VH1's The Greatest (partially found VH1 TV series; 1998-2014)
The Greatest was a VH1 television series that originally aired from 1998-2014.[1] Each episode features a countdown of popular songs, musical artists, celebrities or pop culture moments. Episodes feature interview segments with celebrity commentators.
Episodes included countdown lists of typically 40 or 100 items. 40-item countdowns aired in 45 minute (1 hour with commercials) blocks. Countdowns of 100 items were most commonly in the format of five 45 minute blocks, for a total runtime of 5 hours with commercials.[2]
Episodes
[3][4][5] Note: this episode list is incomplete. An empty status indicates an episode that has not yet been searched for.
Number | Title | Premiere date | Status |
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001-005 | 100 Sexiest Artists (2002) | 2002-09-23 | Partially Found #77 #28 #25 #19 |
006-010 | 100 Greatest Love Songs | 2003-02-11 | Missing |
011-015 | 100 Greatest Songs of Rock n Roll | 2000-03-19 | Partially Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
016-020 | 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll | 1999-07-26 | Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
021-025 | 100 Greatest Dance Songs | 2000-09-14 | Partially Found #86 |
026-030 | 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders | 2002-05-06 | Partially Found #56 #51 #31 #25 #8 |
031-035 | 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Moments on TV | 2000-25-07 | Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
036-040 | 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock | 2000-11-13 | Partially Found - 1 2 3 4 5 |
041-045 | 100 Greatest Albums of Rock & Roll | 2001-02-17 | Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
046-050 | 100 Greatest Videos | 2001-02-05 | Partially Found #70 |
051-055 | 100 Most Shocking Moments in Rock & Roll | 2001-05-21 | Found - full |
056-060 | 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll | 1998-07-23 | Partially Found #22 #13 #2 |
061-065 | 100 Greatest Moments That Rocked TV | 2003-01-13 | Partially Found - #76-60 |
066-067? | 50 Sexiest Video Moments | 2003-03-12 | Partially Found #50, #46, #27, #26, #21 |
068-069? | 50 Greatest Hip Hop Artists | 2003-04-18 | |
070 | Top 25 Greatest Videos To Get Busy To | 2003-05-09 | |
071-072 | 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era | 2003-05-16 | Partially Found #39 |
073-074 | 25 Greatest Power Ballads | 2003-05-23 | Partially Found - #18-1 |
075-079 | 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years | 2003-06-16 | Partially Found #16 |
080-? | 50 Greatest Teen Idols | 2003-06-27 | Partially Found #50 #48 #46 #45 #43 #41 #25 #22 #6 #1 |
082? | The 50 Greatest Funny Moments in Music | 2003 | Found - full |
088-089 | 50 Greatest Album Covers | 2003-07-13 | Partially Found #27 #12 |
090-094 | 100 Most Outrageous Celebrity Moments | 2004-04-05 | |
100-? | 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons | 2003-07-23 | Partially Found #116 #107 #20 |
115-119 | 100 Most Metal Moments | 2004-05-31 | Partially Found #34 & #33 #27 #26 & #25 #22 & #21 #16 #11 & #10 #8 & #7 #6 #5 #4 & #3 #2 & #1 |
120-124 | 100 Greatest Red Carpet Moments | 2004-11-01 | Partially Found - Lil Kim |
125? | The 40 Least Metal Moments | 2004 | Partially Found - #31-1 |
127-128 | 40 Most Shocking Hair Moments | 2005-01-16? | |
129-133 | VH1 and Self Magazine's 100 Most Wanted Bodies | 2005-03-07 | Partially Found miscellaneous segments #89 (British dub) #44 (British dub) #4 (British dub) #7 (British dub) |
134-135 | 40 Hottest Rock Star Girlfriends...and Wives | 2005-04-01 | |
136-137 | 40 Least Hip Hop Moments | 2005-04-30 | |
138-142 | 100 Greatest Kid Stars | 2005-06-13 | Partially Found #100-61 #35 (low quality) |
143-144 | 40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mug Shots | 2005-07-15? | |
145-146 | 40 Hottest Over 40 | 2005-08-12 | |
147-148 | 40 Greatest Pranks | 2005-10-07[6] | Partially Found #23 |
149-150 | 40 Freakiest Concert Moments | April 2006 | Partially Found #40, #19, #12 |
151-155 | 100 Greatest Teen Stars | 2006-02-05 | Partially Found Handful of segments, but a lot of jumping around (Portuguese Dub) #20 #9 #7 #6 |
156 | 20 Greatest Celebreality Moments | 2006-03-13 | |
157-158 | 40 More Awesomely Bad Fashion Moments | 2006-04-01 | |
159-160? | 40 Greatest Metal Songs | 2006-05-01 | Partially Found Spanish Dub |
163-164? | 40 Dumbest Celebrity Quotes Ever | 2006-10-06 | |
167-171 | 100 Greatest Songs Of The 80s | 2006-10-30 | Found full |
172-173 | Web Junk Presents: 40 Greatest Internet Superstars | 2007-03-23 | Partially Found #8 #1 |
174-175 | 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs | 2007-06-01 | Partially Found #9 & #8 (Spanish dub) |
176-177 | 40 Greatest Reality TV Moments 2 | 2007-08-10 | |
178-182 | 100 Greatest Songs Of The 90s | 2007-12-17 | Found - Spanish Dub English |
183-184 | 40 Hottest Hotties Of The 90s | 2008-04-15 | Partially Found #40 #39 (Spanish dub) #32 #9 (low quality) #5 (low quality) |
185 | 20 Greatest Celebreality Fights | 2008-06-02 | |
186-190 | 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs | 2008-09-29 | Partially Found 5 (Spanish dub) English dub 1 2 3 4 missing 5 |
191-195 | 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs | 2008-12-29 | Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
196-197 | 40 Greatest Pranks 2 | 2009-01-07 | Partially Found Unknown segment, low quality #9 |
198-199 | 40 Greatest Celebrity Divorces | 2009-02-14 | |
200-201 | 40 Naughtiest Celebrity Scandals | 2009-04-09 | |
202-206 | 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s | 2009-03-31? | Partially Found |
207-211 | 100 Most Shocking Music Moments | 2009-12-28 | Found - full |
212-213 | 40 Most Slimmed Down Celebs | 2010-02-03 | |
214-218 | 100 Greatest Artists of All Time | 2010-09-06 | Found - Part 1 2 3 4 5 |
219-220 | 40 Funniest Fails | 2011-03-20? | Partially Found #22 |
221-222 | 40 Most Shocking Breakups | 2011-03-12? | Partially Found #36 |
223-224 | 40 Greatest Pranks 3 | 2011-03-27 | Partially Found #26 #23 (low quality) #4 (low quality) |
225-226 | 40 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 90s | 2011-04-03 | |
227-228 | 40 Most Shocking Hip Hop Moments | 2011-09-18 | Partially Found #28 (low quality) #16 #8 #2 |
229-230 | 40 Champions Of Cute | 2011-09-25 | |
231-235 | 100 Greatest Songs of the 00s | 2011-10-03 | Partially Found #67 (low quality) #65 #62 (low quality) #49 (low quality) #47 #40 (low quality) #38 & #37 (low quality) #33 (low quality) #29 #23 #18 (low quality) #12 (low quality, no audio, Spanish subs) #9 #5 |
236-237? | 40 Funniest Fails 2 | 2011-12-28 | |
238-239? | 40 Greatest TRL Moments | 2012-02-02 | Partially Found #5 |
240-244 | 100 Greatest Women In Music | 2012-02-13 | Partially Found #64 #47 (low quality) #45 (low quality) #31 (low quality) #20-17 #16-13 #12-8 #7-4 #3-1 |
245-246? | 40 Greatest Feuds 3 | 2012-03-21 | |
247 | 40 Greatest Feuds 2 | 2012-03-21 | |
249-250 | 40 Greatest R&B Songs of the 90s | 2012-06-25 | Partially Found #22 #9 #6 |
251-255 | 100 Greatest Kid Stars 2 | 2012-11-29 | Partially Found #89 #84 (low quality) #46 (low quality) #37 (low quality) #22 #9 (low quality) |
256-260 | 100 Sexiest Artists (2013) | 2013-03-05 | Partially Found #82 (low quality) #72 (low quality) #57 (low quality) #39 (low quality) #29 (low quality) #21 #20-1 |
261-262 | 40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the 90s | 2012-12-19 | Missing |
263-264 | 40 Funniest Fails 3 | 2014-01-09 | |
265-266 | 40 Greatest Viral Videos | 2013-09-14 | Partially Found Unknown ranking |
267-268 | 40 Greatest Pranks 4 | 2014-03-05 | |
269-270 | 40 Greatest Love & Hip Hop Moments | 2013-10-21 | |
Unknown | The Greatest 100 Hottest Hotties | 2004? | Partially Found #83 #75 #69 (video is hosted on NSFW site) |
Unknown | 100 Greatest Men in Music | May-June 2002[7] | Partially Found Bob Dylan Gary Numan Freddie Mercury Dave Gahan Billy Idol |
Unknown | 40 Greatest Reality TV Moments | 2004[8] | Partially Found #23 |
Unknown | 100 Greatest Albums | 2001-2002 | Partially Found #89 #78 #55 #53 #51 |
Unknown | 25 Greatest Rock Star Cameos | 2003-06-03 | Partially Found #5 & #4 |
Unknown | 40 Greatest Yo! MTV Raps Moments | 2012-04-16 | |
Unknown | 25 Most Cheesetastic TV Stars[9] | 2005? | |
Unknown | 40 Greatest Celebrity Feuds | 2003 | |
Unknown | 100 Cheesetastic Video Tricks Exposed | 2004-11-25 | |
Unknown | 25 Greatest Commercials | October 2003 | |
Unknown (Possibly not part of series) | 20 Greatest Oscar Moments | 2008-02-14 | Found [1] |
Availability
Currently, a few episodes are available on the internet archive, but most are lost to time. This content had limited airings and home releases, presumbly due to licensing issues around the many songs and media featured in each episode.
External links
- Archived series homepage on the VH1 website from 2013
- Archived series homepage on the VH1 website from 2009
- (Incomplete) episode list on IMDB
- Episode list on Wikipedia
- VH1 blog posts tagged for the series
See Also
- VH1's Legends (partially lost music documentary series; 1995-2002)
- Behind The Music (partially lost VH1 documentary series; 1997-2014)
- BTM2 (partially found VH1 documentary series; 2000)
- VH1 Storytellers (partially lost concert series; 1996-2015)
- VH1 Storytellers (partially lost concert series; 1996-2015)
- Surviving Nugent (Lost Ted Nugent reality show on VH1; 2003-2004)
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_(TV_series)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130928013443/http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_greatest/episodes.jhtml
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20070811101945/http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/episode_list.jhtml
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_(TV_series)
- ↑ https://www.thetvdb.com/series/the-greatest/seasons/official/1
- ↑ https://improveverywhere.com/2005/10/06/vh1s-40-greatest-pranks/
- ↑ https://welleyenever.com/2002/05/30/journal-may-2002/
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417391/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050105022608/http://www.vh1.com:80/shows/schedule/vh1/daily.jhtml