What are the best ever t.v shows

[Estreeter]

I dare say a lot of us grew up spending countless hours in front of the tv'
what are your top up to 10 in order, it may even show your age.

mine are
1 The Sopranos
2 Cheers
3 I Dream Of Jeannie
4 Gilligans Island
5 Get Smart
6, Breaking Bad
7, The X Files
8, Seinfeld
9, Mash
10, Benny Hill Show

[buggeration]

In no particular order. New Tricks. Old Grey Whistle Test. Monty Python. Fawlty Towers. Gardener's World...Yep. Sad I know. But I love gardening

[marlon]

Dr Who, Soap, Dear John, Match of The Day, Rhubarb and Custard.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

3 I dream of Jeannie
4 Gilligans island

I'm going with the girls theme,
but my shows didn't have the best content as far as story.
Just loved girls as long as I can remember.
Haven't watched real TV in probably 15-20 years now.

Of course Gilligan's Island.
This is totally a traditional guy thing.
You meet another older guy for the first time,
one of the top 5 questions in the first few minutes......

Ginger, or Mary Ann?

I've never met another Ginger-Lover like myself, everyone always picks Mary Ann.

As for Jeannie, I always thought she was Queen.
That belly button, plus she was SO naughty.
Then the same guys who ask Ginger or Mary Ann,
are the same age bracket, and ask:

Jeannie or Samantha?

Samantha from *Bewitched* - Elizabeth Montgomery
Another hottie and a crazy naughty one as well.

I also loved "Good Times" because of Thelma.
First real crush, never really ever went away.

Honorable mentions:
"The Partridge Family" (Laurie - Susan Dey)
"The Brady Bunch" (Marsha - Maureen McCormick)
"The Mod Squad" (Julie - Peggy Lipton)
"Star Trek" (Uhura - Nichelle Nichols)
"Lost in Space" (Penny AND Judy)

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Those were the days.....but as a boy....
No guy growing up in the states could live without
all the classic 1960's cartoons, the stones, jetsons, speed racer.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzDcMDhf2o

[MaxJoker]

When i was little it was THE FLUMPS and THE RED HAND GANG .

Then when i got older etc etc

DOCTOR WHO (Up until Tom Baker left because then it became as enjoyable as circumcision via blunt cheese grater )

THE A TEAM (Kept watching in the hope they`d maybe at least wound someone that episode)

MAGNUM P.I (I liked Higgins, and at that time also mustaches)

MIAMI VICE (Loved the music and of course Saundra Santiago )

KNIGHT RIDER ( Mesmerized by the Hoffs symmetrical face )

BAYWATCH (Mesmerized by the bouncing you know whats)

THE X-FILES ( I determinedly searched for that elusive nipple shot each and every screen moment , but sadly Mulder never took his jacket off )

THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (I knew it , i knew it ! )

THE BENNY HILL SHOW ( No need to say any more than that , oh blast but i did)

THE TWO RONNIES (Class act most of the time and they had some right cuties on it aswell )

HOMICIDE LIFE ON THE STREET ( Contained within it a story ark of such quality that it will never be topped)

THE PRETENDER (It was just plain out fun)

FARSCAPE ( Quite simply the best Sci Fi show there`s ever been )

SCRUBS (Funny with hot women , so what`s not to love ? )

THE COLBERT REPORT (Genius unsurpassed )


Yikes think i better quit while i`m behind , no not Micheal Jacksons new reality show , i mean me and all this waffle ...

[cialtrone]

If you mean ..."of all the time"......I remember some delightfull British Sit-com as:

"A man about the house" and "George and Mildred"
or a interrupted series ... "The survivor" from the seventies.

From today, "The Sopranos" above all,
and "The shield"

or the first series of "E.R."

but the best I've ever seen is "Band of brothers", few episode produced by Spielberg, very realistic.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by cialtrone

If you mean ..."of all the time"......I remember some delightfull British Sit-com as:

"A man about the house" and "George and Mildred"
or a interrupted series ... "The survivor" from the seventies.

From today, "The Sopranos" above all,
and "The shield"

or the first series of "E.R."

but the best I've ever seen is "Band of brothers", few episode produced by Spielberg, very realistic.

thanks cialtrone,
glad to see someone agrees with the sopranos,
as far as my opinion goes, it as far and above all other show because it was serious, funny, violent, sexy and very believable due to it being well written and acted.

[thyguy]

1) Homicide Life in the Streets - THE absolute, no doubt about it best drama, best "cop" show eveh! Eveh! You don't see intense acting even in the movies.

2) Honeymooners - The funniest sit com of them all

3) Dick Van Dyke Show - the second funniest sit com of them all - with the greatest TV sit com episode of all time.

4) Rockford Files - after HLOTS - the best "cop" drama of all time - worth it just for his releationship with Noah Berry - his Dad.

5) Monty Python's Flying Circus - Not a sit-com, but the funniest TV show eveh!
The Prisoner - the most surreal and challenging TV show - eveh.

6) Seinfeld - Funny, smart, clever, original - great cast.

7) Star Trek - after The Prisoner the second most challenging TV show ever - they were 60 minute plays. Maybe the best drama episode ever - "Let That be your last Battlefield"..

8) All in the Family - Yes it is dated today, and has flaws. But absolutely groundbreaking in the topics of a sit-com - race and racism even the anti-semitism was covered, gender and abortion, class and the workingman and the working woman, the war, etc.

9) The Twilight Zone - the second best Sci-Fi of all time after Start Trek - each episode was like a 30 minute play. "Night of the Meek" and "One for the Angels" are TV must see classics.

10) The Three Stooges - NOBODY did a pie fight like the Stooges - NOBODY!

[Estreeter]

there was a cable tv show called "the man show"
lots of bikini models, very sexist very funny
did anybody see it?

[Tmee2020]

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