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Friday, September 29, 2006 6:47 PM

INFRARED

...for being the longest running sci-fi show ever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5390372.stm

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Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:21 AM

TRAVELER

I would suspect it's the longest running show in any category.

Traveler

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Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:57 AM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Dunno about that, Traveller. Bound to be some news show like 60 Minutes or BBC News that started airing before November 1963.

BEB

Literature has shown us some of humanity's greatest achievements; history, some of our greatest failures -- Alun Lewis

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Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:14 AM

TRAVELER

Hello BlueEyedBrigdier:

Forgot about news shows. But I have to admit I don't watch them so they escape my mind. If BBC has had a show on since 1963 then they are probably the winners. I only have knowledge of shows here in the United States. I know the Simsons have had a long run, But again I think 60 minutes has been on longer.
But 1963 is on loooooooooong run. Got to give them credit for that achievemnet.

Traveler

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Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:36 AM

SIMONWHO

It had the odd break or two but yeah, it's been around for a long time.

Though I think the longest running UK show is The Sky At Night which first aired in April 1957 and is still on now... with the same presenter! It's a show about astronomy hosted by Sir Patrick Moore (my contender for Greatest Living Englishman) and every month he discusses the night sky. He's missed only two shows since it started (both a couple of years ago when he went down with severe food poisoning), so it's a heck of a record, not likely to be duplicated any time soon. Roll on the 50th anniversary next year.

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Saturday, September 30, 2006 11:45 AM

TRAVELER

Well then I give credit to the United Kingdom. 1957 is incredible. That is three shows so far that have totally outpaced anything here in the United States. I can't remember when 60 minutes started, but it must be about the longest running show we have in the States.

Traveler

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:25 PM

RMMC

Actually I think the longest running show in the States is actually a soap.

The Guiding Light debuted in 1952.

60 Minutes debuted in 1968.

And there are actually two more soap operas that are also older than 60 minutes, but they date from only the early 60's.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:44 PM

TRAVELER

You see, that is my problem, I don't watch news shows or soaps. I did not realize Guiding Light was still on the air. I remember it as a kid. My mother watched all those soap operas. As the World Turns, Edge of Night, and others that escape my mind. I think "The Price is Right" has had a long run too. They were just saying Barker just passed Johnny Carson as the longest host of any show.

The thing about those soaps is I would see an episode on Monday and if I watched it again on Friday the characters were still resolving the same crisis. I mean how long does it take to argue about who shot the stepfather. Poor guy has been lying dead on the floor for an entire week.

Traveler

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:47 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

The longest running tv show ever, to my knowledge, is “Meet The Press,” which began running weekly episodes in 1947 (adopted from a previous radio show which first aired in 1945). It has not had a single break and continues to air weekly on NBC with Tim Russet as the current host.

To add to the list, Gunsmoke 1955 to 1957, which also started as a radio show.

More recently Law and Order, which has got to be pushing 20 years with no breaks, and still running.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:39 PM

LESATHER

It doesn't qualify under the "Science Fiction" catagory, but the BBC children's show "Blue Peter" has been around since 1958. It does pre-date "Doctor Who" by five years and hasn't taken a break (a part from the summer vacations)in all that time.

"Jayne is a girl's name" - River

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Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:33 PM

GIXXER

Patrick Moore, eh? I've looked in at "The Sky At Night" every now and then over the years. You really cannot tell what will come up. After all that time, he is on his own terms, and there is no desperate audience seeking pandering. Totally un-dumbed down, and how factual science should be. He tells you something and you get it, without the costumed reconstruction, and a telephone vote to decide who should go.

As for the man himself, I don't believe I have ever heard a bad word spoken of him. One of the few to actually deserve his Knighthood.

No matter what he looks like, there is no chance in the 'verse that he will ever go the Magnus Pyke / Adam Hart-Davis "Look at me! I'm a whacky fun scientist, who is enough of a media whore to be doing this deliberately, or alternatively too deluded to realise what a wanker I look" route.

http://b3ta.com/interview/patrickmoore/

Excellent interview. Anyone fancy trying to beat those namechecks? Thought not.

G

I am not worthy.

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Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:50 PM

TPAGE

No one forget The Price Is Right! Since the 50's or thereabouts! And Bob Barker has hosted the whole time and finished every episode with "Don't forget to spray or neuter your pets."

Not to mention he trained under Chuck Norris and was a WWII Naval Aviator!

And if someday on some little piss-ant moon/My hand is a little too slow, or my aim a little bit off/At least I’ll go down fighting, not lying abed surrounded by quacks - "Sir Warrick" by Geezer

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