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From: bccarty@whuts.UUCP (Brian C. Carty)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: longest running series
Message-ID: <210@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 08:49:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 08:49:04 1985
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> >In article <1959@sunybcs.UUCP> ugzannin@sunybcs.UUCP (Adrian Zannin) writes:
> >>     Does anybody out there know what the longest running T.V. series
> >>is and how Star Trek compares with it.
> 
> In article <209@utflis.UUCP> brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown) writes:
> >GUNSMOKE, but that's all I know.
> 
> I believe Doctor Who has already been running longer than Gunsmoke, and
> the Doctor is not dead yet (just resting).
> 
> Star Trek may well be the shortest-running syndicated series.  Usually
> a series has to last five seasons before it is considered suitable for
> syndication.  Star Trek had only three seasons.
> -- 
> Dave Seaman			 ..!pur-ee!pucc-h:ags

Does one count The Honeymooners among shortest-running syndicated
series?  It was on for more than 3 seasons but they only show about 55
episodes of it in syndication.
-- 
	Brian C. Carty 		AT&T Bell Laboratories - Piscataway, NJ

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