animated tv series list

List of the longest-running animated TV shows in US history. These animated TV series have more episodes than any others in American television. Some of the shows ran and have since gone off the air or been canceled, while others remain ongoing and are still being produced. Typically, these shows were collected into "seasons" of television, each with a pre-set amount of episodes. Sometimes, these seasons were broken up, in some cases with years or even decades between production of the series, while still being considered the run of a single TV show. (Spin-offs and other shows that were reinvented and debuted as new series are not considered.) This list contains all the longest-running shows in the history of TV animation. Read more at http://www.ranker.com/list/longest-running-animated-series/tvs-frank

Had no idea Rugrats was on for that long. I wonder if that episode/season tally includes "All Grown Up"? Funny about this and Spongebob having so many episodes, given that Nickelodeon's usual policy is to let nothing go past 100 episodes.

And actually, the list misses a few. The Smurfs (as a Saturday morning show and in daily syndication) ran for 8 seasons and had 256 episodes. He-Man and the Thundercats both ran for 130 episodes each, so they could have rounded their list out to an even 10.

edited 22nd Mar '13 2:04:56 PM by Robbery