Your Desert Island top 5 TV ON DVD List (1 Viewer)

[docdoowop]

Twilight Zone
Seinfeld
Star Trek (Original Series)
Columbo
The Prisoner

 

[David Levine]

The Wire: IMO, the best show ever on television. Took the brilliance of Homicide and made it even better.

Deadwood: Redefined the Western. Out of this world production values, and I could listen to David Milch's dialogue forever.

The Twilight Zone: The most "rewatchable" show in the history of television. I will never turn off this show because "I've already seen this episode."

Twin Peaks: The first show that I experienced that made me realize the potential of television.

Scrubs: Because I need something lighthearted and fun for balance. Always amuses me and I care about the characters and their growth.

 

[Roy Wall]

My five would be:

1. The Fugitive
2. The Andy Griffith Show
3. The Twilight Zone
4. Gunsmoke
5. Have Gun Will Travel

 

[ScottR]

The Brady Bunch
I Love Lucy
The Twilight Zone
The Flintstones
All in the Family (with Wonder Woman as an alternate)

 

[LCD22]

MacGyver
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Monk
Psych
Lost

 

[Tory]

NewsRadio
Gilligan's Island
Get Smart
The Prisoner
Man From U.N.C.L.E.

 

[TravisR]

I think I like your list more than my own. Though since I've never seen Scrubs, I'd probably switch that out with The X-Files.

 

[David Levine]

Heh. Scrubs was an impulse add because I wanted a comedy that I feel is rewatchable. I'm not sure it's what I'd go with, but my first 4 are set in stone.

 

[Scott_J]

I'd go with:

• Simpsons
• 24
• Sports Night
• Twilight Zone
• Seinfeld

 

[JasonJason]

Taking into consideration my favorite shows, and also a consideration for # of episodes (after all, a desert island could be forever), I think I'd probably go with:

1) Monty Python's Flying Circus - no doubt this would be my #1 choice, as I can watch this over and over and never get bored (only 45 eps though)

2) Seinfeld - Another that can be (and has been) watched repeatedly. Plus, a larger volume of episodes and many special features to help pad out the time.

3) Simpsons - see Seinfeld above

4) Get Smart - see Simpsons above

5) I think for my 5th choice, I'd want there to be a show that I've never seen before and know nothing about included on my crashed airplane (assuming that's how I got on the island in the first place) in the hopes that I would discover a brand new show to me and find a show that I would never have seen had I not been in this situation. Taking a chance, I know, but if I don't like it, at least I have the 4 above... (okay, maybe I'd want Blackadder instead)

 

[SD_Brian]

A desert island with electricity, TV AND a DVD player? Seems too good to be true! I suspect that, were I to actually wind up on a desert island with DVD's, I'd use them as reflectors to attract a plane so I'd hope to only be stuck with ones I didn't mind losing.

However, since that's not in the spirit of the discussion, in no particular order:

1. Star Trek TOS
2. Twin Peaks
3. The Matt Groening Collection (The Simpsons & Futurama--yes, I know that's cheating)
4. The Lorne Michaels Collection (Saturday Night Live, Kids in the Hall)
5. South Park

 

[Aryn Leroux]

What is this kill the classic tv lovers week, by giving them a stroke trying to pick only a certain #?. I had a hard enough time writing up my top 10 yesterday

CHiPs
Magnum, P.I.
Dallas
Star Trek: DS9
Remington Steele

I will leave it at 5

 

[Ockeghem]

1) Dark Shadows (1966-1971 series)
3) The Outer Limits (the original series)
3) Star Trek (the original series)
4) Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C.
5) The Invaders

 

[Thaellar]

The Fugitive
The Rifleman
Perry Mason
Hercules - The Legendary Journeys
Dick Van Dyke

 

[Firebee]

1) Star Trek: TNG
2) Star Trek: Voyager
3) Gilligan's Island (of course!)
4) The Brady Bunch
5) Magnum P.I. (when it's complete)

 

[Ockeghem]

Oooh, The Rifleman and The Brady Bunch are two that I'd have to bring along, esp. if my entire family was with me. It's a tough list to narrow down for sure, kind of like picking my all-time favorite albums in music.

 

[Dean C]

How would you find electricity and stuff to play them.

Mine are

Seinfeld
Friends
King of Queens
The Brady Bunch
Frasier

 

[Thaellar]

Good point....that means Gilligan's Island would have to be one of the choices. I'm sure the professor could make an entertainment center out of some iron ore, coconuts and bamboo.

 

[Ockeghem]

Not a problem for me, as I'd just live in the Hatch.