Best TV show ever?

[hornteacher]

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!

Colin and Greg (Proops) were always my favorites.  Greg is just so obnoxious and Colin's humor was so out of left field it took me by surprise many times.

[Mayfielder]

Leave It To Beaver
It doesn't feel like a TV show - we're just eavesdropping on an Eisenhower-era family.
Also,
The Andy Griffith Show
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
Gilligan's Island
Columbo
and, yes, McHales' Navy and Green Acres

[Lethevich]

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.

I think Spitting Image was ITV. ITV doesn't produce much of any significance, so when it does it should be congradulated.

[Bogey]

My top 10 have yet to change, all of which are no longer running, save re-runs:

1. Andy Griffith (Don Knotts' years only)
2. M*A*S*H
3. Star Trek: TOS
4. X-Files
5. Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series
6. Cadfael Series
7. Columbo
8. Star Trek: TNG
9. Night Stalker-The Original Series
10.Hogan's Heroes

[rockerreds]

Everwood

[knight66]

I thought that this version of Bleak House was completely compelling.


West Wing also was brilliant, especially the first five series.

Mike

[karlhenning]

I thought that this version of Bleak House was completely compelling.

Ditto, Mike.  Made me want to read the book, it did.

Not that I have, yet, I haven't 

[Harry]

Funny, I am reading it now, am half way am I!

[Steve]

No one nominating Seinfeld...

[karlhenning]

No one nominating Seinfeld...

Someone did, I forget offhand who.

[BachQ]

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]

Good lists!

Mine:

The Shield
Prison Break (when it actually airs)
Six Feet Under
24
Lost
The Wire
Seinfeld / Fraiser
Columbo
Star Trek (OS)

[Mozart]

Im shocked that none of you ol' timers have mentioned Perry Mason!

[rubio]

For nostalgic reasons and for it's originality in the 90's Twin Peaks ranks high in my list. I'm a huge David Lynch fan. On the same level are also Sopranos, and not much below - Carnivale.

For comedy I love Simpsons (Homer is my hero)) and the British version of The Office (pure genius!).

[Solitary Wanderer]

West Wing also was brilliant, especially the first five series.

Mike

Yes, I forgot to include West Wing on my original list. We watched the first 5 seasons on DVD boxset in a row. Great stuff! Season 6 has just been released [here] so I'm keen to see that.

[Don]

Im shocked that none of you ol' timers have mentioned Perry Mason!

Perry Mason had a problem - he always won.

[cx]

Haven't kept up with TV in the past 5 years or so but of the many mentioned Seinfeld and X-files stand out to me. I also liked The Kids in the Hall quite a lot, great stuff.

[Don]

Yes, I forgot to include West Wing on my original list. We watched the first 5 seasons on DVD boxset in a row. Great stuff! Season 6 has just been released [here] so I'm keen to see that.

I was never a big fan of West Wing, not with all their self-important politicians and clones.

[Cato]

I was never a big fan of West Wing, not with all their self-important politicians and clones.

Too propagandistic, like Designing Women or Boston Legal.  As Sam Goldwyn supposedly said, if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

Today I guess you would pull out your cell phone.

Propaganda or filth mean turn the station or turn it off.  My wife and I were becoming increasingly shocked by Charlie Sheen's Two and a Half Men this year.  The sexual humor based on Sheen's character could be funny, and at times in the earlier years was very funny.  But we noticed an incredible increase in unacceptable jokes this year, which reached a peak on their Christmas show of all things.

Sorry, Charlie!      To quote Sam Goldwyn again: Include us out!

[Iago]

1. Bugs Bunny/RoadRunner Cartoon Series

2. Captain Video  (1950s)

3.  Lucky Pup (1950s) featuring "Pinhead" the Idiot, and "Foudini" the Magician.

4. Rowan and Martins "Laugh In"i

5. Dean Martins "Celebrity Roasts"

6. "Have Gun, Will Travel"  - With Richard Boone as the gunslinging crime fighter

7. "Your Show of Shows"- Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, Carl Reiner

8.  Any WWF Wrestling Presentation

9.  CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

10. New Years Concerts from Vienna featuring the Vienna Philharmonic.

Do ya think "Boris" would approve of this list?

[lisa needs braces]

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