The Greatest TV Dramas Of All Time
The best dramas of all time are the ones that make you feel connected to characters you will never meet in real life to the point where you obsess about their exploits as much as your own. Thanks to their gripping storylines the best TV dramas rank high among the best TV shows of recent memory with many touting characters on the list of best TV characters ever.
Many of these greatest TV drama series, like Lost and The Sopranos, have already come to a close (earning them places on the list of the best TV series finales), while others like Mad Men and Breaking Bad are on the verge of closing up TV shop and leaving us to inevitably wonder about the lives of the surviving characters and what could have happened with the characters that get killed off (I've got even odds on Walter White buying a ticket to the meth lab in the sky in the Breaking Bad finale). Medical TV shows, crime shows, and more grace this list of excellent TV dramas.
What is the best drama series in TV history? Tough question to answer considering many of the best TV series are dramas (and a lot of them are good!) Use this list of the greatest drama TV shows ever to cast your vote for the top drama series so other real people can get caught up in the fictional lives of your favorite TV drama characters.
- Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn
- Premiered: January 20, 2008
- Network: AMC
- Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando
- Premiered: February 8, 2015
- Network: AMC
- James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco
- Premiered: January 10, 1999
- Network: HBO
- Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie R. Faison
- Premiered: June 2, 2002
- Network: HBO
- Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Rick Gomez
- Premiered: September 9, 2001
- Network: HBO
- Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks
- Premiered: 2014
- Network: FX
- Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey
- Premiered: April 17, 2011
- Network: HBO
- Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz
- Premiered: July 21, 2017
- Network: Netflix
- Alan Alda, McLean Stevenson, Wayne Rogers
- Premiered: September 17, 1972
- Network: CBS
- Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
- Premiered: March 21, 2004
- Network: HBO
- Cillian Murphy, Natasha O'Keeffe, Paul Anderson
- Premiered: September 12, 2013
- Network: BBC Two
- Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv
- Premiered: October 13, 2017
- Network: Netflix
- Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald
- Premiered: September 19, 2010
- Network: HBO
- Keri Russell
- Premiered: 2013
- Network: FX
- Matthew McConnahey, Woody Harrelson
- Premiered: 2014
- Network: HBO
- Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser
- Premiered: July 19, 2007
- Network: AMC
- Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts
- Premiered: October 2, 1959
- Network: CBS
- Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Nick Searcy
- Premiered: March 16, 2010
- Network: FX
- William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
- Premiered: September 8, 1966
- Network: NBC
- Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, John Spencer
- Premiered: September 22, 1999
- Network: NBC
- Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Kim Coates
- Premiered: September 3, 2008
- Network: FX
- Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Emilie de Ravin
- Premiered: September 22, 2004
- Network: ABC
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Vinette Robinson
- Premiered: July 25, 2010
- Network: BBC One
- Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson
- Premiered: May 6, 2019
- Network: HBO
- Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams
- Premiered: October 2, 1955
- Network: CBS, NBC