On Sunday 29 April 2018 21:28:56 Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/04/18 12:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. :) > > CBS News: 16,400+ > General Hospital: 14,000+ > Yes, true, but those are daily, this was once a week.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_United_States_te >levision_series > > Other countries don't necessarily seem to count episodes, but also > have long-running series. > > Richard -- 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>
