BOF's Top 50 Television Shows of All Time - Deadline closed, PM me blurbs about why you chose a show!

[iceroll]

I was originally going to make this later, but since we're moving servers I figured I might as well set it up now while we still have the a lot of active members and get more lists.

 

Some rules:

 

1) Lists must contain at least 10 TV shows

2) Any TV show from any time, language, genre, medium etc. will count. Miniseries are eligible too.

3) New and ongoing shows are eligible.

4) It's not necessary to have seen all the episodes of a show to include it on your list, if you feel like you can rank a show on your top list after seeing only x number of episodes, then go ahead.

 

I'm not sure how many shows the final countdown will include, this will depend on the number of lists and submissions I get. 

 

I liked the members quotes idea from my TOP 100 animated films list, so if anyone wants to submit a blurb about why you included a certain TV show, feel free to PM me.

 

You can post your lists here or through PM.

 

Scoring scheme:

Rank	Score
1	65
2	50
3	42
4	36
5	34
6	33
7	32
8	31
9	30
10	28
11	26
12	26
13	26
14	24
15	24
16	22
17	22
18	22
19	20
20	20
21	19
22	19
23	19
24	18
25	18
26	17
27	17
28	17
29	16
30	16
31	15
32	15
33	15
34	15
35	15
36	14
37	14
38	14
39	14
40	14
41	13
42	13
43	13
44	13
45	13
46	12
47	12
48	12
49	12
50	12
51	11
52	11
53	11
54	11
55	11
56	10
57	10
58	10
59	10
60	10
61	9
62	9
63	9
64	9
65	9
66	8
67	8
68	8
69	8
70	8
71	7
72	7
73	7
74	7
75	7
76	7
77	7
78	7
79	7
80	7
81	6
82	6
83	6
84	6
85	6
86	6
87	6
88	6
89	6
90	6
91	5
92	5
93	5
94	5
95	5
96	5
97	5
98	5
99	5
100	5

Edited December 7, 2014 by iceroll

[iceroll]

Some best-of lists to get you started:

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?num_votes=5000,&sort=user_rating,desc&title_type=tv_series

http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4925

http://www.empireonline.com/50greatesttv/

http://www.tvguide.com/news/tv-guide-magazine-60-best-series-1074962.aspx

[Dark Jedi Master 007]

I honestly can't think of 10 great shows cause I don't watch a ton of TV. But I'm using this spot to campaign for The Wire and The Sopranos, master works about the human condition in 21st century America. 

[baumer]

3) Seinfeld

5) Friends

1) The Six Million Dollar Man

6) Cheers

7) Dallas

4) The Walking Dead

11) The Young and the Restless

10) The Shield

12) I Love Lucy

8) The Dukes of Hazard

2) V: The mini series

17) Saturday Night Live

13) Little House on the Prairie

9) The A-Team

18) MacGyver

15) Saved by the Bell

16) Silver Spoons

14) Everybody Loves Raymond

19) The Cosby Show

20) All in the Family

 

Not in order, these are just shows I'm thinking of.

Edited December 1, 2014 by baumer

[75Live]

The original V miniseries was amazing.  The 2nd mini-series to end the plot was great too.  The actual weekly show they did to keep it going, not so much

[iceroll]

Some shows I'm considering:

 

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Legend of Korra

Breaking Bad

The Walking Dead

Six Feet Under

Friends

How to Get Away With Murder

Gilmore GIrls

The Office

Parks and Recreation

Community

Modern Family

American Idol

The X Factor (USA)

The Simpsons

Family Guy

Pokemon

Digimon

Spongebob Squarepants

Planet Earth

Game of Thrones

Dexter

Sherlock

Arrested Development

Naruto

Bleach

Attack on Titan

Death Note

Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Edited November 10, 2014 by iceroll

[mahnamahna]

1. The Wonder Years
2. Doctor Who
3. American Horror Story
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. Freaks and Geeks
6. SpongeBob SquarePants
7. Sesame Street
8. Rugrats
9. The Ren and Stimpy Show
10. Dexter's Laboratory
11. Danny Phantom
12. Archer
13. South Park
14. The Simpsons
15. Blue's Clues
16. Everybody Loves Raymond
17. Saturday Night Live 
18. 60 Minutes
19. Modern Family 
20. Cheers
21. The Golden Girls
22. Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
23. COPS
24. America's Most Wanted
25. Dateline
26. I Love Lucy
27. The Waltons
28. Little House on the Prairie
29. Agents of SHIELD 
30. Pokemon - Indigo League

[MovieGuyKyle17]

Shows to be considered:
Community
Arrested Development
Scrubs

Clone High

3rd Rock From The Sun
The Office
All In The Family
Hey Arnold!

[peludo]

I will give my top 50. It is difficult to order. Today I can like better one than another and maybe some modern shows are over than older ones because of memory. If I revise some of them, the list could change but this is my list today. And I have extremely clear the top 2. It is difficult it can change for a long while. The Wire is the best TV show I have seen and Tony Soprano is the best character ever created.

 

1. The Wire

2. The Sopranos

3. Six Feet Under

4. Friends

5. The X-Files

6. 24

7. True Detective

8. Breaking Bad

9. Game of Thrones

10. Boardwalk Empire

11. The Shield

12. Rome

13. Hill Street Blues

14. M*A*S*H

15. The Simpsons

16. Saint Seiya

17. Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z

18. The Pink Panther Show

19. Crematorio (Spain) It means, literally, Crematorium

20. Treme

21. Dexter

22. Sherlock

23. House of Cards

24. The West Wing

25. Northern Exposure

26. Deadwood

27. Mad Men

28. Sesame Street

29. Red Dwarf

30. Knight Rider

31. Monthy Python's Flying Circus

32. Cheers

33. The Big Bang Theory

34. The Newsroom

35. The A-Team

36. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

37. Columbo

38. How I met your mother

39. V

40. Moonlighting

41. Murder, she wrote

42. The Outer Limits

43. Carnivale

44. Futurama

45. Night Court

46. Lost

47. Saved by the bell

48. MacGyver

49. Dinosaurs

50. The Flintstones

Edited November 10, 2014 by peludo

[darkelf]

Y'all need to give some love to OZ. Seriously.

[peludo]

Y'all need to give some love to OZ. Seriously.

I have not seen it yet, but I will. I have read that it was the beginning of HBO splendor.

Edited November 10, 2014 by peludo

[grey ghost]

1) The Twilight Zone

2) Breaking Bad

3) Batman The Animated Series

4) The Sopranos

5) The Wire

6) Seinfeld

7) South Park

8) Band of Brothers

9) The Simpsons

10) Game of Thrones

 

(the last 5 are personal favorites)

 

11) Rick and Morty

12) The Walking Dead

13) The Chappelle Show

14) Always Sunny in Philadelphia

15) Futurama

[CoolioD1]

I remember the last time we did this Walking Dead got into the top 10, right? Shit was embarrassing. I'll think on a list, will get to it eventually.

[iceroll]

I remember the last time we did this Walking Dead got into the top 10, right? Shit was embarrassing. I'll think on a list, will get to it eventually.

This was done before? Link?

[baumer]

I remember the last time we did this Walking Dead got into the top 10, right? Shit was embarrassing. I'll think on a list, will get to it eventually.

 

So because you disagree with its placement, it's embarrassing?

[CoolioD1]

So because you disagree with its placement, it's embarrassing?

yes. duh.

[CoolioD1]

oh wait, I just checked and it wasn't in the top 10 after all. you guys are all right.

[iceroll]

Can you link to the old one? I can't find it...

[ZappBrannigan]

If The Wire isn't #1, I'm disowning this forum.

[iceroll]

If The Wire isn't #1, I'm disowning this forum.

Well you better send a list then