My favourite TV-shows of all-time
by BlackholeTraveller | created - 04 Jan 2011 | updated - 03 Aug 2012 | PublicMy favourite tv-shows of all time! I've ordered them according to the seasons I've seen, so the list changes from time to time.
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1. Lost (2004–2010)
TV-14 | 5,445 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.
Stars: Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly
Votes: 594,762
complete (finished: 25th May 2010)
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 4,25/5
Season 3: 5/5
Season 4: 5/5
Season 5: 5/5
Season 6: 4/5
2. Gilmore Girls (2000–2007)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama
A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
Stars: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Scott Patterson
Votes: 147,982
complete (finished: 17th April 2009)
Season 7: 4/5
3. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose
Votes: 149,299
complete (finished: 2nd May 2010)
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 5/5
Season 3: 4,5/5
Season 4: 4,5/5
Season 5: 5/5
4. Everwood (2002–2006)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
A widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.
Stars: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Debra Mooney
Votes: 15,259
complete (finished: 3rd October 2010)
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 5/5
Season 3: 4,5/5
Season 4: 4,25/5
5. Friday Night Lights (2006–2011)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Sport
A drama that follows the lives of the Dillon Panthers, one of the nation's best high school football teams, and their head coach Eric Taylor.
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Aimee Teegarden
Votes: 72,443
complete (finished: 18th June 2012)
Season 1: 4,25/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 4,25/5
Season 4: 5/5
Season 5: 4,5/5
6. The Wire (2002–2008)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Baltimore drug scene, as seen through the eyes of drug dealers and law enforcement.
Stars: Dominic West, Lance Reddick, Sonja Sohn, Wendell Pierce
Votes: 377,099
complete (finished: 1st August 2012)
Season 1: 4,5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 4,25/5
Season 4: 3,5/5
Season 5: 4,5/5
7. Dawson's Creek (1998–2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Two childhood best friends, Dawson and Joey, go through different stages of adolescence together. Their friendship is later tested when they both start a relationship with different people.
Stars: James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson
Votes: 44,631
complete (finished: 23rd March 2011)
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 5/5
Season 3: 4,25/5
Season 4: 4,75/5
Season 5: 3,5/5
Season 6: 2,5/5
8. Roswell (1999–2002)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The lives of three young alien/human hybrids with extraordinary gifts in Roswell.
Stars: Shiri Appleby, Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl, Majandra Delfino
Votes: 30,703
complete (finished: 9th February 2009)
Season 1:
Season 2:
Season 3:
9. Dexter (2006–2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them.
Stars: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar
Votes: 765,235
1-4
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
Season 4: 4,5/5
10. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.
Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 351,202
complete (finished: 20th May 2010)
Season 1: 3,5/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
Season 4: 4/5
Season 5: 4,5/5
Season 6: 4/5
Season 7: 4,5/5
Season 8: 3,5/5
Season 9: 4/5
11. Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Stars: Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan
Votes: 142,481
complete (finished: 19th May 2011)
Season 1: 4,5/5
Season 2: 4/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
Season 4: 4/5
Season 5: 3,5/5
Season 6: 3,5/5
Season 7: 3,5/5
12. Scrubs (2001–2010)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, intern John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.
Stars: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, John C. McGinley
Votes: 270,556
complete (finished: 2nd May 2011)
Season 1: 4,5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 4,5/5
Season 4: 3,5/5
Season 5: 3,75/5
Season 6: 3,25/5
Season 7: 3,5/5
Season 8: 3/5
Season 9: 2/5
13. Breaking Bad (2008–2013)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student in order to secure his family's future.
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt
Votes: 2,134,136
1-3
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 4,5/5
14. Parenthood (2010–2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
The lives and tragedies of the Braverman family tree.
Stars: Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard, Monica Potter
Votes: 37,542
1-3
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 4,75/5
Season 3: 5/5
15. Home Improvement (1991–1999)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family
The daily trials and tribulations of Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, a television show host raising three mischievous boys with help from his loyal co-host, loving wife, and eccentric neighbor.
Stars: Tim Allen, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith, Zachery Ty Bryan
Votes: 49,091
complete (finished: 1st October 2009)
Season 1: 3,5/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 3,75/5
Season 4: 3,5/5
Season 5: 3,5/5
Season 6: 3/5
Season 7: 3,5/5
Season 8: 4/5
16. Eli Stone (2008–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
San Francisco lawyer Eli Stone begins to see things, which leads him to discover a brain aneurysm. But his visions lead him to accept cases with little monetary gain but a lot of moral goodness.
Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Natasha Henstridge, Loretta Devine, Matt Letscher
Votes: 10,899
complete (finished: 22nd February 2010)
Season 1: 4,5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
17. Rescue Me (2004–2011)
TV-MA | 42 min | Comedy, Drama
Tommy Gavin deals with the fears of his job as a firefighter and seeing his ex-wife dating other men.
Stars: Denis Leary, Michael Lombardi, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Roth
Votes: 27,953
1-4
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 4,25/5
Season 4: 3,75/5
18. Mad Men (2007–2015)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama
A drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.
Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones
Votes: 260,381
1-4
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 3,75/5
Season 3: 3,75/5
Season 4: 4,5/5
19. My So-Called Life (1994–1995)
TV-14 | 912 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents, and school.
Stars: Bess Armstrong, Wilson Cruz, Claire Danes, Devon Gummersall
Votes: 21,970
complete (14th June 2010)
Season 1: 4,5/5
20. Parks and Recreation (2009–2015)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.
Stars: Amy Poehler, Jim O'Heir, Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt
Votes: 287,807
1-4
Season 1: 3,5/5
Season 2: 4/5
Season 3: 4/5
Season 4: 4,25/5
21. Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
The story of the drama surrounding a family's adult siblings.
Stars: Dave Annable, Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin
Votes: 25,554
complete (finished: 9th May 2011)
Season 1: 4,75/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
Season 4: 4,5/5
Season 5: 2,5/5
22. American Dreams (2002–2005)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, History
In the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period.
Stars: Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Brittany Snow, Jonathan Adams
Votes: 3,253
1
Season 1: 4,5/5
23. Community (2009–2015)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.
Stars: Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Chevy Chase
Votes: 293,301
1-3
Season 1: 3,75/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 4/5
24. Skins (2007–2013)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
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 would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Hannah Murray
Votes: 93,053
1-6
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 4,5/5
Season 4: 4/5
Season 5: 4,25/5
Season 6: 3,5/5
25. The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
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.
Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg
Votes: 867,268
1-5
Season 1: 4,25/5
Season 2: 4/5
Season 3: 3,75/5
Season 4: 3,5/5
Season 5: 3/5
26. One Tree Hill (2003–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade between kinship and rivalry both on the basketball court and in the hearts of their friends in the small, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
Stars: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton Morgan, Bethany Joy Lenz
Votes: 87,111
complete (finished: 5th April 2012)
Season 1: 5/5
Season 2: 5/5
Season 3: 4/5
Season 4: 5/5
Season 5: 3,75/5
Season 6: 3,75/5
Season 7: 3,25/5
Season 8: 2/5
Season 9: 2/5
27. Alias (2001–2006)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman
Votes: 54,726
1-4
Season 1: 3,75/5
Season 2: 4/5
Season 3: 3,75/5
Season 4: 3/5
28. The Shield (2002–2008)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Drama series following the lives and cases of dirty cop Vic Mackey and the corrupt LAPD unit under his command.
Stars: Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace
Votes: 88,034
1-3
Season 1: 4,25/5
Season 2: 4,25/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
29. Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000)
TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama
A high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.
Stars: Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, James Franco, Samm Levine
Votes: 153,187
complete (finished: 8th September 2011)
Season 1: 4,25/5
30. Misfits (2009–2013)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A group of young offenders doing community service gets struck by lightning during a storm and start to develop superpowers.
Stars: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Joe Gilgun, Iwan Rheon, Lauren Socha
Votes: 107,279
1-3
Season 1: 4,5/5
Season 2: 4,5/5
Season 3: 2/5
31. Party of Five (1994–2000)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family
Five siblings raise each other following their parents' untimely deaths.
Stars: Matthew Fox, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert
Votes: 11,276
1-3
Season 1:
Season 2:
Season 3: 3,5/5
32. Ally McBeal (1997–2002)
TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Follows the personal and professional life of lawyer Ally.
Stars: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Vonda Shepard
Votes: 36,397
1-4
Season 1: 3,5/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
Season 3: 3,5/5
Season 4: 3/5
33. Death Note (2006)
Not Rated | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
Director: Shûsuke Kaneko | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Yû Kashii
Votes: 31,864
complete (finished: 22nd March 2011)
Season 1: 4,5/5
34. Lizzie McGuire (2001–2004)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Lizzie McGuire, a clumsy middle school girl, navigates through teenage issues while enjoying her childhood years with genuine friends, an annoying younger brother and loving parents.
Stars: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Lalaine
Votes: 20,455
complete (finished: 22nd August 2011)
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 3,5/5
35. The Middle (2009–2018)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the town of Orson, Indiana.
Stars: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher
Votes: 53,683
1-3
Season 1: 4/5
Season 2: 4/5
Season 3: 3,25/5
36. The L.A. Complex (2012)
60 min | Drama
Full of new relationships, salacious temptations and make-it-or-break it decisions, the series' coming-of-age dwellers grapple with life's defining moments as they deal with the unreality ... See full summary »
Stars: Jonathan Patrick Moore, Joe Dinicol, Cassie Steele, Jewel Staite
Votes: 2,915
1
Season 1: 4,25/5
37. The Hour (2011–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Stars: Romola Garai, Ben Whishaw, Dominic West, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 11,031
1
Season 1: 4/5
38. The Wonder Years (1988–1993)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Kevin Arnold recalls growing up during the late 60s and early 70s; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.
Stars: Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills, Jason Hervey
Votes: 40,749
1-5
Season 1: 4,25/5
Season 2: 4,25/5
Season 3: 3,75/5
Season 4: 3,75/5
Season 5: 3,5/5
39. Wilfred (2011–2014)
TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The story of a depressed man who inexplicably is the only one who can see his neighbor's dog as a full-grown man in a dog suit.
Stars: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Fiona Gubelmann, Dorian Brown Pham
Votes: 44,374
1 (2 watching)
Season 1: 4/5
40. Revenge (2011–2015)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An emotionally troubled young woman sets out to exact revenge against the people who wronged her father.
Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Nick Wechsler
Votes: 125,055
1
Season 1: 3,75/5
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