Sazae-San (7,920 Episodes)
To this day, The Simpsons is the longest running American animated series, and American sitcom, coming in at 745 episodes over 34 seasons.
“Gunsmoke” finally ended its run in 1975, long after the heyday of the Western, after a whopping 635 episodes. It's the longest-running live-action show to date.
The Young and the Restless
March 26, 1973 - Present (11,244 episodes and counting!)
According to the source, the final episode of M*A*S*H, which aired on February 28, 1983, is the most watched episode of television ever, drawing in an average of over 50 million viewers.
It is Cartoon Network's shortest running original series, as well as with the least number of episodes. Robotomy was officially removed from Cartoon Network's website on February 11, 2011.
Coming in at 126 minutes, Fantasia is by far the longest Disney movie. This feat is all the more stunning in light of the fact that there have been nearly 60 films since then. That said, this movie is broken into 8 segments or episodes, each performed in sync with different works of classical music.
The Brazilian show Programa Silvio Santos is the longest-running television show of all time hosted by the same person. The most recent contest (2023) is hosted in Liverpool, United Kingdom, on behalf of Ukraine.
Tom and Jerry made their debut in the theatrical short Puss Gets the Boot (1940) and were a hit with audiences.
Sazae-San (7,920 Episodes)
Sazae-San aired 53 years ago for the first time. It holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running television animated show ever. Sazae-San lives in a house with her husband, kids and parents.
1- Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry is a renowned American animated series.
Tom and Jerry
This is India's best cartoon, which is popular not just among children but even among the elderly. Tom and Jerry is an animated television series and a series of short films developed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940.
Longest Running Animated TV Series in America[edit]
The Simpsons is currently the longest running animated TV series in the USA, with 666 episodes made in over 30 years of the show being on the air.
In 1907, the French artist Émile Cohl started his filmmaking career with Japon de faintasie, with imaginative use of stop motion techniques. His next short can be regarded as the first animated film using what came to be known as traditional animation methods: the 1908 Fantasmagorie.
In 2016, Jan Van Rijsselberge announced that there were no plans in the future for new episodes, and that they will never resume production. Therefore, the series was canceled.
Before Mickey Mouse, there was his predecessor: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For the first time, we're seeing footage of the first Disney character. The silent film in black and white dates back to 1928, when a young Walt Disney created Oswald.
Fun fact: "Flowers and Trees," the first full-color cartoon and first Academy Award® winner Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, was released on July 30, 1932. It was the first use of three-strip Technicolor in cartoons, which helped popularize the Technicolor process.
Modeling his new creation after the "wistfulness of (Charlie) Chaplin," Disney originally named his mascot Mortimer. He ultimately changed the name to Mickey after his wife Lillian objected to what she believed was a "sissified" name.
Leave it to Beaver had the first toilet shown on TV.
Thus, many of the biggest historical events broadcast on TV were, in fact, memorial services. Queen Elizabeth II's final farewell was the most recent and most prominent one. In fact, according to the media, with an estimated figure of 5.1 billion, the Queen's funeral became the most-watched TV event in history.
Answer: The top 10 most-watched series on Netflix are 'Squid Game,' 'Stranger Things' (seasons 3 and 4), Money Heist (parts 4 and 5), 'DAHMER — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story', 'Wednesday', 'Bridgerton' (seasons 1 and 2), 'The Night Agent' (season 1), 'Lucifer', 'All of Us Are Dead' and 'The Witcher'.