Here's the plan going forward. At least for the 1990s, the list will reduce to a Top Five for each year, as things get slimmer and grimmer. We'll re-assess how to progress when we arrive at the 1980s. For now, 1999 was as solid a television year as it was a movies and music year. The Sopranos gave the medium credence. SpongeBob gave it boundless joy. Both debuted this year. Both begin with S. Both are among the greatest shows ever made. And that's just the surface of this backwards entrance into the '90s.
Honorable mentions: The West Wing's debut, Frasier's Valentines Day episode, the first Millionaire win, and Walking with Dinosaurs