"years on television – its first incarnation (1956–2008) was the second longest-running programme on British television after ""Panorama"". Beginning in 1956 on Granada Television and ITV, the television series moved to Channel 4 and then to BBC2 before being discontinued in 2008. The programme was revived on Radio 4 in the run-up to the 2010 general election, and continued until 27 March 2016, when it was announced that this was its last Radio 4 episode. The programme's format was the same for both television and radio. On TV, while quotes were being read, they would appear on-screen as newspaper cuttings"
"longest-running talk show; having debuted in 1954, it continues to this day. The show underwent some minor title changes until settling on its current title in 1962, and despite a brief foray into a more news-style program in 1957 and then reverting that same year, it has remained a talk show. Ireland's ""The Late Late Show"" is the second-longest running talk show in television history, and the longest running talk show in Europe, having debuted in 1962. Steve Allen was the first host of ""The Tonight Show"", which began as a local New York show, being picked up by the"
"McDonald Hobley acted as the presenter, and it was initially produced by John Irwin. The final episode was shown on 26 June 1953. A similar show was also produced in New Zealand by TVNZ in the 1980s. Kaleidoscope (TV series) Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953. A light entertainment show, it was one of the most popular programmes of the immediate post-war era. The first episode was transmitted on 22 November 1946; thereafter, it was usually transmitted at 8:30pm on Friday evenings. Initially, it was a thirty-minute broadcast airing every other"
"Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in ""Guinness World Records"" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, ""Guiding Light"" is the longest running soap opera before ""General Hospital"" and the fifth-longest running program in all of broadcast history; only the American country music radio program ""Grand Ole Opry"" (first broadcast"
"show has been successfully exported to other countries as ""Dancing with the Stars"" or similar names in local languages. Come Dancing Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off on the BBC from 1950 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows. Unlike its follow-up show, ""Strictly Come Dancing"", contestants were not celebrities. The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1950 by broadcasting from regional ballroom studios, with professional dancers Syd Perkin and Edna Duffield on hand to offer teaching. In 1953, the format changed to"
"Come Dancing Come Dancing was a British ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off on the BBC from 1950 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows. Unlike its follow-up show, ""Strictly Come Dancing"", contestants were not celebrities. The show was created by Eric Morley, the founder of Miss World, and began in 1950 by broadcasting from regional ballroom studios, with professional dancers Syd Perkin and Edna Duffield on hand to offer teaching. In 1953, the format changed to become a competition, with later series seeing regions of the United Kingdom going head to head for the coveted"
"Blue Peter Blue Peter is a British children's television programme that was first broadcast in 1958. The programme, which has had continuous seasons since it was first aired, is now the longest-running children's TV show in the world. It is currently shown live on the CBBC television channel. The show's content, which follows a magazine/entertainment format, features viewer and presenter challenges, competitions, celebrity interviews, popular culture and sections on making arts and crafts items from household items. The longevity of ""Blue Peter"" has established itself as a significant part of British culture. It was broadcast mainly from BBC Television Centre"
"the mid-1950s most of the country was covered, transmitting a 405-line interlaced image on VHF. When the ITV was launched in 1955, the BBC Television Service (renamed ""BBC tv"" in 1960) showed popular programming, including comedies, drama, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competed with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week. The channel also introduced the science fiction show ""Doctor Who"" on 23 November 1963 - at 17:16 - which went on to become one of Britain's most iconic and beloved television programmes. BBC TV was"
"Hallmark Hall of Fame Hallmark Hall of Fame, originally called Hallmark Television Playhouse, is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it first aired in 1951 and continues into the present day. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been broadcast in color. It is one of the first video productions to telecast in color, a rarity in the 1950s. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas"
"included ""Omnibus"" hosted by Alistair Cooke, and ""You Are There"" hosted by Walter Cronkite. Talk shows had their genesis in the decade with NBC's ""Today"" hosted by Dave Garroway creating the much-copied genre format. ""The Tonight Show"" debuted in 1954 with Steve Allen as host. The coronation of Elizabeth II was televised on June 2, 1953, highlighting the start of pan-European cooperation with regards to the exchange of TV programs. The Academy Awards show was first televised in 1953 on NBC, and the show holds the distinction of having won the most Emmys in history, with 38 wins and 167"
"longest-running CBBC programme is the magazine show ""Blue Peter"". Other notable current programmes include ""All Over The Place"", ""Class Dismissed"", ""The Next Step"", ""Newsround"", ""Hacker Time"", ""Horrible Histories"", ""ChuckleVision"", ""Shaun the Sheep"", ""The Dumping Ground"", ""Operation Ouch!"", ""Wolfblood"",""4 O'Clock Club"" ""Got What It Takes, So Awkward"" and the most popular show ""Danger Mouse"". From its launch in 1985 until 1994, ""Children's BBC"" was presented from the regular continuity announcer's booth in the BBC1 network control area, which had a fixed camera so that the presenter could appear in vision; as it remained an operational continuity booth, the presenter would partly"
"on the moon. The Sky at Night The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Patrick Moore, from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013, Moore having died on 9 December 2012. This made it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history. Many early episodes are missing, either because the tapes were wiped, thrown out, or because the episode was broadcast live and never recorded in the first place. Beginning with the 3 February 2013 edition, the show"
"first broadcast date and the name being Latin for ""The Sky at Night"". In February 2007, the Royal Mail issued a set of six astronomy stamps to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the programme. In the ""Guinness Book of World Records"", Patrick Moore is listed as the most prolific TV presenter in the world, having hosted all but one episode of the programme between 1957 and January 2013. A DVD of the special commemorative ""Sky at Night"" film ""Apollo 11: A Night to Remember"" was released on 6 July 2009 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first man"
"in 1951. One of his early successes was ""Top Town"", a talent show pitting contestants from neighbouring towns against each other. His longest running success was ""The Good Old Days"", which started in 1953 and was on air for 30 years, making it the longest-running light entertainment programme ever broadcast. Colehan tested his idea for a television variety show with a pilot broadcast in 1952 from the City Varieties Theatre in Leeds, entitled ""The Story of the Music-Hall"". Colehan also came up with the idea of dressing the audience in Edwardian costumes. Many high-profile entertainers appeared on the show, including"
"""Guiding Light"" episodes on a two-disc DVD set. Also beginning in June 2012 the series was later released on DVD in Germany beginning with the 1979 episodes. Guiding Light Guiding Light (known as The Guiding Light before 1975) is an American television soap opera. It is listed in ""Guinness World Records"" as the longest-running drama in television in American history, broadcast on CBS for 57 years from June 30, 1952, until September 18, 2009, overlapping a 19-year broadcast on radio from 1937 to 1956. With its run of 72 years of radio and television, ""Guiding Light"" is the longest running"
"the competitive nature of the show jarred with modern educational philosophy. Each school fielded a team of four pupils ranging in age from under 13 to under 18. The programme was first aired on TV in two special experiments the first on 25 April 1953, featuring Sheffield High School (girls) v. Marylebone Grammar School (boys) . A second TV broadcast was performed in 1954 featuring Lady Margaret High School for Girls (Cardiff) v Solihull School for Boys. The programme fully migrated to TV later. It ran from 1962 to 1975, and was called ""Television Top of the Form"". It began"
"""The Voyager"". This theme was used throughout the 1990s and 2000s until the programme came to an end after 37 years in 2007. ""Celebrity Holiday Memories"" in 1999 Holiday (TV series) Holiday was a long-running UK television programme, which aired mainly on BBC One, sometimes airing on BBC Two. It was the oldest travel review series on UK television, showing every year from 1969 until its demise in 2007. The programme began in 1969 as ""Holiday 69"", and until the 1990s the year was included in the title in this way. The first presenter was Cliff Michelmore who remained with"
"Show"", which first aired in 1948. The most recently premiered show is ""The Sopranos"", which first aired in 1999. The show with the shortest run is ""An American Family"", which aired only twelve episodes and two subsequent special episodes. The longest-running show on the list is ""The Today Show"", which has aired since 1952. 41 of the shows are prime time, five are daytime and four are late-night. NBC has the most shows on the list with 17, counting the final season of ""Taxi""; otherwise, it ties with CBS at 16. ABC has eight, Fox, HBO and PBS each have"
"its inception. Moore presented every monthly episode except for one in July 2004 when he suffered a near-fatal bout of food poisoning caused by eating a contaminated goose egg and was replaced for that episode by Chris Lintott. Moore appears in the ""Guinness World Records"" book as the world's longest-serving TV presenter having presented the programme since 1957. From 2004 to 2012, the programme was broadcast from Moore's home, when arthritis prevented him from travelling to the studios. Over the years he received many lucrative offers to take his programme onto other networks, but rejected them because he held a"
"decades-long runs in the UK: ""Twenty Questions"" lasted until 1976, while ""Just a Minute"" has remained on the air with the same host since 1967. Other long-running games on radio include ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" since 1972, ""The News Quiz"" since 1977, ""My Word!"" from 1956 to 1988, and ""My Music"" from 1967 to 1994. The British version of ""What's My Line?"" may have been the first television panel show in the UK, with an original run from 1951 to 1963 and several remakes in later years. The word game ""Call My Bluff"" aired from 1965 to 2005,"
"was one of the longest running programs in Canadian television history, and is broadcast nationally. It began as ""Country Calendar"" in 1954. The program name was carried over to a new digital specialty channel called CBC Country Canada, which first launched in September 2001. ""Spotlight"" was one of CBWT's first news interview programs, which aired Monday through Saturdays between 7:15 and 7:30 p.m. ""3's Company"" was a local program broadcast in the early 1960s and was similar to ""Living Winnipeg"". The title was a play on both the number of on-air hosts (Mary Liz Bayer, Bill Guest, Jose Poneira), and"
"longest-running continuing children's programme in the UK, with 857 episodes being aired as of 30 October 2018. Sooty was originally devised for media by magician and puppeteer Harry Corbett (nephew of English fish and chip shop chain owner and company namesake Harry Ramsden (as Harry Ramsden's)), who had bought the puppet as a present for his son, Matthew Corbett, from a stall when he was on holiday in Blackpool in 1948. He first appeared on screen on the BBC in 1952 on the BBC's ""Talent Night"". This particular show came from the TV Theatre at the annual ""British Radio Show"""
"one of the longest-running television programs in broadcast history and the longest continuously run weekday program on cable television. It is hosted by Pat Robertson, Gordon P. Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, and Wendy Griffith. Previous co-hosts include Ben Kinchlow (1975–88, 1992–96), Sheila Walsh (1987–92), Danuta Rylko Soderman (1983–87), Kristi Watts (1999–2013), and Lisa Ryan. Tim Robertson served as host for a year (1987–88) along with Kinchlow and actress Susan Howard, while Pat Robertson ran unsuccessfully for President in the 1988 campaign. In 1960, Pat Robertson, the son of former U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, purchased the license for WTOV-TV, channel 27"
"The Archers The Archers, having aired over 18,700 episodes, is the world's longest-running radio serial. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4the BBC's main spoken-word channelthis soap opera was initially billed, ""an everyday story of country folk"" and now, ""a contemporary drama in a rural setting"". Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950 and the first episode was broadcast nationally on 1 January 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners, it is Radio 4's most listened-to non-news programme, With over one million listeners via the internet, the programme holds the record for BBC Radio online"
"the serial had aired continuously, first on CBS, since 1951 and was the longest running daytime program in history at the time of its cancellation. Two contestants, one usually a returning champion, competed through three rounds to win money by guessing the definitions of unusual words. The gameboard consisted of a 3-by-3 grid of words, with the middle column shifted one level above the others. The contestant in control chose a word, and three celebrity panelists each gave a possible definition with an accompanying humorous anecdote. Panelists were provided with definitions before the show. If the contestant chose the correct"
"and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running television soap opera and was listed in ""Guinness World Records"". On 23 September 2015, ""Coronation Street"" was broadcast live to mark ITV's sixtieth anniversary. Influenced by the conventions of the kitchen sink drama, ""Coronation Street"" is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth, working-class community, combined with light-hearted humour and strong characters. The show currently averages 8 million viewers per episode. The was aired on 9 December 1960 at 7 pm, and was not initially a critical success; ""Daily Mirror"" columnist"
"air live or with a 1-hour tape delay from the original broadcast in all time zones. ABC's and CBS' morning shows are two hours long, while ""Today"" has expanded to four hours. NBC affiliates that air ""Live with Kelly and Ryan"", especially in the east coast, tape-delay the hours preempted by this program. On Sunday mornings, the networks air political interview programs. NBC's ""Meet the Press"" (which premiered November 6, 1947 and is currently world's longest running television program) leads CBS's ""Face the Nation"" and ABC's ""This Week"". News briefs, a two-minute segment with a basic rundown of the largest"
"Kaleidoscope (TV series) Kaleidoscope was a British television programme, transmitted on BBC Television Service from 1946 until 1953. A light entertainment show, it was one of the most popular programmes of the immediate post-war era. The first episode was transmitted on 22 November 1946; thereafter, it was usually transmitted at 8:30pm on Friday evenings. Initially, it was a thirty-minute broadcast airing every other week, alternating with the early sitcom ""Pinwright's Progress"", but later in its run, the episodes increased to one hour. The programme had a variety of different features, including 'Collector's Corner,' in which antiques expert Iris Brooke would"
"Survival (TV series) Survival is one of television's longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton (later Baron Buxton of Alsa), a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961. ""Survival"" films and film-makers won more than 250 awards worldwide, including four Emmy Awards and a BAFTA. The original series ran for 40 years during which nearly 1000 shows were produced. It was one of the UK's most lucrative television exports, with sales to 112 countries; the highest overseas sales of any"
"The Sky at Night The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the same permanent presenter, Patrick Moore, from its first broadcast on 24 April 1957 until 7 January 2013, Moore having died on 9 December 2012. This made it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history. Many early episodes are missing, either because the tapes were wiped, thrown out, or because the episode was broadcast live and never recorded in the first place. Beginning with the 3 February 2013 edition, the show was co-presented by"
"(1954-1960) and ""The Dinah Shore Chevy Show"" (1956-1963). Perry Como also hosted a series of variety shows that collectively ran from 1948 to 1969, followed by variety specials that ran until 1994. Shorter-lived variety shows during this period include ""The Frank Sinatra Show"" (1950-1952), ""The Jimmy Durante Show"" (1954-1956) and a different ""The Frank Sinatra Show"" (1957-1958). In the UK, ""The Good Old Days""—which ran from 1953 to 1983—featured modern artists performing dressed in late Victorian/Early Edwardian costume, either doing their own act or performing as a music hall artist of that period. The audience was also encouraged to dress"
"soap opera ""Guiding Light"" (originally titled ""The Guiding Light"" until 1975) started as a radio drama in January 1937 and subsequently transferred to television in June 1952. With the exception of several years in the late 1940s, during which creator Irna Phillips was involved in a dispute with Procter & Gamble, ""Guiding Light"" was heard or seen nearly every weekday from 1937 until 2009, making it the longest story ever told in a broadcast medium. Originally serials were broadcast as fifteen-minute installments each weekday in daytime slots. In 1956, ""As the World Turns"" and ""The Edge of Night"", both produced"
"The Al Pearce Show The Al Pearce Show is the name of two comedy-variety television series airing on CBS during 1952. Both series starred comedian and radio personality Al Pearce. The morning version of the show, originating in Hollywood, was a collection of music, songs and topical discussions directed at housewives. It was 45 minutes in length and ran from February 11, 1952 to May 9, 1952. After a brief hiatus, it returned as a 30-minute program on June 30, 1952 and lasted until September 26. It had the following broadcast history: The program was the earliest network TV program"