tlc38tlc38's Top 100 Sitcoms

[tlc38tlc38]

My top 10 favorites are in bold with their ranking order.

In alphabetical order--numbers first:

1. 2 Broke Girls
2. 227
3. 3rd Rock from the Sun
4. The Addams Family
5. ALF
6. Alice
7. All-American Girl
8. All in the Family
9. Amen
10. The Andy Griffith Show
11. Archie Bunker's Place
12. Benson
13. The Beverly Hillbillies #6
14. Bewitched
15. Blossom
16. The Bob Newhart Show
17. Boy Meets World
18. The Brady Bunch
19. Charles in Charge
20. Cheers
21. Coach
22. The Cosby Show
23. Cybill
24. Dave's World
25. Designing Women #3
26. Dharma & Greg
27. A Different World
28. Dinosaurs
29. The Drew Carey Show
30. The Donna Reed Show
31. Ellen
32. Empty Nest
33. Evening Shade
34. Everybody Loves Raymond
35. The Facts of Life
36. Family Matters #7
37. Family Ties
38. Father Knows Best
39. The Flying Nun
40. Full House
41. Gilligan's Island
42. Gimme a Break!
43. The Golden Girls #8
44. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
45. Grace Under Fire
46. Green Acres #4
47. Growing Pains
48. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
49. Happy Days
50. Hazel
51. Hearts Afire
52. Home Improvement
53. I Dream of Jeannie
54. I Love Lucy #2
55. The Jeffersons #9
56. Just Shoot Me!
57. Kate & Allie
58. Laverne & Shirley
59. Major Dad
60. Mama's Family #1
61. Married with Children
62. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
63. Maude
64. Mister Ed
65. Mork & Mindy
66. Mr. Belvedere
67. The Munsters
68. Murphy Brown
69. The Nanny
70. Newhart #10
71. NewsRadio
72. Night Court
73. One Day at a Time
74. Perfect Strangers
75. Petticoat Junction #5
76. Punky Brewster
77. Reba
78. The Ropers
79. Roseanne
80. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
81. Sanford and Son
82. Saved by the Bell
83. Seinfeld
84. Small Wonder
85. Spin City
86. Soap
87. Step by Step
88. That Girl
89. Thea
90. Three's Company
91. The Torkelsons
92. Unhappily Ever After
93. Veronica's Closet
94. Welcome Back, Kotter
95. What's Happening!!
96. Who's the Boss?
97. Will & Grace
98. Wings
99. WKRP in Cincinnati
100. The Wonder Years

[Adamantium]

Good list. I didn't know you were a "NewsRadio" fan!

[king of comedy]

Great list. Animated sitcoms like The Simpsons wouldn't have counted?

[tlc38tlc38]

Originally Posted by Adamantium

Good list. I didn't know you were a "NewsRadio" fan!

I'm not a huge fan of the show but I do enjoy it when I watch it. It's cleverly written and acted.

I have now edited my original post to include my top 10.

[tlc38tlc38]

Originally Posted by king of comedy

Great list. Animated sitcoms like The Simpsons wouldn't have counted?

Sure it would count. I like the show but it's not in my top 100.

[Sal]

I tend to make my A-Z list a little differently. What I do is try and pick my top 5 for each letter, except for M which would have 10, since there are many great M shows so you need more than 5. A few letters might have less than 5 due to a lack of worthy candidates, but in the end I still end up with around 100. My current group will look like this, ordered by preference:


A

1. The Andy Griffith Show
2. ALF
3. The Addams Family
4. The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet
5. All In The Family

B

1. The Brady Bunch
2. Bewitched
3. The Beverly Hillbillies
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. The Bob Newhart Show

C

1. The Cosby Show
2. Cheers
3. Coach
4. Car 54, Where Are You?
5. Chico & The Man

D

1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. The Donna Reed Show
3. Dobie Gillis
4. Dennis The Menace
5. Diff'rent Strokes

E

1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. 8 Simple Rules
3. Empty Nest
4. Eight Is Enough


F

1. Friends
2. Frasier
3. Family Ties
4. Family Affair
5. The Flintstones

G

1. Gilligan's Island
2. Green Acres
3. Get Smart
4. The Golden Girls
5. Gomer Pyle USMC

H

1. Happy Days
2. The Honeymooners
3. Here's Lucy
4. Hogan's Heroes
5. How I Met Your Mother

I

1. I Dream Of Jeannie
2. I Love Lucy

J

1. The Jack Benny Program
2. The Jeffersons
3. Julia
4. Just The Ten Of Us
5. Joanie Loves Chachi

K

1. King Of Kensington
2. Kate and Allie

L

1. Leave It To Beaver
2. Laverne & Shirley
3. Love American Style
4. The Lucy Show
5. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour

M

1. The Monkees
2. Mork & Mindy
3. My Three Sons
4. The Munsters
5. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
6. Married With Children
7. Mad About You
8. Make Room For Daddy
9. Malcolm In The Middle
10. The Middle

N

1. Night Court
2. Newhart
3. The New Leave It To Beaver
4. The New Gidget

O

1. The Odd Couple
2. One Day At A Time
3. Our Miss Brooks

P

1. The Partridge Family
2. The Phil Silvers Show
3. Petticoat Junction
4. Punky Brewster
5. Phyllis


R

1. Room 222
2. The Ropers
3. Rhoda
4. The Real McCoys
5. Roseanne

S

1. Scrubs
2. Soap
3. Sabrina The Teenage Witch
4. The Simpsons
5. Sanford & Son

T

1. Three's Company
2. Two & A Half Men
3. That Girl
4. Taxi
5. 3rd Rock From The Sun

W

1. Welcome Back Kotter
2. WKRP In Cincinnati
3. Will & Grace
4. Wings
5. Webster


By my total, that comes out to 95 shows, so to get to 100, here are 5 more that just missed the cut but which I also like:

Alice
Barney Miller
MASH
That 70s Show
Two Broke Girls

[MrCleveland]

I'll make my own top-100 list soon....

[gidgetgrape]

Super list tlc38tlc38. I haven't seen The Torkelsons in a very long time, but I use to love it.

[MrCleveland]

No particular order...

1950's & 1960's...

1-I Love Lucy
2-Dick van Dyke Show
3-Andy Griffith Show
4-Flinstones
5-Jetsons
6-Top Cat
7-F Troop
8-Batman
9-Beverly Hillbillies
10-Flying Nun
11-The Monkees
12-Hogan's Heroes
13-Get Smart
14-I Dream of Jeanie
15-Bewitched
16-Green Acres
17-Mr. Ed
18-Munsters
19-Addams Family
20-That Girl
21-McHale's Navy

1970's...

22-All in the Family
23-Maude
24-The Jeffersons
25-Bob Newhart Show
26-Mary Tyler Moore Show
27-Happy Days
28-Laverne and Shirley
29-Mork and Mindy
30-SOAP
31-WKRP
32-Partridge Family
33-The Odd Couple
34-One Day at a Time
35-Phyllis
36-Rhoda
37-Three's Company
38-Good Times
39-Taxi
40-Welcome Back Kotter

1980's...

41-Gimme a Break!
42-Facts of Life
43-Diffr'nt Strokes
44-Police Squad
45-The Duck Factory
46-ALF
47-Night Court
48-Police Squad
49-Mr. Belvedere
50-Small Wonder
51-Charles in Charge
52-Mama's Family
53-The Hogan Family
54-Perfect Strangers
55-Who's the Boss?
56-Newhart
57-227
58-Amen
59-Head of the Class
60-Cheers
61-The Cosby Show
62-A Different World
63-Family Ties
64-Golden Girls
65-Empty Nest
66-Kate and Allie
67-Too Close for Comfort
68-Bosom Buddies

1990's...

69-Home Improvement
70-Frasier
71-Seinfeld
72-Friends
73-That 70's Show
74-Full House
75-Family Matters
76-Boy Meets World
77-Step by Step
78-Mr. Cooper
79-Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
80-Dinosaurs
81-The Critic
82-Drew Carey Show
83-The Norm Show
84-Thunder Alley
85-Kirk
86-Sister Sister
87-Pinky and the Brain
88-Soul Man
89-Married with Children
90-Caroline in the City
91-South Park
92-Coach
93-Grace Under Fire

2000's...

94-Family Guy
95-Futurama
96-American Dad
97-Cleveland Show
98-Hot in Cleveland
99-Titus
100-Malcolm in the Middle

Honorable Mentions...

Suddenly Susan
NewsRadio
Just Shoot Me
Dilbert
Baby Blues
My Two Dads
Saved by the Bell
California Dreams

[king of comedy]

Great list.

[Kasey]

I could only come up with 75; anything more than that I would be struggling to list shows I would care to ever see again. Top Ten in bold; the rest are mostly chronological:

MAUDE
BEWITCHED
MAMA'S FAMILY
DESIGNING WOMEN
IT'S A LIVING
GOLDEN GIRLS
ROSEANNE
HAZEL
ALICE
THE DONNA REED SHOW
I Love Lucy
Our Miss Brooks
Dobie Gillis
My Three Sons
Dick Van Dyke Show
Beverly Hillbillies
The Lucy Show
My Favorite Martian
Patty Duke Show
Petticoat Junction
The Munsters
Gidget
I Dream of Jeannie
Green Acres
That Girl
Family Affair
The Mothers-In-Law
Flying Nun
Julia
Doris Day Show
Here's Lucy
Brady Bunch
Partridge Family
Odd Couple
Mary Tyler Moore
All in the Family
Rhoda
Phyllis
One Day at a Time
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
Soap
WKRP In Cincinnatti
Angie
The Ropers
The Facts of Life
Flo
I'm a Big Girl Now
Harper Valley PTA
The Two of Us
Private Benjamin
Gimme a Break
9 to 5
Square Pegs
Charles in Charge
227
Growing Pains
The Hogan Family
You Again
She's the Sheriff
Just the Ten of Us
Murphy Brown
The Powers That Be
Delta
The Nanny
Ellen
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
The Office (1995)
Will and Grace
That '70s Show
Norm
The Ellen Show
Two and a Half Men
Sordid Lives

[Sal]

I've noticed a common theme here which I discovered from looking at the last 3 lists and which would become part of my list if I ever try to arrange my picks in chronological order. Once you get to the mid-1990s and beyond the choices tend to thin out considerably. That means that about roughly 70-80% of our favourite sitcoms of all time are at least 20-25 years old. That should be a clear message to the 4 major networks (and certain cable and digital channels as well) that something is wrong with their present setup and needs to be changed immediately but I'm not confident that will change fairly soon.

[Svenfan1234]

I love to see all you guys's Top 100 sitcoms.

To those who picked "Designing Women" and "Golden Girls"--I do like them but they aren't in my Top 5.

[um]

Originally Posted by Sal

I've noticed a common theme here which I discovered from looking at the last 3 lists and which would become part of my list if I ever try to arrange my picks in chronological order. Once you get to the mid-1990s and beyond the choices tend to thin out considerably. That means that about roughly 70-80% of our favourite sitcoms of all time are at least 20-25 years old. That should be a clear message to the 4 major networks (and certain cable and digital channels as well) that something is wrong with their present setup and needs to be changed immediately but I'm not confident that will change fairly soon.

You got something there

[tlc38tlc38]

I've been meaning to update my list. There are several shows on it that I don't much care for anymore or other shows now outrank them.