List of the longest television series

The Longest TV Show List includes TV shows that meet at least one of the following criteria:

• Series with more than 1000 episodes
• Series with more than 20 seasons
• Series, the production of which lasted or continues for over 20 years .

No end of production is specified for productions that are still in progress, so the number of seasons and episodes may be subject to future changes. The table reflects the status of March 2020.

No.	title	consequences	Seasons	Start of production	End of production
001	Our sandman	over 20,000		1959
002	Springfield story	15,762		1952	2009
003	General Hospital	14,212	57	1963
004th	Young and passionate - how life goes	13,858	56	1956	2010
005	Time of longing	13,794	56	1965
006th	Shadow of passion	11,880	48	1973
007th	Love, lie, passion	11,136	45	1968	2012
008th	All my children	10,755	43	1970	2011
009	Coronation Street	10,019	55	1960
010	Sandman	about 10,000		1959	1989
011	Emmerdale	08,720	48	1982
012	neighbours	08,304	36	1985
013	Rich and beautiful	08,287	34	1987
014th	Sazae-san	over 7,500		1969
015th	Home and Away	07,288	32	1988
016	Good times Bad Times	07,000	25th	1992
017th	Shortland Street	06,555	24	1992
018th	Between us	06,300	28	1994
019th	EastEnders	06,084		1985
020th	Good tijden, bad tijden	06,200	30th	1990
021st	Hollyoaks	05,370		1995
022nd	Blue Peter	05,100		1958
023	Forbidden love	04,464		1994	2015
024	Marienhof	04,053		1992	2011
025th	Doctors	03,888	21st	2000
026th	Salatut elämät	03,705	22nd	1999
027	clan	03,508	23	1997
028	All that counts	03,380	15th	2006
029	storm of Love	03,326	16	2005
030th	Hotel Cæsar	03.123	34	1998	2017
031	Red roses	03,050	17th	2006
032	Brookside	02,915		1982	2003
033	Sesame Street	02,853		1969
034	Home is home	02,500	14th	2007
035	Flashback	over 2,500		1983	2009
036	The Bill	02,400	26th	1984	2010
037	California clan	02.137		1984	1993
038	Low and Kuhnt - detect commissioners	01.937	10	2003	2013
039	K11 - Commissioners on duty	01,828	11	2003	2013
040	Lindenstrasse	01,758		1985	2020
041	Countries - people - adventure	01,594		1976
042	M jak miłość	01,530	12	2000
043	On patrol	01,412	08th	2013
044	Lenßen & Partner	01,395	09	2003	2012
045	Dark shadows	01,225		1966	1971
046	Terra X	01,206		1982
047	Casualty	01,170	34	1986
048	COPS	01,095	32	1989
049	crime scene	01,122		1970
050	Pokémon (Anime)	01,100	23	1997
051	The Fallers - a Black Forest family	01,046		1994
051	Detective Conan	00969		1996
053	Einstein Castle	00948	22nd	1998
054	One Piece (Anime)	00923	20th	1998
055	In all friendship	00886	23	1998
056	Doctor Who	00861	49	1963
057	The simpsons	00676	31	1987
058	SOKO 5113	00660	45	1978
059	Smoking colts	00635	20th	1955	1975
060	Thomas, the little locomotive	00560	23	1983
061	Unsolved Mysteries	00557	14th	1987	2010
062	Picture book (ARD)	over 500		1996
063	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	00473	21st	1999
064	Law & Order	00456	20th	1990	2010
065	Metropolitan area	00452	33	1986
066	Police report	00448	08th	1951	2004
067	Treasures of the world	00423		1995
068	The old	00427		1977
069	Scooby-Doo	00414	30th	1969
070	Tom Turbo	00407	04th	1994
071	dandelion	00395	39	1981
072	Dear family	00392	15th	1980	2007
073	Police call 110	00384		1971
074	Bob the Builder	00379	21st	1999
075	Alarm for Cobra 11 - The Autobahn Police	00364	24	1996
076	Experience earth	00362		2007
077	Siebenstein	00347	32	1988
078	Nature	00343	30th	1982
079	A case for two	00330	37	1981
080	Falkenau forest house	00321	24	1988	2013
081	South Park	00307	23	1997
082	The country doctor	00297	22nd	1986	2012
083	Last of the Summer Wine	00294	31	1973	2010
084	Twilight Zone	00285	10	1959
085	Derrick	00281		1973	1997
086	Hello Spencer	00275		1979	2001
087	Don Matteo	00248	12	2000
088	Silent Witness	00212	22nd	1996
089	Expeditions into the animal kingdom	00189		1964
090	To person	00190		1963	2004
091	Wolff's territory	00173	13	1992	2012
092	Fantasy Island	00165	08th	1978	1998
093	Rosamunde Pilcher	00151		1989
094	The public prosecutor has the floor	00140		1965	1991
095	In the realm of the wild animals	00140		1963	1988
096	Kimba, the white lion	00130		1965	1989
097	Inspector Barnaby	00122	20th	1997
098	Marriages in court	00089		1970	2000
099	Terra X (1982-2007)	00088		1982	2007
100	The dream ship	00086		1981
101	a strong team	00080		1994
102	The Jetsons	00075	03	1962	1987
103	Commissioner Moulin	00070	08th	1976	2006
104	Columbo	00069	10	1968	2003
105	Wilsberg	00067		1995
106	The little mole	00063		1957	2002
107	Television approval	00041		1958	1978
108	Van der Valk	00032	05	1972	1992
109	Steel mesh	00028		1958	2003

See also

• List of longest running television shows

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC: Blue Peter
2. ↑ List of episodes "Countries - People - Adventure" at fernsehserien.de, accessed on March 4, 2020.
3. ↑ m-jak-milosc.pl: Odcinki: Sezon 12 ( Memento from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ One Piece (Anime) / Episode List , accessed April 3, 2020.
5. ↑ bbc.co.uk: 146 EPISODES AVAILABLE at bbc.co.uk, accessed on March 4, 2020.
6. ↑ Nature: Episode Guide at imdb.de, accessed on March 4, 2020.
7. ↑ Episode guide “Expeditions into the Animal Kingdom” at ndr.de , accessed on March 4, 2020.
8. ↑ Rosamunde Pilcher: Episodenguide bei Fernsehserien.de, accessed on March 4, 2020.