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All TIME 100 TV Shows

TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik picks the medium’s greatest.

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1.
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 The Abbott and Costello Show  
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 ABC's Wide World of Sports  
3.
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 Alfred Hitchcock Presents  
4.
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 All in the Family  
5.
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 An American Family  
6.
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 American Idol
by Simon Fuller
  
7.
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 Arrested Development  
8.
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 Battlestar Galactica  
9.
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 Beavis and Butt-head
by Mike Judge
  
10.
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 The Bob Newhart Show  
11.
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 Brideshead Revisited  
12.
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 Buffalo Bill  
13.
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 Buffy The Vampire Slayer -- The Series
by Joss Whedon
  
14.
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 The Carol Burnett Show  
15.
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 The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite  
16. A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Bill Melendez
  
17.
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 Cheers  
18.
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 The Cosby Show
by
 
19.
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 The Daily Show
by Comedy Central
  
20.
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 Dallas  
21.
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 The Day After  
22.
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 Deadwood
by HBO
  
23.
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 The Dick Van Dyke Show  
24.
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 Dragnet  
25.
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 The Ed Sullivan Show  
26.
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 The Ernie Kovacs Show  
27.
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 felicity
by j.j. abrams
  
28.
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 Freaks and Geeks
by Judd Apatow
  
29.
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 The French Chef  
30.
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 Friends
by David Crane & Marta Kauffman
  
31.
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 General Hospital
by
 
32.
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 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show  
33.
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 Gilmore Girls
by Amy Sherman-Palladino
  
34.
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 Gunsmoke  
35.
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 Hill Street Blues  
36.
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 Homicide: Life on the Street
by Paul Attanasio & Tom Fontana
  
37.
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 The Honeymooners  
38.
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 I, Claudius  
39.
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 I Love Lucy  
40.
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 King of the Hill
by Mike Judge & Greg Daniels
  
41.
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 The Larry Sanders Show  
42.
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 late show with david letterman
by david letterman
  
43.
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 Leave It to Beaver  
44.
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 Lost
by ABC
  
45.
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 Married...With Children
by Michael G. Moye & Ron Leavitt
  
46.
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 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman  
47.
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 The Mary Tyler Moore Show  
48.
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 MASH  
49.
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 The Monkees  
50.
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 Monty Python's Flying Circus
by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
  
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Created by Terpsikore on Apr 18, 2008.