On Sunday 29 April 2018 20:27:56 Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/04/18 10:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The Simpsons, who just passed Gunsmoke as the longest running > > program ever. > > I can't figure out what criteria are required to make that work. > > Richard
Number of episodes aired. Gunsmoke ran for IIRC 22 years, 861 episodes. Yesterdays Simpsons made 862 episodes. Gunsmoke started in b&w, shot with image orthicon cameras, switched to vidicon's about the same time I was helping make the vidicon cameras that went down into the mohole on the Trieste in Fed '60. Yeah, I'm that old an old fart. :) -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
