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People who added this item 435  Average listal rating (264 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.6 
1. Planet Earth (2006)
(2006)

People who added this item 1082  Average listal rating (673 ratings) 8.6  IMDB Rating 9.6 
2. Band of Brothers (2001)
(2001)-miniseries
The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day.

People who added this item 537  Average listal rating (277 ratings) 8.5  IMDB Rating 9.5 
3. The Wire (2002)
(2002-2008)
Baltimore drug scene, seen through the eyes of drug dealers, and law enforcement.

People who added this item 1230  Average listal rating (853 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 9.4 
4. Arrested Development (2003)
(2003-2006)
Level-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs after his father is imprisoned. But the rest of his spoiled, dysfunctional family are making his job unbearable.


People who added this item 780  Average listal rating (463 ratings) 8.8  IMDB Rating 9.4 
5. Game of Thrones (2011)
(2011-)
Kings, queens, knights and renegades use schemes and swords to battle for the throne.

People who added this item 603  Average listal rating (430 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 9.3 
6. The Twilight Zone (1959)
(1959-1964)
Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

People who added this item 635  Average listal rating (382 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.3 
7. Breaking Bad (2008)
(2008-)
Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth.



People who added this item 1225  Average listal rating (769 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 9.3 
8. The Sopranos (1999)
(1999-2007)
Modern day morality tale about New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano, as he deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life.

People who added this item 1145  Average listal rating (719 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 9.3 
9. Firefly (2002)
(2002-2003)
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small, spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.

People who added this item 643  Average listal rating (393 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 9.2 
10. Freaks and Geeks (1999)
(1999-2000)
A television show about two unique groups of teenagers dealing with life in high school during the 80's.

People who added this item 865  Average listal rating (598 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 9.2 
11. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
(1969-1974)
The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.

People who added this item 522  Average listal rating (333 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 9.2 
12. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
(1995)-miniseries
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.

People who added this item 428  Average listal rating (269 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 9.1 
13. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
(2005-)
Four young friends with big egos and slightly arrogant attitudes are the proprietors of an Irish bar in Philadelphia.

People who added this item 1045  Average listal rating (668 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 9.1 
14. Twin Peaks (1990)
(1990-1991)
An idiosyncratic FBI Agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

People who added this item 1845  Average listal rating (1381 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 9.1 
15. Seinfeld (1990)
(1990-1998)
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York friends.

People who added this item 582  Average listal rating (359 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 9.1 
16. Cowboy Bebop (1998)
(1998)
The futuristic adventures of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.

People who added this item 2193  Average listal rating (1407 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 9.1 
17. Dexter (2006)
(2006-)
During the day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab, but his meticulously crafted life masks his true nature. In reality Dexter is a disciplined and murderous psychopath (a self-admitted "monster"), and he slakes his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial ki During the day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial employee in the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's crime lab, but his meticulously crafted life masks his true nature. In reality Dexter is a disciplined and murderous psychopath (a self-admitted "monster"), and he slakes his blood lust at night by carefully killing the serial killers he tracks down during the day.

People who added this item 588  Average listal rating (431 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 9.1 
18. Fawlty Towers (1975)
(1975-1979)
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

People who added this item 470  Average listal rating (306 ratings) 8.8  IMDB Rating 9.1 
19. Sherlock (2010)
(2010-)
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

People who added this item 102  Average listal rating (45 ratings) 9.1  IMDB Rating 9.1 
20. The Decalogue (1989)
(1989)-miniseries
Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.

People who added this item 146  Average listal rating (110 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
21. Only Fools and Horses.... (1981)
(1981-2003)
Classic comedy following the misadventures of two Wheeler Dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.

People who added this item 337  Average listal rating (256 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating
22. Top Gear (1978)
(1978-2002)
Top Gear is a BBC television series about motor vehicles, primarily cars. It began in 1977 as a conventional motoring magazine show. Over time, and especially since a relaunch in 2002, it has developed a quirky, humorous style.

People who added this item 267  Average listal rating (190 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating
23. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
(1988-1999)
In the not too distant future, a man and his robots are trapped on the Satellite of love, where evil scientists force them to sit through the worst movies ever made.

People who added this item 43  Average listal rating (32 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating
24. Top Gear (2002)
(2002-)
Jeremy, Richard and James talk about everything car-related. From new cars to how they're fueled, this show has it all.

People who added this item 330  Average listal rating (206 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating
25. Spaced (1999)
(1999-2001)
Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.

People who added this item 556  Average listal rating (355 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
26. Oz (1997)
(1997-2003)
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.



People who added this item 2846  Average listal rating (2076 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating
27. South Park (1997)
(1997-)
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.

People who added this item 453  Average listal rating (305 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
28. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
(2005-2008)
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar.

People who added this item 1857  Average listal rating (1239 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating
29. The Office (US) (2005)
(2005-)
A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.

People who added this item 890  Average listal rating (497 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
30. Rome (2005)
(2005-2007)
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

People who added this item 537  Average listal rating (285 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
31. Deadwood (2004)
(2004-2006)
A show set in the late 1800's, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

People who added this item 1308  Average listal rating (823 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating
32. Six Feet Under (2001)
(2001-2005)
A drama series that takes a darkly comical look at members of a dysfunctional California family that runs an independent funeral home.

People who added this item 352  Average listal rating (240 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
33. Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
(1989-)
In this final series, Blackadder is a World War I army captain trying to survive at the front lines at the Western Front.

People who added this item 776  Average listal rating (477 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating
34. Death Note (2006)
(2006-2007)
Yagami Light is an ace student with great prospects, who's bored out of his mind. One day he finds the "Death Note": a notebook from the realm of the Death Gods, with the power to kill people in any way he desires. With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create his perfect world, without crime or criminals. However, when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorites send the legendary detective L to track down the killer, and a battle of wits, deception and logic ensues...

People who added this item 786  Average listal rating (580 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating
35. Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
(1992-1995)
The Dark Knight battles crime in Gotham City with occasional help from Robin and Batgirl.



People who added this item 157  Average listal rating (83 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating
36. Downton Abbey (2010)
(2010-)
Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, the drama centers on the Crawley family and their servants.

People who added this item 386  Average listal rating (269 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
37. Black-Adder II (1986)
(1986-)
Lord Edmund Blackadder is now seeking the approval of Queen Elizabeth I with the "help" of Lord Percy Percy and Baldrick.

People who added this item 3853  Average listal rating (2650 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.9 
38. Friends (1994)
(1994-2004)
The lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in Manhattan.

People who added this item 982  Average listal rating (641 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 8.9 
39. The Office (UK) (2001)
(2001-2003)
The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives.

People who added this item 93  Average listal rating (63 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.9 
40. Archer (2009)
(2009-)
At ISIS, an international spy agency, global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other.


People who added this item 226  Average listal rating (163 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.9 
41. The Venture Bros. (2003)
(2003-)
The bizarre animated escapades of pseudo-heroic scientist Dr. Rusty Venture, his competent, high strung bodyguard, and his two over-enthusiastic sons.

People who added this item 177  Average listal rating (114 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.9 
42. Peep Show (2003)
(2003-)
Mark and Jez are a couple of twenty-something roommates who have nothing in common - except for the fact that their lives are anything but normal. Mayhem ensues as the pair strive to cope with day-to-day life.

People who added this item 352  Average listal rating (244 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.9 
43. Black Adder the Third (1987)
(1987)
During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, Esq. Blackadder i During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, Esq. Blackadder is an ex-aristocrat who has lost his family fortune and been reduced to servant-hood, and full of loathing knowing he should have a better position then serving a lunatic. Sod-Off Baldrick is his dirty, smelly peasant servant, and Mrs. Miggins is an annoying cheerful coffee-shoppe owner who is too stupid to understand most of Mr. Blackadder's insults.

People who added this item 2667  Average listal rating (1890 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.9 
44. Futurama (1999)
(1999-)
Fry, a pizza guy is accidentally frozen in 1999 and thawed out New Year's Eve 2999.

People who added this item 632  Average listal rating (350 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
45. Mad Men (2007)
(2007-)
A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.

People who added this item 1178  Average listal rating (737 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.8 
46. Battlestar Galactica (2004)
(2004-2009)
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew speed toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin face waning supplies, crushed morale, ... and the credible threat Cylons aboard the ship.

People who added this item 1638  Average listal rating (1224 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
47. Tom and Jerry (1965)
(1965-1972)
A weekly Saturday (later Sunday) Morning repackaged compilation with new wraparounds featuring two Tom and Jerry cartoons sandwiching other MGM animated theatrical shorts.

People who added this item 904  Average listal rating (694 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
48. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998)
(1998-2006)
Improvisational comedy game show in which four players act out various comic games and sketches.

People who added this item 387  Average listal rating (265 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
49. Community (2009)
(2009-)
A smarmy lawyer whose education is deemed void by the bar is forced to attend a local community college with an extremely eclectic staff and student body.

People who added this item 324  Average listal rating (222 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.8 
50. Black Books (2000)
(2000-2004
The show is based around the lives and often surreal antics of its foul-mouthed, eccentric, misanthropic, alcoholic Irish owner Bernard Black, his assistant Manny, and their friend Fran.



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Comments

Posted: 4 months, 2 weeks ago at Jan 3 9:26
easily the worst list i've ever seen. they didn't think the honeymooners, i love lucy, mash, all in the family, the original star trek,or the odd couple, to name a few, are in the top 100 shows of all time? i know i'm old, but come on..
Posted: 3 months, 4 weeks ago at Jan 24 11:16
Great list, especially including Oz and Sherlock
Posted: 3 weeks, 5 days ago at Apr 25 14:44
I'm usually not very impressed with IMDb's Top Films so I'm impressed that so many of my favorite shows made this list :)
Posted: 3 weeks, 5 days ago at Apr 25 18:37
Black books? REALLY?????
Jay is right enough though.

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