Can you name the Most Watched TV Series Finales (U.S.)?

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TV Series Finales Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: October 11th, 2008
Category: Television
Plays: 105,520

Tags: Show Quizzes, finale, watched, viewer, million, Most Watched

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	springmom:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 14:51 GMT	8 points
	Nice one! I know lots of people who don't realize that MASH was the most watched finale ever....they think Seinfeld was the best show. I grew up with MASH and I still watch it every time it comes on. Pure genius!

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	dposseman:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 17:48 GMT	12 points
	i'll correct myself, sopranos only drew in 11.9 million viewers for the finale

	radiosilence:	Oct 12th, 2008 at 00:26 GMT	4 points
	What? No Bionic Woman? :+) Considering I work in television, I was surprisingly bad at this quiz.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Oct 12th, 2008 at 21:43 GMT	5 points
	Surprised Hill Street Blues and LA Law didn't appear here. Shocked at Magnum so high too. Magnum is the only one I didn't get that I actually have seasons on DVD.

	pftw:	Oct 14th, 2008 at 13:43 GMT	0 points
	I don't think the top 5 on this list will likelyhange because I don't see a show ever having that many viewers again. There are simply too many channels and choices. I loved MASH and I'm happy to see it stay where it belongs, but I'm a little saddened that a show like Full House is so high up. it will take a GIANT show (by today's) standards to knock them off this list.

	Lycan_Amyral:	Nov 8th, 2008 at 04:31 GMT	4 points
	The only show I see knocking any of the top 5 off that list would be The Simpsons, and even then that's tenuous.

	Bailey:	Dec 1st, 2008 at 04:19 GMT	5 points
	Even if "The Tonight Show" isn't enough to get the point (given the year, who else would it be referring to but Carson?), having the answer be "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" is just wrong. Leno uses "with", Carson used "Starring"

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	mkgrenwel:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 19:18 GMT	2 points
	@Travis: Note the rules. American Idol is a "reality" show.

	lucy2005rules:	Apr 17th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	3 points
	i was expecting sex and the city to be on the list, but then im not american so i cant comment on what it more popular over there

	allan williams:	Jun 2nd, 2009 at 13:11 GMT	3 points
	I'm glad "Newhart" made the list. Funniest series ending I've ever seen.

	NoSoupForYou8:	Aug 27th, 2009 at 05:58 GMT	0 points
	seinfeld is awesome! that's my favorite show, and yeah i always thought it had the most viewers of a finale all time, i guessed mash right though, it's a little before my time or i probably would've been part of that 105.9.

	tsauer01:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 04:46 GMT	4 points
	excellent quiz! I was surprised that neither Roseanne nor Wonder Years on the list

	tigerschick:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 15:51 GMT	0 points
	MASH was amazing! So glad it still has its top-spot on the list. Interesting how many of these shows are comedies ... I don't know all of them (not being an American) but I know that well over half are comedies. Don't know what point that makes but I think it's interesting ;o)

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	cjmg:	Dec 6th, 2009 at 08:33 GMT	1 point
	Newhart = best finale ever

	marothisu:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 07:36 GMT	3 points
	You missed one...Star Trek: The Next Generation had 27.8 million viewers.

	Retracto:	Apr 22nd, 2010 at 01:44 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, I was gonna point out the Star Trek TNG too. Maybe they didn't include shows in syndication, but TNG outperformed a lot of network shows.

	Malkore:	May 29th, 2010 at 10:37 GMT	2 points
	i wonder where lost falls in there now that has finished

	waggles:	Jun 10th, 2010 at 17:13 GMT	2 points
	the Lost series finale only drew about 13 or 14 million, so it would not be on this list

	lichenboy:	Jan 5th, 2011 at 22:39 GMT	1 point
	Anyone know the viewership for the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show? It set the standard for how to end a comedy series - all the subsequent comedies in this list owe their variously clever and poignant endings to MTM.

	itswhatiam:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 15:47 GMT	1 point
	This needs to accept "THE Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." I typed it four or five times and it won't accept it with "the" at the beginning, even that that was the name of the show...

	LinkIsCool:	Aug 2nd, 2011 at 02:46 GMT	1 point
	I think the Lost series finale would have been a lot higher if not for seasons 4-6 when the show started to get into that JJ Abrams "I'm not sure where to go from here so I'm gonna just start making up a bunch of weird crap" territory.

	Riko:	Aug 4th, 2011 at 10:07 GMT	1 point
	I'm surprised (but glad) to see The Golden Girls on this list. A college roommate and I would get drunk and watch a few episodes at least one night a week.