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This is a list of the longest running U.S. primetime television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons offered by a U.S. broadcast network or cable network in prime time on the show's original run. Broadcast syndication that could have been scheduled by local stations in prime time have been omitted.
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Series shaded in light blue are in production. |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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69 | Hallmark Hall of Fame [1] | Anthology | NBC | December 24, 1951 | December 17, 1978 | 260 |
CBS | November 14, 1979 | April 30, 1981 | ||||
PBS | February 9, 1981 | May 6, 1981 | ||||
CBS | December 1, 1981 | January 29, 1989 | ||||
ABC | April 30, 1989 | April 23, 1995 | ||||
CBS | December 10, 1995 | April 24, 2011 | ||||
ABC | November 27, 2011 | April 20, 2014 | ||||
Hallmark Channel | November 30, 2014 | present | ||||
58 | The Wonderful World of Disney [2] | Anthology | ABC | October 27, 1954 | June 11, 1961 | 2207 |
NBC | September 24, 1961 | August 16, 1981 | ||||
CBS | September 26, 1981 | September 24, 1983 | ||||
ABC | February 1, 1986 | May 21, 1988 | ||||
NBC | October 8, 1988 | August 25, 1990 | ||||
CBS | September 23, 1990 | December 1, 1996 | ||||
ABC | September 28, 1997 | December 24, 2008 | ||||
December 12, 2015 | present | |||||
Disney+ | May 20, 2020 | present | ||||
56 | 60 Minutes | News magazine | CBS | September 24, 1968 | present | 2500+ |
55 (NFL seasons) | Monday Night Football | Sports, football | ABC | September 21, 1970 | December 26, 2005 | 718 (games) |
ESPN | August 14, 2006 | present | ||||
53 | Sábado Gigante [3] | Spanish programming | Univisión | August 5, 1962 (Chile)
May 20, 1986 (United States) |
September 19, 2015 | |
51 | Nova | Science | PBS | February 24, 1974 | present | 975 (May 22, 2024) |
50 | Austin City Limits | Music | PBS | January 3, 1976 | present | 900 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
49 | Saturday Night Live | Variety show | NBC | October 11, 1975 | present | 968 |
48 | Masterpiece [4] | Anthology | PBS | January 10, 1971 | present | |
46 | 20/20 | News magazine | ABC | June 6, 1978 | present | 500+ |
46 | Survivor | Reality competition | CBS | May 31, 2000 | present | 674 |
44 | This Old House | Home improvement | PBS | February 20, 1979 | present | 1,136 (as of June 22, 2023) |
43 | Live from Lincoln Center | Music | PBS | January 30, 1976 | present [5] | 251 |
42 | Inside the NFL | Sports, football | HBO | September 22, 1977 | February 6, 2008 | |
Showtime | September 10, 2008 | February 24, 2021 | ||||
Paramount+ | September 7, 2021 | April 5, 2023 | ||||
The CW | September 9, 2023 | present | ||||
42 | Frontline | Public affairs | PBS | January 17, 1983 | present | 813 |
40 | Nature | Documentary | PBS | October 10, 1982 | present | 615 |
39 | The Challenge | Reality game show | MTV | June 1, 1998 | present | 545 |
39 | National Geographic Explorer [6] | Documentary | Nickelodeon | April 7, 1985 | February 1986 | 233 |
WTBS/TBS | February 1986 | September 1999 | ||||
CNBC | September 1999 | October 2001 | ||||
MSNBC [7] | October 2001 | July 2004 | ||||
National Geographic Channel | July 8, 2004 | present | ||||
38 | The Woodwright's Shop | Woodworking | PBS | 1979 | 2017 | 481 |
36 | The Victory Garden | Gardening | PBS | April 16, 1975 | 2010 | |
36 | 48 Hours [8] | Documentary/news magazine | CBS | January 2, 1988 | present | 991 [9] |
36 | Cops [10] | Reality | Fox | March 11, 1989 | May 4, 2013 | 1,175 |
Spike / Paramount Network | September 14, 2013 | May 11, 2020 | ||||
Fox Nation | October 1, 2021 | present | ||||
36 | The Amazing Race | Reality competition | CBS | September 5, 2001 | present | 418 |
35 | Wall Street Week [11] | News, economics | PBS | November 20, 1970 | June 24, 2005 | |
35 | American Experience | Documentary | PBS | October 1, 1988 | present | 366 |
35 | The Simpsons [12] | Animated sitcom | Fox | January 14, 1990 [13] | present | 768 |
35 | America's Funniest Home Videos | Reality, comedy | ABC | November 26, 1989 | present | 790 |
34 | POV | Documentary | PBS | July 5, 1988 | present | 400+ |
34 | Firing Line | Public affairs | Syndication | 1966 [14] | 1971 | 1,504 |
PBS | 1971 | December 26, 1999 | ||||
June 22, 2018 | present | |||||
33 | The Real World [15] | Reality | MTV | May 21, 1992 | January 4, 2017 | 614 |
Facebook Watch | June 13, 2019 | August 29, 2019 | ||||
32 | Dateline NBC [16] | News magazine | NBC | March 31, 1992 | present | |
32 | Dancing with the Stars | Reality competition | ABC | June 1, 2005 | November 22, 2021 | 492 |
Disney+ | September 19, 2022 | present | ||||
ABC | September 26, 2023 | present | ||||
32 | WWE Monday Night Raw | Professional wrestling | USA | January 11, 1993 | September 18, 2000 | 1629 |
TNN / Spike | September 25, 2000 | September 26, 2005 | ||||
USA | October 3, 2005 | present |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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29 | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | Monthly sports new magazine | HBO | April 2, 1995 | December 19, 2023 | 320 |
28 | The Bachelor | Romance, reality | ABC | March 25, 2002 | present | 297 |
28 | America's Most Wanted | Reality | Fox | February 7, 1988 | June 18, 2011 | 1,101 |
Lifetime | December 2, 2011 | October 12, 2012 | ||||
Fox | March 15, 2021 | present | ||||
27 | Live from the Met [17] | Music | PBS | 1977 | present [5] | 95 |
28 | Antiques Roadshow | Bargain hunt | PBS | January 1, 1997 | present | |
26 | South Park | Animated sitcom | Comedy Central | August 13, 1997 | present | 328 |
26 | Mystery! | Anthology | PBS | 1980 | 2006 | |
26 | Grand Ole Opry [18] | Music | TNN | April 20, 1985 | August 2001 | |
CMT | August 2001 | 2003 | ||||
GAC [19] | 2003 | 2011 | ||||
25 | Camera Three | Anthology | CBS | January 22, 1956 | 1979 | |
PBS | 1979 | July 1, 1980 | ||||
25 |
What's My Line?
[20] (network version) |
Panel game show | CBS | February 16, 1950 | September 3, 1967 |
CBS: 876 Syndication: 1,320 Total: 2,196 |
Syndication | September 1968 | September 3, 1975 | ||||
25 | Nick News [21] | Children's news program | Nickelodeon | April 18, 1992 | December 15, 2015 | |
June 29, 2020 | present | |||||
25 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [22] | Crime drama | NBC | September 20, 1999 | present | 551 |
26 | Big Brother | Reality competition | CBS | July 5, 2000 | present | 900 |
24 | The Ed Sullivan Show [23] | Variety show | CBS | June 20, 1948 | June 6, 1971 | 1,068 |
24 | Concentration | Game show | NBC | August 25, 1958 | March 20, 1973 | 3,770 (1958–1973) 975 (1973–1978) 1,020 (1987–1991) |
Syndication | September 10, 1973 | September 8, 1978 | ||||
NBC | May 4, 1987 | August 30, 1991 | ||||
23 | Crossfire | Talk/news program | CNN | 1982 | June 3, 2005 | |
September 9, 2013 | August 6, 2014 | |||||
23 | Law & Order [24] | Crime drama | NBC | September 13, 1990 | May 24, 2010 | 501 |
February 24, 2022 | present | |||||
22 | E! News [25] | Entertainment newscast | E! | September 1, 1991 | present | 7,500+ |
22 | Investigative Reports | Reality | A&E | September 27, 1991 | 2004 | |
22 | Family Guy | Animated sitcom | Fox | April 11, 1999 [26] | February 14, 2002 [27] | 424 |
May 1, 2005 | present | |||||
22 | Ted Mack and The Original Amateur Hour [28] | Reality | DuMont | January 18, 1948 | October 1949 | |
NBC | October 1949 | September 1954 | ||||
ABC | October 1955 | June 1957 | ||||
NBC | July 1957 | October 1958 | ||||
CBS | May 1959 | October 1959 | ||||
ABC | March 1960 | September 26, 1960 | ||||
CBS | October 2, 1960 | September 27, 1970 | ||||
22 | American Idol | Reality | Fox | June 11, 2002 | April 7, 2016 | 699 |
ABC | March 11, 2018 | present | ||||
21 | The New Yankee Workshop | Western woodworking | PBS | January 1988 | June 27, 2009 | 284 |
21 | NCIS | Military police procedural | CBS | September 23, 2003 | present | 467 |
20 | NFL Primetime | Sports, football | ESPN | 1987 | present | |
20 | Biography [29] | Documentary | A&E | April 6, 1987 [30] | August 2006 | |
Biography Channel | August 2006 | present [31] | ||||
20 | The Red Skelton Show | Variety show | NBC | September 30, 1951 | June 21, 1953 | 672 |
CBS | September 22, 1953 | June 23, 1970 | ||||
NBC | September 14, 1970 | August 29, 1971 | ||||
20 | Gunsmoke [32] | Drama | CBS | September 10, 1955 | March 31, 1975 | 635 |
20 | Moneyline | Editorial | CNN | June 1, 1980 | November 11, 2000 | |
20 | American Dad! | Animated sitcom | Fox | May 1, 2005 [33] | September 21, 2014 | 366 |
TBS | October 24, 2014 | present | ||||
20 | Grey's Anatomy [34] | Drama | ABC | March 27, 2005 | present | 430 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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19 | ESPN Sunday Night Football [35] | ESPN | November 8, 1987 [36] | January 1, 2006 | |
19 | Lassie | CBS | September 12, 1954 | March 21, 1971 | 591 |
Syndication | October 7, 1971 | March 24, 1973 | |||
19 | America's Got Talent | NBC | June 21, 2006 | present | 448 |
18 | ESPN Major League Baseball [37] | ESPN / ESPN2 [38] | April 15, 1990 | present | |
17 | Outside the Lines | ESPN | 1990 | present | |
17 | Showbiz Today | CNN | October 29, 1984 | 2001 | |
17 | USA Tuesday Night Fights | USA | March 30, 1982 | 1998 | |
17 | Capital Gang | CNN | September 7, 1988 | 2005 | |
17 | Criminal Minds | CBS | September 22, 2005 | February 19, 2020 | 342 |
Paramount+ | November 24, 2022 | present | |||
16 | Unsolved Mysteries | NBC | January 20, 1987 [39] | September 5, 1997 | 602 |
CBS | November 13, 1997 | June 11, 1999 | |||
Lifetime | July 2, 2001 | September 20, 2002 | |||
Spike | October 13, 2008 | April 27, 2010 | |||
16 | Bleach | Cartoon Network (Toonami) | October 5, 2004 | March 27, 2012 | |
16 | Ghost Hunters | Sci Fi Channel / Syfy | October 6, 2004 | October 26, 2016 | 251 (+ 12 specials not included) |
A&E | August 21, 2019 | May 27, 2020 | |||
Discovery+ | December 31, 2021 | March 19, 2022 | |||
Travel Channel | October 1, 2022 | present | |||
16 | MTV Unplugged | MTV | November 26, 1989 | present | |
16 | Booknotes | C-SPAN | April 2, 1989 | December 5, 2004 | 801 |
16 | The Lawrence Welk Show [40] | ABC | July 2, 1955 | September 4, 1971 | |
15 | Supernatural | The CW | September 13, 2005 | November 19, 2020 | 327 |
15 | ER | NBC | September 19, 1994 | April 2, 2009 | 331 |
15 | I've Got a Secret | CBS | June 19, 1952 | April 3, 1967 | CBS 1952–1967: 680 Syn 1972–1973: 39 CBS 1976: 4 Oxygen 2000-2001: 120 [41] GSN 2006: 40 |
15 | The Jack Benny Program | CBS | October 29, 1950 | September 15, 1964 | 260 |
NBC | September 25, 1964 | September 10, 1965 | |||
15 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | October 6, 2000 | September 27, 2015 | 337 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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14 | World Poker Tour | Fox Sports Networks | March 30, 2003 | present | 420 |
14 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | NBC | June 6, 1950 | June 1957 | 370 |
CBS | October 1957 | August 28, 1963 | |||
14 | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet [42] | ABC | October 10, 1952 | September 3, 1966 | 435 |
14 | Bonanza [43] | NBC | September 12, 1959 | January 16, 1973 | 431 |
14 | Dallas | CBS | April 2, 1978 | May 3, 1991 | 357 |
14 | Knots Landing | CBS | December 27, 1979 | May 13, 1993 | 344 |
14 | An Evening at the Improv | A&E | February 3, 1982 | January 1, 1996 | |
14 | Video Soul | BET | June 26, 1983 | 1997 | |
14 | NCIS: Los Angeles | CBS | September 22, 2009 | May 21, 2023 | 323 |
14 | Bob's Burgers | Fox | January 9, 2011 | present | 273 |
13 | Private Screenings | TCM | 1995 | 2010 | 27 |
13 | King of the Hill | Fox | January 12, 1997 | September 13, 2009 | 259 |
13 | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | KTMA | November 24, 1988 | May 28, 1989 | 230 |
The Comedy Channel | November 18, 1989 | February 2, 1991 | |||
Comedy Central | June 1, 1991 | May 18, 1996 | |||
Sci Fi Channel | February 1, 1997 | August 8, 1999 [44] | |||
Netflix | April 14, 2017 | November 22, 2018 | |||
Gizmoplex | May 6, 2022 [45] | present | |||
13 | Tim Russert | CNBC | 1994 | 2008 | |
12 | The Big Bang Theory | CBS | September 24, 2007 | May 16, 2019 | 279 |
12 | To Tell the Truth | CBS | December 18, 1956 | September 6, 1968 | |
12 | CBS Reports | CBS | October 27, 1959 | September 7, 1971 | |
12 | My Three Sons | ABC | September 29, 1960 | September 2, 1965 | 380 |
CBS | September 16, 1965 | August 24, 1972 | |||
12 | NYPD Blue | ABC | September 21, 1993 | March 1, 2005 | 261 |
12 | Wild America | PBS | 1982 | 1996 | 120 |
12 | Murder, She Wrote | CBS | September 1, 1984 | May 19, 1996 | 264 (+ 4 TV movies) |
12 | Hawaii Five-O | CBS | September 26, 1968 | April 26, 1980 | 281 |
12 | Don Francisco Presenta | Univision | October 10, 2001 | January 30, 2012 | |
12 | Two and a Half Men | CBS | September 22, 2003 | February 19, 2015 | 262 |
12 | Bones | Fox | September 13, 2005 | March 28, 2017 | 246 |
12 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | HBO | October 15, 2000 | April 7, 2024 | 120 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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11 | Murphy Brown | CBS | November 14, 1988 | May 18, 1998 | 260 |
September 27, 2018 | December 20, 2018 | ||||
11 | Kraft Television Theatre [46] | NBC | May 7, 1947 | October 1, 1958 | 650 |
11 | The Voice of Firestone | NBC | September 5, 1949 | June 1954 | |
ABC | June 1954 | June 1959 | |||
ABC | September 1962 | June 16, 1963 | |||
11 | You Bet Your Life | NBC | October 5, 1950 | June 29, 1961 | 529 + 1 unaired |
11 | The Andy Williams Show | CBS | 1957 | 1959 | |
NBC | 1962 | 1971 | |||
11 | The Carol Burnett Show | CBS | September 11, 1967 | March 29, 1978 | 279 |
11 | M*A*S*H | CBS | September 17, 1972 | February 28, 1983 | 256 |
11 | Happy Days | ABC | January 15, 1974 | May 8, 1984 | 255 |
11 | Cheers | NBC | September 30, 1982 | May 20, 1993 | 275 (including three double-length episodes and a triple-length finale) |
11 (all episodes filmed in black-and-white) | The Danny Thomas Show | ABC | September 20, 1953 | 1957 |
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CBS | 1957 | September 14, 1964 | |||
11 | Frasier | NBC | September 16, 1993 | May 13, 2004 | 264 |
11 | Married... with Children | Fox | April 5, 1987 | June 9, 1997 | 259 |
11 | The Jeffersons | CBS | January 18, 1975 | July 23, 1985 | 253 |
11 | 7th Heaven [47] | The WB | August 26, 1996 | May 8, 2006 | 243 |
The CW | September 25, 2006 | May 13, 2007 | |||
11 | Modern Family | ABC | September 23, 2009 | April 8, 2020 | 250 (+ 1 special) |
11 | Will & Grace | NBC | September 21, 1998 | April 23, 2020 | 246 |
10 | The Goldbergs | ABC | September 24, 2013 | May 3, 2023 | 229 |
10 | Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | CBS | January 12, 1949 | April 28, 1959 | |
10 | Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts [48] | CBS | December 6, 1948 | July 21, 1958 | |
10 | Studio One [49] | CBS | November 7, 1948 | September 29, 1958 | |
10 | The Arthur Murray Party [50] | ABC | July 20, 1950 | September 1950 | |
DuMont | October 1950 | March 1951 | |||
ABC | April 1951 | May 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | August 1952 | |||
NBC | October 1953 | September 1955 | |||
CBS | April 1956 | September 1956 | |||
NBC | July 1957 | September 6, 1960 | |||
10 | General Electric Theater | CBS | February 1, 1953 | September 16, 1962 | 302 |
10 | Stargate SG-1 [51] | Showtime | July 27, 1997 | May 17, 2002 | 214 + 2 DVD films |
Sci Fi | June 7, 2002 | 2007 [52] | |||
10 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents [53] | NBC | October 2, 1955 | June 26, 1960 |
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CBS | September 25, 1960 | June 26, 1962 [54] | |||
NBC | September 20, 1962 | July 3, 1964 | |||
CBS | October 5, 1964 | May 10, 1965 | |||
10 | Nashville Now | TNN | March 1, 1983 | January 1, 1993 | Unknown |
10 | Friends | NBC | September 22, 1994 | May 6, 2004 | 236 |
10 | JAG | NBC | September 1, 1995 | May 22, 1996 [55] | 227 |
CBS | January 3, 1997 | April 29, 2005 | |||
10 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Fox | October 4, 1990 | May 17, 2000 | 293 |
10 | Pantomime Quiz [56] | CBS | July 1, 1950 | August 1951 | |
NBC | January 1952 | March 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | May 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | August 1953 | |||
DuMont | October 1953 | April 1954 | |||
CBS | June 1954 | August 1954 | |||
ABC | January 1955 | March 1955 | |||
CBS | July 1955 | July 1957 | |||
ABC | April 1958 | September 1959 | |||
10 | The United States Steel Hour | ABC | October 27, 1953 | June 21, 1955 | 315 |
CBS | July 6, 1955 | August 13, 1963 | |||
10 | Smallville [57] | The WB | October 16, 2001 | May 11, 2006 | 217 [58] |
The CW | September 28, 2006 | May 13, 2011 | |||
10 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | NBC | September 30, 2001 | May 21, 2007 | 195 |
USA | October 4, 2007 | June 26, 2011 | |||
10 | CSI: Miami | CBS | September 23, 2002 | April 8, 2012 | 232 |
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (April 2017) |
This is a list of the longest running U.S. primetime television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons offered by a U.S. broadcast network or cable network in prime time on the show's original run. Broadcast syndication that could have been scheduled by local stations in prime time have been omitted.
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Series shaded in light blue are in production. |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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69 | Hallmark Hall of Fame [1] | Anthology | NBC | December 24, 1951 | December 17, 1978 | 260 |
CBS | November 14, 1979 | April 30, 1981 | ||||
PBS | February 9, 1981 | May 6, 1981 | ||||
CBS | December 1, 1981 | January 29, 1989 | ||||
ABC | April 30, 1989 | April 23, 1995 | ||||
CBS | December 10, 1995 | April 24, 2011 | ||||
ABC | November 27, 2011 | April 20, 2014 | ||||
Hallmark Channel | November 30, 2014 | present | ||||
58 | The Wonderful World of Disney [2] | Anthology | ABC | October 27, 1954 | June 11, 1961 | 2207 |
NBC | September 24, 1961 | August 16, 1981 | ||||
CBS | September 26, 1981 | September 24, 1983 | ||||
ABC | February 1, 1986 | May 21, 1988 | ||||
NBC | October 8, 1988 | August 25, 1990 | ||||
CBS | September 23, 1990 | December 1, 1996 | ||||
ABC | September 28, 1997 | December 24, 2008 | ||||
December 12, 2015 | present | |||||
Disney+ | May 20, 2020 | present | ||||
56 | 60 Minutes | News magazine | CBS | September 24, 1968 | present | 2500+ |
55 (NFL seasons) | Monday Night Football | Sports, football | ABC | September 21, 1970 | December 26, 2005 | 718 (games) |
ESPN | August 14, 2006 | present | ||||
53 | Sábado Gigante [3] | Spanish programming | Univisión | August 5, 1962 (Chile)
May 20, 1986 (United States) |
September 19, 2015 | |
51 | Nova | Science | PBS | February 24, 1974 | present | 975 (May 22, 2024) |
50 | Austin City Limits | Music | PBS | January 3, 1976 | present | 900 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
49 | Saturday Night Live | Variety show | NBC | October 11, 1975 | present | 968 |
48 | Masterpiece [4] | Anthology | PBS | January 10, 1971 | present | |
46 | 20/20 | News magazine | ABC | June 6, 1978 | present | 500+ |
46 | Survivor | Reality competition | CBS | May 31, 2000 | present | 674 |
44 | This Old House | Home improvement | PBS | February 20, 1979 | present | 1,136 (as of June 22, 2023) |
43 | Live from Lincoln Center | Music | PBS | January 30, 1976 | present [5] | 251 |
42 | Inside the NFL | Sports, football | HBO | September 22, 1977 | February 6, 2008 | |
Showtime | September 10, 2008 | February 24, 2021 | ||||
Paramount+ | September 7, 2021 | April 5, 2023 | ||||
The CW | September 9, 2023 | present | ||||
42 | Frontline | Public affairs | PBS | January 17, 1983 | present | 813 |
40 | Nature | Documentary | PBS | October 10, 1982 | present | 615 |
39 | The Challenge | Reality game show | MTV | June 1, 1998 | present | 545 |
39 | National Geographic Explorer [6] | Documentary | Nickelodeon | April 7, 1985 | February 1986 | 233 |
WTBS/TBS | February 1986 | September 1999 | ||||
CNBC | September 1999 | October 2001 | ||||
MSNBC [7] | October 2001 | July 2004 | ||||
National Geographic Channel | July 8, 2004 | present | ||||
38 | The Woodwright's Shop | Woodworking | PBS | 1979 | 2017 | 481 |
36 | The Victory Garden | Gardening | PBS | April 16, 1975 | 2010 | |
36 | 48 Hours [8] | Documentary/news magazine | CBS | January 2, 1988 | present | 991 [9] |
36 | Cops [10] | Reality | Fox | March 11, 1989 | May 4, 2013 | 1,175 |
Spike / Paramount Network | September 14, 2013 | May 11, 2020 | ||||
Fox Nation | October 1, 2021 | present | ||||
36 | The Amazing Race | Reality competition | CBS | September 5, 2001 | present | 418 |
35 | Wall Street Week [11] | News, economics | PBS | November 20, 1970 | June 24, 2005 | |
35 | American Experience | Documentary | PBS | October 1, 1988 | present | 366 |
35 | The Simpsons [12] | Animated sitcom | Fox | January 14, 1990 [13] | present | 768 |
35 | America's Funniest Home Videos | Reality, comedy | ABC | November 26, 1989 | present | 790 |
34 | POV | Documentary | PBS | July 5, 1988 | present | 400+ |
34 | Firing Line | Public affairs | Syndication | 1966 [14] | 1971 | 1,504 |
PBS | 1971 | December 26, 1999 | ||||
June 22, 2018 | present | |||||
33 | The Real World [15] | Reality | MTV | May 21, 1992 | January 4, 2017 | 614 |
Facebook Watch | June 13, 2019 | August 29, 2019 | ||||
32 | Dateline NBC [16] | News magazine | NBC | March 31, 1992 | present | |
32 | Dancing with the Stars | Reality competition | ABC | June 1, 2005 | November 22, 2021 | 492 |
Disney+ | September 19, 2022 | present | ||||
ABC | September 26, 2023 | present | ||||
32 | WWE Monday Night Raw | Professional wrestling | USA | January 11, 1993 | September 18, 2000 | 1629 |
TNN / Spike | September 25, 2000 | September 26, 2005 | ||||
USA | October 3, 2005 | present |
Number of seasons |
Series | Genre/subject | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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29 | Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | Monthly sports new magazine | HBO | April 2, 1995 | December 19, 2023 | 320 |
28 | The Bachelor | Romance, reality | ABC | March 25, 2002 | present | 297 |
28 | America's Most Wanted | Reality | Fox | February 7, 1988 | June 18, 2011 | 1,101 |
Lifetime | December 2, 2011 | October 12, 2012 | ||||
Fox | March 15, 2021 | present | ||||
27 | Live from the Met [17] | Music | PBS | 1977 | present [5] | 95 |
28 | Antiques Roadshow | Bargain hunt | PBS | January 1, 1997 | present | |
26 | South Park | Animated sitcom | Comedy Central | August 13, 1997 | present | 328 |
26 | Mystery! | Anthology | PBS | 1980 | 2006 | |
26 | Grand Ole Opry [18] | Music | TNN | April 20, 1985 | August 2001 | |
CMT | August 2001 | 2003 | ||||
GAC [19] | 2003 | 2011 | ||||
25 | Camera Three | Anthology | CBS | January 22, 1956 | 1979 | |
PBS | 1979 | July 1, 1980 | ||||
25 |
What's My Line?
[20] (network version) |
Panel game show | CBS | February 16, 1950 | September 3, 1967 |
CBS: 876 Syndication: 1,320 Total: 2,196 |
Syndication | September 1968 | September 3, 1975 | ||||
25 | Nick News [21] | Children's news program | Nickelodeon | April 18, 1992 | December 15, 2015 | |
June 29, 2020 | present | |||||
25 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [22] | Crime drama | NBC | September 20, 1999 | present | 551 |
26 | Big Brother | Reality competition | CBS | July 5, 2000 | present | 900 |
24 | The Ed Sullivan Show [23] | Variety show | CBS | June 20, 1948 | June 6, 1971 | 1,068 |
24 | Concentration | Game show | NBC | August 25, 1958 | March 20, 1973 | 3,770 (1958–1973) 975 (1973–1978) 1,020 (1987–1991) |
Syndication | September 10, 1973 | September 8, 1978 | ||||
NBC | May 4, 1987 | August 30, 1991 | ||||
23 | Crossfire | Talk/news program | CNN | 1982 | June 3, 2005 | |
September 9, 2013 | August 6, 2014 | |||||
23 | Law & Order [24] | Crime drama | NBC | September 13, 1990 | May 24, 2010 | 501 |
February 24, 2022 | present | |||||
22 | E! News [25] | Entertainment newscast | E! | September 1, 1991 | present | 7,500+ |
22 | Investigative Reports | Reality | A&E | September 27, 1991 | 2004 | |
22 | Family Guy | Animated sitcom | Fox | April 11, 1999 [26] | February 14, 2002 [27] | 424 |
May 1, 2005 | present | |||||
22 | Ted Mack and The Original Amateur Hour [28] | Reality | DuMont | January 18, 1948 | October 1949 | |
NBC | October 1949 | September 1954 | ||||
ABC | October 1955 | June 1957 | ||||
NBC | July 1957 | October 1958 | ||||
CBS | May 1959 | October 1959 | ||||
ABC | March 1960 | September 26, 1960 | ||||
CBS | October 2, 1960 | September 27, 1970 | ||||
22 | American Idol | Reality | Fox | June 11, 2002 | April 7, 2016 | 699 |
ABC | March 11, 2018 | present | ||||
21 | The New Yankee Workshop | Western woodworking | PBS | January 1988 | June 27, 2009 | 284 |
21 | NCIS | Military police procedural | CBS | September 23, 2003 | present | 467 |
20 | NFL Primetime | Sports, football | ESPN | 1987 | present | |
20 | Biography [29] | Documentary | A&E | April 6, 1987 [30] | August 2006 | |
Biography Channel | August 2006 | present [31] | ||||
20 | The Red Skelton Show | Variety show | NBC | September 30, 1951 | June 21, 1953 | 672 |
CBS | September 22, 1953 | June 23, 1970 | ||||
NBC | September 14, 1970 | August 29, 1971 | ||||
20 | Gunsmoke [32] | Drama | CBS | September 10, 1955 | March 31, 1975 | 635 |
20 | Moneyline | Editorial | CNN | June 1, 1980 | November 11, 2000 | |
20 | American Dad! | Animated sitcom | Fox | May 1, 2005 [33] | September 21, 2014 | 366 |
TBS | October 24, 2014 | present | ||||
20 | Grey's Anatomy [34] | Drama | ABC | March 27, 2005 | present | 430 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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19 | ESPN Sunday Night Football [35] | ESPN | November 8, 1987 [36] | January 1, 2006 | |
19 | Lassie | CBS | September 12, 1954 | March 21, 1971 | 591 |
Syndication | October 7, 1971 | March 24, 1973 | |||
19 | America's Got Talent | NBC | June 21, 2006 | present | 448 |
18 | ESPN Major League Baseball [37] | ESPN / ESPN2 [38] | April 15, 1990 | present | |
17 | Outside the Lines | ESPN | 1990 | present | |
17 | Showbiz Today | CNN | October 29, 1984 | 2001 | |
17 | USA Tuesday Night Fights | USA | March 30, 1982 | 1998 | |
17 | Capital Gang | CNN | September 7, 1988 | 2005 | |
17 | Criminal Minds | CBS | September 22, 2005 | February 19, 2020 | 342 |
Paramount+ | November 24, 2022 | present | |||
16 | Unsolved Mysteries | NBC | January 20, 1987 [39] | September 5, 1997 | 602 |
CBS | November 13, 1997 | June 11, 1999 | |||
Lifetime | July 2, 2001 | September 20, 2002 | |||
Spike | October 13, 2008 | April 27, 2010 | |||
16 | Bleach | Cartoon Network (Toonami) | October 5, 2004 | March 27, 2012 | |
16 | Ghost Hunters | Sci Fi Channel / Syfy | October 6, 2004 | October 26, 2016 | 251 (+ 12 specials not included) |
A&E | August 21, 2019 | May 27, 2020 | |||
Discovery+ | December 31, 2021 | March 19, 2022 | |||
Travel Channel | October 1, 2022 | present | |||
16 | MTV Unplugged | MTV | November 26, 1989 | present | |
16 | Booknotes | C-SPAN | April 2, 1989 | December 5, 2004 | 801 |
16 | The Lawrence Welk Show [40] | ABC | July 2, 1955 | September 4, 1971 | |
15 | Supernatural | The CW | September 13, 2005 | November 19, 2020 | 327 |
15 | ER | NBC | September 19, 1994 | April 2, 2009 | 331 |
15 | I've Got a Secret | CBS | June 19, 1952 | April 3, 1967 | CBS 1952–1967: 680 Syn 1972–1973: 39 CBS 1976: 4 Oxygen 2000-2001: 120 [41] GSN 2006: 40 |
15 | The Jack Benny Program | CBS | October 29, 1950 | September 15, 1964 | 260 |
NBC | September 25, 1964 | September 10, 1965 | |||
15 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | October 6, 2000 | September 27, 2015 | 337 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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14 | World Poker Tour | Fox Sports Networks | March 30, 2003 | present | 420 |
14 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | NBC | June 6, 1950 | June 1957 | 370 |
CBS | October 1957 | August 28, 1963 | |||
14 | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet [42] | ABC | October 10, 1952 | September 3, 1966 | 435 |
14 | Bonanza [43] | NBC | September 12, 1959 | January 16, 1973 | 431 |
14 | Dallas | CBS | April 2, 1978 | May 3, 1991 | 357 |
14 | Knots Landing | CBS | December 27, 1979 | May 13, 1993 | 344 |
14 | An Evening at the Improv | A&E | February 3, 1982 | January 1, 1996 | |
14 | Video Soul | BET | June 26, 1983 | 1997 | |
14 | NCIS: Los Angeles | CBS | September 22, 2009 | May 21, 2023 | 323 |
14 | Bob's Burgers | Fox | January 9, 2011 | present | 273 |
13 | Private Screenings | TCM | 1995 | 2010 | 27 |
13 | King of the Hill | Fox | January 12, 1997 | September 13, 2009 | 259 |
13 | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | KTMA | November 24, 1988 | May 28, 1989 | 230 |
The Comedy Channel | November 18, 1989 | February 2, 1991 | |||
Comedy Central | June 1, 1991 | May 18, 1996 | |||
Sci Fi Channel | February 1, 1997 | August 8, 1999 [44] | |||
Netflix | April 14, 2017 | November 22, 2018 | |||
Gizmoplex | May 6, 2022 [45] | present | |||
13 | Tim Russert | CNBC | 1994 | 2008 | |
12 | The Big Bang Theory | CBS | September 24, 2007 | May 16, 2019 | 279 |
12 | To Tell the Truth | CBS | December 18, 1956 | September 6, 1968 | |
12 | CBS Reports | CBS | October 27, 1959 | September 7, 1971 | |
12 | My Three Sons | ABC | September 29, 1960 | September 2, 1965 | 380 |
CBS | September 16, 1965 | August 24, 1972 | |||
12 | NYPD Blue | ABC | September 21, 1993 | March 1, 2005 | 261 |
12 | Wild America | PBS | 1982 | 1996 | 120 |
12 | Murder, She Wrote | CBS | September 1, 1984 | May 19, 1996 | 264 (+ 4 TV movies) |
12 | Hawaii Five-O | CBS | September 26, 1968 | April 26, 1980 | 281 |
12 | Don Francisco Presenta | Univision | October 10, 2001 | January 30, 2012 | |
12 | Two and a Half Men | CBS | September 22, 2003 | February 19, 2015 | 262 |
12 | Bones | Fox | September 13, 2005 | March 28, 2017 | 246 |
12 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | HBO | October 15, 2000 | April 7, 2024 | 120 |
Number of seasons |
Series | Network | First broadcast | Last broadcast | Number of episodes |
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11 | Murphy Brown | CBS | November 14, 1988 | May 18, 1998 | 260 |
September 27, 2018 | December 20, 2018 | ||||
11 | Kraft Television Theatre [46] | NBC | May 7, 1947 | October 1, 1958 | 650 |
11 | The Voice of Firestone | NBC | September 5, 1949 | June 1954 | |
ABC | June 1954 | June 1959 | |||
ABC | September 1962 | June 16, 1963 | |||
11 | You Bet Your Life | NBC | October 5, 1950 | June 29, 1961 | 529 + 1 unaired |
11 | The Andy Williams Show | CBS | 1957 | 1959 | |
NBC | 1962 | 1971 | |||
11 | The Carol Burnett Show | CBS | September 11, 1967 | March 29, 1978 | 279 |
11 | M*A*S*H | CBS | September 17, 1972 | February 28, 1983 | 256 |
11 | Happy Days | ABC | January 15, 1974 | May 8, 1984 | 255 |
11 | Cheers | NBC | September 30, 1982 | May 20, 1993 | 275 (including three double-length episodes and a triple-length finale) |
11 (all episodes filmed in black-and-white) | The Danny Thomas Show | ABC | September 20, 1953 | 1957 |
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CBS | 1957 | September 14, 1964 | |||
11 | Frasier | NBC | September 16, 1993 | May 13, 2004 | 264 |
11 | Married... with Children | Fox | April 5, 1987 | June 9, 1997 | 259 |
11 | The Jeffersons | CBS | January 18, 1975 | July 23, 1985 | 253 |
11 | 7th Heaven [47] | The WB | August 26, 1996 | May 8, 2006 | 243 |
The CW | September 25, 2006 | May 13, 2007 | |||
11 | Modern Family | ABC | September 23, 2009 | April 8, 2020 | 250 (+ 1 special) |
11 | Will & Grace | NBC | September 21, 1998 | April 23, 2020 | 246 |
10 | The Goldbergs | ABC | September 24, 2013 | May 3, 2023 | 229 |
10 | Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | CBS | January 12, 1949 | April 28, 1959 | |
10 | Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts [48] | CBS | December 6, 1948 | July 21, 1958 | |
10 | Studio One [49] | CBS | November 7, 1948 | September 29, 1958 | |
10 | The Arthur Murray Party [50] | ABC | July 20, 1950 | September 1950 | |
DuMont | October 1950 | March 1951 | |||
ABC | April 1951 | May 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | August 1952 | |||
NBC | October 1953 | September 1955 | |||
CBS | April 1956 | September 1956 | |||
NBC | July 1957 | September 6, 1960 | |||
10 | General Electric Theater | CBS | February 1, 1953 | September 16, 1962 | 302 |
10 | Stargate SG-1 [51] | Showtime | July 27, 1997 | May 17, 2002 | 214 + 2 DVD films |
Sci Fi | June 7, 2002 | 2007 [52] | |||
10 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents [53] | NBC | October 2, 1955 | June 26, 1960 |
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CBS | September 25, 1960 | June 26, 1962 [54] | |||
NBC | September 20, 1962 | July 3, 1964 | |||
CBS | October 5, 1964 | May 10, 1965 | |||
10 | Nashville Now | TNN | March 1, 1983 | January 1, 1993 | Unknown |
10 | Friends | NBC | September 22, 1994 | May 6, 2004 | 236 |
10 | JAG | NBC | September 1, 1995 | May 22, 1996 [55] | 227 |
CBS | January 3, 1997 | April 29, 2005 | |||
10 | Beverly Hills, 90210 | Fox | October 4, 1990 | May 17, 2000 | 293 |
10 | Pantomime Quiz [56] | CBS | July 1, 1950 | August 1951 | |
NBC | January 1952 | March 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | May 1952 | |||
CBS | July 1952 | August 1953 | |||
DuMont | October 1953 | April 1954 | |||
CBS | June 1954 | August 1954 | |||
ABC | January 1955 | March 1955 | |||
CBS | July 1955 | July 1957 | |||
ABC | April 1958 | September 1959 | |||
10 | The United States Steel Hour | ABC | October 27, 1953 | June 21, 1955 | 315 |
CBS | July 6, 1955 | August 13, 1963 | |||
10 | Smallville [57] | The WB | October 16, 2001 | May 11, 2006 | 217 [58] |
The CW | September 28, 2006 | May 13, 2011 | |||
10 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | NBC | September 30, 2001 | May 21, 2007 | 195 |
USA | October 4, 2007 | June 26, 2011 | |||
10 | CSI: Miami | CBS | September 23, 2002 | April 8, 2012 | 232 |