Here you will find the least and most remembered Time magazine's 100 best TV shows of all-time, as well as how your score stacks up against everyone else who took this quiz.

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This Time's Best TV Quiz has been taken 78,360 times (2 today).
Show % Guessed Right
Friends
77.5%
Seinfeld
75.2%
The Simpsons
72.5%
Saturday Night Live
64.4%
Cheers
55.1%
Sesame Street
54.3%
M*A*S*H
53.8%
Survivor
51.8%
60 Minutes
49.8%
The Oprah Winfrey Show
46.8%
Star Trek
45.8%
I Love Lucy
45.2%
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
44.4%
All in the Family
42.3%
Dallas
40.7%
The Price Is Right
38.1%
The Cosby Show
37.2%
Lost
36.4%
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
35.7%
American Idol
34.7%
South Park
33.2%
SportsCenter
32.8%
The Super Bowl (plus ads)
32.8%
The Sopranos
31.3%
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
30.4%
General Hospital
29.3%
The Twilight Zone
26.4%
The Office (American)
26.3%
The Office (British)
26.3%
Late Night with David Letterman
25.8%
The Real World
25.6%
Gunsmoke
25.4%
The X-Files
23.8%
Roots
21.7%
Show % Guessed Right
24
21%
King of the Hill
20.7%
The Honeymooners
19.9%
The Dick Van Dyke Show
19.9%
ABC's Wide World of Sports
19.3%
Sex and the City
18.3%
Leave It to Beaver
18.1%
The Carol Burnett Show
18.1%
Hill Street Blues
17.9%
Roseanne
17.4%
Battlestar Galactica
16.9%
A Charlie Brown Christmas
16.2%
The West Wing
15.9%
Arrested Development
15.5%
The Ed Sullivan Show
15.4%
The French Chef
14.4%
Taxi
13.6%
SpongeBob SquarePants
13.5%
Married... With Children
13.5%
The Wire
12.9%
MTV (1981-1992)
12%
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
11.7%
St. Elsewhere
10.7%
The Bob Newhart Show
10.5%
Soap
10.3%
Six Feet Under
10.2%
Deadwood
8.8%
Monty Python's Flying Circus
8.7%
Gilmore Girls
8.7%
The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
8.2%
Twin Peaks
8.2%
Second City Television
8%
CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
8%
Dragnet
7.9%
Show % Guessed Right
Sanford and Son
7.7%
WKRP in Cincinnati
6.7%
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
6.1%
Freaks and Geeks
5.6%
The Odd Couple
5.2%
Moonlighting
5.2%
The Shield
5.2%
Homicide: Life on the Street
4.5%
What's My Line?
4.5%
My So-Called Life
4.3%
Mystery Science Theater 3000
4.1%
Your Show of Shows
3.6%
Pee-wee's Playhouse
3.5%
The Larry Sanders Show
3.3%
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
3.2%
The Abbott and Costello Show
3.1%
Rocky and His Friends
2.8%
An American Family
2.7%
The Day After
2.6%
Felicity
2.5%
The Monkees
2.4%
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
2.4%
The Prisoner
2.2%
I, Claudius
2%
Brideshead Revisited
1.6%
Playhouse 90
1.6%
See It Now
1.5%
Buffalo Bill
1.4%
The Ernie Kovacs Show
1.3%
Prime Suspect
1.2%
Wiseguy
1.1%
The Singing Detective
1%
How do you compare to other Time's Best TV quiz takers?

Number % Answered
100 (all)
0.3%
95-99
0.3%
90-94
0.2%
85-89
0.1%
80-84
0.1%
75-79
0.1%
70-74
0.2%
65-69
0.2%
60-64
0.3%
55-59
0.5%
50-54
1.1%
45-49
1.8%
40-44
3.4%
35-39
5.7%
30-34
8.1%
25-29
9.7%
20-24
11.1%
15-19
12.6%
10-14
14.1%
5-9
17.6%
1-4
12.6%

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Time's Best TV Quiz

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  • Created Aug 24, 2009 in Television
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