MTV has produced many television shows since its 1981 founding. Here is an incomplete list of MTV shows that have made this network notable.

  • 12 Angry Viewers
  • 120 Minutes
  • 2gether
  • Aeon Flux
  • Alternative Nation
  • Apartment 2F
  • Austin Stories
  • Beavis and Butthead
  • Big Urban Myth Show
  • BIOrhythm
  • Buzzkill
  • Cartoon Girl
  • Cartoon Sushi
  • Celebrity Deathmatch
  • Clone High USA
  • Club MTV
  • Cribs
  • Daria
  • Dead at 21
  • DFX
  • Diary
  • Dismissed
  • Doggy Fizzle Televizzle
  • Downtown
  • Fame or Shame
  • FANatic
  • FM Nation
  • Fraternity Life
  • Headbanger's Ball
  • Idiot Savants
  • Jackass
  • Kathy's So Called Reality
  • Lip Service
  • Live Through This
  • Liquid Television
  • Loveline
  • Lunch with Jesse
  • Made
  • Making the Video
  • MC Battle
  • Motel California
  • MTV Live
  • MTV Movie Awards
  • MTV Video Music Awards
  • Newlyweds
  • Oddities
  • Oddville MTV
  • Punk'd
  • Remote Control
  • Road Rules
  • Rock Line
  • Say What? Karaoke
  • Sifl and Olly
  • Singled out
  • Sorority Life
  • Spy Groove
  • Squirt TV
  • Station Zero
  • The Andy Dick Show
  • The Ben Stiller Show
  • The Blame Game
  • The Brothers Grunt
  • The Global Groove
  • The Grind
  • The Head
  • The Idiot Box
  • The Jenny McCarthy Show
  • The Jon Stewart Show
  • The Kathy Griffin Show
  • The Lyricist Lounge Show
  • The Maxx
  • The New Tom Green Show
  • The Osbournes
  • The Real World
  • The State
  • The Super Adventure Team
  • The Tom Green Show
  • Tough Enough
  • Totally Pauly
  • Trashed
  • True Life
  • TRL
  • Undergrads
  • Undressed
  • Unplugged
  • Viva La Bam
  • webRIOT
  • WildBoyz
  • Yo! MTV Raps