The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

As you must have noticed, Funfare has been putting out the lists of the 100 this and that (movies of all time, icons of the century, TV stars of all time, etc.), thanks to my good friend Raoul Tidalgo (columnist and entertainment editor of the New York-based The Filipino Reporter) who has been religiously sending me the "lists."

Here now are The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as compiled by the US magazine Entertainment Weekly):

The Top 20

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show

• Seinfeld

• All in The Family

• Cheers

• The X-Files

• I Love Lucy

• The Larry Sanders Show

• Hill Street Blues

• The Tonight Show

• The Simpsons

• The Honeymooners

• M.A.S.H.

• Star Trek

• The Ed Sullivan Show

• The Twilight Zone

• Gunsmoke

• 60 Minutes

• Roseanne

• Dallas

• Sesame Street

Comedies

• Frasier

• The Wonder Years

• Leave it to Beaver

• The Odd Couple

• The Abbott and Costello Show

• Howdy Doody

• Rocky and His Friends

• The Jeffersons

• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

• Sanford and Son

• The Andy Griffith Show

• Barney Miller

• Taxi

• Everybody Loves Raymond

• Bewitched

• The Dick Van Dyke Show

• Friends

• The Jack Benny Show

• The Bob Newhart Show

• The Cosby Show

• Monty Python’s Flying Circus

• Family Ties

• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

The Best Game Shows of All Time

• Jeopardy

• Wheel of Fortune

• The Gong Show

• What’s My Line?

• Hollywood Squares

• The Newlywed Game

• The Price is Right

• Let’s Make a Deal

• You Bet Your Life

• Family Feud

Dramas

• The Fugitive

• Moonlighting

• The Avengers

• Kojak

• Cagney & Lacey

• Miami Vice

• Magnum, P.I.

• Perry Mason

• Peyton Place

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents

• Prime Suspect

• Law & Order

• Dr. Kildare

• Columbo

• Family

• Thirty-Something

• Dragnet

• I Spy

• E.R.

• Twin Peaks

• Mission: Impossible

• Little House on the Prairie

• The Waltons

• NYPD Blue

• Homicide: Life on the Street

• Maverick

• The Rifleman

• L.A. Law

• St. Elsewhere

• Wiseguy

• The Rockford Files

• Rawhide

• Bonanza

The Best Mini-Series of All Time

• Rich Man, Poor Man

• I, Claudius

• Roots

• Shogun

• The Winds of War

• The Thorn Birds

• V

• The Singing Detective

• Lonesome Dove

• Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City

Talk/Variety

• Saturday Night Live

• The Carol Burnett Show

• Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In

• Today

• Your Show of Shows

• The Late Show with David Letterman

• SCTV Network

• The Oprah Winfrey Show

• The Ernie Kovacs Show

Guilty Pleasures

• Charlie’s Angels

• Lost in Space

• Gilligan’s Island

• Beverly Hills 90210

• Happy Days

• The Mod Squad

• Hawaii Five-O

• Batman

• The Lone Ranger

• Dynasty

• Melrose Place

• The Munsters

• The Brady Bunch

• The Beverly Hillbillies

• Green Acres

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