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.
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Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn- Premiered: January 20, 2008
- Network: AMC
- 2Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Michael Mando
- Premiered: February 8, 2015
- Network: AMC
- 3James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco
- Premiered: January 10, 1999
- Network: HBO
- 4Dominic West, John Doman, Frankie R. Faison
- Premiered: June 2, 2002
- Network: HBO
- 5Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Rick Gomez
- Premiered: September 9, 2001
- Network: HBO
- 6Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Colin Hanks
- Premiered: 2014
- Network: FX
- 7Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey
- Premiered: April 17, 2011
- Network: HBO
- 8Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz
- Premiered: July 21, 2017
- Network: Netflix
- 9Alan Alda, McLean Stevenson, Wayne Rogers
- Premiered: September 17, 1972
- Network: CBS
- 10Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker
- Premiered: March 21, 2004
- Network: HBO
- 11Cillian Murphy, Natasha O'Keeffe, Paul Anderson
- Premiered: September 12, 2013
- Network: BBC Two
- 12Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv
- Premiered: October 13, 2017
- Network: Netflix
- 13Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald
- Premiered: September 19, 2010
- Network: HBO
- 14Keri Russell
- Premiered: 2013
- Network: FX
- 15Matthew McConnahey, Woody Harrelson
- Premiered: 2014
- Network: HBO
- 16Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser
- Premiered: July 19, 2007
- Network: AMC
- 17Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts
- Premiered: October 2, 1959
- Network: CBS
- 18Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Nick Searcy
- Premiered: March 16, 2010
- Network: FX
- 19William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
- Premiered: September 8, 1966
- Network: NBC
- 20Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, John Spencer
- Premiered: September 22, 1999
- Network: NBC
- 21Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Kim Coates
- Premiered: September 3, 2008
- Network: FX
- 22Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Emilie de Ravin
- Premiered: September 22, 2004
- Network: ABC
- 23Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Vinette Robinson
- Premiered: July 25, 2010
- Network: BBC One
- 24Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson
- Premiered: May 6, 2019
- Network: HBO
- 25Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams
- Premiered: October 2, 1955
- Network: CBS, NBC
