Top 5 TV series of all time

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1
  1. The Wire (indeed)
  2. The Sopranos
  3. Breaking Bad
  4. Deadwood
  5. Longmire

Honorable mentions:
Stranger Things
Ozark
Lost (before the final season)

2

Original The Twilight Zone

3
  1. The Wild Wild West
  2. Jonny Quest
  3. The Odd Couple (Randall/Klugman)
  4. Sunshine
  5. Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
4
  1. One Piece
  2. Dark Shadows
  3. Star Trek TAS
  4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  5. Babylon Five

Weird and wacky honorable mentions.
Batman
Live Action Sailor Moon

5
  1. Seinfeld
  2. Breaking Bad
  3. Married with Children
  4. Mr. Robot
  5. Dukes of Hazzard
6

To answer this question adequately, you’d have to specify decade and genre.

7
  1. Doctor Who
  2. The Good Place
  3. Hill Street Blues
  4. Simpsons
  5. Midsomer Murders
8

To me:

  1. MASH
  2. SNL
  3. Buffy
  4. Law & Order
  5. The Wire

(When I get done with it, may have to add “Mad Men” to this roster.)

9

Star Trek
Get Smart
Magnum, PI
House, MD
Psych

10
  1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (first 5 seasons)
  2. The West Wing (first 5 seasons)
  3. Due South (first 2 seasons)
  4. Alias (first 4 seasons)
  5. Firefly

Honorable Mentions:
Batman: The Animated Series, Doctor Who (reboot, series 2-7), Galavant, Justice League: Unlimited, Leverage, Picket Fences (first 2 seasons), Scrubs (first 7 seasons), Star Trek (original series), Young Justice

11

The Dick van Dyke Show
MAS*H
Cheers
Hill Street Blues
Game of Thrones

Too hard to put them in order so I just listed them chronologically. And I’ll probably think of a whole different list of five tomorrow.

12

77 Sunset Strip
Cheyenne
The Alcoa Hour
Navy Log
Name That Tune

13

Here are the answers to the OP’s question:

  1. CHiPs
  2. Unsolved Mysteries
  3. Beavis and Butt-head
  4. The Price is Right
  5. The Simpsons
14
  1. NCIS
  2. Married with Children
  3. The Cosby’s
  4. Game of Thrones
  5. Star Trek NG
15

No particular order

  • Doctor Who
  • Frasier
  • Hill Street Blues
  • ER
  • Homicide - Life on the Street
16

Arrested Development
Hill Street Blues
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Shield
The Simpsons

17

:smack: I forgot about that one. Definitely an honorable mention if not in the top 5

18

Firefly
NCIS
West Wing
The Newsroom
Hill Street Blues
Law & Order (episodes with Jerry Orbach)

Yeah, I know it’s 6 - so shoot me…

19

Due South
Scrubs
NCIS
Star Trek, ToS
Survivor

The Good Place is coming on strong.

20

Battlestar Galactica (the newer one)

LOST

Game of Thrones

Firefly

Doctor Who