What was the longest running sitcom on television?  How long was it on the air?
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According to this web site it was Gunsmoke. (I thought it was MASH).\n\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/trek/proutsy/
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i believe those shows were on at different times, depending on geographic location.\n\nin california, they were both aired on saturdays.  each program was 1 hour long.
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It aired weekly beginning in 1981 and lasted thru 1985.  It was aired out of Los Angeles.
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ever since Rhoda...(laughing).Have a good day\n(tv show-1970s).
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Full House was an American television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from September 22, 1987 to May 23, 1995\n\nI love the show too.  I watch reruns everday.
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Friends, The Simpsons, 24, Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Oddparents, Fresh Prince of Belaire, Lost, American Idol, Dark Angel, Malcom in the Middle, That 70's Show, and Alias
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The American soap opera The Guiding Light started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television. With the exception of several years in the late 1940s when Irna Phillips was in dispute with Procter & Gamble, The Guiding Light has been heard or seen every weekday since it started, making it the longest story ever told. Other American soaps that have been telecast for more than thirty years (and are still in rotation) include As the World Turns, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, All My Children, and The Young and the Restless. Due to the shows' longevities, it is not uncommon for multiple actors to play a single character over the span of many years. It is also not uncommon for a single actor to play several characters on other shows over the years. Actors such as Robin Mattson, Roscoe Born and Michael Sabatino have played no less than six soap roles. As actors transition between soap roles, it is not uncommon nowadays to be dropped from contract status to recurring status, a part of contract negotiations which is almost completely unique to U.S. soaps.\n\nIn the USA, the shows purely known in the vernacular as soap operas are broadcast during daytime. In the beginning, the serials were broadcast as fifteen-minute installments each weekday. In 1956, the first half-hour soaps debuted, and all of the soaps broadcast half-hour episodes by the end of the 1960s. When the soap opera hit a fever pitch in the 1970s, popular demand had most of the shows, one by one, expanded to an hour in length (one show, Another World, even expanded to ninety minutes for a short time). More than half of the serials (and all of the pre-'80s hour-long serials on the air today) expanded to the new time format by 1980. Today, eight out of the nine American serials air sixty-minute episodes each weekday.\n\nPort Charles used the practice of running 13-week "story arcs", in which the main events of the arc are played out and wrapped up over the 13 weeks, although some storylines did continue over more than one arc. According to the 2006 Preview issue of Soap Opera Digest, it was briefly discussed that all ABC shows might do telenovela arcs, but this was rejected.\n\nfor more info go to\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_opera#Soaps_in_the_United_States
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I think they had 11 seasons. Which is 8 years longer than the actual Korean war lasted. I wish it was still on air. Wouldn't that be funny?
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Oh man I remember this...but wasnt it a cartoon...lets see.\nYou might want to check out http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ I vaguely remember what you were talking about but you may find it there...
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I remember that show It was called small wonder! I used to love to watch all those sitcoms in the 80's! Remember Mr Belvedere, and Facts of Life and Different Strokes? I miss the 80's!
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1 season. There were only 22 episodes.
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The Simpsons. The series started in 1989 and is currently in its 17th season. They have signed a contract to go to 20 seasons. \n\nThe Simpson family has been on TV since 1987 when they were an animated short on The Tracy Ullman Show.
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this question made me so curious i had to look it up...\n\nThe last episode of the show, "Gilligan The Goddess" (prod. no. 1098-670417), aired on April 17, 1967, ended with the castaways never succeeding in leaving the island. Under a wave of pressure to reverse the threatened cancellation of Gunsmoke, which aired late on Saturday nights, CBS cancelled Gilligan's Island to open up early air time on Monday evenings, despite the sitcom's solid ratings.
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As of January 2006, with the airing of episode 8.12, Charmed has become the longest running show with all-female leads, surpassing Laverne & Shirley. Also, after much fan speculation, in March 2006 it was announced that season eight would be the final season of the series, finishing its run on May 21. [1] [2]. Despite this IMDB has posted the first episode of season nine on their website.
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They're both very well-written shows, but my vote goes to Frasier. Clever, intelligent dialogue without being "snooty"...in fact, it made fun of Frasier's snootiness ! Some of the most hysterical moments ever on TV. One memorable moment that almost made me wet my pants...Frasier trying to sing (and miserably bumbling) "Buttons and Bows" on the PBS pledge drive. Brilliant !!!
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DO you mean ALL the Treks? Or are you talking about a specific one?\n\nE.g.: the Original Star Trek (a.k.a. TOS) had 80 episodes over it's three year run.
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Well, here's a link that shows the most episodes run over the years it aired.  It puts Gunsmoke at #1.