It's surprising yet they still haven't done the "100 Greatest TV Shows" - they've just skipped around it with moments, characters and genres - but never actually the shows themselves!
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I still think there should have called it animation instead of cartoons
It's surprising yet they still haven't done the "100 Greatest TV Shows" - they've just skipped around it with moments, characters and genres - but never actually the shows themselves!
Er ..actually "The 100 Greatest TV Shows" was the very first "100 Greatest..." (I think) and was broadcast on Ch4 back in 2000.
A quick Google - and here's the list...
1 Fawlty Towers (BBC1)
2 Cathy Come Home (The Wednesday Play) (BBC1)
3 Doctor Who (BBC1)
4 The Naked Civil Servant (ITV)
5 Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC)
6 Blue Peter (BBC)
7 Boys From The Blackstuff (BBC1)
8 Parkinson (BBC1)
9 Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister (BBC2/1)
10 Brideshead Revisited (ITV)
11 Abigail's Party (Play For Today) (BBC1)
12 I, Claudius (BBC2)
13 Dad's Army (BBC1)
14 The Morecambe And Wise Show (BBC1)
15 Edge Of Darkness (BBC2)
16 Blackadder Goes Forth (BBC1)
17 Absolutely Fabulous (BBC2/1)
18 The Wrong Trousers (BBC1)
19 The World At War (ITV)
20 The Singing Detective (BBC1)
21 Pennies From Heaven (BBC1)
22 The Jewel In The Crown (ITV)
23 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ITV)
24 Hancock/Hancock's Half Hour (BBC)
25 Our Friends In The North (BBC2)
26 28 Up (ITV)
27 The War Game (The Wednesday Play) (BBC1)
28 The Magic Roundabout (BBC1)
29 That Was The Week That Was (BBC1)
30 An Englishman Abroad (BBC1)
31 The Royle Family (BBC2/1)
32 Life on Earth (BBC1)
33 The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC2)
34 University Challenge (ITV/BBC2)
35 Porridge (BBC1)
36 Blue Remembered Hills (Play For Today) (BBC1)
37 Mastermind (BBC)
38 I'm Alan Partridge (BBC2)
39 Cracker (ITV)
40 Coronation Street (ITV)
41 Top Of The Pops (BBC1)
42 Inspector Morse (ITV)
43 Grange Hill (BBC1)
44 Steptoe And Son (BBC1)
45 Only Fools And Horses (BBC1)
46 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (ITV)
47 Tiswas (ITV)
48 Elgar (Ken Russell's film for Monitor) (BBC1)
49 Nuts In May (Play For Today) (BBC1)
50 Father Ted (C4)
51 The Avengers (ITV)
52 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (BBC2)
53 The Forsyte Saga (BBC2/1)
54 Hillsborough (ITV)
55 Dennis Potter: The Last Interview (C4)
56 Bar Mitzvah Boy (Play For Today) (BBC1)
57 Edna, The Inebriate Woman (Play For Today) (BBC1)
58 Live Aid (BBC1/2)
59 World In Action (ITV)
60 Thunderbirds (ITV)
61 Talking Heads/Talking Heads 2 (BBC1/2)
62 Ready, Steady, Go! (ITV)
63 Z Cars (BBC1)
64 Culloden (BBC2)
65 The Ascent Of Man (BBC2)
66 A Very British Coup (C4)
67 Civilisation (BBC2)
68 Prime Suspect (ITV)
69 The Likely Lads/
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? (BBC1/2)
70 Have I Got News For You? (BBC2/1)
71 The Snowman (C4)
72 Walking With Dinosaurs (BBC1)
73 Nineteen Eighty-Four (BBC1)
74 The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin (BBC1)
75 Quatermass And The Pit (BBC)
76 Between The Lines (BBC1)
77 Blind Date (ITV)
78 Talking To A Stranger (BBC1)
79 The Borrowers (BBC1)
80 One Foot In The Grave (BBC1)
81 Later With Jools Holland (BBC2)
82 Tutti Frutti (BBC1)
83 The Knowledge (ITV)
84 House Of Cards (BBC1)
85 This Is Your Life (BBC1/ITV)
86 The Tube (C4)
87 The Death Of Yugoslavia (BBC2)
88 Till Death Us Do Part (BBC1)
89 A Very Peculiar Practice (BBC2)
90 Michael Moore's TV Nation (BBC2)
91 This Life (BBC2)
92 Death On The Rock (This Week) (ITV)
93 The Nazis: A Warning From History (BBC2)
94 Drop The Dead Donkey (C4)
95 Arena (BBC2)
96 The Railway Children (BBC2)
97 Teletubbies (BBC1/2)
98 Spitting Image (ITV)
99 Pride And Prejudice (BBC1)
100 Made In Britain (ITV)
It's surprising yet they still haven't done the "100 Greatest TV Shows" - they've just skipped around it with moments, characters and genres - but never actually the shows themselves!
Er ..actually "The 100 Greatest TV Shows" was the very first "100 Greatest..." (I think) and was broadcast on Ch4 back in 2000.
No, it was "100 Greatest TV Moments", topped by the moon in 1999.