Like I said, there is no ranking in the list, it's merely alphabetical.

Yes, but it isn't even on the list meaning it definitely isn't near the top of it.

And Perry Mason is so much my favorite TV show of all time that even on an alphabetical list it would be in the top five.

The best of them all: I Love Lucy.
:)

I just noticed that Charlie Brown Christmas is on the list. I don't see any other one-time shows (though I, Claudius is a miniseries, so that counts as well).

MTV 1981-1992
Just as I thought - after 1992 (the year I turned 15) pop culture started to go downhill. ;)

The Day After was a made-for-TV movie, wasn't it? Or was it a miniseries too? (I wasn't allowed to watch it when it was on since I was going through the second of my two short lived near-phobic phases at the time.)

It was. I believe it was a two-parter. I watched it at the time, and it was a big event. The vaporization scenes were effective. Beyond that, it was basically a disaster film. I'm not sure that it was better than the Rock Hudson miniseries World War III or the Amerika miniseries, which featured the machine gunning of Congress as the members shook their fists and shouted points of order.

I loved the Amerika miniseries, it was like a week of Red Dawn from the point of view of the old people still in town. I've always wanted to rewatch it as an adult to see just how idiotic my younger self was.


Just looked it up, according to IMDb The Day After was a single three hour show (126 minutes) and aired on November 20, 1983.