TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time is TV Guide's list of the 50 most well known and biggest television shows in American television history. The list was in the May 4–10, 2002 issue of the magazine. The television shows were chosen by the people who edit TV Guide. The list was also told in an ABC television special, TV Guide's 50 Best Shows of All Time, on May 13, 2002.^[1]

The list

No	Series	Network	Start	End	Type
1	Seinfeld	NBC	July 5, 1989	May 14, 1998	Sitcom
2	I Love Lucy	CBS	October 15, 1951	May 6, 1957	sitcom, B/W
3	The Honeymooners	CBS	October 1, 1955	September 22, 1956	sitcom, B/W
4	All in the Family	CBS	January 12, 1971	April 8, 1979	sitcom, B/W
5	The Sopranos	HBO	January 10, 1999	June 10, 2007	drama (crime)
6	60 Minutes	CBS	September 24, 1968	present	news
7	The Late Show with David Letterman	CBS	August 30, 1993	May 20, 2015	talk (late-night)
8	The Simpsons	FOX	December 17, 1989	present	animation
9	The Andy Griffith Show	CBS	October 3, 1960	April 1, 1968	sitcom, B/W
10	Saturday Night Live	NBC	October 11, 1975	present	sketches
11	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	CBS	1970	1977	sitcom, B/W
12	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	NBC	1962	1992	talk
13	The Dick Van Dyke Show	CBS	1961	1966	sitcom, B/W
14	Hill Street Blues	NBC	1981	1987
15	The Ed Sullivan Show	CBS	1948	1971
16	The Carol Burnett Show	CBS	1967	1978
17	The Today Show	NBC	January 14, 1952	present
18	Cheers	NBC	1982	1993
19	Thirtysomething	ABC	1987	1991
20	St. Elsewhere	NBC	1982	1988
21	Friends	NBC	1994	2004
22	ER	NBC	September 19, 1994	April 2, 2009
23	Nightline	ABC	March 24, 1980	present	late news
24	Law & Order	NBC	September 13, 1990	present	legal drama
25	M*A*S*H	CBS	1972	1983
26	The Twilight Zone	CBS	1959	1964
27	Sesame Street	PBS (NET), HBO	November 10, 1969	present	children
28	The Cosby Show	NBC	1984	1992
29	The Phil Donahue Show	Syndication	1970	1996
30	Your Show of Shows	NBC	1950	1954
31	The Defenders	CBS	1961	1964
32	An American Family	PBS	January 11, 1973	March 29, 1973	documentary
33	Playhouse 90	CBS	1956	1961
34	Frasier	NBC	1993	2004
35	Roseanne	ABC	1988	1997
36	The Fugitive	ABC	1963	1967
37	The X-Files	Fox	1993	2002	science fiction
38	The Larry Sanders Show	HBO	1992	1998
39	The Rockford Files	NBC	1974	1980
40	Gunsmoke	CBS	1955	1975
41	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	WB/UPN	1997	2003
42	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	NBC	1968	1973
43	Bonanza	NBC	1959	1973
44	The Bob Newhart Show	CBS	1972	1978
45	Twin Peaks	ABC	1990	1991
46	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Syndication	1987	1994	Science fiction
47	The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show	ABC	1959	1964
48	Taxi	ABC/NBC	1978	1983	sitcom
49	The Oprah Winfrey Show	Syndication	September 8, 1986	May 25, 2011	talk
50	Bewitched	ABC	September 17, 1964	March 25, 1972	sitcom (fantasy)