The 20 Longest Running TV Shows Of All Time
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Jan 16, 2022
Longest Running TV Shows Still on Air in the US, From 'General Hospital' to 'The Simpsons' (Photos)
With a whopping 69 years of runtime, “Meet the Press” takes the cake for being the longest-running television show in not just American television history, but global television history as well.
The Simpsons, for example, is the longest-running scripted American primetime show at 33 years and counting. It beats out the second-longest, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, by a decade.
Because Matt Groening thought it would attach people to the show if the characters were bright colors. The Simpsons were made yellow with the idea being that while people we're flipping through channels on the TV, the yellow color would catch their eye and automatically tell them that The Simpsons are on.
General Hospital - 58 years. With over 15,000 episodes, General Hospital is America's second-longest-running tv show in drama production.