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People who added this item 1262  Average listal rating (789 ratings) 8.6  IMDB Rating 9.6 
1. 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 517  Average listal rating (315 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.5 
2. Planet Earth (2006)
(2006)

People who added this item 696  Average listal rating (363 ratings) 8.6  IMDB Rating 9.4 
3. The Wire (2002)
(2002-2008)
Baltimore drug scene, seen through the eyes of drug dealers, and law enforcement.

People who added this item 1505  Average listal rating (916 ratings) 8.9  IMDB Rating 9.4 
4. Game of Thrones (2011)
(2011-)
Kings, queens, knights and renegades use schemes and swords to battle for the throne.

People who added this item 1057  Average listal rating (653 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.4 
5. 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 1457  Average listal rating (994 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 9.2 
6. 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 1418  Average listal rating (892 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 9.2 
7. 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 1395  Average listal rating (870 ratings) 8.4  IMDB Rating 9.2 
8. 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 885  Average listal rating (557 ratings) 8.7  IMDB Rating 9.2 
9. 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 600  Average listal rating (378 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 9.1 
10. 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 776  Average listal rating (477 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating
11. 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 1269  Average listal rating (809 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating
12. 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 2697  Average listal rating (1699 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating
13. 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 605  Average listal rating (404 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
14. 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 163  Average listal rating (66 ratings) 9.4  IMDB Rating
15. The Decalogue (1988)
(1989)-miniseries
Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.

People who added this item 727  Average listal rating (513 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.9 
16. 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 972  Average listal rating (673 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.9 
17. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
(1969-1974)
The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.

People who added this item 2106  Average listal rating (1573 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 8.9 
18. 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 701  Average listal rating (421 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.9 
19. Cowboy Bebop (1998)
(1998)
The futuristic adventures of an easygoing bounty hunter and his partners.

People who added this item 682  Average listal rating (507 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.9 
20. 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 672  Average listal rating (421 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.9 
21. Oz (1997)
(1997-2003)
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.



People who added this item 3260  Average listal rating (2380 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 8.9 
22. 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 1023  Average listal rating (575 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.9 
23. 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 618  Average listal rating (319 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating 8.9 
24. 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 989  Average listal rating (617 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.9 
25. 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 927  Average listal rating (675 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.9 
26. 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 188  Average listal rating (113 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
27. Suits (2011)
(2011-)
On the run from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant college-dropout, finds himself a job working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City's best lawyers.

People who added this item 4467  Average listal rating (3047 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.8 
28. Friends (1994)
(1994-2004)
The lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in Manhattan.

People who added this item 163  Average listal rating (101 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.8 
29. 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 551  Average listal rating (345 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.8 
30. 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 2122  Average listal rating (1418 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 8.8 
31. 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 1507  Average listal rating (922 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.8 
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 412  Average listal rating (280 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.8 
33. Black Adder 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 331  Average listal rating (186 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.8 
34. 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 436  Average listal rating (306 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.8 
35. 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 853  Average listal rating (466 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.7 
36. 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 1354  Average listal rating (850 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.7 
37. 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 1898  Average listal rating (1421 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 8.7 
38. Tom and Jerry (1940)
(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 611  Average listal rating (397 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.7 
39. 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 2075  Average listal rating (1494 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.7 
40. The X Files (1993)
(1993-2002)
This television series follows the adventures and lives of FBI agents investigating those cases that involve the paranormal or previously unsolved (especially by conventional means). FBI Special Agents Mulder, Scully, Doggett and Reyes work to uncover forces within the United States of America government that would violate people's rights, alien creatures and monsters alike that attack and other mysteries.

People who added this item 1109  Average listal rating (724 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 8.7 
41. 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 755  Average listal rating (492 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
42. Modern Family (2009)
(2009-)
A satirical look at three different families and the trials they face in each of their own uniquely comedic ways.

People who added this item 75  Average listal rating (54 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
43. 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 392  Average listal rating (241 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.7 
44. 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 396  Average listal rating (276 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.7 
45. 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 3022  Average listal rating (2144 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 8.7 
46. 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 4607  Average listal rating (3137 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.7 
47. The Simpsons (1989)
(1989-)
The Simpsons is an animated Sitcom about the antics of a dysfunctional family called the simpsons (surprise surprise). Homer is the oafish unhealthy beer loving father, Marge is the hardworking homemaker wife, Bart is the ten year old underachiever (and proud of it), Lisa is the unappreciated eight year old genius, and Maggie is the cute, pacifier loving silent infant.

People who added this item 625  Average listal rating (325 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.7 
48. Boardwalk Empire (2010)
(2010-)
Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.

People who added this item 224  Average listal rating (124 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.7 
49. Justified (2010)
(2010-)
Old-school U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal-mining towns in Eastern Kentucky.

People who added this item 1504  Average listal rating (936 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
50. Doctor Who (2005)
(2005-)
The further adventures of the time traveling alien adventurer and his companions.



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Posted: 1 year, 4 months 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: 1 year 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: 1 year ago at Apr 25 18:37
Black books? REALLY?????
Jay is right enough though.

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