The Film Room's Top 10 TV Shows of All Time [FINAL LIST]

[StraxStrax]

9. Looney Tunes

While I love Looney Tunes it's not a TV show, it's a bunch of short films and have won Oscars for it

 

[NZA]

ALL TIME
1. the simpsons
2. x-files
3. the wire
4. martin
5. batman the animated series
6. justice league
7. breaking bad
8. bonanaza
9. the sopranos
10.the wonder years

CURRENT
1. sherlock
2. mad men
3. the walking dead
4. halt and catch fire
5. downton abbey

yes, i be watching downton abbey now

 

[ThisIsLife]

1) Martin
2) South Park
3) Chappelle Show
4) Oz
5) The Boondocks
6) The Wire
7) The Wayans Brothers
8) Living Single
9) New York Undercover
10)Arrested Development

I couldn't even do a current top 5 favorite list since I have not watched too many shows recently in the past 5 years, but its given me some ideas of what to check out on Hulu/Netflix.

Edit: Had to rearrange the order of my list up a little.

 

[StraxStrax]

1. Simpsons
2. Fawlty Towers
3. Titus
4. Seinfeld
5. Futurama
6. Psych
7. Justified
8. Yes, (Prime) Minister
9. South Park
10. Breaking Bad

 

[Tommy Fits]

Top 10

Arrested development
Breaking bad
The Simpsons
Parks and rec
The office
South park
Eastbound and down
The sopranos
Rescue me
Law and order svu

Top 5 current

Mad men
Better call Saul
True detective
Modern family
Walking dead

 

[g-ice]

Aye @Uncle_Ruckus we can make changes to our top 10 still? I ain't gonna lie that Dexter pick got me like

I took off the Simpsons for some dumb ass reason.

 

[billiam bobigan]

Great thread. Gonna make sure to never take niemans or bobigans opinions on anything ever again. They fukking put Dexter and Looney toons in their top ten

I don't get how dexter can be seen as being a bad show. It lingered way to long but at its best it was a goat show. I could live without the final two seasons truthfully.

 

[Mook]

I don't get how dexter can be seen as being a bad show. It lingered way to long but at its best it was a goat show. I could live without the final two seasons truthfully.

You have ER and family matters in your list

 

[billiam bobigan]

Aye @Uncle_Ruckus we can make changes to our top 10 still? I ain't gonna lie that Dexter pick got me like

I took off the Simpsons for some dumb ass reason.

Nothing wrong with dexter. Who still watches the Simpsons? Just cuz it's still on don't make it nice. I seriously don't know a single person.

 

[billiam bobigan]

You have ER and family matters in your list

tough to explain but those shows were part of my youth. Sentiment has value.

 

[g-ice]

Nothing wrong with dexter. Who still watches the Simpsons? Just cuz it's still on don't make it nice. I seriously don't know a single person.

Yeah I mean I don't watch it anymore neither but it's the top tier GOAT show of animation.

When I was younger and I came home form school, just getting those back to back EP's was like heaven.

 

[billiam bobigan]

Is this list a favorite top 10 list or stand the test of time top 10 list? We all have movies, TV shows, albums that reach us individually that we know are trash. Maybe the description should be more detailed. I wouldn't hand my list over to someone that has never watched TV and say these are the essentials... Is that the criteria for the list?

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Aye @Uncle_Ruckus we can make changes to our top 10 still? I ain't gonna lie that Dexter pick got me like

I took off the Simpsons for some dumb ass reason.

Yea. I already been editing mine. Added Seinfield and Eastbound And Down.

I have to make sure my list has shows that deserve to be on there. Shows I will go back and watch again over and over.

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Is this list a favorite top 10 list or stand the test of time top 10 list? We all have movies, TV shows, albums that reach us individually that we know are trash. Maybe the description should be more detailed. I wouldn't hand my list over to someone that has never watched TV and say these are the essentials... Is that the criteria for the list?

It's up to you breh. Whatever shows you personally think are the greatest shows of all time. And you can always go back and edit before I post a deadline for voting.

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Here's how the tallying system works...

1. = 10 points
2. = 9 points
3. = 8 points...

and so on. So make sure you put the shows you really want to make the final list at the top of your list before voting ends.