List of television episodes considered the best

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This is a list of television episodes that television critics or magazines have considered among the best of all time. The episodes are included on at least two separate best-of lists from different publications (inclusive of all time periods, networks and genres), as chosen by their editorial staff.

Contents

List

Television episodeTelevision showReleaseNetworkRef.
"Abyssinia, Henry" M*A*S*H 1975 CBS [1] [2] [3]
"Atomic Shakespeare" Moonlighting 1986 ABC [1] [3]
"Chuckles Bites the Dust" The Mary Tyler Moore Show 1975 CBS [1] [2] [3]
"The City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek: The Original Series 1967 NBC [1] [4] [2] [3]
"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" The X-Files 1995 Fox [1] [2] [3]
"College" The Sopranos 1999 HBO [1] [3]
"Connor's Wedding" Succession 2023 HBO [1] [4]
"The Constant" Lost 2008 ABC [1] [4]
"The Contest" Seinfeld 1992 NBC [1] [4] [3]
"Episode 1" Fleabag 2019 Amazon Prime Video [5] [1]
"Everyone's Waiting" Six Feet Under 2005 HBO [5] [1] [4] [3]
"Final Grades" The Wire 2006 HBO [4] [3]
"Flip" The Larry Sanders Show 1998 HBO [1] [3]
"Forks" The Bear 2023 Hulu [1] [4]
"Ham Radio" Frasier 1997 NBC [5] [4]
"Last Exit to Springfield" The Simpsons 1993 Fox [1] [4]
"Long, Long Time" The Last of Us 2023 HBO [5] [1]
"Love's Labor Lost" ER 1995 NBC [5] [1] [2] [3]
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" The Twilight Zone 1960 CBS [1] [4]
"Opie the Birdman" The Andy Griffith Show 1963 CBS [1] [2] [3]
"Ozymandias" Breaking Bad 2013 AMC [1] [4]
"Pilot" "Northwest Passage" Twin Peaks 1990 ABC [5] [1] [2] [3]
"Pine Barrens" The Sopranos 2001 HBO [5] [4]
"Reverend Jim: A Space Odyssey" Taxi 1979 ABC [1] [2] [3]
"Scott Tenorman Must Die" South Park 2001 Comedy Central [1] [4]
"Showdown, Part 2" Cheers 1983 NBC [1] [3]
"The Ski Lodge" Frasier 1998 NBC [1] [3]
"Slap Bet" How I Met Your Mother 2006 CBS [1] [3]
"The Suitcase" Mad Men 2010 AMC [5] [1] [4]
"Teddy Perkins" Atlanta 2018 FX [5] [1] [4]
"Time Heals" St. Elsewhere 1986 NBC [1] [2] [3]
"Two Cathedrals" The West Wing 2001 NBC [1] [3]

Publications

The reference numbers in the notes section show which of the 4 selected publications list the television episode.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sepinwall, Alan (2 September 2024). "The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 August 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "TV Guide's list of top 100 episodes". Associated Press . 22 June 1997. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time". TV Guide . 19 June 2009. Archived from the original on 17 April 2010. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sherlock, Ben (10 July 2025). "The 20 Best TV Episodes Of All Time (Number 1 Is Undisputed)". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on 7 August 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "The 50 greatest TV episodes of all time, from This is England to I May Destroy You". The Independent. 22 January 2025. Archived from the original on 12 June 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
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