Some shows are missing, some shows are way down in the rankings
Many of these shows when I was growing up were not shown in the UK because they didn’t translate well. I’ve never heard of them. There are numerous shows I loved which didn’t make the list. The following list I’ve picked out from the 100 are the ones I’ve seen. There are a few in the early days I watched because of my parents. Frazier didn’t make the list which was a bit weird. And Friends only made it to 29 on the list. No mention of Cagney & Lacey, which was iconic for battling sexism and discussing women’s issues. I think the list was more about TV show formats and the golden age.
Going through the list of 100 TV shows it dawned on me how much of our lives from the 1960’s onwards, we spent watching a box for entertainment to distract us from our mundane lives. Enjoy.
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TV shows I’ve watched from the Variety list:
Will & Grace — the first TV show I reviewed in Hollywood for a gay TV Film column.
Homeland
Black Mirror
St Elsewhere
Happy Days
Stranger Things
Columbo
Fleabag
Thirtysomething
The Muppet Show
DallasTaxi
NYPD Blue
The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Roseanne
Gret’s Anatomy
Angels in America
Orange is the New Black
South Park
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Six Feet Under
My So-Called Life
The Shield
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The X-Files
ER
Hill Street Blues
Twin Peaks
30 Rock
Game of Thrones
60 Minutes
The Golden Girls
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Saturday Night Live
The Twilight Zone
Sesame Street
Cheers
Roots
The Mary Tyler More Show
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Breaking Bad
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
Mad Men
I Love Lucy
That’s all folks!
Ginger Liu is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media — specifically death tech, digital afterlife, AI death and grief practices, AI photography, entertainment, security, and policy, and an author, writer, artist photographer, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast — The Digital Afterlife of Grief.
