So I figured we could do one of those threads where you list (what you think are) the best ten tv shows of all time. A first place vote will be worth ten points and so on. I'll tally the votes as they come and modify the rankings here in this post. I'll put my votes in a subsequent post. Note that you can list any show you want, in any spot. But if you put "Home Improvement" or "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" as the greatest show of all time, prepare yourself to be called a fucking retard. Even though I like Fresh Prince, it is not one of the best shows of all time, in my opinion. So list away, and we'll see what comes.

Also, feel free to use both dramas and comedies, and dramadies, and anything in between. There are also no requirements for the shows. It can still be on the air, have laste 10 seasons or only two.

Current Top Ten - Updated 6/11/2008 at 10:00 a.m.
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1. Seinfeld (175)
2. The Sopranos (128)
3. The Simpsons (120)
4. The Wire (104)
5. The Office (92)
6. Arrested Development (74)
7. Curb Your Enthusiasm (69)
8. Cheers (66)
9. M*A*S*H (52)
10. Lost (40)
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All Shows Receiving Votes: Total Points in Parenthesis
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The Wire (104)
Seinfeld (175)
The Sopranos (128)
Cheers (66)
The Shield (29)
"24" (38)
Friends (8)
M*A*S*H (52)
Deadwood (38)
Happy Days (11)
Arrested Development (74)
ER (14)
Law & Order: CI (5)
Entourage(35)
The Wonder Years (28)
Oz (19)
The Simpsons (120)
Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia (13)
Law & Order (25)
Rescue Me (17)
Get Smart (1)
NYPD Blue (7)
Saturday Night Live (17)
Monty Pythons Flying Circus (17)
Babylon 5 (3)
Star Trek: DS9 (1)
Sportscenter (16)
Baseball Tonight (18)
Dexter (29)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (69)
MST3000 (5)
South Park (29)
King of the Hill (1)
Peep Show - UK (14)
Red Dwarf - UK (4)
Have I Got News for You - UK (8)
Saved by the Bell (19)
Six Feet Under (26)
Freaks and Geeks (19)
Veronica Mars (9)
Futurama (12)
The Office- USA (92)
Family Ties (8)
Survior (25)
Amazing Race (15)
Alf (5)
A-Team (11)
Perfect Strangers (4)
King of Queens (9)
Lost (40)
WWE (5)
Man vs. Wild (5)
PTI (4)
Josh's Cribbs (1)
Married With Children (17)
X-Files (10)
Star Trek: Next Generation (28)
House (23)
Two and a half Men (4)
Top Chef (4)
Iron Chef (2)
High Stakes Poker (8)
Kenny vs. Spenny (10)
Scrubs (11)
Californiacation (3)
Big Brother (8)
Family Guy (23)
Quantam Leap (14)
Monk (6)
Heroes (3)
Twin Peaks (22)
Mr. Show (7)
The Twighlight Zone (13)
The Prisoner (4)
Firefly (24)
Frasier (4)
West Wing (11)
Buffy (8)
Battlestar Galactica (15)
Looney Tunes (1)
Wiseguy (10)
Odd Couple (9)
Flinstones (9)
Soap (7)
Bugs Bunny (6)
Benny Hill (5)
Murder One (2)
Friday Night Lights (5)
Jericho (12)
CSI (5)
Chappelle Show (12)
The Ultimate Fighter (2)
Pee Wee's Playhouse (5)
MacGyver (5)
Good Times (2)
All in the Family (3)
Everybody Loves Raymond (4)
X-Men (1)
The Cosby Show (11)
I Love Lucy (16)
Fraggle Rock (5)
The Young and the Restless (2)
St. Elswhere (8)
Hill Street Blues (7)
Leave it to Beaver (9)
Rome (8)
Weeds (1)
90210 (9)
Jack and Bobby (2)
Boy Meets World (10)
Home Improvement (7)
Two Guys and a Girl (3)
Buffy (10)
Space, Above and Beyond (1)
In Living Color (5)
Hells Kitchen (4)
Band of Brothers (7)
Sportsnight (8)
Wings (3)
Sliders (1)
Tonight Show with John Carson (8)
The Real World (7)
The Price is Right (3)
Spaced (8)
MST3K (7)
The State (4)
Reno 911 (3)
Mr. Show (8)
Andy Griffith (7)
Dick Van Dyke Show (6)
Batman: The Animated Series (3)
NewsRadio (2)
The Office - UK (8)
Black Books - UK (1)
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Oh, this should be interesting...I'll edit w/ my personal list.

Wait, is this our personal top ten, or the ten best shows historically? I mean, I Love Lucy and Mash should be on any top ten all time list as far as success etc, but I don't have much interest in either.

1. The Wire

2. The Sopranos

3. The Shield

4. Arrested Development

5. Deadwood

6. Entourage

7. Oz

8. Seinfeld

9. Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia

10. Rescue Me

1. The Wire














Everything else

I would say thats up to you. If someone asked me what the best shows of all time were, i wouldnt name any that I didnt love to watch. Like I love lucy.

1 Seinfeld
2 Cheers
3 24
4 Mash
5 Happy Days
6 ER
7 The Wonder Years
8 The Simpsons
9 The Sopranos
10 Get Smart

Entourage almost made the list, maybe after a few more seasons.

1. The Sopranos
2. The Simpsons
3. Friends
4. ER
5. Cheers
6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7. Seinfeld
8. MASH
9. Law & Order
10. NYPD Blue

I'm only ranking shows I've seen


1. The Wire

2. Seinfeld

3. Arrested Development

4. The Simpsons

5. Saturday Night Live

6. Monty Python's Flying Circus

7. Law and Order

8. Babylon 5

9. ER

10. Star Trek (do I have to pick a specific series? If so DS9)


Notables: Animaniacs, Batman: TAS, Fawlty Towers (havent seen every episode), Blackadder, Battlestar Gallactica (only seen season 1), Sopranos (haven't seen it), The Shield (only seen a couple episodes), Cheers (haven't seen enough), Fraiser (haven't seen enough)

Ok, so more of a personal list.

1. Sportscenter
2. Baseball Tonight
3. Seinfeld
4. Dexter
5. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. MST3000
7. Oz
8. South Park
9. Cheers
10. King of the Hill

Honorable mention, or rather shows I liked at points in my life that don't make the list: Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, Arliss, Gi Joe, Gargoyles, Heathcliff (but only the Riff Raff portion obv), Sopranos, Saved by the Bell....hmmm...Alvin and the Chimpmunks, old X Files episodes that were stand alones, Futurama, old Simpsons episodes....Night Court, News Radio...

Here is my list including some UK shows:

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm
2. Peep Show (UK)
3. Have I Got News For You (UK)
4. Saved By The Bell
5. The Simpsons
6. Six Feet Under
7. Freaks and Geeks
8. Veronica Mars
9. Arrested Development
10. Futurama

Notable mentions: King of the Hill, Blackadder (UK), Daria, Clarissa Explains It All, Frasier, Sesame Street.

Oh geez, I feel kinda gay knowing what show this is.

1) Survivor
2) Looney Tunes
3) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4) Seinfeld
5) Yogi Bear
6) Amazing Race
7) Family Matters
8) Dexters Laboratory
9) Chapelles Show
10) Flinstones

1.) Golden Girls
2.) Designing Women
3.) Keeping up with the Kardashians
4.) Hogan Knows Best
5.) Living with Lohan
6.) Seinfeld
7.) The Simpsons
8.) Rome
9.) Futurama
10.) Scrubs

1. The Office (US version)
2. Seinfeld
3. Family Ties (This is about as close to Seinfeld as possible, I really really loved this show)
4. Survivor (only because it changed TV)
5. Amazing Race
6. Alf
7. A-Team
8. Perfect Strangers
9. Cheers
10. The Wonder Years

See, this is a tough thing to quantify because you aren't going to want to include a show that you loved 20 years ago and watched religiously, like Who's the Boss? but I'll try. And I don't think Sportscenter or Baseball Tonight counts because it's basically just a news program. I'd say it was something that you considered "appointment tv".

In no particular order:

Cheers
Seinfeld
Rescue Me
House
NYPD Blue
The Sopranos
The Office
Veroncia Mars (back off, it's my personal list and I loved that show. You're lucky I don't put One Tree Hill so shuddap)
M.A.S.H. (it got sidetracked the last two or so years, and I don't think I was old enough to watch first run, but it was a great show
Curb your Enthusiasm


Man, this is tough, like I said, I watched a lot of shows growing up after school. Couple of favs
Who's the Boss? Oh that Mona
Silver Spoons
My Two Dads
Facts of Life
Different Strokes
Webster
Family Ties
Blossom
Gimme a Break (not a huge fan, but that Nell Carter could shake it)
Punky Brewster

The episode where Bill's mom starts dating Coach Fredricks almost made me cry, particularly during the musical opening where he's watching panel shows and making grilled cheese. I don't know why; I was just queerly broken up over it.

This would have been my number 1 in college.

I was going to put this in my ten spot but I didn't want people to think I was gay.

1) 24
2) King of Queens
3) Lost
4) Entourage
5) Curb Your Enthusiasm
6) The Office
7) WWE
8) Man vs. Wild/Deadliest Catch
9) Pardon the Interruption
10) Josh's Cribbs

(and Seinfeld is probably 11)

ummm, it's Living Lohan. Get it right. You're obviously not a fan. I'm also embarrassed to write that I did watch a ton of Golden Girls eps and some Designing Women eps. I'll tell ya, that Blanche was a pistol.

dammit, I forgot King of Queens.

and I tivo Pardon the Interruption every day.

I'm just gonna leave the thread now and stop.

I see someone brilliant also put Veronica Mars.

a part of me doesnt want to count either of your lists because i think you may be joking, and if you are not, you both have pretty awful taste. i'll think on it.

Fuck.. another attempt at a joke failed...

TBH tho.. I love the Golden Girls, I'm not kidding when I say that it was one of the greatest shows...

But Rose FTW.... you can't resist that innocent/dumb charm she has.

im gonna need a definitively ranked 1 through 10 to count your votes.

Full list, and only shows I have seen a lot of, obviously:

1. The Wire
2. The Sopranos
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. Seinfeld
5. Deadwood
6. Arrested Development
7. South Park
8. Oz
9. The Shield
10. Law & Order

But really, this list begins and ends with The Wire, anybody who says otherwise hasn't seen it.

1. Law & Order
2. Lost
3. Married with Children
4. X-Files
5. Simpson's
6. Star Trek the Next Generation
7. Cheers
8. Arrested Development
9. South Park
10. Always Sunny in Philadelphia

As for others that are up there but not top 10 worthy IMO. A-Team, ALF, Hermans Head, Magnum P.I., Hardcastle and McCormick, Greatest American Hero, Threes Company and I am sure 20-30 others.

I included Sportscenter and BBT because I don't think I could have come up with a full top ten list. So I used filler obviously...If they don't count, then just move my other 8 up for the scoring, and add Family Guy and Saved by the Bell at the bottom of mine.

Dammit, I forgot PTI too! I guess I didn't really consider my sports shows, I was thinking more sitcoms and what not. PTI, Top Chef, & Ultimate Fighter are the only shows I have Tivo'd that I really want to make sure get recorded every week....oh well.

Saturday Night Live? Nobody but me? I know there was some bad but there was plenty of good.

I considered it, but the true glory years were before my time, and since then it's been too up and down. I don't remember the last time I even watched SNL, or for that matter, remembered it was on the air lol. Is still is right?

FYP with some order


fine, you little twat. Ask me tomorrow and the order its probably different as would be some of the choices. Dammit, now that I'm typing this, I'm gonna make some changes. Now that I've made the changes, I'm not happy with them. MASH was a great show, funny, serious, the whole nine yards, but right now, I'd rather watch Two and a Half Men. Ughh.

Meh, I haven't really watched it since the Sandler/Farley/Spade/Hartman/Rock/etc. days....

1. Dexter
2. Lost
3. The Wire
4. High Stakes Poker
5. Kenny Vs Spenny
6. Scrubs
7. Entourage
8. Californication
9. Big Brother
10. Family Guy

It was really hard for me to even remember 5 shows I like.

I love SNL, it's still great. I should have put it on my list.

1. Quantum Leap
2. The Simpsons
3. Arrested Development
4. Seinfeld
5. Monk
6. The Office
7. Lost
8. Heroes
9. The Sopranos
10. Family Guy

1 THe Wire
2 Twin Peaks ( it makes me sad that not one person voted for this)
3 Curb your Enthusiasm
4 Mr Show (another tear for no votes)
5 Sopranos
6 Monty Python
7 Deadwood
8 The Twilight Zone (original)
9 The Prisoner
10 Iron Chef ( Original)


:Edit I took off Oz and put on the original Iron chef, because man I love that show.

I don't get how people are putting shows on their list that only have one or two seasons in?

No way that qualifies for a top 10 of all time show. I saw a few episodes of californication, but nowhere even close to worthy of top 10 of all time

All right, time to show my age

1) MASH
2) Cheers
3)Seinfeld
4)Simpsons
5) Twin Peaks
6) Amazing Race
7) Top Chef
8) Entourage
9) Happy Days
10) PTI

honorable mention Jericho- needed a couple of more years
Battlestar Gallactica- the original

that's why both versions of the Office and Extras aren't on my list. It's hard to vote for an ongoing show as well.


AD and MP get on my list because they were just that damn good.

edited to rank 'em.. sorry SA:


1. M*A*S*H
2. Seinfeld
3. X Files
4. Twilight Zone
5. The Simpsons
6. Buffy
7. NYPD Blue
8. The Shield
9. Lost
0. Stargate SG-1
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I'd write in for Hells Kitchen or Top Chef, but I seriously dislike the idea of a reality show making the top 10, so I'm ok with it.

i'd need you to rank them to count. i dont want to do it for you.

1. Firefly
2. Freaks and Geeks
3. Futurama
4. Wonder Years
5. Monty Python's Flying Circus
6. The Twilight Zone
7. Frasier
8. The Simpsons
9. Seinfeld
10. High Stakes Poker

I'm not going to call out any specifics here, but do you ever think, "Who the hell likes this crap?"

Yeah, it's in some top 10 lists.

Holy crap, I like you, no homo.

I put King of Queens and I DVR PTI everyday. I love Kornheiser, Wilbon, and Reali.

1.West Wing
2. MASH
3. Buffy
4. Seinfeld
5. Cheers
6.Battlestar Galatica
7. Twilight Zone
8. Lost
9. Firefly
10. Looney Tunes (on Saturday morning back in the good ole Saturday morning cartoon days!)

Don't judge me because I like cartoons and don't have HBO.

Fixed it in my original post, sorry i didn't bother to read the instructions

Also replaced a couple with Twilight Zone and Buffy. Thanks SBriand, totally spaced putting Buffy on there!

come on, call out some specifics!





Too late.

A very unusual non HBO (not a fan) top 10

1) Wise Guy
2) Odd couple
3) Flintstones
4) Soap
5) Bugs Bunny
6) Benny Hill
7) Amazing Race
8) M.A.S.H
9) Murder One
10) West Wing

Not a fan of HBO? I have trouble even understand how you can be "not a fan" of HBO.. I mean , I can understand how you couldn't like a specific show.. but I mean.. HBO is a production comany.. with a stylistically and thematically diverse line up of shows.. to lump them all together and write them all off literally doesn't make any sense.. it's like saying " MGM.. you know, I'm just not a fan".