List of longest-running United States television series
50–59 years

List of longest-running United States television series

Section Title: 50–59 years
Table Section Text: None

Length	Number of seasons	Series	Network	First broadcast	Last broadcast	Number of episodes	Notes

59 years	58	CBS Sports Spectacular	CBS	January 3, 1960	Present

58 years	36	NASCAR on ABC	ABC	February 26, 1961	August 5, 2000

ESPN	March 10, 2007	October 11, 2014

57 years	57	Guiding Light (CBS Daytime)	CBS	June 30, 1952	September 18, 2009	15,762	Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) of any genre. Longest-running daytime drama.

57 years	57	It's Academic	WRC-TV WJZ-TV WVIR-TV	October 7, 1961	present	Longest-running game show of any type. Longest-running high school quiz show (broadcast in the Baltimore, Charlottesville, and Washington, D.C.

57 years	57	Professional Bowlers Tour	ABC	January 27, 1962	June 21, 1997	ESPN airs some of the tours on ABC.

CBS	1998	1999

Fox Sports	1999	2000

ESPN	2000	present

57 years	52	The NFL Today	CBS	September 17, 1961	January 23, 1994	Is the pre-game show counterpart to the NFL on CBS. Originally was 15 minutes long.

September 6, 1998	Present

55 years	53	CBS Morning News	CBS	September 2, 1963	1979	This version of the program was replaced by CBS This Morning, and later by The Early Show. The program was on hiatus for two years, then retooled and reintroduced in 1982.

October 4, 1982	present

56 years	56	General Hospital (ABC Daytime)	ABC	April 1, 1963	present	14,000 (as of February 23, 2018)	Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) still in production.

54 years	54	As the World Turns (CBS Daytime)	CBS	April 2, 1956	September 17, 2010	13,858

55 years	47	Jeopardy!	NBC	March 30, 1964	January 3, 1975	2,753	Originally presented by Art Fleming.

Syndicated	September 1974	September 1975	39

NBC	October 2, 1978	March 2, 1979	108

Syndicated	September 10, 1984	present	7,000+	Currently presented by Alex Trebek.

54 years	53	The Wonderful World of Disney	ABC	October 27, 1954	June 11, 1961	1,224	Anthology television series featuring wide variety of topics ranging from Disney animation to live-action and documentaries. Walt Disney was the original host from show's inception until his death in 1966.

NBC	September 24, 1961	August 16, 1981

CBS	September 26, 1981	May 3, 1983

ABC	February 2, 1986	May 22, 1988

NBC	October 9, 1988	August 26, 1990

Disney Channel	September 23, 1990	August 25, 1996

ABC	September 28, 1997	December 24, 2008

53 years	53	Sábado Gigante	Univision	August 8, 1962	September 19, 2015	2,800+	Longest-running imported TV show.

53 years	53	Days of Our Lives (NBC Daytime)	NBC	November 8, 1965	present	13,578 (as of April 19, 2019)

53 years	53	The 700 Club	Syndicated	1966	present

CBN & Freeform	1977	present

52 years	50	Washington Week	NET, PBS	February 23, 1967	present	over 2,000	Longest continuous running Public Television show on PBS, having started on its predecessor NET and carrying over to PBS, along with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Sesame Street and others in 1970.

51 years	51	NFL Films Presents	Syndicated	September 17, 1967	January 26, 1997

ESPN	August 31, 1997	present

NFL Network	November 4, 2003	present

50 years	51	60 Minutes (CBS News)	CBS	September 24, 1968	present	2,325 (as of December 3, 2017)

48 years	48	Day of Discovery	Syndicated	May 5, 1968	February 6, 2016

Sentence(s)

Sábado Gigante was Univision's longest-running program and one of the longest-running television series in history.

final_sentence: Sábado Gigante was Univision's longest-running program and one of the longest-running television series in history.