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I'm surprised how "The Simpsons" is so far listed quite low, if at all.

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Funny that all the shows are fairly recent (except for a very few from the 70s).  No one mentioned shows like Bonanza, ...

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I'm surprised how "The Simpsons" is so far listed quite low, if at all. As I mentioned before, I don't watch much TV series at all, but I would have thought that (20 years of) The Simpsons were much more represented in top10 lists here. It seems that many of the Scifi-series are going to end up quite high - and that genre is especially something I have missed over the years... except Space 1999 which was one of my very favourites as child. 

Since we're looking at series as a whole, at least in my consideration 2/3 of the run (of The Simpsons) has been fairly crappy.  When it's good, it's genius, but on average it's eh.

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some mentioned "The Twilight Zone".

Did the posters mean the 1959 or the 1985 series?

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Funny that all the shows are fairly recent (except for a very few from the 70s).  No one mentioned shows like Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gun Smoke, Have Gun Will Travel, The Virginian, The Tall Man, Red Skelton, Laurence Welk, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.  It is pure heck to be old.

Look at my list. Except for HGWT, you listed shows which I never enjoyed on a regular long-term basis. Well, maybe Red Skelton, too, but he stole so much from Keaton, it hurt too much to watch after a while.

Hi Cliff, long time.  The point of my list was that those shows for the most part ran in prime time for years and then on cable for even longer in some cases. most of them from the 50's and 60's. I have seen very few references to shows prior to the early 80's for the most part and most of those are sci-fi.  Was not a criticism or complaint merely my observation.  Please note I did not solicit anyone's opinion about the list merely stated no one had mentioned them.  After all the thread asks for the 10 greatest series of "all time". I guess the point of my post was to point out that there were some fairly long running shows before the internet generation that did provide solid entertainment value.  The sad thing is that I'm old enough to have watched them when they were live broadcast before the pre-recording craze took over.

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I agree with your point. Nearly all the lists have nothing earlier than 1970 on them, as if tv did not exist during the era of the DuMont network or even pre-Fox. Without the live tv drama shows of the early 1950s, "Marty" would never have been written as a screenplay to win an Oscar.

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("Lost in Space" to name one)

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That could also depend on the age of the forum users. I was born in 1977, I've never seen a TV show from before the mid-70s.