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Order by the year each series first aired. You place all 106 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the TV shows timeline game

Every card is a television series, and you sort them by the year each first aired. The network or channel it premiered on is printed under the title. One show starts on the timeline with its year visible. Read each new card and drop it into the gap where you think it began. When the spot is right, the year comes up; wrong ones still move the show to its true position but cost one of three lives.

Sitcoms, cop shows, children's TV, animation, British comedy and prestige drama all turn up, from the early days of broadcast to recent hits. The network is a real clue, but it can also mislead you. Shows that ran for many seasons are the hardest to place, because you probably remember them from their later years rather than their start.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 863 times. An average run places 7 cards, and 70% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Curb Your Enthusiasm missed 56% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Blackadder missed 51% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Oz missed 51% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 106 cards you might be dealt, with 78 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • I Love Lucy CBS
  • Doctor Who BBC
  • Columbo NBC
  • The Muppet Show Syndicated
  • Blackadder BBC One
  • Married... with Children Fox
  • Beverly Hills, 90210 Fox
  • Frasier NBC
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer The WB
  • Family Guy Fox
  • The West Wing NBC
  • Survivor CBS
  • American Idol Fox
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender Nickelodeon
  • The Office (US) NBC
  • Gossip Girl The CW
  • Modern Family ABC
  • Sherlock BBC One
  • House of Cards Netflix
  • Rick and Morty Adult Swim
  • Better Call Saul AMC
  • The Crown Netflix
  • Bluey ABC Kids
  • Chernobyl HBO
  • The Mandalorian Disney+
  • Only Murders in the Building Hulu
  • Slow Horses Apple TV+
  • Baby Reindeer Netflix

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