# Which of these highly rated events did you see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019 "2012-01-10T05:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019/62 "2012-01-14T00:46:07Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I know I watched all of them but the Beatles. I _may_ have watched that too but am unsure. At that time, my parents had control of the television channels. They did watch Ed Sullivan. I don’t recall seeing that particular show. It’s possible, but I may have been out playing at the time. I think I goofed. I now seem to recall working the night of the _Roots_ finale and may have seen it only as a rerun. _Dallas_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019/63 "2012-01-14T01:04:33Z")
None. I was born in 1968, so the only one I really would have been aware of would have been MASH. Which I loathed. The only big event TV show I cared enough about was the finale of “Cheers”. It was a pretty big deal at the time and a bunch of friends and I went out to a packed bar to watch it. It was the first and only time I’d ever seen a bar full of people glued to the TV to watch a non-sports show. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019/64 "2012-01-14T01:08:02Z")
Cheers should have been on this list. I definitely saw that. It was, as you say, a big deal. Another one that deserves mention is the finale of Seinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019/65 "2012-01-14T05:07:12Z")
In case people wondered why I picked the shows I did, it’s because they’re the successive record holders for largest audience on a single channel program in the U.S. The reason for the list being so American centric is because I simply don’t know what the most viewed shows in other countries were. (I do know the most viewed program in Canadian history was the 2010 hockey Gold Medal game.) Any non-American dopers know of lists of the most viewed shows in their country’s history? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-highly-rated-events-did-you-see/609019.md?page=3)