Congratulations Tom!
I was curious, so I put together a quick list of shows you've outlasted. Here are some highlights:
- Happy Days (255 episodes, passed around 10/9/2007)
- NYPD Blue (261 episodes, passed around 11/13/2007)
- Frasier (264 episodes, passed around 12/4/2007)
- ER (331 episodes, passed around 3/17/2009)
- Knots Landing (344 episodes, passed around 6/16/2009)
- Dallas (357 episodes, passed on 9/15/2009, about the time The Guiding Light had its final episode)
- My Three Sons (369 episodes, passed around 12/8/2009, Wally Wackiman was in the studio)
- Bonanza (430 episodes, passed 2/8/2011)
- Law and Order (456 episodes, passed 8/9/2011, Vanessa Bayer was a guest)
- TBS will be beating The Simpsons by August 14, 2012, at episode 509.