TV Series that were actually better than The Wire

OK the Wire was good, but not that good, and it got away with things that other shows would have been pilloried for (like the fattest police sergeant in history and daft plots about creating arrest-free drug zones that the media don't get a whiff of for months). What were/are the shows that beat it?

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1. Mad Men
2. Law and Order
3. Doc Martin
4. House
5. Homicide: Life On The Streets
6. Deal or No Deal?
7. Battlestar Galactica

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