Networks with the most representation in your (1 Viewer)

[bmasters9]

In your collection, which network or cable outlet has the most representation in terms of series? Note that so long as you have at least one release of that series, to me, it is considered represented, so in this sense, the number of seasons does not matter (although you can include that figure if you want).

My breakdown:

CBS:
"I Love Lucy"
"Hawaii Five-O"
"Mary Tyler Moore"
"The Waltons"
"Dallas"

ABC:
"The Streets of San Francisco"
"What's Happening!!"
"Taxi"
"Hart to Hart"
"Dynasty"
"Hardcastle and McCormick"
"Moonlighting"
"MacGyver"

NBC:
"Sanford and Son"
"CHiPs"
"Centennial" (miniseries)
"Hill Street Blues"
"St. Elsewhere"
"Knight Rider"
"Matlock"

In mine, ABC has the upper hand in terms of representation as far as series are concerned, with 8 series. NBC is second with 7, and CBS is third with 5. I do not have any FOX or cable series.

 

[Nick Martin]

CBS:

CSI (seasons 4, 5, 7 and 8)
CSI: Miami (seasons 1 - 5)
CSI: NY (seasons 1 - 4)

The WB:

ANGEL (all 5 seasons)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (seasons 1 - 3)
EVERWOOD (season 1)

FOX:

The O.C. (complete series)
BONES (seasons 1 and 2)
KINDRED: THE EMBRACED (complete series)
SLIDERS (seasons 1 -3)
FIREFLY (complete series)
WONDERFALLS (complete series)

ABC:

ELI STONE (season 1)
UGLY BETTY (season 1)

NBC:

MY NAME IS EARL (seasons 1 and 2)

Syndication:

STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (complete series)

U.S. Cable Networks

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW (all 3 seasons)

 

[AnthonyC]

Fox is pretty sizable just because of The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy alone. But NBC narrowly edges it out.

 

[bmasters9]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much. Anyone else?

 

[Doug Wallen]

Fox
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Firefly - Blu-ray

CBS
Gilligan's Island
Perry Mason - 59th Anniversary Collection
Square Pegs
Big Bang Theory
Lonesome Dove - Blu-ray
The Paper Chase
The Twilight Zone - Original

ABC
Jonny Quest
Barney Miller
The Fugitive
Grey's Anatomy
The Outer Limits - Original Series

NBC
Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek - Season 1 Blu-ray
Chuck - Blu-ray
Dark Shadows - Revival series
Get Smart

The WB
Freakazoid
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - also UPN
Charmed

USA
Burn Notice

Syndicated/TNT
Babylon 5
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
Jack of All Trades
The Muppet Show

Looks like CBS is the winner in my collection. ABC was better represented than I thought it might be.

Doug

 

[MatthewA]

I am omitting miniseries and TV movies in my list, and listing all shows under the first network that aired them in their country of origin. It looks like CBS has a narrow margin of victory.

American networks:

ABC: 20
Baretta
Benson
Bewitched
Bosom Buddies
The Brady Bunch
Disneyland
Dynasty
Family Feud
Laverne & Shirley
Mickey Mouse Club
Mr. Belvedere
The Music Scene
The Outer Limits
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Soap
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Welcome Back Kotter
What's Happening!

CBS: 24
Alice (TV favorites, as that's all she wrote so far)
All in the Family
The Bob Newhart Show
Dallas
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Garfield & Friends
Good Times
Green Acres
I Love Lucy
The Jeffersons
The Judy Garland Show
Knots Landing
M*A*S*H
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Match Game
Maude
Murder She Wrote
The Nanny
Newhart
One Day at a Time
Password
The Price is Right
Square Pegs
The Waltons

NBC: 23
227
ALF (one disc Canadian compilation)
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Diff'rent Strokes
The Facts of Life
Family Ties
Gimme A Break
The Golden Girls
The Gummi Bears
Hullabaloo
I Dream of Jeannie
Law & Order
The Milton Berle Show
Night Court
Punky Brewster
The Rockford Files
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (subscription series)
St. Elsewhere
Sanford & Son
Silver Spoons
Smurfs
Your Show of Shows (compilation)

FOX: 6
Family Guy
Futurama
Get a Life
King of the Hill
Married with Children
The Simpsons

PBS: 2
The Electric Company
Sesame Street

AMC: 1
Mad Men (Blu-ray)

Nickelodeon: 1
Spongebob Squarepants

Syndication: 3
The Abbott and Costello Show
DuckTales
What's Happening Now

Court TV: 1
Till Death Do Us Part

Outside the USA:

BBC (UK): 5
Absolutely Fabulous
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Till Death Us Do Part
The Young Ones

CBC (Canada): 1
Road To Avonlea

ITV (UK): 3
The Benny Hill Show
Creature Comforts
The Muppet Show

 

[Amit Ashar]

FOX wins by one, but I have been thinking of selling The Pretender. That would tie it with CBS. CBS wins for classic, timeless shows.

ABC

Alias
Bewitched
Miracles
Perfect Strangers
Critic

BBC

Coupling

CBS

Dick Van Dyke Show
I Love Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore
Maude
Rhoda
Twilight Zone

CN

Justice League
Powerpuff Girls

FOX

Arrested Development
Batman: The Animated Series
Firefly
Pretender
Profit
Simpsons
Wonderfalls

NBC

3rd Rock from the Sun
Golden Girls
I Dream of Jeannie
Newsradio
Scrubs

NICK

Avatar the Last Airbender
Spongebob

PBS

Sesame Street

SHO

Dead Like Me

WB

Angel
Buffy
Pinky and the Brain

Syndicated
Animaniacs
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Ducktales
Gargoyles
Gummie Bears
Talespin
Tiny Toons

 

[Nick Martin]

It's funny, seeing these lists made me realize how few titles there are on my list, but because several individual titles are made up of five or six box sets it seems like I have a lot more TV on DVD than I really do. Weird.

 

[Cory Pals]

ABC:
Lost
Twin Peaks

CBS:
Big Bang Theory

NBC:
Chuck
Heroes
My Name is Earl
Seinfeld
30 Rock
Cheers
Frasier

Fox:
Futurama
Malcome in the Middle (live IS unfair since we'll never see anything past season one)
Prison Break
The Simpsons
Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles
24
Firefly

UPN:
Star Trek: Enterprise

ScI-Fi:
Battlestar Galactica
Farscape

FX:
The Shield

USA:
Burn Notice

Comedy Central:
South Park

MTV:
Jackass
Viva La Bam

ESPN:
Tilt

HBO:
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Cartoon Network:
Robot Chicken
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (micro series)

Syndicated:
Highlander: The Series
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Babylon 5
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Fox ties with NBC for most sets. I wish they'd get more Night Court sets out there, I'd pick those up to give the peacock the lead.

Corman

 

[Mark Talmadge]

I don't really much care about studios. I just care about what TV shows are in my library.

 

[BobO'Link]

ABC (22)
Addams Family
Bewitched
Donna Reed Show, The
F Troop
George of the Jungle - Original
Invaders, The
Jeff Foxworthy Show, The
Jetsons, The
Jonny Quest
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
McHale's Navy
Moonlighting
Outer Limits, The - Original
Police Squad
Rat Patrol, The
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends (2 seasons)
Sledge Hammer
Soap
Tabitha
Time Tunnel, The
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Who's the Boss?

CBS (17)
Beverly Hillbillies, The
Bob Newhart Show, The
Everybody Loves Raymond
Gilligan's Island
Green Acres
Hogan's Heroes
Jack Benny Show, The
Lost in Space
M*A*S*H
Mission Impossible
Munsters, The
Newhart
Rawhide
Space Ghost
Twilight Zone, The - Original
Wild Wild West, The
WKRP in Cincinnati

NBC (21)
Cheers
Dangerous Assignment
Daniel Boone
Earth 2
Eerie, Indiana
Get Smart
I Dream of Jeannie
I Spy
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The
Monkees, The
New Animated Adventures of Flash Gordon, The
Night Court
Newsradio
Office, The
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends (1 season)
Seinfeld
Star Trek (TOS)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
3rd Rock from the Sun
30 Rock
Quark

FOX (12)
Action
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Arrested Development
Family Guy
Firefly
Futurama
King of the Hill
Married with Children
Sliders
That 70's Show
Tick, The (Live action)
Roar

Disney (1)
Zorro

British (29)
Adventures of Robin Hood (50's - also CBS)
'Allo 'Allo
Avengers, The (also ABC)
Black Adder
Black Books
Buccaneers, The (50's - also CBS)
Chef!
Cracker
Danger Man (aka Secret Agent - also CBS, 2nd series)
Danger Mouse
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Good Neighbors
Keeping up Appearances
Lovejoy
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mr. Bean
My Hero
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools and Horses
Prisoner, The (also CBS)
Thin Blue Line, The
To the Manor Born
Two's Company
Space 1999
Rising Damp
Vicar of Dibley, The
Who's Line is it Anyway

Syndicated/Cable (16)
1st and 10
Adventures of Superman
Battlestar Galactica (new)
Babylon 5
Comeback, The
Crusade
Extras
Farscape
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Huckleberry Hound Show, The
Jack of All Trades
Legend of Prince Valiant, The
Mind of the Married Man
Reba
Weird Science
Yogi Bear Show, The

Looks like the British have won this one for me! But if you were to separate them into BBC/ITV/etc. then it would be ABC by one. If you were to move the British series to the network that introduced them to the US the British still win by one. Of course one could make the argument that *most* of the British titles on my list were introduced to the US by PBS or one of the cable networks, but in most cases this happened after production had been completed on the series.

 

[Mark Talmadge]

Don't we already have one of these "what's in your library" topics?

 

[bmasters9]

You're absolutely right about that. I just thought that this would be an interesting twist on that question, by not just listing what you have, but where it came from/was aired. This, I believe, was the reasoning behind this question.

 

[Nick Martin]

I thought it was a very interesting idea, because it gives people an idea of what overall network viewers here seemed to get the most out of. At least in part. Obviously there's going to be cases where someone doesn't own every show they watch for a variety of reasons, but it's still interesting to see this.

 

[FanCollector]

Without going into the whole list of series, the breakdown is as follows...

NBC- 46.8 series
CBS- 37.4 series
ABC- 25.8 series
Cable- 8 series
PBS- 6 series
Syndicated- 7 series
Fox- 3 series

The fractions are a reflection of series that aired over more than one network (e.g. Get Smart gets .8 for NBC and .2 for CBS). I counted British shows according to which US network gave them their first airings (e.g. The Prisoner is counted with CBS and Fawlty Towers with PBS).

The interesting thing I found was that going by numbers of episodes, CBS is well ahead of NBC, whereas going by series, NBC has a comfortable lead. I suppose that means I prefer CBS's long-running series and NBC's shorter-run series, on average. Did anyone else find a discrepancy between the relative representation of series titles vs. series episodes in their collections?

 

[whisperintherain]

ABC: 10
ALIAS
BEWITCHED
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
GREY'S ANATOMY
MOONLIGHTING
PEYTON PLACE
THE PRACTICE
THREE'S COMPANY
TWIN PEAKS

CBS: 8
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
I LOVE LUCY
KNOTS LANDING
THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
THE NANNY
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE
PICKET FENCES

FOX: 5
24
ALLY McBEAL
MELROSE PLACE
PARTY OF FIVE
WONDERFALLS

F/X: 2
DAMAGES
NIP/TUCK

HBO: 3
BIG LOVE
SEX AND THE CITY
SIX FEET UNDER

ITV: 1
THE AVENGERS

LIFETIME: 1
ARMY WIVES

NBC: 6
ER
FRIENDS
THE GOLDEN GIRLS
LAS VEGAS
SEINFELD
WILL & GRACE

SHOWTIME: 3
DEAD LIKE ME
THE L WORD
WEEDS

THE WB/UPN/THE CW: 8
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
CHARMED
EVERWOOD
FELICITY
GILMORE GIRLS
SMALLVILLE
STAR TREK: VOYAGER
VERONICA MARS

SCI-FI: 2
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)
FARSCAPE

USA NETWORK: 1
THE 4400

SYNDICATION: 3
BABYLON 5
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE

Two surprises for me in there: ABC is the winner (I expected CBS for some reason) and I thought I had more NBC shows than just these few. Well, I guess this goes to show what I really care about are the shows themselves, not who puts them on the air.

 

[Ethan Riley]

Interesting topic! I wonder if there's any network-favoring bias on my part. Let's find out:

ABC:
Battlestar Galactica (original 1978)
Bewitched
The Big Valley
The Brady Bunch
Desperate Housewives
Dynasty
Family Feud
The Flying Nun
Hart to Hart
Lidsville
Lost
Soap
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Ugly Betty
What's Happening?

CBS:
All in the Family
Dallas
Green Acres
I Love Lucy
The Jeffersons
Match Game

FOX:
90210 (2008)

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Grosse Pointe
Melrose Place (1992)

Melrose Place (2009)
The O.C.
Party of Five
Point Pleasant
The Simpsons

NBC:
American Dreams

California Dreams
Dark Shadows (1991 version)
Family Ties
Heroes
HR Pufnstuf
Star Trek TOS
Surface
Third Rock from the Sun
V (1983)

WB/UPN/CW:
Angel
Buffy
Everwood

Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl

One Tree Hill
Popular

Reba
Roswell
Supernatural
Veronica Mars

Syndicated/Cable/British/Other:
Are You Being Served? + sequels
The Benny Hill Show
The Comeback

Eureka
Extras
Life of Ryan
The Muppet Show
The Osbournes
The Simple Life
So NoTORIous
South of Nowhere
South Park
Star Trek: TNG
Sunset Tan
Weird Science


...Looks like the clear winner is...ABC!!!

 

[Ron Lee Green]

ABC:
Bewitched
The Addams Family
The Big Valley
That Girl
The Flying Nun
Dark Shadows
Peyton Place
Land of the Giants
Love American Style
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
Room 222
Charlie's Angels
Bionic Woman
Three's Company
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew
The Love Boat
Fantasy Island
What's Happening!
Wonder Woman (started on ABC and ended on NBC)

NBC
I Dream of Jeannie
Hazel
Get Smart
The Facts of Life
Little House on the Prairie
Police Woman

CBS:
Good Times
The Jeffersons
The Twilight Zone
I Love Lucy
Petticoat Junction
The Munsters
Gilligan's Island
Family Affair
Lost in Space
The Doris Day Show

Syndicated:
Prisoner: Cell Block H

 

[LCD22]

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[LCD22]

ABC

Bewitched
Grey's Anatomy
Home Improvement

Life on Mars
Lost
MacGyver
October Road
Sports Night

NBC

California Dreams
Frasier
I Dream of Jeannie
Quantum Leap

CBS

Due South
Early Edition
JAG
Jericho
Magnum, P.I.
NCIS
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs

Rhoda
This Is America, Charlie Brown (mini-series)
Touched by an Angel
The Unit

Fox

Firefly
The Lone Gunmen


HGTV


Living with Ed

The WB

Everwood
JKX: The Jamie Kennedy Experiment
Supernatural

UPN

Nowhere Man
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Voyager

PBS

Rick Steves' Europe (including specials)

Syndication

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation

USA Network

The 4400
Burn Notice
The Dead Zone
Monk
Psych

White Collar

Sci-Fi Channel

The Lost Room (mini-series)
Stargate SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis

Food Network

Oliver's Twist

Showtime

Stargate SG-1

CBC

Our Hero

Road to Avonlea

CTV

Corner Gas
Due South

Flashpoint

BBC1

Doctor Who (2005)
MI-5/Spooks

BBC2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (mini-series)

ITV

Sherlock Holmes (Granada Television series)

Channel 4

Jamie's Kitchen