Favourite TV shows of all-time
 

Well I searched for this topic and couldn't find it. I'm sure it's here somewhere, but oh well.

Below are my personal fav TV shows of all-time, in order from most favourite. You can probably tell I was born in the '70s. I only included the kids shows that I can still stand watching as an adult.

1. Game of Thrones
2. Soap
3. American Horror Story
4. Walking Dead
5. Mythbusters
6. Saturday Night’s Main Event
7. Breaking Bad
8. Seinfeld
9. All in the Family
10. The Orville
11. Twilight Zone (1959)
12. Three’s Company
13. Daredevil
14. House of the Dragon
15. The Umbrella Academy
16. Star Blazers 2199
17. Star Vengers
18. Grandizer
19. Shadow Raiders
20. Dungeons & Dragons
21. Family Feud Canada
22. Match Game
23. Liar’s Club
24. Legend of the Seeker
25. Gilligan’s Island
26. Simpsons
27. Addams Family
28. Lost in Space (1965)
29. Austin City Limits

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My top 10 favourites:

1. The Simpsons
2. Breaking Bad
3. Friends
4. The Sopranos
5. Grey's Anatomy
6. Lost
7. Once Upon a Time
8. The Wire
9. American Horror Story
10. Smallville

Oh, in case you were wondering why Star Trek is not there, even though my current signature image is from said series and I did put in there the Orville, which obviously is inspired by Star Trek, well, I actually am not a fan of the TV shows! I loved The Wrath of Khan (which that aforementioned picture of the Enterprise warping is from) and I liked Voyage Home, but other than that, I watched most of Next Generation (mostly because, for me there was nothing on at that time other than a few shows like Seinfeld and pro wrestling), and Voyager, but I have little interest in rewatching them.

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Good choices. I actually forgot Breaking Bad, and so I edited my original list and added it. Very good show. I've probably forgotten lots of shows.

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Person of interest
Daredevil
Smallville
Firefly
Angel
Buffy The vampire slayer
Boardwalk Empire
the Sopranos
House
ER
Superboy 1988-1992
Startrek Enterprise
The king of queens
Everyone Loves Raymond
SNL

1. Wonder Years
2. All in the Family
3. Twin Peaks
4. M*A*S*H
5. St Elsewhere
6. Six Feet Under
7. Curb Your Enthusiasm
8. The Sopranos
9. Green Acres (Great writing)
10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Hon Men. #1 - SNL
Hon Men #2 - Month Python's Flying Circus
Hon Men #3 - The Carol Burnett Show

My favorite TV is Reality TV:
Intervention
Celebrity Big Brother UK
Big Brother UK
Big Brother US
Big Brother Canada
Big Brother Australia
The Amazing Race US
The Amazing Race Australia
Survivor US

Scripted TV favorites:
The Simpsons
Friends
Seinfeld
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Fargo

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1. X-files
2. Twilight zone
3. Broad City

4. Z Nation

unscripted:

Mythbusters
Good Eats
Who's line is it anyway (american)

And then Late night talk shows:

1. Letterman
1. Conan
2. Craig Ferguson
3. John Stewart

Sorry don't watch much tv

The Addams Family
Alias
All in the Family
Batman
The Benny Hill Show
Bewitched
Charlie's Angels
Cheers
Dallas
The Dukes of Hazzard
Fantasy Island
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Happy Days
Hogan's Heroes
I Dream of Jeannie
The Incredible Hulk
The Jeffersons
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Kung Fu
Lost in Space
MASH
Mission: Impossible
The Munsters
The Odd Couple
Sanford and Son
The Six Million Dollar Man
Space: 1999
Star Trek TOS
Three's Company
The Twilight Zone
UFO
Welcome Back, Kotter

In alphabetically order:

3rd Rock From the Sun
Bewitched
Family Feud (1976-1985 Richard Dawson host)
Fantasy Island (1977-1984) though it sucked without Tattoo (Hervé Villechaize)
Gilligan's Island
Kung Fu
Laverne & Shirley
M*A*S*H
Green Acres
Rhoda
Soap
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Star Trek Enterprise
Star Trek original series
Star Trek The Next Generation
The Love Boat (1977-1987)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Outer Limits (1963-1965)
The Outer Limits (1995-2002)
The Twilight Zone (original series)
Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
What's My Line? (1950-1967)

And probably 100 more that I can't remember right now!

I'm seeing a disturbing lack of Cowboy Bebop in here so far, people...

Looking through your guys' list gives me some great ideas for my next TV series binge watch, thanks for mentioning them!

I'm adding these shows to my TV watch list:
All in the Family....a classic!
The Orville...really liked the first couple seasons, need to catch the latest shows.
Match Game...original with Gene Rayburn, use to love this as a kid.
Simpsons...use to watch this years ago, like to check it out again.
Lost in Space (1965)...So silly that it's a blast!
Friends...I use to catch this in reruns but I never seen the entire series, gotta remedy that.
The Addams Family...
The Munsters...
Hogan's Heroes...
I Dream of Jeannie...

I forgot to add these to my all time favorite list:
The Beverly Hillbillies.
Batman (1966-1968)
Babylon 5
Happy Days ...there was 10 seasons of this, not easy to find but I watched every show a couple years back, then I watched ever episode of Johnnie Loves Chachi...not as bad as one might think.

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Who remembers CBS's Saturday night schedule in 1973?

8:00 - All in the Family (#1 show)
8:30 - M*A*S*H (#4)
9:00 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (#9)
9:30 - The Bob Newhart Show (#12)
10:00 - The Carol Burnett Show (#27)

I do! Gosh that's exactly what we watched when I was a kid, except my dad must have turned the channel as I never seen The Carol Burnett Show...I wonder what other show was on opposite of it?

"Griff" & "Owen Marshell: Attorney At Law"was Carol's competition. Do not recall either one.

Oh, I never seen those. Maybe I was made to go to bed at 10pm!

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Fun Idea for thread.

Some from when I was a child:
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeanie
Gidget
The Patty Duke Show
Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Hazel (She looked like my grandmother to me. which my grandmother hated when I told her.)
The Carol Burnett Show

Some from when I was a teenager
The Prisoner
Star Trek TOS
Monty Python's Flying Circus

As an adult:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Wire
Sex and the City
The Sopranos

As an old lady:
Below Deck (in all its iterations)
Vanderpump Rules
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
The Real Housewives of New York
The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Right now:
Any true crime. My favorite so far was HIgh: Confession of an Ibiza Drug Mule. It is a wild story of this likable young Irish woman who ends up in a Peruvian jail due to dating the wrong guy in Ibiza.

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I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible for me to rank, and at various times in my life I have really enjoyed shows that I perhaps don't or wouldn't enjoy now. So, this is a list of shows that have made and impact on me and that I have enjoyed a ton through the years. Some of these shows fell off as they moved along, while others got better. Some of these, I may not really like or enjoy at all anymore, but was perhaps a huge fan in the past etc.

In no particular order at all:

Lost
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
The Americans
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Expanse
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
The Rockford Files
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: TOS
NCIS
The X-Files
Twin Peaks
Firefly
The Wire
Ozark
Orphan Black
Veronica Mars
The Wonder Years
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Bosch
Columbo
The Leftovers
Mad Men
The Sporanos

How did I forget the Mythbusters? Excellent show!

I loved the Addams family too. Thanks for the reminder!

That's one I haven't seen, but I think I'll end up binge watching one of these days.

Use to LOVE that show, but I don't think I could rewatch it with Grant having passed, just too sad.

If people dying is an issue for you, how do you manage to watch all the stuff you love? :D

That’s a broad question..
Let's start with my favorite non-animated 20 to 30 minute comedy shows/sitcoms I grew up with as a kid.

From old to new..

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents is my #1 tv show, along with the Hour

I found Breaking Bad very riveting, and best animated series has to be BoJack Horseman.

1) Twin Peaks
2) Seinfeld
3) Pushing Daisies
4) Wonderfalls
5) Breaking Bad
6) Firefly
7) The Wire
8) The Haunting of Hill House
9) The Wonder Years
10) Blackadder


Of the reality/game shows
1) Crystal Maze
2) Eight of Ten Cats Does Countdown
3) Survivor
4) Would I Lie to You
5) The Amazing Race

I'm not sure exactly what my list would look like, but Firefly, Hill House, and Wonderfalls would likely be the top three.

Glad you like, more coming up..
Seen all Happy Days eps, it was on the network for years including re-runs. Fav character would have to be Arthur Fonzarelli.. Ey..!

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Continuing my favorite non-animated comedy tv shows/sitcoms, this time from my early teens..

These three are absolute cult!

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Brideshead Revisited
Los gozos y las sombras
Yes, Minister
Devs
Homecoming (Season 1)
The Shivering Truth
Legion
Twin Peaks: The Return
Vinyl
Westworld (Seasons 1-2)
The OA
Better Call Saul
Show me a Hero
Mr. Robot
Silicon Valley
Olive Kitterigde
The Leftovers
The Knick
Fargo (Season 1)
True Detective (Season 1)
Rick and Morty (Seasons 1-4)
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-4)

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My top 10 favorite English language TV shows of all time are:

Babylon 5
Star Trek: Next Generation
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Battlestar Galactica
Rome
I, Claudius
Seinfeld
Band of Brothers
Bojack Horseman

If I do a top 20 TV shows including non-English language shows, then, it would be mostly anime shows, but I would include Babylon 5, Rome, Breaking Bad and I Claudius in there.

Cowboy Bebop is an interesting case of a Japanese show that is much more popular in America than in Japan. I personally consider it a very good anime show, but I can think of dozens of others that I would rank above it.

Easy space cowboy, I got ya.

The Simpsons
The X- Files
Cowboy Bebop
Dragonball / Z
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Breaking Bad

Loved The Patty Duke Show, surprised there's someone around here old enough to remember it.

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My Top 3 are more or less set in stone...

1. The Shield
2. The Wire
3. Breaking Bad

After that, it's a bit more shaky, but these are the ones that would be around my list.

* Boardwalk Empire
* The Americans
* Hannibal
* Justified
* Freaks and Geeks
* Bates Motel
* Firefly
* Manhattan
* Fortitude
* Catastrophe

Some that I feel like mentioning just because they were so amazing for a good stretch, even if they didn't stick the landing...

* Game of Thrones (S1 to S4)
* Lost (S1 to S3)
* The Simpsons (S1 to S5)

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Looking back at some of the lists here, Ozark would probably be a worthy recent inclusion.

I really need to get around to watching this show...

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Knots Landing

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Bewitched

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Roseanne

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Will & Grace


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Cheers

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The Partridge Family

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That Girl


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Two and a Half Men

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Dynasty

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Law and Order SVU


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The Brady Bunch


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Black-ish

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Soap


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Dirty Sexy Money

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Who's the Boss?

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Melrose Place

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I Dream of Jeannie

I'll get around to the Sopranos some day.

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Married... with Children
12 Monkeys
The Twilight Zone

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Bless This House

Damn, I loved this show in the '70s. Saw it as the British version of our "All in the Family". This was broadcast to us Detroiters via Channel 9 (CBC).

Love to find a stream to this series... hint-hint

John, have you searched the Internet Archive? It's free.
https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=collection
You can use the Search box, or scroll through the various tabs.

I use it to watch old Harry O series from the mid 1970s.

I would say if you haven't had anything spoiled, you should definitely get to it. There are a couple of twists on its course that pack quite a punch.

I keep saying the same. That's probably my biggest TV blindspot.

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Some I really like that I can remember, not in order:


Utopia - UK original series
Wednesday
Wellington Paranormal
Spooks - called MI:5 in other countries
The X-Files
Waking The Dead
Ash vs The Evil Dead
Banshee
Peaky Blinders
Lost Girl
Warehouse 13
Les Temoins/Witnesses
Engrenages/Spiral
American Horror Story
Fawlty Towers
The New Avengers
What We Do In The Shadows
Dexter
Hannibal
Rizzoli & Isles

Just added an Australian series called Deadloch to my favourites, loved it.

Not for me; I mean, I wouldn't rank any other show over Bebop, anime or otherwise.

This is the British version of All In The Family. Or, rather, All In The Family is the US version of this. But Till Death... is a lot 'harder' or 'unvarnished' as I understand it. I've seen a couple of episodes of AITF and it's not close, but it could just be the few episodes I've seen.

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I don't watch much TV, but these are some that I really enjoyed and stuck with, though some had some awful later seasons. The first one is my absolute favorite, the rest are loosely ordered.

Blackadder (especially the second series)
Roseanne (the original series, I don't watch The Conners)
Dexter
Daria
Night Court (the original)
Queer As Folk (U.S.)
Dr. Jeff, Rocky Mountain Vet (really interesting series on Animal Planet)
Mighty Mike
Game of Thrones
Jack of All Trades

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The X-Files
Cops
Good Times
Match Game (the original one)

And of course:
Law and Order (the original series)

I just binged watched all the episodes of the original Richard Dawson Match Game that I could find on Tubi. I found more on Youtube and other places but it's a real PAIN trying to organize them in chronological order and the video quality isn't usually good either.

I don't know where you are located, but Game Show Network in the US still plays them---in order---on TV. But Richard Dawson, haha---definitely can't have people like that on TV anymore. haha

I'm in the U.S. Game Show Network is that a cable station? I only have a Roku to watch TV by.

Yes it is, unfortunately. In addition to some new game shows that are actually pretty decent---who knew that Leah Remini could be a funny TV host?---they play a bund of old/classic stuff in off hours.

Not in order btw

The Wrestling
WWE Raw
WWE Smackdown

The Cooking
Kitchen Nightmares
Hell’s Kitchen
Gordon Ramsay’s Uncharted

The Crime Sprees
Law & Order SVU
Dexter

The Horror
Walking Dead
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The Funny
MadTV
Simpsons
Modern Family

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Darn, how did I miss The Simpsons? I'm still working through it currently, but I will also add Twin Peaks to my list.

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Oh, and MST3k, of course.

Had to come back here because I left off some a few things:

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All in the Family


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Oz

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Seinfeld


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Succession


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Veep


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30 Rock


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Maude


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Arrested Development

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Transparent


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Weeds


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Ozark

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Going through my number 1 again.


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I wonder if it's available here in the USA

All 3 seasons are on Hulu.

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Peyton Place
Sons And Daughters
Twin Peaks
Doctor Who
Line Of Duty
Dark Shadows (so funny!)

and many many others

Peyton Place as in the 1960s soap opera? Where did you watch that at? I would think it would be hard to find.

The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)
The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)
Stark Raving Mad (1999-2000)
Barney Miller (1975-1982)
The Bob Newhart Show (1972-1978)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
All in the Family (1971-1979)
Maude (1972-1978)
Mad About You (1992-1999)
Becker (1998-2004)
Cheers (1982-1992)
Frasier (1993-2004)
Wings (1990-1997)
Friends (1994-2004)
Happy Days (1974-1984)
M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
The Odd Couple (1970-1975)
Soap (1977-1981)
The Golden Girls (1985-1992)
Murphy Brown (1988-1998)
My Favorite Martian (1963-1966)
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996-2001)
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-2005)
The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)
Siskel & Ebert aka "At the Movies" (1986-2010)
Pinky and the Brain (1995)
Animaniacs (1993-1998)
Columbo (1971-2003)
Monk (2002-2009)
Castle (2009-2016)
Once Upon A Time (2011-2018)
No Ordinary Family (2010-2011)
Star Trek (1966-1969)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
Quantum Leap (1989-1993)
The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)
The X-Files (1993-2002)
Nowhere Man (1995-1996)
Midnight Caller (1988-1991)
Early Edition (1996-2000)
Dawson's Creek (1998-2003)
Ben Casey (1961-1966)
CSI: New York (2004-2013)
Law & Order (1990-2010)
Justice (2006-2007)
The Practice (1997-2004)
Shark (2006-2008)

It's all on you-know-where (I'd rather not mention the name because evil algorithm follows us everywhere and then it goes back to the website and then they might consider removing the videos. We have to enjoy these things secretly and undergroundly).

Peyton Place is well written and has many terrific characters performed by great actors.
Also guest-starring Gena Rowlands as a glamorous femme fatale!

Ahh, I get that, I do!

When Gena passed recently I went looking for her movies and did see she was on Peyton Place. I've seen the two movies about Peyton Place but not the tv show.

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Broadcast
Seinfeld
Star Trek (Voyager was the last ST series that I liked)
Columbo
Upstairs, Downstairs
Downton Abbey
Elizabeth R
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Edward the Seventh
Victoria
I, Claudius
Shogun
The Winds of War
War and Remembrance

Cable
The Sopranos
The Tudors
Wolf Hall
Game of Thrones
Rome
Curb Your Enthusiasm

:up: I'm a big fan of ST Voyager, that and ST DSN are my two favorite ST series. Right now I'm rewatching for the 4th or 5th time, ST The Next Generation.

In random order:

- House
- Breaking Bad
- The Sopranos
- Cheers
- Miami Vice
- MASH

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I Love Lucy (always #1)
Cheers
Star Trek and its other iterations
Breaking Bad
Miami Vice
Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Dick Van Dyke

Oddly none that are currently running. Like wine a good TV show needs some age and I generally like them better as later year re-runs.

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Any fans of Damages and The Affair ?

I've never seen I Love Lucy or the Dick Van Dyke show, but I've been waiting to check those and some other 50s early 60s tv classics out.

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The first two years of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is superb and that the show became abit more formulaic. Do yourself a favor and check out a few of the early episodes especially the ones with Tuesday Weld and or Warren Beatty.

Ok this is just off the top of my head, when I was a kid these were shows I had to see and never miss.


Dallas
WCW World Championship Wrestling on Saturday nights out of Georgia (NWA)
WKRP in Cincinatti
Good Times
MTV when they had V.J.s' and only music videos
St. Elsewhere
Centennial
The Rifleman
The Big Valley
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Super Friends Saturday mornings, but I hated the Wonder Twins
Scooby-Doo
Warner Brothers cartoons
Electric Company to see Spider-Man, some potbellied guy in a spandex suit lol
Sesame Street
The Incredible Hulk
The Dukes of Hazzard

Of Tongo's list I also watched this back in the day.

WKRP in Cincinatti...loved this show
Good Times...and this one too

MTV when they had V.J.s' and only music videos...We were GLUED to MTV back when it first started in the early 80s, lots of cool 'new wave' music that was much different than the stuff played by my local radio stations.

Centennial...one of the best mini series made.

The Bionic Woman
The Six Million Dollar Man
I watched both of these but preferred The Bionic Woman, easy on the eyes!

Super Friends Saturday mornings, but I hated the Wonder Twins Ha, there were tacked on weren't they.

Scooby-Doo... such a classic.

My favorite Saturday morning kid's show was Land of the Lost...and with the original dad, not the milquetoast uncle Jack.

I used to watch Land Of The Lost when it was on after school, but they had 2 other shows too, would do random viewing patterns. One of those I loathed, and I'd sit there hoping it was LOTL, and not see the intro to this one. When I saw this I audibly groaned everytime....
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Ugh The Bugaloos...That's British kid entertainment for ya:cool:

1 Game Of Thrones
2 Love Death & Robots
3 The Crown
4 True Detective
5 Westworld
6 Legion
7 Sherlock
8 Friends
9 Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Daredevil
11 Andor
12 Arcane
13 The Queen's Gambit
14 Rome
15 The Great
16 Vikings
17 Heroes
18 Sex Education
19 Shameless
20 Community
21 How I Met Your Mother
22 The End Of The ****ing World
23 Stranger Things
24 Sandman
25 Hell On Wheels

Anyone who was over the age of 10 in 1973 remembers that schedule

1. Band of Brothers
2. The Sopranos
3. Breaking Bad
4. Better Call Saul
5. Yellowstone
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
7. Kingdom
8. I, Claudius
9. Frasier
10. Rome