Full List: Rolling Stone's "The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" (2022 Ranking)

Rolling Stone is on a roll. Following the popularity of their recent ranking of the top 500 songs of all-time and their list of the 200 best hip hop albums in history, the music and culture magazine decided to try their hand at television shows.

Their The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list was compiled with feedback from a “panel of actors, showrunners, and critics” features all the modern classics including The Game of Thrones, Atlanta, Succession, and Veep to the older sitcoms that made their marks on televisions such as Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, and The Odd Couple all with Rolling Stone writer Allen Sepinwall providing commentary on every one of the shows that made the list.

The list covers the generations, multiple eras, a variety of genres including children’s shows, soap operas, family sitcoms, quirky comedies and dead-serious HBO dramas, from 1951 to the present. The magazine has attempted to capture the best television shows in a list several times. Prior to the current ranking, Rolling Stone last announced the top 100 TV shows of all-time back in 2016.

What’s the best show in the history of television? We polled people who make them — actors, producers, writers, showrunners — and people who watch them to find out.

The 100 greatest TV shows of all time. ⬇️https://t.co/e9NDsXDAvH

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 26, 2022

Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

With all the great possibilities available, which show hit #1? Was it M*A*S*H, The Office, Mad Men or maybe cult favorite Freaks and Geeks? Thinking about the amount of amazing shows that have hit the small screen, that show would have hit the perfect combination of high-quality, cultural impact, longevity, creativity, and more.

Scroll down to see the full list of the best TV shows in the history of the game according to Rolling Stone.

Rolling Stone's 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time
Rank	Show	Channel	Years
1	‘The Sopranos’	HBO	1999-2007
2	‘The Simpsons’	FOX	1989-PRESENT
3	‘Breaking Bad’	AMC	2008-13
4	‘The Wire’	HBO	2002-08
5	‘Fleabag’	BBC/AMAZON	2016-19
6	‘Seinfeld’	NBC	1989-98
7	‘Mad Men’	AMC	2007-15
8	‘Cheers’	NBC	1982-93
9	‘Atlanta’	FX	2016-PRESENT
10	‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’	CBS	1970-77
11	‘Succession’	HBO	2018-PRESENT
12	‘The Twilight Zone’	CBS	1959-64
13	‘Veep’	HBO	2012-19
14	‘The Americans’	FX	2013-18
15	‘The Larry Sanders Show’	HBO	1992-98
16	‘Twin Peaks’	ABC	1990-91
17	‘The Leftovers’	HBO	2014-17
18	‘Saturday Night Live’	NBC	1975-PRESENT
19	‘I May Destroy You’	BBC/HBO	2020
20	’30 Rock’	NBC	2006-13
21	‘All in the Family	CBS	1971-79
22	‘Star Trek’	NBC	1966-69
23	‘Watchmen’	HBO	2019
24	‘Freaks and Geeks’	NBC	1999-2000
25	‘MAS*H’	CBS	1972-83
26	‘Sesame Street’	PBS	1969-PRESENT
27	‘Deadwood’	HBO	2004-06
28	‘Friday Night Lights’	NBC	2006-08
29	‘Roots’	ABC	1977
30	‘Parks and Recreation’	NBC	2009-15
31	‘Game of Thrones’	HBO	2011-19
32	‘Better Call Saul’	AMC	2015-22
33	‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’	BBC	1969-74
34	‘The Office’ (U.S.)	NBC	2005-13
35	‘Lost’	ABC	2004-10
36	‘I Love Lucy’	CBS	1951-57
37	‘Arrested Development’	FOX	2003-06
38	‘Hill Street Blues’	NBC	1981-87
39	‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’	HBO	2000-PRESENT
40	‘The Good Place’	NBC	2016-20
41	‘BoJack Horseman’	NETFLIX	2014-20
42	‘Battlestar Galactica’	SCI-FI	2003-09
43	‘Insecure’	HBO	2016-21
44	‘Late Night With David Letterman’	NBC	1982-93
45	‘Columbo’	NBC	1971-78; ABC
46	‘The West Wing’	NBC	1999-2006
47	‘My So-Called Life’	ABC	1995-96
48	‘The Shield’	FX	2002-08
49	‘Friends’	NBC	1994-2004
50	‘Jeopardy!’	SYNDICATION	1984-PRESENT
51	‘The X-Files’	FOX	1993-2002
52	‘Barry’	HBO	2018-PRESENT
53	‘The Office’ (U.K.)	BBC	2001-03
54	‘ER’	NBC	1994-2009
55	‘Halt and Catch Fire’	AMC	2014-17
56	‘Community’	NBC	2009-14
57	‘Russian Doll’	NETFLIX	2019-PRESENT
58	‘Six Feet Under’	HBO	2001-05
59	‘Key & Peele’	COMEDY CENTRAL	2012-15
60	‘Taxi’	ABC	1978-82
61	‘The Underground Railroad’	AMAZON PRIME	2021
62	‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’	CBS	1961-66
63	‘South Park’	COMEDY CENTRAL	1997-PRESENT
64	‘The Golden Girls’	NBC	1985-92
65	‘Girls’	HBO	2012-17
66	‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’	COMEDY CENTRAL	1999-2015
67	‘NYPD Blue’	ABC	1993-2005
68	‘Fawlty Towers’	BBC	1975-79
69	‘Chappelle’s Show’	COMEDY CENTRAL	2003-06
70	‘SCTV’	GLOBAL	1976-79
71	‘Better Things’	FX	2016-2022
72	‘Good Times’	CBS	1974-79
73	‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’	WB/UPN	1997-2001/2001-03
74	‘The Honeymooners’	CBS	1955-56
75	‘Frasier’	NBC	1993-2004
76	‘Justified’	FX	2010-15
77	‘The Jeffersons’	CBS	1975-85
78	‘Sex and the City’	HBO	1998-2004
79	‘Mr. Show with Bob and David’	HBO	1995-98
80	‘Band of Brothers’	HBO	2001
81	‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’	FX	2005-PRESENT
82	‘Party Down’	STARZ	2009-10
83	‘I’m Alan Partridge’	BBC	1997-2002
84	‘Fargo’	FX	2014-PRESENT
85	‘Orange Is the New Black’	NETFLIX	2013-19
86	‘The Bob Newhart Show’	CBS	1972-78
87	‘The Kids in the Hall’	CBC	1988-95
88	‘The Crown’	NETFLIX	2016-PRESENT
89	‘The Carol Burnett Show’	CBS	1967-78
90	‘The Wonder Years’	ABC	1988-93
91	‘The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson’	NBC	1962-92
92	‘The Muppet Show’	SYNDICATED	1976-81
93	‘The Rockford Files’	NBC	1974-80
94	‘NewsRadio’	NBC	1995-99
95	‘Squid Game’	NETFLIX	2021-PRESENT
96	‘Rick and Morty’	ADULT SWIM	2013-PRESENT
97	‘The Odd Couple’	ABC	1970-75
98	‘The Good Fight’	CBS ALL ACCESS	2017-20
99	‘Oz’	HBO	1997-2003
100	‘What We Do in the Shadows’	FX	2019-PRESENT

You rarely get to see the full list when these companies decide to cover and rank the best whatever because they have to spend a couple paragraphs explaining the significance and why the whatever landed where it landed on their list. With our full list, you might not get all the context, but often time you don’t need it. Readers want to know how the hell NYPD Blue (#67) is below The Good Place (#40) even though they’ve only seen the first episode and “hated it”.

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