(by alpha)
Note : Every show got 30 points for a 1st place finish in the season's rankings, 29 points for a second place,...
Data by Decade : 50s - 60s - 70s - 80s - 90s - 2000s
Data by network : Points by Network --- Number of shows in the Top 30 each year| PROGRAM | Sum of Points | Times in Top 30 |
|---|---|---|
| 20/20 | 98 | 6 |
| 20/20 - Friday | 32 | 2 |
| 20/20 - Monday | 10 | 1 |
| 20/20 - Wednesday | 15 | 1 |
| 227 | 32 | 3 |
| 3rd Rock From the Sun | 13 | 2 |
| 48 Hours | 7 | 2 |
| 60 Minutes | 654 | 26 |
| 60 Minutes II | 9 | 3 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | 44 | 3 |
| 9 to 5 | 16 | 1 |
| A Different World | 125 | 5 |
| Aaron's Way | 1 | 1 |
| ABC Friday Night Movie | 3 | 1 |
| ABC Monday Night Movie | 125 | 11 |
| ABC Mystery Movie | 2 | 1 |
| ABC Sunday Night Movie | 159 | 18 |
| ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week | 60 | 3 |
| ABC Wednesday Movie of the Week | 6 | 1 |
| Adam 12 | 70 | 4 |
| AfterMASH | 16 | 1 |
| Alf | 40 | 3 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 57 | 4 |
| Alice | 125 | 7 |
| All in the Family | 218 | 8 |
| All Star Revue | 16 | 2 |
| Ally McBeal | 8 | 1 |
| Amen | 40 | 3 |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 61 | 3 |
| America's Funniest People | 24 | 2 |
| Amos 'n' Andy | 24 | 2 |
| Angie | 26 | 1 |
| Anything But Love | 21 | 1 |
| Archie Bunker's Place | 66 | 4 |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 19 | 2 |
| Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | 100 | 5 |
| Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts | 157 | 7 |
| Baby Bob | 6 | 1 |
| Baby talk | 4 | 1 |
| Baretta | 32 | 2 |
| Barnaby Jones | 36 | 4 |
| Barney Miller | 55 | 4 |
| Batman (Thursday) | 26 | 1 |
| Batman (Wednesday) | 21 | 1 |
| Becker | 60 | 4 |
| Ben Casey | 37 | 2 |
| Benson | 8 | 1 |
| Bewitched | 124 | 6 |
| Big Town | 28 | 2 |
| Blossom | 5 | 1 |
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater | 6 | 2 |
| Bonanza | 305 | 12 |
| Boston Common | 23 | 1 |
| Branded | 17 | 1 |
| Bridget Loves Bernie | 26 | 1 |
| Buick-Berle Show | 20 | 1 |
| C.S.I. | 49 | 2 |
| Cagney & Lacey | 24 | 2 |
| Candid Camera | 98 | 4 |
| Cannon | 53 | 4 |
| Can't Hurry Love | 7 | 1 |
| Car 54, Where Are You? | 11 | 1 |
| Caroline in the City | 35 | 2 |
| CBS Friday Night Movie | 43 | 4 |
| CBS Sunday Night Movie | 230 | 15 |
| CBS Thursday Night Movie | 14 | 5 |
| CBS Tuesday Night Movie | 45 | 5 |
| CBS Wednesday Night Movie | 1 | 1 |
| Charlie's Angels | 83 | 4 |
| Checkmate | 10 | 1 |
| Cheers | 236 | 9 |
| Cher | 9 | 1 |
| Cheyenne | 49 | 4 |
| Chicago Hope | 11 | 3 |
| Chicken Soup | 18 | 1 |
| Chico and The Man | 34 | 2 |
| CHiPS | 26 | 3 |
| Climax | 14 | 2 |
| Coach | 114 | 6 |
| Combat | 21 | 1 |
| Cosby | 16 | 2 |
| Crazy Like a Fox | 21 | 1 |
| Crossing Jordan | 12 | 1 |
| Cybill | 10 | 2 |
| Daddio | 16 | 1 |
| Daktari | 41 | 2 |
| Dallas | 229 | 10 |
| Daniel Boone | 23 | 4 |
| Dateline NBC - Friday | 16 | 4 |
| Dateline NBC - Monday | 29 | 2 |
| Dateline NBC - Tuesday | 44 | 4 |
| Dateline NBC - Wednesday | 3 | 1 |
| Dave's World | 20 | 2 |
| Davis Rules | 4 | 1 |
| Day by Day | 3 | 1 |
| Dear John | 34 | 2 |
| December Bride | 94 | 4 |
| Dennis the Menace | 49 | 3 |
| Designing Women | 54 | 3 |
| Dharma & Greg | 26 | 3 |
| Diagnosis Murder | 10 | 2 |
| Diff'rent Strokes | 23 | 3 |
| Disneyland | 70 | 3 |
| Donny and Marie | 5 | 1 |
| Doogie Howser, M.D. | 10 | 2 |
| Dr. Kildare | 54 | 3 |
| Dr. Quinn, Medecine Woman | 14 | 2 |
| Dragnet | 159 | 8 |
| Dragnet '67 | 4 | 1 |
| Dynasty | 127 | 6 |
| Eight is Enough | 66 | 4 |
| Ellen | 20 | 2 |
| Emergency | 1 | 1 |
| Empty Nest | 77 | 4 |
| ER | 232 | 8 |
| Evening Shade | 32 | 3 |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | 90 | 5 |
| Falcon Crest | 101 | 6 |
| Family | 5 | 1 |
| Family Affair | 96 | 4 |
| Family Law | 6 | 2 |
| Family Matters | 21 | 3 |
| Family Ties | 98 | 4 |
| Fantasy Island | 41 | 5 |
| Father Knows Best | 51 | 3 |
| Fear Factor | 4 | 1 |
| Fired Up | 25 | 1 |
| Fireside Theatre | 114 | 6 |
| Flipper | 8 | 2 |
| Flo | 24 | 1 |
| Ford Theatre | 1 | 1 |
| Ford Theatre | 65 | 3 |
| Frasier | 177 | 9 |
| Fresh Prince of Bel Air | 34 | 3 |
| Friends | 216 | 8 |
| Full House | 92 | 6 |
| Funny Face | 23 | 1 |
| Gangbusters | 40 | 2 |
| General Electric Theatre | 117 | 8 |
| Gentle Ben | 12 | 1 |
| Get Smart | 28 | 2 |
| Gilette Cavalcade of Sports | 57 | 4 |
| Gilligan's Island | 22 | 2 |
| Gloria | 13 | 1 |
| Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | 135 | 5 |
| Good Heavens | 15 | 1 |
| Good Times | 50 | 4 |
| Goodyear TV Playhouse | 40 | 3 |
| Grace Under Fire | 71 | 3 |
| Grand | 22 | 2 |
| Green Acres | 73 | 4 |
| Growing Pains | 95 | 6 |
| Gunsmoke | 386 | 18 |
| Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | 15 | 1 |
| Happy Days | 168 | 9 |
| Hardcastle & McCormick | 6 | 1 |
| Hart to Hart | 38 | 3 |
| Have Gun Will Travel | 115 | 6 |
| Hawaii Five-O | 151 | 8 |
| Hazel | 52 | 3 |
| Head of the Class | 30 | 5 |
| Hearts Afire | 11 | 1 |
| Hee Haw | 26 | 2 |
| Here's Lucy | 114 | 6 |
| Highway to Heaven | 37 | 3 |
| Hill Street Blues | 15 | 3 |
| Hiller and Diller | 3 | 1 |
| Hogan's Heroes | 36 | 2 |
| Home Improvement | 200 | 8 |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | 7 | 1 |
| Hopalong Cassidy | 25 | 2 |
| Hope & Gloria | 17 | 1 |
| Hotel | 50 | 3 |
| House Calls | 48 | 3 |
| How the West Was Won | 20 | 1 |
| Hunter | 24 | 4 |
| I Dream of Jeannie | 9 | 2 |
| I Love Lucy | 177 | 6 |
| I Married Joan | 6 | 1 |
| I Spy | 2 | 1 |
| In the Heat of the Night | 48 | 5 |
| Inside Schwartz | 17 | 1 |
| Ironside | 100 | 6 |
| It Takes a Thief | 1 | 1 |
| I've Got a Secret | 165 | 10 |
| J.A.G. | 46 | 4 |
| Jesse | 45 | 2 |
| Judging Amy | 35 | 3 |
| Julia | 27 | 2 |
| Just Shoot Me | 46 | 3 |
| Kate & Allie | 66 | 4 |
| King of Queens | 16 | 2 |
| King of the Hill | 8 | 1 |
| Knight Rider | 6 | 1 |
| Knots Landing | 81 | 8 |
| Kojak | 52 | 3 |
| Kraft Television Theatre | 35 | 3 |
| Kung Fu | 6 | 2 |
| L.A. Law | 73 | 6 |
| Lassie | 84 | 9 |
| Laverne & Shirley | 145 | 7 |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 4 | 1 |
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 25 | 2 |
| Law and Order | 115 | 8 |
| Leap Of Faith | 22 | 1 |
| Life with Luigi | 18 | 1 |
| Lights Out | 12 | 1 |
| Little House on the Prairie | 118 | 7 |
| Little House: A New Beginning | 3 | 1 |
| Lou Grant | 5 | 2 |
| Love & War | 34 | 2 |
| Lux Video Theatre | 7 | 2 |
| M*A*S*H | 248 | 10 |
| Mad About You | 36 | 3 |
| Madman of the People | 19 | 1 |
| Magnum, P.I. | 100 | 5 |
| Major Dad | 32 | 2 |
| Malcolm in the Middle | 3 | 1 |
| Mama | 60 | 4 |
| Man Against Crime | 20 | 2 |
| Mannix | 50 | 4 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | 99 | 4 |
| Martin Kane, Private Eye | 21 | 2 |
| Matlock | 80 | 6 |
| Maude | 101 | 4 |
| Maverick | 37 | 2 |
| Mayberry R.F.D. | 70 | 3 |
| McHale's Navy | 11 | 2 |
| Me and the Boys | 11 | 1 |
| Medical Center | 57 | 4 |
| Miami Vice | 27 | 2 |
| Mission: Impossible | 20 | 1 |
| Monday Night Football | 498 | 28 |
| Moonlighting | 48 | 3 |
| Mork & Mindy | 32 | 2 |
| Mr. Lucky | 10 | 1 |
| Murder, She Wrote | 252 | 11 |
| Murphy Brown | 134 | 7 |
| My Favorite Martian | 28 | 2 |
| My Little Margie | 2 | 1 |
| My Sister Sam | 10 | 1 |
| My Three Sons | 133 | 11 |
| My Two Dads | 11 | 1 |
| N.Y.P.D. Blue | 139 | 9 |
| Name That Tune | 7 | 2 |
| NBC Monday Night Movie | 166 | 18 |
| NBC Saturday Night Movie | 47 | 4 |
| NBC Sunday Night Movie | 71 | 9 |
| NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies | 11 | 1 |
| Newhart | 82 | 6 |
| Night Court | 92 | 6 |
| Northern Exposure | 52 | 3 |
| On Our Own | 2 | 1 |
| One Day at a Time | 153 | 8 |
| Our Miss Brooks | 26 | 2 |
| Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts | 50 | 5 |
| Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers | 6 | 1 |
| People are Funny | 16 | 3 |
| Perry Mason | 87 | 6 |
| Peter Gunn | 17 | 2 |
| Petticoat Junction | 61 | 4 |
| Peyton Place I | 11 | 1 |
| Peyton Place II | 22 | 1 |
| Phenom | 4 | 1 |
| Philco TV Playhouse | 73 | 4 |
| Phyllis | 25 | 1 |
| Police Woman | 17 | 2 |
| Primetime Live | 68 | 6 |
| Private Secretary | 44 | 4 |
| Project U.F.O. | 12 | 1 |
| Providence | 27 | 3 |
| Racket Squad | 2 | 1 |
| Rat Patrol | 8 | 1 |
| Rawhide | 68 | 5 |
| Real People | 47 | 4 |
| Remington Steele | 6 | 1 |
| Rescue: 911 | 23 | 2 |
| Rhoda | 55 | 3 |
| Rich Man, Poor Man | 29 | 1 |
| Rich Man, Poor Man, Book II | 10 | 1 |
| Riptide | 30 | 2 |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 25 | 2 |
| Room 222 | 3 | 1 |
| Room For Two | 21 | 1 |
| Roseanne | 208 | 8 |
| Route 66 | 5 | 2 |
| Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | 97 | 5 |
| S.W.A.T. | 15 | 1 |
| Sanford and Son | 139 | 6 |
| Scarecrow & Mrs. King | 23 | 3 |
| Seinfeld | 152 | 6 |
| Simon & Simon | 76 | 4 |
| Sing Along with Mitch | 16 | 1 |
| Soap | 36 | 3 |
| Spin City | 20 | 2 |
| Stark Raving Mad | 16 | 1 |
| Starsky and Hutch | 15 | 1 |
| Stockard Channing in Just Friends | 5 | 1 |
| Stop the Music | 8 | 1 |
| Strike it Rich | 17 | 2 |
| Studio One | 7 | 1 |
| Suddenly Susan | 28 | 1 |
| Sugarfoot | 18 | 2 |
| Survivor | 55 | 2 |
| T.J. Hooker | 3 | 1 |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | 52 | 2 |
| Tarzan | 4 | 1 |
| Taxi | 40 | 2 |
| Temptation Island | 14 | 1 |
| Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | 2 | 1 |
| Texaco Star Theater | 85 | 3 |
| That's Incredible | 49 | 4 |
| The $64,000 Challenge | 9 | 1 |
| The $64,000 Question | 69 | 3 |
| The Addams Family | 8 | 1 |
| The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | 2 | 1 |
| The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | 8 | 1 |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | 22 | 2 |
| The Alan Young Show | 18 | 2 |
| The Aldrich Family | 15 | 1 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | 212 | 8 |
| The Ann Sothern Show | 17 | 2 |
| The A-Team | 74 | 4 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | 180 | 8 |
| The Big Event | 25 | 1 |
| The Big Event - Sunday | 1 | 1 |
| The Big Story | 17 | 3 |
| The Bill Cosby Show | 20 | 1 |
| The Bionic Woman | 43 | 2 |
| The Bob Newhart Show | 53 | 4 |
| The Buick Circus Hour | 25 | 1 |
| The Carol Burnett Show | 60 | 9 |
| The Chevy Show | 2 | 1 |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 101 | 5 |
| The Cosby Show | 217 | 8 |
| The Dana Carvey Show | 1 | 1 |
| The Danny Kaye Show | 1 | 1 |
| The Danny Thomas Show | 170 | 7 |
| The Dean Martin Show | 87 | 5 |
| The Defenders | 18 | 2 |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | 89 | 4 |
| The District | 3 | 1 |
| The Donna Reed Show | 16 | 2 |
| The Doris Day Show | 41 | 4 |
| The Drew Carey Show | 55 | 4 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | 88 | 5 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 229 | 14 |
| The F.B.I. | 68 | 7 |
| The Facts of Life | 23 | 4 |
| The Fall Guy | 46 | 4 |
| The Flintstones | 24 | 3 |
| The Flip Wilson Show | 77 | 3 |
| The Ford Show | 64 | 5 |
| The Fugitive | 29 | 2 |
| The Gale Storm Show | 15 | 1 |
| The Garry Moore Show | 37 | 3 |
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | 23 | 4 |
| The George Gobel Show | 39 | 2 |
| The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour | 27 | 2 |
| The Golden Girls | 149 | 7 |
| The Guardian | 8 | 1 |
| The Hogan Family | 9 | 1 |
| The Honeymooners | 12 | 1 |
| The Incredible Hulk | 5 | 1 |
| The Jack Benny Show | 190 | 10 |
| The Jackie Gleason Show | 157 | 10 |
| The Jackie Thomas Show | 15 | 1 |
| The Jeffersons | 151 | 8 |
| The Jim Nabors Hour | 21 | 2 |
| The Joey Bishop Show | 7 | 1 |
| The Johnny Cash Show | 16 | 1 |
| The Ken Murray Show | 3 | 1 |
| The Lawman | 25 | 3 |
| The Lawrence Welk Show | 51 | 5 |
| The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp | 70 | 4 |
| The Life of Riley | 53 | 4 |
| The Lineup | 43 | 3 |
| The Little People | 6 | 1 |
| The Lone Ranger | 40 | 3 |
| The Loretta Young Show | 4 | 2 |
| The Love Boat | 118 | 7 |
| The Lucy Show | 159 | 6 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | 18 | 1 |
| The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | 18 | 2 |
| The Martin Short Show | 2 | 1 |
| The Mary Tyler Moore Show | 108 | 6 |
| The Men from Shiloh | 13 | 1 |
| The Millionnaire | 70 | 5 |
| The Milton Berle Show | 26 | 1 |
| The Mod Squad | 41 | 4 |
| The Munsters | 13 | 1 |
| The Naked Truth | 34 | 2 |
| The Nanny | 22 | 2 |
| The NBC Mystery Movie | 17 | 1 |
| The NBC Saturday Mystery Movie | 17 | 1 |
| The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie | 35 | 2 |
| The New Dick Van Dyke Show | 13 | 1 |
| The Original Amateur Hour | 5 | 1 |
| The Partridge Family | 33 | 3 |
| The Patty Duke Show | 16 | 2 |
| The Perry Como Show | 73 | 6 |
| The Phil Silvers Show | 10 | 2 |
| The Practice | 53 | 3 |
| The Price is Right | 70 | 4 |
| The Real McCoys | 87 | 5 |
| The Red Buttons Show | 39 | 2 |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 44 | 2 |
| The Red Skelton Show | 315 | 15 |
| The Restless Gun | 23 | 1 |
| The Rifleman | 53 | 4 |
| The Rockford Files | 19 | 1 |
| The Rookies | 27 | 3 |
| The Ropers | 23 | 1 |
| The Roy Rogers Show | 5 | 2 |
| The Simpsons | 5 | 3 |
| The Single Guy | 48 | 2 |
| The Six Million Dollar Man | 66 | 3 |
| The Smith Family | 10 | 1 |
| The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | 32 | 3 |
| The Sonny & Cher Show | 8 | 1 |
| The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour | 28 | 2 |
| The Speidel Show | 1 | 1 |
| The Streets of San Francisco | 23 | 3 |
| The Texan | 16 | 1 |
| The Toast of the Town | 56 | 3 |
| The Tony Randall Show | 2 | 1 |
| The Untouchables | 23 | 1 |
| The Virginian | 88 | 7 |
| The Waltons | 109 | 7 |
| The Weakest Link | 1 | 1 |
| The Weber Show | 9 | 1 |
| The West Wing | 48 | 3 |
| The Wonder Years | 54 | 4 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | 84 | 5 |
| The X-Files | 25 | 3 |
| This Is Your Life | 59 | 5 |
| Three's Company | 181 | 7 |
| Thunder Alley | 19 | 1 |
| To Tell the Truth | 19 | 2 |
| Tony Orlando & Dawn | 6 | 1 |
| Too Close for Comfort | 41 | 2 |
| Topper | 7 | 1 |
| Touched by an Angel | 97 | 5 |
| Trapper John, M.D. | 58 | 6 |
| Treasury Men in Action | 20 | 2 |
| Tuesday Movie of the Week | 24 | 2 |
| Turning Point | 11 | 1 |
| TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes | 26 | 2 |
| Twenty-One | 5 | 1 |
| Two for the Money | 17 | 1 |
| Union Square | 23 | 1 |
| Unsolved Mysteries | 77 | 5 |
| Valerie | 7 | 1 |
| Valerie's Family | 11 | 1 |
| Vega$ | 10 | 2 |
| Veronica's Closet | 54 | 2 |
| Wagon Train | 131 | 6 |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | 30 | 4 |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 109 | 9 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | 37 | 2 |
| Webster | 12 | 2 |
| Welcome Back, Kotter | 36 | 3 |
| What's Happening !! | 9 | 2 |
| What's My Line | 57 | 7 |
| Who wants to be a millionaire? (fri.) | 13 | 1 |
| Who wants to be a millionaire? (sun.) | 52 | 2 |
| Who wants to be a millionaire? (thu.) | 49 | 2 |
| Who wants to be a millionaire? (tue.) | 57 | 2 |
| Who wants to be a millionaire? (wed.) | 28 | 1 |
| Who's the Boss? | 122 | 6 |
| Wild, Wild West | 8 | 1 |
| Will & Grace | 40 | 2 |
| Wings | 31 | 4 |
| WKRP in Cincinnati | 9 | 1 |
| Yes, Dear | 13 | 2 |
| You Again | 12 | 1 |
| You Bet Your Life | 176 | 9 |
| Your Hit Parade | 28 | 4 |
| Your Show of Shows | 62 | 3 |
| Zane Grey Theater | 38 | 3 |
| Zorro | 1 | 1 |
Last Updated : July 26th, 2002
By BIBLER Frank
Email: frank@bibler.net