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From: ables@mcc-db.UUCP (King Ables)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: longest running series
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 12:25:03 EDT
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>     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
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