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So what is your favorite television series Buffy, Star Trek, The Cosby Show, Friends, All in the Family, MASH, Dallas, CSI, er, ETC ETC. List you faves try to keep it to top 5. I will then take the top 20 or so and run a poll in about 2 weeks!!!!!

My top 5:

1. Seinfeld
2. CSI
3. 24
4. The Sopranos
5. Star Trek: TOS

All great shows Scott!!!!! I am a huge fan of CSI

Thanks Thomas! Ever read the comic book version of CSI?

1. The Avengers
2. Perry Mason
3. The Adventures of Superman
4. The Dick Van Dyke Show
5. Doctor Who (Specifically the season with Harry and Sarah)

Ken

Alternate List:
1. The Mighty Continent
2. Brideshead Revisited
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4. The Western Tradition
5. The Avengers

Ken

Here's my alternate, based on my early years:

1. The Prisoner
2. Star Trek: TOS
3. Wild, Wild West
4. Space: 1999
5. The Avengers

Hey did anybody mention Robin of Sherwood, just a great series.

Mike

The Dick Van Dyke Show (possibly the funniest show ever????)

Star Trek
Battlestar Galactica
CSI
Trading Spaces
Remington Steele
Sports Night

(and believe it or not.....)
The Client
Second Noah
(both of which should have remained on the air ... both quite good and you could watch either with any generation of people!!!)

Whoa. My favorite shows of ALL TIME!!! EEK! In the interest of supporting shows that will actually do WELL in the poll, I won't say the Transformers.

The Simpsons, definitely. My #1 of all time.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. God, I loved that show.
Batman: The Animated Series. Best superhero cartoon of all time.
Roseanne. So very many firsts in this show.
Aaaand... I'm gonna go ahead and say Alias, just to give it some more props.

STAR TREK (original series)

ROSANNE

ALICE

SOAP

THE SIMPSONS

You know what I like about lists like this? Seeing others bring up shows that make you go, "Oh man! That should have been on my list." We really need to do two separate lists. One for Dramas and one for Comedies.

Rosanne, Soap and The Dick Van Dyke show would all be on my list.

Oh, and Are You Being Served would be at the top of the sitcom list.

And we need a list for CABLE-ONLY TV shows...

STRANGERS WITH CANDY

DARIA

SOUTH PARK

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

QUEER AS FOLK

Dramas ...
(1) "My So-Called Life"
(2) "Star Trek: TNG"
(3) "The Paper Chase"
(4) "Star Trek" original series -- first two years only
(5) "The Waltons" -- with Richard Thomas only

Comedies ...
(1) "M*A*S*H" -- first three years only
(2) "All in the Family" -- first five years only
(3) "South Park"
(4) "Keeping Up Appearances"
(5) "Frasier" -- until Niles wooed Daphne

I'd want to have those exceptions counted, if possible, but it isn't essential. Few shows avoid jumping the shark at some point during their full runs.

In no particular order:

Monty Python's Flying Circus
Buffy
Freaks and Geeks
South Park
X-Men: Evolution

So Icey, can you break it up into Comedies, dramas & cable-only shows or what?

If so, I'll need to adjust my lists... and for the record:

Dramas:

DALLAS

DYNASTY

BEVERLY HILLS 90210

THE REAL WORLD (also falls into Cable-Only category)

DAWSON'S CREEK

THIS IS TOO HARD TO NARROW DOWN!!

Dramas
Buffy
Fantastic Journey (didn't last long, it was a sci fi show in the 70s)
Knots Landing
ER
Dynasty

Comedies
Cosby
Alice
One Day at a Time
Friends
and Happy Family? (I can't believe something this new is on my list, but it cracks me up)

Oh, let's see now:

Cheers (maybe the best sitcom ever)
The Simpsons
Hill Street Blues
Star Trek: TOS
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Babylon 5
MST3K
The Sopranos
The Carol Burnett Show
Who's Line Is It Anyway?

Here's some off the top of my head:

<marquee behavior=alternate>Friends
Seinfeld
News Radio
Star Trek: Voyager
24
Quantum Leap
Moonlighting
Remington Steele
Justice League
Whose Line?
Batman (All of the Animated Series)
Spider-man: The Animated Series
The Simpsons</marquee>


The one thing these shows have in common is that if I were to come across them while "surfing", I wouldn't change the channel.

this is very hard !!! there are so many TV shows that i ....

i tried to pick ones that have ran over quite a few seasons [ and that i have continued to enjoy them !!! ]

in no particular order:

Ally McBeal

Sex And The City

Buffy The Vampire Slayer [ i've not seen 6 and 7 fully, but have loved the first 5 !!! ]

Dallas

Star Trek: TNG

Matthew.

i knew i'd forget one !!!! Twin Peaks !!!!

this was great when it was on, but as it only ran for 2 seasons, perhaps it might have lost "something" by going on longer ??? so i'll still stay with my original 5 !!!

Matthew.

i just realised ....

i own all of the seasons on DVD of Star Trek: TNG, Ally McBeal and Sex And The City [ so far ... ] and have seasons 1 - 5 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer !!!

so i would say that's a good guide on how to define if it one of your favourite shows .... would you want to buy and own them on video / DVD !!!

Matthew.

Hmm.

In that case, I would have to add 3 more:

KING OF THE HILL

FUTURAMA

FAMILY GUY

Maybe animated shows need their own category too?

And if/when they are offered in full-season DVD format, I would/will buy:

STAR TREK (original series in FULL SEASON format ONLY!!)

TEEN TITANS

DARIA (I have 98-99% of the episodes on tape anyway)

ALICE

ROSANNE (is this out yet...?)

Well, the only DVD I have a TV series is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I have Videos of Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Doctor Who, The Avengers, and Dark Shadows.

That said, here's a revised list broken into categories:

Dramas:
The Avengers
Perry Mason
The Adventures of Superman (especially the Phyllis Coates season)
Doctor Who (with Pertwee, the first 3 Tom Baker years, and Colin Baker)
Homefront/Young Indiana Jones (tie)

Comedies:
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Black Adder
Red Dwarf
Good Neighbors

Limited Series:
Tinker Tailor Solder Spy
Brideshead Revisited
I Claudius
The Peter Wimsey Mysteries
A Town Like Alice

As you can see, I like British TV a lot better than most US stuff, and the US stuff I like is mainly from my childhood. I don't watch a single prime time network show these days.

Ken