"You're the Top?: The Fickle System for Determining TV's "Greatest "". ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sheridan, James Monush, Barry (June 15, 2009)."This Hit List Has More Than A Few Misses Alleged 'Top 100' Roster Has Some Great Omissions". ^ a b c d Bianculli, David (June 23, 1997).
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" 'Greatest Episodes' List: Questionable, If Cleverly Timed, TV Stunt TV Guide And Nickelodeon's Inspired Marketing is Sure To Spark Ratings and Debates".
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The Honeymooners-" Better Living Through TV".I Love Lucy-" Lucy Does a TV Commercial".The Mary Tyler Moore Show-" Chuckles Bites the Dust".Only one of the thirteen contributors to the 2009 list was involved in the 1997 list. The 1997 list included detailed show descriptions for all episodes, while only a select few were accompanied by more than a single sentence in the ascending order 2009 list.
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Three of the episodes were removed although the series continued to be represented by other episodes: " The $99,000 Answer" (number 6) from The Honeymooners, " Thanksgiving Orphans" (number 7) from Cheers and "Coast-to-Coast Big Mouth" (number 8) from The Dick Van Dyke Show. The 2009 top rated show was " The Contest" from Seinfeld although in 1997 the show had been represented by " The Boyfriend" (number four) and " The Parking Garage" (number 33), instead of "The Contest". Several television series were represented by a different episode in 2009 than they were in 1997.
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ĬBS was the original broadcaster of 35 of the 1997 list members, including both of the top two: " Chuckles Bites the Dust" of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and " Lucy Does a TV Commercial" from I Love Lucy. The June 2009 list included episodes as recent as the April 12, 2009, " Peekaboo" episode of Breaking Bad and the April 7, 2009, "Baptism" episode of Rescue Me, while the 1997 list included a two-month-old episode of The X-Files. Over one-third of the new list first aired in the twelve years since the original list, including 14 from the most recent two years. The original list included 35 episodes from the 1950s and 1960s, while the 2009 list only included 10. On the original list several shows, including I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Seinfeld, Cheers, and The Odd Couple had multiple entries, but none did on the 2009 list. About 25 shows from the original list were featured during a special week on Nick at Night on Nickelodeon and TV Land.