Top 10 All-Time TV Series Finales
Each TV series eventually comes to an end. Sometimes they know ahead of time, sometimes they just disappear. When they do know with enough notice, they can make a season…
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Paul Drinkwater/NBC via Getty ImagesEach TV series eventually comes to an end. Sometimes they know ahead of time, sometimes they just disappear. When they do know with enough notice, they can make a season finale. Which have been the best all-time?
Some of these were the largest audience draws, some were just very creative. Here is our list of the all-time top 10 TV series finales.
10 Game of Thrones - Still waiting for total viewers
9 Newhart - 30 million viewers
8 The Big Bang Theory - almost 18 million viewers
7 The Sopranos - 11.9 million viewers
6 The Fugitive - 78 million viewers
5 Friends - 52.5 million viewers
4 Seinfeld - 76.3 million viewers
3 Dallas - 33.3 million viewers
2 Cheers - 80.4 million viewers
1 M*A*S*H - 105.9 million viewers
Honorable Mentions
I Married Dora - a relatively short-lived series that ran on ABC for 13 episodes. Unlike the other shows that has big buildups to their finales, I Married Dora was canceled mid-season. They staged a scene where they could say goodbye to the audience.
If you know anyone who saw it when it aired in 1988, ask about it and see what their reaction was.
Here's the final clip.
