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Time just published its “100 Best TV Shows” list, and I’d give it solid B-plus.

I know some will find it controversial! “Battlestar Galactica” made the list; “Babylon 5” did not. “Freaks and Geeks” made the list; “That ‘70s Show” did not. “The Real World” made the list; “The Joe Schmo Show” did not. “Saturday Night Live” made the list; “MadTV” did not. “Gilmore Girls” made the list; “Desperate Housewives” did not. “South Park” made the list; “Family Guy” did not. “King of the Hill” made the list; “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” did not. “Survivor” and “An American Family” made the list; “Breaking Bonaduce” and “The Osbournes” did not. “The Office” made the list; “My Name Is Earl” did not. “Felicity” and “Deadwood” made the list; “Dexter” and “Nip/Tuck” did not.

There are some choices even I find eyebrow-raising. “The Monkees” over “Fawlty Towers.” “Sex and the City” over “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “General Hospital” over “Alias.” “SpongeBob SquarePants” over “Cupid” and “Veronica Mars.” “Dallas” over “Carnivale.”

Time Magazine’s 100 Best TV Shows:

The Abbott & Costello Show
ABC’s Wide World Of Sports
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
All in the Family
An American Family
American Idol
Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
Beavis and Butt-Head
The Bob Newhart Show

Brideshead Revisited
Buffalo Bill
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Carol Burnett Show
The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Cheers
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
Dallas

The Day After
Deadwood
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dragnet
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ernie Kovacs Show
Felicity
Freaks and Geeks
The French Chef
Friends

General Hospital
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Gilmore Girls
Gunsmoke
Hill Street Blues
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Honeymooners
I, Claudius
I Love Lucy
King of the Hill

The Larry Sanders Show
Late Night With David Letterman
Leave It To Beaver
Lost
Married … With Children
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
The Monkees
Monty Python's Flying Circus

Moonlighting
MTV 1981-1982
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Odd Couple
The Office (BBC)" style=
The Office (NBC)
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Playhouse 90

The Price Is Right
Prime Suspect
The Prisoner
The Real World
Rocky and His Friends
Roots
Roseanne
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live
Second City Television

See It Now
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Singing Detective
Six Feet Under
60 Minutes
Soap

The Sopranos
South Park
SpongeBob SquarePants
Sportscenter
Star Trek
St. Elsewhere
The Super Bowl
Survivor
Taxi
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

24
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
The West Wing
What’s My Line
The Wire
WKRP In Cincinnati
Wiseguy
The X-Files
Your Show Of Shows

Find Time’s explanations here.







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First!
by The Addict
Sep 8th, 2007
02:29:35 AM
oh shit
by Holodigm
Sep 8th, 2007
02:32:19 AM
CUPID?
by Thick McRunFast
Sep 8th, 2007
02:54:32 AM
The Shield made it
by Bob of the Shire
Sep 8th, 2007
02:54:36 AM
Wonder Years???
by Dash D
Sep 8th, 2007
02:58:35 AM
rubbish
by couP
Sep 8th, 2007
03:05:26 AM
I don't get FELICITY at all
by Thick McRunFast
Sep 8th, 2007
03:06:32 AM
Ya know, I sorta find this oddly comforting...
by TheSeeker7
Sep 8th, 2007
03:09:05 AM
Not One Law and Order series
by Mixiboi
Sep 8th, 2007
03:22:53 AM
But you know...
by Mixiboi
Sep 8th, 2007
03:25:17 AM
Happy Days?
by buffywrestling
Sep 8th, 2007
04:42:52 AM
Happy Days jumped the shark
by zooch
Sep 8th, 2007
05:15:18 AM
About half of those shows don't deserse...
by Sledge Hammer
Sep 8th, 2007
05:39:36 AM
The Day After
by Yeti
Sep 8th, 2007
06:34:06 AM
MTV
by Yeti
Sep 8th, 2007
06:34:56 AM
A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Yeti
Sep 8th, 2007
06:35:51 AM
The Monkees?
by Yeti
Sep 8th, 2007
06:42:06 AM
Alias, Dexter, Dr Who, Nip/Tuck, & Rome
by Yeti
Sep 8th, 2007
06:48:17 AM
I am so sorry
by Fernwick_
Sep 8th, 2007
06:50:26 AM
not Time's list
by palewook
Sep 8th, 2007
06:58:02 AM
Not everybody crushes on Veronica Mars -
by jimbojones123
Sep 8th, 2007
07:41:30 AM
Buffy
by Gatsbys West Egg Omlet
Sep 8th, 2007
08:18:14 AM
Top 100 American shows practically
by Discolover
Sep 8th, 2007
08:28:18 AM
No E.R, Picket Fences, and NYPD Blue?
by ev1ldead
Sep 8th, 2007
08:28:30 AM
ummm, no Rome?
by hudson78
Sep 8th, 2007
08:44:22 AM
"Any of us could do the same"
by newc0253
Sep 8th, 2007
08:46:28 AM
Hilarious
by kwisatzhaderach
Sep 8th, 2007
08:56:06 AM
Talk about perplexing choices..
by Ronimus Prime
Sep 8th, 2007
09:06:20 AM
Let's Get Something Straight
by ScooterKSU
Sep 8th, 2007
09:35:21 AM
Fairly pleased with the list, if it really matters
by tylermo
Sep 8th, 2007
09:44:16 AM
one of the best OF ALL TIME
by CarmillaVonDoom
Sep 8th, 2007
09:58:31 AM
MST3K!!!
by closeencounter
Sep 8th, 2007
10:27:50 AM
ALL TIME BEST
by Fernwick_
Sep 8th, 2007
10:32:00 AM
No FIREFLY, SPORTS NIGHT, WONDERFALLS, or RELATIVITY?
by robogeek.com
Sep 8th, 2007
10:37:15 AM
Where's Northern Exposure?
by Holy Hell
Sep 8th, 2007
10:41:26 AM
it was one critic and it was his rules
by Trader Groucho 2
Sep 8th, 2007
10:47:39 AM
a blanketed "Star Trek" title. Why not give NG
by George Newman
Sep 8th, 2007
10:50:05 AM
Beavis and Butthead are iconic, but the show sucked
by George Newman
Sep 8th, 2007
11:09:59 AM
No shows that start with letter N. Where's NIGHTCOURT?
by George Newman
Sep 8th, 2007
11:12:10 AM
other thoughts
by tylermo
Sep 8th, 2007
11:12:22 AM
Spongebob but no LOONEY TUNES???!?!!!!
by George Newman
Sep 8th, 2007
11:16:02 AM
Wonder Years
by Harrigan
Sep 8th, 2007
11:30:27 AM
WTF, why did they put miniseries' on the list?
by SoylentMean
Sep 8th, 2007
12:17:58 PM
Get Smart, The Addams Family, The Munsters....
by yeah i'm a jerk!
Sep 8th, 2007
12:38:22 PM
JJ
by Pomona
Sep 8th, 2007
01:38:02 PM
B5 didn't deserve...great arc, but....
by SantiagoAtez
Sep 8th, 2007
01:48:11 PM
B5 rocked
by Pomona
Sep 8th, 2007
02:01:58 PM
Where the fuck is House?
by Paragon Complex
Sep 8th, 2007
02:20:39 PM
Phil Silvers, fucked again
by CerebralAssassin
Sep 8th, 2007
02:33:09 PM
Band of Brothers
by Sebastian Haff
Sep 8th, 2007
02:35:41 PM
Just one more thing ...
by heroic_duo
Sep 8th, 2007
02:51:20 PM
B.S. List
by Playkins
Sep 8th, 2007
03:12:15 PM
Time's little lists are so much Bullshite.
by TomBodet
Sep 8th, 2007
03:19:19 PM
Why not put on-
by TomBodet
Sep 8th, 2007
03:33:16 PM
Whoops--my bad.
by TomBodet
Sep 8th, 2007
03:34:22 PM
shuttlepod
by Fernwick_
Sep 8th, 2007
03:50:30 PM
PRETTY DAMN ACCURATE
by ShiftyEyedDog2
Sep 8th, 2007
03:51:30 PM
FIREFLY? VERONICA?
by ShiftyEyedDog2
Sep 8th, 2007
03:52:30 PM
Nothing but an Amazon ad.
by ShiftyEyedDog2
Sep 8th, 2007
03:53:44 PM
Ah you transvestite 90 year olds living in
by Fernwick_
Sep 8th, 2007
04:03:18 PM
The Wire
by d1138
Sep 8th, 2007
04:22:32 PM
I second you heroic_duo...
by meldy
Sep 8th, 2007
05:42:49 PM
Fuckings Friends...
by Judge Briggs
Sep 8th, 2007
05:49:03 PM
Where's Angel?
by Judge Briggs
Sep 8th, 2007
05:49:56 PM
The appeal of Friend will plague
by glodene
Sep 8th, 2007
06:46:48 PM
How's it that a BBC show made the list?
by veritasses
Sep 8th, 2007
07:02:08 PM
Freaks and Geeks only made the list because
by SoylentMean
Sep 8th, 2007
07:48:36 PM
Why is Angel never on these lists?
by Neo Zeed
Sep 8th, 2007
08:14:44 PM
WHERE'S MANIMAL?
by BrandLoyalist
Sep 8th, 2007
08:43:47 PM
I was going to compliment...
by Hairy Nutsack
Sep 8th, 2007
09:01:29 PM
Babylon 5?
by dengreg31
Sep 8th, 2007
09:23:01 PM
Thank you Time..
by NYC
Sep 8th, 2007
09:33:32 PM
Roseanne, Beaver and Married
by NYC
Sep 8th, 2007
09:35:45 PM
Polling people on this subject wouldn't...
by torpor_haze
Sep 8th, 2007
10:38:01 PM
Any list with Friends is instantly disqualified.
by Pops Freshemeyer
Sep 9th, 2007
03:29:00 AM
No OZ?
by sHapesHiftinLizard
Sep 9th, 2007
04:45:35 AM
Yes Pops we were all wrong and you were right
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Sep 9th, 2007
06:08:19 AM
I'm surprised NYPD Blue isn't up there
by SantiagoAtez
Sep 9th, 2007
07:57:18 AM
I love haw all of them sans one has a link to Amazon.
by Drworm2002
Sep 9th, 2007
09:02:07 AM
No "Combat," "Outer Limits" and "Wild, Wild West."
by Uncapie
Sep 9th, 2007
11:14:59 AM
I'm GLAD "That 70's Show" isn't on the list!!!
by Nosferatu Jones
Sep 9th, 2007
11:21:43 AM
they picked some weird clips to show...
by RockLobster800
Sep 9th, 2007
11:22:44 AM
OZ was awesome!
by Neo Zeed
Sep 9th, 2007
03:58:17 PM
Where the fuck is Bosom Buddies?
by GaiustheBrave
Sep 9th, 2007
07:59:09 PM
Where's the Love for Manimal????????
by The Green Monster
Sep 10th, 2007
10:06:45 AM
What about Cop Rock??
by The Green Monster
Sep 10th, 2007
10:07:38 AM
No Mansquito?
by The Green Monster
Sep 10th, 2007
10:08:55 AM
THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW?
by thegreatwhatzit
Sep 11th, 2007
12:12:20 AM
No Law and Order? No Golden Girls? BLASPHEMY!
by Err
Sep 11th, 2007
07:16:13 PM

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