101 Best-Written TV Series Ever

Newser ^ | 06/03/2013 | By Evann Gastaldo

[Borges]

Can’t leave AITF and Mash off. They were supremely well written off.

[laweeks]

M*A*S*H was a horribly written, anti-American, anti-military series that I couldn’t stand.

There weren’t any patriotic American officers who weren’t cast as morons, nor were there any commie Korean military who weren’t slobbered all over sympathetically.

All U.S. military cowards were shown as heroes and any tough military-minded soldiers were shown as aggressive and nasty.

The cross dressing soldier, Klinger, was cast as a comic rather than someone who should have been drummed out of the service immediately.

Sorry, but I couldn’t stand watching this series after even a half-year.

[redhead]

Gunsmoke

[Gaffer]

I agree. The best in SyFy in my opinion.

[Las Vegas Ron]

What the...where’s Gilligan’s Island and Bugs Bunny?

[Responsibility2nd]

Did not make the list.

Note to all. Sorry, not my fault the list is slooowwwww.

I’ll keep it open for a little whilte....

You ask - and I’ll check the list for your opinions.

And I’ll abbreviate.

Did not make the list = DNM.

[katana]

As soon as I read the title of this post I knew they had gotten to the Red Wedding part of the books.

[newfreep]

I loved the X-Files but......

Fringe was a far better show with superior writing and acting.

[buffyt]

Frasier, Third Rock, Sunny in Philadelphia, Flight of the Concords, Downton Abbey, War & Peace, Big Bang Theory....

[freedumb2003]

The Prisoner is WAY too low.

“Seinfeld” #2? Hah! — that is the biggest laugh I ever got from that show. I watched it and, other than his stand-up bit at the start, never cracked a smile much less laughed.

Quite a few of those shows I have never watched and, in the case of “Sopranos,” “Sex and the City” and “Dexter” and some others, never will. There are also a number of shows I have never heard of.

Other than that, I agree with a lot of the list: at least the shows I expected do show up. I am sure we all will come up with missing entries (people always do with “top anything” lists.

[MRadtke]

Someone forgot “Wild Wild West”. That certainly belongs on the list, better than many that are on it.

[Responsibility2nd]

Firefly - DNM.

(I never heard of it).

[buffyt]

Twilight Zone! AMEN to that! The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” I think that is the name of the episode. Excellent

[Responsibility2nd]

No. 84.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And if you look at this Top 10 list, even shows on that list went through periods of greatness and periods of mediocrity. MASH was good for a while, even though it had a liberal slant, but then turned into an insufferable, weekly sermon by Alan Alda for its last couple of years. Even All in the Family became medicore for its last couple of seasons. The Sopranos was good for a while but then really went off the rails in its last season and a half (especially the gay theme — that was dreadful). The only one on the Top 10 List that, in my opinion, didn’t go down hill was The Wire and that’s because it had a limited run.

[Responsibility2nd]

DNM and DNM.

[freedumb2003]

>>Person of Interest and Elementary.<<

We loved POI to begin with. But lately the body count has gotten so high it is like watching a Stallone/Schwarzenegger film. It has become unwatchable.

[Responsibility2nd]

Fringe = DNM

[freedumb2003]

??Someone forgot “Wild Wild West”. That certainly belongs on the list, better than many that are on it.>>

Mork and Mindy!

(joke — really)

[onyx]

Law and Order

Father Knows Best

Leave it to Beaver

I love Lucy