TV Guide's 60 Best Shows - Which ones have you NOT seen?

I had seen at least one episode of all but 4.

Battlestar Galactica says the 2004 version. I saw the complete run of the old-timey version.

Late 60s. YSOS went off the air the year before I was born, so I’ve only seen episodes via specials and archival footage. But Ed Sullivan was standard Sunday night viewing when I was growing up.

Here’s another sorted list after 98 voters. Compare with Post #21.



View Poll Results: TV Guide's 60 Best Shows - Which ones have you NOT seen a complete episode of?  

The Twilight Zone                           3 3.06% 
Star Trek                                   4 4.08% 
Jeopardy!                                   4 4.08% 
Cheers                                      5 5.10% 
Saturday Night Live                         6 6.12% 
M*A*S*H                                     8 8.16% 
The Simpsons                                8 8.16% 

Seinfeld                                   10 10.20% 
I Love Lucy                                10 10.20% 
The Cosby Show                             10 10.20% 
60 Minutes                                 11 11.22% 
Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman  12 12.24% 
Monty Python’s Flying Circus               12 12.24% 
The Dick Van Dyke Show                     13 13.27% 
Roseanne                                   13 13.27% 
The Bob Newhart Show                       13 13.27% 
Taxi                                       14 14.29% 
All in the Family                          15 15.31% 
The X-Files                                15 15.31% 
Sesame Street                              15 15.31% 
The Mary Tyler Moore Show                  16 16.33% 
The Andy Griffith Show                     16 16.33% 
The Carol Burnett Show                     17 17.35% 
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson    17 17.35% 
Friends                                    21 21.43% 
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart            21 21.43% 
Barney Miller                              22 22.45% 
The Honeymooners                           23 23.47% 
Columbo                                    23 23.47% 

The Big Bang Theory                        25 25.51% 
The Golden Girls                           28 28.57% 
Law & Order                                29 29.59% 
Masterpiece Theatre                        35 35.71% 
Hill Street Blues                          35 35.71% 
The Waltons                                35 35.71% 
ER                                         36 36.73% 
Everybody Love Raymond                     38 38.78% 
Breaking Bad                               39 39.80% 
Dallas                                     39 39.80% 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer                   41 41.84% 
Sex and the City                           41 41.84% 
Modern Family                              42 42.86% 
Mad Men                                    43 43.88% 
The Oprah Winfrey Show                     44 44.90% 
Gunsmoke                                   44 44.90% 
Survivor                                   44 44.90% 
NYPD Blue                                  44 44.90% 
Lost                                       45 45.92% 
Battlestar Galactica (2004)                45 45.92% 
American Idol                              46 46.94% 
The Sopranos                               47 47.96% 
St. Elsewhere                              47 47.96% 

The Ed Sullivan Show                       52 53.06% 
The West Wing                              54 55.10% 
The Larry Sanders Show                     58 59.18% 
Homicide: Life on the Street               59 60.20% 
The Wire                                   63 64.29% 
The Shield                                 68 69.39% 
The Good Wife                              77 78.57% 
Your Show of Shows                         82 83.67% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 98 



Yeah I shouldn’t have even grouped those together, thinking about it. Ed Sullivan ran 16 years later. YSOS went off the air just over 60 years ago whereas Sullivan was still on '71. Talk shows just don’t get put into syndication.

Umm…this thread is about which of the listed shows you have seen; it is not about which shows should you think should be on the list.
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It is interesting that 51 people (so far) have not seen their top-rated show (and I am one of them).
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The title of the thread includes “60 best shows” which invites discussion.

Even sticking with only having to have seen one episode, still quite a lot for me.

(Also I accidentally clicked Everybody Loves Raymond when I shouldn’t’ve)

We need a poll of shows we’ve never even heard of. :wink: The Good Wife is one that I’d never ran across before this thread. I guess it never reached syndication. That’s the only reason I’ve seen many shows from the 1990’s. PBS ran St Elsewhere and I got seriously addicted watching 5 nights a week.

I seriously burned out on Medical drama shows in the 1970’s and never watched St Elsewhere in the 80’s. Thank goodness for PBS.

I agree. He doesnt own the thread and should be satisfied people are enjoying it.

15, plus some (e.g. Everybody Loves Raymond) where I saw just the final episode. Probably the biggest “surprise” is Modern Family; I thought about bingewatching it on Amazon Prime, but it’s not available for free there. Then again, I’ll have to see if it is on my cable system’s On Demand service, and if so, which seasons.

The only one on the last that I could have not seen as it was on before I was born (and I don’t think it has aired in repeats) was Your Show of Shows. I did see the movie Ten From Your Show of Shows, but I think that was taken from multiple episodes.

Modern family is in syndication. Runs on ABC right after the local 10 pm news. I started watching because I’d get busy and didn’t turn off the tv after the news finished. Pleasantly surprised at how good it is and kept watching most week nights.

The title of the thread is pretty clear:

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My post was pretty clear too.

16 of which I’ve never seen one episode and at least three others that I have seen exactly one episode.

It’s interesting to identify the show most widely seen that you yourself have not.

For me, right now, that’s X-Files.
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I rewatched The Prisoner on DVD not long ago. The ending doesn’t make any more sense now than it did then.

The best thing to do is to just not watch the last two episodes.

From my not-watched list, only Your Show of Shows is a complete unknown to me, basically because it predates me.

For the rest I can say I saw partial episodes, but couldn’t bear watching to the end. Raymond, I’m talking about you. Some shows are just too awful to waste any more time on: Dr. Ken, anybody? (I’m not suggesting that’s a “best show”)

I’ve seen some complete episodes of shows I don’t like at all. So I only missed out on about 5 shows of the 60.

There are a few complete episodes of Your Show of Shows still around. I’ve seen a few, I think it was either on PBS or at the Museum of Television in NYC.

I indicated in my first post which I had never seen. On a forum by definition devoted to discussion, I should limit myself to that? :dubious: