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What a let down, seems like most people who voted are under 20 and / or can only remember the last show they watched. Equally biased, but with a bit wider scope here's my picks. As Band of Brothers made the first list I'm going to include mini-series as well as series.
50. The A-Team - How can you have a list without this on
49. The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin - Unique and brilliant
48. Shogun - Gripping James Clavell adaptation
47. Jackanory - For Kenneth Williams reading Agaton Sax
46. The Odd Couple - My first real introduction to US comedy
45. Nowhere Man - One of the great forgotten shows
44. Moonlighting - Sometimes, hard to get, but often brilliant
43. Brideshead Revisited - One of the great costume dramas
42. ER - Never saw that much of this series, but did like what I saw
41. Poirot - Not my favourite character, but I'm a sucker for the Art Deco
40. Steptoe and Son - Probably the best pathos comedy ever made
39. The X-Files - Got silly cos it didn't know when or how to end, but very, very good before that
38. Miami Vice - Probably the ultimate in style over substance, but what style it had
37. A Very Peculiar Practice - Surreal and very funny
36. Father Ted - Not a single slack episode
35. Twin Peaks - More style than substance, but still a worthy show
34. The Beiderbecke Affair etc. - Jazz cool
33. The Singing Detective - I didn't fully "get it" and there are more clues than solutions, but still great TV
32. The Avengers - Mad as a sack of stoats, but great fun
31. Grange Hill - I didn't watch later series, so I can't comment, but up to and around Zammo doing drugs this children's TV was doing better drama than adult equivalents
30. Sledgehammer - The perfect antidote to every 80s OTT cop show
29. Prime Suspect - If there had been some more made it would have been higher, great acting and series
28. The Simpsons - Some of the greatest TV made, and some of the most lacklustre too in later series. The shark must have got dizzy and drowned its been jumped so many times
27. House - Probably my favourite show running now, we'll see how series 4 goes on
26. Star Trek - Some dodgy effects, but a real ground-breaking show (Note: one of my problems is that there was no wide story arc really, I'm gonna catch the revampled BSG someday as that might hit this mark)
25. Hill Street Blues - Police series that was so ahead of its time
24. 24 - Innovative and still enjoyable after 6 series
23. Blackadder - 3 of the funniest series of TV comedy ever made (and series 1)
22. Tales of the Unexpected - Classic opening credits and stories with a twist
21. The Likely Lads etc - Comedy classic of Bolam and Bewes
20. Mission : Impossible - Yeah it was a proper fun TV series with a cast till it became a Tom Cruise fest
19. From the Earth to the Moon - Man's greatest achievement documented on one of man's greatest TV series
18. Fawlty Towers
17. Deadwood - Just the 3 series, but better than anything from the West that went before it
16. Auf Wiedersehen Pet etc. - Peerless comedy and drama
15. Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partidge etc. - 3 very different, but equally enjoyable series of comedy gold moments
14. The Wire - I'm still only on series 3, but already one of my favourite TV shows ever
13. Sharpe - Let down by a few daft plots and a bigger budget would have helped, but rip-roaring fun
12. Buffy - It was good, but never all that great
11. The Professionals - Hard hitting and an all time fave
10. Minder - Formulaic, but what a brilliant formula!
9. The Twilight Zone - Some ideas were miss, but so many of them were bulls eye hits
8. Band of Brothers - One of the best miniseries ever
7. Cracker - Only let down by there not being enough made and the come-back one was comparitively weak
6. Columbo - Iconic TV detective the 70's stuff was never beaten
5. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes etc. - For those who say UK TV can't turn out the number of episodes that US TV does, 41 episodes and each a classic
4. Seinfeld - Most satisfyingly, consistently funny comedy
3. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Stunning high-point of TV adaptions
2. The Sopranos - HBO have written some crackers, but this was the best of their best.
1. The West Wing - Exceptionally high quality writing and acting every series.
You're already up to Season 3; yet you still can't put The Wire in your Top Ten? Pshaw!  As far as I'm concerned The Wire betters everything else on the small screen; one could also argue that it even pips practically everything on the Silver Screen.
You do have some really good programs listed ahead of it, but a few of the selections seem to have some negative comments, which makes me wonder why they got as high a ranking as they did.
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The Wire is surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America. This claim isn't based on my having seen all the possible rivals for the title, but on the premise that no other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.
The Wire has never won an emmy? [It] deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature!
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