1.

THE SOPRANOS

Created by David Chase

"A mobster in therapy, having problems with his mother," was how The
Sopranos initially sparked, according to creator David Chase, though
he was thinking about the premise for a feature film... READ MORE

2.

SEINFELD

Created by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld

At the end of Seinfelds run, Jerry Seinfeld commented that one of the
more underrated aspects of his show was the number of its locations
and sets, creating a sense of indoor-outdoor movement... READ MORE

3.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Season One writers: Charles Beaumont, Richard

Matheson, Robert Presnell, Jr., Rod Serling
No show in the history of television has lingered in the imagination
quite like Rod Serlings anthology series... READ MORE

4.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Developed for Television by Norman Lear, Based on Till

Death Do Us Part, Created by Johnny Speight
Asked how hed been able to be so controversial on All in the Family,
creator Norman Lear said in 2009: I dont really know how to explain
it... READ MORE

5.

M*A*S*H

Developed for Television by Larry Gelbart

M*A*S*H remains the only long-running series, comedy or drama, set
around a war zone... READ MORE

6.

THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW

Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns

The MTM brand, under Moore and then-husband Grant Tinker, was
responsible for an iconic run of comedies (and dramas) in the 1970s,
beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show... READ MORE

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MAD MEN

Created by Matthew Weiner

Matt Weiner wrote the Mad Men pilot nearly a decade before it found a
home as the first scripted drama at AMC, where the series debuted in
the summer of 2007... READ MORE

8.

CHEERS

Created by Glen Charles & Les Charles and James

Burrows
The qualities that made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a seminal sitcom
in the 1970s gave Cheers the same importance to the 80s... READ
MORE

9.

THE WIRE

Created by David Simon

No series, arguably, is more responsible for the novelistic ambitions
possible for television writers now... READ MORE

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THE WEST WING

Created by Aaron Sorkin

The people who get angry at us on one Wednesday night will be
standing up and cheering the next Wednesday night, Aaron Sorkin
wrote in Written By before The West Wing premiered... READ MORE

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THE SIMPSONS

Created by Matt Groening, Developed by James L.

Brooks and Matt Groening and Sam Simon
The Simpsons is as ineffable as American humor gets. Among the
shows landmarks (hitting 100 episodes, then 200, then 500) ... READ
MORE

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I LOVE LUCY

"Pilot," Written by Jess Oppenheimer & Madelyn Pugh

& Bob Carroll, Jr.
Though the show won an Emmy as Best Comedy, the writers were
never so honored... READ MORE

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BREAKING BAD

Created by Vince Gilligan

Creator Vince Gilligan said he was joking with Tom Schnauz that the
two former X-Files writers might have to rent an RV and cook crystal
meth if their stalled Hollywood careers didnt turn around... READ
MORE

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THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW

Created by Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner has said he based his first sitcom on his experiences as a
writer on Your Show of Shows, working for temperamental star Sid
Caesar while also trying to be a husband and father... READ MORE

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HILL STREET BLUES

Created by Michael Kozoll and Steven Bochco

Low-rated in its infancy, Hill Street Blues broke as many TV
storytelling rules as its ultimate success helped establish for cop
shows... READ MORE

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Created by Mitchell Hurwitz

Mitchell Hurwitz offered a glimpse into his take on the family sitcom
when he spoke of his own parents refusal to quietly disappear into
their middle age... READ MORE

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THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART

Created by Madeleine Smithberg, Lizz Winstead;

Head Writer: Chris Kreski; Writers: Jim Earl, Daniel J.
Goor, Charles Grandy, J.R. Havlan, Tom Johnson, Kent
Jones, Paul Mercurio, Guy Nicolucci, Steve Rosenfield,
Jon Stewart
It began as The Daily Show (hosted by Craig Kilborn) in 1996... READ
MORE

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SIX FEET UNDER

Created by Alan Ball

Alan Ball pushed dramatic television into uncharted territory with his
series about the Fishers and their Los Angeles funeral home... READ
MORE

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TAXI

Created by James L. Brooks and Stan Daniels and

David Davis and Ed Weinberger
Post-Mary Tyler Moore Show, James L. Brooks, Stan Daniels, Ed
Weinberger and David Davis left MTM, formed their own company...
READ MORE

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THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW

Created by Garry Shandling & Dennis Klein

Having lampooned himself and sitcoms generally on the meta Its
Garry Shandlings Show, Shandling this time trained his comedic
radar onto the fear and self-loathing backstage at a late-night talk
show... READ MORE

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30 ROCK

Created by Tina Fey

Tina Feys canny take-off on her former life as head writer on
Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock was initially viewed as too inside for a
mass audience... READ MORE

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Developed by Television by Peter Berg, Inspired by

the Book by H.G. Bissinger
Peter Berg wrote and directed the pilot of a show that was the second
adaptation of H.G. Bissingers non-fiction narrative about the impact
of high school football on the hearts, minds and lives... READ MORE

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FRASIER

Created by David Angell & Peter Casey & David Lee,

Based on the character "Frasier Crane" created by
Glen Charles & Les Charles
The Grub Street Productions team of Casey-Angell-Lee furthered the
work theyd done on Cheers by moving psychologist Frasier Crane
from Boston to Seattle and giving him a radio call-in show... READ
MORE

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FRIENDS

Created by Marta Kauffman & David Crane

Co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane met in the theater
program at Brandeis; by the time they created Friends, they had
added a third partner, Kevin Bright... READ MORE

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

Season One writers: Anne Beatts, Chevy Chase, Al

Franken, Lorne Michaels, Marilyn Suzanne Miller, Paul
Mooney, Garrett Morris, Michael ODonoghue, Herb
Sargent, Tom Schiller, Rosie Shuster, Alan Zweibel
In his 2009 memoir, writer-performer Tom Davis conjures the small
gang of writers standing outside Lorne Michaels office... READ MORE

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THE X-FILES

Created by Chris Carter

Foxs signature drama for most of the 90s, The X-Files, created by
Chris Carter, was one of primetime televisions all-time great hit
science-fiction series, although to call it sci-fi requires
qualifying... READ MORE

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LOST

Created by Jeffrey Lieber and J.J. Abrams & Damon

Lindelof
A pastiche of genres sci-fi, James Bond movies, action, adventure,
thriller, even reality TV co-mingled to intoxicating effect on Lost,
which owed a debt to The Twilight Zone... READ MORE

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ER

Created Michael Crichton

The show that launched George Clooneys career had a 20-year
gestation period between the time Michael Crichton first wrote the
pilot in 1974 and John Wells guided it to the top of the ratings in the
mid-1990s... READ MORE

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THE COSBY SHOW

Created by Ed Weinberger & Michael Leeson and

William Cosby, Jr., Ed. D.
Bill Cosbys return to network television caused a new vogue for
sitcoms based closely on the act of a stand-up comedian, a trend that
dominated primetime into the ensuing decades... READ MORE

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

Created by Larry David

Having co-created Jerry Seinfelds roman a clef of a sitcom, Larry

David has turned himself inside out on Curb... READ MORE

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THE HONEYMOONERS*

Season One writers: Herbert Finn, Marvin Marx, A.J.

Russell, Leonard Stern, Walter Stone, Sydney Zelinka
The standard by which all working-class sitcoms are still measured
had a fitful beginning... READ MORE

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DEADWOOD

Created by David Milch

After a dozen years as the bard of NYPD Blue, David Milchs first
created series was a strange, brilliant and rococo Western set in a
Gold Rush town in the Dakota territories, circa the late 1800s... READ
MORE

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STAR TREK

Created by Gene Roddenberry

As creator Gene Roddenberry wrote to science fiction author Isaac
Asmiov two months after the first Star Trek series premiered in 1966:
Star Trek almost did not get on the air because it refused... READ
MORE

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MODERN FAMILY

Created by Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd

The sweet spot on Modern Family, done as a mock documentary, is in
exposing the growing pains for a culture confronting the fluid
meaning of the mainstream family unit... READ MORE

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TWIN PEAKS

"Pilot," Written by Mark Frost & David Lynch

When Blue Velvet Meets Hill Street Blues, read the New York Times
headline in 1990, describing Twin Peaks... READ MORE

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NYPD BLUE

Created by David Milch & Steven Bochco

Steven Bochco made more creative elbow room on network television
with NYPD Blue, which debuted amid viewer discretion hype before
settling into what it was one of the last important primetime cop
series... READ MORE

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THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW

Season One: Written by Bill Angelos, Stan Burns, Don

Hinkley, Buz Kohan, Mike Marmer, Gail Parent, Kenny
Solms, Saul Turtletaub; Writing Supervised by Arnie
Rosen
The kind of beloved series that television executives abandoned long
ago comedy-variety, with an infectiously multi-talented comedian...
READ MORE

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2005)

Developed by Ronald D. Moore, Based on the Series

Battlestar Galactica, Created by Glen A. Larson
Having written for the series Star Trek: TNG and Star Trek: Voyager,
Ronald Moore arrived at his remake of Battlestar Galactica
determined... READ MORE

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SEX AND THE CITY

Created by Darren Star, Based on the Book by

Candace Bushnell
Is the show over? Because the movies arent. Creator Darren Star
based his series on Candace Bushnells book, adapted itself from her
columns in the New York Observer... READ MORE

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GAME OF THRONES

Created by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss, Based on A

Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Medieval (or thereabouts) fantasy is not a TV genre with a particularly
exalted tradition, which is why Game of Thrones, in its lavish
production values and depth of mythology, feels so unprecedented in
television... READ MORE

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THE BOB NEWHART SHOW - TIE

Created by David Davis and Lorenzo Music

Talking about the success of The Bob Newhart Show on the podcast
Bullseye recently, Newhart told a story about Jack Benny... READ
MORE

YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS* - TIE

Season One: Written by Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Max

Liebman
If you journeyed from Vaudeville to Saturday Night Live, youd want
to stop awhile at Your Show of Shows... READ MORE

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DOWNTON ABBEY* - TIE

Created by Julian Fellowes

Series creator Julian Fellowes lavish period piece is also a pace-driven
soap opera, set on a spectacular estate out in the English countryside
of Yorkshire, home of the aristocratic Crawleys and their staff... READ
MORE

LAW & ORDER - TIE

Created by Dick Wolf

The son of an advertising executive, Dick Wolf went into the ad
business himself before moving into film and television... READ MORE

THIRTYSOMETHING - TIE

Created by Marshall Herskovitz & Edward Zwick

Since this sensitive ensemble drama burst onto the scene at the end
of the greed is good 80s, many have tried and just as many have
failed to replicate a show aboutwell, ennui-riddled, upwardly mobile
strivers... READ MORE

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HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET - TIE

Created by Paul Attanasio, Based on the Book

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David
Simon
Homicide was based on the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing
Streets, written by David Simon from his time as a crime
reporter... READ MORE

ST. ELSEWHERE - TIE

Created by Joshua Brand & John Falsey, Developed by

Mark Tinker/John Masius
Like other important shows from the 1980s MTM stable, St.
Elsewhere, which twice won Emmys for its writing, featured a writing
staff whose future series appear elsewhere on this list... READ MORE

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HOMELAND

Developed by Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa, Based

on the Original Israeli Series Prisoners of War by
Gideon Raff
Homeland is a more humanist and psychologically disturbing version
of 24, a show on which co-creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa
were writers... READ MORE

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Created by Joss Whedon

Part of the fun, and influence, of Buffy was in the way it mixed and
matched genres while maintaining the integrity of its comedy and its
heart... READ MORE

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THE COLBERT REPORT - TIE

Season One writers: Mike Brumm, Stephen Colbert,

Rich Dahm, Eric Drysdale, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir,
Laura Krafft, Allison Silverman
Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at
you. That was Stephen Colberts mantra when The Colbert Report
debuted... READ MORE

THE GOOD WIFE - TIE

Created by Robert King & Michelle King

Leading roles for women on TV dont grow on trees, much less
leading roles as layered as Alicia Florrick, played by Juliana
Margulies... READ MORE

THE OFFICE (UK)* - TIE

Created by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant

Early on in the 2000s, the buzz began moving west across the
Atlantic: There was this quirky and very funny faux-documentary
comedy series out of England called The Office... READ MORE

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Created by Joshua Brand & John Falsey

The series classic fish-out-of-water premise involved Joel Fleischman,
a New Yorker fresh out of Columbia Medical School who is sent to run
a clinic in frigid, off-the-grid Cicely, Alaska... READ MORE

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THE WONDER YEARS

Created by Neal Marlens & Carol Black

Created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black, this sweet, intelligent
confection of a half-hour comedy functioned as a looking glass into a
late 60s suburban childhood... READ MORE

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L.A. LAW

Created by Steven Bochco & Terry Louise Fisher

Over its eight seasons, L.A. Law racked up 15 Emmys in various
categories (including two as outstanding drama)... READ MORE

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SESAME STREET

Created by Joan Ganz Cooney

Simply put, the shows continual inventiveness and impact as an
educational tool forged via the runaway popularity of the Muppets
changed the landscape of childrens television... READ MORE

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COLUMBO

Created by Richard Levinson & William Link

As a writing team, Richard Levinson and William Link were an
anomaly, given that they started writing together in junior
high... READ MORE

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FAWLTY TOWERS* - TIE

Written by John Cleese & Connie Booth

In a TV interview, John Cleese called Fawlty Towers just little 30minute farces that start very, very low-key and finish up absolutely
frantic... READ MORE

THE ROCKFORD FILES - TIE

Created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell

As smooth as Columbo was rumpled, private eye Jim Rockford, an excon, lived and worked out of a trailer at the beach in Santa
Monica... READ MORE

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FREAKS AND GEEKS - TIE

Created by Paul Feig

The title itself was an ironic statement about the pejoratives that get
attached to those kids who dont quite buy into the aspirational idea
of fitting in... READ MORE

MOONLIGHTING - TIE

Created by Glenn Gordon Caron

Nominally a comedic detective series, the shows originality came
from the electrifying chemistry between stars Bruce Willis and Cybil
Sherpherd... READ MORE

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ROOTS

Written by William Blinn, M. Charles Cohen, Ernest

Kinoy, James Lee; Based on the Book by Alex Haley
Roots, from executive producer David L. Wolper, and produced by
Stan Margulies, was more than a miniseries... READ MORE

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EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND - TIE

Created by Philip Rosenthal

There was always something deceptively simple on display, in both
its straightforward concept and skillful execution... READ MORE

SOUTH PARK* - TIE

Created by Matt Stone & Trey Parker

From The Spirit of Christmas, an animated holiday card made for
Fox executive Brian Graden that got passed around Hollywood like
comedy samizdat, to The Book of Mormon, no comedy writers... READ
MORE

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PLAYHOUSE 90

Season One writers: Edna Anhalt, Edmund Beloin,

Harold Jack Bloom, Marc Brandel, George Bruce,
James P. Cavanagh, Whitfiled Cook, Helen Doss, Scott
Fitzgerald, Devery Freeman, Frank Gilroy, Helen
Howe, Speed Lamkin, Ernest Lehman, Herbert Little,
Jr., Don Mankiewicz, Elick Moll, Paul Monash, Dean
Reisner, Norman Retchin, Selma Robinson, William
Sackheim, Rod Serling, Leonard Spigelgass, Leslie
Stevens, Brandon Thomas, David Victor, Charles M.
Warren, Hagar Wilde, Cornell Woolrich
"One cannot imagine the joy one had as a professional viewer... READ
MORE

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DEXTER - TIE

Developed for Television by James Manos, Jr., Based

on the Novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
The movement toward dark characters on TV had grown dark enough
to make possible a series, albeit on pay cable, about a Machiavellian
serial killer whose targets are other serial killers... READ MORE

THE OFFICE (U.S.) - TIE

Created by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant,

Developed by Greg Daniels, Based on the BBC Series
The Office
Adapting the British comedy by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant,
Greg Daniels gathered around him writer-performers B.J. Novak,
Mindy Kaling, and Paul Lieberstein... READ MORE

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MY SO-CALLED LIFE

Created by Winnie Holzman

I cannot bring myself to eat a well-balanced meal in front of my
mother. It just means too much to her, the searching teenager
Angela, played by Claire Danes, says in voice-over in the pilot of My
So-Called Life... READ MORE

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THE GOLDEN GIRLS

Created by Susan Harris

The sitcom that stormed the gates of prevailing wisdom about TV
and the over-50 set... READ MORE

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THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW

Episode 1, "The New Housekeeper," Written by Jack

Elinson and Charles Stewart
Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle upon the death of Andy Griffith,
David Wiegand pointed out that Sheriff Andy and the good folks of
Mayberry, N.C., found wide appeal in primetime in an era... READ
MORE

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24 - TIE

Created by Joel Surnow & Robert Cochran

Heading into its debut, the challenges facing this intriguing new
thriller were narrative ones namely, the ability to attract, and hold,
a large audience through a story that unfolded by the hour, in weekly
installments... READ MORE

ROSEANNE - TIE

Created by Matt Williams, Based on a Character

Created by Roseanne Barr
In 1985, on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, America met a
comedian named Roseanne Barr... READ MORE

THE SHIELD - TIE

Created by Shawn Ryan

You could argue that no series in the history of television left a
greater imprint on its network than The Shield, which enabled FX to
branch out into grittier, R-rated dramatic fare while also keeping its
dignity intact... READ MORE

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HOUSE - TIE

Created by David Shore

Creator David Shores series came along a decade after ER and gave
the medical drama a jolt, basing a show on a physician who didnt
have a God complex so much as a complex that was vociferously
godless... READ MORE

MURPHY BROWN - TIE

Created by Diane English

Series creator Diane English left after four popular and award-winning
seasons to create new shows, just as Murphy Browns decision to
become a single mother was blasted as morally irresponsible... READ
MORE

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BARNEY MILLER - TIE

Created by Danny Arnold & Theodore J. Flicker

The air of world-weary sadness that hung over the denizens of the
12th Precinct made Barney Miller feel different from other sitcoms,
quieter in personality and more off-beat... READ MORE

I, CLAUDIUS* - TIE

Written by Robert Graves and Jack Pulman

Twas the year of the miniseries: In January of 1977 Roots premiered
on ABC; in March the networks scandalous hit Rich Man, Poor Man
concluded, and in November, public televisions Masterpiece
Theater... READ MORE

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THE ODD COUPLE

Episode 1, "The Fight of the Felix," Written by Peggy

Elliott & Ed Scharlach
Neil Simons hit Broadway play was directed by Mike Nichols and
starred Walter Matthau and Art Carney... READ MORE

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ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS - TIE

Season One writers: Gwen Bagni, Samuel Blas, Robert

Blees, Ray Bradbury, Richard Carr, James Cavanagh,
Eustace Cockrell, Francis Cockrell, Marian Cockrell,
John Collier, Robert C. Dennis, Mel Dinelli, Stanley
Ellin, Fred Freiberger, Irwin Gielgud, Gina Kaus,
Terence Maples, Richard Pedicini, Louis Pollock,
Joseph Ruscoll, A.J. Russell, Stirling Silliphant, Andrew
Solt, Harold Swanton, Victor Wolfson, Cornell Woolrich
Some of Hitchcocks most memorable films came out while he was
hosting his anthology TV series... READ MORE

MONTY PYTHONS FLYING CIRCUS* - TIE

Conceived and Written by Graham Chapman, John

Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Terry Jones,
Michael Palin
Greatest comedy in the history of television? You wouldnt get an
argument in some quarters... READ MORE

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - TIE

Created by Gene Roddenberry

For his follow-up to a sci-fi series phenomenon roughly the size of the
cosmos, Gene Roddenberry wanted to demonstrate, as he put it in a
1991 Los Angeles Times Magazine article, "that TV need not be
violent... READ MORE

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS* - TIE

Created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins

Long before the sotto voce buzz and chatter at Edwardian era
Downton Abbey, there was 165 Eaton Place, London, and the Bellamy
family... READ MORE

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GET SMART

"Pilot," Written by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry

Not having seen Kubricks Dr. Strangelove or Woody Allen in Whats
Up, Tiger Lily, for that matter I didnt read Get Smart as a take-off
on Cold War-esque, mutually assured destruction; Im just now
realizing the C.O.N.T.R.O.L. v. K.A.O.S. dichotomy... READ MORE

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THE DEFENDERS - TIE

Created by Reginald Rose

Reginald Rose won two Emmys for his writing on The Defenders,
which continued in the vein of the work for which he was most known
for writing, Twelve Angry Men... READ MORE

GUNSMOKE - TIE

Episode 1, "Matt Gets It," Written by Charles Marquis

Warren & John Meston
Already a hit on radio starring William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillon,
Gunsmoke, starring James Arness, became the most popular Western
in TV history and one of the longest running shows ever... READ MORE

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JUSTIFIED - TIE

Developed by Television by Graham Yost, Based on

the Short Story "Fire in the Hold" by Elmore Leonard
Graham Yost, after working on two major miniseries for HBO, Band of
Brothers and The Pacific, segued into something entirely different in
Justified... READ MORE

SGT. BILKO (THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW) - TIE

Created by Nat Hiken

In a New York Times article in 1996, when the movie version of Sgt.
Bilko was to be released, David Everitt, author of the book King of the
Half Hour: Nat Hiken and the Golden Age of TV Comedy , paid
homage... READ MORE

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BAND OF BROTHERS

Written by Erik Bork, E. Max Frye, Tom Hanks, Erik

Jendresen, Bruce C. McKenna, John Orloff, Graham
Yost; Based on the Book by Stephan E. Ambrose
The television miniseries had traditionally gone to war, but Band of
Brothers did so with a budget that reportedly stretched to $120
million... READ MORE

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ROWAN & MARTINS LAUGH-IN

Season One: Written by Chris Beard, Phil Hahn, John

Hanrahan, Coslough Johnson, Paul Keyes, Marc
London, Allan Manings, David Panich, Hugh Wedlock,
Digby Wolfe
Unlike other landmark comedy variety series, most notably Saturday
Night Live, its impossible to talk about Laugh-In without viewing it...
READ MORE

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THE PRISONER*

Premiere Episode: Written by George Markstein and

David Tomblin

A strange, psychedelic amalgam of Cold War spy fiction, sci-fi and

Kafka-esque anti-authoritarianism, The Prisoner starred Patrick
McGoohan as Number Six... READ MORE

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ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (U.K.)* - TIE

Episode 1, "Fashion," Written by Jennifer Saunders,

Based on an original idea by Jennifer Saunders &
Dawn French
Jennifer Saunders was already known in England as part of the
comedy double act French and Saunders when she created Ab Fab,
which featured the besotted exploits of middle-aged gal pals... READ
MORE

THE MUPPET SHOW - TIE

Season One: Written by Jack Burns, Jim Henson, Jerry

Juhl, Marc London
Behind Jim Hensons genius and generosity of spirit were writers who
shared his vision for puppetry that could tickle kids while delighting
adults... READ MORE

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BOARDWALK EMPIRE

Created by Terence Winter, Based on the Book

Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
As a writer on The Sopranos, Terence Winters name is on some of the
shows most iconic episodes, including Pine Barrens, and Long
Term Parking, in which a mobsters fianc was taken out... READ
MORE

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WILL & GRACE

Created by David Kohan & Max Mutchnick

The season prior to Will & Graces debut had seen TV history, when
Ellen Degeneres sitcom alter ego came out as a lesbian in a two-part
episode of ABCs Ellen... READ MORE

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FAMILY TIES

Created by Gary David Goldberg

In 1986, The Washington Post reported that at a White House
ceremony honoring 141 high school students selected as presidential
scholars for achievement in academics, the arts and leadership,
President Reagan called Family Ties... READ MORE

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LONESOME DOVE - TIE

Teleplay by Bill Wittliff, Based on the Novel Lonesome

Dove by Larry McMurtry
It was so big, and at that moment, Westerns were dead, Bill Wittliff,
who adapted Larry McMurtrys novel into the acclaimed miniseries,
told the San Antonio Express-News in 2007... READ MORE

SOAP - TIE

Created by Susan Harris

What more could you want from a primetime satire of daytime soaps?
The comedy, centered around the extended family circus of the
wealthy Tates and the middle-class Campbells, hit all the soapy plot
points... READ MORE

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THE FUGITIVE - TIE

Episode 1, "Where the Action Is," Written by Harry

Kronman
The series finale set a ratings record with a 72 percent share, and
went down as history-making for the way it gave audiences a climax
to all the tension it had built up over four seasons... READ MORE

LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN - TIE

Season One: Writing Supervised by Merrill Markoe,

Writers: Andy Breckman, Tom Gammill, David
Letterman, Richard Morris, Gerard Mulligan, Max
Pross, Karl Tiedemann, Steve Winer
The sort of irony that David Letterman popularized on his show
involved, for starters, calling attention to the fact that he was doing a
talk show... READ MORE

LOUIE - TIE

Season One: Written and Directed by Louis C.K.

The show, about a bemused comedian and divorced father of two
girls, has the feel of honest autobiography. READ MORE

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OZ

Created by Tom Fontana

Before The Sopranos, or The Wire, there was Oz, the first dramatic
series produced by HBO (HBO had produced comedies, including
The Larry Sanders Show, but not a drama)... READ MORE

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