Best TV Shows of All Time

For over 50 years, the best TV shows of all time has captured our imaginations and got us hooked on to their stories. The stories revolving around doctors, lawyers, police officers, teachers, even FBI and CIA officers have kept us entertained. The great TV shows of all time have captured almost all genres of show business, drama, thriller, mystery, suspense, comedy, horror, terrorism and even music. The most recent of them all is the reality TV shows that involve people like you and me fighting for their life and winning over a million dollars.

The most popular TV shows of all time have churned out something for the whole family and catered to the needs of a wide range of audience. The following paragraphs will cover some of the best TV shows ever and help you reminisce the wonderful days of American TV history.

Top TV Shows of All Time
There are plenty of greatest TV shows of all time to choose from to make a list of best TV shows ever. However, the following are some of my favorite and best TV shows of all time.

The Simpsons
This is one of the best TV shows that has won awards for best animated series, best sitcom, best family show, best comedy TV show, best drama series, the list is endless. This is one of the best shows to watch as it continues to entertain us in its third decade.

I Love Lucy
The classic sitcom had a female star and was an interesting and funny show to watch. The husband was an urban Latino who had a thick Cuban accent and played conga drums. This show went on to become the most popular TV shows of all time.

M*A*S*H
This was a show that trod on a thin line between comedy and drama. This military doctor drama series had the right doses of slapstick comedy and dark drama. This was one of the best TV shows to watch that proved to the world that drama can have a lighter feel and comedy is serious business.

Star Trek
This was one of the top TV shows of all time that had a path breaking storyline that was based on a galaxy far, far away. The intergalactic interactions, the pointed ears, the Klingon honor, the advanced technology, all made Star Trek of the best TV shows to watch. The sci-fi plot still hopes to go on boldly where no one has gone before.

The Sopranos
The Sopranos changed TV the way no one would have ever thought. This mafia saga was about a declining family business, a controlling mother, maddening wife and reckless kids.

Friends
The storyline of this most popular TV shows of all time was about friends who was there for each other. It was about the generation next people who had their share of failed marriages, kids, cross-dressing and plenty of problems to worry about. This show was about living like a family with friends. This is probably one of the best TV shows to watch.

TV Guide's Best TV Shows of All Time
TV's Guide came up with their list of 50 best shows of all time. Of these 50 best shows, I shall enlist 10 greatest shows that the audience never failed to watch. These TV shows in no particular order are as follows:

	Seinfeld	NBC, July 5, 1989-May 14, 1998
	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	CBS, September 19, 1970-March 19, 1977
	The Honeymooners	CBS, October 1, 1955-September 22, 1956
	All in the Family	CBS, January 12, 1971-April 8, 1979
	The Dick Van Dyke Show	CBS, October 3, 1961-June 1, 1966
	60 Minutes	CBS, September 24, 1968-present
	Late Show with David Letterman	CBS, August 30, 1993-present
	Hill Street Blues	NBC, January 15, 1981-May 12, 1987
	The Andy Griffith Show	CBS, October 3, 1960-April 1, 1968
	Saturday Night Live	NBC, October 11, 1975-present

Best TV Shows Ever
The following table contains a list of best TV shows ever produced. Do find your favorite series in the list below. If you don't feel free to list them in the comments column in the end. So, some of the best shows on television in no particular order are:

Fresh Prince of Bel Air	Frasier	Prison Break	The Carol Burnett Show
The Golden Girls	All In The Family	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Pushing Daisies
Rock	Fringe	Private Practice	The Cosby Show
American Idol	Full House	Rocky and His Friends	The Defenders
An American Family	Futurama	Roseanne	The Ed Sullivan Show
Beverly Hills, 90210	Ghost Whisperer	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	The Fugitive
Bewitched	Gilmore Girls	Scrubs	The Honeymooner
Big Brother	Gossip Girl	Sesame Street (PBS)	The Larry Sanders Show
Bonanza	Grey's Anatomy	Sex and the City	The Mentalist
Bones	Gunsmoke	Smallville	The Office
Breaking Bad	Happy Days	South Park	The Oprah Winfrey Show
Brothers & Sisters	Heroes	Spaced	The Rockford Files
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	House	St. Elsewhere	The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Castle	How I Met Your Mother	Star Trek: The Next Generation	The Twilight Zone
Charmed	I Dream of Jennie	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	The West Wing
Cheers	Law & Order	Supernatural	The Wire
Chuck	Legend of the Seeker	Survivor	The X-Files
Criminal Minds	Lost	Taxi (ABC/NBC)	Thirty Something
CSI: Miami	Medium	The Amazing Race	Wonder Years
Desperate Housewives	NCIS	The Apprentice	True Blood
Dexter	Nightline	The Bachelor	Twin Peaks
Donahue	Numbrs	The Big Bang Theory	Two and a Half Men
ER	One Tree Hill	The Bob Newhart Show	Ugly Betty
Family Guy	Playhouse	The Bold and the Beautiful	Your Show of Shows

These are just a few of the greatest TV shows of all time. Television has produced some of the best TV shows of all time and will continue to do so. This was my list of the best TV shows ever. I may have missed out many more of the top TV shows of all time. But, I am sure you will have a few more names to add to this list of best TV shows of all time.