The Most Underrated TV Shows of All Time

Every so often a new television season launches a sleeper - a show that features quality writing, a great cast, rave reviews, and possibly, an award or two. Yet it fails to gain a foothold in the ratings, or, as is happening more frequently of late, the networks have dwindling patience for a show that doesn't "hit the ground running."

Here are just a few of these shows - my very subjective list, in no particular order - that either should have been given more of a chance before getting shelved, or haven't gotten the recognition they deserve.

1. Gilmore Girls

Despite the downhill slide Gilmore Girls has been experiencing this season due to the departure of original writer and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the first six seasons have been stellar. The core of this family-oriented comedy is Lorelai Gilmore, a young single mother, who flees the bonds of her upper-class family to raise her teenaged daughter Rory in a small town in Connecticut. Except it's not always clear who is raising whom, and the bonds of her family are never far away. The show features fun, fast-paced dialogue, and two (among other cast standouts) of the most talented and uncelebrated actresses on television - Lauren Graham as Lorelai and Kelly Bishop as her imperious mother, Emily Gilmore. And watching the development of Lorelai's daughter Rory (the doe-eyed Alexis Bledel) as she navigates through her high school and college years is a joy. But it's a crime (and probably the stigma that other non-cable, non-big-three network shows have experienced) that these women and this show have not once been nominated for a single award.

This is hard to believe, because the show was one of the highest-rated on the former WB network. And harder to believe because retailers can't keep DVD box sets of the first five seasons on the shelves. An eighth season is rumored, and the way the current writers are now ratcheting up the tension on the major plot lines, they might need it.

2. Arrested Development

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