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What Are Your Favorite TV Shows of Each Decade?

Reflecting on Our Favorites from the 1980's Thru Today

As we near the end of the 2010’s, Programming Insider’s Douglas Pucci and Y100.1 FM’s (KUYY-Northwest Iowa) Scott Nolte took a look back at the 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000’s and 2010’s and each shared their favorite television shows from those decades during the “TV Tuesday” segments from August 13, 20 and 27 and December 31, 2019 . Below are their segments and lists of shows in ranked order.

If you would like to share your favorites of the decades, please reply in the comment section of this page.

Douglas Pucci
Scott Nolte

2010’s

Originally aired December 31, 2019

Douglas Pucci
1. Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
2. Stranger Things
3. NFL RedZone channel
4. This Is Us
5. Superstore
6. Survivor
7. Downton Abbey
8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
10. The Americans
11. The Walking Dead
12. Game of Thrones
13. Mom
14. Fargo
15. Spartacus
16. The Good Wife / The Good Fight
17. Homeland
18. One Day at a Time (2017)
19. The Good Place
20. Banshee

Scott Nolte
1. Impractical Jokers
2. American Horror Story
3. Stranger Things
4. Breaking Bad
5. Survivor
6. Mom
7. The Goldbergs
8. The Good Place
9. American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson
10. Saturday Night Live

2000’s

Originally aired August 27, 2019

Douglas Pucci
1. Survivor
2. American Idol
3. The Closer
4. 24
5. Big Brother (2001-09)
6. The Big Bang Theory
7. The Colbert Report
8. House
9. LOST
10. Coupling (UK)
11. Burn Notice
12. The Daily Show
13. Dexter
14. Everybody Loves Raymond
15. The Office (U.S.)
16. The Wire
17. The Real World
18. Boston Legal
19. Alias
20. Desperate Housewives

Scott Nolte
1. Survivor
2. American Idol
3. Friday Night Lights
4. The Challenge/Real World
5. Chappelle’s Show
6. The Shield
7. Family Guy
8. LOST
9. Grey’s Anatomy
10. The Simple Life (Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie)

1990’s

Originally aired August 20, 2019

Douglas Pucci
1. Seinfeld
2. Friends
3. Ally McBeal
4. Sex and the City
5. Melrose Place
6. SNL (1995-00)
7. Late Night with Conan O’Brien
8. Howard Stern on E!
9. Charmed
10. Dawson’s Creek

Scott Nolte
1. Seinfeld
2. Friends
3. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4. Coach
5. Home Improvement
6. Full House
7. Roseanne
8. Boy Meets World
9. Arli$$
10. Dinosaurs

1980’s

Originally aired August 13, 2019

Douglas Pucci
1. Press Your Luck
2. The Golden Girls
3. Three’s Company
4. Cheers
5. SNL (1986-89)
6. The Cosby Show
7. The Wonder Years
8. Married with Children
9. Growing Pains
10. Moonlighting

Scott Nolte
1. The Dukes of Hazzard
2. 1989 TGIF (Full House)
3. Saved by the Bell
4. The Wonder Years
5. MacGyver
6. The A-Team
7. Knight Rider
8. Alf
9. Married with Children
10. The Golden Girls

Have your own Top 10 list of a decade (or, decades)? Share yours in the comment section of this page.