document_title: Angela Martin

question_text: what did angela name her baby on the office

text: Angela Martin

text: Overview[edit]

text: Angela Martin is the head of the accounting department at the Scranton branch of the fictitious paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin, extension 128. Cold, condescending, judgmental and uptight, Angela is often negative and frowns upon all frivolous activity in the office, and openly expressed her disapproval of office receptionist Pam Beesly’s flirtation with coworker Jim Halpert. She also frowns upon any sort of superfluousness or inappropriateness in general. Like Dwight, Angela has little sense of humour and almost never smiles or expresses happiness, except when she is talking about her cats or is expressing derisive contempt for her co-workers. Angela is attracted to shows of power, extremely secretive with her other emotions, and vengeful when upset.

text: Biography[edit]

text: In addition to heading the accounting department, Angela is also the former head of the Party Planning Committee and the office's Safety Officer. She is a constant source of complaints to Human Resources, although she retracts those lodged against Dwight Schrute at the onset of their secret romance. Angela lives with several cats, adores posters of infants posed as adults, and is a vegetarian and a singer. When she makes a mistake, Angela's first response is usually to shift the blame to someone else, along with an insult. Angela's extreme religious homophobia makes her dislike Will & Grace (although she says it's because it's "terribly loud"), except for the scenes with Harry Connick, Jr. ("He's so talented"). She is a former child beauty pageant contestant, and says that she enjoys being judged. She tends to list colors that she finds "whorish", including orange and green, that always seem to correspond to the color of clothes being worn by either Phyllis or Meredith. Angela bottles up her emotions to the point that, on occasion, she has private, emotional outbursts over relatively trivial matters. She also seems to be something of a conservative (albeit hypocritical) Christian. She states that the two books she would bring with her to read if stranded on a deserted island are the Bible and The Purpose Driven Life. Further, she would bring The Da Vinci Code, but only so she could burn it. She despises the mystery novel genre because, in her words, "I hate being titillated." However, in a deleted scene from "Dream Team", she says her new boss Charles Miner is mysterious and wants to flip to "his last page". In a deleted scene from Season 3, Angela glowingly compares Dwight to Fox News commentator Sean Hannity. She says in Prince Family Paper that her ideal of male beauty is Boris Becker.

text: She was mainly seen as a minor character in the first two seasons but since starting her relationship with Dwight her character has been explored numerous times and has been so further since their break-up in Fun Run. Throughout season 3 and carrying on into season 4, Angela essentially became the second lead female of the show, after Pam Beesly.

text: Angela has a sister to whom she was very close but has not spoken in sixteen years over a disagreement she does not even remember, a situation that she regards with a great deal of pride. She appears unable to apologize, as further detailed in "Product Recall" when she cannot bring herself to say sorry on behalf of the company (saying instead "our official position is apologetic"), and in "The Return" when she uses a wordy, third-person monologue as a way of apologizing to Oscar for being homophobic. She did, however, say she was sorry to Kevin for being "mean" twice in "The Accountants." She has a second sister who she is also very close with, who is her maid of honor at her wedding during the series finale.

text: It was revealed in "The Return" and confirmed in "Happy Hour" that her middle name is Noelle.

text: Angela drives a light brown first generation Ford Focus sedan, as seen in "The Dundies" and "The Client". In the season six episode "Niagara", she is seen to drive a second generation Saturn S-Series (which Oscar's lover Gill used to drive).

text: Angela's petite size is a running gag of the show. Angela claims to weigh eighty-two pounds and wears a child's size ten ("Women's Appreciation"). In addition, because she finds the clothes at Gap Kids to sometimes be too "flashy", she occasionally shops at the American Girl store, buying items meant for "large colonial dolls". Michael has twice made fun of her stature, nicknaming her "Booster Seat" in reference to small children having to sit on one in restaurants. He later "roasted" her during "Stress Relief" by saying he couldn't see her when she was hiding behind a grain of rice. Her 5'1" height is sharply contrasted to 6'1" Dwight.

text: Angela ruled (in seasons 1-4) the Party Planning Committee (PPC) with an iron fist. Usually when a committee member suggests an idea, Angela immediately shoots it down with a mean comment or sharp rebuke. The PPC normally consists of Angela, Pam, Phyllis, and Meredith, although Meredith was naturally not present when the committee planned her surprise birthday party. Karen became a regular member of the PPC when she was transferred to Scranton, but was expelled by Angela for her "unsuitable" ideas during "A Benihana Christmas". Ryan joined the committee to help plan the Christmas Party, and Oscar joined it to help plan his own "Welcome Back" party ("The Return"). Angela was particularly hard on Phyllis during "Launch Party" and was left with a huge burden when Phyllis got fed up and quit the PPC.

text: It is implied in the webisode series, Blackmail, that she has or had a clandestine sexual relationship with her church pastor when Creed hands out envelopes containing incriminating information on several of his peers and Meredith opens her envelope and asks "Who's Pastor Davis?" prompting Creed to switch the envelopes between Angela and Meredith. After reading the note, Angela appears to be heavily embarrassed.

text: In The Chump, Angela reveals that her four cats are named "Ember, Milky Way, Diane, and Lumpy".

text: In the season eight premiere Angela is married to Robert and pregnant. She is pregnant with her first child but she has a step son with Robert. Angela wanted to name her son "Philip" after her cat, but Pam (who is pregnant with her 2nd child) wanted the name "Philip" after her grandfather. Angela tried browbeating Pamela into giving up the name rights—in a deleted scene, she said Jim wouldn't take care of the name because "he can't even get a decent haircut!"—and after Pam rebuffed her, threatened to take the name first by having a C-section done (even though she would only be six months' pregnant at the time). In the end, both children are named Philip.

text: Relationships[edit]

text: Dwight[edit]

text: Dwight is the only person that Angela likes in the office. It is shown in "E-mail Surveillance" that Dwight and Angela have begun a romantic relationship. Although she has said she loves Dwight and cares about him, she refuses to tell anyone about their relationship, and is often made uncomfortable by Dwight's passion for her. Their relationship is seemingly summarized in "A.A.R.M.": when Dwight tells her that yelling through a megaphone expresses "how loudly I love you", Angela meekly whispers "It's too loud." In "Traveling Salesman" Angela forgets to send an accounting folder to corporate, so Dwight drives to New York and gives the folder to them. After Dwight is told he would be fired if he didn't tell Michael why he went to New York, he keeps their relationship secret out of respect for Angela. Angela later tells Michael what happened, but still doesn't reveal their relationship. In "Fun Run" Angela asks Dwight to feed her cat Sprinkles, who is feeling sick, but Dwight kills it, which causes Angela to break up with him. After Angela begins a relationship with Andy in Season 4, she stops dating Dwight, but at the end of "Goodbye Toby" Phyllis sees Angela cheating on Andy with Dwight. Dwight ends their affair in "The Duel" after learning that she has been having sexual relations with Andy. In "The Delivery" Dwight, who wants to improve his sales by having a child, asks Angela to have his baby. The two write up a contract and plan to have a baby together, but in "Happy Hour", Dwight hooks up with Pam's friend Isabel, and tells Angela he doesn't want her to have his baby. In "The Chump" the two call in a lawyer, and Angela refuses to release him from the contract unless he agrees to have sex with her five times. She later voids the contract after meeting Senator Robert Lipton. After she gives birth (Jury Duty), Dwight realizes the baby was conceived before her marriage to Robert and makes the assumption that he, not Robert, is the father. Angela and Dwight go through a paternity test and in "New Guys" it is revealed that Dwight is not Philip's father. In "A.A.R.M." Dwight proposes to Angela, and she accepts. She then tells Dwight that she lied before and Dwight is Philip's father. Angela tells him that she wanted to make sure that Dwight wanted to marry her for no other reason than for love.[1]

text: Pam[edit]

text: Angela generally disapproves of Pam because of "all the people" she has dated in the office. She even calls her the "office mattress" in "Dunder Mifflin Infinity". Pam originally didn't invite Angela to her wedding with Roy because she didn't want anyone who'd called her a "hussy" to be at her wedding, and assumes it was Angela who filed a complaint with Toby over her at-work wedding planning (it turned out that it was Jim who did so). Pam is the first to find out about Dwight and Angela's relationship in "E-mail Surveillance". In "The Injury", when Dwight gets a concussion, Pam notices Angela is upset and comforts her by hinting that Dwight is okay. Their relationship does warm up a little in "Traveling Salesman" where they share some conversation while getting coffee; in a deleted scene, Angela offers Pam her dominant male cat Ash, but after Pam apologetically declines, Angela's chilly behavior returns. In "Niagara", Angela's complaints lead Pam to bluntly say Angela does not have to come to the wedding; while Angela does arrive with everyone else, her main success there is an offer to chaperone Pam on the pre-wedding night, leading Pam to give up on going out and return to her room. In "Costume Contest", Angela uses a dismissive "blech" term regarding Pam.

text: Andy[edit]

text: Angela was in a relationship with Andy throughout Season 4 and carrying on into Season 5. Initially, she dates him on the rebound after a break-up with her boyfriend of two years (Dwight). Scenes imply however that she was beginning to genuinely like him more and more, such as in "Did I Stutter" when Dwight watches the two of them in the break room playing Mad Libs together and laughing. Despite being surprised and shocked by Andy's sudden proposal in "Goodbye Toby", she accepts, and the two are engaged until it comes to a dissolution in "The Duel" when Andy learns she had been having an affair with Dwight.

text: She's later shown to be in a state of depression, and at times openly regrets dating both men. On "Secretary's Day" in Season 6, Andy's new girlfriend Erin finds out about the two's relationship, and publicly demeans Angela in the conference room. Angela has a brief conversation with Erin shortly afterward, where she expresses her humiliation and reminds Erin that she wants to forget the memories of dating him. Andy has rarely talked to Angela or expressed any opinions about her in subsequent episodes. When he quits his job to pursue his dreams of stardom near the series' end, Angela (informed by her own life upheavals) talks to him about not letting pride ruin his life. While Andy assumes she is talking about how their relationship ended and says that is something he does reflect on sometimes, Angela fights through her lingering disgust that she was ever with him and finally tells him, mutedly but sincerely, that she wishes him good luck. Andy is part of Dwight's bachelor party and attends the wedding of his old co-workers.

text: Phyllis[edit]

text: Up until Season 5, Angela is the head of the Party Planning Committee along with Phyllis as her assistant. Angela is patronizing and bossy towards Phyllis, who admits that Angela is hard to deal with and that the two have a severe disliking towards one another. In "Goodbye Toby", Phyllis catches Angela and Dwight having sex in the back of the office (thus cheating on her fiancé at the time) and uses this to blackmail Angela and make her do what she wants. In "New Leads", Michael gives Angela Phyllis' leads, and Angela, in retaliation for all the aggravating tasks she had to endure while under her control, makes her do some accounting work only to shred it later. Phyllis states in "Conflict Resolution" that (even though they constantly butt heads), they are close. By the finale, Phyllis and Angela seemed to have resolved their differences. Angela, incapacitated by a foot injury, apologizes for snapping at Phyllis, who then volunteers to carry Angela down the aisle.

text: Robert Lipton[edit]

text: Angela meets Robert Lipton, who's with his son, at Dwight's hay festival. They get along well, and at the end of the day, he asks for her number. It's later revealed that they've started dating and also that Robert is a state senator. There are strong hints throughout the rest of the season that he's gay, which almost everyone eventually notices. Angela remains oblivious however. In the season 7 finale, he proposes to her and they're officially engaged (marking her second engagement on the show). It was confirmed by Angela Kinsey at the NBC Press Tour that she and Robert will have gotten married over the summer. In the season 8 premiere, it is revealed that Angela and Robert are married and she is pregnant.

text: Other relationships[edit]

text: Angela tends to be somewhat abrasive towards other office workers, often outright insulting them. In the season 3 premiere, she expresses an open homophobia and dislike for Oscar, who is outed as a homosexual. However, it appears that by The Return she has decided to overlook her problems with this, helping to plan a party for Oscar's return from vacation. She treats her other accounting colleague, Kevin, with open disdain, although the two are very occasionally seen to show affection for each other, such as in the episode 'Branch Closing', in which they embrace warmly when they learn that the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin is to remain open, or the series 2 episode 'The Injury', in which they are seen smiling and joking together in the background. She has a clear disgust and annoyance with her former boss Michael Scott, often barely able to fathom his ridiculous and time-wasting antics; although she does say she is "thrilled" for Michael and Holly's relationship. In a scene during the extended version of Michael's last episode, she refuses to say of any qualities Michael had besides the fact that he worked in the same office as her for nineteen years. Angela also shows concern for Stanley after he suffers a heart attack, trying to protect him from Michael's attempts to "help" Stanley. She strongly disapproves of Office romances, playing a game called "Pam-Pong" in which she counts the number of times Jim leaves his desk to talk to Pam and referred to her as the "office mattress". Somewhat mirroring the relationship between Pam and Toby, throughout the first three seasons Angela is shown to have a crush on Pam's fiancée Roy Anderson, with Roy occasionally showing interest in Angela as well, specifically when asked at one time who in the office he would have sex with besides Pam. During the fifth season, she developed a one-sided crush on Corporate higher-up Charles Miner. She frequently tried and failed to engage in a relationship with him, often butting heads with Kelly for his affection. It's subtly implied in an online webisode series, Blackmail, that she has or had a clandestine sexual relationship with her church pastor when Creed hands out envelopes containing incriminating information on several of his peers and Meredith opens her envelope and asks "Who's Pastor Davis?" prompting Creed to switch the envelopes between Angela and Meredith. After reading the note, Angela appears to be heavily embarrassed.

text: Character history[edit]

text: Seasons 1–2[edit]

text: Angela is established as a strict and stubborn office worker, and she is something of a perfectionist. She appears to be a prime example of an authoritarian personality. She is also in charge of the Party Planning Committee and is often at odds with Phyllis Lapin. When it is noted that red streamers are bad during Meredith Palmer's party, she blames it on Phyllis, though it seems to be her fault. There are many deleted scenes in which Angela is interviewed, as well as other members of accounting, suggesting that the series was originally intended to take a two-perspective look at the office: one from accounting's point of view, and one from sales.[2]

text: Angela refuses to accept the "Tight Ass" award at the 8th Annual Dundie Awards. When she sees Kelly give Dwight (her secret love interest) a small kiss in the episode "Christmas Party", she gets angry and throws Christmas ornaments outside the building. Though she is a constant source of complaints to Human Resources (she and Oscar Martinez fight over her poster of babies playing instruments, which she got from Toby Flenderson for Christmas), she redacts those lodged against Dwight at the onset of their secret romance. It is hinted during "Drug Testing" that she does not take birth control, in accordance to her Christian beliefs. This revelation is to the relief of Dwight implying that they are having sex. She has a bobblehead doll made in Dwight's likeness as a Valentine's Day gift, and receives a key to his house in return. Angela hints that she has a crush on Pam's fiancé Roy (Webisodes: The Accountants, "Someone in the Warehouse") and admits that she would choose Roy over Jim if pressed on the matter ("The Secret").[3]

text: Seasons 3–4[edit]

text: Angela is disgusted at the revelation that Oscar is gay ("Gay Witch Hunt"), and does not bother to hide it. Her attitude toward him becomes much more sympathetic after he returns to work following an extended absence ("The Return"), and the two appear to have reconciled. She believes Oscar has the capability to cross over to dating women if he so chooses. Evidently, Angela continues to nurture a crush on Roy, complimenting him on his physique and greeting him, in the third-season episode "Branch Closing". In the same episode, she spontaneously hugs Kevin upon discovering their branch will not be closed, the second moment to date, along with Kevin's cancer scare in the season two episode "Michael's Birthday", in which she has shown anything but contempt for him.

text: In "The Convention", she secretly follows Dwight to the office supply convention in Philadelphia under the name "Jane Doe" and gets a room which Jim accidentally enters, though it does not appear he saw that it was her (exclaiming "Dwight got a hooker!"). Angela would seem to call Dwight "D" outside the office, as she (mistakenly) does when Jim enters Dwight's hotel room. She also persuades Dwight to supplant Michael as Regional Manager (à la Lady Macbeth), but it does not succeed. She has a good first impression of Andy Bernard when he shows up on his first day with a cat screensaver. When Angela rudely shoots down an idea proposed by Karen Filippelli, the PPC defiantly splits into two groups and two parties. Angela holds the less popular one, to which only Kevin, Phyllis, and Hannah come, while [Pam] and Karen lead the more popular one. Eventually the two parties merge back into one and Angela returns a "missing" power cord for the karaoke machine. In "Traveling Salesmen", it is suggested that Angela's middle name is Noelle when she becomes giddy over her blossoming relationship with Dwight (Kurt) Schrute and attempts to bond with Pam, a venture that is cut short when the latter declines Angela's offer of the "dominant male" in a recent litter of cats had by her favorite pet, Sprinkles.

text: In "The Return", she is briefly moved to tears while inviting Oscar to join the PPC as an apology for her apparent disapproval of his homosexuality and is visibly saddened by the insensitivity of Michael's proposal to celebrate Oscar's "Mexicanity" by featuring Mexican lemonade (Lemoñadé, with diacriticals added by Ryan, presumably upon Michael's request)and bite-sized frozen-dinner Chimichangas, though in both instances she may be displacing her grief over Dwight's temporary resignation from the company.

text: In deleted scenes from Phyllis' Wedding, Phyllis seats Angela next to Dennis, a religious vet who shares her passion for cats. The two get along well, but when Dennis asks Angela for her telephone number, Angela tells him she's already having intimate relations with someone (Dwight). Dennis, visibly both upset and disgusted, apologizes to her before leaving, saying "Phyllis neglected to mention your promiscuity."

text: It is illustrated that Angela has a love of learning, as seen in "Ben Franklin" where she is the only female intently listening to the Ben Franklin impersonator, "Diwali" where she takes a cautious interest in learning more about Hindu religion and culture (although she also makes ignorant comments about the religion and Indian food, specifically whining that the naan at the Diwali party is dry), and "The Job" in which she enthusiastically participates in Dwight's lecture on soil.

text: Her refusal to allow Dwight to publicize their relationship prevented him from exonerating himself against suspicion of disloyalty and forced his resignation. Dwight returns to Dunder Mifflin after she clears his name while preserving the secrecy of their relationship (she tells Michael that Dwight bailed her out, but does not correct Michael's clueless assertion that Dwight helped her "as a random co-worker").

text: The relationship between Angela and Dwight is almost of Macbeth proportions as when Dwight was fooled by Michael into believing he was going to be the new regional manager at the branch (which Angela pushed by Dwight going behind Michael's back), Dwight leaves her in charge of the women. In "The Job", when Dwight is temporarily given Michael's job as acting regional manager, Dwight immediately informs her and she seems to rekindle the idea of mastering the puppet strings over Dwight, as well as speculating happily that co-worker Kelly Kapoor will be fired.[4]

text: In the episode "Fun Run", Dwight and Angela's relationship hits a snag when Dwight euthanizes Sprinkles, Angela's old and sickly pet cat. Dwight thought Sprinkles had died after he'd expertly administered it with a lethal dose of Benadryl, and so put the cat in the freezer to cover the smell; however, Angela was horrified to find that Sprinkles had only died when frozen. Angela is especially bothered by this because, "cat heaven is a beautiful place, but you don't get there if you're euthanized". In the next episode, "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", Angela breaks up with Dwight because "every time {she looks} into his eyes, {she sees} Sprinkles's cold, lifeless body". In "Launch Party", Angela prepares a party for the launch of the company website. On the day of the launch, Dwight attempts to woo her back by competing (and winning) against the website to sell more reams of paper than the other, but Angela refuses to consider it. Michael, in a bid for vengeance against a perceived slight by Ryan, orders Angela, with one hour left before the party begins, to implement his over-the-top ideas for decorations and catering. She is unable to do so partly due to not having enough time and partly due to Phyllis taking a stand against her harsher than usual criticism and refusing to help. In the meantime Andy tries to win Angela's affection; although initially unsuccessful (to Dwight's relief), a last-minute performance of "Take a Chance on Me" produces a partly suppressed smile from her. In the episode "Money", Angela decides to go out with Andy after he gives her a cat as a present (actually a stray that Dwight had tried unsuccessfully to give her as a reconciliation gift), giving him instructions on taking her to dinner that included "no seafood places". In the following episodes, they have apparently been seeing each other, but it is implied that Angela still harbors feelings for Dwight, as Andy reports in "Local Ad" that she cried out "Oh, D!" when he kissed her, and Dwight recognizes this as her nickname for him (though Andy thinks it means "Dee" as in "An-Dee").

text: In "Job Fair", Angela and Dwight were the only two left in the office after the remaining members of the team took off early as a result of Michael not being in the office. For the rest of the day, the two share an awkward atmosphere which eventually thaws towards the end of the day.

text: In "Goodbye, Toby", at Toby's outdoor leaving party, Angela reluctantly accepts Andy's proposal of marriage, after he asks her in front of everyone, including his own parents. At the very end of the episode, however, Phyllis is taking some of the party supplies back to the office and walks in on Angela mid-intercourse with Dwight. The episode ended on Angela and Dwight's reaction to Phyllis' walking in.[5]

text: Seasons 5–6[edit]

text: In "Weight Loss", Andy continually pesters Angela with ideas for their wedding. Most of his proposals are outlandish and expensive, and Angela continues to treat him and his ideas with contempt. She pages Dwight, and they meet in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse to have sex. This seems to be a habit, but later in the episode Andy tells Angela he doesn't care where they marry so long as they're together. This moves Angela enough not to cheat on him with Dwight who is left waiting alone on this one occasion but it doesn't last, as Andy continues to irritate Angela about his college friends coming to stay with them for three weeks to perform at the wedding. Angela tells Andy they'll talk about it later and rushes to page and subsequently hook up with Dwight downstairs.

text: Meanwhile, Phyllis has dethroned Angela as head of the Party Planning Committee and does not hesitate to give Angela harsh orders. Angela puts up with Phyllis' sternness because she doesn't want Phyllis to tell Andy she is cheating on him.

text: In "Crime Aid", Dwight, with advice from Phyllis, gives Angela an ultimatum — him or Andy. Angela looks to Andy, signifying that she chooses him, although Dwight says to Phyllis that "she ignored the ultimatum." Dwight then treats Phyllis coldly but forgives her after he realizes she was just trying to help.

text: In "Customer Survey", Angela finally agrees to Andy's renting a tent—as long as it's set on a site which matches Schrute Farm Bed & Breakfast. Andy books the farm and Dwight gleefully agrees to plan every detail of the wedding, pointedly offering to be available to Angela day or night. Angela understands the double meaning and shows signs of being very turned on by it.

text: In "Business Trip", it is revealed she and Andy have never been intimate. When Andy drunk dials her demanding sex, she is disgusted, even though, in the background, viewers can hear Dwight in her bed. She later demotes Andy back to "first base", which for her is a kiss on the forehead.

text: In "The Surplus", Dwight escorts Angela and Andy to Schrute Farms to plan details of the wedding. In a supposed mock ceremony, Dwight stands in for Andy as a Mennonite, German-speaking minister completes the vows. Angela begins to admit she has made a mistake and seems to reconcile with Dwight, however he announces they have actually married. She is angered at his deception and storms off. At the office, she passionately kisses Andy in front of the staff and leaves to "take care of a legal matter", implying she will have the marriage annulled.

text: In "Moroccan Christmas", Phyllis continues her torment of Angela, going as far to force Angela to discard her personal nativity scene and the Christmas tree as they don't fit in with the theme. When she learns that she's eating food served during Ramadan, she immediately spits it out. When Angela finally revolts because she believes Phyllis will never reveal her secret, Phyllis stuns the entire staff by revealing the Dwight-Angela affair. Angela is visibly humiliated and upset (while Dwight is actually amused), and asks Andy (who was out of the room at the announcement) to take her home.

text: However, the truth is eventually revealed in "The Duel", when Michael decides to take the matter into his own hands, much to the objection of the staff by telling Andy the news. Devastated, Andy confronts Angela who tries to squirm her way out of the confrontation before admitting to the affair. This only sparks a duel between Andy and Dwight which seems to arouse Angela because of two men fighting over her. But that is short-lived when Andy tells Dwight that he slept with her twice in comparison to how many times Dwight has slept with her. Initially, Angela said that she only slept with Dwight. The two men break up with Angela with Andy making preparations to cancel the wedding and Dwight throwing out the bobblehead doll purchased for him as a gift by Angela. This all happens before her eyes, and a dejected expression appears on her face.

text: In "Stress Relief", Dwight traps all of the employees in the office, while leading them to believe that it is on fire. Everyone panics and attempts to break out. Angela goes to get her cat, Bandit, who she is revealed to keep in a drawer by her desk. She sees Oscar climbing into the ceiling, and attempts to get him to save her cat by taking it with him, but he is ignoring her. She then attempts to throw Bandit up into the ceiling to Oscar, but this results in the cat going up into one part of the ceiling, and coming down hard out of another part. She later takes part in the roast and during an interview expresses amusement over it, before she realizes she is sounding human and puts her stern facial expression back in place.

text: In "Blood Drive", Angela reveals that she once had two men duel over her, and everyone thinks she means Andy and Dwight, but she corrects them: two men named John (John Mark and John David) once fought for her affections in Ohio (which both Dwight and Andy are bewildered by). She also goes out of her way to tell Oscar she doesn't approve of his homosexuality, even though she also seems generally sympathetic to his tale of romantic failure.

text: In "New Boss", she, along with Kelly, develops a crush on Charles Miner, the new Vice President. It leads to the women battling for his affections, with Angela insulting Kelly in an interview by saying Charles is an attractive and cultured man and "He does not need to go Dumpster-diving for companionship!".

text: In "Company Picnic", Dwight's friend, Rolf, constantly insults Angela on her relationship with Dwight, telling her that he does not hear "Cheaters, Tramps, or Women who break his friends heart," after she wants to play in the volleyball game. However, by the end, Dwight defends Angela, indicating that their relationship may be thawing as the season ends.[6]

text: In "Niagara", Angela implies she has no living grandmothers when hearing Pam talk about hers. At the wedding, she refuses to dance down the aisle like everyone else, and simply just walks down.[7]

text: In "Murder", Angela takes part in Michael's murder mystery game but is uncomfortable at being assigned the role of a voodoo priestess.

text: In "The Delivery", Angela and Dwight make a contract to have a baby, a prospect which brings visible joy to Angela. She makes several attempts to strike up conversations with Dwight while negotiating the contract, indicating that Angela sees the contract as her opportunity to reconcile with Dwight, but she either doesn't notice or ignores Dwight's clear unease after he signs the contract. However, in "Happy Hour", Dwight makes clear both his interest in Pam's friend Isabel Poreba and his decision to nix his deal with Angela. Angela is angry and appears with a court summons ordering Dwight to honor the contract, but he is unmoved and ends up making out with Isabel, while Angela yells she will see him in small claims court.

text: In "Secretary's Day", Angela is upset when Erin learns that Andy was engaged to her, not because she's jealous of Andy and Erin's relationship, but due to her disgust over everyone knowing she had sexual relations with Andy (which at least does confirm Andy's statement in "The Duel" that she and he slept together a few times); Erin doesn't want to hear it or talk to Angela any further. However, it appears as if Angela's relationship with Andy has at least become friendly at this point, as he specifically thanks her for her help with Erin's party, to which she responds with a broad smile.

text: In "The Chump", Dwight and Angela call upon a mediator to settle their contract. The mediator determines that the otherwise 'solid' contract is ultimately unenforceable, since you can't force two people to have sex and make a baby. Instead, Angela could sue Dwight for damages up to thirty thousand dollars for breach of contract. Knowing that Dwight would never want to pay her damages, she offers him a 'settlement'; five separate sessions of intercourse instead. He accepts, gloating that "thirty thousand for sex isn't bad at all". Later, Dwight is seen carrying out various methods to try to sterilize himself before the first 'session'. The episode ends with the two returning to the secret location in the warehouse to have sex. The pair don't notice, however, that Jim and Pam are nearby attempting to take a nap and they can hear everything that is happening.

text: Season 7–8[edit]

text: In "Andy's Play", she has Dwight take her to the Sweeney Todd community production that Andy is a part of. During the play, she attempts to seduce Dwight by changing into tight gardening clothing (she intentionally sticks gum on her dress so as to have an excuse to change). Dwight slowly appears to be falling for her again, and near the end of the episode, attempts to seduce her in return. Before they go too far, she cuts off the sex and drives away in her car (while she's driving, we see a visibly pleased expression on her face).

text: In "Viewing Party", she and Dwight agree to have sex during the night as part of their contract. However, Pam and Jim prevent him from going to Angela due to the fact that their baby seems to be attracted to Dwight, so she's left waiting in the back seat of her car, visibly topless when Pam comes out to see her.

text: In "WUPHF.com", Dwight's hay festival distracts him from fulfilling a request for sex from Angela (per their contract). Angela's at her most irritated when she meets a charming, friendly single father named Robert Lipton whom she actually finds herself smiling at and enjoying the company. When Angela learns the man is a widower, she makes it clear he's welcome to call her. When Dwight is done with the festival, he arrives at his and Angela's warehouse rendezvous point only to see that Angela has stamped their procreation contract VOID.

text: In "Classy Christmas", it's revealed that Robert is actually a state senator (although Angela only refers to him as the 'Senator', making it seem that he is a U.S. Senator like Bob Casey or Pat Toomey). She brings him to the office Christmas party, where she announces that they're officially dating. However, Oscar picks up hints about his attraction to other men (such as glancing at Ryan's backside). Throughout the next few episodes, Angela continues her gloating about Robert's job (at one point trying to impress Deangelo Vickers with the information). The rest of the office staff make fun of this, particularly Michael during his last Dundies ceremony.

text: There are further hints of her boyfriend's homosexuality (or bisexuality). In "Goodbye, Michael", she shows off pictures of her and Robert together with his male 'aide'. The pictures seem to heavily imply that he's gay (with the aide supposedly being his secret lover) but Angela remains oblivious.

text: In "Search Committee", she receives a call from his secretary and is told to meet him at a particular restaurant for lunch. She comes back, having ridden in his limo, and shows the staff a ring on her finger. She tells him how he took her to a replica of a bridge, got down on one knee, and proposed. Immediately after this, she criticizes Jim's informal proposal to Pam and their "ironic wedding". Oscar, who strongly believes that Robert is gay, shares his feelings with Pam and the rest of the office; Ryan Howard states that Robert is definitely gay because he liked a Facebook picture at 3 o'clock in the morning. The office eventually decides not to share their suspicions with Angela out of respect for her feelings, although Angela's constant obnoxious and upbeat attitude about her forthcoming nuptials annoys Pam to the point where she nearly tells Angela the truth about Robert before stopping herself short.

text: Midway through season eight, in "Jury Duty", Angela gives birth to her son Philip (much to Pam's chagrin who wanted that name for her son). Angela claims that he was born prematurely, but when her co-workers visit her at the hospital and see how large the baby is, she is forced to admit that the baby was conceived before her wedding. This leads Dwight to suspect that the baby may be his, but later in "New Guys", it is revealed that Dwight is not the father.

text: Season 9[edit]

text: In "The Whale", Angela suspects that Robert is cheating on her and after confiding this to Oscar, they follow Robert to his gym. When they see Robert acting intimately with a male trainer, Oscar's odd reaction leads Angela to finally suspect that Oscar may be the one having an affair with Robert. In "The Target", Angela seeks revenge on Oscar and hires a hitman to attack him but is later talked out of it by Dwight. Oscar allows her to kick him in the shin instead. Angela and Oscar's battles for the affections of Robert continue uncomfortably when Oscar attends Angela's son's birthday party in "Vandalism".

text: In "Moving On (The Office)", Angela and Dwight become close after she helps him take care of his elderly aunt. They share a kiss but afterwards both say that she should remain faithful to her husband.

text: Angela becomes jealous when Dwight begins courting his neighbor Esther. ("Promos")

text: After the Senator's public coming-out in "Stairmageddon", she explains to the camera crew in "Paper Airplane" that she and the Senator are separated and that she now lives with her son Philip and her cats in her studio apartment. In "Livin' the Dream", it is implied that her cats have been taken away from her by Animal Control, and that she is considering living in a tent in the woods. Instead, she accepts an offer from Oscar Martinez to be his roommate until she is able to find a permanent home. She then breaks down in Oscar's car, revealing to Oscar that she still loves Dwight. She and Oscar become close friends as he supports her in her return to normalcy, and it's revealed that Oscar is Philip's godfather.

text: In the series finale, Angela and Dwight marry and it is revealed that Dwight is in fact the father of her son.

text: Recurring jokes[edit]

text: Throughout the show, Angela has always seemed reluctant to apologize and or accept blame for anything. In the episode The Alliance, Michael scolds the Party Planning Committee for doing a bad job with the streamers. Angela responds, "Phyllis wanted red. I didn't." In reality, Angela rejected Phyllis' suggestion of orange streamers, because "orange is whorish". In one of the webisodes for The Accountants, Angela insists that she is not the source of the accounting discrepancy. When the error is revealed to be hers in "The Best Day of My Life", she initially denies that she made the error, but when Oscar points out that this implies that she allowed an unknown person to access her books, she is forced to admit, "Very well. Case closed". In A Benihana Christmas, Angela says that she has not spoken to her sister in 16 years over some disagreement she does not even remember. In The Return, Angela is forced to admit that she failed to submit important documents, but she blames Kevin for failing to remind her. In Product Recall, Angela is pressured to apologize to Oscar and Kevin for insulting them but she can only say "I'm sorry...that you're both morons". In that same episode, she finds herself unable to apologize to customers on behalf of Dunder Mifflin and can only say "the official position of Dunder Mifflin is apologetic".

text: Behind the scenes[edit]

text: Actress Angela Kinsey infused her character with some of her own personal preferences, including bobble-head dolls, cats, party-planning and Baby Ruth candy bars. She initially auditioned for the part of Pam Beesly. Kinsey was pregnant during the filming of season 4, noticeably so from the episodes Dinner Party through Goodbye, Toby. The producers decided not to incorporate her pregnancy into the story line and shot around it.


document_title: Facing the Giants

question_text: what is the name of the football team in facing the giants

root

text: Facing the Giants

text: Plot[edit]

text: In 2003, Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick) is the head coach at Shiloh Christian Academy, and has yet to post a winning record in his six-year tenure. After his seventh season begins with a three-game losing streak, the players' fathers start making noises about replacing him with defensive coordinator Brady Owens. This is not the only problem Grant is facing; his car is breaking down, and he discovers that he is the reason that his wife Brooke cannot become pregnant.

tag: p

text: He creates a new coaching philosophy and decides to praise God, no matter what the result. At the same time he guides and urges each one of his players to give the maximum effort, and motivates them to believe they can win under God's guidance. This influence spreads to the rest of the school. From that point on, the Eagles win all their remaining regular season games after losing the first three and make the state playoffs. As a result, Grant is given a raise in salary rather than being fired and is also provided with a brand-new truck from grateful boosters. The Eagles lose their playoff opener, but are declared the winner after the opponent used ineligible players. The Eagles then advance all the way to the state championship game against the three-time defending champion Richland Giants. Even though the Eagles have only a third as many players as the Giants, the Eagles hold their own and ultimately win the game on a 51-yard field goal from a backup kicker who had never kicked more than a 35-yarder before. Grant's prayers for children are also answered as he and Brooke have children after two years.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Alex Kendrick as Grant Taylor
Shannen Fields as Brooke Taylor
Bill Butler as Neil Prater
Bailey Cave as David Childers
Steve Williams as Larry Childers
Tracy Goode as Brady Owens
Jim McBride as Bobby Lee Duke
Tommy McBride as Jonathan Weston
Jason McLeod as Brock Kelley
Chris Willis as J.T. Hawkins Jr.
Ray Wood as Mr. Bridges
Erin Bethea as Alicia Houston
David Nixon as Mr. Jones
Mark Richt as Himself & former coach of Grant Taylor

tag: ul

text: Most of the cast and crew were members of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. For example, the role of Bobby Lee Duke, the opposing coach in the state final, was played by Sherwood Baptist associate pastor Jim McBride.

text: Production[edit]

text: The movie was shot on high definition digital video tape (using the Panasonic Varicam) and transferred to film.[2] Using real high school football teams, the football action sequences were shot by the film's director of photography, Bob Scott, who is a veteran cinematographer for NFL Films. Another NFL Films technician, Rob Whitehurst, recorded the movie's sound. Filming started on April 27, 2004.

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Facing the Giants: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Film score

Released
October 3, 2006

Genre
Christian

tag: table

text: Official listing[edit]

text:
Come Together - Third Day
Voice of Truth - Casting Crowns
Facing the Giants Theme (Score) - Mark Willard, Alex Kendrick
Finding You - Bebo Norman
The Deathcrawl (Score) - Mark Willard
Completely - Ana Laura
A Gift from God (Score) - Mark Willard
Come on Back to Me - Third Day
Never Give Up on Me - Josh Bates
The Fight (Score) - Mark Willard
With You - Mark Willard, Mark Harris
Attempting the Impossible (Score) - Mark Willard, Alex Kendrick

tag: ol

text: Reception[edit]

text: Reception[edit]

text: This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (April 2015)

text: The film received mostly negative reviews from mainstream critics.[3] It holds an average ranking 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews. Site consensus reads: "The tropes of both football and evangelical movies are gracelessly on parade in this banal, insipid drama."[4] The film also received criticism from some Christians for portraying a prosperity gospel version of Christianity, where one simply gets whatever they want the minute they follow Jesus.

text: Box office[edit]

text: In its first weekend, the film opened on 441 screens nationwide in the United States.[5] Despite such a small number of theaters, the film opened in twelfth place with $1,343,537. Only three films in the top ten released that weekend grossed more per theater. For such a small budget of $100,000, the film ultimately was shown in over 1,000 theaters and grossed a total of $10,178,331.[5] The film opened in South Korea on April 16, 2010, eventually grossing $64,828. The worldwide total (as of June 20, 2010) for the movie stands at $10,243,159. DVD sales have also been strong, with 2.3 million units sold in 57 countries.

text: Rating controversy[edit]

text: In May 2006, the producers of Facing the Giants received notice from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) that the film would be receiving a "Parental Guidance Suggested" rating, or PG rating.[6] The Drudge Report picked up the story on June 8, 2006, which sparked a controversy alleging that the film was being given a "PG" rating solely because of its religious theme. The New York Times, Good Morning America, Fox News, and many talk radio programs covered this story.[7]

text: According to the film's producers, they were told the motion picture received a PG rating because of its strong religious themes and because it elevated one religion over another.[6] However, MPAA later explained that Facing the Giants contains football violence and also deals with the mature topics of infertility and depression.

text: The Kendrick brothers expected the PG rating because of the movie's mature themes and did not appeal the board's rating.[7]


document_title: List of longest-running United States television series

question_text: what is the longest running weekly episodic television show in history

text: Over 60 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

70 years

69

Meet the Press (NBC News)[1]

NBC

November 6, 1947[2]

present

3,600+ [weekly]

Longest-running show.

70 years

68

CBS Evening News (CBS News)[3]

CBS

May 3, 1948

present

16,400+

Longest-running network newscast.

69 years

67

Music & the Spoken Word[4]

Syndicated

October 1949

present

4,500+

Longest-running non-news television program.

66 years

65

Hallmark Hall of Fame[5]

NBC

December 24, 1951*

December 17, 1978

243+

Not broadcast on a regular schedule, with only a limited number of productions per year.

CBS

November 14, 1979

April 30, 1980

PBS

February 9, 1981

May 6, 1981

CBS

December 1, 1981

January 29, 1989

ABC

April 30, 1989

April 23, 1995

CBS

December 10, 1995

April 24, 2011

ABC

November 27, 2011

April 20, 2014

Hallmark Channel

November 30, 2014[6]

present

66 years

66

Today (NBC News)

NBC

January 14, 1952

present

15,785+

Longest-running morning show.

65 years

63

ABC World News Tonight  (ABC News)[7]

ABC

September 1953

present

15,722+

64 years

62

The Tonight Show[8]

NBC

September 27, 1954

present

12,237

World's longest-running talk show

63 years

62

Face the Nation (CBS News)

CBS

November 7, 1954

present

62 years

61[9]

It Is Written

Syndicated

March 1, 1956[9]

present

Longest-running religious television program to broadcast in color.

62 years

60

The Open Mind

Syndicated

May 1956[10]

present

Longest-running public television program.

text: 50–59 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

58 years

58

NFL on CBS

CBS

September 30, 1956

January 23, 1994

5,000+

September 6, 1998

present

57 years

57

Guiding Light (CBS Daytime)[11]

CBS

June 30, 1952*

September 18, 2009

15,762

Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) of any genre. Longest-running daytime drama. *While its television debut was on June 30, 1952, The Guiding Light's first incarnation was as a radio show, which premiered on January 25, 1937 – giving the production a total of 72 total years.

57 years

55

It's Academic

NBC, CBS

October 7, 1961

present

56 years

55

Professional Bowlers Tour[12]

ABC[13]

January 27, 1962

June 21, 1997

ESPN airs some of the tours on ABC.

CBS

1998[14]

1999

Fox Sports Net

1999

2000

ESPN

2000

present

54 years

54

As the World Turns (CBS Daytime)

CBS

April 2, 1956

September 17, 2010

13,858

55 years

53

General Hospital (ABC Daytime)

ABC

April 1, 1963

present

14,000+

As of July 12, 2016.[15] Longest-running dramatic series (soap opera) still in production.

54 years

53

The Wonderful World of Disney[16]

ABC

October 27, 1954

June 11, 1961

1,224

Anthology television series featuring wide variety of topics ranging from Disney animation to live-action and documentaries. Walt Disney was the original host from show's inception until his death in 1966. From 1991 to 1997 and since 2008, the series only airs sporadically as a special presentation a few times a year.

NBC

September 24, 1961

August 16, 1981

CBS

September 26, 1981

May 3, 1983

ABC

February 2, 1986

May 22, 1988

NBC

October 9, 1988

August 26, 1990

Disney Channel

September 23, 1990

August 25, 1996

ABC

September 28, 1997

December 24, 2008

53 years

53

Sábado Gigante

Univision

August 8, 1962

September 19, 2015

2,800+

Longest-running imported TV show

52 years

51

Days of Our Lives (NBC Daytime)

NBC

November 8, 1965

present

13,285+

As of April 5, 2016[17]

51 years

50

Washington Week[18]

NET, PBS

February 23, 1967

present

2,000+

Longest continuous running Public Television show on PBS, having started on its predecessor NET and carrying over to PBS, along with Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Sesame Street and others in 1970.

51 years

48

NFL Films Presents

Syndicated

September 17, 1967[19][20]

January 26, 1997

ESPN

August 31, 1997

present

NFL Network

November 4, 2003

present

50 years

48

Day of Discovery

Syndicated

May 5, 1968

present

text: 40–49 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

50 years

48

60 Minutes (CBS News)

CBS

September 24, 1968

present

48 years

27

Scooby-Doo

CBS

September 13, 1969

October 27, 1973

376

Longest-running Hanna-Barbera television franchise

ABC

September 11, 1976

August 17, 1991

The WB

September 14, 2002

April 16, 2005

The CW

September 23, 2006

March 15, 2008

Cartoon Network

April 5, 2010

March 12, 2016

Boomerang

June 20, 2017

present

46 years

46

Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

Syndicated/ABC

September 4, 1966[21]

August 31, 2014

46

Annual broadcast; was broadcast as a two-hour special on ABC in 2013 and 2014.

48 years

48

Sesame Street

NET

November 10, 1969

October 4, 1970

4,491

Longest-running children's show.[22] While Sesame Street remains on the PBS schedule, new episodes now premiere on HBO and become available to PBS nine months later.

PBS

October 5, 1970

present

HBO

January 16, 2016

present

48 years

47

Hour of Power

Syndicated

February 1970

present

2,000+

48 years

46

Monday Night Football

ABC

September 21, 1970

December 26, 2005

641+

ESPN

September 11, 2006

present

48 years

46

NBC Nightly News (NBC News)

NBC

August 3, 1970

present

NBC has had an evening broadcast since 1948, starting with Camel News Caravan, lasting until 1956, when it was replaced by Nightly News' predecessor the Huntley-Brinkley Report.

47 years

46

Masterpiece Theatre

PBS

January 10, 1971

present

46 years

46

The Price Is Right (CBS Daytime)[23]

CBS

September 4, 1972

present

8,000+

Longest-running game show.

45 years

45

Wide World of Sports (ABC Sports)

ABC

April 29, 1961

August 2006[24]

45 years

36

NASCAR on ABC

ABC

February 26, 1961

August 5, 2000

March 10, 2007

October 11, 2014

45 years

45

Agronsky & Co./Inside Washington

Syndicated

1969

December 20, 2013

45 years

46

One Life to Live (ABC Daytime)

ABC

July 15, 1968

January 13, 2012

11,096

While the show had ceased airing as a television series it was still in production for a brief time after. On April 29, 2013 the show had resumed airing now as a web series on the internet and could be seen through Hulu, iTunes and YouTube until August 19, 2013 before being confirmed as being discontinued again on September 3, 2013.

45 years

44

Great Performances

PBS

November 4, 1972

present

45 years

45

The Young and the Restless (CBS Daytime)

CBS

March 26, 1973

present

11,000+

41 years

41

Romper Room/Romper Room & Friends[25]

Syndicated

February 9, 1953[26]

September 1994

41 years

42

All My Children (ABC Daytime)

ABC

January 5, 1970

September 23, 2011

10,712

While the show had ceased airing as a television series it was still in production for a brief time after. On April 29, 2013 the show had resumed airing now as a web series on the internet and could be seen through Hulu, iTunes and YouTube until September 2, 2013 before being confirmed as being discontinued again on November 11, 2013.

44 years

43

Nova

PBS

March 3, 1974

present

698

43 years

41

The Victory Garden[27]

PBS

April 16, 1975

present

43 years

43

Saturday Night Live[28]

NBC

October 11, 1975

present

850

The longest-running sketch comedy show on American television, as well as the longest-running variety show in U.S. history.

43 years

41

PBS NewsHour[29]

PBS

October 20, 1975

present

42 years

41

Good Morning America

ABC

November 3, 1975

present

9,914+

42 years

41

Austin City Limits

PBS

1976

present

42 years

41

Creative Living with Sheryl Borden

Syndicated

1976

present

42 years

41

Live from Lincoln Center

PBS

January 30, 1976

present[30]

40 years

40

NASCAR on CBS

CBS

February 12, 1960

July 15, 2000

40 years

40

The Bugs Bunny Show-Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour-Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show-Bugs and Tweety Show

ABC (1960-1968, 1986-2000), CBS (1968-1985)

October 11, 1960

September 2nd, 2000

1040 episodes, including at least 5,000 Total shorts being aired, although many were re rans.

Longest running cartoon program on broadcast television, the last non-Disney ABC Kids show, and the last non-Educational and Informal (E/I) Saturday morning cartoon on broadcast TV.

text: 35–39 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

37 years

38

The 700 Club[31]

Syndicated[32]

1966

present

ABC Family

1977

present

37 years

38

Inside the NFL

HBO

1977

February 6, 2008

Showtime

September 10, 2008[33]

present

40 years

38

20/20

ABC

June 6, 1978

present

39 years

38

Nightly Business Report[34]

PBS

January 22, 1979

present

39 years

38

CBS News Sunday Morning

CBS

January 28, 1979

present

37 years

38

This Old House

PBS

1979

present

900+

37 years

38

The Woodwright's Shop[35]

PBS

1979

present

429+

39 years

37

SportsCenter

ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews

September 7, 1979

present

90,000+

More episodes than any other television series.

38 years

36

Nightline[36]

ABC

March 24, 1980

present

38 years

36

Washington Journal[37]

C-SPAN

October 7, 1980

present

35 years

35

Search for Tomorrow (CBS and NBC Daytime)

CBS

September 3, 1951

March 23, 1982

9,130

NBC

March 26, 1982

December 26, 1986

35 years

35

Another World (NBC Daytime)

NBC

May 4, 1964

June 25, 1999

8,891

Longest-running continuous title sequences on television

35 years

35

Bobby Jones Gospel

BET

January 27, 1980

July 31, 2016

35 years

35

Soul Train

Syndicated

October 2, 1971

March 25, 2006[38]

1,117

35 years

35

Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser[39]

PBS

November 20, 1970

June 24, 2005

37 years

35

Noticiero Univision[40]

Univision

June 1, 1981

present

37 years

35

Entertainment Tonight

Syndicated

September 14, 1981

present

11,267+

Longest-running entertainment news program.

35 years

36

MotorWeek[41]

PBS

October 15, 1981

present

36 years

35

This Week[42]

ABC

November 15, 1981

present

36 years

34

Late Night[43]

NBC

February 1, 1982

June 21, 1993

1,819

... with David Letterman

September 13, 1993

February 20, 2009

2,725

... with Conan O'Brien

March 2, 2009

February 7, 2014

977

... with Jimmy Fallon

February 24, 2014

present

749[44]

... with Seth Meyers

36 years

34

Nature

PBS

October 10, 1982

present

440+

35 years

34

Frontline

PBS

January 17, 1983

present

520+

35 years

10

Columbo

NBC

February 20, 1968

May 13, 1978

69

11 year break between the change in broadcasting stations.

ABC

February 6, 1989

January 30, 2003

text: 30–34 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

34 years

34

Evening at Pops

PBS

July 12, 1970

August 29, 2004

34 years

35

The McLaughlin Group

Syndicated

January 1, 1982

August 12, 2016

33 years

33

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

NET

February 19, 1968

May 1, 1970

912

PBS

February 15, 1971

August 31, 2001

33 years

33

Firing Line

Syndicated

April 4, 1966[45]

1971

1,504

Longest-running public affairs program to have a single host.

PBS

1971

December 26, 1999

35 years

35

Wheel of Fortune (prime time)

Syndicated

September 19, 1983

present

6,000+

2nd longest-running game show; daytime version aired from 1975 to 1991

34 years

34

Jeopardy! (revival)[46]

Syndicated

September 10, 1984

present

6,600+

3rd longest-running game show; daytime version aired from 1964 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1979

34 years

32

Real Videos

TBN, JCTV

October 4, 1984[47]

present

900+

31 years

31

Faith for Today[48]

ABC

May 21, 1950

1955

Syndicated

1955

1981

31 years

31

Lamp Unto My Feet[49]

CBS

1948

1979

30 years

31

Gilad's Bodies in Motion

ESPN

1983

1994

Fox Sports Net

1994

1995

Discovery Health

1995

2004

FitTV

2004

2011

Discovery Fit & Health

2011

2015
2015 – present

33 years

31

Grand Ole Opry Live[50]

TNN

April 20, 1985

August 2001

CMT

August 2001

2003

GAC[51]

2003

present

30 years

30

NASCAR on ESPN

ESPN, ESPN2, ABC

1981

2002

2007

2014

31 years

29

Biography[52]

A&E

April 6, 1987[53]

August 2006

Biography Channel

August 2006

present[54]

31 years

31

The Bold and the Beautiful[55]

CBS

March 23, 1987

present

7000+

text: 25–29 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

29 years

29

Captain Kangaroo[56]

CBS

October 3, 1955

December 8, 1984

29 years

29

Lou Dobbs Tonight[57]

CNN

June 1, 1980

November 11, 2009

29 years

29

Hometime

PBS

November 1, 1986

January 30, 2016

29 years

29

WCW Saturday Night[58]

WTBS/TBS

December 25, 1971

August 19, 2000

29 years

15

CBS This Morning

CBS

November 30, 1987

October 29, 1999

3,110

January 9, 2012

present

620+

28 years

29

National Geographic Explorer[59]

Nickelodeon

1985

1986

WTBS/TBS

1986

1999

CNBC

1999

2001

MSNBC[60]

2001

2005

National Geographic

2005

present

30 years

29

48 Hours[61]

CBS

January 2, 1988

present

28 years

29

The Edge of Night

CBS

April 2, 1956

November 28, 1975

7,420

ABC

December 1, 1975

December 28, 1984

28 years

29

Love of Life

CBS

September 24, 1951

February 1, 1980

7,316

30 years

28

Live with Kelly and Ryan[62]

Syndicated

September 5, 1988[63]

present

7,700+

28 years

24

Hee Haw[64]

CBS

June 15, 1969

February 23, 1971

655

Syndication

September 18, 1971

June 26, 1993

TNN

November 23, 1996

December 27, 1997

28 years

28

ESPN SpeedWorld

ESPN

1979

2006

28 years

28

Mystery![65]

PBS

February 5, 1980

2008

27 years

27

The Lawrence Welk Show[66]

ABC

July 2, 1955

September 4, 1971

1065

Syndicated

1971

February 1982

29 years

29

The Phil Donahue Show[67]

Syndicated

1969

1996

5,515

26 years

26

The David Susskind Show[68]

Syndicated

1961

1987

26 years

27

College GameDay (football series)

ESPN

September 1987

present

26 years

27

NFL Primetime

ESPN

1987

present

26 years

27

Showtime at the Apollo[69]

Syndicated

1987

present

29 years

27

Inside Edition

Syndicated

January 9, 1989

present

29 years

27

Cops

Fox

March 11, 1989

2013

903+

Spike

2013

present

30 years

27

American Experience

PBS

October 1, 1988

present

230+

30 years

27

The Sports Reporters[70]

ESPN[71]

October 9, 1988

present

30 years

27

NBA on TNT

TNT

October 30, 1988

present

28 years

29

The Simpsons[72]

Fox

December 17, 1989

present

639

Longest-running animated American series, longest running American sitcom, and longest running scripted prime-time series

28 years

28

America's Funniest Home Videos

ABC

November 26, 1989

present

500

28 years

27

ESPN Major League Baseball[73]

ESPN, ESPN2[74]

April 15, 1990

present

25 years

25

What's My Line?[75]

CBS

February 16, 1950

September 3, 1967

2,191

Syndicated

September 1968

September 1975

25 years

25

Sunrise Semester

CBS

September 9, 1957

October 1, 1982

800+

25 years

25

Insight

Syndicated

October 2, 1960

January 21, 1985

25 years

25

Camera Three

CBS

January 22, 1956

1979

PBS

1979

July 1, 1980

25 years

25

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

NBC

January 6, 1963

April 11, 1971

Syndicated

1971

1988

25 years

3

The Jetsons

ABC

September 23, 1962

March 17, 1963

75

Syndicated

September 16, 1985

November 12, 1987

25 years

25

Larry King Live

CNN

June 3, 1985

December 16, 2010

25 years

25

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Syndicated

September 8, 1986

May 25, 2011

4,561

27 years

25

E! News[76]

E!

September 1, 1991

present

27 years

25

The Jerry Springer Show

Syndicated

September 20, 1991

present

5,084+

27 years

25

Investigative Reports

A&E

September 27, 1991

present

26 years

25

Charlie Rose

PBS

September 30, 1991

November 17, 2017

26 years

24

Dateline NBC[77]

NBC

March 31, 1992

present

1,700+

26 years

24

Reliable Sources

CNN

March 7, 1992

present

26 years

31

The Real World

MTV

May 21, 1992

present

532+

Longest-running MTV reality series.

25 years

24

WWE Raw

USA Network

January 11, 1993

September 18, 2000

1,200+

Longest-running professional wrestling program on national television (while WCW Saturday Night ran for longer overall, the first 5 years of the program were only locally broadcast; some locally-televised promotions such as Portland and Houston ran as long as 40 years).

TNN/Spike TV

September 25, 2000

September 26, 2005

USA Network

October 3, 2005

present

25 years

24[78]

Power Rangers[79]

Fox[80]

August 28, 1993

September 7, 2002

860+

Longest-running United States Tokusatsu series.[81]

ABC Family[82]

March 3, 2002

August 31, 2006

Toon Disney[83]

February 14, 2004

February 12, 2009

ABC[84]

September 14, 2002

August 28, 2010

The CW[85]

August 25, 2012

January 12, 2013

Nickelodeon[86]

February 7, 2011

present

Nicktoons[87]

February 11, 2011

present

25 years

23

Monday Night Countdown

ESPN

September 6, 1993

present

25 years

23

NFL Matchup

ESPN, ESPN2[88]

September 5, 1993

present

text: 20–24 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

24 years

24

CBS Morning News[89]

CBS

September 2, 1963

January 9, 1987

24 years

24

Truth or Consequences[90]

CBS[91]

September 7, 1950

May 1951

NBC[92]

1952

1952

NBC

May 18, 1954[93]

September 24, 1965

Syndicated[94]

1966

1974

24 years

24

At the Movies[95]

Syndicated

September 18, 1986

August 14, 2010

PBS

January 2011

December 2011

23 years

24

Crossfire

CNN

1982

June 3, 2005

CNN

September 9, 2013

October 15, 2014

23 years

24

Baseball Tonight

ESPN

March 19, 1990

present

23 years

24

NBA Inside Stuff

NBC

1990

2002

ABC

2002

present

23 years

24

Outside the Lines

ESPN

1990

present

23 years

24

Nick News with Linda Ellerbee

Nickelodeon

April 18, 1992

December 15, 2015

178

24 years

11

The X-Files

Fox

September 10, 1993

May 19, 2002

202

January 24, 2016

present

16

23 years

23

Death Valley Days

Syndicated

March 1, 1952

August 1, 1975

558

23 years

23

The Ed Sullivan Show[96]

CBS

June 20, 1948

June 6, 1971

1,087

23 years

23

The George Michael Sports Machine[97]

NBC

September 2, 1984

September 8, 1991

Syndicated

September 15, 1991

March 25, 2007

23 years

23

America's Most Wanted

Fox

February 7, 1988

April 21, 2012

1,149

Lifetime

December 2, 2011

October 12, 2012

23 years

23

Lilias, Yoga and You[98]

PBS

1976

1999

23 years

23

Reading Rainbow

PBS

June 6, 1983

November 10, 2006

155

22 years

22

The Original Amateur Hour[99]

DuMont

January 18, 1948

October 1949

NBC

October 1949

September 1954

ABC

October 1955

June 1957

NBC

July 1957

October 1958

CBS

May 1959

October 1959

ABC

March 1960

September 26, 1960

CBS

October 2, 1960

September 27, 1970

22 years

22

The Merv Griffin Show

NBC

October 1962

March 1963

Syndicated

1965

1969

CBS

August 18, 1969

February 11, 1972

Syndicated

1972

September 1986

22 years

22

Late Show with David Letterman

CBS

August 30, 1993

May 20, 2015

4,263

22 years

22

NFL on NBC[100]

NBC

1975

1997

24 years

24

NFL on Fox

Fox

August 12, 1994

present

24 years

22

Inside the Actors Studio

Bravo

August 14, 1994

present

21 years

22

Kickin' It with Byron Allen[101]

Syndicated

1994

present

24 years

22

Extra[102]

Syndicated

September 5, 1994

present

7,000+

24 years

22

Fox NFL Sunday

Fox

September 18, 1994

present

21 years

22

Entertainers with Byron Allen[103]

Syndicated

September 1994

present

23 years

22

Modern Marvels

History Channel

January 1, 1995

present

529+

23 years

22

The Late Late Show[104]

CBS

January 9, 1995

present

3,468+

23 years

22

Golf Talk

Golf Channel

January 17, 1995

present

23 years

22

Golf Central

Golf Channel

January 18, 1995

present

21 years

21

Issues and Answers[105]

ABC

1960

1981

21 years

21

Mike Douglas Show

Syndicated

1961

1982

6,000+

21 years

21

Sneak Previews[106]

PBS

1975

1996

21 years

21

This Week in Baseball[107]

Syndicated

1977

1998

21 years

21

Style with Elsa Klensch

CNN

June 1, 1980

January 2001

21 years

21

Cookin' Cheap

PBS

1981

2002

21 years

21

The New Yankee Workshop

PBS

January 1988

June 27, 2009

23 years

21

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

HBO

April 2, 1995

present

23 years

21

Squawk Box

CNBC

August 7, 1995

present

22 years

21

Private Screenings

TCM

January 1, 1996

present

20 years

20

The Red Skelton Show

NBC

September 30, 1951

June 21, 1953

CBS

September 22, 1953

June 23, 1970

NBC

September 14, 1970

August 29, 1971

20 years

20

Gunsmoke[108]

CBS

September 10, 1955

September 1, 1975

635

Tied longest-running prime-time drama.

20 years

20

Law & Order

NBC

September 13, 1990

May 24, 2010

456

Tied longest-running prime-time drama.

20 years

20

The Secret Storm

CBS

February 1, 1954

February 8, 1974

5,195

20 years

20

Evans and Novak[109]

CNN

September 1982

November 9, 2002

20 years

20

My Classic Car

Velocity, MAVTV

1997

present

390+

20 years

20

Faith 20

Syndicated

1977

1997

20 years

20

The Doctors

NBC

April 1, 1963

December 31, 1982

5,280

22 years

20

The Daily Show

Comedy Central

July 22, 1996

present

3,166

22 years

20

Arthur

PBS

October 7, 1996[citation needed]

present

229

Longest-running animated series on PBS, longest-running animated children's series on U.S. television, and second longest-running animated series on U.S. television.[citation needed]

22 years

20

Access Hollywood

Syndicated

September 9, 1996

present

3,265+

22 years

20

Judge Judy

Syndicated

September 16, 1996

present

Longest-running reality courtroom show.

text: 15–19 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

22 years

20

MoneyTV with Donald Baillargeon

Syndicated

October 1, 1996

present

950+

22 years

20

Your World with Neil Cavuto

Fox News Channel

October 6, 1996

present

20 years

20

The O'Reilly Factor[110]

Fox News Channel

October 6, 1996

April 21, 2017

Final three episodes (April 19–21, 2017) were simply titled The Factor, with hosts Dana Perino (April 19–20) and Greg Gutfeld (April 21).

18 years

19

Gardening by the Yard

HGTV

1996

present

18 years

19

E! True Hollywood Story

E!

1996

present

500+

18 years

19

Fox News Sunday

Fox[111]

1996

present

18 years

19

A Wedding Story

TLC

1996

present

18 years

19

Denise Austin's Daily Workout

Lifetime

1997

present

18 years

19

Hardball with Chris Matthews[112]

CNBC

1997

1999

MSNBC

1999

present

18 years

19

WNBA on ESPN

ESPN

1997

present

21 years

19

Antiques Roadshow

PBS

January 9, 1997

present

21 years

19

¡Despierta América!

Univision

April 14, 1997

present

21 years

19

The View

ABC

August 11, 1997

present

4,000+

21 years

21

South Park

Comedy Central

August 13, 1997

present

290

Longest-running Comedy Central series and the third longest-running animated series in American television.

21 years

19

The People's Court (revival)[113]

Syndicated

September 8, 1997

present

1,500+

19 years

19

Lassie

CBS

September 12, 1954

May 1971

571

Syndicated

September 1971

March 24, 1973

19 years

19

The Porter Wagoner Show

Syndicated

1960

1979

19 years

19

The NFL Today (original series)

CBS

1975

January 23, 1994

19 years

19

Computer Chronicles

PBS

1983

June 25, 2002

19 years

19

Friday Night Videos[114]

NBC

July 29, 1983

May 24, 2002

19 years

19

ESPN Sunday Night Football[115]

ESPN

November 8, 1987[116]

January 1, 2006

20 years

18

Fox & Friends

Fox News Channel

February 1, 1998

present

20 years

27

Real World/Road Rules Challenge

MTV

June 1, 1998

present

19 years

12

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

ABC

August 5, 1998

September 4, 2004

173

ABC Family

January 17, 2005

December 15, 2007

46

The CW

July 16, 2013

present

91

19 years

9

Will & Grace

NBC

September 21, 1998

May 18, 2006

194

September 28, 2017

present

16

18 years

18

Art Linkletter's House Party[117]

CBS

September 1, 1952

September 5, 1969

NBC

December 29, 1969

September 25, 1970

18 years

18

NASCAR on TBS

TBS

1983

2000

18 years

18

WWF Superstars

Syndication

1984

1996

924

USA

1996

2000

TNN

2000

2001

19 years

15

Family Guy

Fox

January 31, 1999

November 9, 2003

313

Fox's second longest-running American animated series and the fourth longest-running animated series on American television.

May 1, 2005

present

19 years

11

SpongeBob SquarePants

Nickelodeon

May 1, 1999

present

Longest-running Nickelodeon series, longest-running Nicktoon, the only remaining '90s series on Nickelodeon currently on the air and in production, the first and only Nicktoon to get an eleventh season, the second longest-running animated children's show on U.S. television, and the fifth longest-running animated series on U.S. television.

19 years

17

Divorce Court (revival reality show)

Syndicated/Fox Twentieth Television

September 15, 1999

Present

2,076

19 years

17

Family Feud  (second revival)

Syndicated

September 20, 1999

present

2,390+

Original series ran from 1976 to 1985 (on ABC and in syndication); an earlier revival aired from 1998 to 1995 (on CBS from 1988–1993 and in syndication from 1988–1995).

19 years

19

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NBC

September 20, 1999

present

434

The longest running currently-running scripted non-animated U.S. prime-time television series; longest running television spinoff.

19 years

17

WWE SmackDown

UPN

April 29, 1999

September 15, 2006

1000+

The CW

September 22, 2006

September 26, 2008

MyNetworkTV

October 3, 2008

September 24, 2010

Syfy

October 1, 2010

December 31, 2015

USA

January 7, 2016[118][119]

present

19 years

15

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

ABC

August 16, 1999

June 27, 2002

2,300+

Although Millionaire has multiple versions known around the world, the American version is the longest running.

Syndicated

September 16, 2002

present

18 years

20

Big Brother (U.S.)

CBS

July 5, 2000

present

627

Although Big Brother has multiple versions known around the world, the U.S. version is the second longest running. Also includes one Celebrity Edition.

18 years

36

Survivor (U.S. series)

CBS

May 31, 2000

present

518

Features two seasons per year.

18 years

17

Cheaters

Syndicated/The CW

October 21, 2000

present

290

17 years

17

NBA on CBS

CBS

October 20, 1973

June 14, 1990

17 years

17

Showbiz Today

CNN

October 29, 1984

2001

17 years

17

USA Tuesday Night Fights

USA

March 30, 1982

1998

17 years

17

The Capital Gang

CNN

September 7, 1988

2005

17 years

17

The Montel Williams Show

Syndicated

June 24, 1991

May 16, 2008

3,000+

18 years

9

Rick Steves' Europe

PBS

September 1, 2000

present

115

16 years

16

MTV Unplugged

MTV

November 26, 1989

March 2, 2007[120]

108

16 years

16

Booknotes

C-SPAN

April 2, 1989

December 5, 2004

16 years

16

Wheel of Fortune (daytime)

NBC

January 6, 1975

June 30, 1989

CBS

July 17, 1989

January 11, 1991

NBC

January 14, 1991

September 20, 1991

16 years

16

Fight Back! with David Horowitz

Syndicated

1976

1992

16 years

16

Forensic Files

TruTV

April 21, 1996

June 17, 2011

410+

16 years

14

The Adventures ofOzzie and Harriet[121]

ABC

October 10, 1952

September 3, 1966

435

The longest running U.S. live-action sitcom.

17 years

16

America's Test Kitchen

Syndication

January 4, 2001

present

17 years

16

Fox NASCAR

Fox

February 18, 2001

present

16 years

10

The Fairly OddParents

Nickelodeon

March 30, 2001

November 25, 2006

161

Second longest-running Nickelodeon animated series and the sixth longest-running American animated series.

February 18, 2008

July 26, 2017

15 years

15

Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures

Syndicated

September 1, 1993

May 24, 2008

15 years

15

Sportsworld

NBC

1978

1992

15 years

11

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Adult Swim

December 30, 2000

August 30, 2015

139

Longest-running Adult Swim series and the seventh longest-running animated series on U.S. television.The episode "Boston" was never released.

15 years

13

Barney & Friends[122]

PBS

April 5, 1992

September 18, 2009

248

15 years

15

For Your Home

PBS

1996

2011

15 years

15

I've Got a Secret

CBS

June 19, 1952

April 3, 1967

350+

15 years

15

Concentration

NBC

August 25, 1958

March 23, 1973

3,770

15 years

15

The Jack Benny Program

CBS

October 29, 1950

September 15, 1964

343

NBC

September 25, 1964

September 10, 1965

15 years

15

That Good Ole Nashville Music

Syndicated

1970

1985

15 years

15

Scientific American Frontiers

PBS

October 1, 1990

October 19, 2005

97

15 years

15

Newton's Apple

PBS

October 15, 1983

October 31, 1998

15 years

15

ER

NBC

September 19, 1994

April 2, 2009

331

15 years

16

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CBS

October 6, 2000

September 27, 2015

337

17 years

30

The Amazing Race (U.S. series)

CBS

September 5, 2001

present

353

Two seasons per year

17 years

15

Don Francisco Presenta

Univision

October 10, 2001

2012

17 years

15

BET's Top 25

BET

September 22, 2001

present

16 years

15

Last Call with Carson Daly

NBC

January 8, 2002

present

1,700+

16 years

15

Closing Bell

CNBC

February 4, 2002

present

text: 10–14 years[edit]

text:
Length
Number of seasons
Series
Network
First broadcast
Last broadcast
Number of episodes
Notes

14 years

15

On the Record

Fox News Channel

February 12, 2002

September 6, 2016

...with Greta Van Susteren

September 7, 2016

November 11, 2016

...with Brit Hume

14 years

15

Ryan's Hope

ABC

July 7, 1975

January 13, 1989

3,515

14 years

5

Davey and Goliath

Syndication

February 25, 1961

June 29, 1975

73

14 years

15

An Evening at the Improv

A&E

February 3, 1982

January 1, 1996

14 years

15

MythBusters

Discovery Channel, TLC

January 23, 2003

March 5, 2016

282

14 years

7

Futurama

Fox

March 28, 1999

August 10, 2003

140

Comedy Central

March 23, 2008

September 4, 2013

Fox's third longest running animated series and the eighth longest-running animated U.S. series.

14 years

14

Dora the Explorer

Nickelodeon

August 14, 2000

June 5, 2014

172

Third longest-running Nickelodeon series, the ninth longest-running animated U.S. series, and the longest-running Nick Jr. series.

14 years

14

Watch Mr. Wizard (original series)

NBC

May 26, 1951

June 27, 1965

547

14 years

14

The Jack LaLanne Show

Syndicated

1956

1970

13 years, 4 months

14

Bonanza[123]

NBC

September 12, 1959

January 16, 1973

430

16 years

11

Cyberchase

PBS

January 21, 2002

present

114

Second longest-running PBS animated show and tenth longest-running American animated series.

14 years

14

Hollywood Squares

NBC

October 17, 1966

June 20, 1980

3,536

14 years

14

Knots Landing

CBS

December 27, 1979

May 13, 1993

344

14 years

14

The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

ABC

September 13, 1986

September 2, 2000

387+

13 years

13

Criminal Minds

CBS

September 22, 2005

present

299

14 years

14

Marty Stouffer's Wild America

PBS

1982

1996

120

14 years

14

Speed Week

ESPN

1983

1997

14 years

14

Video Soul

BET

June 26, 1983

1997

14 years

14

MADtv

Fox

October 14, 1995

May 16, 2009

321

Longest running rival sketch show to Saturday Night Live; longest-running Fox sketch show.

14 years

14

X-Play

G4

July 4, 1998

January 23, 2013

1,000+

13 years

14

NASCAR on TNT

TNT

July 22, 2001

July 13, 2014

16 years

14

Illegal Knowledge

Access Tucson

March 24, 2002

present

66+

16 years

14

Barefoot Contessa

Food Network

March 25, 2002

present

111+

16 years

14

Monday Night Baseball

ESPN

April 7, 2002

present

16 years

15

American Idol

Fox

June 11, 2002

April 7, 2016

557

ABC

March 11, 2018

present

1

15 years

13

Shepard Smith Reporting

Fox News Channel

August 2002

present

Originally titled Studio B with Shepard Smith

16 years

14

The Daily Buzz

Syndicated, The CW Plus

September 16, 2002

present

16 years

14

Dr. Phil

Syndicated

September 16, 2002

present

1,671

15 years

14

Around the Horn

ESPN

November 4, 2002

present

2,310+

15 years

14

NBA Countdown

ESPN

December 25, 2002

present

16 years

14

NBA Shootaround

ESPN

October 25, 2002

present

15 years

14

ESPN's coverage of the  NBA on ABC

ABC

December 25, 2002

present

Originally known as NBA on ABC

15 years

14

NBA on ESPN

ESPN and ESPN2

December 25, 2002

present

15 years

5

Scared!

Staten Island Community Television

September 12, 2002

present

19

15 years

6

The Venture Bros.

Adult Swim

February 16, 2003

present

71

13 years

14

Good Eats

Food Network

July 7, 1999

April 29, 2010

220

Cooking Channel

May 27, 2010

February 10, 2012

23

13 years

13

Let's Make a Deal[124]

NBC

December 30, 1963

December 27, 1968

ABC

December 30, 1968

July 9, 1976

13 years

13

Howdy Doody

NBC

December 27, 1947

September 24, 1960

13 years

13

Armstrong Circle Theatre

NBC

June 6, 1950

June 1957

CBS

October 1957

August 28, 1963

13 years

13

The 20th Century[125]

CBS

October 20, 1957

January 4, 1970

13 years

13

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

CBS

September 9, 1972

October 24, 1981

110

Syndicated

September 1, 1984

August 10, 1985

13 years

14

Dallas

CBS

April 2, 1978

May 3, 1991

357

13 years

13

PM Magazine[126]

Syndicated

September 1978

January 1, 1991

13 years

13

Later

NBC

August 22, 1988

February 1, 2001

15 years

14

Unsolved Mysteries

NBC

January 20, 1987[127]

September 5, 1997

580

CBS

November 13, 1997

June 11, 1999

Lifetime

July 2, 2001

September 20, 2002

Spike TV

October 13, 2008

April 27, 2010

13 years

13

Tim Russert

CNBC

1994

2008

13 years

13

King of the Hill

Fox

January 12, 1997

May 6, 2010[128]

259

Third longest running Fox animated series.

13 years

13

Hannity & Colmes

Fox News Channel

October 6, 1996

January 9, 2009

13 years

9

Rugrats

Nickelodeon

August 11, 1991

August 1, 2004 (2004-08-01)[129]

172

Fourth longest-running Nickelodeon animated series.

15 years

13

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Syndicated

September 8, 2003

present

2,054

15 years

15

NCIS

CBS

September 23, 2003

present

354

14 years

24

America's Next Top Model

UPN

May 20, 2003

May 17, 2006

72

The CW

September 20, 2006

December 4, 2015

316

VH1

December 8, 2016

present

30

12 years

13

Road Rules

MTV

July 19, 1995

May 9, 2007

12 years

12

NASCAR on Speed

Speed

February 11, 2002

August 16, 2013

12 years

12

The Joker's Wild

CBS

September 4, 1972

June 13, 1975

3,026

Syndicated[130]

September 5, 1977

May 23, 1986

12 years

12

Star Search[131]

Syndicated

September 10, 1983

May 20, 1995

12 years

12

American Sports Cavalcade

TNN

1983

1995

12 years

12

To Tell the Truth

CBS

December 18, 1956

September 6, 1968

12 years

12

The Joy of Painting

PBS

1983

1995

12 years

12

Divorce Court (original series)[132]

Syndicated

1957

1969

12 years

12

CBS Reports

CBS

October 27, 1959

September 7, 1971

12 years

12

The People's Court (original series)[133]

Syndicated

September 1981

1993

2,484

12 years

12

My Three Sons

ABC

September 29, 1960

September 2, 1965

380

CBS

September 16, 1965

August 24, 1972

12 years

12

NYPD Blue

ABC

September 21, 1993

March 1, 2005

261

11 years, 8 months

12

Murder, She Wrote

CBS

September 30, 1984

May 19, 1996

264

11 years, 7 months

12

Hawaii Five-O (original series)

CBS

September 26, 1968

April 26, 1980

284

12 years

12

Loving

ABC

June 27, 1983

November 10, 1995

3,169

12 years

12

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Syndicated

January 1984

September 1996

12 years

12

House of Style

MTV

January 1, 1989

2000

12 years

12

The Jenny Jones Show

Syndicated

September 16, 1991

September 12, 2003

1,500

12 years

12

Room by Room

HGTV

December 31, 1994

2006[134]

12 years

12

NBA on NBC

NBC

1990

2002

13 years

12

American Dad!

Fox

February 6, 2005

September 21, 2014

219

Fox's third longest-running animated series and second longest-running Seth MacFarlane show.

TBS

October 20, 2014

present

10 years

11

NFL Total Access

NFL Network

2003

present

13 years

8

Robot Chicken

Adult Swim

February 20, 2005

present

159

12 years

25

Lockup

MSNBC

June 4, 2005

February 11, 2017

238

13 years

14

Grey's Anatomy

ABC

March 27, 2005

present

317

11 years, 5 months

12

Two and a Half Men

CBS

September 22, 2003

February 19, 2015

262

11 years

11

The Chris Matthews Show

Syndicated

September 22, 2002

July 21, 2013

11 years

11

Kraft Television Theatre[135]

NBC

May 7, 1947

October 1, 1958

650

11 years

11

Homes Across America[136]

HGTV

December 1994

October 12, 2005

11 years

11

The Voice of Firestone

NBC

September 5, 1949

June 1954

ABC

June 1954

June 1959

ABC

September 1962

June 16, 1963

11 years

11

You Bet Your Life

NBC

October 5, 1950

June 29, 1961

429

11 years

11

The Andy Williams Show

CBS

1957

1959

NBC

1962

1971

11 years

11

Beat the Clock (original series)[137]

CBS

March 23, 1950

September 12, 1958

ABC

October 13, 1958

January 30, 1961

11 years

11

Jeopardy! (original NBC series)[138]

NBC

March 30, 1964

January 3, 1975

2,753

11 years

11

The General Electric College Bowl[139]

CBS

January 4, 1959

1963

NBC

1963

June 14, 1970

11 years

11

The Wilburn Brothers Show

Syndicated

1987

1998

354

11 years

11

The Carol Burnett Show

CBS

September 11, 1967

March 29, 1978

278

10 years

11

Happening Now

Fox News

November 5, 2007

June 8, 2018

10 years, 6 months

10

Wonder Pets

Nickelodeon

March 3, 2006

September 3, 2016

62

Fifth longest-running Nickelodeon show and second longest-running Nick Jr. series.

10 years, 5 months

11

M*A*S*H

CBS

September 17, 1972

February 28, 1983

251

11 years

11

The Howard Stern Show

E!

June 18, 1994

July 8, 2005

11 years

11

Geraldo

Syndicated

1987

1998

11 years

11

Love Connection

Syndicated

September 19, 1983

July 1, 1994

2,425

11 years

11

The Danny Thomas Show

ABC[140]

September 29, 1953

July 1957

351

CBS[141]

September 1957

September 14, 1964

11 years

11

Talk Soup

E!

December 26, 1991

May 17, 2002

11 years

11

Martha Stewart Living

Syndicated

1993

2004

11 years

5

The Crocodile Hunter

Animal Planet

October 25, 1996

September 4, 2007

78

Longest-running Animal Planet series.

11 years

8

ToonHeads

Cartoon Network

October 2, 1992

July 1, 2001

100

Adult Swim

November 4, 2001

November 23, 2003

11 years

11

Ricki Lake

Syndicated

September 13, 1993

August 27, 2004

11 years

11

Good Eats

Food Network

July 7, 1999

2011

235

11 years

11

All That

Nickelodeon

April 16, 1994[142]

October 22, 2005

184

Nickelodeon show with the most number of seasons.

11 years

11

7th Heaven[143]

The WB

August 26, 1996

May 8, 2006

243

The CW

September 25, 2006

May 13, 2007[144]

11 years

11

Imus in the Morning[145]

MSNBC

September 2, 1996

April 11, 2007

11 years

11

Fox News Live

Fox News Channel

October 6, 1996

2008

11 years

11

The Jeffersons

CBS

January 18, 1975

July 23, 1985

255

11 years

11

Paula's Home Cooking

Food Network

2002

2013

129+

10 years

11

Married... with Children

Fox

April 5, 1987

June 9, 1997

259

10 years

11

Happy Days

ABC

January 15, 1974

September 24, 1984

255

10 years

10

Between The Lions

PBS

April 3, 2000

November 22, 2010

130

13 years

13

Supernatural

The WB

September 13, 2005

May 4, 2006

287

As of May 17, 2018 (2018-05-17)

The CW

September 28, 2006

present

10 years

11

NFL Total Access

NFL Network

2003

present

12 years

12

Bones

Fox

September 13, 2005

March 28, 2017

246

13 years

22

Dancing with the Stars

ABC

June 1, 2005

present

364

As of September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)

13 years

16

Hell's Kitchen

Fox

May 30, 2005

present

255

13 years

13

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

FX

August 4, 2005

2012

134

As of August 22, 2018

FXX

September 4, 2013

present

11 years

11

The Big Bang Theory

CBS

September 24, 2007

present

255

As of May 10, 2018

11 years

11

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

Travel Channel

November 1, 2006

present

127

12 years

11

Squidbillies

Adult Swim

October 16, 2005

present

104

14 years

10

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Cartoon Network

April 15, 1994

July 22, 2001

80

Second longest-running Cartoon Network original series.

Adult Swim

September 2, 2001

April 12, 2004

13

GameTap

April 12, 2006

May 31, 2008

17

10 years

11

Intimate Portrait

Lifetime

January 1995

October 2005

10 years

10

American Morning

CNN

September 12, 2001

December 30, 2011

1,000+

10 years

10

Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts[146]

CBS

December 6, 1948

July 21, 1958

10 years

10

Arthur Godfrey and His Friends

CBS

January 12, 1949

April 28, 1959

10 years

10

Total Request Live

MTV

September 14, 1998

November 16, 2008

2,247

10 years

4

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Playhouse Disney

May 5, 2006

January 3, 2011

79

Longest-running Disney animated series.

Disney Junior

February 14, 2011

November 6, 2016

46

10 years

6

Blue's Clues

Nickelodeon

September 8, 1996

August 6, 2006

143

Sixth longest-running Nickelodeon show and third longest-running Nick Jr. series.

10 years

10

Studio One[147]

CBS

November 7, 1948

September 29, 1958

10 years

10

Pantomime Quiz[148]

CBS

October 4, 1949

August 28, 1951

NBC

January 2, 1952

March 26, 1952

CBS

July 4, 1952

September 1952

CBS

July 1953

August 28, 1953

DuMont

October 20, 1953

April 13, 1954

CBS

July 9, 1954

August 27, 1954

ABC

January 1955

March 1955

CBS

July 8, 1955

September 6, 1957

ABC

April 1958

September 1958

ABC

January 1959

September 1959

10 years

10

The Arthur Murray Party

ABC

July 20, 1950

September 1950

The first series to be shown on four U.S. broadcasting networks

DuMont

October 1950

March 1951

ABC

April 1951

May 1952

CBS

July 1952

August 1952

DuMont

October 1952

April 1953

CBS

June 1953

October 1953

NBC

October 1953

September 1955

CBS

April 1956

September 1956

NBC

July 1957

September 6, 1960

10 years

10

Smilin' Ed's Gang[149]

NBC

August 26, 1950

May 19, 1951

CBS

August 11, 1951

April 11, 1953

ABC

August 22, 1953

April 23, 1955

CBS

August 20, 1955

December 31, 1960

10 years

10

A Current Affair

Syndicated

July 28, 1986

1996

11 years

11

Cheers

NBC

September 30, 1982

May 20, 1993

273

11 years

11

Frasier

NBC

September 16, 1993

May 13, 2004

264

10 years

10

Getting Fit

ESPN

1987

1997

10 years

10

American Chopper

Discovery Channel, TLC

September 29, 2002

December 17, 2012

233

10 years

10

Friends

NBC

September 22, 1994

May 6, 2004

236

10 years

3

Wonder Pets

Nick Jr.

March 3, 2006

September 3, 2016

62

10 years

10

Beverly Hills, 90210

Fox

October 4, 1990

May 17, 2000

293

10 years

10

NASCAR on TNN

TNN

1991

2000

10 years

10

Stargate SG-1

Showtime, Syfy

July 27, 1997

March 13, 2007

211

Spawned two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: Continuum and Stargate: The Ark of Truth. Syfy's longest running series.

10 years

10

The French Chef

PBS

February 11, 1963

February 11, 1973

201

10 years

10

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CBS

December 14, 1987

November 2, 1996

193

Spawn many TV series spin-offs including its most recent series.

10 years

9

Curious George

PBS

September 4, 2006

April 1, 2015

109

Longest-running animated spin-off show of an animated movie.

10 years

6

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Cartoon Network

January 4, 1999

November 8, 2009

70

Longest running Cartoon Network original series and longest running Cartoon Cartoon

10 years

4

The Boondocks

Adult Swim

November 6, 2005

June 23, 2014

55

10 years

10

Smallville

The WB

October 16, 2001

May 11, 2006

218

The CW

September 28, 2006

May 13, 2011