Best TV show ever?

[Mozart]

Why isnt the wonder years on dvd?

[mahlertitan]

i grew up watching X-files, well, until the 6th season.

[Don]

Why isnt the wonder years on dvd?

Lack of demand?

[71 dB]

The best TV show ever is The X-Files.

It's innovative, creative, bold, uncompromizing and overall a monumental achievement in TV history. It has stunning production value and the production team is highly talented. It has excellent acting. It has excellent directing and use of camera and lenses. It has wonderful music by Mark Snow. It has a strong mythology but it also has humoristic/strange episode for versatility.

It took almost 10 years for me to fully understand how good this show is. People who complain about the last seasons and other things do not have a clue how good The X-Files is, were it's strengths are. People don't learn to appreciate the use of camera lenses or other brilliant artistical solutions when only few shows provide them.

[bwv 1080]

The Wire

[greg]

Heroes

[Daidalos]

Six Feet Under

Terrific cast, intelligent stories, engaging and believable characters, and a low-key, morbid sense of humour. Perfect.

[helios]

For me, either Inspector Morse or Blackadder (though I suppose the whole Morse series were adapations of the books).

Also kudos to Jeeves & Wooster (Fry & Laurie are just smashing). 

[Sean]

Not that I watch TV, and it's got a lot worse of course over the last couple of decades, but Spitting image and The Young Ones were in parts two of the best things the BBC ever did- shocking, critical satire that the present horde-driven drivel put a stop to.

[Don Giovanni]

My favourite comedy show is still Frasier. Although it's very clever much of the time, it's true hilarity is exposed during its most farcical moments. I like the way the writers weren't afraid to make jokes about many 'highbrow' things that the majority of the population wouldn't have understood (mainly related to classical music/opera/literature/art). Despite all my love for it, I'm pleased it ended when it did. It suffered a slight dip in quality after Niles and Daphne finally got together (Niles's Daphne-related antics had been the source of many laughs). It did, however, recover in the 11th season and drew everything to a nice, slightly suprising, close.

[Don]

Not that I watch TV, and it's got a lot worse of course over the last couple of decades,

I think it's better than 20 years ago.  As the Beatles said - "It's getting better all the time".

[Cato]

Yancy Derringer, now on DVD believe it or not.

Dude!  That show rocked! With  Jock Mahoney!  Great name!

And the father of Sally Field!

Greatest Comedy ever, especially in its later years:

GREEN ACRES!!!

Greatest Action/Drama is on right now, a show that at times has the Aristotelian catharsis of Greek tragedy:

24.

[karlhenning]

I think it's better than 20 years ago.  As the Beatles said - "It's getting better all the time".

May TV never again hit the nadir of Sir Michael Tippett watching Wonder Woman

[karlhenning]

Greatest Comedy ever, especially in its later years:

GREEN ACRES!!!

Daaah-link!

[hornteacher]

Greatest Adventure:  DOCTOR WHO

Greatest Comedy: FAWLTY TOWERS

Greatest Drama: MASH

Greatest Mystery: SHERLOCK HOLMES (JEREMEY BRETT)

Greatest Game Show: WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY?

[Solitary Wanderer]

I watched very little TV when I was a kid 'cause I was busy listening to music in my bedroom 

..but in recent years, with the advent of DVD boxsets, I've rediscovered the joy of 'TV series'.

So the best thing on TV is DVD!

My wife and I have watched many, many shows on this format over the past few years and my faves are:

Six Feet Under
24
The Sopranos
Nip/Tuck
Frasier

Also good are:

Deadwood
The Wire
The Shield
Prison Break
Lost
Carnivale
Boston Legal


If I could only nominate one then it would be Six Feet Under [That final episode nearly had me in tears]

[oyasumi]

I'm not sure Whose Line is a game show. Its main purpose was comedy, not competition, and, for the most part, had the same cast. Jeopardy! is a game show.

Greatest TV shows:

The Simpsons
I Love Lucy
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Columbo

The first three could be the best comedies ever. Fawlty Towers is up there, too. Columbo is just awesome.

[Cato]

Fawlty Towers is an all-around fave!  

About 1/3 of the episodes of The Twilight Zone are on the "great" level.  MST3000 was also great, but an acquired tatste.

The only problem with Whose Line Is It Anyway? is that the very unfunny, unwitty, uncreative Drew Carey was involved.

The show where Sid Caesar came out in a wheelchair proved this conclusively: Sid Caesar after a stroke was 10 times more creative, wittier, and just downright funnier than Carey, who was unable to keep up.

[hornteacher]

The only problem with Whose Line Is It Anyway? is that the very unfunny, unwitty, uncreative Drew Carey was involved.

The UK version had the very witty Clive Anderson.

[Cato]

The UK version had the very witty Clive Anderson.

Here the other players, especially Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie, were very good to hysterical.  Drew Carey at least had the good sense most of the time not to participate!