TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time

TV Guide ^ | Dec 23, 2013 | Bruce Fretts and Matt Roush

[Leaning Right]

So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things up, blending drama, comedy and other genres to salute the shows with the biggest cultural impact and most enduring influence.

[Leaning Right]

Something nonpolitical for a Sunday.

And here are the top 10 TV shows on their list (your mileage may vary):

1. The Sopranos
2. Seinfeld
3. I Love Lucy
4. All in the Family
5. The Twilight Zone
6. The Wire
7. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
8. M*A*S*H
9. Breaking Bad
10. The Simpsons

[ifinnegan]

Piece of garbage at number one.

Knew it’d be a nonsense liberal list.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Andy Griffith, Dallas, Cheers

[Joe 6-pack]

Overall, not a bad list. I would have added, Newhart along with The Bob Newhart Show.

[hardspunned]

No Perry Mason, Car 54 or Then Came Bronson? Bogus list.

[wally_bert]

No Mason, no validity.

[Henchster]

Where’s “The Honeymooners” ????

[HangnJudge]

Bonanza, The Little Rascals

[RayChuang88]

I Love Lucy should be #1 because it did things other shows didn't do at the time: it was shot on film and used three cameras like a real movie production.

[Henchster]

OK, I went to the list “Honeymooners” #13.

[Leaning Right]

> Piece of garbage at number one. <

‘The Sopranos’ was a compelling TV series, very intense. But it was also vulgar and inhumane, from top to bottom. So yeah, I’ll agree with you there.

[abb]

I Love Lucy could not be made in today’s times. A ditzy wife married to a relatively level-headed husband? The scriptwriters would be tarred and feathered.

[a fool in paradise]

1 - The Twilight Zone (original)
2 - The Tonight Show (Johnny Carson)
3 - The Honeymooners
4 - Seinfeld
5 - Monty Python’s Flying Circus
6 - The Prisoner
7 - Best of Ernie Kovacs (PBS)
8 - SCTV (Canadian version pre-NBC)

[Alberta's Child]

If it doesn't have "Bonanza" in the top five, it ain't a real list.

:-)

[Drew68]

I would add "Game of Thrones" primarily because of how it took television production to a new level in today's age of the affordable massive-screen HDTV.

To watch GoT on a 65" 4k TV with a some theater surround sound is just a wonder to behold. This is part of what's killing the movies. They just can't compete with this.

[allendale]

“Death Valley Days” told the definitive American morality tales and influenced many. List was compiled by leftist editors.

[nikos1121]

The Wire?????????

[Zirondelle76]

Yes, I Love Lucy should be number one and the Dick Van Dyke Show before Mary Tyler Moore. Need Taxi as well.

[JPJones]

Gilligan’s Island.

Star Trek.

[nikos1121]

Jack Benny Show never jumped the shark