The Top 10: TV shows that lasted longer than the events portrayed

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The films ran for 12 years between 1979 and 1991, although for the films of The Next Generation series, 1994-2002, they changed the words to “its ongoing mission”. The BBC TV series ran for nine years, 1968-77, three years longer than the Second World War. Set during the Nazi occupation of France; BBC series ran for 10 years, 1982-92. Nothing wrong with that: Tony Blair was prime minister for 10 years, but Jon Davis and I have been teaching the “Blair Years” course, at Queen Mary and now King’s College, London, for 12 years.