Rolling Stone Top 100 TV Shows

I've seen about 20 minutes of "Girls" in 3- to 5-minute increments. That's plenty enough to know it's not only not among the top 72 shows ever, it's not among the top 72 shows on teevee right now.

 

Rockford Files, sure, hell yes. But why no Maverick? Made Garner a star and was the only series ever to win its time slot against Ed Sullivan. Plus, it was a damn good show. All in all, list was strong on sitcom choices, and not so hot with other genres, cops, medical shows, Westerns, etc.

 

My fairly hastily put together ballot for a Top 100.


The Wire
Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Mad Men
The Simpsons
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Better Caul Saul
Deadwood
Freaks and Geeks
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Game of Thrones
Cheers
Parks and Rec
Veep
South Park
Law & Order
The Andy Griffith Show
Louie
Late Night With David Letterman
All in the Family
I Love Lucy
Fargo
30 Rock
Saturday Night Live
Sesame Street
The Americans
Justified
Friday Night Lights
The Larry Sanders Show
The Office (US)
The Honeymooners
The Fugitive
Mr. Show
The People Vs. OJ Simpson
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Late Night with Conan
Party Down
Kroll Show
The Office (UK)
Jeopardy
Key & Peele
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
The Wonder Years
Oz
Documentary Now
Summer Heights High
Portlandia
Key & Peele
Dick Van Dyke Show
Gunsmoke
Sesame Street
Happy Days
Comedy Bang Bang
Batman
Beavis and Butthead
Ed Sullivan
Clone High
24
The Colbert Report
Mary Tyler Moore
The Beverly Hillbillies
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Flying Circus
Newhart
Golden Girls
Dallas
X-Files
Broadchurch
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Happy Valley
Outlander
Children’s Hospital
Taxi
NYPD Blue
MASH
Twin Peaks
The Cosby Show
Police Squad
In Living Color
Archer
Orange is the New Black
The Life and Times of Tim
Star Trek
Your Show of Shows
Perry Mason
Barney Miller
The Fall
Bonanza
Silicon Valley
WKRP
Homeland
Outlander
Bob’s Burgers
The Good Wife
Community
True Detective

 

Good on you for citing Barney Miller, Jake. Also Police Squad.

 

Pros: Simpsons is not No. 1 like the Sepinwall book ; You don't have to click through every show individually

Cons: Girls. People vs. OJ Simpson....which was really well done but it not a top-100 of all-time...The Shield is too low. Too much "Peak TV" drama in the top 5/10.

 

Meet The Press and The Kuralt version of This Sunday Morning were better
shows than Colbert Report

 

So "Broad City" is one of those inclusions that are there just to piss off people. Right?

Can anyone tell me about Broad City? The clip wasnt funny.

 

The glaring omission of "Davey and Goliath" completely ignores the show's groundbreaking innovations in clay-animation that were the inspiration for the computer-generated special effects that make many of today's television shows possible.

 

Gee Davey we would have never had Gumby

 

Jeeepers.

 

RS also rated Duck Dynasty as the worst show ever.
Bullshit.
That honor would go to Girls.

 

Good lord, I don't ever think I've seen you post something so wrong.