Can you name the best TV series of all time based on IMDb ratings and votes? by rockgolf

Can you name the best TV series of all time based on IMDb ratings and votes?

created by rockgolf

Enter a TV series in the box below
Correctly named TV series will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
To qualify, show must be identified as a TV series on IMDb.com, have received at least 1,000 votes & had an average score of 7.0/10 or greater. Each answers contains 5 TV series. More in comments.
NOTE: Because people tend to vote for new shows rather than old ones, there is a preponderance of very recent programs on the list. Many "classic" TV series just don't have enough votes to make the list.
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IMDb: Best 500 TV Series in the world...EVER! (2012) Quiz

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	rockgolf:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 03:12 GMT		2 points
	This is an updated version of a quiz I first did last April, but there's a new #1 that I don't think was even on the list last time. To qualify, a TV series must have received at least 1,000 votes with average score of 7.0 or higher. The algorithm used for ranking was based on the largest numbers of people giving shows the highest average IMDb rating out of 10. The specific formula is (Square root of the number of votes) * (Square of the average rating).

	rockgolf:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 03:40 GMT		1 point
	Also, unlike last year, there are multiple cases of remakes of shows making the list. For example, the US & UK versions of The Office and Being Human, the original Danish version of The Killing and its US remake. Shows like Hawaii Five-O and Doctor Who that were cancelled and revived. Where I'm aware of two programs with the same name, I've distinguished them by either year or country of origin.

	floydpink:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 05:53 GMT		5 points
	Very impressive, and you did a great job of making sure that alternate answers were accepted (i.e. TMNT for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). The present-day bias is a shame; hard to really put much stock in a list that ranks Game of Thrones in the Top 5 but finds no room for I Love Lucy...

	rockgolf:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 13:39 GMT		1 point
	Thanks. If this becomes a sesquiannual tradition (e.g. Another update in April 2014) I think I'll try to adjust for the age of the series.

	MovieGuru:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 17:05 GMT		3 points
	Claiming to be the best shows "of all time" and then having such a strong bias toward recent shows is kind of funny, but I really enjoyed guessing newer tv shows, and I was really happy to see The Guild on here, which for some reason I didn't think would count as a tv series

	leviper:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 20:34 GMT		6 points
	There is not a bigger fanboy opinion base on the internet like IMDb.

	rockgolf:	Aug 10th, 2012 at 22:07 GMT		2 points
	I tried adjusting for the age of the series. It puts these series that debuted before 1990 into the top 100: 5 The Simpsons 8 The Twilight Zone 14 Fawlty Towers 17 Monty Python's Flying Circus 20 Tom and Jerry 21 Star Trek 24 Married with Children 29 Star Trek: The Next Generation 34 Top Gear 37 Dragon Ball Z 38 MAS*H 45 Saturday Night Live 47 I Love Lucy 48 Only Fools and Horses.... 59 The Black Adder 60 Doctor Who 64 Cheers 66 Blackadder Goes Forth 68 The Wonder Years 69 Black-Adder II 73 The Flintstones 76 Mystery Science Theater 3000 77 Red Dwarf 78 Black Adder the Third 83 Dragon Ball 88 MacGyver 89 Scenes from a Marriage 92 Dragon Ball Z 97 The Prisoner 98 The A-Team 99 Scooby Doo, Where Are You!

	LinkIsCool:	Aug 12th, 2012 at 21:27 GMT		3 points
	I thought Rolling Stone had joke lists. This one might trump them all. Friends at number 2? Friends?! Friends?!

	PS90:	Aug 13th, 2012 at 23:26 GMT		3 points
	@Leviper - I couldn't agree more. This list is laughable. "Games of Thrones" is a semi-decent show, but how does a show with 20 episodes rank as the "best all-time tv series", whether it's good or not??? While "Mad Men" - the most critically-acclaimed TV show in years - is number 30, and "The Simpsons" is 31? Answer - the teenage fanboys, who think Game of Thrones is the current "flavor of the month" voted 10,000 times each.

	Canes20:	Aug 14th, 2012 at 02:39 GMT		-2 points
	Seinfeld didn't make the list

	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2012 at 17:59 GMT		3 points
	@Canes20: Huh? Seinfeld is #19.

	rockgolf:	Aug 14th, 2012 at 18:01 GMT		2 points
	@PS90: Fawlty Towers only produced 12 episodes ever, so that shouldn't be a consideration. And the only way to vote "10,000 times each" is to set up 10,000 accounts on IMDb.

	PS90:	Aug 15th, 2012 at 18:06 GMT		1 point
	@Rockgolf: Game of Thrones and Fawlty Towers is apples to oranges. Fawlty Towers, though short, is well-established as one of the best British sitcoms ever, and is also about 30 years old. Game of Thrones is on-going and only two seasons in, and is, at best, "generally favorable" as far as critics' reviews. I was obviously exaggerating about the 10,000 vote thing, but many of those guys do indeed vote many times under many accounts, and (although I have no support for this) I would be willing to bet that the average voter-age on IMDb is under 20 years old. So, in other words, to a young voter, newer = better.

	AlanDale:	Aug 17th, 2012 at 07:06 GMT		4 points
	The Walking Dead is absolutely not in the top 500 tv shows of all time. It's terrible.

	johnlk:	Sep 3rd, 2012 at 04:44 GMT		1 point
	It's really not hard to be one of the 500 best TV shows of all time, especially since what we're talking about here is scripted TV shows. Almost every show of the last twenty years with any critical respect is on this list, while still leaving enough room for hundreds of mediocre to bad shows. Which is not to say that the list is good, but the problem is mostly in the ordering, rather than the composition. But, really, why pick on "Game of Thrones," which, while not by any means the best show of all time, is at least a (very) good show, when the rest of the top ten is, South Park excepted, almost universally undeserving. Seriously, Friends is #2?

	alpha:	Sep 10th, 2012 at 14:50 GMT		1 point
	big bang theory is one of the top ten best shows of all time? Had to stop taking the quiz after that.