The Best TV Shows from 2005


Below is our top ten list of the best TV shows which first started broadcasting in 2005.

10. How I Met Your Mother


How%20I%20Met%20Your%20MotherFirst Aired: 19 September, 2005

How I Met Your Mother is a TV series starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, and Cobie Smulders. A father recounts to his children – through a series of flashbacks – the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting…


9. Prison Break


Prison%20BreakFirst Aired: 29 August, 2005

Prison Break is a TV series starring Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, and Amaury Nolasco. Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to…


8. Supernatural


SupernaturalFirst Aired: 13 September, 2005

Supernatural is a TV series starring Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, and Jim Beaver. Two brothers follow their father’s footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons and gods that…


7. Bones


BonesFirst Aired: 13 September, 2005

Bones is a TV series starring Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, and Michaela Conlin. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan and cocky F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders. Quite often,…


6. Criminal Minds


Criminal%20MindsFirst Aired: 22 September, 2005

Criminal Minds is a TV series starring Matthew Gray Gubler, Kirsten Vangsness, and A.J. Cook. The cases of the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit (B.A.U.), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation’s most dangerous serial…


5. The Office


The%20OfficeFirst Aired: 24 March, 2005

The Office is a TV series starring Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, and John Krasinski. A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.



4. Doctor Who


Doctor%20WhoFirst Aired: 26 March, 2005

Doctor Who is a TV series starring Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, and Pearl Mackie. The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and their companions from planet Earth.


3. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia


It%27s%20Always%20Sunny%20in%20PhiladelphiaFirst Aired: 04 August, 2005

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a TV series starring Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney. Five friends with big egos and small brains are the proprietors of an Irish pub in Philadelphia.


2. Rome


RomeFirst Aired: 28 August, 2005

Rome is a TV series starring Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, and Polly Walker. A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.


1. Avatar: The Last Airbender


Avatar%3A%20The%20Last%20AirbenderFirst Aired: 21 February, 2005

Avatar: The Last Airbender is a TV series starring Zach Tyler, Mae Whitman, and Jack De Sena. In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar,…