The Top 10 Best Written TV Shows Ever

[Jello Biafra]

As decided by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Shows:

1. The Sopranos – HBO – Created by David Chase

2. Seinfeld – NBC – Created by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld

3. The Twilight Zone (1959) – CBS – Season One writers: Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Robert Presnell, Jr., Rod Serling

4. All in the Family – CBS – Developed for Television by Norman Lear, Based on Till Death Do Us Part, Created by Johnny Speight

5. M*A*S*H – CBS – Developed for Television by Larry Gelbart

6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show – CBS – Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns

7. Mad Men – AMC – Created by Matthew Weiner

8. Cheers – NBC – Created by Glen Charles & Les Charles and James Burrows

9. The Wire – HBO – Created by David Simon

10. The West Wing – NBC – Created by Aaron Sorkin


I am not the biggest Sopranos fan in the world (I loved the first season but as a whole the show is not one of my favorites) but I can't deny it was a very smartly written show.
Don't know is Seinfiled should be that high even though it should be on the full list of 101 shows.

 

[gho3st]

no Firefly

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

The wire at #9

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

MY nikka @hexagram23 IS GOING TO BE PISSED THAT BREAKING BAD ISN'T MENTIONED ON THERE BREHS

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[The Jewnited States]

MY nikka @hexagram23 IS GOING TO BE PISSED THAT BREAKING BAD ISN'T MENTIONED ON THERE BREHS

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

first thing i thought

 

[StatUS]

The Wire actually made the top 10 though

 

[Czerka]

The wire at #9

you probably havent seen a single ep of half the shows above it

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

you probably havent seen a single ep of half the shows above it

I know about those shows well enough to know a superbly written show like The Wire shouldn't be under Seinfeld, Mary Tyler Moore show, or fukkin Cacs sitting in a Boston bar Cheers

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

I don't know why they got cheers or Mary Tyler moor show.

- arrested development is Prob the best written comedy outside of Seinfeld.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

@ the Sopranos

 

[Robbie3000]

Here is the whole list.

http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=4925

Chappelle Show didn't even make it on this bullshyt list.

 

[Kuro]

law and order not in the top 20--...
the original star trek above [by a lot] the next generation--...
friends@#24 right above saturday night live??!!--:askance:...

 

[Mic-Nificent]

law and order not in the top 20--...
the original star trek above [by a lot] the next generation--...
friends@#24 right above saturday night live??!!--:askance:...

I think you need to re watch Law and Order. There are a few great episodes but the writing for that shyt is actually kind of weak.

I can see Star Trek getting the nod over STNG simply because the first season of STNG was kinda weak and the original series was so groundbreaking.

Friends being over SNL is a fukking joke when you consider some of the people who were writers for SNL and the fact that Friends is one of the most formulaic sitcoms ever.

Chapplle show not making that list is a fukking joke. There wasn't a single television comedy that was better that was better for an entire decade.

The biggest omissions I see for that list though are probably Animaniacs and Batman the Animated series.

 

[Kuro]

I think you need to re watch Law and Order. There are a few great episodes but the writing for that shyt is actually kind of weak.

I can see Star Trek getting the nod over STNG simply because the first season of STNG was kinda weak and the original series was so groundbreaking.

Friends being over SNL is a fukking joke when you consider some of the people who were writers for SNL and the fact that Friends is one of the most formulaic sitcoms ever.

Chapplle show not making that list is a fukking joke. There wasn't a single television comedy that was better that was better for an entire decade.

The biggest omissions I see for that list though are probably Animaniacs and Batman the Animated series.

nah bruh...law and order was/is one of my favorite shows of all time...it is thoroughly entertaining...i actually learned shyt from watchn law and order...jack mccoy was a beast...a twist every episode...i wish it was still on--...

 

[StraxStrax]

no Firefly

Every show I've seen on this list is better