The Best Shows on Television

These are the shows which I feel are worth your time. No real order, but the comedies are separated from the dramas.
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1.
Game of Thrones (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.4/10 X  
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. (60 mins.)
 
2.
Supernatural (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as "hunters" fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth. (60 mins.)
 
3.
Firefly (2002 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.1/10 X  
Five hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them. (42 mins.)
 
4.
Lost (2004 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  
The survivors of a plane crash are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a dangerous new world that poses unique threats of its own. (42 mins.)
 
5.
Castle (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle gets permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes. (43 mins.)
 
6.
Sherlock (2010 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.2/10 X  
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London. (90 mins.)
 
7.
Fringe (2008 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
A television drama centered around a female FBI agent who is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena. (60 mins.)
 
8.
Person of Interest (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  
A former CIA operative is recruited by an enigmatic billionaire to prevent violent crimes. (43 mins.)
 
9.
The Wonder Years (1988 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  
Kevin Arnold recalls growing up during the 60's; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting. (30 mins.)
 
10.
The Vampire Diaries (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
A high school girl is torn between two vampire brothers. (43 mins.)
 
11.
Homeland (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
An intelligence officer suspects a Marine of being turned into a threat against the United States. (60 mins.)
 
12.
Dexter (2006 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9.0/10 X  
A likeable Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice. (60 mins.)
 
13.
24 (2001 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.4/10 X  
Jack Bauer, Director of Field Ops for the Counter-Terrorist Unit of Los Angeles, races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster. (42 mins.)
 
14.
House M.D. (2004 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits. (45 mins.)
 
15.
Prison Break (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Due to a political conspiracy an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out from the inside out. (43 mins.)
 
16.
The Good Wife (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
Alicia has been a good wife to her husband, a former state attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm. (60 mins.)
 
17.
Heroes (2006 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  
They thought they were like everyone else... until they woke with incredible abilities. (45 mins.)
 
18.
The Mentalist (2008 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  
An infamous 'psychic' abandons his public persona, outing himself as a fake, to focus on his work as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in order to find "Red John," the madman who killed his wife and daughter. (43 mins.)
 
19.
Awake (2012 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
After a car accident takes the life of a family member, a police detective lives two alternating parallel lives, one with his wife and one with his son. Is one of his "realities" merely a dream? (43 mins.)
 
20.
Teen Wolf (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
A somewhat awkward teen is attacked by a werewolf and inherits the curse itself, as well as the enemies that come with it.
 
21.
Rectify (2013 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
Daniel Holden must put his life back together after serving 19 years on Georgia's Death Row before DNA evidence calls his conviction into question. (60 mins.)
 
22.
American Horror Story (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  
An anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a haunted house, an insane asylum and a witch coven. (60 mins.)
 
23.
Skins (2007 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who more want to be friends (and lovers) rather than authority figures. (46 mins.)
 
24.
True Blood (2008 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  
In a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin", Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, discovers a new world of different creatures when she meets Bill Compton, a vampire. (60 mins.)
 
25.
Orphan Black (2013 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  
A streetwise hustler witnesses the suicide of a girl who looks just like her and falls headlong into a deadly mystery. (60 mins.)
 
26.
The O.C. (2003 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  
A troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy, upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach, Orange County, California. (44 mins.)
 
27.
SGU Stargate Universe (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.4/10 X  
Trapped on an Ancient spaceship billions of light years from home, a group of soldiers and civilians struggle to survive and find their way back to Earth. (43 mins.)
 
28.
Journeyman (2007 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  
A man travels back in time to help people in trouble. (45 mins.)
 
29.
Grey's Anatomy (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  
A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors. (41 mins.)
Director: Kevin McKidd
 
30.
Being Human (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  
Three twenty-somethings share a house and try to live a normal life despite being a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.
 
31.
Sanctuary (2008 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
Stem cells, gene therapy, transplants, and cloning have changed the definition of "humanity" in the modern world, but the darker side contains monsters that only few are brave enough to face, because the future lies in their hands. (60 mins.)
 
32.
Smallville (2001 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  
A young Clark Kent struggles to find his place in the world as he learns to harness his alien powers for good and deals with the typical troubles of teenage life in Smallville. (60 mins.)
 
33.
Persons Unknown (2010 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  
Revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. (43 mins.)
 
34.
Lost Girl (2010 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  
Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans... (60 mins.)
 
35.
Life As We Know It (2004 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
Life through the eyes of Dino Whitman (Faris), Jonathan Fields (Lowell) and Ben Connor (Foster), three hormone-charged teenage boys. (43 mins.)
 
36.
Goosebumps (1995 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
A collection of children's horror stories by R.L. Stine. (30 mins.)
 
37.
American Gothic (1995 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
American Gothic is a horror/drama/thriller series set in the heart of South Carolina in a small town called Trinity... (60 mins.)
 
38.
In the Flesh (2013 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  
Four years after the Rising, the government starts to rehabilitate the Undead back into the society including teenager Kieren Walker, who returns home to his small Lancashire village to face a hostile reception as well as his own demons.
 
39.
Doctor Who (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.7/10 X  
The further adventures of the time traveling alien adventurer and his companions. (71 mins.)
 
40.
Dark Angel (2000 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
A group of genetically-enhanced children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest. (60 mins.)
 
41.
Prime Suspect (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
About Jane Timoney, an iconoclastic female detective who has to make her bones in a tough New York precinct that is dominated by men. (60 mins.)
 
42.
The Fall (2013 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.0/10 X  
A psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his... (300 mins.)
 
43.
Lie to Me (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  
Dr. Cal Lightman teaches a course in body language and makes an honest fortune exploiting it. He's employed... (43 mins.)
 
44.
Revolution (2012 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  
A group of revolutionaries confronts an authoritarian regime 15 years after an instantaneous global shutdown of all electrical devices known as the Blackout.
 
45.
The Walking Dead (2010 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.7/10 X  
Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies. (45 mins.)
 
46.
The Carrie Diaries (2013 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  
Carrie Bradshaw is in her junior year of high school in the early 1980s. She asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while navigating the worlds of high school and Manhattan.
Director: Miguel Arteta
 
47.
Scandal (2012 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  
A White House Communications Director leaves to start her own crisis management firm only to discover she hasn't left the past behind. (43 mins.)
 
48.
Elementary (2012 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  
A modern take on the cases of Sherlock Holmes, with the detective now living in New York City. (60 mins.)
 
49.
Alphas (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
Dr. Lee Rosen leads a team of "Alphas", (human beings with enhanced abilities) who investigate the death of a witness in a court case. They soon uncover more than they had bargained for.
 
50.
Emily Owens M.D. (2012 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.0/10 X  
A young doctor realizes that working as an intern in a big hospital is very much the same as being in high school.
 
51.
Chuck (2007 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  
When a twenty-something computer geek inadvertently downloads critical government secrets into his brain, CIA and NSA assign two agents to protect him and exploit such knowledge, turning his life upside down. (43 mins.)
 
52.
Falling Skies (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
“ Watch this at your own risk. Its dreadfully stupid half the time, but I still watch it because Jessy Schram makes her character absolutely captivating. Also, half the people think its actually a good show. ” - GirishWinchester
 
53.
Small Wonder (1985 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  
Father Ted Lawson creates a robot, Vicki (played by Tiffany Brissette). The family--Ted, Joan and Jamie--keep Vicki's identity secret... (30 mins.)
 
54.
Friends (1994 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.8/10 X  
The lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in Manhattan. (22 mins.)
 
55.
Modern Family (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
Three different, but related families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways. (30 mins.)
 
56.
Mr. Bean (1990 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Life is a difficult challenge for Mr Bean, who despite being a grown adult, has trouble completing even the simplest of tasks. Thankfully, his perseverence is usually rewarded, and he finds an ingenious way around the problem. (24 mins.)
 
57.
How I Met Your Mother (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  
Ted searches for the woman of his dreams in New York City with the help of his four best friends. (25 mins.)
 
58.
The Big Bang Theory (2007 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory. (21 mins.)
 
59.
The Inbetweeners (2008 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  
The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks"... (25 mins.)
 
60.
Awkward. (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  
An unpopular 15 year old gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an accident she has for a suicide attempt.
 
61.
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  
Three twenty-somethings share a Boston apartment and hang around (and work) at a pizza place. (30 mins.)
Director: Matthew Diamond
 
62.
Community (2009 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.6/10 X  
A smarmy lawyer, whose education is deemed void by the bar, is forced to attend a local community college with an extremely eclectic staff and student body. (22 mins.)
 
63.
Suburgatory (2011 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  
A teenage girl moves from the city to the suburbs.
 
64.
My Name Is Earl (2005 TV Series)
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  
A ne'er do well wins $100,000 in the lottery and decides to right all the wrongs from his past with his newfound realization. (30 mins.)