Top 10 TV Shows of all time

In any order:

- M*A*S*H
- Cheers
- Soap
- East Side / West Side
- The Simpsons

- Seinfeld
- Twilight Zone
- Laugh-In
- Maverick
- Hockey Night in Canada

1. Spaced (definitely #1)
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Mad Men
4. Dexter
5. Scrubs
6. Californication
7. The X Files
8. Supernatural
9. Flights of the Conchords
10. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Community is great this days.

A lot of my favourite TV has already been said so I’ll just add to the thread 2 more memorable ones. Millennium, the dark, grounded spinoff to the X Files and The Practice, a great 90’s law drama, the predecessor to Boston Legal and a much grittier, intense series.

There are actually many types of shows that everyone seems to mix up but to me are three diffrerent genres:

1 – Comedy shows

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job
The Young Ones
Spin City
Little Britain
Flight of the Conchords
SNL
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia

2-Auteur Series

Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
Le Avventuri De Pinocchio (Luigi Comencini)
Fallen Angels (Bogdanovich, Cuaron, Soderbergh)
Tales From The Crypt (Donner, Hill, Zemeckis)
Pushing Daisies (Sonnenfeld)
Amazing Stories (Spielberg)
Eerie Indiana (Joe Dante)
Téléchat (Roland Topor)

3-Animated Shows

Cobra Space Adventure
Cocoshaker
Wolf’s Rain
Cowboy Bebop
The Simpsons
Robot Chicken
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Captain Future
South Park

4-Other shows

Doctor Who
24
…

And yes there are not tens of them. A list of “Shows I Couldn’t Watch More Than A Couple Episodes Of” would include all the other shows, from Breaking Bad to Mad Men to Six Feet Under to Desperate Housewives, The Office…

My favorite things I used to watch on TV:

Freaks & Geeks
The Muppet Show
The Twilight Zone
The Wonder Years
Daria
Ren & Stimpy
MythBusters
SharkWeek
Saturday Night Live
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Californication is slowly moving into my top ten

COWBOY BEBOP
FRUITS BASKET
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
POKEMON
V (new)
RIGET
MYTHBUSTERS
HOGAN’S HEROES
BLEACH
ROME
(honorable mention: THE BRADY BUNCH & FUTURAMA)

COWBOY BEBOP
FRUITS BASKET
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
POKEMON
V (new)
RIGET
MYTHBUSTERS
HOGAN’S HEROES
BLEACH
ROME
(honorable mention: THE BRADY BUNCH & FUTURAMA)

also REN & STIMPY
(funniest but sick show ever)

Wait. Pokemon? Interesting.

I don’t watch nearly enough tv to declare that any of these are the greatest shows of all time, but I have been extremely impressed with them.

Angel
Arrested Development
Azumanga Diaoh
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cowboy Bebop
Firefly
Lost
MASH
The Office (US)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

and I’m gonna mention FLCL separately, because it was just a 6 episode miniseries. Bloody amazing though.

Angel really is brilliant. It really came into it’s own in season 5. Fighting evil within.

in no particular order:

M*A*S*H*
ALL IN THE FAMILY
THE SHIELD
THE UNTOUCHABLES
MODERN FAMILY
FERNWOOD TONIGHT
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
TAXI
DEADWOOD
THE WEST WING

there’s so many more; the older we are, the more we grew up on…10’s not fair!

1. Six Feet Under
2. Carnivàle
3. In Treatment
4. Breaking Bad
5. Mad Men
6. True Blood
7. Big Love
8. Rome
9. Twin Peaks
10. Bored to Death
11. Arrested Development
12. Californication

how much time do you have on your hands!? I’d never be able to come up with a top ten. Here’s my top, uh six: 1.The Thick of it,
2. 30 Rock,
3. Spaced
4. Stargate -( and that’s just cause I was born too late to become a full-fledged Trekkie.)
5. In Treatment
6. Scrubs (though that love affair has seriously cooled off since the season finale of #7)

1. Mad Men
2. Arrested Development
3. The Wire

After that it all gets jumbled, but those three are clear.

While I’m sure everybody is very tired of talking about the three shows, I love how Deadwood, The Sopranos and The Wire form a fascinating, almost linked depiction of the birth, life and death of the American empire. Deadwood is my number two show, and I’m probably in the minority in saying that the season three finale was the perfect way to end the series. David Milch would have had no choice but to destroy the town in season four, so it’s fitting I think that Deadwood remains eternally on the brink of total destruction. The Sopranos is my number three, and while it’s not perfect you’d be hard pressed to find a more important landmark in the progression of modern television drama. The Wire, finally, is beyond words to describe. And yes, the fifth season is just as brilliant as the rest of it. It’s nice to see David Simon getting a little meta on us in the midst of Baltimore’s endemic social disfunction.

Twin Peaks
How I met your mother
Lost
Dexter
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

1, The Wire

2, Six Feet Under
3, Monty Python’s Flying Circus
4, The X-Files
5, Agatha Christie’s Poirot
6, Deadwood
7, Mad Men
8, Boys From The Black Stuff
9, Only Fools and Horses
10, Prime Suspect

I don’t count Fanny and Alexander or The Decalogue nor do I consider Documentaries as TV shows.

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What IS it with The Wire? Everyone who’s ever started it is full of praise. But why? I’m undecided whether I should try it.

The wire’s grand ambition is why you should try it. It’s so incredibly dense and structured very much like a novel, the amount of characters and stories all going on at once, which continue to persist through the whole series adding completely new layers with each season. It’s very much like a huge painting of society as a whole which you can only truly appreciate once you have seen the whole scope of it, it isn’t just a drugs and cop drama, it becomes so much more. The first season dealing primarily with the absolute poverty facing much of the inner city in Baltimore (and globally for that matter), how people are forced to live a life of crime by their circumstances, how the drug running organisation is very much a microcosm of the ruthless brutality of Capitalism in general, and the contrasting of bureaucracy with the number crunching corrupt brutality of the Police.
The second Season dealing with privatization, deindustrialization and it’s effects upon the working class, Working Class solidarity, the utter desperation of the poverty facing the working man, the hopes workers have in Liberal Democrat politicians who always betray. The third dealing more specifically with the political process and reform, drug legalisation, the utter corruption and hopelessness of reform under such a system. The fourth dealing with Education and the massive holes in the system, how the poverty of ones background absolutely effects ones ability to get by. And the fifth dealing with the media and the press specifically. It really is that fucking good, and there is so much more too it, all of the acting out of the massive cast (which persists throughout the whole series) is superb, the writing is to perfection all of the characters are just brilliant, there isn’t a single bad note, it looks fantastic. I could just go on and fucking on about it I absolutely love everything about it, Omar and Bubbles are my favourite characters I love them. Also it’s willing to sacrifice storytelling and Hollywood esque character development for Realist Truth, characters are often killed off, ignored for many an episode, demoted out of sight and end up in all sorts of odd places you’d never expect to begin with.

The Wire is an incredibly humanist beautifully constructed portrait of Society as a whole and absolute in it’s indictment of Capitalism.

Brilliantly put Allan, could not have said it better. As far as I’m concerned, The Wire is the great American epic of our time.

Well, mostly personal favourites, but including some strong recommendations –

The Prisoner (UK 1967)
Get Smart
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Addams Family
Derek & Clive (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore)
The Kingdom (Lars Von Trier)
Battlestar Galactica (BSG) (2004-)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Sopranos
Seinfeld
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Comedy –
Get Smart
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Derek & Clive (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore)
Seinfeld
The Addams Family (read between the lines, not just a family comedy)
Yes, Prime Minister
Blackadder

Drama –
The Sopranos
I, Claudius
Carnivale
Deadwood
The Singing Detective

Science Fiction –
Battlestar Galactica (BSG)
The Outer Limits (orig.) (select episodes – from terrible to excellent)
The Twilight Zone (orig.) (select episodes – from terrible to excellent)
The Quatermass Conclusion
UFO
Blake’s 7

Mystery/Thriller –
The Prisoner (UK 1968)
The Kingdom
Twin Peaks
Night Gallery

Action (?) –
The Man from UNCLE
The Avengers

Twilight zone
Kids in the hall
Strangers with candy
Upright citizens brigade
South park(seasons 1-9)
Futurama
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
Twin Peaks
X-files

1. The Wire
2. Twin Peaks
3. Columbo
4. Twilight Zone
5. The Wonder Years

1.Seinfeld
2.The X Files
3.Frasier
4.Lost
5.Nip/Tuck
6.Twin Peaks
7.Carnivale
8.It’s always sunny in philadelphia
9.The Simpsons
10.Battlestar Galactica

[in no particular order]

- “Bewitched”
- “Six Feet Under”
- “Entourage”
- “Twin Peaks”
- “Mary Tyler Moore”
- “Night Gallery”
- “The Twilight Zone”
- “Austin City Limits”
- “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”
- “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

Sopranos
The west wing
Boardwalk empire
The Wire
South Park
The Prisoner (1967)
Mad Men
Sex and the City
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Band of brothers

Six Feet Under
Twin Peaks
The Office (US)
Mad Men
Louie
The Simpsons
Lost
Flight of the Concords
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Work of Art

South Park
Lost
Dragonball Z
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Modern Family
Arrested Development
The Simpsons
Californication