TV Guide’s list of top 100 episodes
Television’s best episodes, as ranked by TV Guide:
1. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1975), ``Chuckles Bites the Dust.″
2. I Love Lucy (1952), ``Lucy Does a TV Commercial.″
3. ER (1995), ``Love’s Labor Lost.″
4. Seinfeld (1992), ``The Boyfriend.″
5. The Odd Couple (1972), ``Password.″
6. The Honeymooners (1956), ``The $99,000 Answer.″
7. Cheers (1986), ``Thanksgiving Orphans.″
8. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1965), ``Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth.″
9. The Bob Newhart Show (1975), ``Over the River and Through the Woods.″
10. The X-Files (1995), ``Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.″
11. The Twilight Zone (1962), ``To Serve Man.″
12. Fawlty Towers (1980), ``The Germans.″
13. All in the Family (1972), ``Sammy’s Visit.″
14. Wiseguy (1988), ``Blood Dance.″
15. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1963), ``It May Look Like a Walnut.″
16. Columbo (1971), ``Murder by the Book.″
17. The Simpsons (1990), ``The Crepes of Wrath.″
18. I Love Lucy (1956), ``Lucy’s Italian Movie.″
19. Taxi (1981), ``Latka the Playboy.″
20. M-A-S-H (1975), ``Abyssinia, Henry.″
21. Roseanne (1993), ``A Stash from the Past.″
22. Thirtysomething (1990), ``The Towers of Zenith.″
23. The Fugitive (1967), ``The Judgment, Part II.″
24. The Andy Griffith Show (1963), ``Opie the Birdman.″
25. Twin Peaks (1990), ``Twin Peaks.″
26. The Honeymooners (1955), ``TV or Not TV.″
27. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1973), ``The Lars Affair.″
28. Gunsmoke (1966), ``The Jailer.″
29. The Wonder Years (1988), ``My Father’s Office.″
30. Playhouse 90 (1956), ``Mount.″
31. The Twilight Zone (1961), ``It’s a Good Life.″
32: Homicide: Life on the Street (1996), ``Prison Riot.″
33. Seinfeld (1991), ``The Parking Garage.″
34. Moonlighting (1985), ``The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice.″
35. Ellen (1997), ``The Puppy Episode.″
36. NYPD Blue (1993), ``True Confessions.″
37. The Brady Bunch (1971), ``Getting Davy Jones.″
38. My So-Called Life (1994), ``Life of Brian.″
39. The Larry Sanders Show (1996), ``The Truth is Out There.″
40. WKRP in Cincinnati (1978), ``Turkeys Away.″
41. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960), ``Man From the South.″
42. Leave it to Beaver (1957), ``Captain Jack.″
43. Frasier (1994), ``The Matchmaker.″
44. St. Elsewhere (1986), ``Time Heals.″
45. Cheers (1987), ``Home is the Sailor.″
46. Brooklyn Bridge (1991), ``When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.″
47. Absolutely Fabulous (1994), ``Absolutely Fabulous.″
48. Bewitched (1966), ``Divided He Falls.″
49. Hill Street Blues (1984), ``Grace Under Pressure.″
50. The Bob Newhart Show (1977), ``Death Be My Destiny.″
51. Perry Mason (1963), ``The Case of the Deadly Verdict.″
52. Gilligan’s Island (1966), ``The Producer.″
53. The Phil Silvers Show (1955), ``The Eating Contest.″
54. The Cosby Show (1985), ``Happy Anniversary.″
55. The Prisoner (1968), ``Fall Out.″
56. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1954), ``Columbia Pictures Doing Burns & Allen Story.″
57. On the Air (1992), ``The Lester Guy Show.″
58. The Odd Couple (1971), ``Fat Farm.″
59. Green Acres (1968), ``A Star Named Arnold is Born.″
60. Murder One (1995), ``Chapter 1.″
61. Car 54, Where Are You? (1962), ``How Smart Can You Get.″
62. The Beverly Hillbillies (1964), ``Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood.″
63. Taxi (1979), ``Reverend Jim: Space Odyssey.″
64. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959), ``The Best-Dressed Man.″
65. Northern Exposure (1990), ``The Aurora Borealis.″
66. The Simpsons (1993), ``Gabbo is Fabbo.″
67. Get Smart (1968), ``The Groovy Guru.″
68. Family Ties (1987), ```A’ My Name is Alex.″
69. Buffalo Bill (1984), ``Jerry Lewis Week.″
70. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990), ``The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1.″
71. The Patty Duke Show (1964), ``The Cousins.″
72. The X-Files (1997), ``Small Potatoes.″
73. Mister Ed (1963), ``Leo Durocher Meets Mister Ed.″
74. Combat (1963), ``Survival.″
75. 3rd Rock From the Sun (1996), ``Hotel Dick.″
76. Lost in Space (1966), ``The Great Vegetable Rebellion.″
77. Barney Miller (1976), ``Hash.″
78. The Partridge Family (1971), ``Soul Club.″
79. Law & Order (1994), ``Sanctuary.″
80. M-A-S-H (1976), ``The Interview.″
81. Maverick (1958), ``Shady Deal at Sunny Acres.″
82. The Love Boat (1985), ``The 200th Episode.″
83. Have Gun, Will Travel (1958), ``Hey Boy’s Revenge.″
84. Mad About You (1995), ``The Alan Brady Show.″
85. Dragnet (1967), ``The LSD Story.″
86. Batman (1966), ``The Purr-Fect Crime″ and ``Better Luck Next Time.″
87. China Beach (1989), ``Tet ’68.″
88. Happy Days (1975), ``Richie Fights Back.″
89. Speed Racer (1967), ``Who is Racer X?″
90. Miami Vice (1985), ``Out Where the Buses Don’t Run.″
91. L.A. Law (1991), ``Good to the Last Drop.″
92. Star Trek (1967), ``City on the Edge of Forever.″
93. Naked City (1961), ``Sweet Prince of Delancy Street.″
94. Mork & Mindy (1980), ``Mork’s Mixed Emotions.″
95. The Mod Squad (1970), ``Mother of Sorrow.″
96. Picket Fences (1995), ``Heart of Saturday Night.″
97. Little House on the Prairie (1978), ``I’ll Be Waving as You Drive Away.″
98. The Outer Limits (1963), ``The Zanti Misfits.″
99. The Untouchables (1960), ``The Rusty Heller Story.″
100. Friends (1996), ``The One With the Prom Video.″