Topic: TIME Magazine's 100 Best TV Shows of All Time

[Mr. Hankey]

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1651341,00.html

In Alphabetical Order:

    * 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
    * 60 Minutes
    * 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
    * 24
    * 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

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Thoughts? Additions? Deletions?

[thegoodbyeguy]

               
             The yellow square Dude made it! Yay! Great, WISEGUY made it, too. Mr. Spacey's Mel Profitt made this show all the more memorable. Double whammy for THE OFFICE huh! Once again, no raunchy series like MELROSE PLACE? At least SATC Girls made it as well. No MURDER, SHE WROTE or even CHARLIE'S ANGELS? Old school like SESAME STREET well-deserved its spot on the TOP 100 as well as THE PRICE IS RIGHT. But where's JEOPARDY!? AMERICAN IDOL as one of the best TV shows of all time? Not quite.

[indie boi]

Weird that they've put ABC's Wide World of Sports in there when it just shows highlights of different sporting events. I have to admit that the whole packaging and pacing of the show was exceptional.

I have soft spot for British TV series (which I think are consistently superior to US shows), so I think it is sacrilege that shows like The Avengers, Fawlty Towers and The Black Adder are not included.

Also, which Battlestar Galactica were they referring to? Hopefully, not the 70's series because if they did then they have criminally overlooked Space 1999.

[X44]

Agree with indie about the lack of  Brit shows specially the Diana Rigg Avengers but The Prisoner's there at least, so apart from the inclusion of  Sex and the City (shouldn't this be on the Worst Shows of All Time list ?)  and Survivor (American Idol is the only reality show that deserves a spot here I think) ,  a pretty good list. The exclusion of any of those terrible Aaron Spelling abominations (Charlie's Angels, Beverly Hills 90210,Melrose Place) is a grace note.

Michael Mann should be in there , I think, (Miami Vice, Crime Story, Starsky and Hutch) and at least one CSI but that's nitpicking.

The Wire and Deadwood are hands down and bar none  the two best shows on TV in the last twenty years, Well, at least The Wire is. All five seasons of it. There's a reason every critic and their grandmother call it the best show on TV. Because it is.

[Moks007]

I have and love the following from the list ..Ito mga type ko hehe
Buffalo Bill - have na
Cheers - Season 1 lang, wanna buy the whole series sana ..saving up..
Dragnet - want to have
Larry sanders show (special compilation ata) - have na
Married with children - have na
Mash - have na
Saturday night live - have na 2 seasons so far
Soap - have na
moonlighting - want to have
Taxi - have na
Wkrp - have na

I can't believe Three's company, Happy days, Get smart, and Magnum pi did not make it hehe..These are my favorites

[d4nu65+3R]

what?  they had moonlighting there, how come there's no remington steele?  feel free to digress but i always thought ml was a rs clone...

[Mr. Hankey]

From the list, I own:

1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - a few episodes
2. American Idol - the two released DVDs
3. Arrested Development
4. Battlestar Galactica - Seasons 1-3 so far
5. The Beavis and Butt-Head Show - a released set
6. Brideshead Revisited
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Cheers - Season 1-5 only
9. Dallas - Seasons 1-5 only
10. Felicity - Season 1 only
11. Freaks and Geeks
12. Friends
13. General Hospital - "Night Shift" spin-off only
14. Gilmore Girls - Season 1 only
15. The Larry Sanders Show - Season 1
16. Lost - Seasons 1-3
17. Married... With Children - 2 "Best of" sets only
18. M*A*S*H - Season 1-3 only
19. Moonlighting
20. My So-Called Life
21. The Office [American] - Seasons 1-3
22. The Office [British]
23. Roots
24. Saturday Night Live - A few compilation discs
25. Seinfeld
26. Sex and the City
27. The Shield - Seasons 1-4 only
28. The Simpsons - Seasons 1-3 only
29. Six Feet Under
30. Soap
31. The Sopranos
32. South Park - Seasons 1-5 only
33. St. Elsewhere - Season 1
34. Survivor - All released seasons
35. 24 - Seasons 1 & 2 only
36. Twin Peaks
37. The West Wing - Seasons 1-2 only


Wow... I own a lot, and have watched just about half.

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I think there were too many HBO shows mentioned, and not enough older shows. Where's Bewitched, for one? The list is rather low on Sci-Fi (Stargate SG-1? Other Star Treks? Quantum Leap?), 70s cop/detective shows (Starsky & Hutch? Police Woman? Quincy M.E.? SWAT? Baretta? Cannon? Kojak? The Streets of San Francisco? Hawaii Five-O?), and there's an apparent David E. Kelley boycott (Picket Fences? L.A. Law? The Practice? Chicago Hope? Ally McBeal?). Also, I've never seen any episodes of them, but most of these Top TV show lists usually mention The Fugitive and Perry Mason. I'm not a big fan, but I'm surprised ER wasn't mentioned. And although I own a season of each, I'd never included Gilmore Girls (only pilot watched) and Felicity (partially watched) in a list of the 100 Best Shows of All-Time.

[Mr. Hankey]

what?  they had moonlighting there, how come there's no remington steele?  feel free to digress but i always thought ml was a rs clone...

Then what did you think of Scarecrow and Mrs. King? 

[thegoodbyeguy]

 
 It's always anybody's list. For related topic http://pinoydvd.com/board/index.php?topic=77013.0

[X44]

Own these::

The Wire
Deadwood
The Prisoner
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
The Office [British]
Pee Wee's Playhouse 
The X-Files
Seinfeld
The Shield
The Simpsons
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Twin Peaks
The West Wing

Like these but don't own:

American Idol
Freaks and Geeks
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Larry Sanders Show
Hill St. Blues
Arrested Development
M*A*S*H
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Prime Suspect   
Second City Television
Sesame Street
The Singing Detective
South Park
SpongeBob SquarePants
Star Trek
Wiseguy


WTF?

The Oprah Winfrey Show
Sex and the City
Survivor

[d4nu65+3R]

Then what did you think of Scarecrow and Mrs. King? 

another clone?    seriously though, i never followed this one so i really could not know. although, correct me if im wrong, didn it star tron and kate jackson?

[X44]

Yup. Came way before the Brosnan thingie,if memory serves. And before that there was MacMillan & Wife. 

[Dan]

If Mr. Hankey just copy-pasted the list from the site, I think they made a mistake:

Were they referring to The Late Show with David Letterman

or

Late Night with Conan O'Brian...?

ETA: My mistake! Letterman helmed Late Night pala before O'Brian. It's funny how none of the recent late night talk shows didn't make the list.

[Moks007]

From the list, I own:

1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents - a few episodes
2. American Idol - the two released DVDs
3. Arrested Development
4. Battlestar Galactica - Seasons 1-3 so far
5. The Beavis and Butt-Head Show - a released set
6. Brideshead Revisited
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Cheers - Season 1-5 only
9. Dallas - Seasons 1-5 only
10. Felicity - Season 1 only
11. Freaks and Geeks
12. Friends
13. General Hospital - "Night Shift" spin-off only
14. Gilmore Girls - Season 1 only
15. The Larry Sanders Show - Season 1
16. Lost - Seasons 1-3
17. Married... With Children - 2 "Best of" sets only
18. M*A*S*H - Season 1-3 only
19. Moonlighting
20. My So-Called Life
21. The Office [American] - Seasons 1-3
22. The Office [British]
23. Roots
24. Saturday Night Live - A few compilation discs
25. Seinfeld
26. Sex and the City
27. The Shield - Seasons 1-4 only
28. The Simpsons - Seasons 1-3 only
29. Six Feet Under
30. Soap
31. The Sopranos
32. South Park - Seasons 1-5 only
33. St. Elsewhere - Season 1
34. Survivor - All released seasons
35. 24 - Seasons 1 & 2 only
36. Twin Peaks
37. The West Wing - Seasons 1-2 only


Wow... I own a lot, and have watched just about half.

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I think there were too many HBO shows mentioned, and not enough older shows. Where's Bewitched, for one? The list is rather low on Sci-Fi (Stargate SG-1? Other Star Treks? Quantum Leap?), 70s cop/detective shows (Starsky & Hutch? Police Woman? Quincy M.E.? SWAT? Baretta? Cannon? Kojak? The Streets of San Francisco? Hawaii Five-O?), and there's an apparent David E. Kelley boycott (Picket Fences? L.A. Law? The Practice? Chicago Hope? Ally McBeal?). Also, I've never seen any episodes of them, but most of these Top TV show lists usually mention The Fugitive and Perry Mason. I'm not a big fan, but I'm surprised ER wasn't mentioned. And although I own a season of each, I'd never included Gilmore Girls (only pilot watched) and Felicity (partially watched) in a list of the 100 Best Shows of All-Time.

Wow thats a lot of titles you own sir from the list, Congrats. I  also havent watched most of mine  hehe..I really want to complete Cheers

[AshKetchum]

While I'm glad that my favorites St. Elsewhere, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, and The X-Files were all on the list, I'm disappointed that the list didn't include my all-time favorite TV series, Northern Exposure.  :'(

and wth.... Felicity? *vomits*

[X44]

 . . . and Sex and the City  *vomits**vomits**vomits**vomits**vomits*

[techdude]

I like the time when the world was simpler so...

I Love Lucy
Leave it to Beaver (only S1 & 2 available on DVD)

[jm33_babe]

another clone?    seriously though, i never followed this one so i really could not know. although, correct me if im wrong, didn it star tron and kate jackson?

tron star Bruce Boxleitner

[ralfy]

100 Best *American (and some British)* TV Shows?

[cynchml]

100 Best *American (and some British)* TV Shows?

Good question. Where is Little Britain? BBC tv show that is ROFL for the entire half hour it is aired. Used to air late Saturday nights on Star World, but you can view episodes on the BBC website.