Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Best 100 TV Shows

Time Magazine’s TV critic has come out with his list of - The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. I’ve reprinted the list below with my own coding.
A * means I agree with the choice (a ** means I really, really agree); a # means I disagree with the choice and a ? means I have not seen enough of the show to have an opinion.

*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


I think it’s a pretty good list overall but there are some problems.
Following is my revised list of the Best 100 TV shows:

24
60 Minutes
Abbott and Costello Show, The
Alice
All in the Family
Andy Griffith Show, The
Angel
Baretta
Batman
Battlestar Gallactica
Beverly Hillbillies
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Boston Legal
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Captain Kangaroo
Carol Burnett Show
Charlie Brown Christmas, A
Charlie's Angels
Cheers
Cosby Show
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Crossfire
Daily Show
Dallas
Dick Van Dyke Show
Dragnet
Dukes of Hazard
E.R.
Emergency
Enterprise
Flintstones, The
Friends
Gilligan's Island
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Honeymooners, The
I Dream of Genie
I Love Lucy
Incredible Hulk, The
Judging Amy
King of the Hill
Kung Fu
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order
Leave it to Beaver
Little House on the Prairie
Looney Tunes Show, The
Lost
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The
McNeil Leher News Hour
Melrose Place
Millenium
Mister Roger's Neighborhood
Monkees, The
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mork and Mindy
MTV 1981-1992
Munsters, The
Muppet Show, The
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Nash Bridges
Night Stalker, The
Northern Exposure
Odd Couple, The
One Day at a Time
Our Gang
Party of Five
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Price is Right, The
Providence
Rocky and His Friends
Roots
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live
Scooby Doo
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Simpsons, The
Six Million Dollar Man, The
Sliders
Smothers Brothers Show, The
Spongebob Square Pants
Star Trek
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Starsky and Hutch
Taxi
Three's Company
Tonight Show, The
Twilight Zone, The
Wall Street Week
Welcome Back Kotter
West Wing, The
Wonderful World of Disney, The
X-Files, The
Xena: Warrior Princess

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