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M*A*S*H Voted 2nd Best TV Show of All Time
Posted Thursday, September 20th, 2012 at 8:18 am | News | 7 Comments
On Tuesday, ABC broadcast a two-hour installment of 20/20 titled “Best in TV: The Greatest TV Shows of Our Time with Barbara Walters.” The special counted down the Top 5 shows in a number of categories including Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best TV Mom, Best Non-Human Character, Best Reality Show and Best Shows of All Time. According to this ABC News article, “nominees in all categories were determined by an all-star panel of television writers, producers, actors and directors. And from the list of nominees, Americans registered more than one million online votes earlier this summer.” In the Best Shows of All Time category, M*A*S*H came in second behind I Love Lucy. Here’s the Top 5:
#5 Cheers
#4 All in the Family
#3 Seinfeld
#2 M*A*S*H
#1 I Love Lucy
Confusingly, M*A*S*H ranked third in the Best Comedy category where it was beaten by Seinfeld and I Love Lucy:
#5 All in the Family
#4 The Cosby Show
#3 M*A*S*H
#2 Seinfeld
#1 I Love Lucy
You can view clips or the entire show at the ABC News Best in TV site.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that M*A*S*H was the number two best TV series of all time, even though I was hoping it would be in the top five, I didn’t think it would rank that high… in fact, I was thinking it would come in somewhere lower, similar to the top five best comedies. My thinking was something like this…
5. The Big Bang Theory (just based on how over-rated it is)
4. M*A*S*H
3. All in the Family
2. I Love Lucy
1. Seinfeld
I say M*A*S*H, then I Love Lucy, Waltons, and All in the Family………I personally hate Seinfeld…….
I really see no basis for comparison of MASH and I Love Lucy. I don’t get how Lucy can push out MASH.
I totally agree. M*A*S*H dealt with so many more aspects of acting besides comedy….
Well I Love Lucy was pretty much the first successful sitcom that television ever produced, and it managed to make a lot out of what limitations they had to work with (ala just four main actors, among other things). Not to mention, look at all the classic, memorable moments that everybody remembers: the chocolate factory, Vitameatavegemin, stomping grapes, Lucy’s pregnancy, the visit to Hollywood story arc, the visit to Europe story arc, among other things… just about the only memorable moments people remember from M*A*S*H are Henry’s death, and GFA.
this is true…..some good points made Big Daddy!
Also I Love Lucy was groundbreaking, for showing an interracial couple happily married – for a woman being the head of the production – and for being actually believable (for the most part) – and FUNNY – in a Non Milton Berle manner.
EVERYONE loved Lucy. However, Mash does still get my vote.