It pulled the Raiders a game closer to ending one of the longest-running dramas in N.F.L. history.

It also marks the latest chapter in one of the Western Hemisphere's longest-running dramas.

The contentiousness and turmoil of their Presidential election largely behind them, Mexicans are once again focusing on the country's longest-running drama: the perils of the economy.

The cast of "Guiding Light," the longest-running drama on TV.

The longest-running drama in television and radio history, Guiding Light, barely reached 2.1 million daily viewers in 2009 and ended after 72 years.

The auction of KirchMedia's assets has been one of the longest-running dramas in German business.

The play, which opened last June, is now the longest-running new drama of the 1999-2000 season, on or off Broadway.

It ranks as NBC's longest-running daytime drama.

It premiered in January 1988 and is the second longest-running drama on Australian television, winning more than 30 Logie Awards.

It is a crowded city, but not so crowded that there is not enough room for two of the nation's longest-running religious dramas.