Time magazine Top 100 TV Shows

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Time Magazine's 100 Greatest Shows

ranked alphabetically

Bold, on TV Guide's list (2002)

Note, Time's list was from 2008, which is why there's more recent tv shows.


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•24
•60 Minutes
•The Abbott and Costello Show
•ABC's Wide World of Sports
•Alfred Hitchcock Presents
•All in the Family
•An American Family
•American Idol
•Arrested Development
•Battlestar Galactica
•The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
•The Bob Newhart Show
•Brideshead Revisited
•Buffalo Bill
•Buffy the Vampire Slayer
•The Carol Burnett Show
•The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
•A Charlie Brown Christmas
•Cheers
•The Cosby Show
•The Daily Show
•Dallas
•The Day After
•Deadwood
•The Dick Van Dyke Show
•Dragnet
•The Ed Sullivan Show
•The Ernie Kovacs Show
•Felicity
•Freaks and Geeks
•The French Chef
•Friends
•General Hospital
•The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
•Gilmore Girls
•Gunsmoke
•Hill Street Blues
•Homicide: Life on the Street
•The Honeymooners
•I, Claudius
•I Love Lucy
•King of the Hill
•The Larry Sanders Show
•Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
•Leave It to Beaver
•Lost
•Married... With Children
•Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
•The Mary Tyler Moore Show
•M*A*S*H
•The Monkees
•Monty Python's Flying Circus
•Moonlighting
•MTV 1981-1992
•My So-Called Life
•Mystery Science Theater 3000
•The Odd Couple
•The Office [American]
•The Office [British]
•The Oprah Winfrey Show
•Pee Wee's Playhouse
•Playhouse 90
•The Price Is Right
•Prime Suspect
•The Prisoner
•The Real World
•Rocky and His Friends
•Roots
•Roseanne
•Sanford and Son
•Saturday Night Live
•Second City Television
•See It Now
•Seinfeld
•Sesame Street
•Sex and the City
•The Shield
•The Simpsons
•The Singing Detective
•Six Feet Under
•Soap
•The Sopranos
•South Park
•SpongeBob SquarePants
•SportsCenter
•Star Trek
•St. Elsewhere
•The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
•Survivor
•Taxi
•The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
•The Twilight Zone
•Twin Peaks
•The West Wing
•What's My Line?
•WKRP in Cincinnati
•The Wire
•Wiseguy
•The X-Files
•Your Show of Shows

TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows
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1. Seinfeld (NBC)
2. I Love Lucy (CBS)
3. The Honeymooners (CBS)
4. All in the Family (CBS)
5. The Sopranos (HBO)
6. 60 Minutes (CBS)
7. Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
8. The Simpsons (Fox)
9. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
10. Saturday Night Live (NBC)
11. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS)
12. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC)
13. The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS)
14. Hill Street Blues (NBC)
15. The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
16. The Carol Burnett Show (CBS)
17. Today (NBC)
18. Cheers (NBC)
19. thirtysomething (ABC)
20. St. Elsewhere (NBC)
21. Friends (NBC)
22. ER (NBC
23. Nightline (ABC)
24. Law & Order (NBC)
25. M+A+S+H (CBS)
26. The Twilight Zone (CBS)
27. Sesame Street (PBS)
28. The Cosby Show (NBC)
29. Donahue (syndicated)
30. Your Show of Shows (NBC)
31. The Defenders (CBS)
32. An American Family (PBS)
33. Playhouse 90 (CBS)
34. Frasier (NBC)
35. Roseanne (ABC)
36. The Fugitive (ABC)
37. The X-Files (Fox)
38. The Larry Sanders Show (HBO)
39. The Rockford Files (NBC)
40. Gunsmoke (CBS)
41. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB/UPN)
42. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (NBC)
43. Bonanza (NBC)
44. The Bob Newhart Show (CBS)
45. Twin Peaks (ABC)
46. Star Trek: The Next Generation (syndicated)
47. Rocky and His Friends (ABC)
48. Taxi (ABC/NBC)
49. The Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated)
50. Bewitched (ABC)

[Woops]

Noticed some tv movies/miniseries, specials, events, and even a network on Time's list.

Honestly should be placed on separate lists. (ie Best Christmas specials, tv movies, annual events, etc.)

Also a few British shows, though debatable since "Monty Python" is very well known. Not sure about UK's "The Office". Granted that it spawned a US version, there's many US shows that were also based on shows from England from "All In The Family", "Three's Company", and "American Idol".

Good to see a handful of cartoons, which wasn't well represented in TV Guide's list. Though could've added "The Flintstones", "Ren & Stimpy", and few I disagree on...

Cartoons ranked:

"The Beavis & Butt-Head Show" (1993 to 1997)
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965/tv special)
"King of the Hill" (1997 to 2009)
"Rocky & His Friends" (1959 to 1964, also known as "Bullwinkle Show" when it switched from ABC to NBC)
"The Simpsons" (1990 to present)
"South Park" (1997 to present)
"SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999 to present)



Liked that "Married with Children" is on the list. 


Still no love for "American Bandstand", "Soul Train", and not even "The Midnight Special". They were the main shows to watch for teens/young adults and exposed the latest in music, trends (ie fashion, dance) long before there was a network devoted to popular music.

I find it ironic that MTV 1981 to 1992 & "The Real World" are ranked on the same list since that show caused the network to jump the shark in 1992.

Too much 2000's era shows, some "flavor of the week" programs, agree/disagree on many, and indifferent towards most...

As for TV Guide's list, "Seinfeld" as #1 and "The Sopranos", which was fairly recent (though kissed upon by critics...which probably created the list) on the Top 10? Seriously?