Time Magazines List of the 100 Tops TV Shows of All Time

Tref · 09-09-2007, 02:06 AM

Another day, another list ... but then this one -- Time's 100 Top TV Shows of All Time -- does have the good sense to include, Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I love All in the Family & The Monkees, but I do not need to ever watch them again. Twin Peaks was good TV but a little goes a long way. Ed Sullivan is best forgotten ... for all times.

Missing in action --- The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, Police Squad, Fawlty Towers, Alan Partridge & You Bet Your Life

I. 24
II. 60 Minutes
III. The Abbott and Costello Show
IV. ABC's Wide World of Sports
V. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
VI. All in the Family
VII. An American Family
VIII. American Idol
IX. Arrested Development
X. Battlestar Galactica
XI. The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
XII. The Bob Newhart Show
XIII. Brideshead Revisited
XIV. Buffalo Bill
XV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
XVI. The Carol Burnett Show
XVII. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
XVIII. A Charlie Brown Christmas
XIX. Cheers
XX. The Cosby Show
XXI. The Daily Show
XXII. Dallas
XXIII. The Day After
XXIV. Deadwood
XXV. The Dick Van Dyke Show
XXVI. Dragnet
XXVII. The Ed Sullivan Show
XXVIII. The Ernie Kovacs Show
XXIX. Felicity
XXX. Freaks and Geeks
XXXI. The French Chef
XXXII. Friends
XXXIII. General Hospital
XXXIV. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
XXXV. Gilmore Girls
XXXVI. Gunsmoke
XXXVII. Hill Street Blues
XXXVIII. Homicide: Life on the Street
XXXIX. The Honeymooners
XL. I, Claudius
XLI. I Love Lucy
XLII. King of the Hill
XLIII. The Larry Sanders Show
XLIV. Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
XLV. Leave It to Beaver
XLVI. Lost
XLVII. Married... With Children
XLVIII. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
XLIX. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
L. M*A*S*H
LI. The Monkees
LII. Monty Python's Flying Circus
LIII. Moonlighting
LIV. MTV 1981-1992
LV. My So-Called Life
LVI. Mystery Science Theater 3000
LVII. The Odd Couple
LVIII. The Office [American]
LIX. The Office[British]
LX. The Oprah Winfrey Show
LXI. Pee Wee's Playhouse
LXII. Playhouse 90
LXIII. The Price Is Right
LXIV. Prime Suspect
LXV. The Prisoner
LXVI. The Real World
LXVII. Rocky and His Friends
LXVIII. Roots
LXIX. Roseanne
LXX. Sanford and Son
LXXI. Saturday Night Live
LXXII. Second City Television
LXXIII. See It Now
LXXIV. Seinfeld
LXXV. Sesame Street
LXXVI. Sex and the City
LXXVII. The Shield
LXXVIII. The Simpsons
LXXIX. The Singing Detective
LXXX. Six Feet Under
LXXXI. Soap
LXXXII. The Sopranos
LXXXIII. South Park
LXXXIV. SpongeBob SquarePants
LXXXV. SportsCenter
LXXXVI. Star Trek
LXXXVII. St. Elsewhere
LXXXVIII. The Super Bowl (and the Ads)
LXXXIX. Survivor
XC. Taxi
XCI. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
XCII. The Twilight Zone
XCIII. Twin Peaks
XCIV. The West Wing
XCV. What's My Line?
XCVI. WKRP in Cincinnati
XCVII. The Wire
XCVIII. Wiseguy
XCIX. The X-Files
C. Your Show of Shows

Strangler Lewis · 09-09-2007, 06:08 AM

I think All in the Family holds up beautifully. For yokel comedy, give me Green Acres over The Beverly Hillbillies. And give me a Get Smart marathon any day of the week. I'd put Frasier up there over Cheers, and I'd knock off shows like Ernie Kovacs and Soap, which, while envelope pushing, were not particularly funny.

Tref · 09-09-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I think All in the Family holds up beautifully. For yokel comedy, give me Green Acres over The Beverly Hillbillies. And give me a Get Smart marathon any day of the week. I'd put Frasier up there over Cheers, and I'd knock off shows like Ernie Kovacs and Soap, which, while envelope pushing, were not particularly funny.

There are shows I love but never need to watch again, All in the Family and The Monkees, among them. I think you're right about Ernie Kovacs. The Time editors often confuse revolutionary with greatness, which do not always go hand in hand.

I love The Prisoner but it can get dull and the ending is one of the most vastly over-rated of all time. But Green Acres over The Beverly Hillbillies? No sir. Not at all. Green Acres was good but The Beverly Hillbillies was a work of art. Mr. Drysdale is one of TV's great unsung characters.

Strangler Lewis · 09-09-2007, 02:14 PM

Nothing against The Beverly Hillbillies (except that Granny frightened me as a child) but I'll take Mr. Douglas vs. Mr. Haney over Uncle Jed vs. Mr. Drysdale. If Mr. Drysdale is one of TV's great unsung characters, then Green Acres featured one of TV's greatest ironies: that Lisa Douglas, who never wanted to go there in the first place, fit in perfectly in Hooterville.

Tref · 09-09-2007, 08:58 PM

He saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw money and tried to keep it in his bank.

Boss Radio · 09-10-2007, 12:29 AM

Where is Batman? Wild, Wild West? Bewitched? Six Million Dollar Man?
Love Boat?

The list must be expanded.

CoasterMatt · 09-10-2007, 06:20 AM

Where's Battle of the Network Stars?
Where's Chico and the Man?
Where's Small Wonder?

Kevy Baby · 09-10-2007, 07:30 AM

Where's Waldo?

Cadaverous Pallor · 09-10-2007, 07:35 AM

Freaks and Geeks, I Claudius, The Price is Right, awesome.

I had to go to the site to notice that it was in alphabetical order, not ranked. You misled me, Tref! :shakes fist: I could not figure out how Beavis and Butthead got 11th (though I loved that show).

Alex · 09-10-2007, 09:32 AM

Of the shows and movies listed I've only ever seen at least one complete episode of 46 of them so I'm certainly not well positioned to judge it.

However, since Perry Mason is not near the top of the list (and isn't even on the list) I am forced to consider it lacking nearly to the point of fraud.

09-09-2007, 02:06 AM	#1
Tref Not Tref Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,188	Time Magazines List of the 100 Tops TV Shows of All Time Another day, another list ... but then this one -- Time's 100 Top TV Shows of All Time -- does have the good sense to include, Mystery Science Theater 3000. I love All in the Family & The Monkees, but I do not need to ever watch them again. Twin Peaks was good TV but a little goes a long way. Ed Sullivan is best forgotten ... for all times. Missing in action --- The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, Police Squad, Fawlty Towers, Alan Partridge & You Bet Your Life I. 24 II. 60 Minutes III. The Abbott and Costello Show IV. ABC's Wide World of Sports V. Alfred Hitchcock Presents VI. All in the Family VII. An American Family VIII. American Idol IX. Arrested Development X. Battlestar Galactica XI. The Beavis and Butt-Head Show XII. The Bob Newhart Show XIII. Brideshead Revisited XIV. Buffalo Bill XV. Buffy the Vampire Slayer XVI. The Carol Burnett Show XVII. The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite XVIII. A Charlie Brown Christmas XIX. Cheers XX. The Cosby Show XXI. The Daily Show XXII. Dallas XXIII. The Day After XXIV. Deadwood XXV. The Dick Van Dyke Show XXVI. Dragnet XXVII. The Ed Sullivan Show XXVIII. The Ernie Kovacs Show XXIX. Felicity XXX. Freaks and Geeks XXXI. The French Chef XXXII. Friends XXXIII. General Hospital XXXIV. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show XXXV. Gilmore Girls XXXVI. Gunsmoke XXXVII. Hill Street Blues XXXVIII. Homicide: Life on the Street XXXIX. The Honeymooners XL. I, Claudius XLI. I Love Lucy XLII. King of the Hill XLIII. The Larry Sanders Show XLIV. Late Night with David Letterman (NBC) XLV. Leave It to Beaver XLVI. Lost XLVII. Married... With Children XLVIII. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman XLIX. The Mary Tyler Moore Show L. MASH LI. The Monkees LII. Monty Python's Flying Circus LIII. Moonlighting LIV. MTV 1981-1992 LV. My So-Called Life LVI. Mystery Science Theater 3000 LVII. The Odd Couple LVIII. The Office [American] LIX. The Office[British] LX. The Oprah Winfrey Show LXI. Pee Wee's Playhouse LXII. Playhouse 90 LXIII. The Price Is Right LXIV. Prime Suspect LXV. The Prisoner LXVI. The Real World LXVII. Rocky and His Friends LXVIII. Roots LXIX. Roseanne LXX. Sanford and Son LXXI. Saturday Night Live LXXII. Second City Television LXXIII. See It Now LXXIV. Seinfeld LXXV. Sesame Street LXXVI. Sex and the City LXXVII. The Shield LXXVIII. The Simpsons LXXIX. The Singing Detective LXXX. Six Feet Under LXXXI. Soap LXXXII. The Sopranos LXXXIII. South Park LXXXIV. SpongeBob SquarePants LXXXV. SportsCenter LXXXVI. Star Trek LXXXVII. St. Elsewhere LXXXVIII. The Super Bowl (and the Ads) LXXXIX. Survivor XC. Taxi XCI. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson XCII. The Twilight Zone XCIII. Twin Peaks XCIV. The West Wing XCV. What's My Line? XCVI. WKRP in Cincinnati XCVII. The Wire XCVIII. Wiseguy XCIX. The X-Files C. Your Show of Shows __________________ Tref3.0 Listen in aural 3-D* to Pop's muzak! (New songs added semi-bi-daily) j & j Did you know that Emas eht yltcaxe is exactly the same spelled backwards?! Last edited by Tref : 09-09-2007 at 02:17 AM. Reason: Disney's Wonderful World of Color?
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	I think All in the Family holds up beautifully. For yokel comedy, give me Green Acres over The Beverly Hillbillies. And give me a Get Smart marathon any day of the week. I'd put Frasier up there over Cheers, and I'd knock off shows like Ernie Kovacs and Soap, which, while envelope pushing, were not particularly funny. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Nothing against The Beverly Hillbillies (except that Granny frightened me as a child) but I'll take Mr. Douglas vs. Mr. Haney over Uncle Jed vs. Mr. Drysdale. If Mr. Drysdale is one of TV's great unsung characters, then Green Acres featured one of TV's greatest ironies: that Lisa Douglas, who never wanted to go there in the first place, fit in perfectly in Hooterville. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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Tref Not Tref Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,188	The Greatest TV Character of All Time He saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw money and tried to keep it in his bank. __________________ Tref3.0 Listen in aural 3-D to Pop's muzak! (New songs added semi-bi-daily) j & j Did you know that Emas eht yltcaxe is exactly the same spelled backwards?!
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Of the shows and movies listed I've only ever seen at least one complete episode of 46 of them so I'm certainly not well positioned to judge it. However, since Perry Mason is not near the top of the list (and isn't even on the list) I am forced to consider it lacking nearly to the point of fraud.
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