On 30/04/18 12:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 29 April 2018 20:27:56 Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 30/04/18 10:29, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> The Simpsons, who just passed Gunsmoke as the longest running >>> program ever. >> >> I can't figure out what criteria are required to make that work. >> >> Richard > > Number of episodes aired. Gunsmoke ran for IIRC 22 years, 861 episodes. > Yesterdays Simpsons made 862 episodes. Gunsmoke started in b&w, shot > with image orthicon cameras, switched to vidicon's about the same time I > was helping make the vidicon cameras that went down into the mohole on > the Trieste in Fed '60. Yeah, I'm that old an old fart. :)
CBS News: 16,400+ General Hospital: 14,000+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_television_series Other countries don't necessarily seem to count episodes, but also have long-running series. Richard
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