(An idea of mine)

So the four major American broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, FOXBC, and NBC) had each created a "Hall of Fame" for primetime TV shows that used to air on the networks. There are two eligibility requirements: The program must have ran for at least four seasons on the network, and must not be a currently-running series.

The first class would be in 2010, and for that year, there would be eight inductees each from ABC, CBS, and NBC, and four from the FOX BC. Every year thereafter, there can be six inductees from ABC, CBS, and NBC, and two from FOX BC.

First CBS Hall of Fame Class - 2010
I Love Lucy
Gunsmoke
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
M*A*S*H
Dallas
Murphy Brown
Everybody Loves Raymond

First NBC Hall of Fame Class - 2010
Bonanza
Sanford & Son
Little House on the Prairie
Hill Street Blues
The Cosby Show
Seinfeld
Friends
ER

First ABC Hall of Fame Class - 2010
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
The FBI
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Happy Days
Three's Company
Dynasty
Roseanne
NYPD Blue

First FOX BC Hall of Fame Class - 2010
Married... With Children
Beverly Hills, 90210
The X-Files
That '70s Show

First CBS Hall of Fame Class - 2010
I Love Lucy
Gunsmoke
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
M*A*S*H
Dallas
Murphy Brown
Everybody Loves Raymond

Agree with all except the last 2.

I Love Lucy
Gunsmoke
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
All in the Family
M*A*S*H
Dallas
The Twilight Zone
The Andy Griffith Show

^^I started this game, so do not ruin it. I am the only person who got to choose the enshrinees for the first class in 2010 in the networks' hall of fame, agree with it or not. I'm playing the role of "committee", and the "committee" can select the members of the Hall of Fame class. Other SitcomsOnline members are playing the role of "consideration".

Now, any ideas for inductees for the next class (in 2011)? Remember, six shows for ABC/NBC/CBS and two for FOX, and they can be from any decade. But remember the two eligibility requirements.

Whatever, sorry if I offended you and your thread but I have the right to disagree with your choices whether you like it or not. Of all the shows CBS has ever aired, I can't see having Murphy Brown and Everybody Loves Raymond in the initial class. I'm not a big fan of I love Lucy either but for it's place in TV history it's an appropriate choice.

I don't care if you have rights to agree or disagree, you are not the selection committee, you're consideration. I had to induct TV shows from ALL decades in the first class (even the 90s and 2000s), so Twilight Zone and Andy Griffith (both 1960s) are gonna have to wait till next year (2011).

To other members (the "consideration"), hand in your suggestions for 2011 HoF classes, please.

ABC

Home Improvement
Boy Meets World
The Brady Bunch
Family Matters
Full House
Leave it to Beaver

CBS

King of Queens
Green Acres
Still Standing
Yes, Dear
Early Edition
Lassie

NBC

My Name is Earl
3rd Rock
Alf
The Facts of Life
The Golden Girls
Fresh Prince

FOX

King of the Hill
Malcolm in the Middle

Networks HoF inductees for 2011 (final selections):

Inductees for ABC Hall of Fame Class of 2011

Leave it to Beaver
The Fugitive
The Brady Bunch
Laverne & Shirley
Who's the Boss?
Home Improvement

CBS Hall of Fame Class of 2011

Lassie
The Andy Griffith Show
Maude
Knots Landing
The Nanny
The King of Queens

NBC Hall of Fame Class of 2011

Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts of Life
Night Court
Cheers
LA Law
Frasier

FOX Hall of Fame Class of 2011

21 Jump Street
Malcolm in the Middle

Honorable mention: The Danny Thomas Show a.k.a. Make Room For Daddy (aired for four seasons on ABC and seven on CBS, so TDTS can be inducted into both the ABC and CBS Halls of Fame)

So we have no say what is going to be "the best"? Seems kind of pointless then.

^^You do not know how a "hall of fame" works, Personally, you don't know how anything works. There are a small number inductees in one HoF class for a calendar year.

There have been so many long-running scripted shows on network TV throughout history, and that gave me an idea to start this game. And in this game, I am the only one who gets to play the role of the HoF selection committee, and the other SitcomsOnline Board members can put forward any suggestions to the Seleciton Committee. As the Selection Commottee, I am the one who gets to make the final selections.

I have to protest that a TV Show has to be at least four seasons to be eligible. That leaves out a lot of TV Shows that are considered classics including:

The Addams Family

Batman

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Land of the Giants

Lost in Space

The Munsters

Nanny and the Professor

Star Trek

The Time Tunnel

and many, many more.

^^You do not know how a "hall of fame" works, Personally, you don't know how anything works. There are a small number inductees in one HoF class for a calendar year.

There have been so many long-running scripted shows on network TV throughout history, and that gave me an idea to start this game. And in this game, I am the only one who gets to play the role of the HoF selection committee, and the other SitcomsOnline Board members can put forward any suggestions to the Seleciton Committee. As the Selection Commottee, I am the one who gets to make the final selections.
Wow, no need for a personal attack.

I personally disagree and believe that all of the members on Sitcoms Online should be able to include shows, but this is your thread. Since I do disagree, I will just avoid the thread and let you do your thing.

Jim, let people have their opinions and stop bullying them.

CBS Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Perry Mason
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Lucy Show
Hawaii Five-O
The Bob Newhart Show
Murder, She Wrote

NBC Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Dragnet (1952)
I Dream of Jeannie
The NBC Mystery Movie Series (McCloud, Columbo, McMillan & Wife)
Family Ties
The Golden Girls
Will & Grace

ABC Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Bewitched
The Partridge Family
Charlie's Angels
The Love Boat
The Practice
Dharma & Greg

FOX Hall of Fame Class of 2012
Martin
Melrose Place


So what do you think about this Hall of fame so far?

What about syndicated series? Or Daytime shows like the Price is Right?

^^I started this game, so do not ruin it. I am the only person who got to choose the enshrinees for the first class in 2010 in the networks' hall of fame, agree with it or not. I'm playing the role of "committee", and the "committee" can select the members of the Hall of Fame class. Other SitcomsOnline members are playing the role of "consideration".
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LOL great trolling Michael Jackson. :lol: :happyface :wave:

This year's (2013) primetime TV show hall of fame inductees:

ABC
Peyton Place
The Mod Squad
Room 222
Barney Miller
Growing Pains
Desperate Housewives

CBS
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Petticoat Junction
The Carol Burnett Show
The Waltons
Falcon Crest
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

NBC
The Virginian
Dragnet (1967)
Ironside
The A-Team
A Different World
3rd Rock From the Sun

FOX
Ally McBeal
24

I would put simpsons cops and family guy in fox's hall of fame

^^Unfortunately, the selection committee can't induct current scripted shows into the networks' hall of fame.

Please note that, although we may induct TV shows at random for a certain class consisting of six shows, we are no longer accepting inductions based on anniversaries of debuts or endings, or based on one or more main castmembers of a TV show having died.

Also, we are not restricting HOF inductees to programs from the classic era, because if we did, the HoF would get boring over time, the networks' hall of fame is for TV shows from all eras. (This goes for the inaugural class (in 2010) as well.) And we are not inducting programs into the HoF just because one user is a fan of said program.

There is no set waiting period for the Hall of Fame. Should there be a waiting period between end ending of a program and induction to the HoF of that program or is anyone here fine with shows getting inducted into the HoF just a year after the show ended its original run?

ABC - I'd like to give it to The Mod Squad, but Peyton Place was a Trendsetter, so I'll have to go with it.

CBS - The Twilight Zone No doubt about it.

NBC - Ironside One of the first shows to have a character who was handicapped.

Fox - I didn't watch any of these, so I abstain.

ABC- Growing Pains
CBS- Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
NBC- The A-Team
Fox- Don't really care about either series, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd definitely take 24

Another note: A network TV show has to be inducted into the hall of fame of the network on which the show originally appeared on. For example, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley may be owned by CBS (specifically its TV distribution subsidiary), but since the original run of these series were on ABC, they must go into the ABC Hall of Fame.

A recap of every Network TV Hall of Fame class so far (so I won't have to induct a series into the HoF twice).

Class of 2010
CBS: I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Dallas, Murphy Brown, Everybody Loves Raymond
NBC: Bonanza, Sanford & Son, Little House on the Prairie, Hill Street Blues, The Cosby Show, Seinfeld, Friends, ER
ABC: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The FBI, Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Three's Company, Dynasty, Roseanne, NYPD Blue
FOX: Married... With Children, Beverly Hills, 90210, The X-Files, That '70s Show

Class of 2011
ABC: Leave it to Beaver, The Fugitive, The Brady Bunch, Laverne & Shirley, Who's the Boss?, Home Improvement
CBS: Lassie, The Andy Griffith Show, Maude, Knots Landing, The Nanny, The King of Queens
NBC: Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Night Court, Cheers, LA Law, Frasier
FOX: 21 Jump Street, Malcolm in the Middle

Class of 2012
CBS: Perry Mason, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Hawaii Five-O, The Bob Newhart Show, Murder, She Wrote
NBC: Dragnet (1952), I Dream of Jeannie, The NBC Mystery Movie Series (McCloud, Columbo, McMillan & Wife), Family Ties, The Golden Girls, Will & Grace
ABC: Bewitched, The Partridge Family, Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, The Practice, Dharma & Greg
FOX: Martin, Melrose Place

Class of 2013
ABC: Peyton Place, The Mod Squad, Room 222, Barney Miller, Growing Pains, Desperate Housewives
CBS: The Twilight Zone (1959), Petticoat Junction, The Carol Burnett Show, The Waltons, Falcon Crest, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
NBC: The Virginian, Dragnet (1967), Ironside, The A-Team, A Different World, 3rd Rock From the Sun
FOX: Ally McBeal, 24

2014 Network TV Hall of Fame inductees to be revealed within the coming days.

2014 Networks' Hall of Fame - Starting this year, for the original three networks, there can be anywhere between 6 and 8 inductees. Right now, I'm running out of shows to induct, so other SitcomsOnline members can feel free to nominate a show for this class, as long as they remember the induction criteria: Four or more seasons on the network, must not be in current production, any scripted series from any decade.

ABC - Combat!, Perfect Strangers, Lost
CBS - The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mission Impossible, Good Times, Magnum P.I., JAG
NBC - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Law & Order
FOX - Party of Five, House M.D.

Special case: None of FOX's animated shows (current or former) can be inducted into the Hall of Fame until The Simpsons stops current production as a first-run series (this means no HoF induction for King of the Hill). No CBS series that premiered in 2000 or after can be inducted until the original CSI stops current production as a first-run series.

ABC: The Love Boat, Dynasty, All My Children, Charlie's Angels, Family Matters, Desperate Housewives, What's Happening, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Bewitched, Wonder Woman, The Fall Guy, Who's The Boss, Starsky & Hutch, The Mod Squad, The Rookies, Gidget, Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, The Brady Bunch, Room 222, and Three's Company.

NBC: Sanford & Son, I Dream of Jeannie, Julia, Highway to Heaven, Little House on the Prairie, The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, 227, Knight Rider, The Facts of Life, Fame, A-Team, Different Strokes, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Gimme A Break, In the Heat of The Night, and Miami Vice.

CBS: Dallas, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Twilight Zone, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, The Price is Right, The Beverly Hillbillies, Magnum PI, All in the Family, One Day at A Time, Barnaby Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Alice, Trapper John MD, Touched By an Angel, and The Dukes of Hazard.

Fox: 21 Jump Street, Martin, Married With Children, Friday the 13: The Series, In Living Color, Roc, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Sleepy Hollow, and Living Single.

ABC: The Love Boat, Dynasty, All My Children, Charlie's Angels, Family Matters, Desperate Housewives, What's Happening, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Bewitched, Wonder Woman, The Fall Guy, Who's The Boss, Starsky & Hutch, The Mod Squad, The Rookies, Gidget, Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, The Brady Bunch, Room 222, and Three's Company.

NBC: Sanford & Son, I Dream of Jeannie, Julia, Highway to Heaven, Little House on the Prairie, The Cosby Show, The Golden Girls, 227, Knight Rider, The Facts of Life, Fame, A-Team, Different Strokes, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Gimme A Break, In the Heat of The Night, and Miami Vice.

CBS: Dallas, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Twilight Zone, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, The Price is Right, The Beverly Hillbillies, Magnum PI, All in the Family, One Day at A Time, Barnaby Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Alice, Trapper John MD, Touched By an Angel, and The Dukes of Hazard.

Fox: 21 Jump Street, Martin, Married With Children, Friday the 13: The Series, In Living Color, Roc, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, Sleepy Hollow, and Living Single.

Some of the shows you suggested are already in the Hall of Fame. A show can only be inducted into the HOF once.

I meant "6 to 8 primetime series".

Also, Sleepy Hollow is in current production. Can't induct shows currently in production. Also, in the case of Fame, only two of its six seasons were on NBC.

And we are not inducting programs into the HoF just because one user is a fan of said program.



Really? Since you are doing this and deciding everything on your own, isn't that exactly what you are doing? And who is "we". We is you.

Really? Since you are doing this and deciding everything on your own, isn't that exactly what you are doing? And who is "we". We is you.

Here's how it works: You make the suggestions (can be a long list), I make the "final" selections. Think of me as a "one-person final selection committee". Sorry I tried to wreck my own game. Please do not hate me.

There was actually a conflict within this board in which I inducted Murphy Brown and ELR into the inaugural CBS HOF class for 2010, but a user disagreed with those choices and wanted me to change it to Twilight Zone and Andy Griffith Show. I refused, because I wanted to represent all decades in the inaugural HOF classes (MB for 90s and ELR for 2000s) Also, Twilight Zone during its original run on CBS was not a Top 30 show in the Nielsen ratings and I couldn't have another show other than Gunsmoke represent the 1960s decade (though I already had 3 shows represent the 1970s, LOL). In each HoF class, there is a limited number of spots.

CBS:

The Defenders
Playhouse 90
Studio One
Climax
December Bride
Our Miss Brooks


NBC:

Life of Riley
Mr. Peepers
Kraft Television Theatre
Texaco Star Theatre
Your Show of Shows
Philco Television Playhouse


ABC:

Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Lone Ranger
Disneyland
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
77 Sunset Strip
Cheyenne


Dumont:

Captain Video
Life is For Living


Fox:

:rolleyes:

Any other 4-plus-seasons-long series from the 1950s (specifically scripted ones) you may suggest?

I'd rather not start a HoF for the Dumont network, because it's long-defunct and their list of scripted programs are way limited.

Why can shows from 2000 to present on CBS not be included? They've had good shows since then.

Why can shows from 2000 to present on CBS not be included? They've had good shows since then.

Because the original CSI: Las Vegas (which premiered in 2000) is still in production, and it'll probably be a first-ballot inductee after it ends its run considering its past ratings history. If it ends its run without a wrap-up episode, there can be a four-year waiting period.

Also, spinoffs can't go into the HoF unless the "parent" show gets inducted first.

Network HOF inductees are due this Friday (January 31).

I'm having a hard time deciding between Mad About You and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for the 2014 NBC HOF class. Also under consideration are CHiPs and Adam-12.

Under consideration for the CBS 2014 HOF class is... I don't know, some long-running series from the 1950s? If anyone knows any series from that era, please send me some suggestions.

Under consideration for this year's ABC class is Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Coach.

Under consideration for the CBS 2014 HOF class is... I don't know, some long-running series from the 1950s? If anyone knows any series from that era, please send me some suggestions.


What about Perry Mason? That one has become one of my favorites.

^^Perry Mason already inducted in 2012.

Anything else?

Network HOF inductees are due this Friday (January 31).

I'm having a hard time deciding between Mad About You and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for the 2014 NBC HOF class. Also under consideration are CHiPs and Adam-12.

Under consideration for the CBS 2014 HOF class is... I don't know, some long-running series from the 1950s? If anyone knows any series from that era, please send me some suggestions.

Under consideration for this year's ABC class is Cheyenne, 77 Sunset Strip, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Coach.I'll take Mad About You over Fresh Prince any day.

Found this thread too late but I have a nominee suggestion for next year in the category of 1950s CBS sitcom: The Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko). That show was very funny and is often overlooked. It ran four seasons.

If The Phil Silvers Show beat out I Love Lucy 3 years in a row why is it never shown in syndication?

What do you think of the newsmagazine 60 Minutes being inducted into CBS's HOF? I know that 60 Minutes is a current show, but the "No Current Shows Allowed" rule mainly applies to scripted shows. I mean, its ratings history, being the most-watched show for five seasons in the early 80s and the early 90s.

What do you think of the newsmagazine 60 Minutes being inducted into CBS's HOF? I know that 60 Minutes is a current show, but the "No Current Shows Allowed" rule mainly applies to scripted shows. I mean, its ratings history, being the most-watched show for five seasons in the early 80s and the early 90s.How is it that you hate The Simpsons for being long-running but seem to like 60 Minutes, which actually has lasted a lot longer? Yes one is scripted and one is unscripted but both types of shows are on all the networks.

Don't start bashing me, please, and I don't like any "you seem to"'s directed at me.

What if I meant "No current scripted shows allowed in the HoF"? I just hate The Simpsons for not concluding its original run, because if The Simpsons actually did end its original run, its chances of being inducted would improve.

SitcomsOnline members, I present to you the final list of 2014 Network TV Hall of Fame inductees:

ABC
Combat!
The Six Million Dollar Man
Hotel
Perfect Strangers
Full House
Lost

CBS
December Bride
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Mission: Impossible
Good Times
Magnum, P.I.
JAG

NBC
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Adam-12
CHiPs
Miami Vice
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Law & Order

FOX
Party of Five
House, M.D.

If this happened, there is no way CBS would put in Raymond and Murphy Brown before Andy Griffith. In fact Murphy Brown really doesn't have a lot of popularity now because of being out of syndication.

^^Well, why? And what does everybody here have against Raymond being in the HOF, anyway?

In the 2010 CBS HOF class, because it was the inaugural class, I'm sure CBS, like the other two broadcast networks, would want to pick at least one show representing each of the six decades before then. I put in one 1950s show (ILL), one 1960s show (Gunsmoke), three 1970s shows (AitF, MTM, MASH), one 1980s show (Dallas), one 1990s show (MB), and one 2000s show (ELR), and I had at least two of the inductees run concurrently with each other. Here's why I put Murphy Brown in: I only put in Murphy Brown because it was the only choice between Dallas and ELR, and the ratings impact all of the inductees made during their original runs (MB was CBS's top sitcom of the early-mid 1990s, peaking at #3 in 1991-92). Plus, I had to put in eight inductees for that inaugural class, and unfortunately, because I put in three shows from the 1970s, I left no room for Andy Griffith Show, so I had to save it for the following years class to make up for this "mishap".

But I can't change it just because everyone here wants to overrate the "classic" TV era (pre-1970s), and it cannot hurt to put some shows from the 1990s in. At least Raymond is successful in syndication, unlike MB, but MB deserved its induction despite flopping horribly in syndication.

I have nothing against Raymond, I just don't put it in the same category as the Andy Griffith Show. Very few people will.

Ma'am, what are you talking about, "same category"?

Personally, I refuse to put one top show over another top show just because one's in the "classic TV" era and one is more recent; that's called "overrating the classic era", and I am not a person who likes to buy into "overrated" stuff, IMHO.

And another program I snubbed from 2010 is The Brady Bunch. Sure, TBB may have been successful in syndication, but I couldn't put it in the 2010 class out of respect for the fact that Marcus Welby M.D., which launched the same year as and ran for two more years than TBB, was the first show on ABC to be the most-watched show on broadcast television (during the 1970-71 season). I put TBB into the 2011 ABC HOF class instead.

I guess syndication success must not be a requirement for this Hall of Fame, either.

Under consideration for the 2015 class of the Network TV Halls of Fame

ABC
The Real Mccoys
The Odd Couple
Coach
Ellen

CBS
Walker, Texas Ranger

FOX
Living Single
The OC

NBC
Mad About You
The Office

Other
My Three Sons (can go into both ABC and CBS Halls of Fame)

Another note: A network TV show has to be inducted into the hall of fame of the network on which the show originally appeared on. For example, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley may be owned by CBS (specifically its TV distribution subsidiary), but since the original run of these series were on ABC, they must go into the ABC Hall of Fame.

Which is why at first I did not understand it when Dynasty had its 2006 "Catfights and Caviar" reunion on CBS, when the series proper aired on ABC. Only later did I realize that CBS had bought the rights to the same, and have subsequently released Nos. 2-9 (No. 2 singly, the rest in volumes), while No. 1 was a FOX release.

If the original CSI doesn't get renewed for a 16th and final season, despite its terrible ratings in its new Sunday timeslot, then the CBS Hall of Fame will be suspended for the next five years (until 2020). 2015 may be the last HoF Class for CBS for awhile.