Your Favorite Ten TV Shows of ALL Time (1 Viewer)

[BobO'Link]

...By the way, symbol should be the old round test pattern. Remember those?

Remember it? It's permanently etched into my retinas from years of getting up at 5:30 on Saturday AM, getting a bowl of cereal, turning on the tv - sound down so no one would be bothered by the 1,000 cycle test tone - and eating my cereal while watching the test pattern waiting for The Adventures of Superman to come on at 6:00AM. Mom could never understand how she'd have to literally drag me out of bed to go to school but I'm up with the chickens on Saturday - no alarm needed.

 

[Kevin L McCorry]

Space: 1999
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Star Trek- TOS
Spiderman (1967-70)
Doctor Who (1963-89)
The Bionic Woman (1976-8)
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Pink Panther Show
The New Avengers
M*A*S*H
RUNNERS-UP:
Cosmos
Gunsmoke
Hawaii Five-O
The Incredible Hulk (1978-82)
Fawlty Towers
Rocket Robin Hood
The Littlest Hobo
Alice
Mary Tyler Moore

 

[younger1968]

My Top 10 are the following
1. Star Trek
2. Cheers
3. Adam-12
4. Hawaii Five-O
5. Emergency!
6. Seinfeld
7. Married with Children
8. Get Smart!
9. Mission Impossible
10. Melrose Place
honorable mention
1. Gilligan's Island
2. Time Tunnel
3. Starsky and Hutch
4. Family Ties
5. Cornergas
My top 10 cartoons are the following
1. Speed Buggy
2. Jabberjaw
3. Superfriend
4. Jonny Quest
5. Herculoids
6. Wait till your father gets home
7. Scooby-doo
8. Star Trek Animated Series
9. Return to the planet of apes
10. jeannie
I have other shows that i also liked, which could have been included in my popular show list. I also like some oddball shows growing up, like the following:
1. Sierra
2. ROC
3. George Carlin Show
4. Serpico
5. Get a Life
6. Thunderbirds
7. starlost
8. logan's run
9. Matt Helms
10. delvecchio
i am also a huge fan of mini-series
1. Pearl
2. Roots
3. Shogun
4. Once a Soldier
5. Martian Chronicles
6. Winds of War
7. Thornbirds
8. Rich Man, Poor Man
9. War and Remembrance
10. jesus of nazareth
i welcome other people's thoughts!

 

[MattPeriolat]

Originally Posted by BobO'Link /t/320976/your-favorite-ten-tv-shows-of-all-time/60#post_3930554
Remember it? It's permanently etched into my retinas from years of getting up at 5:30 on Saturday AM, getting a bowl of cereal, turning on the tv - sound down so no one would be bothered by the 1,000 cycle test tone - and eating my cereal while watching the test pattern waiting for The Adventures of Superman to come on at 6:00AM. Mom could never understand how she'd have to literally drag me out of bed to go to school but I'm up with the chickens on Saturday - no alarm needed.

Motivation. I used to get up at 7 AM for Super Friends on Saturday mornings. Adventures of Superman as I recall was usually on Sundays at around 11 AM. Nowadays, getting up at 8 AM is extreme for me. Oh and forget the cereal bowl, I just grabbed the box and would pop Kix like candy waiting for the shows to come on. Mom was never pleased with me when she woke up.

 

[Wezzo]

All-time top 10:
1. The Simpsons (seasons 1-9)
2. Friday Night Lights
3. ER
4. Frasier
5. King of the Hill
6. Breaking Bad
7. Seinfeld
8. Futurama
9. Lost
10. Malcolm in the Middle
fifteen runners-up: Monk, Scrubs, House, Arrested Development, Only Fools & Horses, The X-Files, 24, How I Met Your Mother, This American Life, South Park, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Shield, Community, Angel
my favourite pre-1990 shows are Taxi, Cheers, Moonlighting, M*A*S*H, Diff'rent Strokes and The Twilight Zone.

 

[WaveCrest]

Originally Posted by MattPeriolat /t/320976/your-favorite-ten-tv-shows-of-all-time/30#post_3930216
I was just thinking... imagine if the forum were to have a convention where we all bring our collections and just have screening parties for three to four days. I shudder to think of the arguments that might break out over what we all would watch next and what show was better than what, but, oh what fun it would be and what a fantastic way to celebrate and inspire others in our hobby of choice.

Good grief, that's a scary thought. But seriously, how many days would that convention last with fitting in all those episodes, especially if you fitted in fTV movies, feature length episodes and multiple-part episodes?

With Auf Wiedersehen, Pet you'd need to have subtitles on to understand what some of the characters are saying. The X Files is a fond favourite and Twin Peaks is one of David Lynch's best works, period.

 

[WaveCrest]

Am kicking myself for forgetting to include Magnum, p.i. in my Top 10 all time favourite TV shows list. You're trying to come up with a list of ten shows which you would have in the Top 10 list, but some shows slip from your mind.

 

[Jeff Willis]

Remember it? It's permanently etched into my retinas from years of getting up at 5:30 on Saturday AM, getting a bowl of cereal, turning on the tv - sound down so no one would be bothered by the 1,000 cycle test tone - and eating my cereal while watching the test pattern waiting for The Adventures of Superman to come on at 6:00AM. Mom could never understand how she'd have to literally drag me out of bed to go to school but I'm up with the chickens on Saturday - no alarm needed.

"Memories" This was the test pattern for the CBS affiliate sta in Dallas from long ago.
Great posts / lists in the thread.
If I had to choose 10 shows, I think my list (for today, would probably change tomorrow) would look like:
1 Combat! (1962) & The Fugitive (1963) . Can't pick between these 2 for #1, always a tie for me
2 Tme Tunnel (1966) Probably my favorite SciFi show
3 Bionc Woman (1976) Met Lindsay Wagner a few years ago, adds to the memories for me
4 Big Valley (1965) One of my top "rewatchability" shows
5 Sue Thomas FBEYE (2002) This is one of the best shows that I've seen and was unknown to me until my good friend Gary plugged me into it.
6 Rich Man Poor Man Book 1 Miniseries 1976) My #1 Miniseries
7 Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) My #1 Sitcom
8 Rifleman (1958) #1 "watch after school" Western
9 Shogun Miniseries (1980) #2 Miniseries
10A Earth 2 (1993) Probably my #2 SciFi show after "Time Tunnel"
10B Firefly (2002) This one was one of my biggest blind-buy surprises. High rewatchabiliy factor.
A few that just missed my 1st-pass top 10 list:
- Mannix (1967)
- Father Knows Best (1954)
- Donna Reed Show (1958) I've only seen S1 so far but based on S1, this one rates high for me.
- 12 O'Clock High (1964)
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- Lassie would easily have been in my top 10 list but the "Ranger" years didn't do a lot for me so I left it off this list... but that means that it would be added to tomorrow's list. As with most of you guys, these kinds of lists change from day to day.
The ones that are locked on on almost any version of my lists are in bold.

 

[WaveCrest]

From other people's Top 10 lists:
Roy - Mission: Impossible (although I did very much like the fifth and sixth seasons as well)
Theodore - Mr. Ed
Travis - Twin Peaks
Jack P = Hawaii Five-O
MattCR - none in your list, but I do like The Walking Dead
Walter - Columbo
Jeff*H - Mannix
David - The Avengers (the Diana Rigg era)
Lee - Batman
Glenn - Diagnosis Murder
Gary - In the Heat of the Night
Howie - got to be The Invaders (Allo! Allo! I liked up to 1990 or 1991)
John - The Untouchables
Brent - Cheers
Peter F - Burn Notice
Richard V - None really
David W - The Rockford Files
Patrick - None really
Steve O - NCIS
Scott - Dallas
Rick - Law & Order (the 'mothership')
Rick ER - The X Files (but I liked it beyond the fifth season)
Henry - Harry O
Kasey - none really
Mark C - Dallas
Regulus - None really
Steve A - "24"
Jeff W - None really.

 

[KPmusmag]

Wow, tough to choose 10 but here goes.
1. I Love Lucy
2. Bewitched
3. Star Trek TOS
4. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
5. WKRP in Cincinnati
6. Northern Exposure
7. Frasier
8. Star Trek Voyager
9. That Girl
10. The Bob Newhart Show
Two that are not necessarily in my top 10 but that I loved, but didn't do more than a few episodes and have kind of disappeared and I believe are worth mentioning - Out of Practice and Kitchen Confidential.

 

[MattPeriolat]

Originally Posted by WaveCrest /t/320976/your-favorite-ten-tv-shows-of-all-time/60#post_3930719


Good grief, that's a scary thought. But seriously, how many days would that convention last with fitting in all those episodes, especially if you fitted in fTV movies, feature length episodes and multiple-part episodes?

Have to be limited to between two and four days, depending on where we could find that would be cheap enough to host, yet with a large enough space to safely store our collections in between screenings.

Love to do it, but something like this would require SO much planning, forethought and organization. I do not know off the top of my head what the best location to host would be.

 

[BobO'Link]

From other people's Top 10 lists:
...Howie - Remington Steele

?? Look again as I think you may have gotten off a post or three. I *do* like the show but it's not in my Top 10 - nor Top 25.

 

[PODER]

I'm probably showing my age, but here goes:
1) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
2) The Bob Newhart Show
3) Newhart
4) Murphy Brown
5) The Burns and Allen Show
6) The Jack Benny Show
7) Roseanne
8) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9) Perry Mason
10) The Twilight Zone (original)
I'm still eagerly awaiting some non-Public Domain DVD sets of Jack Benny, and Burns and Allen!

 

1. The Brady Bunch
2. I Love Lucy
3. The Twilight Zone
4. The Flintstones
5. Wonder Woman
6. The Honeymooners
7. The Facts of Life
8. All in the Family
9.The Muppet Show
10.Designing Women

Honorable Mentions: Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons

Favorite Mini-Series:
1.Roots/Roots the Next Generations
2.Jesus of Nazareth
3.Lonesome Dove
4.I, Claudius
5.The Thorn Birds
6.North and South
7.Rich Man, Poor Man
8.Shogun
9.Holocaust
10.The Winds of War

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

The 'Favorites From Other People's Lists' Challenge:
Roy Wall - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (original)
Theodore J. Mooney - THE WONDER YEARS
TravisR - BREAKING BAD
GaryOS - THE FUGITIVE
Jack P - COLUMBO
WaveCrest - TWIN PEAKS
mattCR - MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
Walter Kittel - THE OUTER LIMITS (original)
Jeff*H - DEADWOOD
DaveHof - THE AVENGERS
FanCollector - THE PRISONER
GMBurns - THE WILD WILD WEST
BobO'Link - FAWLTY TOWERS
John Hermes - THE UNTOUCHABLES
Brent S - BATMAN
Richard V - THE TWILIGHT ZONE (original)
David Weicker - DOCTOR WHO
PatrickGoodluck - ONE STEP BEYOND
Steve...O - THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
ScottDombrowski - DARK SHADOWS
Rick Thompson - HAWAII FIVE-0 (original)
RickER - STAR TREK (original)
HenryDuBrow - WKRP IN CINCINNATI
Kasey - BEWITCHED
Mark Collins - THE TIME TUNNEL
Regulus - DRAGNET
Steve Armbrust - THE SOPRANOS
Ethan Riley - LOST IN SPACE
JohnMor - ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (original)
MattPeriolat - LOST
tvgreats - THE HONEYMOONERS
Ian K McLachlan - ADAM ADAMANT LIVES!
bretmaverick2 - MAVERICK
Kevin L McCorry - THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER SHOW
younger1968 - JONNY QUEST (original)
Wezzo - THE SIMPSONS
Jeff Willis - COMBAT!
KPmusmag - THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
PODER - THE JACK BENNY SHOW
eric scott richard - I, CLAUDIUS
Wow! I did it!

 

[Ron Lee Green]

Bewitched
Dark Shadows
Charlie's Angels
I Love Lucy
Petticoat Junction
The Bionic Woman
That Girl
Prisoner: Cell Block H
I Dream of Jeannie
The Brady Bunch

Runner-ups
Lost in Space
The Facts of Life
General Hospital (Luke & Laura Years)
Gilligan's Island
The Patty Duke show
The Lucy Show
Good Times
The Twilight Zone
Hazel

 

[EdG]

1. Star Trek the Original Series
2. Mission: Impossible
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Hogan's Heroes
5. The Wild Wild West
6. The Beverly Hillbillies
7. The Rockford Files
8. Miami Vice
9. Leave It to Beaver
10. The Untouchables
Honorable Mentions:
Maverick
The Twilight Zone
The Avengers
The Fugitive
Hawaii Five-O
Gomer Pyle USMC
The Six Million Dollar Man
Seinfeld
24
The Office
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Mannix
Have Gun Will Travel

 

[FanCollector]

What a fun challenge! Nice to see all the overlap. I made my personal rule that any series I picked had to be substantially represented in my DVD collection. I found titles on every list that worked, but there were two lists where I could not find any unique titles.
The 'Favorites From Other People's Lists' Challenge:
Roy Wall - THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
Theodore J. Mooney - THE GOLDEN GIRLS
TravisR - THE TWILIGHT ZONE
GaryOS - HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
Jack P - ELLERY QUEEN
WaveCrest - THE SIMPSONS
mattCR - FRASIER
Walter Kittel - WILD WILD WEST
Jeff*H - ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
DaveHof - THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
GMBurns - CANNON
BobO'Link - FAWLTY TOWERS
John Hermes - THE UNTOUCHABLES
Brent S - CHEERS
Peter Fitzgerald - THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Richard V - THE DEFENDERS
David Weicker - REMINGTON STEELE
PatrickGoodluck - THE OUTER LIMITS
Steve...O - BATMAN
ScottDombrowski - GUNSMOKE
Rick Thompson - HARRY O
RickER - PERRY MASON
HenryDuBrow - M*A*S*H
Kasey - MAUDE
Mark Collins - MANNIX
Regulus - GET SMART
Steve Armbrust - BREAKING BAD
Ethan Riley - STAR TREK
JohnMor - ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (original)
tvgreats - GREEN ACRES
Ian K McLachlan - THE PRISONER
bretmaverick2 - MAVERICK
Kevin L McCorry - THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER SHOW
younger1968 - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
Jeff Willis - THE FUGITIVE
KPmusmag - THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
PODER - THE JACK BENNY SHOW
eric scott richard - THE HONEYMOONERS
Ron Lee Green - I DREAM OF JEANNIE
Ed G - THE ROCKFORD FILES

 

[WaveCrest]

Originally Posted by BobO'Link /t/320976/your-favorite-ten-tv-shows-of-all-time/60#post_3930770
?? Look again as I think you may have gotten off a post or three. I *do* like the show but it's not in my Top 10 - nor Top 25.

Knew this might happen. You see, as I went through people's lists (and not the second lists some people have posted), I'd chosen Dallas for example. Then when I looked at another poster's list the only show I liked out of their list was Dallas as well. So I had to pick a different show from the first person's list. If that confuses you, I'm not surprised! lol

Never saw The Invaders and Allo! Allo! in your Top 10 list. My previous post corrected. It's easily done. You're going through people's lists, some lists have the same show(s) in them, and it gets confusing.

Would so like to see a big screen Remington Steele movie.

 

[WaveCrest]

Originally Posted by MattPeriolat /t/320976/your-favorite-ten-tv-shows-of-all-time/60#post_3930746

Have to be limited to between two and four days, depending on where we could find that would be cheap enough to host, yet with a large enough space to safely store our collections in between screenings.

Love to do it, but something like this would require SO much planning, forethought and organization. I do not know off the top of my head what the best location to host would be.

Typo in my post which you replied to. Should have read "especially if you fitted in TV movies".

Yes, it would take a lot of planning to organise a convention/screening event like this.