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USATVFAN
03-10-2008, 07:40 PM
Name shows that ran 8 years And more.

samanddiane4eva
03-10-2008, 07:46 PM
Cheers
Frasier
Three's Company
Friends
Happy Days
M*A*S*H
The Facts of Life

comedyfreak
03-10-2008, 07:47 PM
The Beverly Hillbillies 9 Seasons
Bewitched 8 seasons
My Three Sons 12 seasons
Facts Of Life 9 seasons
Happy Days 12 seasons
Married With Children 11 seasons I think
Family Matters 10 seasons
The Jeffersons 10 seasons
All In The Family
Full House

USATVFAN
03-10-2008, 07:57 PM
The Beverly Hillbillies 9 Seasons
Bewitched 8 seasons
My Three Sons 12 seasons
Facts Of Life 9 seasons
Happy Days 12 seasons
Married With Children 11 seasons I think
Family Matters 10 seasons
The Jeffersons 10 seasons
All In The Family
Full House
The Jeffersons Was 11 Seasons

Mikado
03-10-2008, 08:00 PM
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Beachcombers (CBC Canada)
World of Disney (AKA Disneyland, World of Colour)
Wild Kingdom
Tommy Hunter Show(CBC)
Front Page Challenge (CBC game show)
Wayne & Shuster (CBC)
Carol Burnette Show

Furienna
03-10-2008, 08:04 PM
"Family Matters" actually had nine seasons, not ten. "The Cosby show" had eight seasons.

Mikado
03-10-2008, 08:45 PM
What does your username "Furienna" mean? isit your name?

Furienna
03-10-2008, 09:04 PM
No, it's not my real name. But what it comes from is for another thread, I think.

blairjotootienat
03-10-2008, 10:13 PM
Um, The Simpsons

And then there's the ladies...
Murphy Brown
Alice
Roseanne
Girlfriends (its 8th and final season....phew)
Bonnie, Valerie, and Mackenzie (aka One Day at a Time)
and Facts of Life because it bears repeating!!!!!!

Go Ladies!

Are we just talking sitcoms? Otherwise, 7th Heaven and almost every soap opera ever come to mind.

LeeBlue
03-10-2008, 11:38 PM
Two of my favorite shows ran 8 years --

Barney Miller
Perfect Strangers

Tubehead
03-10-2008, 11:54 PM
Let see:
family ties
Fresh prince of bel-air
Family matters
home inprovment

Zebra 3
03-11-2008, 12:00 AM
Hawaii Five-O (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=444) - 12 Seasons

treky
03-11-2008, 01:50 AM
bonanza
gunsmoke
dallas
the Beverly Hillbillies
the Carol Burnett Show
mash
cheers
frasier
the Tonight Show

Classicshowsgurl15
03-11-2008, 01:57 AM
Who's the Boss? - 8 years
Wings - 8 years
Charmed - 8 years
My Three Sons - 12 years
The Andy Griffith Show - 8 years
Home Improvement - 8 years(I think)
Three's Company - 8 years
Frasier - 11 years

megamanj2004
03-11-2008, 02:21 AM
All in the Family (CBS; January 1971-79)
Night Court (NBC; January 1984-92)
Dallas (CBS; April 1978-91)

Simon & Simon (CBS; 1981-89, but CBS originally aired it up to December 1988, but there were about 2 or 3 eps. only shown in syndication that ran into 1989)

Magnum, P.I. (CBS; 1980-88)

Perry Mason (CBS; 1957-66 and in TV movies in the 1980s and early '90s until Raymond Burr's death).

Murder, She Wrote (CBS; 1984-96 and was one of the only few shows that kept CBS afloat in the ratings game in the late '80s and throughout the '90s)

Murphy Brown (CBS; 1988-98)
Roseanne (ABC; Late 1988-97)
M*A*S*H (CBS; 1972-83)
Laverne & Shirley (January 1976 - 83)

Knots Landing (CBS; Late 1979-93)

Mannix (CBS; 1967-75)
One Day at a Time (CBS; December 1975-84)
Alice (CBS; 1976-85)
Love Boat, The (ABC; 1977-86)
Diff'rent Strokes (NBC; 1978-85 and ABC; 1985-86)
Facts of Life, The (NBC; 1979-88)
Newhart (CBS; 1982-90)
L.A. Law (NBC; 1986-94)
Married With Children (FOX; April 1987-97)
Coach (ABC; February 1989-97)
Full House (ABC; 1987-95)
Seinfield (NBC; May 1990-98)
Home Improvement (ABC; 1991-99)
Friends (NBC; 1994-2004)
Drew Carey Show, The (ABC; 1995-2004)
Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS; 1996-2005)
King of Queens (CBS; 1998-2007)

megamanj2004
03-11-2008, 02:26 AM
Continuing my list from earlier:

Beverly Hillbillies, The (CBS; 1962-71)
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The (ABC; 1952-66 - one of ABC's longest-running and arguably ABC's longest-running sitcom of all-time)
The F.B.I. (ABC; 1965-74)
Barnaby Jones (CBS; January 1973-80)
Little House on the Prairie (NBC; 1974-83)
Matlock (NBC; 1986-92 and ABC; 1992-95)
In the Heat of the Night (NBC; March 1988-92 and CBS; 1992-95).
Bewitched (ABC; 1964-72)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (PBS; 1968-early 2000s - new eps. were produced in the early 2000s shortly before Fred Rogers's death)

comedyfreak
03-11-2008, 05:07 AM
That 70's Show
The Donna Reed Show
The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet
Burns & Allen Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Make Room For Daddy
The Virginian
The Cosby Show

Furienna
03-11-2008, 08:01 AM
Fresh prince of bel-air
That show only had six seasons.

vtunie
03-11-2008, 04:08 PM
Not sitcoms, but...

Meet The Press (60 years+)
Tonight Show (~55 years)
60 Minutes (40 years)

Zebra 3
03-11-2008, 05:36 PM
Dragnet (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=468) - 8 Seasons (and Dragnet 1967 - 4 Seasons)

snl 70s show fan
03-12-2008, 12:26 AM
hee haw ran from 1969 all the way till 1992

megamanj2004
03-13-2008, 04:03 AM
Speaking of Kids' PBS Shows:

Sesame Street (for almost 40 years now)
Reading Rainbow
Arthur (12 years)
Barney the (er, Dumb...lol) Dinosaur
3-2-1 Contact (I think)

megamanj2004
03-14-2008, 02:16 AM
I forgot to include Dynasty, which lasted nine seasons on ABC. (January 1981 - 89).