Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mcc-db.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!mcc-db!ables From: ables@mcc-db.UUCP (King Ables) Newsgroups: net.startrek,net.tv Subject: Re: Re: Re: longest running series Message-ID: <303@mcc-db.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 12:25:03 EDT Article-I.D.: mcc-db.303 Posted: Fri Aug 9 12:25:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:38:37 EDT References: <1959@sunybcs.UUCP> <209@utflis.UUCP> <2167@pucc-h> <113@ulose.UUCP> <428@ucdavis.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: MCC (Austin, TX) Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.startrek:3093 net.tv:2914 > Does anybody out there know what the longest running T.V. series >is and how Star Trek compares with it. If you mean currently running (and in the US), and you don't to include soap operas, I'm not sure anymore, it was "The Wonderful World of Disney" until recently. "The Guiding Light" (soap) has been running for something like 30 years. I don't know if that gives it the lead in soaps or not. "The Edge of Night" recently went off the air after a very long run, too. It hardly matters, though, because to compare it to Star Trek is fairly useless. Almost any show that you can remember would have run longer than Trek because Trek only ran 3 years (yes, I know, there was 1 or 2 years of the cartoon, too). Now if you are including syndication as part of the run-time, then you open a whole 'nuther can of worms. Many shows from the 50s are still running in syndication. -King ARPA: ables@mcc UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!mcc-db!ables