please be on forever

[meesasometimes]

So I was talking about how absurd it is that Supernatural is still on the air. Not bad absurd but really thinking about how it long it is. And what else has been on that long. As far as primetime dramatic series.

Here is the answer guys:

Longest running primetime show (not a dramatic series) - Meet the Press 68yrs.

Longest running Soap - Guiding Light 57yrs.

Sesame Street  46yrs.

Saturday Night Live 41

so now there are soaps, and sports shows, and PBS and news casts and but no dramas nothing telling a weekly story yet until......

The Simpsons - 26 years of "eat my shorts"

and then finally an actual drama with like actors and stuff. sort of?

Power Rangers - 22yrs.

 So here we go for real

ok ok ....the longest running primetime drama is a tie
Law & Order / Gunsmoke - 20yrs each
Lassie -17ys
Law & Order SVU -16
ER and CSI - 15
Bonanza and Knot's Landing -14
Dallas - 13

a bunch have hit the 12 mark like NCIS, NYPD Blue, and Murder She Wrote.

so yeah, that's like it. SUPERNATURAL IS CRAZY.  AND we are not on one of the power three networks. Now I don't need 20 but I'm now goaling for 16. It's a great number to go out on. Sweet 16.