Television Hall of Fame Inductees: Productions
This area is currently under construction. Please find below the current list of inductees as well as the year in which they were inducted into the Hall of Fame by the members of the OFTA. Please note that the most recent additions have been listed like this. We are working on an area to give more details on our selections.
EDITORIAL NOTE: Hall of Fame inductees are selected based on three primary considerations: the historic, aesthetic, and cultural significance of each inductee. Some productions were byproducts of a certain time period and those views are reflective that era. When we look historically at the productions of the past, we must acknowledge the historic relevance of certain films even if the contents of those films have become problematic at best or downright offensive at worst. While we aren’t able to change the selections of the past, our organization pledges to do what it can to promote inclusion and tolerance. Further, we encourage you to seek out knowledge on each film and understand not only its importance to cinema history, but also the nature of its offenses. History will write itself based on the morality of the present, but only through the reflection of the past can we see where we have come from and where we are going to. A film’s controversiality may impact its perception in the framework of history, but we need to make sure that history impacts the perception of the present and learn from whatever mistakes were made. Ignoring those mistakes only enables the worst impulses of history to be forgotten and enables the commission of such atrocities in the future.
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2020: 24 (2001-2010, 8 seasons)
2024: 12 Angry Men (1997)
2009: 20/20 (1978-Present)
2023: 30 Rock (2006-2013, 7 seasons)
2006: 60 Minutes (1968-Present)
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2018: Absolutely Fabulous (1992-2012, 6 seasons)
2014: Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989-2013, 13 seasons)
2014: Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984-1992)
2022: ALF (1986-1990, 4 seasons)
1998: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962, 7 seasons)
2020: Alias (2001-2006, 5 seasons)
2008: Alice (1976-1985, 9 seasons)
1997: All in the Family (1971-1979, 9 seasons)
2021: All My Children (1970-2011, 41 seasons)
2017: Ally McBeal (1997-2002, 5 seasons)
2012: American Bandstand (1952-1989, 32 seasons)
2007: And the Band Played On (1993)
2006: The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968, 8 seasons)
2006: Angels in America (2003)
2019: Animaniacs (1993-1998, 5 seasons)
2021: Arthur (1996-Present)
2023: The A-Team (1983-1987, 5 seasons)
2004: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
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2009: Backstairs at the White House (1979)
2007: Band of Brothers (2001)
2022: Barney & Friends (1992-2009, 13 seasons)
2011: Batman (1966-1968, 3 seasons)
2019: Batman: The Animated Series (1995-1992, 4 seasons)
2020: Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009, 4 seasons)
2019: Beavis and Butt-Head (1993-2011, 9 seasons)
2023: The Bernie Mac Show (2001-2006, 5 seasons)
2012: The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971, 9 seasons)
2018: Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000, 10 seasons)
2007: Bewitched (1964-1972, 8 seasons)
2021: Blackadder (1982-1983, 1 season)
1998: The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978, 6 seasons)
2011: Bonanza (1959-1973, 14 seasons)
2020: Boston Legal (2004-2008, 5 seasons)
2020: Boy Meets World (1993-2000, 7 seasons)
2012: The Brady Bunch (1969-1974, 5 seasons)
2024: Breaking Bad (2008-2013, 5 seasons)
2000: Brian’s Song (1971)
2006: Brideshead Revisted (1981)
2023: Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011, 5 seasons)
2013: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003, 7 seasons)
2019: The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1986-1992)
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2017: Cagney & Lacey (1981-1988, 7 seasons)
2009: Captains and the Kings (1976)
1997: The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978, 11 seasons)
2021: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
2015: Charlie’s Angels (1976-1981, 5 seasons)
2000: Cheers (1982-1993, 11 seasons)
2018: China Beach (1988-1991, 4 seasons)
2017: The Colbert Report (2005-2014, 11 seasons)
2008: Columbo (1971-2003, 13 seasons)
2000: The Cosby Show (1984-1992, 8 seasons)
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2020: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (1996-2015)
2000: Dallas (1978-1991, 14 seasons)
2022: Damages (2007-2012, 5 seasons)
2020: Daria (1997-2001, 5 seasons)
1999: The Day After (1983)
2016: Days of Our Lives (1965-Present)
2016: Deadwood (2004-2006, 3 seasons)
2024: Dekalog (1989)
2017: Designing Women (1986-1993, 7 seasons)
2023: Desperate Housewives (2004-2012, 8 seasons)
2022: The Dick Cavett Show (1968-1995)
2004: The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966, 5 seasons)
2020: A Different World (1987-1993, 6 seasons)
2023: Dinosaurs (1991-1994, 4 seasons)
2015: Doctor Who (1963-1989; 26 seasons & 2005-Present)
2013: Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
2020: Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman (1993-1998, 6 seasons)
2008: Dragnet (1967-1970, 4 seasons)
2019: Ducktales (1987-1990, 4 seasons)
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2010: An Early Frost (1985)
2004: The Ed Sullivan Show (Toast of the Town) (1948-1971, 24 seasons)
2000: Eleanor & Franklin: The White House Years (1977)
2015: Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
2006: Elizabeth R (1971)
2014: ER (1994-2009, 15 seasons)
2018: An Evening with Fred Astaire (1958)
2017: Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005, 9 seasons)
2018: Extras (2005-2007, 2 seasons)
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2017: The Facts of Life (1979-1988, 9 seasons)
1999: Fame (1982-1987, 6 seasons)
2017: Family Feud (1976-1985, 9 seasons)
2014: Family Ties (1982-1989, 7 seasons)
2011: Father Knows Best (1954-1960, 6 seasons)
2009: Fawlty Towers (1975-1979, 2 seasons)
2018: Firefly (2002-2003, 1 season)
2006: The Flintstones (1960-1966, 6 seasons)
2022: Fraggle Rock (1983-1987, 5 seasons)
2006: Frasier (1993-2004, 12 seasons)
2018: Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000, 1 season)
2021: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996, 6 seasons)
2021: Friday Night Lights (2006-2011, 5 seasons)
2013: Friends (1994-2004, 10 seasons)
2013: The Fugitive (1963-1967, 4 seasons)
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2016: General Hospital (1963-Present)
1999: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958, 8 seasons)
2012: Gilligan’s Island (1964-1967, 3 seasons)
2018: Gilmore Girls (2000-2007, 7 seasons)
2004: The Golden Girls (1985-1992, 7 seasons)
2018: Great Performances (1971-Present)
2019: Grey Gardens (2009)
2020: Growing Pains (1985-1992, 7 seasons)
2014: Guiding Light (1952-2009)
2007: Gunsmoke (1955-1975)
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2010: Hallmark Hall of Fame (1950-Present)
2000: Happy Days (1974-1984, 11 seasons)
1999: Hill Street Blues (1981-1987, 7 seasons)
2016: Hogan’s Heroes (1965-1971, 6 seasons)
1998: Holocaust (1978)
2010: Homicide: Life on the Streets (1993-1999, 7 seasons)
2004: The Honeymooners (1955-1956, 1 season)
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2008: I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970, 5 seasons)
1997: I Love Lucy (1951-1957, 6 seasons)
2009: I, Claudius (1976)
2019: If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
2022: In Living Color (1990-1994, 5 seasons)
2023: Inside the Actors Studio (1994-Present)
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2005: The Jack Benny Program (The Jack Benny Show) (1950-1965, 15 seasons)
2018: The Jackie Gleason Show (1952-1958, 5 seasons)
1999: The Jeffersons (1975-1985, 11 seasons)
2009: Jeopardy! (1984-Present)
2019: The Jetsons (1962-1963, 3 seasons)
2018: The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
2019: John Adams (2008)
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2019: Knight Rider (1982-1986, 4 seasons)
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2006: L.A. Law (1986-1994, 8 seasons)
2008: The Larry Sanders Show (1992-1998, 6 seasons)
2013: Lassie (1954-1974, 19 seasons)
2019: Late Night with Conan O’Brien (1993-2009, 17 seasons)
2011: Late Night with David Letterman (1982-1993)
2012: Laverne & Shirley (1976-1983, 8 seasons)
2012: Law & Order (1990-2010, 20 seasons)
2020: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999-Present)
2015: Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963, 6 seasons)
2013: Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983, 9 seasons)
2000: Lonesome Dove (1989)
2008: The Loretta Young Show (Letter to Loretta) (1953-1961, 8 seasons)
2020: Lost (2004-2010, 6 seasons)
2004: Love Among the Ruins (1975)
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1998: M*A*S*H (1972-1983, 11 seasons)
2017: Mad About You (1992-1999, 7 seasons)
2017: Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006, 7 seasons)
2015: Married…with Children (1987-1997, 11 seasons)
1997: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977, 7 seasons)
2008: The Match Game (1973-1990, 10 seasons)
1998: Maude (1972-1978, 6 seasons)
2010: Meet the Press (1947-Present)
2015: Miami Vice (1984-1989, 5 seasons)
2014: Midsomer Murders (1997-Present)
2011: Mission: Impossible (1966-1973, 7 seasons)
2019: Monk (2002-2009, 8 seasons)
2008: Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974, 4 seasons)
2016: Moonlighting (1985-1989, 5 seasons)
2016: Mr. Bean (1990-1995)
2010: Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968-2001, 31 seasons)
2008: The Muppet Show (1976-1981, 5 seasons)
2005: Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996, 12 seasons)
2011: Murphy Brown (1988-1998, 10 seasons)
2016: My So-Called Life (1994-1995, 1 season)
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2019: The Nanny (1993-1999, 6 seasons)
2020: The New Tom & Jerry Show (1975-1977, 1 season)
2004: Newhart (1982-1990, 8 seasons)
2013: Night Court (1984-1992, 9 seasons)
1999: North and South (1985)
2021: Northern Exposure (1990-1995, 5 seasons)
2015: NYPD Blue (1993-2005, 12 seasons)
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2012: The Odd Couple (1970-1975, 5 seasons)
2024: The Office (2005-2013, 9 seasons)
2019: The Office (UK) (2001-2003, 3 seasons)
2024: The Oscars (1953-Present)
2021: Oz (1997-2003, 6 seasons)
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2019: The Pacific (2010)
2008: Perry Mason (1957-1966, 9 seasons)
2018: The Phil Donahue Show (Donahue) (1967-1995)
2006: The Phil Silvers Show (1955-1959, 4 seasons)
2018: Picket Fences (1992-1996, 4 seasons)
2010: Playhouse 90 (1956-1961, 4 seasons)
2014: Police Squad! (1982, 1 season)
2018: The Practice (1997-2004, 8 seasons)
2017: The Price Is Right (1972-Present)
2014: Pride and Prejudice (1980)
2006: Prime Suspect (1991)
2009: The Prisoner (1967-1968, 1 season)
2023: Pushing Daisies (2007-2009, 2 seasons)
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2006: Quantum Leap (1989-1993, 5 seasons)
2005: Queen (1993)
2015: Queer As Folk (2000-2005, 5 seasons)
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2023: Reading Rainbow (1983-2006, 16 seasons)
1999: Rhoda (1974-1978, 5 seasons)
1999: Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
2020: RKO 281 (1999)
2020: The Rockford Files (1974-1980, 6 seasons)
1997: Roots (1977)
2015: Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
2007: Roseanne (1988-1997, 9 seasons)
1998: Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1967-1973, 6 seasons)
2024: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964)
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2016: Sanford and Son (1972-1977, 6 seasons)
2005: Saturday Night Live (1975-Present)
2015: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1970, 2 seasons)
2020: Scrubs (2001-2010, 8 seasons)
2011: SCTV (1976-1981, 3 seasons)
2007: Seinfeld (1989-1998, 9 seasons)
2012: Sesame Street (1969-Present)
2017: Sex and the City (1998-2004, 6 seasons)
2014: The Shield (2002-2008, 7 seasons)
2005: The Simpsons (1989-Present)
2018: Sisters (1991-1996, 6 seasons)
2017: Six Feet Under (2001-2005, 5 seasons)
2023: Smallville (2001-2011, 10 seasons)
2007: Soap (1977-1981, 4 seasons)
2007: Something About Amelia (1984)
2013: The Sopranos (1999-2007, 6 seasons)
2016: Soul Train (1971-2006, 35 seasons)
2013: South Park (1997-Present)
2020: SpongeBob SquarePants (1999-2021, 13 seasons)
2016: St. Elsewhere (1982-1988, 6 seasons)
1997: Star Trek (1966-1969, 3 seasons)
2009: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999, 7 seasons)
2000: Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994, 7 seasons)
2006: Stephen King’s It (1990)
2010: The Steve Allen Show (1968-1971)
2022: Super Bowl (1967-Present)
2021: Survivor (2000-Present)
2006: Sybil (1976)
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2021: Tales from the Crypt (1989-1996, 7 seasons)
2005: Tales of the City (1993)
2009: Tanner ’88 (1988)
2006: Taxi (1978-1983, 5 seasons)
2019: That 70’s Show (1998-2006, 8 seasons)
2022: The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns (1990)
2017: Thirtysomething (1987-1991)
1998: The Thorn Birds (1983)
2006: Three’s Company (1976-1984, 8 seasons)
2010: The Today Show (1952-Present)
2009: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962-1992)
2018: A Touch of Frost (1992-2010, 15 seasons)
2005: The Twilight Zone (1959-1964, 5 seasons)
2006: Twin Peaks (1990-1991, 2 seasons)
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2020: Ugly Betty (2006-2010, 4 seasons)
2010: Upstairs/Downstairs (1971-1975, 5 seasons)
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1998: V (1983)
2018: Veronica Mars (2004-2007, 3 seasons)
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2013: The Waltons (1972-1981, 9 seasons)
2004: War and Remembrance (1988-1989)
2014: The West Wing (1999-2006, 7 seasons)
2010: What’s My Line (1951-1964, 12 seasons)
2011: Wheel of Fortune (1983-Present)
2020: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (1991-1996, 5 seasons)
2019: Who’s the Boss? (1984-1992, 8 seasons)
2020: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988-1998, 10 seasons)
2022: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1998-2007, 8 seasons)
2012: Wide World of Sports (1961-1998, 37 seasons)
2017: Will & Grace (1998-2006, 8 seasons)
2012: The Winds of War (1983)
2018: The Wire (2002-2008, 5 seasons)
2019: Wit (2001)
2005: A Woman Called Golda (1982)
2005: The Wonder Years (1988-1993, 6 seasons)
2011: The Wonderful World of Disney (1954-Present)
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2015: The X-Files (1993-2002, 9 seasons)
2022: X-Men: The Animated Series (1992-1997, 5 seasons)
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2017: The Young and the Restless (1973-Present)
2011: Your Show of Shows (1950-1954, 5 seasons)