The Mofo Top 100 Television Shows

Phoenix Nights wasn't far off my 25. I always thought it was a far superior show to the adversarially scheduled Office.

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Nice to see another Red Dwarf fan on the forum, Gandalf.

I love a lot of the shows on this list, but I'm really happy there's some love for Dead Set! It's such a great show. I'm kind of in love with Charlie Brooker though, and will watch anything he's involved in. They're fairly consistently great shows, but that's coming from an obsessive fan. He always plays so cleverly with genre and the role of technology and/or the media in our lives, and is just really funny, or heartbreaking, as the case may be. I put one of his on my list, but not Dead Set, and I undoubtedly put it too high, I mean, above The Twilight Zone? That seems ridiculous, past me.

Anyway, here's my list, if anyone's interested.

1. The Simpsons (1989)
2. Gilmore Girls (2000)
3. All in the Family (1971)
4. Twin Peaks (1990)
5. The Mighty Boosh (2004)
6. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
7. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967)
8. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
9. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
10. Black Mirror (2011)
11. Doctor Who (2005)
12. The Twilight Zone (1959)
13. Green Wing (2004)
14. Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969)
15. Northern Exposure (1990)
16. Black Books (2000)
17. Parks & Recreation (2009)
18. Game of Thrones (2011)
19. The West Wing (1999)
20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
21. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
22. Peep Show (2003)
23. Get Smart (1965)
24. Breaking Bad (2008)
25. Riget (1994)

I, actually, for quite a while purposely left off Breaking Bad because I knew it was going to get a lot of love from everyone else. I ended up only giving it 2 points, which wouldn't have made a difference, but could have meant giving some love to a show like The Good Wife or Space Ghost Coast to Coast. But my dad asked me about Breaking Bad, though, and when I started describing it to him, talking about how Walt and Jesse's journeys are almost the inverse of each other, I just started remembering how great it is and decided to put it back on my list.

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And yeah, a lot of mine showed up. I think it was 16, which seems crazy high.

This was mine:
1.Boys from the Blackstuff
2. Play for Today
3. The Sopranos
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC1968-1977)
6. This is England 86
7.Arena (BBC documentary series )
8. MadMen
9.The Old Grey Whistle Test
10. The Wire
11. Borgen
12. The Sweeney
13. X Files
14. Life on Mars
15. The Singing Detective
16. Fawlty Towers
17. The Walking Dead
18. Z Cars
19. Nurse Jackie
20 I’m Alan Partridge
21 True Detective
22 Brideshead Revisited
23 Top Gear
24 The Muppet Show
25 The Bridge (Bron/Broen)

Here is my list. The ones in blue didn't make it and the red one was my 1 pointer.


1. Doctor Who
2. TNA iMpact Wrestling
3. Rizzoli & Isles
4. Supernatural
5. NFL Monday Night Football
6. N.C.I.S.
7. Criminal Minds
8. Law and Order: SVU
9. Black List
10. Dollhouse
11. The Stand
12. Archer
13. South Park
14. Total Divas
15. Swamp People
16. Captain Planet and the Planeteers
17. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
18. Tru Calling
19. Fringe
20. Flashpoint
21. Deadwood
22. Sons of Anarchy
23. The Walking Dead
24. Angel
25. Eric and Jessie: Game On

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This was my list (I think). I'm not sure if I rearranged things or not before sending it off.

1. Neighbours
2. Friends
3. The Sweeney
4. Charlie's Angels
5. Have I Got News For You?
6. Touch Of Cloth
7. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
8. The Ricky Gervais Show
9. Blackadder II (this was meant to be Blackadder Goes Forth)
10. Derek
11. The Good Life
12. Cybil
13. Veronica's Closet
14. Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
15. Charlie Brooker's Newswipe
16. The Great British Bake Off
17. Mad Men
18. 8 Out Of Ten Cats
19. Beverley Hills 90210
20. Takeshi's Castle
21. House Of Cards (This was the UK version, but was included as US. I don't think it mattered either way)
22. I, Claudus
23. Bagpuss
24. Gavin & Stacey
25. Room 101

I lost a few programmes because I was trying to organise this bloody thing. In the end, after about #5 or #6, I just left it as it was. This meant that The Simpson's, Blackadder Goes Forth and The Professionals (at least) were left off

Thanks for JJ and Godoggo for all the hard work they did.

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That's it? Pfft, 20 of mine made it.

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I guess you win then.

Anyone get anymore? Speak up...

My list

Prison Break
Seinfeld
Everybody Loves Raymond
Peep Show
Mr. Bean
Breaking Bad
Fawlty Towers
Beavis and Butthead
Modern Family
Shark Tank
Hannibal
Whose Line Is it Anyways (original)
Judge Judy
Orange is the new black
The O’Reilly Factor
The Black Adder
Fishing with John
House M.D.
Kitchen Nightmares
Jailbait (Crackle, miniseries)
Friends
Simpsons
League of Gentlemen
Lie to Me
Community

lots of guilty pleasures here, and towards the end of the list I either just kind of excited joy the show or only enjoyed the earlier seasons. Only show I would've included had I watched it on time is the US Office.

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The first Black Adder over all the other seasons?

I don't get that, either.

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My list:

1. The Simpsons
2. Friends
3. Dragon Ball Z
4. Monthy Python’s Flying Circus
5. Game of Thrones
6. Boston Legal
7. Seinfeld
8. Suits
9. House of Cards
10. Cosmos (1980)
11. Family Guy
12. Cheers
13. The West Wing
14. South Park
15. Californication
16. Entourage
17. Rome
18. Spartacus: Blood and Sand
19. The Big Bang Theory
20. Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
21. Two and a Half Men
22. Frazier
23. Shameless (UK)
24. How I Met your Mother
25. C.S.I. (Las Vegas)

I'm assuming that's the US version. Have you seen the original version? If you like it, there's a trilogy of them.

Pleased to see Suits on your list, too. Love that show.

I had 19

1. The Sopranos
2. Six Feet Under
3. Homicide: Life on the Streets
4. Arrested Development
5. Hannibal
6. The Colbert Report
7. Breaking Bad
8. Law & Order
9. True Detective
10. The Twilight Zone
11. The Daily Show
12. The X-Files
13. Fawlty Towers
14. Deadwood
15. 30 Rock
16. Blackadder II
17. Seinfeld
18. Fringe
19. Modern Family
20. Twin Peaks
21. House of Cards
22. Battlestar Galactica
23. Frasier
24. Blackadder Goes Fourth
25. Original Dr. Who

I didn't know there was an UK version, I'll check it out! Thanks HK!

Suits is probably my absolute favourite TV Show airing now, it's addicting!
I just realized I forgot The Newsroom on my list!!! It should be on my top10!

The Newsroom is great. I'm going to miss it.

Me and wifey just watched the first episode of The Wire. We both enjoyed it and are going to continue watching it. We both think that it wasn't as good as the first episode of The Shield.

It gets a lot better. Like Breaking Bad, I don't think it's something that immediately jumps out and grabs you but once you start to get into it it builds up into something and then you're hooked.