The Guardian's top 50 television dramas
To find out what the Guardian’s TV writers really think is the best TV drama ever made, we asked Nancy Banks-Smith, Sam Wollaston, Lucy Mangan, Sarah Dempster, Mark Lawson, Grace Dent and Richard Vine to rate, and then debate, what they consider the greatest ever series.
- The Sopranos
- Brideshead Revisited
- Our Friends in the North
- Mad Men
- A Very Peculiar Practice
- Talking Heads
- The Singing Detective
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- State of Play
- Boys From the Blackstuff
- The West Wing
- Twin Peaks
- Queer as Folk
- The Wire
- Six Feet Under
- How Do You Want Me?
- Smiley’s People
- House of Cards
- Prime Suspect
- Bodies
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Cracker
- Pennies From Heaven
- Battlestar Galactica
- Coronation Street
- The Jewel in the Crown
- The Monocled Mutineer
- Clocking Off
- Inspector Morse
- This Life
- Band of Brothers
- Hill Street Blues
- The Prisoner
- St Elsewhere
- The L Word
- The Shield
- Brookside
- 24
- The Twilight Zone
- Pride and Prejudice
- Red Riding
- Oz
- The Street
- The X-Files
- Bleak House
- The Sweeney
- EastEnders
- Shameless
- Grange Hill