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Love Is On The Air: Top 10 LOVE Shows Of The Last 25 Years

Maj Canton - February 5, 2009

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Everybody loves a list.  Everybody loves TV.  So in honor of love's favorite holiday, TV Tango has compiled a list of TV show titles with the word LOVE in it.  We’ve culled the TV Tango database, ran the numbers, checked them twice and found the top-10-rated, original, made-for-TV movies and the top-10-rated TV series that aired in the last 25 years.

 

But we still Love Lucy!

 

Top-10-Rated, Original, Made-for-TV Movies

with ‘Love’ in the Title from the Last 25 Years:

  Title (Network, Year) Rating/Share
1. Love, Mary (CBS, 1985) 21.5/33
2. Toughlove (ABC, 1985) 20.6/31
3. Love Thy Neighbor (ABC, 1984) 20.0/35
4. Second Sight: A Love Story (CBS, 1984)
19.8/31
5. Addicted to His Love (ABC, 1988) 18.1/29
6. This Can't Be Love (CBS, 1994) 17.8/28
7. Love Lives On (ABC, 1985) 17.8/26
8. My Two Loves (ABC, 1986) 17.5/28
9. Aftermath: A Test of Love (CBS, 1991) 17.3/27
10. Love Is Never Silent (NBC, 1985) 17.3/26

 

 

 

Top-10-Rated TV Series with ‘Love’ in the Title

that Aired in the Last 25 Years:


Title (Network, Premiere Year) Rating*
1. The Love Boat (ABC, 1977) 13.3
2. Finder of Lost Loves (ABC, 1984) 13.0
3. Love & War (CBS, 1992) 12.4
4. Anything But Love (ABC, 1989) 11.2
5. Can't Hurry Love (CBS, 1995) 10.2
6. Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, 1996) 9.4
7. Misery Loves Company (FOX, 1995) 5.9
8. For Love or Money (NBC, 2003) 5.6
9. Love Monkey (CBS, 2006) 5.0
10. Love & Money (CBS, 1999) 4.7
*Rating is the average rating of all episodes, including repeats, that aired since 2/5/1984.

 

Additional reporting by Mike Vicic.