Best TV Show Ever? The Writers Guild Names 101 Top Series of All Time—Did Your Favorite Make the List?

Sopranos nabbed the top spot

By Jenna Mullins Jun 03, 2013 6:06 PMTags
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The Writers Guild of America released its list of the 101 best TV shows ever written, and let's skip the suspense and get to the top show.

The top spot went to HBO's The Sopranos. What? No room for Work It? Snubbed!

The list will likely include many of your favorite shows, and if it doesn't maybe you're watching the wrong programs. We have many opinions about the list (Friday Night Lights all the way down at number 22?), but we're more interested in what you guys have to say: Check out the list below and tell us what you think of The Sopranos getting the number one slot and if you think any TV series got brutally rebuffed.

1. The Sopranos
2. Seinfeld
3. The Twilight Zone
4. All in the Family
5. M*A*S*H
6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7. Mad Men
8. Cheers
9. The Wire
10. The West Wing

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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 with Jon Stewart
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

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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 & The City
40. Game of Thrones
41. Tie: The Bob Newhart Show and Your Show of Shows
43. Tie: Downton Abbey, Law & Order and Thirtysomething
46. Tie: Homicide: Life on the Street and St. Elsewhere
48. Homeland
49. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
50. Tie: The Colbert ReportThe Good Wife and The Office (UK)
53. Northern Exposure
54. The Wonder Years
55. L.A. Law
56. Sesame Street
57Columbo
58. Tie: Fawlty Towers and The Rockford Files
60. Tie: Freaks and Geeks and Moonlighting 

FX

62. Roots
63. Tie: Everybody Loves Raymond and South Park
65. Playhouse 90
66. Tie: Dexter and The Office (US)
68. My So-Called Life
69. Golden Girls
70. The Andy Griffith Show
71. Tie: 24, Roseanne and The Shield 
74. Tie: House and Murphy Brown
76. Tie: Barney Miller and I, Claudius 
78. The Odd Couple
79. Tie: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs
83. Get Smart
84. Tie: The Defenders and Gunsmoke 
86. Tie: Justified, Sgt. Bilko/The Phil Silvers Show
88. Band of Brothers
89Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
90. The Prisoner
91. Tie: Absolutely Fabulous and The Muppet Show
93. Boardwalk Empire
94. Will & Grace
95. Family Ties
96. Lonesome Dove and Soap
98. Tie: The FugitiveLate Night with David Letterman and Louie
101. Oz