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101 Best Written TV Series Of All Time – ‘The Sopranos’ Tops List

The Writers Guild of America has unveiled its list of the "101 Best Written TV Series" in the history of television. "The Sopranos" takes top spot followed by "Seinfeld."

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Here is the full list of “100 Best Written TV Series of All Time:”

1. The Sopranos

2. Seinfeld

3. The Twilight Zone (1959)

4. All In The Family

5. M*A*S*H

6. The Mary Tyler Moore Show

7. Mad Men

8. Cheers

9. The Wire

10. The West Wing

11. The Simpsons

12. I Love Lucy

13. Breaking Bad

14. The Dick Van Dyke Show

15. Hill Street Blues

16. Arrested Development

17. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

18. Six Feet Under

19. Taxi

20. The Larry Sanders Show

21. 30 Rock

22. Friday Night Lights

23. Frasier

24. Friends

25. Saturday Night Live

26. The X-Files

27. Lost

28. ER

29. The Cosby Show

30. Curb Your Enthusiasm

31. The Honeymooners

32. Deadwood

33. Star Trek

34. Modern Family

35. Twin Peaks

36. NYPD Blue

37. The Carol Burnett Show

38. Battlestar Galactica (2005)

39. Sex And the City

40. Game Of Thrones

41. TIE: The Bob Newhart Show and Your Show Of Shows

43. TIE: Downton Abbey and Law & Order and thirtysomething

46. TIE: Homicide: Life On The Street and St. Elsewhere

48. Homeland

49. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

50. TIE: The Colbert Report and The Good Wife and The Office (UK)

53. Northern Exposure

54. The Wonder Years

55. L.A. Law

56. Sesame Street

57. Columbo

58. TIE: Fawlty Towers and The Rockford Files

60. TIE: Freaks And Geeks and Moonlighting

62. Roots

63. TIE: Everybody Loves Raymond and South Park

65. Playhouse 90

66. TIE: Dexter and The Office (US)

68. My So-Called Life

69. The Golden Girls

70. The Andy Griffith Show

71. TIE: 24 and Roseanne

72. The Shield

74. TIE: House and Murphy Brown

76. Barney Miller

77. I, Claudius

78. The Odd Couple

79. TIE: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Star Trek: The Next Generation and Upstairs, Downstairs

83. Get Smart

84. TIE: The Defenders and Gunsmoke

86. Justified

87. Sgt. Bilko (The Phil Silvers Show)

88. Band Of Brothers

89. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In

90. The Prisoner

91. TIE: Absolutely Fabulous and The Muppet Show

93. Boardwalk Empire

94. Will & Grace

95. Family Ties

96. TIE: Lonesome Dove and Soap

98. TIE: The Fugitive and Late Night With David Letterman and Louie

101. Oz

Surprisingly, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” ranks high while “Ally Mcbeal” was not included.

Full list via Deadline

1 Comment on 101 Best Written TV Series Of All Time – ‘The Sopranos’ Tops List

  1. Anonymous // June 5, 2013 at 2:57 pm //

    how about 7th heaven and beverly hillls 90210 , the bay watch too… 🙁

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