
| [[Black Entertainment Television|BET]]
| September 22, 2001
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2002|1|8}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Last Call with Carson Daly|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Last Call with Carson Daly]]''
| NBC
| January 8, 2002
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Last Call with Carson Daly|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Hosted by [[Carson Daly]].
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2002|2|4}} years
| {{age|2002|2|4}} 
| ''[[Closing Bell]]''
| CNBC
| February 4, 2002
| present
|
|
|}

==10–14 years==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
|+
!Length !! Number of seasons !! Series !! Network !! First broadcast !! Last broadcast !! data-sort-type="number"| Number of episodes !! class="unsortable" | Notes
|- 
|  rowspan="2" | 14 years
|  rowspan="2" | 15
|  rowspan="2" |''[[On the Record (Fox News TV series)|On the Record]]''
|  rowspan="2" | [[Fox News]]
| February 12, 2002
| September 6, 2016
|
| ''...with [[Greta Van Susteren]]''
|-
| September 7, 2016
| November 11, 2016
|
| ''...with [[Brit Hume]]''
|-
| 14 years
| {{Template parameter value|Ryan's Hope|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Ryan's Hope]]''
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| July 7, 1975
| January 13, 1989
| {{Template parameter value|Ryan's Hope|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 14 years
| {{Template parameter value|Davey and Goliath|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Davey and Goliath]]''
| [[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]]
| February 25, 1961
| June 29, 1975
| {{Template parameter value|Davey and Goliath|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 14 years
| 15
| ''[[The Improv|An Evening at the Improv]]''
| [[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]
| February 3, 1982
| January 1, 1996
|
|
|-
| 14 years
| {{Template parameter value|MythBusters|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[MythBusters]]''
| [[Discovery Channel|Discovery ]] & [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]]
| January 23, 2003
| March 5, 2016
| {{Template parameter value|MythBusters|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 14 years
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|Futurama|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| rowspan="2" |''[[Futurama]]''
| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]]
| March 28, 1999
| August 10, 2003
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|Futurama|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | Fox's third longest running animated series and the eighth longest-running animated U.S. series.
|-
| [[Comedy Central]]
| March 23, 2008
| September 4, 2013
|-
| 14 years
| {{Template parameter value|Dora the Explorer|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Dora the Explorer]]''
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| August 14, 2000
| June 5, 2014
| {{Template parameter value|Dora the Explorer|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Third longest-running Nickelodeon series, the ninth longest-running animated U.S. series, and the longest-running Nick Jr. series.
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''[[Watch Mr. Wizard]]''
| [[NBC]]
| May 26, 1951
| June 27, 1965
| {{Template parameter value|Watch Mr. Wizard|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| [[Don Herbert]] was Mr. Wizard.
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''The [[Jack LaLanne]] Show''
| Syndicated
| 1956
| 1970
|
|
|-
| 14 years
| {{Template parameter value|Bonanza|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Bonanza]]''<ref>First U.S. network series to film all its episodes in color</ref>
| NBC
| September 12, 1959
| January 16, 1973
| {{Template parameter value|Bonanza|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
|- bgcolor=#cfecec
| {{age|2002|1|21}} years
| {{Template parameter value|Cyberchase|Infobox television||num_seasons|}}
| ''[[Cyberchase]]''
| [[PBS]]
| January 21, 2002
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Cyberchase|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| Second longest-running PBS animated show and tenth longest-running American animated series.
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''[[Hollywood Squares]]''
| NBC
| October 17, 1966
| June 20, 1980
| 3,536
|
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''[[Knots Landing]]''
| CBS
| December 27, 1979
| May 13, 1993
| {{Template parameter value|Knots Landing|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show]]''
| ABC
| September 13, 1986
| September 2, 2000
| 387+
|
|-
| 13 years
| 13
|''[[Criminal Minds]]''
| CBS
| September 22, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Criminal Minds|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 14 years
| 14
| ''[[Wild America (TV series)|Marty Stouffer's Wild America]]''
| PBS
| 1982
| 1996
| 120
|
|-
|-
|14 years
|14
| ''[[Bonneville Speedway|Speed Week]]''
| ESPN
| 1983
| 1997
|
|
|-
|14 years
|14
| ''[[Video Soul]]''
| BET
| June 26, 1983
| 1997
|
|
|-
|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 (U.S. TV channel)|G4]]
| July 4, 1998
| January 23, 2013
| 1,000+
|
|-
|13 years
|14
| ''[[NASCAR on TNT]]''
| TNT
| July 22, 2001
| July 13, 2014
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|3|24}} years
|14
| ''Illegal Knowledge''
| [[Access Tucson]]
| March 24, 2002
| present
| 66+
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|3|25}} years
| 14
| ''[[Barefoot Contessa]]''
| [[Food Network]]
| March 25, 2002
| present
| 275
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|4|7}} years
|14
| ''[[Monday Night Baseball]]''
| ESPN
| April 7, 2002
| present
|
|
|- 
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| rowspan="2"|{{age|2002|6|11}} years
| rowspan="2"|15
| rowspan="2"|''[[American Idol]]''
| Fox
| June 11, 2002
| April 7, 2016
| 557
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| ABC
| March 11, 2018
| present
| 1
|
|-
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| 15 years
| 13
| ''[[Shepard Smith Reporting]]''
| Fox News Channel
| August 2002
| present
|
| Originally titled ''[[Studio B with Shepard Smith]]''
|-
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|9|16}} years
| 14
| ''[[The Daily Buzz]]''
| Syndicated, [[The CW Plus]]
| September 16, 2002
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|9|16}} years
| 14
| ''[[Dr. Phil (talk show)|Dr. Phil]]''
| Syndicated
| September 16, 2002
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Dr. Phil (talk show)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|11|4}} years
| 14
| ''[[Around the Horn]]''
| [[ESPN]]
| November 4, 2002
| present
| 2,310+
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|12|25}} years
| 14
| ''[[NBA Countdown]]''
| ESPN
| December 25, 2002
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|10|25}} years
| 14
| ''[[NBA Shootaround]]''
| ESPN
| October 25, 2002
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|12|25}} years
| 14
| ''[[NBA on ESPN|ESPN's coverage]]'' of the  ''[[NBA on ABC]]''
| ABC
| December 25, 2002
| present
|
| Originally known as ''[[NBA on ABC]]''
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2002|12|25}} years
| 14
| ''[[NBA on ESPN]]''
| ESPN and ESPN2
| December 25, 2002
| present
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| 15 years
| 5
| ''[[Scared!]]''
| Staten Island Community Television
| September 12, 2002
| present
| 19
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2003|2|16}} years
| 6
| ''[[The Venture Bros.]]
| [[Adult Swim]]
| February 16, 2003
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Venture Bros.|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |13 years
| rowspan="2" |14
| rowspan="2" |''[[Good Eats]]''
| Food Network
| July 7, 1999
| April 29, 2010
| 220
|
|-
| Cooking Channel
| May 27, 2010
| February 10, 2012
| 23
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |13 years
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan="2" |''[[Let's Make a Deal]]''<ref>original network series – syndicated version ran 1971–1977; short-lived "revivals" followed</ref>
| NBC
| December 30, 1963
| December 27, 1968
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| ABC
| December 30, 1968
| July 9, 1976
|-
|13 years
|13
| ''[[Howdy Doody]]''
| NBC
| December 27, 1947
| September 24, 1960
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |13 years
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan="2" |''[[Armstrong Circle Theatre]]''
| NBC
| June 6, 1950
| June 1957
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| CBS
| October 1957
| August 28, 1963
|-
|13 years
|13
| ''[[The 20th Century]]''<ref>''[[The 20th Century|The 21st Century]]'' 1967–1970</ref>
| CBS
| October 20, 1957
| January 4, 1970
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |13 years
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan="2" |''[[Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids]]''
| CBS
| September 9, 1972
| October 24, 1981
| rowspan="2" |110
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Syndicated
| September 1, 1984
| August 10, 1985
|-
|13 years
|14
| ''[[Dallas (1978 TV series)|Dallas]]''
| CBS
| April 2, 1978
| May 3, 1991
| 357
|
|-
|13 years
|13
| ''[[PM Magazine]]''<ref>Aired locally on [[KPIX-TV|KPIX]] [[San Francisco]] as ''Evening: The MTWTF Show'', 1976–1978</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 1978
| January 1, 1991
|
|
|-
| 13 years
| 13
| ''[[Later (talk show)|Later]]''
|  NBC
| August 22, 1988
| February 1, 2001
|
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |15 years
| rowspan="4" |14
| rowspan="4" |''[[Unsolved Mysteries]]''
| NBC
| January 20, 1987<ref>Includes series of specials, Jan. 1987 to May 1988</ref>
| September 5, 1997
| rowspan="4" |580
| rowspan="4" |
|-
| CBS
| November 13, 1997
| June 11, 1999
|-
| [[Lifetime (TV network)|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
|13
| ''[[King of the Hill]]''
| Fox
| January 12, 1997
| May 6, 2010<ref>Show was kept in production for four episodes beyond what Fox had ordered for the final season. Several months after the last broadcast on Fox, these four leftover episodes premiered in syndication from May 3 through May 7, 2010.</ref>
| 259
| Third longest running Fox animated series.
|-
|13 years
|13
| ''[[Hannity & Colmes]]''
| Fox News Channel
| October 6, 1996
| January 9, 2009
|
|
|-
| 13 years
| 9
| ''[[Rugrats]]''
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| August 11, 1991
| {{End date|2004|8|1}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/rugrats/episodes/191757/|title=Season 9 Episode Guide
|work=[[TV Guide]]|publisher= OpenGate Capital Magazine [[CBS Interactive]] ([[CBS Corporation]])|accessdate=September 30, 2015}}</ref>
| 172
| Fourth longest-running Nickelodeon animated series.
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2003|9|23}} years
|16
| ''[[NCIS (TV series)|NCIS]]''
| [[CBS]]
| September 23, 2003
| present
| {{Template parameter value|NCIS (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| rowspan="3" |15 years
| rowspan="3" |24
| rowspan="3" |''[[America's Next Top Model]]''
| UPN
| May 20, 2003
| May 17, 2006
| 72
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| The CW
| September 20, 2006
| December 4, 2015
| 316
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| VH1
| December 8, 2016
| present
| 30
|
|-
| 12 years
| 13
| ''[[Road Rules]]''
| MTV
| July 19, 1995
| May 9, 2007
|
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[NASCAR on Speed]]''
| [[Speed (TV channel)|Speed]]
| February 11, 2002
| August 16, 2013
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |12 years
| rowspan="2" |12
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Joker's Wild]]''
| CBS
| September 4, 1972
| June 13, 1975
| rowspan="2" |3,026
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Syndicated<ref>Syndicated revival prompted by success of syndicated repeats of CBS episodes in 1976</ref>
| September 5, 1977
| May 23, 1986
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[Star Search]]''<ref>''Ed McMahon's Star Search'', 1992–1995</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 10, 1983
| May 20, 1995
|
|
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[American Sports Cavalcade]]''
| [[The Nashville Network|TNN]]
| 1983
| 1995
|
|
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[To Tell the Truth]]''
| CBS
| December 18, 1956
| September 6, 1968
|
|
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[The Joy of Painting]]''
| PBS
| 1983
| 1995
|
|
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[Divorce Court]]'' (original series)<ref>With Judge [[Voltaire Perkins]]</ref>
| Syndicated
| 1957
| 1969
|
|
|-
| 12 years
| 12
| ''[[CBS Reports]]''
| CBS
| October 27, 1959
| September 7, 1971
|
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[The People's Court]]'' (original series)<ref>With Judge [[Joseph Wapner]]</ref>
| Syndicated
| September 1981
| 1993
| 2,484
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |12 years
| rowspan="2" |12
| rowspan="2" |''[[My Three Sons]]''
| ABC
| September 29, 1960
| September 2, 1965
| rowspan="2" | 380
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| CBS
| September 16, 1965
| August 24, 1972
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[NYPD Blue]]''
| ABC
| September 21, 1993
| March 1, 2005
| 261
|
|-
|11 years, 8 months
|12
| ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''
| CBS
| September 30, 1984
| May 19, 1996
| 264
|
|-
|11 years, 7 months
|12
| ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' (original series)
| CBS
| September 26, 1968
| April 26, 1980
| 284
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]''
| ABC
| June 27, 1983
| November 10, 1995
| 3,169
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous]]''
| Syndicated
| January 1984
| September 1996
|
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[House of Style]]''
| MTV
| January 1, 1989
| 2000
|
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''[[The Jenny Jones Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 16, 1991
| September 12, 2003
| 1,500
|
|-
|12 years
|12
| ''Room by Room''
| HGTV
| December 31, 1994
| 2006<ref>HGTV continues to present reruns after non-renewal of series</ref>
|
|
|-
|12 years
|12
|''[[NBA on NBC]]''
|[[NBC]]
|1990
|2002
|
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| rowspan="2" | {{age|2005|2|6}} years
| rowspan="2" | 13
| rowspan="2" |''[[American Dad!]]''
| Fox
| February 6, 2005
| September 21, 2014
| rowspan="2" | {{Template parameter value|American Dad!|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" | Fox's third longest-running animated series and second longest-running [[Seth MacFarlane]] show.
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]]
| October 20, 2014
| present
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
|{{age|2005|2|20}} years
| 9
| ''[[Robot Chicken]]''
| [[Adult Swim]]
| February 20, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Robot Chicken|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 12 years
| 25
| ''[[Lockup (TV series)|Lockup]]''
| [[MSNBC]]
| June 4, 2005
| February 11, 2017
| 238
|
|-
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| 13 years
| 15
| ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]
| ABC
| March 27, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Grey's Anatomy|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 11 years, 5 months
| 12
| ''[[Two and a Half Men]]''
| [[CBS]]
| September 22, 2003
| February 19, 2015
| {{Template parameter value|Two and a Half Men|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[The Chris Matthews Show]]''
| Syndicated
| September 22, 2002
| July 21, 2013
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Kraft Television Theatre]]''<ref>Also known as ''Kraft Mystery Theatre'' (1958); another series of the same name ran concurrently on ABC, 1953–1955</ref>
| NBC
| May 7, 1947
| October 1, 1958
| 650
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''Homes Across America''<ref>''Had 13 week seasons, according to HGTV''</ref>
| [[HGTV]]
| December 1994
| October 12, 2005
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |11 years
| rowspan="3" |11
| rowspan="3" |''[[The Voice of Firestone]]''
| NBC
| September 5, 1949
| June 1954
| rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="3" |
|-
| 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
| 429
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |11 years
| rowspan="2" |11
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Andy Williams Show]]''
| CBS
| 1957
| 1959
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| NBC
| 1962
| 1971
|-
| rowspan="2" |11 years
| rowspan="2" |11
| rowspan="2" |''[[Beat the Clock]]'' (original series)<ref>Emcee: [[Bud Collyer]]</ref>
| CBS
| March 23, 1950
| September 12, 1958
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| ABC
| October 13, 1958
| January 30, 1961
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' (original NBC series)<ref>Hosted by [[Art Fleming]]</ref>
| NBC
| March 30, 1964
| January 3, 1975
| 2,753
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 11 years
| rowspan="2" | 11
| rowspan="2" |''[[College Bowl|The General Electric College Bowl]]''<ref>Also known as ''G.E. College Bowl''; on NBC radio, 1953–1955; pilot shot 1955</ref>
| CBS
| January 4, 1959
| 1963
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| NBC
| 1963
| June 14, 1970
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''The Wilburn Brothers Show''
| Syndicated
| 1987
| 1998
| 354
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]''
| CBS
| September 11, 1967
| March 29, 1978
| 278
|
|-
| 10 years
| 11
| ''[[Happening Now]]''
| [[Fox News]]
| November 5, 2007
| June 8, 2018
| 
|
|-
|10 years, 6 months
|10
| ''[[Wonder Pets]]''
| Nickelodeon 
| March 3, 2006
| September 3, 2016
| 62
| Fifth longest-running Nickelodeon show and second longest-running Nick Jr. series.
|-
|10 years, 5 months
|11
| ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]''
| CBS
| September 17, 1972
| February 28, 1983
| 251
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[The Howard Stern Show]]''
| E!
| June 18, 1994
| July 8, 2005
|
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[Geraldo (TV series)|Geraldo]]''
| Syndicated
| 1987
| 1998
|
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[Love Connection]]''
| Syndicated
| September 19, 1983
| July 1, 1994
| 2,425
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |11 years
| rowspan="2" |11
| rowspan="2" |''[[The Danny Thomas Show]]''
| ABC<ref>As ''[[The Danny Thomas Show|Make Room for Daddy]]''; NBC used the same name when airing reruns of this series, 1960–1965</ref>
| September 29, 1953
| July 1957
| rowspan="2" |351
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| CBS<ref>As ''The Danny Thomas Show''</ref>
| September 1957
| September 14, 1964
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Talk Soup]]''
| [[E!]]
| December 26, 1991
| May 17, 2002
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Martha Stewart Living]]''
| Syndicated
| 1993
| 2004
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 5
| ''[[The Crocodile Hunter]]''
|   [[Animal Planet]]
| October 25, 1996
| September 4, 2007
| 78
| Longest-running [[Animal Planet]] series.
|-
| rowspan="2" |11 years
| rowspan="2" |8
| rowspan="2" |''[[ToonHeads]]''
| [[Cartoon Network]]
| October 2, 1992
| July 1, 2001
| rowspan="2" | 100
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| [[Adult Swim]]
| November 4, 2001
| November 23, 2003
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Ricki Lake (TV series)|Ricki Lake]]''
| Syndicated
| September 13, 1993
| August 27, 2004
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Good Eats]]''
| [[Food Network]]
| July 7, 1999
| 2011
| 235
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[All That]]''
| [[Nickelodeon]]
| April 16, 1994<ref>"Special preview" airing, April 16, 1994</ref>
| October 22, 2005
| 184
| Nickelodeon show with the most number of seasons.
|-
| rowspan="2" |11 years
| rowspan="2" |11
| rowspan="2" |''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''<ref>Longest-running family drama on television, per [http://www.tv.com/7th-heaven/show/251/story/9267.html? Reuters article about ''7th Heaven'' finale]</ref>
| [[The WB]]
| August 26, 1996
| May 8, 2006
| rowspan="2" |243
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| [[The CW]]
| September 25, 2006
| May 13, 2007<ref>Scheduled date of last episode</ref>
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Imus in the Morning]]''<ref>Simulcast of live program at [[WFAN]] [[New York City|New York]]</ref>
| MSNBC
| September 2, 1996
| April 11, 2007
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Fox News Live]]''
| Fox News Channel
| October 6, 1996
| 2008
|
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[The Jeffersons]]''
| CBS
| January 18, 1975
| July 23, 1985
| 255
|
|-
| 11 years
| 11
| ''[[Paula's Home Cooking]]''
| [[Food Network]]
| 2002
| 2013
| 129+
|
|-
|10 years
|11
| ''[[Married... with Children]]''
| Fox
| April 5, 1987
| June 9, 1997
| 259
|
|-
|10 years
|11
| ''[[Happy Days]]''
| ABC
|  January 15, 1974
|  September 24, 1984
|  255
|
|-
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[Between The Lions]]''
| [[PBS]]
| April 3, 2000
| November 22, 2010
| 130
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| rowspan="2" | {{age|2005|9|13}} years
| rowspan="2" |14
| rowspan="2" |''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]''
|[[The WB]]
| September 13, 2005
| May 4, 2006
| rowspan="2" |{{Template parameter value|Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" |
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| [[The CW]]
| September 28, 2006
| present
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| 16 years
| 16
| ''[[NFL Total Access]]''
| [[NFL Network]]
| 2003
| present
|297
|
|- 
|12 years
|12
|''[[Bones (TV series)|Bones]]''
| Fox
| September 13, 2005
| March 28, 2017
| {{Template parameter value|Bones (TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2005|9|5}} years
| 22
| ''[[Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]''
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| June 1, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2005|5|30}} years
| 16
| ''[[Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)|Hell's Kitchen]]''
| Fox
| May 30, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| rowspan="2" |13 years
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan="2" | ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]''
|[[FX (TV channel)|FX]]
|August 4, 2005
|2012
| rowspan="2" |{{Template parameter value|It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
| rowspan="2" |
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
|[[FXX]]
|September 4, 2013
|present
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2007|9|24}} years
|11
|''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''
| CBS
| September 24, 2007
| present
| {{Template parameter value|The Big Bang Theory|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
|- bgcolor="#cfecec"
| {{age|2006|11|1}} years
| 11
| ''[[Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern]]''
| [[Travel Channel]]
| November 1, 2006
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-bgcolor="#cfecec"
|13 years
|11
| ''[[Squidbillies]]''
| [[Adult Swim]]
| October 16, 2005
| present
| {{Template parameter value|Squidbillies|Infobox television||num_episodes|}}
|
|-
| rowspan="3" |14 years
| rowspan="3" |10
| rowspan="3" |''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''
| Cartoon Network
| April 15, 1994
| July 22, 2001
| 80
| rowspan="3" |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
|11
|''[[Intimate Portrait (TV series)|Intimate Portrait]]''
|[[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]]
| January 1995
| October 2005
|
|
|-
|10 years
|10
|''[[American Morning]]''
|[[CNN]]
| September 12, 2001
| December 30, 2011
| 1,000+
|
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts]]''<ref>On CBS radio 1946–1956</ref>
| CBS
| December 6, 1948
| July 21, 1958
|
|
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Arthur Godfrey and His Friends]]''
| CBS
| January 12, 1949
| April 28, 1959
|
|
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Total Request Live]]''
| MTV
| September 14, 1998
| November 16, 2008
| 2,247
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |10 years
| rowspan="2" |4
| rowspan="2" |''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]''
| Playhouse Disney
| May 5, 2006
| January 3, 2011
| 79
| rowspan="2" |Longest-running Disney animated series.
|-
| Disney Junior
| February 14, 2011
| November 6, 2016
| 46
|-
| 10 years
| 6
| ''[[Blue's Clues]]''
| Nickelodeon
| September 8, 1996
| August 6, 2006
| 143
| Sixth longest-running Nickelodeon show and third longest-running Nick Jr. series.
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[Westinghouse Studio One|Studio One]]''<ref>Originated on CBS Radio, 1947</ref>
| CBS
| November 7, 1948
| September 29, 1958
|
|
|-
| rowspan="10" |10 years
| rowspan="10" |10
| rowspan="10" |''[[Pantomime Quiz]]''<ref>Originally aired locally in Los Angeles, 1947–1950</ref>
| CBS
| October 4, 1949
| August 28, 1951
| rowspan="10" |
| rowspan="10" |
|-
| 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
|-
| rowspan="9" |10 years
| rowspan="9" |10
| rowspan="9" |''[[The Arthur Murray Party]]''
| ABC
| July 20, 1950
| September 1950
| rowspan="9" |
| rowspan="9" | 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
|-
| rowspan="4" |10 years
| rowspan="4" |10
| rowspan="4" |''Smilin' Ed's Gang''<ref>Began on radio as ''Ed McConnell and the Buster Brown Gang, 1929–1950; became ''Andy's Gang'' in 1954 when Andy Devine became host after McConnell's death''</ref>
| NBC
| August 26, 1950
| May 19, 1951
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|-
| 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 (U.S. TV series)|A Current Affair]]''
| Syndicated
| July 28, 1986
| 1996
|
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[Cheers]]''
| NBC
| September 30, 1982
| May 20, 1993
| 273
|
|-
|11 years
|11
| ''[[Frasier]]''
| NBC
| September 16, 1993
| May 13, 2004
| 264
|
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Getting Fit]]''
| ESPN
| 1987
| 1997
|
|
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[American Chopper]]''
| [[Discovery Channel]], [[TLC (TV channel)|TLC]]
| September 29, 2002
| December 17, 2012
| 233
|
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[Friends (TV series)|Friends]]''
| [[NBC]]
| September 22, 1994
| May 6, 2004
| 236
|
|-
|10 years
|3
| ''[[Wonder Pets]]''
| [[Nick Jr.]]
| March 3, 2006
| September 3, 2016
| 62
| 
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''
| Fox
| October 4, 1990
| May 17, 2000
| 293
|
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[NASCAR on TNN]]''
| TNN
| 1991
| 2000
|
|
|-
| 10 years
| 10
| ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
| Showtime, Syfy
| July 27, 1997
| March 13, 2007
| 211
| 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
|
|-
|10 years
|10
| ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''
| CBS
| December 14, 1987
| November 2, 1996
| 193
| Spawn many TV series spin-offs including [[Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|its most recent series]].
|-
|10 years
|9
| ''[[Curious George (TV series)|Curious George]]''
| PBS
| September 4, 2006
| April 1, 2015
| 109
| Longest-running animated spin-off show of an animated movie.
|-
|10 years
|6
| ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]''
| Cartoon Network
| January 4, 1999
| November 8, 2009
| 70
| Longest running Cartoon Network original series and longest running [[Cartoon Cartoons|Cartoon Cartoon]]
|-
|10 years
|4
| ''[[The Boondocks (TV series)|The Boondocks]]''
| [[Adult Swim]]
| November 6, 2005
| June 23, 2014
| 55
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |10 years
| rowspan="2" |10
| rowspan="2" |''[[Smallville]]''
| [[The WB]]
| October 16, 2001
| May 11, 2006
| rowspan="2" |218
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| [[The CW]]
| September 28, 2006
| May 13, 2011
|-
|}

==See also==
{{portal|Television|Lists|United States}}
*Lists of longest-running U.S. shows by broadcast type:
** [[List of longest-running U.S. cable television series]]
** [[List of longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series]]
** [[List of longest-running U.S. primetime television series]]
** [[List of longest-running U.S. first-run syndicated television series]]
*Lists of longest-running shows internationally:
** [[List of longest-running television shows by category]] – international list
** [[List of longest-running Indian television series]]
** [[List of longest-running UK television series]]
** [[List of longest-running Australian television series]]
** [[List of longest-running Philippine television series]]
** [[List of longest-running Spanish television series]]
*List of shortest running shows:
** [[List of television series canceled after one episode]]
** [[List of television series canceled before airing an episode]]

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=note}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==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}}.
* ''TV Guide Guide to TV'' (2006). {{ISBN|0-7607-7572-9}}.
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