With all the top 16 threads in General Sitcoms I thought I'd make one for dramas. Any decade can be included on this and dramedies can be included but no reality shows.

my top 16
1. Early Edition
2. Fame
3. Once Upon a Time
4. Diagnosis Murder
5. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour/Alfred Hitchcock Presents
6. Star Trek: the Next Generation
7. Touch
8. Lou Grant
9. Under the Dome
10. Hostages
11. Dragnet
12. Awake
13. The Waltons
14. No Ordinary Family
15. Monk
16. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation
I'll be back with more.

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Days of our Lives
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Murder, She Wrote
5. Matlock
6. Dynasty
7. Batman (1966)
8. In the Heat of the Night
9. Baywatch
10. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
11. The Twilight Zone (1959)
12. Criminal Minds
13. Silk Stalkings
14. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
15. Little House on the Prairie
16. Melrose Place (1992)

1. 7th Heaven
2. Little House On The Prairie
3. The Waltons
4. Party Of Five
5. Judging Amy
6. Private Practice
7. The Good Wife
8. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman
9. Cedar Cove
10. Signed, Sealed, Delivered

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Days of our Lives
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Murder, She Wrote
5. Matlock
6. Dynasty
7. Batman (1966)
8. In the Heat of the Night
9. Baywatch
10. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
11. The Twilight Zone (1959)
12. Criminal Minds
13. Silk Stalkings
14. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
15. Little House on the Prairie
16. Melrose Place (1992)
I say Batman 1966 is more of a comedy. It was very campy.

2. L.A. Law
3. E.R.
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. BattleStar Galatica ( the 2000s version)
6. Quantum Leap
7. Sliders
8. The X Files
9. Little House on the Prarie
10. Alien Nation
11. Star Trek (the original)
12. Lost
13. Hill Street Blues
14. Emergency
15. Chips
16. Melrose Place

1) Ally McBeal
2) The Wire
3) Twin Peaks
4) The X-Files
5) Deadwood
6) House
7) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8) Hill Street Blues
9) Battlestar Galactica
10) The Shield
11) Gilmore Girls

now
#1 arrow
#2 person of interest
#3Hawaii Five-0 remake
#4 The Mentalist
#5 NCIS: Los Angeles
#6Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D
#7 long mire
#8 Continuum
#9 the 100 hundred
#10 resurrection
#11 early edition
#12 hero's
#13 Jericho
#14 life on mars
#16 moon light
#17 kayle xy

classic shows
#1 the Walton's
#2 doctor Quinn median women
#4 the rock ford files
#5 parry mason
#6Magnum, P.I
#7The Incredible Hulk
#8 Diagnosis Murder
#9 mat lock
#10 murder, she wrote
#11 jag
#12 Bonanza
#13 greatest American hero
#14 wonder women
#15 batman Adam west
#16 lost in space
#17 promise land

1. The Bionic Woman
2. Dallas (both versions)
3. Dynasty
4. Family
5. Shirley
6. Peaceable Kingdom
7. Once And Again
8. American Horror Story
9. Walking Dead
10. Life Goes On
11. Big Valley
12. Charlie's Angels
13. Hart To Hart
14. McMillan & Wife
15. Falcon Crest
16. Haven

16 more Honorable Mentions:

Mod Squad
Flamingo Road
Popular
Freaks And Geeks
My So Called Life
Monroes 1966
Nurse
Revenge
The Fosters
Shameless (US version)
Snoop Sisters
Year In The Life
Queer As Folk (both UK & US versions)
Avengers
Knots Landing
7th Heaven

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation
2. The X-Files
3. Thriller
4. The Waltons
5. Star Trek: The Original Series
6. Misfits
7. James at 15
8. The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
9. Firefly
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
11. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
12. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
13. The Walking Dead
14. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
15. Dollhouse
16. Supernatural

In no particular order:

Gunsmoke
Stargate SG-1
Naked City
Castle
Rawhide
Combat!
M Squad
Star Trek - Original Series
Hawaii Five O - Original Series
Nero Wolfe - AMC Series
The Saint!
Laramie
T.H.E Cat
Night Heat - Canadian TV series
Bonanza
Columbo

1. The Twilight Zone (original)
2. Miami Vice
3. Fame
4. Hill Street Blues
5. Kojak
6. New York Undercover
7. In the Heat of the Night
8. Moonlighting
9. St. Elsewhere
10. Hunter
11. Mission: Impossible
12. Kung Fu
13. Night Heat
14. 21 Jump Street
15. The Bronx Zoo
16. The Dukes of Hazzard

1. The Twilight Zone (Original)
2. The Six Million Dollar Man
3. Batman (1966)
4. The Outer Limits (Original)
5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents/The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
6. Star Trek (TOS)
7. St. Elsewhere
8. Emergency!
9. The Waltons
10. The Millionaire
11. Hill Street Blues
12. Law & Order/Law & Order SVU
13. Then Came Bronson
14. One Step Beyond
15. McCloud
16. Columbo

1. Charlie's Angels
2. Queer as Folk (US)
3. Six Feet Under
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Dexter
6. Dallas (original)
7. The Lieutenant
8. Cagney & Lacey
9. The Mod Squad
10. Freaks and Geeks
11. Vega$
12. Falcon Crest
13. Streets of San Francisco
14. Police Woman
15. Eight Is Enough
16. Starsky and Hutch

The following are my most favorites. :) :) :)

The Glades
7th Heaven
Walker, Texas Ranger
Blue Bloods

God bless you always!!! :) :) :)

Holly

No order after number one....

1. Lark Rise To Candleford
2. Downton Abbey
3. Upstairs Downstairs (1970s)
4. Picket Fences
5. Call The Midwife
6. Mr. Selfridge
7. Midsomer Murders
8. Cranford

-The Commish
-Highlander
-Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
-The Paradise
-Upstairs Downstairs (2010s)
-Father Dowling Mysteries
-Beverly Hills 90210 (1990s)
-Poirot

1. Downton Abbey
2.Little House on The Prarie
3.GUNSMOKE
4.The X-Files
5.The Twilight Zone
6.BONANZA
7.Quinn
8.Waltons
9.Hawaii Five-0
10.Star Trek
11.Starsky and Hutch
12.The Six Million Dollar Man
13.Wonder Woman
14.Emergency!
15.The Streets of San Francisco
16.Sliders

1. Lincoln Heights
2. Soul Food: The Series
3. Dynasty
4. Knots Landing
5. Love Boat
6. Hotel
7. Charlie's Angels
8. The Rookies
9. Starsky and Hutch
10. City of Angels
11. Dallas
12. Scandal
13. Grey's Anatomy
14. Falcon Crest
15. Desperate Housewives/ Rookie Blue
16. Mistresses (with Alyssa Milano)

These are some my favorite dramas from the last couple of years.

1. Supernatural
2. Haven
3. Bates Motel
4. Teen Wolf
5. The Walking Dead
6. iZombie
7. Grimm
8. Being Human
9. Lost Girl
10. The Vampire Diaries
11. Penny Dreadful
12. Agent Carter
13. Castle
14. The Mysteries of Laura
15. Grey's Anatomy
16. Law & Order SVU
17. Hawaii Five-0
18. American Horror Story
19. True Blood
20. Chicago Fire
21. Sleepy Hollow
22. Rookie Blue
23. Devious Maids
24. Falling Skies
25. Defiance

Here are mine favorites:
1.Game of Thrones
2.Arrow
3.Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
4.Grey's Anatomy
5.Coronation Street
6.The Vampire Diaries
7.Once Upon a Time
8.Criminal Minds
9.The Blacklist
10.The 100
11.The Mentalist
12.The Good Wife :)

Murder she wrote
Matlock
Diagnosis:murder
Quicy M.E.
L.A. law columbo