List of television programs by episode count
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This is a list of the prime time episodic television programs by episode count with 150 episodes minimum.
| Program Name | Genre | Episode Length (min) |
Seasons | Episode Count | In Production |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who | Sci-Fi | 30, 45 or 60 | 29 | 723[1] | Yes |
| WWE Monday Night RAW | Sports Entertainment | 120 | 15 | 702[2] | Yes |
| Lassie | Sitcom | 30 | 22 | 643 | No |
| Gunsmoke | Western | 30 or 60 | 20 | 635 | No |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Sitcom | 30 | 14 | 435 | No |
| The Real World | Reality | 30 | 18 | 409[3] | Yes |
| The Simpsons | Sitcom | 30 | 18 | 382[4] | Yes |
| My Three Sons | Sitcom | 30 | 12 | 380 | No |
| Law & Order | Drama | 60 | 17 | 379[5] | Yes |
| WWE Friday Night SmackDown | Sports Entertainment | 120 | 8 | 376[5] | Yes |
| Dallas | Soap Opera | 60 | 14 | 357 | No |
| The Danny Thomas Show | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 351 | No |
| Knots Landing | Soap Opera | 60 | 14 | 344 | No |
| The Twilight Zone | Sci-Fi | 30 or 60* | 9 | 288 | No |
| Hawaii Five-O | Drama | 60 | 12 | 283 | No |
| Dragnet | Drama | 30 | 8 | 276 | No |
| ER | Drama | 60 | 13 | 274[6] | Yes |
| Cheers | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 273 | No |
| Perry Mason | Drama | 60 | 9 | 271 | No |
| Frasier | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 265 | No |
| Murder, She Wrote | Drama | 60 | 12 | 264 | No |
| Married... with Children | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 263 | No |
| NYPD Blue | Drama | 60 | 12 | 261 | No |
| Happy Days | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 255 | No |
| The Jeffersons | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 253 | No |
| Bewitched | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 252 | No |
| M*A*S*H | Sitcom | 30 | 11 | 251 | No |
| The Andy Griffith Show | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 249 | No |
| The Love Boat | Sitcom | 60 | 10 | 249 | No |
| Murphy Brown | Sitcom | 30 | 10 | 247 | No |
| Baywatch | Drama | 60 | 11 | 242 | No |
| Friends | Sitcom | 30 | 10 | 236 | No |
| Leave It to Beaver | Sitcom | 30 | 6 | 234 | No |
| The Drew Carey Show | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 233 | No |
| JAG | Drama | 60 | 10 | 227 | No |
| 7th Heaven | Family Drama | 60 | 11 | 227[4] | Yes |
| Roseanne | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 222 | No |
| The Waltons | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 221 | No |
| Dynasty | Soap Opera | 60 | 9 | 220 | No |
| Family Matters | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 215 | No |
| All in the Family | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 212 | No |
| Touched by an Angel | Drama | 60 | 9 | 212 | No |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 210 | No |
| Road Rules | Reality | 30 | 13 | 210[7] | Yes |
| The Facts of Life | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 209 | No |
| One Day at a Time | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 209 | No |
| Home Improvement | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 204 | No |
| Stargate SG-1 | Sci-Fi | 60 | 9 | 204[8] | Yes |
| Father Knows Best | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 203 | No |
| The Outer Limits | Sci-Fi | 60 | 9 | 203 | No |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | Action | 60 | 9 | 203 | No |
| The X-Files | Sci-Fi | 60 | 9 | 201 | No |
| The Cosby Show | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 201 | No |
| That 70's Show | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 200 | No |
| Beavis and Butt-head | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 199 | No |
| Who's the Boss | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 196 | No |
| Matlock | Drama | 60 | 10 | 195 | No |
| The King of Queens | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 194[9] | Yes |
| Night Court | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 193 | No |
| Survivor | Reality | 60 | 13 | 193[10] | Yes |
| Full House | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 192 | No |
| Newhart | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 186 | No |
| Seinfeld | Sitcom | 30 | 9 | 181 | No |
| I Love Lucy | Sitcom | 30 | 6 | 180 | No |
| Family Ties | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 180 | No |
| The Golden Girls | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 180 | No |
| Will and Grace | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 179 | No |
| Charmed | Drama | 60 | 8 | 178 | No |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Sci-Fi | 60 | 7 | 178 | No |
| Diagnosis Murder | Drama | 60 | 8 | 178 | No |
| Laverne and Shirley | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 178 | No |
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Sci-Fi | 60 | 7 | 176 | No |
| Star Trek: Voyager | Sci-Fi | 60 | 7 | 172 | No |
| Three's Company | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 172 | No |
| Wings | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 172 | No |
| L.A. Law | Drama | 60 | 8 | 171 | No |
| Mission: Impossible | Drama | 60 | 7 | 171 | No |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 168 | No |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Drama | 60 | 8 | 168[11] | Yes |
| The Flintstones | Sitcom | 30 | 6 | 166 | No |
| Growing Pains | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 166 | No |
| Mad About You | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 164 | No |
| Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 163 | No |
| Magnum, P.I. | Drama | 60 | 8 | 162 | No |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | Sitcom | 30 | 5 | 158 | No |
| Simon and Simon | Drama | 60 | 8 | 156 | No |
| Boy Meets World | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 156 | No |
| The West Wing | Drama | 60 | 7 | 156 | No |
| South Park | Sitcom | 30 | 10 | 153[12] | Yes |
| Malcolm in the Middle | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 151 | No |
| Trapper John, M.D. | Sitcom | 30 | 7 | 151 | No |
| Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Drama | 60 | 6 | 150 | No |
| Perfect Strangers | Sitcom | 30 | 8 | 150 | No |
- Some seasons of Doctor Who and The Twilight Zone had 30-minute episodes, while others had 60-minute episodes. The new generation of Doctor Who is 45 minutes long.
[edit] References/Notes
- ^ As of July 8, 2006
- ^ As of November 6, 2006
- ^ As of August 15, 2006
- ^ a b As of November 5, 2006
- ^ a b As of November 10, 2006
- ^ As of November 9, 2006
- ^ As of September 27, 2004
- ^ As of September 22, 2006
- ^ As of the end of the eighth season, May 2006
- ^ As of November 16, 2006
- ^ As of October 31, 2006
- ^ As of November 19, 2006
[edit] External links
- www.angelfire.com/trek/proutsy/ -- A list of long-running US shows (copy and paste URL to get around spam filter)
