We always talk about shows that started off good but went Stale at the End of it Run (Roseanne, Cosby Show) or Shows that started off bad but was a Great Show by the time it ended (Cheers, Seinfeld). And then those Shows that had a Weak period Somewhere in the middle after starting off good but improved again by the end.

But What TV Shows do you think Was Good from the start of it run and stayed Good until the end of it run?

My List:
Home Improvement
Murphy Brown
Three's Company
The Golden Girls
The Dick van Dyke show

I love lucy
the wonder years
oboy meetsworld
the incdaibl hulk
the odd couple
quantam leap
kung fu
kung fu ledagen counties
freash pricne of bel air
mamas family
family ties
full house

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an example of a scripted show being "good from start to finish".

IMO These shows "Never Jumped"

Adam-12
Doc
Dragnet
Early Edition
Get Smart!
Mannix
Mission: Impossible
Highway Patrol
Highway to Heaven
Lassie
Ripcord
Sea Hunt
Sue Thomas FB Eye
Touched by an Angel
The Twilight Zone
Walker, Texas Ranger

3rd Rock from the Sun
Arrested Development
Bob Newhart
Corner Gas
Dear John
Get a Life
The IT Crowd
Married with Children
Mary Tyler Moore
Ned and Stacey
Newhart
NewsRadio
Odd Couple
Pushing Daisies
SOAP
Taxi
Three's Company
Too Close for Comfort
WKRP in Cincinnati

My personal list:

The Wonder Years
Seinfeld
Friends
The Odd Couple
The Golden Girls

Mission Impossible, Friends and Highway Patrol were excellent shows from start till end.

Cheers
The Golden Girls
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Bob Newhart Show
I Love Lucy

Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Friends
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Frasier
Golden Girls
ER
Men of a Certain Age
Arrested Development

GOMER PYLE: U.S.M.C.
THE ODD COUPLE
CHEERS
QUANTUM LEAP
THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
TAXI
GREEN ACRES

GI of course!

THE FUGITIVE
BONANZA

We always talk about Shows that started off bad but was a Great Show by the time it ended (Cheers, Seinfeld).Cheers started off great. All the Diane years were good, better than the Rebecca years.

So many, but off the top of my head: I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls

Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Friends
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Frasier
Golden Girls
ER
Men of a Certain Age
Arrested Development
I agree about ER and Friends. Some episodes weren't as outstanding as others, but neither series was ever "bad."

I'll also include Curb Your Enthusiasm on my list. It may have jumped it a bit in later years, but the show was/is consistently great.

30 Rock. Their final season was one of their best. Pretty rare for a TV comedy.

Wings
Seinfeld
Frasier

The Wild, Wild, West

I think Wings stayed good until the end. Friday Night Lights also.

I think that The Wonder Years was great from start to finish.

Home Improvement was a great show from Sept. 1991- May 1999 8 seasons 204 episodes!

WKRP in Cincinnati
Newhart
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Leave It To Beaver
Cheers
The Odd Couple (1970s)
Sanford & Son
Taxi

My personal list of "never-jumps":

--M Squad

--Have Gun, Will Travel

--Wanted: Dead or Alive

--The Streets of San Francisco (even though Richard Hatch was in for that fifth and final go, Karl Malden was still great as Lt. Mike Stone, so that kept that fresh and kept it from jumping)

--Barney Miller

--The Bob Newhart Show

--Petrocelli

the middle.

Mama’s Family
I Love Lucy
The Golden Girls
Green Acres
The Jeffersons
Maude
Newhart
Perfect Strangers
Three’s Company
The Twilight Zone
Matlock
In the Heat of the Night
Murder, She Wrote
Garfield and Friends
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The first show that comes to my mind is Barney Miller. Actors came and went, (and were often sorely missed), but their replacements - Steve Landesberg comes to mind right away - were always excellent. That Girl also was pretty good until the end IMHO.

Police Squad was great from start to finish. Only problem is the show only lasted 6 episodes.

I can't think of one TV show that was good from start to finish.

Seinfeld stunk in the beginning and lost steam at the end.

Happy Days started off great but ended terribly

All In the Family went down hill when the baby was added.