One anything that started in a previous decade I don't count it's a product of when the pilot aired IMO because that's when it was green lighted and shows the quality of the time of decisions being made of what was being made and the next decade shouldn't benefit because that show might not had been green lighted then.
Two OO's had some good shows but IMO it made popular the worse thing to ever happen to television Reality TV and for that alone deserves last place.
Three as for the 70's deserves perhaps 1st place because it was the decade where for the 1st time American television that wasn't news was being used for Social Change. An example a Bill in California that was going to allow schools to fire LGBT employees for just being LGBT was defeated and one of the things to help with that CBS reran an episode of All in the Family the night before the vote where Edith learned her late cousin was lesbian and Archie wanted to blackmail her cousin's partner into giving them the cousin estate or they'd reveal she was gay to the school board. The episode showed the Studio audience go from shock and a little horror when learning the cousin was gay to 15 minutes later cheering and clapping when Edith told Archie no allowing the partner to keep the possessions in question with no fear.
Yes Breaking Bad, Wire, Mad Men and others were great but none did anything like that.
To be fair the 00's gave me BSG remake one of my favorite TV shows of all time but I look at this as what was a decades legacy.
The 40's brought TV to us.
The 50's besides some good shows it also perfected the techniques used in making TV to this day.
The 60's While there was a lot of goofiness it also helped defined Sci-Fi TV with stuff like Star Trek and Dr. Who and news coverage with Vietnam.
The 70's where shows from comedies to dramas began to add stories to help bring about Social Change.
80's giving us some of the 1st gritty and real TV with Hill Street Blue's and making first run syndication shows popular from the silly like Mama's Family to Star Trek TNG, Superboy, and many others which lead to less focus on Networks in the future.
90's was where cable shows first started really exploding yeah there were some in the 80's but it was the 90's where the first huge cultural hits got their starts.
00's legacy for better or worse is Reality TV even with the good and there was a decent amount but Reality TV was the dominate change to the landscape and it's legacy.
10's the birth of streaming and the raising of the bar for TV as a whole that brought.
To me the 00's has the last place Legacy.
Last edited by Jokerz79; 01-12-2019 at 03:26 AM.
The 80's had a few premium channels cable shows but it wasn't until the 90's that they started taking a chunk out of basic cable and network TV audiences so that why I put it in the 90's column. You can find reality TV going back further than the 90's the first one aired in 70's with 1974 the family but it was in the 00's that Reality TV took over A&E, History Channel, E TV, Discovery Channel, True TV, and the Networks it was than that it became about 50% of programming so it was the 00's where it Legacy lies.