TIME Magazine's 100 Best TV Shows of ALL-TIME

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Based on the list written by TIME magazine critic James Poniewozik.

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-MTV 1981-1992
-The Super Bowl & ads

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  1. 1 -

    The Abbott and Costello Show

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 2 -

    ABC's Wide World of Sports

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    All in the Family

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 5 -

    An American Family

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 6 -

    American Idol: The Search for a Superstar

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
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    Arrested Development

    2003, in 0 top lists Check
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    Battlestar Galactica

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Beavis and Butt-Head

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Bob Newhart Show

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
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    Brideshead Revisited

    1981, in 2 top lists Check
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    Buffalo Bill

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Carol Burnett Show

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
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    CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

    1962, in 0 top lists Check
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    A Charlie Brown Christmas

    1965, in 0 top lists Check
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    Cheers

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Cosby Show

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Daily Show

    1996, in 0 top lists Check
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    Dallas

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Day After

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
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    Deadwood

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
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    Dragnet

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 25 -

    Toast of the Town

    1948 — a.k.a. The Ed Sullivan Show, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 26 -

    The Ernie Kovacs Show

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
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    Felicity

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
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    Freaks and Geeks

    1999, in 0 top lists Check
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    The French Chef

    1962, in 0 top lists Check
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    Friends

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    General Hospital

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
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    The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

    1950, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 33 -

    Gilmore Girls

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Gunsmoke

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hill Street Blues

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  36. 36 -

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Honeymooners

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    I, Claudius

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
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    I Love Lucy

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
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    King of the Hill

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Larry Sanders Show

    1992, in 0 top lists Check
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    Late Night with David Letterman

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Leave It to Beaver

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
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    Lost

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Married with Children

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mary Tyler Moore

    1970 — a.k.a. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in 0 top lists Check
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    M*A*S*H

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Monkees

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
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    Monty Python's Flying Circus

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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