People love to watch TV.  Television can be our best friend, our babysitter or psychologist. Maybe the best (or worst) part of it is that when we watch TV,  it does all the work for us.  We don’t need use our minds to create like we do when reading.  When we read, our  imagination has to conjure up images and scenes, but good old television allows us sit back while someone else does the work. The whole world watches more TV than ever before, but nowhere do people watch more television than in the United States. The average American household has more TVs than children and watches more than four hours of television per day. That equals about 30 hours per month or two entire months of non-stop television watching per year. Going further still, for every six years, that equals one non-stop year of watching TV and more than a decade straight of sitting in front of television in the average American lifetime. Depsite watching TV day in and day out, every once in awhile, something special hits the airwaves that tunes more people in than usual. The list below contains the 10 highest rated television broadcasts in American history, and with Americans watching more TV than anyone else,  the list in turn represents our planet’s ten highest rated TV broadcasts of all time.

• 1. M*A*S*H series finale: “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen“  – February 28, 1983
• 2. Dallas episode: “Who Done It?” aka “Who shot J.R.?” – November 20, 1980
• 3.  Roots Part VIII (finale) – January 30, 1977
• 4. Super Bowl XVI (San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals) -  January 24, 1982
• 5. Super Bowl XVII (Washington Redskins vs. Miami Dolphins) – January 30, 1983
• 6. XVII Winter Olympics: Ladies’ figure skating – short program featuring Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding – February 23, 1994
• 7. Super Bowl XX (Chicago Bears vs. New England Patriots) – January 26, 1986
• 8. Gone with the Wind first ever telecast (part 1) – November 7, 1976
• 9. Gone with the Wind first ever telecast (part 2) – November 8 , 1976
• 10. Super Bowl XII (Dallas Cowboys vs. Denver Broncos) – January 15, 1978

*source: Wikipedia