Here are the 1001 TV shows we’ll cover in the next few decades. We will attempt to link them as they go up (but apologies if we’re a day or two behind).
- The Ed Sullivan Show
- Hopalong Cassidy
- The Lone Ranger
- The George Burns And Gracie Allen Show
- The Jack Benny Program
- What’s My Line?
- Your Show of Shows
- Dragnet
- I Love Lucy
- Sua Vida Me Pertence
- American Bandstand
- This Is Your Life
- Adventures of Superman
- Academy Awards
- The Quatermass Experiment
- The Good Old Days
- Make Room For Daddy
- Fabian of the Yard
- Father Knows Best
- The Tonight Show
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- Dixon of Dock Green
- Gunsmoke
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- The Benny Hill Show
- The Honeymooners
- Was bin ich?
- The Phil Silvers Show
- Eurovision Song Contest
- The Nat King Cole Show
- Hancock’s Half Hour
- The Price Is Right
- Emergency Ward 10
- Il Musichiere
- Leave It To Beaver
- Maverick
- Perry Mason
- The Army Game
- Zorro
- Wagon Train
- The Sky at Night
- Zum Blauen Bock
- Canzonissima
- 77 Sunset Strip
- The Donna Reed Show
- Golden Globe Awards
- Sea Hunt
- Naked City
- Peter Gunn
- The Rifleman
- Bonanza
- The Untouchables
- The Twilight Zone
- Rawhide
- Laramie
- The Andy Griffith Show
- The Flintstones
- Coronation Street
- Danger Man
- Car 54, Where Are You?
- Dr. Kildare
- Mr. Ed
- Hazel
- The Rudi Carrell Show
- The Avengers
- The Dick van Dyke Show
- Dr. Finlay’s Casebook
- Steptoe and Son
- Intervilles
- Sabado Gigante
- The Andy Williams Show
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- The Saint
- The Virginian
- Z-Cars
- Wild Kingdom
- Dinner For One
- Ready, Steady, Go!
- Doctor Who
- Let’s Make a Deal
- The Judy Garland Show
- The Fugitive
- Thierry La Fronde
- The Outer Limits
- Bewitched
- Crossroads
- Gilligan’s Island
- Peyton Place
- Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
- The Likely Lads
- Seven Up!
- The Addams Family
- Jeopardy!
- Top of the Pops
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- The Munsters
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Big Valley
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Green Acres
- Jeux Sans Frontieres
- Hogan’s Heroes
- Lost in Space
- Not Only… But Also…
- The White Horses
- I Spy
- Days of Our Lives
- The Dating Game
- Thunderbirds
- Till Death Do Us Part
- Batman
- Raumpatrouille Orion
- Softly Softly
- Dark Shadows
- Mission: Impossible
- Star Trek
- The Monkees
- The Time Tunnel
- The Baron
- Ultraman
- Callan
- The Phil Donahue Show
- Ironside
- The High Chaparral
- The Invaders
- Super Bowl
- Les Enquetes du commissaire Maigret
- The Mothers-In-Law
- The Prisoner
- The Carol Burnett Show
- The Forsyte Saga
- The Morecambe & Wise Show
- Dad’s Army
- Hawaii Five-O
- Julia
- Land of the Giants
- Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
- Super Sabado Sensacional
- Whistle and I’ll Come To You
- The Champions
- The Dick Cavett Show
- Civilisation
- Department S
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Marcus Welby, M.D.
- The Brady Bunch
- Wunsch Dir Was
- Riten
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- All My Children
- UFO
- The Odd Couple
- The Partridge Family
- McCloud
- Rischiatutto
- The Goodies
- Tatort
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Flip
- Hey Hey It’s Saturday
- Dalli Dalli
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- The Two Ronnies
- Jason King
- McMillan & Wife
- All in the Family
- Budgie
- Cannon
- Bless This House
- Parkinson
- Rio das Mortes
- Soul Train
- Columbo
- The Onedin Line
- The Persuaders!
- La Maison des Bois
- The Waltons
- Emmerdale
- Kung Fu
- Love Thy Neighbour
- Colditz
- The Stone Tape
- M*A*S*H
- Are You Being Served?
- Crown Court
- Maude
- The Protectors
- A Warning to the Curious
- Semnadtsat Mgnoveniy Vesny
- Kojak
- An American Family
- Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
- The Tomorrow People
- The World At War
- Ein Herz und eine Seele
- The Water Margin
- Welt am Draht
- Je Spater Der Abend
- Scenes from a Marriage
- Barnaby Jones
- Last of the Summer Wine
- The Magician
- Am Laufenden Band
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Planet of the Apes
- Happy Days
- Good Times
- Derrick
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Rhoda
- Little House on the Prairie
- Porridge
- Land of the Lost
- Police Woman
- Rising Damp
- The Rockford Files
- Within These Walls
- Zatoichi Monogatari
- Starsky & Hutch
- Barney Miller
- The Naked Civil Servant
- The Sweeney
- Space: 1999
- The Good Life
- Wonder Woman
- Saturday Night Live
- Fawlty Towers
- Poldark
- Wheel of Fortune
- The Jeffersons
- Baretta
- Survivors
- I, Claudius
- Laverne & Shirley
- Charlie’s Angels
- Loriot
- Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
- Domenica In
- The Bionic Woman
- Ripping Yarns
- Open All Hours
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Krofft Supershow
- The Muppet Show
- The Gong Show
- The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
- The Duchess of Duke Street
- The Sullivans
- The Signalman
- Children of the Stones
- Roots
- Lou Grant
- Citizen Smith
- Abigail’s Party
- Auf Los Geht’s Los
- The Richard Pryor Show
- Secret Army
- Three’s Company
- ChiPs
- The Love Boat
- The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
- Soap
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Fantasy Island
- The Professionals
- Diff’rent Strokes
- Saiyuki
- Grange Hill
- Blake’s 7
- All Creatures Great And Small
- The Kenny Everett Video Show
- Dallas
- Mork & Mindy
- Taxi
- Holocaust
- Matador
- The Sandbaggers
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Pennies from Heaven
- WKRP in Cincinnati
- The Incredible Hulk
- Butterflies
- Salem’s Lot
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- Life on Earth
- Shoestring
- Prisoner
- Not the Nine O’Clock News
- The Facts of Life
- Minder
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Sapphire and Steel
- To the Manor Born
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- Hart to Hart
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister
- Juliet Bravo
- Hi-de-hi!
- Shogun
- Magnum P.I.
- Verstehen Sie Spass?
- Cosmos
- A Town Like Alice
- Dynasty
- Bergerac
- Brideshead Revisited
- The Borgias
- Hill Street Blues
- Only Fools and Horses
- Das Traumschiff
- The Fall Guy
- Wetten, dass…?
- The Chinese Detective
- The Day of the Triffids
- Tenko
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Attenti a noi due
- Cagney & Lacey
- Remington Steele
- Allo, ‘Allo!
- Police Squad!
- Knight Rider
- The Comic Strip Presents…
- The Maurizio Costanzo Show
- Cheers
- Sons and Daughters
- The Young Ones
- Brookside
- Fame
- St. Elsewhere
- Boys from the Blackstuff
- Bauer sucht Frau (Bauerin)
- The A-Team
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
- Just Good Friends
- Return to Eden
- Taggart
- Blackadder
- V
- Brass
- Widows
- The Thorn Birds
- Spitting Image
- The Bill
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Miss Marple
- Murder, She Wrote
- Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer
- La Piovra
- Night Court
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- Heimat
- Robin of Sherwood
- The Jewel in the Crown
- The Cosby Show
- Threads
- Miami Vice
- Anzacs
- Die Schwarzwaldklinik
- Das Boot
- Edge of Darkness
- Moonlighting
- Lindenstrasse
- Neighbours
- EastEnders
- Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
- Dempsey and Makepeace
- The Golden Girls
- Larry King Live
- North and South
- Mapp & Lucia
- Quelli della Notte
- The Flying Doctors
- Bread
- ALF
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
- La Dama de Rosa
- A Very Peculiar Practice
- The Monocled Mutineer
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Liebling Kreuzberg
- It’s Garry Shandling’s Show
- Casualty
- La Corrida
- L.A. Law
- Matlock
- The Singing Detective
- Hot Metal
- Dear John
- Married… With Children
- Talking Heads
- French and Saunders
- Tutti Frutti
- The New Statesman
- Indietro Tutta!
- Porterhouse Blue
- thirtysomething
- Ramayan
- Full House
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Max Headroom
- Inspector Morse
- Home and Away
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Mahabharat
- Roseanne
- Murphy Brown
- The Wonder Years
- Red Dwarf
- The Kids in the Hall
- Les guignols de l’info
- Bangkok Hilton
- Alien Nation
- Agatha Christie’s Poirot
- Mother Love
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Dekalog
- The Simpsons
- Navarro
- The Arsenio Hall Show
- Baywatch
- Quantum Leap
- Press Gang
- Traffik
- Seinfeld
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Harry Enfield’s Television Programme
- The Mary Whitehouse Experience
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Jeeves and Wooster
- One Foot in the Grave
- Twin Peaks
- Waiting for God
- Fort Boyard
- Northern Exposure
- Mr Bean
- Keeping Up Appearances
- Law & Order
- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Have I Got News For You
- House of Cards
- Drop the Dead Donkey
- It
- The Jerry Springer Show
- Dark Season
- Nummer 28
- Bottom
- The House of Eliott
- Familie
- The Brittas Empire
- Brides of Christ
- G.B.H.
- Maigret
- Prime Suspect
- 2point4 Children
- Julie Lescaut
- A Touch of Frost
- Melrose Place
- The Real World
- Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Between the Lines
- Red Shoe Diaries
- Men Behaving Badly
- Shortland Street
- As Time Goes By
- The Larry Sanders Show
- Boy Meets World
- The X-Files
- Walker, Texas Ranger
- Homicide: Life on the Street
- Late Show with David Letterman
- Iron Chef
- Snowy River: The McGregor Saga
- Lipstick on Your Collar
- Cracker
- NYPD Blue
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Beavis and Butt-Head
- Frasier
- Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
- I Love My Family
- Century Falls
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Babylon 5
- Riget
- Due South
- All-American Girl
- Cadfael
- Heartbreak High
- Kommisar Rex
- ER
- The Stand
- Tous les Garcons et les Filles de Leur Age
- Space Ghost Coast to Coast
- My So-Called Life
- Friends
- The Fast Show
- The Vicar of Dibley
- Blue Heelers
- The Day Today
- Ellen
- Frontline
- Knowing Me, Knowing You
- Der Bulle von Tolz
- Star Trek: Voyager
- Band of Gold
- Bugs
- Xena: Warrior Princess
- Sliders
- Murder One
- Father Ted
- Hollyoaks
- Hamish Macbeth
- Verbotene Liebe
- Pride and Prejudice
- Water Rats
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Ballykissangel
- The Daily Show
- Dalziel and Pascoe
- Our Friends in the North
- Die Wochenshow
- This Life
- Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- La Carte aux Tresors
- Pop-Up Video
- Millenium
- Silent Witness
- Sous le Soleil
- The Newsroom
- La Femme Nikita
- Ally McBeal
- Stargate SG-1
- Jonathan Creek
- Brass Eye
- Midsomer Murders
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Un gars, une fille
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly
- Oz
- King of the Hill
- South Park
- Cold Feet
- Dawson’s Creek
- All Saints
- Ultraviolet
- Hornblower
- That ’70s Show
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Dinnerladies
- Charmed
- Sex and the City
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- Cupid
- The Royle Family
- Sports Night
- Will & Grace
- Bad Girls
- Strangers with Candy
- All Stars
- Family Guy
- Inspector Montalbano
- Angel
- Shooting the Past
- The League of Gentlemen
- Queer as Folk
- The West Wing
- The Sopranos
- Roswell
- Gimme Gimme Gimme
- Big Brother
- Futurama
- Farscape
- Terra Nostra
- Yo soy Betty, la fea
- Freaks and Geeks
- Spaced
- Walking with Dinosaurs
- At Home with the Braithwaites
- My Family
- The Corner
- Survivor
- CSI
- Clocking Off
- Black Books
- Queer As Folk (US)
- Waking the Dead
- Deal or No Deal
- Jackass
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Rejseholdet
- Coupling
- Gilmore Girls
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Alias
- A Grande Familia
- The Amazing Race
- Beckett on Film
- 24
- Smallville
- Bob & Rose
- The Blue Planet
- Band of Brothers
- McLeod’s Daughters
- Perfect Strangers
- Scrubs
- Six Feet Under
- Camera Cafe
- Teachers
- Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights
- The Secret Life Of Us
- The Office (UK)
- Firefly
- Footballers’ Wives
- Berlin, Berlin
- Wire in the Blood
- Foyle’s War
- The Shield
- Tipping the Velvet
- Winter Sonata
- Monk
- The Wire
- Without a Trace
- City of Men
- Takeshi’s Castle
- I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
- The Bachelor
- Look Around You
- The Osbournes
- Spooks
- Kath & Kim
- Top Gear
- Still Game
- Nikolaj og Julie
- Little Britain
- Peep Show
- The Lost Prince
- Angels in America
- Carnivale
- America’s Next Top Model
- Dae Jang Geum
- Jake 2.0
- Slings & Arrows
- Dead Like Me
- One Tree Hill
- Arrested Development
- Monkey Dust
- The Venture Bros.
- Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
- QI
- Reno 911!
- The Second Coming
- Two and a Half Men
- Tru Calling
- NCIS
- State of Play
- Nip/Tuck
- The O.C.
- The Mighty Boosh
- Dog the Bounty Hunter
- Battlestar Galactica
- Entourage
- Blackpool
- Green Wing
- Veronica Mars
- Desperate Housewives
- The 4400
- The Catherine Tate Show
- Bodies
- North and South
- Boston Legal
- Project Runway
- House
- The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
- Lost
- Rescue Me
- Plus Belle La Vie
- Stargate: Atlantis
- Deadwood
- Hex
- Shameless
- The L Word
- Strictly Come Dancing
- The X Factor
- Schillerstrasse
- Hustle
- MasterChef Goes Large
- Supernatural
- American Dad!
- Robot Chicken
- BeTipul
- Rome
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- Criminal Minds
- The Colbert Report
- Bones
- Mandrake
- Outrageous Fortune
- My Lovely Sam-soon
- Prison Break
- Dancing with the Stars
- Medium
- Casanova
- Help
- Archangel
- The Office (US)
- Doctor Who
- Matroesjka’s
- Marian, Again
- Engrenages
- Bleak House
- Sugar Rush
- Threshold
- Numb3rs
- Extras
- The Thick Of It
- Wallander
- Grey’s Anatomy
- How I Met Your Mother
- Weeds
- Infinite Challenge
- Ugly Betty
- 30 Rock
- America’s Got Talent
- The Street
- Life on Mars
- Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe
- Planet Earth
- Waterloo Road
- Big Love
- Jericho
- Torchwood
- The Unit
- Eureka
- Time Trumpet
- Friday Night Lights
- Real Housewives of Orange County
- Brothers & Sisters
- Wild at Heart
- Turkisch fur Anfanger
- Brotherhood
- Dexter
- The IT Crowd
- Heroes
- Satisfaction
- Wilfred
- Burn Notice
- Britain’s Got Talent
- Jekyll
- Benidorm
- Forbrydelsen
- Primeval
- Damages
- Chuck
- Skins
- Summer Heights High
- Two Days and One Night
- Outnumbered
- Reaper
- Cranford
- The Graham Norton Show
- Hotel Babylon
- Gossip Girl
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl
- Flight of the Conchords
- Californication
- Gavin & Stacey
- Sea Patrol
- The Guild
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians
- The Big Bang Theory
- Pushing Daisies
- The Tudors
- Mad Men
- The Mentalist
- Apparitions
- Dead Set
- Being Human
- Leverage
- Ashes to Ashes
- Little Dorrit
- True Blood
- Breaking Bad
- In Plain Sight
- Merlin
- Sense & Sensibility
- In Treatment
- The Inbetweeners
- Packed to the Rafters
- Tutti Pazzi per Amore
- John Adams
- Wallander
- Romanzo Criminale
- Man v. Food
- Childrens Hospital
- Lark Rise to Candleford
- Fringe
- Underbelly
- Only Connect
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Sons of Anarchy
- Archer
- Misfits
- Being Erica
- United States of Tara
- Castle
- Lie To Me
- Better Off Ted
- Party Down
- Modern Family
- Bored to Death
- The League
- Dollhouse
- Un Village Francais
- Nurse Jackie
- Getting On (UK)
- RuPaul’s Drag Race
- India – A Love Story
- Community
- The Good Wife
- Parks and Recreation
- Garrow’s Law
- Whitechapel
- Unforgiven
- Southland
- The Vampire Diaries
- Glee
- Warehouse 13
- Braquo
- Hatufim
- Accused
- The Voice
- An Idiot Abroad
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Boardwalk Empire
- Borgen
- The Only Way Is Essex
- Terriers
- The Trip
- Carlos
- Raising Hope
- Rake
- Downton Abbey
- Justified
- Louie
- Luther
- The Pacific
- The Great British Bake Off
- The Big C
- Parenthood
- This is England ’86
- Treme
- Pretty Little Liars
- Sherlock
- Spartacus
- Weissensee
- Mongrels
- The Walking Dead
- Any Human Heart
- Maison Close
- The Fades
- Arne Dahl
- Mrs. Brown’s Boys
- Black Mirror
- Bob’s Burgers
- New Girl
- Scott & Bailey
- Twenty Twelve
- Borgia
- Portlandia
- Episodes
- Vampire Prosecutor
- Bref
- Broen
- Silk
- Winners & Losers
- Human Planet
- Enlightened
- Once Upon a Time
- Vera
- Fresh Meat
- Dem som Draeber
- Falling Skies
- Suits
- Game of Thrones
- Grimm
- Teen Wolf
- Revenge
- The Crimson Petal and the White
- The Hour
- Happy Endings
- Homeland
- Mad Dogs
- The Wonders of the Universe
- Shameless (US)
- American Horror Story
- Marchlands
- A Young Doctor’s Notebook
- Scandal
- A Touch of Cloth
- Video Game High School
- Nashville
- Akta Manniskor
- Les Revenants
- Arrow
- Line of Duty
- Parade’s End
- Continuum
- Last Tango in Halifax
- Veep
- Puberty Blues
- Derek
- Stella
- Ripper Street
- Elementary
- Salamander
- Call the Midwife
- Girls
- Hatfields & McCoys
- The Paradise
- The Newsroom
- Duck Dynasty
- Last Resort
- House of Cards
- Wentworth
- The Tractate Middoth
- The Tunnel
- Getting On (US)
- The Americans
- Bluestone 42
- In the Flesh
- Broadchurch
- Bates Motel
- The Village
- Da Vinci’s Demons
- Sleepy Hollow
- Endeavour
- The Following
- Hannibal
- Hemlock Grove
- Utopia
- My Mad Fat Diary
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Africa
- The Wrong Mans
- Under the Dome
- Orange Is the New Black
- Atlantis
- The Doctor Blake Mysteries
- Ja’mie: Private School Girl
- The Blacklist
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Peaky Blinders
- Masters of Sex
- The Fall
- Mr. Selfridge
- Vicious
- Top of the Lake
- Our Girl
- My Love from the Star
- Ray Donovan
- Hinterland
- Vikings
- Orphan Black
- Happy Valley
- The Flash
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
- Gotham
- The 100
- Fargo
- The Strain
- About a Boy
- Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
- Penny Dreadful
- The Last Ship
- Jonah From Tonga
- Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
- Inside No. 9
- Jane the Virgin
- The Honourable Woman
- How to Get Away with Murder
- Mammon
- Star Wars Rebels
- True Detective
- The Leftovers
- The Musketeers
- The Crimson Field
- Outlander
- Silicon Valley
- Wolf Hall
- Cucumber
- Battle Creek
- Empire
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Better Call Saul