Day 100, April 10: Best TV Shows

My Top 100 All-Time

Favorite TV Shows

To celebrate my 100th posting, I'm listing the 100 TV shows I've most enjoyed during my life. Many I shared with people I love(d) and that's why they're on the list. Many I savored alone. Most are from the past; very few from the 2000s. When you're not into reality TV, Idols, Dancers or CSI - and you don't have HBO or Showtime - well, it's kind of a lost TV decade. Oh well. Several of my shows would likely not be on anyone else's Top 100. I think that's cool. I hope you celebrate my list, not pick it apart or judge it. And, if you'd like to add some of yours, I'll celebrate those, as well. Enjoy and reminisce. (Shows with * are in my Top 25.)

A list of notable omissions is at the end.

The Top 100

* ABC's Wide World of Sports

The Addams Family

* Alfred Hitchcock Presents

* All in the Family

America's Funniest Home Videos

American Bandstand

* The Andy Griffith Show

Arrested Development

Baywatch

* The Bennie Hill Show

* The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched

* Bonanza

The Brady Bunch

Candid Camera

The Carol Burnett Show

Coach

Charlie's Angels

Cheers

Combat

The Cosby Show

The Dating Game

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Doug (cartoon)

* Early Edition

* ESPN Sports Center

Family Ties

Fantasy Island

* The Flintstones

Flipper

The Flip Wilson Show

* The Fugitive

Gentle Ben

Get Smart

* Gilligan's Island

Good Times

Gomer Pyle USMC

* Green Acres

Gunsmoke

Hannity & Colmes

* Happy Days

Hazel

Here's Lucy

Hogan's Heroes

Home Improvement

The Honeymooners

* I Love Lucy

Jeopardy

Lassie

Late Night With David Lettermen

* Leave it to Beaver

The Love Boat

Married ... With Children

* M*A*S*H

The Match Game

Mission: Impossible

* Monday Night Football

The Monty Python Show

Mork & Mindy

Mr. Ed

The Munsters

My Favorite Martian

My Three Sons

Newhart

The Newlywed Game

* Night Gallery

Nightline

NYPD Blue

The O'Reilly Factor

The Partridge Family

Pee Wee's Playhouse

Police Squad

The Price is Right

The Red Skelton Hour

* The Rifleman

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Sanford & Son

* Saturday Night Live

Saved by the Bell

Scrubs

* Seinfeld

Sex & the City

The Simpsons

60 Minutes

The Smothers Brothers

Survivor (the first season only)

Taxi

Three's Company

Thirtysomething

* The Tonight Show (Carson and Leno)

To Tell the Truth

Touched by an Angel

* The Twilight Zone

The Walt Disney Show

Welcome Back Kotter

What's My Line

* Wheel of Fortune

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

WKRP in Cincinnati

* The Wonder Years

Ten notable omissions:

These didn't make it for various reasons and are likely on most other people's Top 100:

Desperate Housewives, E.R., Frasier, Friends, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Office (could move in some day), Roseanne (never will), The West Wing and The X-Files.

Day 200: Top 200 All-Time Movies
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