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Holden Pike
05-01-02, 02:26 PM
Next week's TV Guide has a list of "the fifty greatest shows of all time". Obviously these are only the choices of their editors and such, but the criteria they put forth is: "Simply put, the best of the best, from day one to the last night: quality, innovation and the ability to stay in our lives year after year after year. A touch of sentiment? Sure, but nostalgia alone couldn't make the cut (sorry, Beav). And TV-movies, mini-series and specials will have to wait. These are the series we watched regularly - and will watch again. And again...."

TV Guide's list...

1. "Seinfeld"
2. "I Love Lucy"
3. "The Honeymooners"
4. "All in the Family"
5. "The Sopranos"
6. "60 Minutes"
7. "Late Show with David Letterman"
8. "The Simpsons"
9. "The Andy Griffith Show"
10. "Saturday Night Live"
11. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
12. "The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson"
13. "The Dick Van Dyke show"
14. "Hill Street Blues"
15. "The Ed Sullivan Show"
16. "The Carol Burnett Show
17. "Today"
18. "Cheers"
19. "thirtysomething"
20. "St. Elsewhere"
21. "Friends"
22. "ER"
23. "Nightline"
24. "Law & Order"
25. "M*A*S*H"
26. "The Twilight Zone"
27. "Sesame Street"
28. "The Cosby Show"
29. "Donahue"
30. "Your Show of Shows"
31. "The Defenders"
32. "An American Family"
33. "Playhouse 90"
34. "Frasier"
35. "Rosanne"
36. "The Fugitive"
37. "The X-Files"
38. "The Larry Sanders Show"
39. "The Rockford Files"
40. "Gunsmoke"
41. "Buff the Vampire Slayer"
42. "Rwan & Martin's Laugh-In"
43. "Bonanza"
44. "The Bob Newhart Show"
45. "Twin Peaks"
46. "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
47. "Rocky & His Friends/The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle""
48. "Taxi"
49. "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
50. "Bewitched"

OK, so the question is: what's your list? You don't have to do a full fifty, but at least a top ten or so. These should be what you consider the best television series of all time.

You can also vote HERE (http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/issues/020429/poll.asp) and vote at TVGuideOnline for which you think is number one of their fifty choices.

Holden Pike
05-01-02, 03:02 PM
My top twenty-five...

1. "The Simpsons"
2. "The Rockford Files"
3. "The Bob Newhart Show"
4. "The Larry Sanders Show"
5. "Late Night with David Letterman"
6. "Have Gun - Will Travel"
7. "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
8. "Barney Miller"
9. "Your Show of Shows" & "Caesar's Hour"
10. "The Twilight Zone"
11. "Law & Order"
12. "Seinfeld"
13. "Homicide: Life on the Street"
14. "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
15. "All in the Family"
16. "Rosanne"
17. "The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson"
18. "NYPD Blue"
19. "Hill Street Blues"
20. "Get A Life"
21. "Twin Peaks"
22. "Newhart"
23. "Soap"
24. "Maverick"
25. "Northern Exposure"

spudracer
05-01-02, 03:34 PM
Since I'm not very familiar with older shows that have been on television I'll take a stab at the ones that I have seen.

And these are in no order:

1. Seinfeld
2. The Simpsons
3. E.R.
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Taxi
6. Saturday Night Live (especially with the first season)
7. Quantam Leap
8. Married With Children
9. Cheers
10. Homicide: Life on the Street

meglvsewan
05-01-02, 06:41 PM
TV sucks. So does this list. Seinfield wins over I Love Lucy? My friend did get me kinda obsessed with I Dream of Jeannie. I used to watch the X-Files but that was about it. TV is a big waste of time...

Holden Pike
05-01-02, 06:50 PM
Honestly, if the only shows I had ever admitted to watching with any regularity were "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The X-Files", I wouldn't think much of the format either.

Diff'rent strokes, Mr. Drummond. But thanks for dropping into this thread and expressing your opinion so eloquently. I don't agree with too too much on TVGuide's list either (at least not the rankings), but where's your list?

meglvsewan
05-01-02, 06:55 PM
I don't watch any TV on a regular basis. It is just a waste of my time (and everyone else's in the world) Sure, television might have been good when it first came out, but nobody cares about quality anymore. My friends sucked me into those TV shows, but obviously since I am not glued to the TV all night, everynight watching those two shows, I don't really care much for them...

Holden Pike
05-01-02, 06:59 PM
Generalizations always make for good logic! I think it's pretty irrefutable that "nobody" in the industry cares about quality anymore, and that TV is a waste of "everyone else's" time.

It's clear, to me anyway, that you missed those 'very special' episodes of "Blossom". The medium at its best.

meglvsewan
05-01-02, 07:14 PM
Well, I am entitled to my opinion (that TV is worthless). But I guess my generalization isn't the best in the world. You could say that about anything in the world. But, I am not going to debate about it all day.

sadesdrk
05-01-02, 07:27 PM
Holden, were you just making your list, from their list? I'm surprised, Kids in the Hall isn't one of your top 25.

patti
05-01-02, 10:27 PM
here are my favorites....not in any particular order;

"Seinfeld"
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
"The Tonight Show, starring Johnny Carson"
"The Dick Van Dyke show"
"The Carol Burnett Show
"Cheers"
"M*A*S*H"
"The Twilight Zone"
"The X-Files"
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
"The Bob Newhart Show"-such a great show!
"Twin Peaks"
"Star Trek"- original show fave of faves!!!!! i lovvve captain james t. kirk :love:
"Taxi"
"Soap" loved that show
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"Late Night With David Letterman"
"SNL"
"Northern Exposure"
"Alfred Hithcock Presents"
"Barney Miller"
"Simpsons"

firegod
05-02-02, 04:48 AM
They list 50 shows and don't mention L.A. Law? Whoever made that list certainly knows her/his TV.................................................

Did I put enough periods there?

Hmm... Here's my 25.

1. L.A. Law
2. All in the Family
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. The Howard Stern Show
5. Mash
6. Star Trek
7. Cheers
8. Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher
9. The O'Reilly Factor
10. Dennis Miller Live
11. In Living Color
12. The Chris Rock Show
13. ER
14. The Cosby Show
15. Fear Factor
16. Seinfeld
17 The Jeffersons
18. Perry Mason
19. Family Ties
20. The Twilight Zone
21. Alfred Hithcock Presents
22. I Love Lucy
23. NYPD Blue
24. The X-Files
25. Nightline

Holden Pike
05-02-02, 06:38 AM
Sadie, since twelve of my twenty-five aren't on the TVGuide list, no it should be clear I wasn't simply re-ordering their choices. "The Kids in the Hall" came real close to making my list. It would be in the top thirty. I had two (well, three really) sketch comedy shows in my top ten, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Your Show of Shows"/"Caeser's Hour". I was trying to get representations of all the many types of shows I like onto the list, that's all.

OK, for you Sades...

26. "Taxi"
27. "The Kids in the Hall"
28. "Peter Gunn"
29. "It's Garry Shandling's Show"
30. "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"


Now, where's your list, sadesdrk?

filmfreak
05-02-02, 08:06 AM
My top shows (Beware some British shows may appear!) in no particular order.

Stargate SG1
Babylon 5
Mary Whitehouse Experience (UK)
Angel
Simpsons
Seinfeld
Friends
Dukes Of Hazzard
West Wing
Kids In The Hall (Thanks for the reminder Sades)
Red Dwarf (UK version)
Men Behaving Badly (UK version)
Fantasy Football League (UK)
Star Trek TNG
Frasier
X-Files
A-Team
Scrubs (I know its current but i love this show)
Brasseye (UK)
Batman (Adam West - classic camp!)



Sopranos would have made it but for a poor third season. My rose tinted glasses are completely on for Dukes and the A-Team but I still watch the latter.

Yoda
05-02-02, 09:14 AM
I'm with Firegod on The O'Reilly Factor - I used to watch that almost every single day. I've cut back a little, but it's still entertaining. O'Reilly's a bulldog. :yup: Jesse Jackson is terrified of the guy. Can't agree with Maher's show, though. It annoys the hell outta me usually. I always feel like I'm working when I watch it.

Anywhere, here are a few of my favorites: 1. The Simpsons
2. Saturday Night Live
3. Seinfeld
4. The Daily Show
5. Late Night with Conan O'Brien
6. The Late Show with David Letterman
7. Malcolm in the Middle
8. South Park
9. The Twilight Zone
10. BattleBotsMostly new stuff. I'm not a huge fan of the older stuff I've seen...though Nick at Nite is reasonably entertaining.

spudracer
05-02-02, 09:57 AM
so is TV Land :)

I've managed to catch an episode of Scrubs once and I have been meaning to catch another one, but it's just so hard to do sometimes.

Marcellus
05-07-02, 10:36 PM
Family Guy!

Number 1 show of all time! Nothing compares!

filmfreak
05-09-02, 08:07 AM
Originally posted by Marcellus
Family Guy!

Number 1 show of all time! Nothing compares!

Wow, someone else who likes the show! There are two of us! I think this cartoon gets a very bad rap. Stewie cracks me up, I think he is very funny.

Damn you vile woman!

Yoda
05-09-02, 10:41 AM
You kiddin' me? Everyone I know loves that show. It busts me up every single time.

filmfreak
05-10-02, 05:58 AM
Ive heard the show get a lot of grief from a number of places. I dont understand myself, I really like it. I had to buy the first series on DVD the day it came out.

Its a shame it didnt get more support from the network.

P.S. I hope you guys aren't being sarcastic and sucking into a clever trap!;D If so I've completely fallen for it!

Marcellus
05-10-02, 07:09 AM
no! it's absolutely hilarious - arguably more than the simpsons

i cant believe they've decided to cancel it :(

Monkeypunch
05-20-02, 08:14 PM
Oh no..I'm too cool to watch television, unless I'm doing so to make an ironic comment on watching television....:rolleyes:

Actually I watch too much TV. But the best shows ever?

1. Married with Children
2. Gilligan's Island
3. Beavis and Butthead
4. Saturday Night Live 1975-1979
5. The Young Ones
6. South Park
7. The State
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9. Get Smart
10. Star Trek (1960's)

Raziel1
05-26-02, 07:11 PM
Sorry guys and gals but iknow i'll catch heck for this but fav. show gotta be The Real World. Not a fav with many , but I love that show

LordSlaytan
08-15-02, 04:38 PM
Current faves are Law and Order, Bernie Mac, and Scrubs.

All Times:
1. Sienfeld
2. Cheers
3. Law & Order
4. The Golden Years
5. The Simpsons

Dante
08-15-02, 05:11 PM
Married With Children
The Simpsons
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Young Ones
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Twighlight Zone
Star Trek ( The Captain Kirk one, not the new ones )
Beavis and Butthead
Liquid Television
Sifl and Olly

Jonny Goodboy
08-17-02, 09:46 PM
All Time Favs:

Planet of the Apes
Married With Children
The Munsters
The Simpsons
Gargoyles
Valerie/The Hogan Family
Star Trek (Kirk & co)
Auf Wiedersehan Pet
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1st 3 seasons anyway)
The Incredible Hulk
Dukes of Hazzard (Daisy :randy: -she should have had her own spin-off! )
Dark Angel
Band of Brothers

Master Chief
08-23-02, 09:35 AM
Quantam Leap
The Simpsons
Friends
Family Guy
Frasier
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine
Scrubs
Brasseye
X - Files
Batman
The 11 O'Clock Show
South Park
The Crystal Maze

marlowe203
08-29-02, 01:25 AM
M.A.S.H
the simpsons
king of the hill
seinfeld
monty pythons flying circus
family ties (k i know what your thinkin but i got bored one summer and watched this show every single morning)

Master Chief
08-29-02, 07:55 AM
Black Books

Naisy
08-30-02, 12:12 AM
Originally posted by Master Chief
Black Books

yes thats one of mine and so is

Ally McBeal (i just love (not in a sexual way) John Cage)
im really enjoying 24 (its probably over im america but just started here)
Also i like Blue Heelers (which none of you would have really heard of being a naturally aussie), i like a lot of TV shows except one:

Days Of Our Lives

you guys might get the series five years a head of us but it still isnt anything to brag about!

linespalsy
09-10-02, 07:29 PM
i'm just putting ones that were aired on american tv:
the prisoner
pee wee's playhouse
twin peaks (first several episodes, anyway)
simpsons
gumby
hmmmm, cant think of any more, guess when it comes down to it, i'd much rather watch a movie or read a book (or comic), than watch a tv show.

Herod
09-10-02, 07:41 PM
Nero Wolfe
Hands down.

Some runners up:
The Simpsons
Clerks
Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Sir Toose
09-23-02, 02:50 PM
1). All in the Family
2). Picket Fences
3). Twin Peaks
4). I Love Lucy
5). Beverly Hillbillies
6). The Shield
7). Friends
8). Star Trek (with Shatner and crew)
9). Kolchak
10). Millionaire

LordSlaytan
09-26-02, 01:28 AM
Man, I can't believe I forgot one of my all time favorites for my list: The Black Adder with Rowan Atkison. Very, very, very, funny.

Black Adder: Baldric, I need to sign this document in blood, let's use yours.
Baldric: But I'm not bleeding.
Black Adder: That's okay, I only need a little prick on your finger.
Baldric: But I haven't got one there!

Anybody else love this show?

Aniko
10-22-02, 09:53 PM
Sorry, LordSlaytan, I never seen The Black Adder so I couldn't say. ^_^;;;


My list is pretty similar to alot of you...just a few differences.

My All-Time Favorites
1. The Carol Burnett Show
2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
3. I Love Lucy
4. The Dick Van Dyke Show
5. Everybody Loves Raymond
6. The Odd Couple
7. Saturday Night Live
8. Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In
9. Batman (Yes, I love the campiness also....)
10. Northern Exposure
11. Married with Children
12. The Iron Chef
13. Emeril Live
14. Masterpiece Theatre
15. Sisters
16. Judging Amy
17. Late Night with Conan O'Brien
18. The Late Show with David Letterman
19. Dallas
20. Dynasty


There’s also alot of shows I’ll always have fond memories watching with my family:

Mission Impossible (One of the very few shows my dad would watch)
Columbo
Hawaii Five O
The Smothers’s Brothers
WKRP in Cincinnati
McKales Navy
Gilligan’s Island
The Beverly Hillbillies

Oh...I can't remember alot about them, but my Mom used to Looooove...
Maddox and
The Streets of SanFrancisco

Caitlyn
10-22-02, 11:30 PM
My number one pick without a doubt would have to be Mash and I’ll have to think about the others… :yup:

LordSlaytan, I heard The Black Adder is hilarious but unfortunately have never had the opportunity to see it... :(

Sir Toose
10-23-02, 09:55 AM
I watched The Munsters last nite... I forgot how freaking cool that show was.

Aniko
11-14-02, 10:15 PM
How could I forget about 3rd Rock from the Sun. John Lithgow and
French Stewart just made me laugh.

and Moonlighting. that was popular when I was growing up. I loved it.

LordSlaytan
11-14-02, 10:17 PM
I thought of a couple more I've always loved. Coach, and Newhart.:yup:

Travis_Bickle
11-15-02, 03:18 AM
Favourite T.V shows. In no particular order.

- "Degrassi Jr. High" and "Degrassi High". It was so real.
- "Roseanne". Also a very down to earth show.
- "The Family Guy". So damn funny.
- "Seinfeld". Brilliant.
- "Wonder Years". Truly a form of art.
- "Saturday Night Live". The king of sketch comedy.
- "Mr Show". Have you seen this? Wow, so funny.
- "Simpsons". Never lets down.
- "Ren and Stimpy". They put filth on the cartoon radar.
- "Late Night With Conan O'Brien". The best late night show.

AlexDeLarge
12-24-02, 02:42 PM
My favorite tv show was Thriller, hosted by Boris Karloff. That was 1960 for you youngsters.

Nikki
12-25-02, 11:38 PM
3rd Rock From The Sun.........and SNL.......
:rotfl:

Tommi
01-08-03, 08:09 PM
Here is couple of my favourite tv-shows that i can remember right now:

Seinfeld, 3rd Rock, X-Files, The King of Queens, Everybody loves Raymond, Sopranos and of course Knight Rider and McGyver = were both awesome series when i was younger.

I´ll write more when i remember some other series.

Ciao,
Tommi

Fugitive
01-09-03, 02:37 AM
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Northern Exposure, X-Files... and glad to see someone liked Ren & Stimpy!

Aniko
06-17-03, 06:17 PM
I thought I'd just re-activate this thread for some of the newer members comming in. :)

Fox...I loved Northern Exposure. I really liked Janine Turner in that role.

Slaybie...I also loved Coach. He and Christine made the show.



Nikki...with SNL...I'm going to miss Chris Kattan next year. No more Mango or Antonio Banderas.....

moviefan20
06-17-03, 06:30 PM
Chris Kattan will be missed by me also...Tracy Morgan too...It's so sad to see them go...:(

some of my favorite shows...
1.Full House
2.SNL
3. 7th Heaven
4. The Monkees
5. Saved by the Bell
6. Bewitched (heck i was named after Samantha's sister)
7. Batman and Robin
8. Fraglerock
9. Gilligan's Island
10. Married with Children
11. The Simpsons
:yup: :yup: :yup:

Naisy
08-14-03, 12:35 AM
CSI
24
Stingers
Micallef Tonight
Simpsons
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
I Dream of Genie
Seinfield
Ally McBeal
Malcolm In The MIddle
Full House
X-files

Really I cant name them all without taking all day

projectMayhem
09-01-03, 12:12 AM
My Fav. Shows

1. The Lucy Show
2. The SImpsons
3. M.A.S.H.
4. S.N.L.
5. Family Guy
6. Futurama
7. X-Files
8. 24
9. Greg the Bunny (why FOX why did you cancel this show!?)
10. Friends

Hondo333
02-04-04, 07:09 AM
Top 25

Batman
The Brittas Empire
Clerks:The Animated Series
Dawsons Creek
Diff'rent Strokes
ER
The Flintstones
Full Frontal
Happy Days
Jimeoin
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
M*A*S*H
Micallef Tonight
The Micallef Pogram (AKA. The Micallef Programme)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
MTV Unplugged
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Rugrats
Scooby Doo
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Twin Peaks
The Young Ones

Knoxville
02-04-04, 08:24 AM
Star Trek:The Next Generation
M.A.S.H
tHIRD rOCK FROM THE SUN
Taxi
Fraiser
Blackadder
The Young Ones
Bottom
Absolutely Fabulous
Red Dwarf
The Brittas Empire
Briscoe County Junior
The X FiLES
Millenium
Poletergeist the Legacy
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
Jackass
Wildboyz
Queer Eye For the Straight Guy
Queer as Folk

LordSlaytan
02-04-04, 09:33 PM
My Top Twenty-Five Of All Time:

1. Cheers
2. Sienfeld
3. 60 Minutes
4. The Honeymooners
5. All in the Family
6. Sanford and Son
7. The Simpsons
8. Law & Order
9. The Bob Newhart Show
10. Newhart
11. Barney Miller
12. ER
13. The X-Files
14. Taxi
15. Northern Exposure
16. The Cosby Show
17. The Outer Limits
18. Coach
19. The Dick Van Dyke Show
20. Saturday Night Live
21. South Park
22. The Sopranos
23. Everybody Loves Raymond
24. The Carol Burnett Show
25. The Tonight show with Johnny Carson

Knoxville
02-05-04, 05:50 AM
I forgot Saturday Night Live, plus Letterman and Twin Peaks.

Sedai
02-05-04, 10:59 AM
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I hated this show for years until I actually started paying attention. VERY tightly written and funny as they come.

X-Files: Smart, creepy, and well played. If it hadn't got bogged down in a multi-season story arc it would stand as the best sci-fi series to date in my mind.

24: Shot like a movie, intricate storylines, complex design. I can't say enough good things about this program.

Twin Peaks: It is Lynch, enough said.

I am leaving out the cable network stuff, as it's hard to compare a show with so many freedoms to a prime network show working under massive content restrictions....

Star Trek gets honorable mention, but just missed the best ever cut for writing and stability issues...

Revenant
02-05-04, 05:19 PM
Inspired by Sedai I am going to comment on each of my choices. I have replied to a similar thread before so I will probably repeat some of my choices from there.



'Monkey'

I haven't seen this series with the original Japanese voices but I adore the dubbed one. Incredibly, rip-roaring fight scenes, hilarious 'flying scenes' :) , entertaining actors, wonderful characters and all loosely based on Japanese mythology. Mustn't forget the music or moralistic tale at the end. I love it so much I may do a seperate thread for it. :D


'Six Feet Under'

What I love about this is the unconvential characters and situations. The very dark humour, despite the actual seriousness of the subject matter really works. The acting is excellant and there is a real depth that even encorporates the 'dead' characters. It grabs its issues by the b*lls and slaps on the wit and angst without drowning away in insipidness and fakery.


'Quantum Leap'

The connection between the two main characters, Sam Becket and Al Calavicci, is what really made this series so addictive to watch. The interaction is sublime and cosying and regardless of what 'leap' sam has to do next you can be sure of the dynamics of those two working together. It was an intelligant series that delved into moralistic and parodoxical tales that added such depth of personality. It left itself open to many possibilities but kept those two characters as the main source of certainty. I love it in that it is sublime, sad, happy, angry, adventerous, dark, light, insightful and many other things besides. A true show that really can give you every plot and make it seem great every time. A true work of art.


'The Young Ones'

Onto the anarchic brit show. Another genius series that did not fail to entertain. A bunch of likeable misfits in misfit plots. Not that deep but then again this show would be, I guess boring, if it had a predictable hard-core plot. Where would be the fun? The insanity, imaginary and ludicrous plots make this show what it is, a comedy master of punk and oddity. 'SPG' the hamster was the star whenever it was on screen, :D, and I loved that scottish accent they gave him. It may have been short but that I believe is a good reason, it gives it that real cult feel, ney, classic feel. Anarchy rules, O.k?


'BlackAdder'

What list of best Television series list is complete without the glorious 'BlackAdder'. Rowan Atkinson regardless of any other roles will forever be icongraphed as that sullen, sarky, sod. :D A little like Quantum Leap with its changing scenary between each series it can encompass quite a deal within its compounds of varying era's. Each new season and era is like the show starting over again and still remaining fresh and vibrant. Blackadder is a genius creation, not forgetting the only ever just for Tony Robinson character Badric. Not to mention the other incarnation of characters. It was well written and funny with bar none comic timing. The end of each season, particulary the last, was a beautiful and sad and so final, emotionally giving experience. I can not think of a more perfect ending with the going over the bunker scene at the very last. That for me will always be the greatest tv moment ever. A series that relies on omedy to end on such a sad and poigent moment is rae indeed.



'Monty Python's Flying Circus'

Sketch shows don't come more influential then this. Slapstick and silliness done to great effect. The animated parts supplied by the imagination of Terry Gilliam were skewed and wonderfully wierd. Terry Gilliam who I believe has also become one of the few original directors around of late. 'Parrot Sketch', 'Lumberjack song', 'silly walk', long lasting impressions from all of them.


'Red Dwarf'

Again I am including another british show. It may not have had the best sets in the world but like I have stated for the inclusion of others on my list it is down to the character interaction that really show sthe wonders of this show. It may have lost it's way in the last couple of seasons but from before that, the characterisation was an absolutely intergral part, without it I don't think it would have such an impact on me. They lost that when they chose, or rather through film commitments by Chris Barrie, to change the setting vastly and loose a boundary that they really bounced across. However from its central seasons you have that wonderous comedy and personalities that gives it a special place in my heart.



I'm running out of steam so I am going to quickly gloss over these.


'The Simpsons'

Family life with witty, great and interesting stories. The characters especially the 'Simpsons' are a work of a genius.

'Cheers'

Great show, great people, great comedy. Who would realise how much comedy and plot you can get in practically just one set?

'Frasier'

The follow up to 'Cheers' to me is fresher and more inviting. Smart, witty and entertaining. Once again a question. How did they manage to get a minor character in another series to be so darn good in one of his own? ;D



I'm sticking to a top ten, but in no particular order.

I could have included 'Buffy' or 'Angel' but despite how entertaining and watchable these two shows are they do not quite compare to the classics, well not until they get a bit of shelf life in them at least, even then, brilliant shows but not quite brilliant enough.

I Got Game
02-06-04, 06:24 PM
1. Quantum Leap
2. Family Guy
3. Nip/Tuck
4. In Living Color
5. Biography (on A&E)

bloodydreamer
02-06-04, 09:30 PM
Nip/Tuck, simpsons, wonder years, star trek, Mad TV, SNL, South Park, Smallville, Law & Order, Family Guy, Sex and the city, M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, All in the Family, Monty Python, Late Night, I'll be back to name more...Lately I've been watching Star Trek alot, I LOVE spocks ears, and how he shows no strong emotion, except for the one time when he needed to go back to vulcan and take a wife he was mad at everyone, that was great.......i'm not a trekkie! ::runs off to a sci-fi convention:: :D

Tuna
02-06-04, 10:31 PM
Happy Days by far..

Garrett
05-13-04, 10:25 PM
Seinfeld, The Drew Carey Show, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Cheers and Full House... yes, Full House was a great show... go ahead, mock me.


Oh yeah, Conan and Leno.

jrs
05-14-04, 12:35 AM
Seinfeld
ER
The X-Files
The Family Guy
The Simpsons
24
Friends
Mash
Cheers
Saturday Night Live
Cosby Show
Quantum Leap
The Sopranos
Dead Like Me
Law and Order
CSI
CSI:Miami
Everybody Loves Raymond
Nowhere Man
Eerie, Indiana
I Love Lucy
Cop Rock (Just Kidding)

moviedvdfreak
05-16-04, 01:15 AM
:furiousdevil:

1)all in the family
2)the sopranos
3)sanford and son
4)friends
5)the shield
6)vh1 behind the music
7)inside the actors studio
8)cheers

pretty much those are my favs in order of how i like them,those are pretty much the only shows i've watched regularly.

jrs
05-16-04, 01:23 AM
moviedvdfreak, why the :furiousdevil: ????

moviedvdfreak
05-16-04, 02:44 AM
moviedvdfreak, why the :furiousdevil: ????

i just like it