Carmen Electra ... Lynda Carter ... Katherine Heigl ... find out where they rank on our list.

Picking the 50 sexiest women in primetime history wasn't easy. But it sure was fun.

We waded through dozens of contenders -- from vixens to vamps, from girls next door to blonde bombshells -- before making our final list.

Now it's your turn do the work, click through our beauties to see our top picks. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

When I was doing my post about the lovely Bonnie Hunt, I realized that there are more more sexy women over 40 all over the entertainment spectrum than at any time I can remember. I don't know if it's better diets, the advent of Botox, or something else, but 40 no longer seems to be the career killer it once was. Here are the five women on TV who are old enough to remember the Nixon administration but still make even young guys' hearts go pitter-patter.

Some caveats: I am excluding Hunt because she's mainly in movies now. I am also including women who have been on TV recently, but not necessarily this year. Finally, everyone on Desperate Housewives only makes Honorable Mention because I want to give others their due for once.

By the way, this took me a while to do. I just kept remembering people who could fit in this category; some of whom you'll see are quite surprising. I was going to include women who were over 50 and over 60, but I decided to give them lists of their own, you'll see those in the coming days.

Click on the link for the picks.