Archive Panic / Live-Action TV

The BBC

The archive of the BBC, the UK's first TV network, is straight up impossible for a human to consume in its entirety, boasting at least TEN MILLION HOURS, amounting to well over 1100 years or at least eleven lifetimes' worth of material.

• Eastenders. 6124 episodes and counting. And let's not get started on the spin-offs. Have fun, newcomers!
• Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm has run continuously since 1974 with over 8000 episodes and counting.
• The kids' game show Raven had ten series during its original run with 20 episodes each, three spinoffs which also lasted 20 episodes each, two revival series which each lasted for 15 episodes, and a 6 episode Gaelic language version (with those episodes being much shorter than the others at fifteen minutes each as opposed to twenty something minutes each for previous series), for a total of 296 episodes. It would take about five and a half days to watch all of them nonstop.
• Silent Witness can result in this, seeing as the show has been running, uninterrupted, for over two decades. There's roughly eight to ten episodes per season (though some of the later ones ran for twelve), which equals over 200 episodes in all. Due to its two-part episode format, missing the first part of one story can lead to a lot of confusion. There are also four tie-in novels published in the show's early years.
• The original Teletubbies series has 365 episodes - one for every day of the year. And that's not even counting the direct-to-video compilations, the spin-offs or the reboots.

Doctor Who

• Doctor Who, which ran continuously from 1963 to 1989, got a TV movie in '96, and resumed regular airing in 2005. As of the BBC Centennial Special in 2022, the show stands at a whopping 871 episodes split into 300 serials (counting the 1996 telemovie) across 39 seasons. Watch (or listen to) one serial a week and you'll finish the classic series in a little over three years. Watch/listen to one serial a day and you'll finish the entire show in just under a year. There's a reason the show reset the season and episode counters to 1 when it started up again in 2005.
  • They did it again with RTD 2 on Disney+ in 2023, resetting it to season one, with RTD specifically calling out the idea of expecting new American viewers to see a series marked 'Season 16?' and not instantly go "I'm not watching this if I have to catch up with 15 previous seasons!" as the dealbreaker
  • In 1999, Doctor Who Magazine introduced a feature called "The Time Team", in which a group of fans would watch the whole of Doctor Who, in order, from the start ^note  Some black and white episodes are missing from the archives but off-air audio recordings survive, often alongside telesnaps - photos taken every 30 seconds of the episode. They "watched" those as well.. At a rate of one or two serials per month (or longer if there's no room for the feature in that issue), they wrapped up the classic series in December 2009 and then took a break before starting on Christopher Eccleston, finally coming to an end midway through Matt Smith's run.
  • This blog, "Survival", details one person's attempt to watch all then-700-odd episodes in four months due to extenuating circumstances (imminent moving to New Zealand). It makes for quite a read while it lasts, although the commentary peters out early in the Fourth Doctor's career – when a sort of mid-flow Archive Panic sets in and it becomes clear that stopping to type has to be sacrificed in order to actually watch all the damn episodes in time. He makes it.
  • And then there's the Expanded Universe. To look upon the full extent of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe is akin to looking into the Untempered Schism. Even ignoring the Expanded Universe, there's two major spin-offs, plus K-9 and Company and Class (2016), which are all canon. And now Big Finish Doctor Who, which already has its own entry above, is also canon.
  • One of the shows done on Mark Does Stuff was Doctor Who, and Mark was understandably a bit daunted by it all. He started with the Eccleston era, with a Classic Serial at the end of each season. Starting in December 2010, it took him about four months to catch up, and then he reviewed new episodes as he aired. After that much concentrated fandom, he became somewhat obsessed.
  • Some people have speculated that the Archive Binge viewing habits developing from VOD use are part of what caused a small dip in ratings, as new viewers are intimidated by the sheer size of the programme. For anyone who feels that way and is reading this text - it's fine. Doctor Who uses a Monster of the Week format, has very little in the way of continuity overall, many of the 1960s serials no longer exist (though their audio does survive), and no-one will judge you if you want to start with one of the new guys.
  • The Adam Warrock song "I Have Never Watched An Episode of Doctor Who In My Life" is about someone who can't watch the show because there's "all, like, thirty thousand of them" and feels alienated because all his friends are all into it.
  • The revival and its BBC spinoffs (Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class (2016)) were all made available for free on BBC iPlayer, making for a considerable archive in their own right (as of November 2022, the revival had 175 episodes). Every original series episode (aside from the first serial, "An Unearthly Child", due to a rights dispute, and the missing episodes without an Animated Adaptation) joined them on November 1st, 2023 (along with K-9 and Company and the complete run of Doctor Who Confidential), making for the second biggest archive of a series on iPlayer at 809 episodes. (Eastenders had the biggest, at 900-odd episodes, but as of November 2023 it only comprised the last 18 months and the run from April 2008-July 2011.) Remember what we said up top about how long it would take to watch the whole thing? It's still pretty much that long even without the missing episodes, and it's now officially all for free. Better get ready to buckle down...

ITV

The ITV Archive, the UK's second TV network, boasts over 250,000 hours, that amounts to a minimum of 28 years, worth of archived programmes and feature films.

• Soap opera Coronation Street has been running continuously since 1960 and has aired over 10,000 episodes, most of 30 minutes and some of 60 minutes. On top of that, recordings of every single episode still exist. If the idea of watching the whole series over makes you panicky, imagine how its star, William Roache, feels — he's been on the show since day one.
• Cop show The Bill has run continuously on British television from 1984 to 2010, and as of 2009 has more than three thousand episodes overall. The situation got so bad that the production team has twice decided to reset the episode numbering to "001" in an attempt to stop it seeming overwhelming to a more casual viewer.

Channel 4

• Soap opera Brookside ran from 1982 to 2003, ending with a total of 2,915 episodes.
• Soap opera Hollyoaks has run continuously since 1995 and has aired well over 5,500 episodes.

Tokusatsu

• Power Rangers has 800+ (and counting) episodes, which is about 254 hours of material. For Power Rangers watching for 12 straight hours a day, it would take you over 21 days. It's over 9 days of viewing if done continuously. It also has three movies.
• Kamen Rider. Over 1500 episodes, over 50 movies, 80 chapters on the S.I.C Hero Saga stories (good luck finding back issues of Hobby Japan), 20 episodes in TV specials/Hyper Battle videos, the SD Rider OAV featuring the Showa Riders, and close to 40 episodes of the Imagin Anime (more coming soon for the Imagin Anime, at that). Not to mention the Kamen Rider Spirits manga, the occasional novel, and the numerous artbooks dedicated to the franchise on background info (production, story, merchandise). See you at the next MOTW fight!
• Super Sentai hit 2000 episodes in 2016, plus movies. Assuming a 22 minute viewing time, it would take nearly a month to watch every episode without any sort of breaks. And it is only getting worse with more being made every year.
  • Unlike the early Power Rangers series, each series (save Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan, a sequel to Denshi Sentai Denziman, and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, a crossover featuring members from the previous 34 seasons) can be watched independently though each clock in at around 50 episodes each (Gorenger clocks in at over 80 and JAKQ at around 30.) Though it does improve viewing of Gokaiger if one is familiar with at least some of the series.
• The Metal Heroes franchise ran continuously from 1982 to 1999. Though dwarfed by both Super Sentai and Kamen Rider, it ended with a final total of 877 half-hour episodes which is nothing to shake a stick at. In addition, there are a good dozen or so films.
• The Toei Fushigi Comedy Series, across 14 series from 1981 to 1993, amassed a final total of 615 episodes.
• The Ultra Series, with 30+ shows (over 1200 episodes in total), a few dozen movies, some specials, and numerous manga and video games — made over 50 years and counting. Not to mention, viewers often need to be somewhat familiar with earlier entries and at least some of the heroes and monsters in order to watch some of the later entries. Yeah, there's a reason why the Guinness Book of World Records has rewarded the original Ultraman with the world record for most spinoffs.

ABS-CBN

In the Philippines, ABS-CBN is the network notable for airing long-running drama series, especially those airing on primetime slot.

• Drama series that were released from the 1990s up until early 2000s, such as Mara Clara, Esperanza, Marinella, Mula sa Puso, Saan Ka Man Naroroon, Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan, Pangako Sa Yo, Recuerdo de Amor, and Sa Puso Ko Iingatan Ka, are mostly long-running series, having episode numbers ranging from the 400s to the 1,100s. The longest among them is Mara Clara, which was the network's long-running drama series until Ang Probinsyano (2015) took the record in June 26, 2020 upon reaching its 1,116th episode mark.
• Mga Anghel na Walang Langit ran for 9 months (May 9, 2005–February 24, 2006) and 210 episodes.
• May Bukas Pa ran for 1 year and 3 days (February 2, 2009–February 5, 2010), 38 chapters, and 263 episodes.
• Ang Probinsyano (2015) ran for 7 years (September 28, 2015–August 12, 2022), 9 seasons, and 1,696 episodes.

Other

• At two episodes a week, it would take a year and a half to finish all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. On the other hand, 144 episodes at around 45 minutes per episode only makes for 105 hours of continuous viewing. Allowing time to sleep, you could still watch the whole show in less than a week, if only barely. If all you did for one week was watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer and sleep, you would have about 63 hours total to sleep, which comes out to 15 hours of television a day. And if you try to watch everything from the Buffyverse, Angel adds in another 110 episodes. There's also the original movie, and Joss Whedon's original script which was quite different, and the unaired pilot, and the 100+ comics which are considered "canon". There are also dozens of non-canon comics and over 70 non-canon novels.
• With 125 episodes over 8 seasons, it can take you a while to get through Monk. Assuming you're watching four 45 minute episodes a day, you will take the equivalent of a full month to go from the pilot to the end.
• With 236 episodes over 10 seasons, it's gonna take you quite awhile to get through Friends, it doesn't help that most of the episodes are actually LONGER on DVD then they are on TV due to a lot of scenes being cut for time in the original airings (some episodes are at least TEN minutes longer, and that's not counting the super-sized 40 minute episodes), at the very least it'll take you about a month or so to finish the series, and of course there's also the spin-off Joey, an additional 46 episodes.
• The Degrassi franchise, which has been on the air in some shape or form for four decades. With the exception of the first series, The Kids of Degrassi Street, the other four shows in the series are set in the same canon and, unlike other franchise, incorporate a LOT of continuity and callbacks (especially Degrassi: The Next Generation), making it somewhat necessary for The Next Generation viewers to at least know the lowdown of Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High before scratching their heads at the The Next Generation episodes that shift the focus to adults like Spike, Snake, Joey and Caitlin. Speaking of which, ran for FOURTEEN seasons, with seasons 10-13 having at least 40 episodes each, which is the number of episodes that Degrassi: Next Class as a whole ran for.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 went through nearly 200 movies of varying quality. For the most part, if the feature presentation wasn't long enough to fill the show's two-hour slot (about one and a half hours when ads are cut), they'd pad it out with shorter clips as well. To wit: if one wished to experience all the (available) episodes of this show, not including special features, it would take about 300 mind-numbing hours. That is more than 12 whole, uninterrupted days.
• The Colbert Report deliberately tempts fans by casually mentioning over the end credits that "every clip ever" is now available on the show's website. The Report runs half an hour, four days a week, and has been airing since late 2005. That's not so bad. But what's this - its parent Daily Show has a complete clip archive too? Half an hour, four days a week... since Jon Stewart took over in January 1999. Oh yes, and it has a YouTube-esque 'Related Clips' feature. Abandon all productivity, ye who enter here. The site itself actually ends videos with the line, "Forget what you should be doing."
• Star Trek has some story arcs and the occasional Continuity Nod, but it's still episodic enough that you can start in the middle and not suffer for it. However, if you do decide to do the homework, as of mid-2022 there are eight different live-action series adding up to a grand total of 789 episodes averaging forty-five minutes each, plus three more animated series with a total of 52 episodes of twenty-two minutes each, and thirteen movies. Altogether it currently comes to a bit over 643 hours – that's almost 27 days of watching non-stop. And that's not even including the Short Treks mini-episodes, or some of the films' Director's Cuts.
• 24 can be one of the worst of these. Not only are there eight seasons x 24 episodes each = 196 episodes PLUS the movie, but watching them on DVD is extremely addictive. The main reason for the addiction is the real-time format of the shows, and the fact that EVERY episode ends on a cliffhanger, which is picked up at the very next minute of real time at the start of the next episode. There is no real conclusion until the end of the season, which can make it tempting to use up an entire weekend watching all 24 episodes of a season practically back to back. Rather spookily if you watched each season over the course of three days, it would take you 24 days to watch the whole show. Skipping past all of the scenes filled with pointless interpersonal conflict easily cuts the runtime of each episode to below 30 minutes and makes it feasible to watch one or more seasons per day without loss of content. Warning: Watching 24 in this fashion may cause terrorists to invade your dreams.
• Guiding Light ran for 57 years and has over 15,000 episodes, and that's not even counting the 16 years it ran on radio before switching to television. If you count both the radio and TV shows, Guiding Light is the longest single narrative story in human history.
• Funnily enough, even Spanish-language telenovelas are prone to this... and unlike American soap operas, they eventually end.
• Stargate SG-1 ran for ten full seasons, totalling over 200 episodes and making it the longest-running US-made scifi series ever broadcast. Then there's the extra TV-movies made. And the spinoff series. And the other spinoff series. And the books. Add to that the fact that though the series has many stand-alone episodes, SG-1 often learned from experiences, and if they had solved a similar problem in an earlier episode they would mention it or try it again. This adds a lot of continuity to the series, meaning you're never sure if the next episode is important to future episodes or not.

• Neighbours. The 5-a-week Australian soap ran from 1985 to 2022 with a total of 8,903 episodes. At around 22 minutes per episode, that makes for some scary maths: a bit over 3,264 hours, or around 136 days worth, of Aussie soapiness to get through. And that's without any breaks!
• Home and Away, the other soap of Australia, boasts over 7,700 episodes as of 2022.
• Shortland Street is New Zealand's longest-running soap, also surpassing 7,000 episodes.
• The Atheist Experience has the show's weekly archive from January 2004 available online. With around 1,150 archived episodes, each 90 minutes long, you're looking at around 1,725 hours (or almost 72 days) of viewing material.
• By the end of season 11, there will be 296 episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation, plus the movies and the original series (which contained 70 episodes). If you watched one episode a day, it would take about a year. And watching Degrassi every day for a year is not recommended — that amount of teen angst is bad for your health.
• Dallas had 357 episodes in its original run, plus a prequel TV movie, two reunion movies (and this without getting into the Spin-Off Knots Landing, which had 344 episodes and its own Reunion Show). Fortunately the 2012 revival series set up a Facebook page with timeline so new viewers can at least get the gist of what is going on.
• Saturday Night Live: Over 900 regular 90-minute episodes and counting, 45 completed seasons, 54 special episodes (most of which are "Best Of" clip shows highlighting the best performances from a cast member or frequent host [in the cases of Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, and Christopher Walken], one of which was a live show that was performed onstage and not televised because of the Writers Guild strike of 2007-2008, and three of which were downgraded regular episodes made due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down Studio 8H in 2020^note it is back in the studio as of season 46), and 16 movies based on SNL recurring characters. The regular episodes alone total nearly two months of runtime. Good luck watching them all.
• Sports fans don't normally bother to "catch up" on old games, what with the Foregone Conclusion and such (it would be easier just to look up the final scores). But suppose a new-to-the-game baseball fan thought it might be fun to watch just all the Major League games of a particular season. That's 162 games, around 3 hours per game: more than 20 solid days, an amount of time it takes decades for long-running fictional shows to accumulate. It can't even be done live, because regular-season games are always scheduled simultaneously with other games. (A single evening typically sees more than twenty-four hours of Major League baseball.)
• Smallville ran for ten seasons, totaling 218 episodes.
• Sesame Street has, as of 2022, 52 seasons and over 4,600 episodes. And that's not even counting the TV specials, the direct-to-video specials, the online-exclusive content including a podcast, and the two theatrical movies. It premiered in 1969 AND it's still in production!
• As far as fictional TV is concerned, American daytime soap operas easily trounce all other competition. They average about 250-260 new episodes a year, and many have run for decades. Seven of them (Guiding Light, As the World Turns, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, One Life to Live, All My Children, and The Young and the Restless) have all produced upwards of 10,000 episodes each, and plenty others have over 5,000 episodes to their names. Collectively, it's doubtful any other genre of fictional television will ever come close.
  • Even more impressively, Days (airing since 1965, though moving to streaming-only in September 2022) has recordings of every single episode—probably the largest existing archive in series-based television by airtime (it's always run for an hour, as opposed to the typical half-hour of Coronation Street). Y&R (1973–present) has an archive that's either complete or nearly so (reports differ), AMC (1970–2011 on ABC, and briefly in 2013 on the web) has a complete archive from 1977 forward, and OLTL (1968–2012 on ABC, and briefly in 2013 on the web) has a complete archive from 1978 on.
• You think that's impressive? ESPN's Sports Center has aired every day since the network's start in 1979. The network currently produces three daily versions of the show, each running for at least an hour—morning, primetime, and late night. And that's not getting into an overnight version, essentially the late-night version updated to include West Coast scores and highlights. ESPN has confirmed that it has a complete archive, not just of SportsCenter but of its entire broadcast content.^note The only lost broadcast in its history, a slow-pitch softball game from its first year, was later found intact in a private collection and added to the archive. The show celebrated its 50,000th episode back in 2012.
• When Supernatural finished its 15-year-run in 2020, the series has produced 327 episodes, making it the longest show on The CW (and retroactively, The WB). If you are a real completionist, you may also consider watching the 22-episode anime series, which covers mostly the same events as the first two seasons but expands upon the backstory and some secondary characters.
• Murder, She Wrote qualifies, as the show itself lasted for 12 seasons and roughly 264 episodes. When you add to that four follow-up TV movies and a series of spin-off novels that currently sits at 43 and is still growing at a rate of two new novels per year, that's a lot of murders. Considering some episodes had multiple murders by themselves, is it any wonder people started thinking Jessica Fletcher was some kind of serial-killing psychopath?
• The Law & Order franchise has over 1,000 episodes just in the three major shows. This doesn't include the failed spin-offs and numerous television shows set in the same universe that have done crossovers with the franchise^note Nor does it include St. Elsewhere, which the first mentioned of those "numerous shows" has frequently crossed over with, and whose All Just a Dream ending seems to suggest even more episodes in this universe (with John Munch being a central figure in the theory), but that's neither here or there.
• And if you prefer to start with the L&O's sister Chicago franchise, as of the end of the 2020-21 season of its three (formerly four) shows you'll only have 491 episodes to get through. That's about 14 full days assuming no commercials. Oh, and they're highly serialized across all four shows so episode order is crucial.
• Reboots of long runners can be traps for this to happen.
  • Oh, and the crossovers. Three or four episode long crossovers with each episode on a different show. Have fun figuring that out!
  • So you picked up the first season of Girl Meets World and why the heck is Topanga wearing that? Welcome to 7 seasons' worth of Boy Meets World archive.
  • Why does this Steve dude know everyone on Fuller House? Greetings to 8 seasons of Full House.
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: There are a total of 1,005 episodes through the show's entire run, counting both the black-and-white 100 originals that were on EEN and the 905 that were on NET/PBS. At 30 minutes a piece, that would run 502.5 hours total, or nearly 21 days nonstop. Of course the show is contained per week and isn't meant to be watched over a long term (an episode arc of 5 episodes make up a week of the same topic), with later episodes being more self-contained and each week only sharing the theme, but still, if we want to be completely real here, there's probably no way you're going to make it through all of this.
  • Twitch hosted a marathon stream of the NET/PBS episodes on May 15, 2017, and even without the EEN and CBC episodes (as well as the conflict week arc, which The Fred Rogers Foundation considers Old Shame and would rather it not see the light of day ever again), the marathon ran for 17 days, with the color episodes only starting almost at the end of day three.
• Bewitched ran for eight seasons, totaling 254 episodes. Considering about 25 minutes per episode, it's almost 106 hours - or over four days in a row - of material. At four episodes per day, you will take over two months to finish the series.
• The Pakistani comedy series Bulbulay has 400+ episodes and counting.
• Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, a soap opera from India, ran for 398 episodes. That's already quite a few episodes to work with, but then came a sequel series, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? ...Ek Baar Phir, which ran for 672 episodes, bringing the total number of episodes to 1,070. There is also a third series of 70 episodes, increasing the total to 1,140. All of the episodes are about 20 minutes long, so it would take 22,800 minutes, or about 15 days, to binge-watch every episode nonstop.
• Baal Veer, another Indian series, can just barely be considered less archive panicky than the above-mentioned Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? in this regard, having run for 1,111 episodes... for the original series, anyway. The premiere of the Sequel Series, Baalveer Returns, has only made the archive panic worse. Impressively, the original Baal Veer aired all of its episodes in the span of only four years (2012 to 2016).
• NBC kids series Howdy Doody managed to run from 1947 to 1960, for a total of 2,343 episodes. It also got a reboot series called The New Howdy Doody Show in 1976, which only ran for 130 episodes; counting that reboot series, the whole archive binge would consist of 2473 episodes.
• Eat Bulaga! has over 12,000 episodes, the most out of any television series from the Philippines.
• The Twilight Zone. The original series alone lasted 156 episodes, with the 18 episodes for season four being an hour long. Since then, its been revived three times, with the most recent still going. And then there's the movie.
• Breaking Bad on its own isn't too bad, being 62 episodes across five seasons... but when combined with its spinoff prequel series and follow up movie focusing on the original show's deuteragonist, that brings it to well over 100 television episodes.
• As of May 2023, the Arrowverse has finally come to a conclusion. At of the end of the it's 11 year run, there are 697 episodes across 37 seasons of the main six shows, consisting of 170 from Arrow, 184 from The Flash, 126 from Supergirl, 110 from Legends of Tomorrow, 56 from Black Lightning, and 51 from Batwoman. Since each episode is roughly 42 mintues long, if your daily commitment is 10 episodes, it would a little over 6 months to go through all of them. There are also two animated spinoffs, Vixen and Freedom Fighters: The Ray, which combined add three more hours of commitment, making the for a grand total of 713 episodes across 41 seasons of television. And then if you also include all the DC media works officially confirmed to be set in its multi-verse, including the aforementioned Smallville, the archive becomes that much more intimidating. In his Twitter thread about the Arrowverse during it's impending conclusion, user Nebsgoodtakes stated:
  Neb: The Arrowverse is now such an absurd time commitment to get into from scratch that you literally just had to be there
• Barney & Friends has 268 episodes, and that's not counting the direct-to-video programs (including the original Barney and the Backyard Gang series) and the theatrical movie.
• ER ran for 331 episodes, comprising a whopping 15 seasons, and survived a Retool in Season 5, several cast turnovers (including the departure of the entirety of the original main cast, save for the nurses) and multiple attempts at cancellation. By the time it ended, supporting character Rachel Greene (introduced at the beginning of the series as a child) had grown old enough to begin her medical internship at Cook County.
• The Vampire Diaries finished its run with 171 episodes. Add the 92 episodes from The Originals and 68 from Legacies and the total count adds up to 331 episodes. Plus, Legacies is still ongoing! (the aforementioned number is as of the fourth season).
• Gunsmoke ran for twenty seasons on TV ('55-'75) with a total of 635 episodes. The first 233 episodes ('55-'61) were half-hour (26 min. sans commercials) in length for a total of almost 101 hours for just the half-hour episodes (sans commercials). From '62 to '75 the show was expanded to one hour in length (50 min. sans commercials) and ran for another 402 more episodes for a total of exactly 335 hours (sans commercials) for the hour long episodes. This means that to watch all episodes of just the TV version would take 436 hours. There was also a half hour radio version of Gunsmoke that ran from '52 - '61, with a totals of 480 30 min. episodes over 9 seasons. Including the radio version adds another 240 hours, meaning you'd have to listen then watch for a total of 676 hours to cover the complete run of gunsmoke at 1,115 radio and TV episodes.
• Tetangga Masa Gitu: On one hand, the show is mostly episodic and can be watched in any order. On the other hand, there's still 593 episodes to watch if you want to binge-watch the whole series.
• The Goldbergs has over 210 episodes, and that's not counting the 34-episode spin-off set in the 90's. Watched non-stop, this amounts to three days of stories from the 80's.
• Toon In With Me has run on every weekday since 2021, and as of March 2024 has 706 episodes. Given the show is a hour long, it would take a whooping 29 days to finish the show.
• The Dutch series Pipo De Clown has existed since the days of black-and-white television (ever since 1958) and has over 13 TV shows, with some of the older series episodes considered lost media.