Can you name the primetime, fictional U.S. television dramas with the most episodes*? - sporcle

Can you name the primetime, fictional U.S. television dramas with the most episodes*?

Enter a TV Drama in the box below
Correctly named TV Dramas will show up in the table below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger
* - To qualify, dramas must be fictional with episodes lasting longer than 1/2 hour and new episodes appearing no more than once per week featuring recurring characters.
^ Indicates that the TV drama is still in production. Data is complete through the 2008-09 television season.
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Episodes	TV Drama	Years of Initial Broadcast
635		(1955-1975)
588		(1954-1973)
433^		(1990-present)
430		(1959-1973)
357		(1978-1991)
344		(1979-1993)
331		(1994-2009)
296		(1990-2000)
284		(1957-1965)
278		(1968-1980)
276		(1952-1959)
271		(1957-1966)
264		(1984-1996)
261		(1993-2005)
249		(1962-1971)
243		(1996-2007)
243		(1989-1999)
240		(1965-1974)
227		(1995-2005)

Episodes	TV Drama	Years of Initial Broadcast
227		(1981-1990)
226		(1992-1999)
225		(1957-1963)
224^		(1999-present)
221		(1949-1957)
221		(1972-1981)
220		(1981-1989)
217		(1959-1966)
214		(1997-2007)
212		(1994-2003)
206		(1958-1964)
206^		(2000- Present)
203		(1993-2001)
202		(1993-2002)
199		(1967-1975)
195		(1986-1995)
194		(1967-1975)
190		(1961-1966)
184		(1974-1983)
		(1974-1983)

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	fatbeard:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:03 GMT	11 points
	I'm more of a comedy person, but it's nice seeing something besides sitcoms getting some love

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	DerKomissar:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:09 GMT	14 points
	Wow, that's a lot of qualification criteria.

	livfred:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:12 GMT	23 points
	Cheers to Sporcle for detailing the qualification criteria!

	kmzh:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:13 GMT	5 points
	Zata: The long running daytime soaps have 10k+ eps, so this list definitely didn't include them. And the rule about at most one ep per week confirmed that.

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	Haunter:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:19 GMT	7 points
	How bad was TV that Lassie was worth 588 episodes

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	wayman:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	4 points
	The only show I've seen more than one episode of was the X-files. oh, alright... and Baywatch.

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT	7 points
	@MovieDynamic as of right now I am looking at the stats for this quiz and it has been taken 684 times. So far Zero people have gotten above the 23-27 range. Even if you did get 23-27 you didn't do very well seeing how 23/38 = 60.5% and 27/38 = 71% your score would have constituted from a D- to a C-. So unless you those are "good grades" to you, this quiz is not easy.

	wolv82:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:43 GMT	27 points
	Walker, Texas Ranger is actually the longest running primteime drama, but the last 433 episodes are stashed under Chuck Norris' beard. No one has been brave enough to try to watch them.

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	Matt91486:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:53 GMT	14 points
	@MovieDynamic, so you went through the entire time to get all of the answers you could in an effort to double your time to skew the results?

	BrettCaudill:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 09:57 GMT	17 points
	i've been on sporcle for awhile now, but i never tire of the general arrogance of MovieDynamic's comments. this quiz was hard as hell, i wasn't even born when most of these shows were on.

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	TeganX7:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	47 points
	588 episodes for Lassie .... that's like 4100 in human episodes!

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 10:48 GMT	7 points
	I grew up on a lot of these shows. Back in the days when the whole family sat down to watch TV together, Mannix and Ironside and Bonanza were pretty popular at my house. And I used to hurry home from school every day to see reruns of Lassie. I think I've seen every show on the list at least once.

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	Fergie:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 11:48 GMT	4 points
	Really Hard, especially since most of these shows haven't been shown here in the uk for years. Still a great quiz though

	melissa:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 14:34 GMT	10 points
	Looks like the key to staying power is to be a western, a cop show, a doctor show, or a lawyer show.

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 15:38 GMT	4 points
	Hmm 233 episodes of 'Walker the Texas Ranger' and yet only 30 or so pulls from the Walker 'lever' on Conan...I demand an explanation!

	Tapestry:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 15:51 GMT	1 point
	It specified prime time which daytime soap operas are not, except for the 3 mentioned which were the prime time soaps my Mom watched that stuff its the only way I remember them. The western genre was hot in the 50s and 60s, I forgot all about that dog!

	sub:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT	4 points
	Why is 24 not on this list? According to IMDB, Jack Bauer appeared in 195 episodes so far (7 seasons).

	Booger:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	3 points
	@sub: 7 seasons times 24 shows per season equals 168 episodes.

	sub:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 17:16 GMT	4 points
	@Booger: you're right. IMDB is also counting season 8 (which hasn't aired yet), plus 24:Redemption and some other stuff. Incidentally enough, my previous post was the 24th comment on the page :.

	rockgolf:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 17:45 GMT	12 points
	@sub & booger: Actually, Jack Bauer spent 5 minutes alone with imdb. Now he has 195 episodes and knows where the bomb is.

	Booger:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 18:28 GMT	5 points
	@Haunter: Lassie had so many episodes that 6 separate dogs played Lassie over the course of the series. It may be true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can certainly teach a new dog old tricks.

	rockgolf:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 19:12 GMT	14 points
	@Booger: Actually 2 Lassies were let go in a salary dispute. One was fired on a morals clause - he apparently had puppies with five different mothers. Another quit because it was a male dog and was tired of acting like a bitch. (Hey, it's a clean word in this sense!)

	UCCF:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 20:16 GMT	2 points
	Funny - I never even thought of Baywatch or SG1, even though I watched both of them. You never think of syndicated shows running for this long.

	BamaRainbow:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	6 points
	I can recall watching Lassie as a young boy (way too many years ago) and I don't EVER remember the show running an hour on a regular basis. The quiz has probably been up too long now for a correction, but facts are facts. "Lassie" was a 30 minute-long show--even June Lockhart,one of the show's early human stars, described it as "a fairy tale about people on a farm in which the dog solves all the problems in 22 minutes, in time for the last commercial."

	elanis:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:29 GMT	2 points
	thought star trek might have been on this list...?

	sarah_smiles:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	3 points
	Love Boat is a bonus

	omnipotent1:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	3 points
	@melissa- I think you're right, and it's probably because shows based around hospitals, crimes, law, etc. allow for viewers to see different materials and characters every week as a new case/patient is introduced. I know that's what kept my interest in a lot of these shows. Mind you, even shows like ER I got tired of very quickly as it soon became apparent that every doctor and nurse slept with each other at one point or other.

	drn211:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:00 GMT	2 points
	@elanis TNG, Voyager and Deep Space 9 all just miss this list. DS9 ahs 172 eps, Voyager has 176 and TNG comes the closest with 178

	bugaffi:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:00 GMT	8 points
	I wonder how close to this list were Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey and St. Elsewhere.

	drn211:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:01 GMT	-1 points
	A little annoying that you actually need the comma for Murder She Wrote to work.

	Annie:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 22:59 GMT	6 points
	I feel like 90210 should count for Beverly Hills 90210.

	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	4 points
	@annie: 90210 is the full name of the current series, so it would be considered separate. Otherwise, you'd have to merge Star Trek and all the spinoffs.

	Dirtybird:	Aug 14th, 2009 at 01:12 GMT	2 points
	I didn't realize Timmy was grown when Lassie finally went off the air, lol