Best Week Ever

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

During the 1970s, network television briefly demonstrated its oft-sundered ability to educate and inform when CBS gathered cultural historians, scholarly writers and great thinkers of the day to determine the Best Week Ever. Throughout the series' 26-week run, panelists debated which seven-day period throughout history was truely the best. Only the miniseries Roots drew greater ratings at the time.

Controversy was sparked when panelists concluded the period between Sept. 2 to Sept. 14, 1752 was best. Critics cried foul in part because the 11-day period doesn't exist in England and the United States.

Many believe the outcome would've been different if the team of Christian historians hadn't split on whether the seven days it took God to create Earth and man was better than the week Jesus Christ died and was later resurrected.

More recently, cable network VH1 revived the show's format in the early 2000s. Due to a lack of budget, the network spent far less time on research and merely hired people off the street to conclude each week the show aired was "best."