Posted on 06/03/2013 2:52:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – Still reeling from last night's episode of Game of Thrones? Need to take a break and watch a different, but also well-written, TV show? Then the Writers Guild of America's list of the 101 best-written television series arrives just in the nick of time. Here's the top 10:
1.The Sopranos
2.Seinfeld
3.The Twilight Zone
4.All in the Family
5.M*A*S*H
6.The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7.Mad Men
8.Cheers
9.The Wire
10.The West Wing
Click for the complete list. (Game of Thrones doesn't show up until spot No. 40.)
Green Acres
I always thought that show deserved a lot of praise for the country style theater of the absurd writing. A pig with a paper route and remember the High-Handed Act of 1912?
Were they the episodes written by cokehead Aaron Sorkin, or the later ones written by Liar O'Donnell?
-PJ
Um...HOMEFRONT!!!
Justified. 86? Should be in top 5.
Due South?
Oh my gosh, Cop Rock——Number 1!!!
#1 is The Andy Griffith Show
If you want to learn how write comedy, watch all the shows.
If you want to learn how to deliver comedy, watch all the shows.
Questions on timing? Watch all the shows.
If you want to learn how to put people on the floor by simply remaining silent, watch all the shows.
It is a very compleat education for a writer.
Forgot about B5, yeah I would put it above DS9, especially the middle seasons of B5.
LOL, well, as soon as I figure out what that is, I'll be on the lookout for it. Thanks for the heads-up.
Frasier, and Monk!!
They put Columbo and Rockford Files below The Office?
Are they insane?
Columbo and the Rockford Files where brilliantly written and acted by Falk and Garner.
The Office was dire and Ricky Gervais is his own greatest fan, the bloke’s an absolute d!ck
Definitely Monk.
I love Columbo but Rockford Files was always well written and definitely bump it up to top 10.
I hate to admit it, but I have never seen Monk. I have seen some of the previews and loved what I saw, but for some weird reason I never saw the show. Must have been on during one of my favs.
I agree, Buffy The Vampire Slayer should be so much higher!
I liked Sisko and Clayton (Odo) Endicott with hard to do pronounce last name.
I totally agree...
Jim Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop is a brilliant actor..
And that Alda creep was/is an especially insufferable @hole, imho.
I loved the tagline Nick at Nite used to promote the show when it was running on that network: “It’s not stupid; it’s surreal.”
2nd on Frasier
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