Variety: The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time | Award Season

Variety’s all-time ranking, built by its own critics and reaching back to the 1950s. Broader than the other TV lists here: news, talk and game shows are all eligible.

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• RuPaul's Drag Race
• The Real World
• The Wonder Years
• 30 Rock
• Succession
• The Leftovers
• Twin Peaks
• Playhouse 90
• thirtysomething
• Jeopardy!
• The West Wing
• Scandal
• The Twilight Zone
• The Carol Burnett Show
• ER
• The Muppet Show
• South Park
• My So-Called Life
• Breaking Bad
• Girls
• Enlightened
• 60 Minutes
• St. Elsewhere
• Top Chef
• Lost
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• The Bob Newhart Show
• The Office
• Cheers
• The X-Files
• Angels in America
• Friends
• The Daily Show
• Daria
• NYPD Blue
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Game of Thrones
• The Shield
• Living Single
• M*A*S*H
• The Good Fight
• Fleabag
• The Golden Girls
• All in the Family
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• Saturday Night Live
• Mad Men
• Happy Days
• The Wire
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• Orange Is the New Black
• Will & Grace
• Hannibal
• Dallas
• BoJack Horseman
• Atlanta
• Chappelle's Show
• Black Mirror
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Gilmore Girls
• American Crime Story
• The Larry Sanders Show
• Seinfeld
• Hill Street Blues
• Community
• Six Feet Under
• Veep
• I May Destroy You
• I Love Lucy
• Freaks and Geeks
• Deadwood
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• The Good Place
• The Cosby Show
• The Simpsons
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Arrested Development
• Homeland
• General Hospital
• Stranger Things
• The Americans
• Grey's Anatomy
• Survivor
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• The Sopranos
• Roseanne
• Columbo
• The Comeback
• Watchmen
• Taxi
• The Jeffersons
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Roots
• Sesame Street
• The Civil War
• Sex and the City
• Friday Night Lights
• Late Night with David Letterman
• In Living Color
• The Dick Van Dyke Show