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
• Æon Flux
• AL-TV
• 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
• Date My Mom
• Dead at 21
• DFX
• Diary
• Dismissed
• Doggy Fizzle Televizzle
• Downtown
• Fame or Shame
• FANatic
• FM Nation
• Fraternity Life
• Greatest Bands
• Greatest Hits
• Greatest MC's
• Greatest Videos
• Headbanger's Ball
• Idiot Savants (television show)
• Jackass
• Just Say Julie
• 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 Europe Music Awards
• MTV Video Music Awards
• My So-Called Life
• Newlyweds
• Oddities
• Oddville MTV
• Pimp My Ride
• Pirate TV
• Punk'd
• Remote Control
• Room Raiders
• Road Rules
• Rock Line
• Say What? Karaoke
• Sifl and Olly
• Singled out
• Sorority Life
• Spider-Man
• 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
• UNfiltered
• Up North
• Unplugged
• Viva la Bam
• webRIOT
• Wildboyz
• Yo! MTV Raps