A special kind of programs, consisting of many consecutive episodes, has long become a separate art form and has firmly taken its place in the grid of modern television broadcasting. Today it is already difficult to calculate their exact number. But in this world of serial films, we turn to the longest-running television products and learn about the longest series in history.
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Santa Barbara
The name of this series has long been used to define something long and long. Some countries, after having bought the rights to display, eventually refused to broadcast.
Over the 9 year history of filming, from 1984 to 1993, 2,137 episodes were filmed. And most importantly, the idea of the series was that in the rich families of the resort town of Santa Barbara there are also problems.
Santa Barbara has become the longest of all soap operas ever broadcast in Russia.
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Bold and beautiful
The American series, loved by viewers in many countries of the world, began to be broadcast in 1987, and continues to this day.
About 7 thousand episodes have already been shot, but we note that their timing is only 22 minutes, in contrast to the usual forty. And again, the whole plot is twisted around one family and their joint business, Fashion House.
From the statistics, we also note that weekly “Daring and Beautiful” gather an average of 26 million army of fans from TV screens.
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Neighbors
In March 1985, the Australian national broadcaster launched the Neighbors television series. To date, 27 seasons have been shot and aired, during which 6 256 episodes have been released.
The series takes place in a suburb of Melbourne, and tells the story of the lives of ordinary families, with their joys and concerns. It is noteworthy that most of the series filmed on real events.
"Neighbors" fell in love far beyond Australia, but the residents of Melbourne are happy to provide their homes and plots for the filming of the next series.
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On the threshold of the night
The American television series was finished shooting and broadcast in 1985, without revealing the secret to the audience. And it still started in 1956.
Over the course of 31 years, more than 7 and a half thousand episodes were filmed, each lasting 26 minutes. Initially, the series was conceived as a detective story, and therefore was awarded the prize of writers of the detective genre.
The action took place in a fictional town, and the entire plot line was concentrated on solving crimes.
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Another world
They started broadcasting this long series in 1964, and only in 1999 they said to themselves “stop!”, Having managed to shoot more than 9,000 episodes.
The ordinary life of ordinary people who fall into unusual and sometimes even exotic situations was shown. All the actions of the series took place in the fictional area of Brooklyn.
Sometimes the series touched on pressing issues of American society, for example, the problem of abortion. By the way, at thebiggest you can find out about the people who survived the abortion.
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Young and daring
Another American soap opera about the daring, but now young. The audience saw the first episodes in March 1973, and those who are carried away can watch the heroes of the series even now.
Among the daytime American programs “Young and the Bold,” the highest rated program. And the plot is traditionally tied to the rivalry and confrontation of two families in the fictional town of Genoa City.
Interestingly, there is a piece of plot lines that have been relevant since 1973.
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All my children
Perhaps the children have grown significantly, because this series has been broadcast on American television since 1970. By 2012, 10 thousand episodes were filmed, and the creators decided to put an end to it.
Later, an attempt was made to revive him, but after shooting 5,000 hours, they closed the project permanently. Acute social problems that arose in the soap opera sometimes attracted male audiences into the audience.
And the whole plot was tied to a rich woman by the name of Taylor, a single mother, Monet Kane, who raised her daughter alone.
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One life to live
A large audience gathered at the television screens to watch the soap opera “One Life to Live,” aired in 1968.
In 2012, the last series was released, stopping at the turn of 11 096 series. In the United States, this was the first television series to address the racial issues of American society.
Many Hollywood stars began their careers in the series, and he himself was awarded numerous prestigious awards and awards of the film industry.
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How the world revolves
From 1956 to 2010, a series of 13,858 episodes was broadcast, which took 10,400 hours of airtime.
From the beginning of the broadcast to the end of the 70s of the last century, the series was the most popular in American society.
All series were filmed in New York, and the creators took the shoot very seriously, thinking through each character and cues.
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Guiding light
Broadcast on television from 1952 to 2009, this television series is recognized as the longest in the world. The creators settled on the figure of 18,262 series, and the series themselves at different times changed in timing from 15 minutes to 1 hour.
The plot was twisted on the life of a priest who lived in a suburb of Chicago, and the main idea is to illuminate the path of people with their actions, if possible.
Before the release of the screens on the radio broadcast a book version, starting in 1937.
Summarize
If you note the positive aspects in this form of television art, then for many artists, shooting in the series served as a start in a movie career. And for ordinary people, this is sometimes a peculiar way of distracting from reality, emotional experiences and complicity in the lives of the heroes of television series. TheBiggest.ru editors are asking you to write in the comments which long series you watched and how much you had. Share your impressions.
Article author: Valery Skiba