The phrase "long serials" for many filmmakers causes an association with a popular Santa Barbara opera in the 80s-90s, whose heroes for 2137 series found out family relationships. However, other directing works are worthy of this selection, compared to which the project mentioned will not seem so long.
1. "Travel Light" (1952-2009)
Among foreign projects, the first place in the top right is the picture "Travel Light", which fell into the Guinness Book of Records, as the longest serial in the world. For 57 years, 18,262 series were published, which describes several generations of families from the city of Chicago. It is noteworthy that the first 2500 stories went as a radio shop, and after the "outgrown" in the movie format.2. "Main Hospital" (1963 - present)
"The greatest soap opera of all time", the plot of which tells about the employees of the medical institution in the fictional city of Port Charles, continues to go on screens and in 2020. The creators of the project managed to put a record for the number of viewers - 30 million people were in 1981 at the screens at the same time when the wedding of the main characters was shown. For dozens of years, about 15,000 project series came out, and since 2010, the "main hospital" became the oldest soapy Opera of the ABC channel.
3. "On the threshold of the night" (1956-1984)
The main difference between this foreign multi-meter tape, which was filmed more than a quarter of a century, from their "relatives" was the difference in the main storyline. In the center of the narration, there were not the love relations of the main characters, but investigating crimes that make mafia, spies and blackmail. For 25 years, 7500 episodes are shown. The work was awarded award from the writer Edgar by.4. "Candy and beautiful" (1987 - present)
At the heart of the storyline of the long-playing melodrama "daring and beautiful" lies a story about the family of Forresters, who own the house of models. The number of episodes in 2019 exceeded the mark of 8000. The peculiarity of this daytime soap opera is that the timing of each series does not exceed 20 minutes instead of the usual 40, and for foreign spectators the series comes out with the translation.
5. "How the world rotates" (1956-2010)
For 20 years, the series "As the world rotates" had record high ratings and was the most popular TV project in the United States. In the center of the plot - residents of the American provincial city, which are confronted daily with various household and personal problems. The leading role in Helen Wagner is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, as an actress, which plays the most prolonged role on television.6. "Trail" (2007 - present)
In the selection of "long serials of Russian production", Konstantin Ernsta and Yuri Harnas "Trail" should be included. In the center of the plot of a multi-sized film - a fictional service of the FES, which is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is investigating complex and confusing crimes, conducts examination and cooperates with other special services. The number of episodes in 2020 broke the record "Santa Barbara" and reached more than 2400. During filming, more than 3.5 thousand experienced and beginner actors are involved in the project. It is known that many of them did not stand the stress schedule of filming (12-18 hours per day and 6 episodes in one day).
7. Kulagin and Partners (2004-2014)
The selection of "Russian long serials" entered a detective multi-sized film based on real affairs - "Kulagin and partners". The exact number of episodes do not remember even the creators of the project, but their number exceeded the mark at 3000, as Vikipedia reports. The genre of the picture is a film paint, which is conducted on behalf of Leonid Kulagin's chief character. Together with partners, he reveals theft and murder, and at the end summarizes the results of the investigation and makes the main conclusions for the audience.