Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Nov 30, 2017 8:00:34 GMT
Just off the top of my head:
"Days of Our Lives" (1965-present, soap opera, USA)
"Four Corners" (1961-present, current affairs, Australia)
"Coronation Street" (1960-present, soap opera, UK)
"Heute" (1963-present, newscast, Germany)
"General Hospital" (1963-present, soap opera, USA)
"Sesame Street" (1969-present, children's show, USA) - Perhaps the only National Educational Television series to still be running?
"Play School" (1966-present, children's show, Australia)
"TV Avisen" (1965-present, newscast, Denmark)
Can anyone name any others?
As for archival status of these shows:
"Days of Our Lives" - Reported to exist intact
"Four Corners" - Many early episodes are lost. Some do survive, though, perhaps more than you'd expect for current affairs programming from the 1960s/1970s
"Coronation Street" - Exists complete
"Heute" - No idea
"General Hospital" - No idea
"Sesame Street" - I presume this exists complete
"Play School" - No idea, but highly likely that few 1960s/1970s episodes survive (and I wouldn't be so confident the 1980s episodes survive complete either. Australian Broadcasting Corporation was terrible at archiving programs)
"TV Avisen" - Tapes erased until 1984
"Days of Our Lives" (1965-present, soap opera, USA)
"Four Corners" (1961-present, current affairs, Australia)
"Coronation Street" (1960-present, soap opera, UK)
"Heute" (1963-present, newscast, Germany)
"General Hospital" (1963-present, soap opera, USA)
"Sesame Street" (1969-present, children's show, USA) - Perhaps the only National Educational Television series to still be running?
"Play School" (1966-present, children's show, Australia)
"TV Avisen" (1965-present, newscast, Denmark)
Can anyone name any others?
As for archival status of these shows:
"Days of Our Lives" - Reported to exist intact
"Four Corners" - Many early episodes are lost. Some do survive, though, perhaps more than you'd expect for current affairs programming from the 1960s/1970s
"Coronation Street" - Exists complete
"Heute" - No idea
"General Hospital" - No idea
"Sesame Street" - I presume this exists complete
"Play School" - No idea, but highly likely that few 1960s/1970s episodes survive (and I wouldn't be so confident the 1980s episodes survive complete either. Australian Broadcasting Corporation was terrible at archiving programs)
"TV Avisen" - Tapes erased until 1984
