My list:
Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)
The Mighty Boosh
My Mad Fat Diary
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In the Flesh (BBC 2013)
The Office (UK)
Firefly
Blackadder Goes Forth
Spaced
Ashes to Ashes
Sherlock
Blackadder II
Peep Show
Parks and Recreation
This Life (1996)
Father Ted
Doctor Who
Black Books
Friends
The Thick of It
Fingersmith
Flight of the Conchords
Queer As Folk (UK)
Dead Set (2008)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
More than I expected made the countdown.
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.