For this list, a series had to have at least 50,000 votes.
Shows were ranked by IMDb user ratings, with ties broken by the number of votes. To celebrate the history of great television, Stacker compiled this data-driven list of the 100 best TV shows of all time, using IMDb. Now that we have a multitude of streaming services at our fingertips and can watch TV anytime, anywhere, the content has become even richer and more diverse, pleasing both fans and critics alike. Some shows were so good, fans would purchase TV box sets on VHS or DVD to watch them again and again in order to relive the drama or bask in the laughs. Long before streaming led audiences to binge-watch entire series in a single weekend, there was just plain old primetime-television-watching bliss-and fan favorites such as “The West Wing” and “The Sopranos” kept fans glued to their sofas week after week, year after year, to find out what would happen next.
