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Re: Your top 10 all-time favorite TV shows?

I don't have 10 because I mostly watch movies on TV like on TCM and a few other cable movie channels.  Here are the shows I've always liked and still watch on TV, no special order:

 

I Love Lucy

The Golden Girls

Cheers

Matlock

The Walking Dead

 

 

 

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Ed Sullivan Show

Carol Burnett Show

Thunderbirds (marionette childrens adventure series)

M*A*S*H

Star Trek

Wiseguy

Due South

X-Files ( first few seasons)

FarScape

Frasier

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The Wire

Fargo

All in the Family

Designing Women

Are You Being Served?

Faulty Towers

Monty Python's Flying Circus

The Colbert Report

The Daily Show

and my all-time favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000

 

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My ten all time favorite shows in order would be:

#1. Coupling (BBC series about relationships. The first three seasons are absolutely hilarious. It fell off a bit in season four, but still good. )

#2. Big Brother. (The combination of the shows and live feeds are hard to beat.)

#3. Night Court. (Boundary pushing and hilarious.)

#4/5. Tie between Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls. (Two very similar short-lived series.)

#6.The Amazing Race. (Some seasons better than others, but always entertaining.) 

#7. Good Neighbors (BBC. Tom and Barabara Goode try to lead an independent life with hilarious complications.)

#8. WKRP in Cincinnati. (Hilarious and still holds up.)

#9.Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (An impressive transition from a movie to a long, entertaining series.)

#10. Gilmore Girls. (Alternately funny and touching and often both. Brilliantly written in the first few years.)

 

Honorable mentions would go to Deadliest Catch, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Absolutely Fabulous, Cheers (The Diane years,) 24, The Avengers (way, way back with Diana Rigg,) Orphan Black, Gold Rush.

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@gardenman wrote:

#4/5. Tie between Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls. (Two very similar short-lived series.)

I still need to catch all these episodes because I'm a huge fan of Lee Pace.
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This is one haphazard list!  Twelve titles but I can't decide which two to cut.

 

Wiseguy

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Breaking Bad

Halt and Catch Fire

All Creatures Great and Small

Doctor in the House

Sisters

ER

Night Gallery

Moonlighting

24

The X Files

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Monk

LOST

X-Files

Dexter

Six Feet Under

Breaking Bad

24

Downton Abbey

MASH

Northern Exposure

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My Three Sons

Bewitched

All My Children

One Life to Live

Patty Duke Show

Petticoat Junction

That Girl

Sunday Night Football

Monday Night Football

 

And last but not least, the greatest TV show ever

 

M*A*S*H

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@IlliniGirl88 wrote:

I Love Lucy

Wings

Seinfeld

Frasier

Twilight Zone (old reruns)

MASH

Andy Griffith Show

Monk

Psych

Murder, She Wrote (The early episodes, where everyone in Cabot Cove was dying.  Such a high murder rate for such a small town.)Woman LOL


I always thought that was so funny. It's one thing to have a mystery set in a big city, but when it's in a very small town like Cabot Cove it's always hilarious to me. Every home in the area would have a for sale sign, either because the homeowner was killed or because everyone else was fleeing the place. My hometown is 7 times the population of the fictional Cabot Cove and between 2002 and today, there have been two murders One was by a neighbor and one was by one of those travelling magazine salesmen. 

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@MoJoV wrote:

Knotts Landing

St. Elswhere

Homicide (Life on the Street)

NYPD Blue

Mary Tyler Moore Show

Waltons

Arrested Development

Dallas

Little House on the Prairie

Outer Limits

 


I'm so glad to see this on someone's list and regret not putting it on mine. Homicide: Life of the Streets is one of the best shows every put on television. The team behind it has made some remarkable television over the years: The Corner, The Wire, Oz, Copper, Killing Fields, and more.