WGA's top 101 TV shows of all time

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Here is the complete list of the 101 best shows as selected by an online poll of writers of film and TV.
1. "The Sopranos"
2. "Seinfeld"
3. "The Twilight Zone"
4. "All in the Family"
5. "MASH"
6. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
7. "Mad Men"
8. "Cheers"
9. "The Wire"
10. "The West Wing"
11. "The Simpsons"
12. "I Love Lucy"
13. "Breaking Bad"
14. "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
15. "Hill Street Blues"
16. "Arrested Development"
17. "The Daily Show"
18. "Six Feet Under"
19. "Taxi"
20. "The Larry Sanders Show"
21. "30 Rock"
22. "Friday Night Lights"
23. "Frasier"
24. "Friends"
25. "Saturday Night Live"
26. "The X-Files"
27. "Lost"
28. "ER"
29. "The Cosby Show"
30. "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
31. "The Honeymooners"
32. "Deadwood"
33. "Star Trek"
34. "Modern Family"
35. "Twin Peaks"
36. "NYPD Blue"
37. "The Carol Burnett Show"
38. "Battlestar Galactica"
39. "Sex and the City"
40. "Game of Thrones"
41. "The Bob Newhart Show"
42. "Your Show of Shows"
43. "Downton Abbey"
44. "Law & Order"
45. "Thirtysomething"
46. "St. Elsewhere"
47. "Homicide: Life on the Street"
48. "Homeland"
49. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
50. "The Good Wife"
51. "The Colbert Report"
52. "The Office" (British version)
53. "Northern Exposure"
54. "The Wonder Years"
55. "L.A. Law"
56. "Sesame Street"
57. "Columbo"
58. "The Rockford Files"
59. "Fawlty Towers"
60. "Moonlighting"
61. "Freaks and Geeks"
62. "Roots"
63. "Everybody Loves Raymond"
64. "South Park"
65. "Playhouse 90"
66. "The Office" (U.S. version)
67. "Dexter"
68. "My So-Called Life"
69. "Golden Girls"
70. "The Andy Griffith Show"
71. "The Shield"
72. "Roseanne"
73. "24"
74. "Murphy Brown"
75. "House"
76. "Barney Miller"
77. "I, Claudius"
78. "The Odd Couple"
79. "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
80. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
81. "Upstairs Downstairs"
82. "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
83. "Get Smart"
84. "Gunsmoke"
85. "The Defenders"
86. "Sergeant Bilko"
87. "Justified"
88. "Band of Brothers"
89. "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
90. "The Prisoner"
91. "The Muppet Show"
92. "Absolutely Fabulous"
93. "Boardwalk Empire"
94. "Will and Grace"
95. "Family Ties"
96. "Lonesome Dove"
97. "Soap"
98. "The Fugitive"
99. "Louie"
100. "Late Night With David Letterman"
101. "Oz"
 

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Love seinfeld at two, but sopranos shouldn't be first.

Friends should probably be higher based on it's popularity and impact on social culture
 

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Any list without Seinfeld at #1 is bogus!!

"That's bogus, man!!" - Puddy
 

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How old are the people that voted for this list? No way should Seinfeld or Sopranos deserving of 1,2

The Honeymooners should be in Top 10. I may have missed it, but I didnt see Three Stooges on the lost anywhere.

If I had to vote after seeing this list, I probably would have put Sesame Street at #1 partly from longevity and partly because most of us have watched it at one point or another.
 

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"Dallas" has to be on the list for it to be credible.... should be top 10 let along top 100
 

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Where is 2.5 men with Charlie Sheen!!!! :>(
 

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The Good Wife? WTF??

There's a lot of shows missing off that list:

Murder She Wrote (was one of the longest running drama's ever)

Hee-Haw (laugh, but I will bet you millions & millions of people watched that show growing up)

Oz should be much higher than some of the crap ahead of it.

Where's, Married with Children??
 

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Mash should be #1 and where the hect is MacGyver? that was my shit growing up.
 

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Gunsmoke at #84 and the wonder years #54 should be higher
 

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