5 favorite TV shows ever (1 Viewer)

[McGarnicle]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

 

[otello]

San Pedro Beach Bums

6 Million Dollar Man

Ultraman

Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot

Chico and the Man

 

[NCCommish]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

 

[Koya]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

And Hill St Blues before then.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Star Blazers

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Torrent Yamato 2199 some day. It is an updated version of what we watched as kids. I just finished the run with my daughter and we both loved it.

Our Star Blazers!!!!!Lived to watch that at 6:30am every morning when I was a young lad. I actually am looking at buying seasons one and two on DVD...but want to wait to see if they do a BD remaster first.

I have both seasons on DVD. The quality is weak as you could expect, but getting to watch them with my kid was awesome.It was great contrasting the Yamato 2199 with the old Star Blazers. My daughter liked that there was more than one girl on the crew in the new version

Would watch that every morning as long as I could and then have to sprint to avoid missing the bus to school.

Tried watching it again on Netflix I think it was and... oof. Yeah, quality not quite what the child me had remembered. Will have to look for the new one.

Yeah it is pretty dated . I still enjoyed it just from a memory stand point. The new one is super high quality. Note that it follows more of the Japanese story line of the Yamato, than the English one for the Argo (which was dumbed down so that 1970's American moms would not complain about sex and violence in little Johnnys cartoon).

There is also a very well made live action movie that came out in 2010.

 

[Ilov80s]

The Wire

Game of Thrones

Seinfeld

Taxi

Mad Men

 

[Ilov80s]

Interesting as GoT seems to be one of the few current shows that keeps coming up. Pretty impressive for just 40 episodes.

 

[Shankopotamus]

1 Game of Thrones

2 Married with Children

3 Burn Notice

4 X-Files

5 Pick an HM

HM: Knight Rider (greatest show ever, when I was 12), Dark Angel (best show cancelled way to soon), Dexter (season 1-5 only)

 

[Anarchy99]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

 

[joffer]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

Breaking Bad

The Wire

 

[Daywalker]

Fairly Standard:

Seinfeld

The Wire

Breaking Bad

The Sopranos

Six Feet Under

Hard to crack that nut.

The West Wing, GoT, The Shield, CURB and Mad Men on the next five. Some other serious contenders but not really a threat to break into the top 10.

Band of Brothers? Put that in another category. Best thing ever on film/digital should suffice.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I dont get all the GoT love

 

[snogger]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Haven't seen The Wire, yet, but Breaking Bad is a "Must see".

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

The wire

Game of Thrones

Seinfeld

Chappelle's Show

Breaking Bad

 

[jamny]

Seinfeld

Its always sunny in philadelphia

Rescue me

The office

Workaholics

Rescue Me was so great the first few seasons but really fell apart the last couple.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Breaking Bad

The Walking Dead

Married with Children

The Wire

Seinfeld

/thread

Can't have a thread ender when you include the thoroughly mediocre The Walking Dead.

Sorry, but the Walking Dead is and has been one of the most popular shows ever. I love TWD. Also, to the poster who said Band of Brothers, I don't think mini series should count. They have a definite end date and band of brothers only had 10 episodes.

"Popular" doesn't necessarily equal "good".

Hope that helps.

unpopular sure as hell doesn't equal "good". Hope that helps.

People like you are why we have Transformers 37 and Justin Bieber.

 

[MC Gas Money]

Seinfeld

Its always sunny in philadelphia

Rescue me

The office

Workaholics

Rescue Me was so great the first few seasons but really fell apart the last couple.

I know. It was the same old stories of falling on and off the wagon, breaking up and reconciling with his wife and s few dramatic stretches thrown inWho could stand a love triangle that lasts 5 seasons?

 

[fatness]

the Honeymooners

Twilight Zone

True Detective

Fargo

Percy Platypus and his Friends

 

[mon]

Northern Exposure

Andy Griffith Show

MASH

Scrubs

Seinfeld

 

[randall146]

Based on shows that I've considered "must see" over the course of my life:

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Arrested Development

West Wing

Cheers

Magnum PI

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

Breaking Bad and Battlestar Galactica

 

[sports_fan]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

Breaking Bad

The Wire

The West Wing (first few seasons)

 

[fightingillini]

This is hard......and I am not a huge network TV guy.

In no particular order

24

Cheers

Law and Order

The Amazing Race

Melrose Place - I know the acting wasn't great, but it was such a guilty pleasure in the 90s. Plus, tons of women watched it, so it was a great conversation icebreaker when I was single.

Next 5 would be, in no particular order

Everybody Loves Raymond

The Jeffersons

Big Brother

Brady Bunch

The Dukes of Hazzard

Did I say this was hard?

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Interesting as GoT seems to be one of the few current shows that keeps coming up. Pretty impressive for just 40 episodes.

Start this thread back when Lost was about 40 episodes in, and Lost would be getting more mentions than GoT is in this one.

 

[JohnnyU]

Breaking Bad

The Walking Dead

Married with Children

The Wire

Seinfeld

/thread

Can't have a thread ender when you include the thoroughly mediocre The Walking Dead.

Sorry, but the Walking Dead is and has been one of the most popular shows ever. I love TWD. Also, to the poster who said Band of Brothers, I don't think mini series should count. They have a definite end date and band of brothers only had 10 episodes.

"Popular" doesn't necessarily equal "good".

Hope that helps.

unpopular sure as hell doesn't equal "good". Hope that helps.

People like you are why we have Transformers 37 and Justin Bieber.

No reason to be such a Richard. You would think I was the only one who thinks the Walking Dead is a fantastic show. I've seen a lot worse than the Walking Dead listed in this thread. Perhaps I should have replaced it with MASH or All in the Family, or Law and Order, but I listed one show that strays from the norm and you think I'm some teenie bopper. Since I'm an old man I can say that I love a lot of shows from the 70s, but it's hard when you can only list 5. Hell, I also love the Sopranos but I didn't have room for them either. Besides the Walking Dead, I'm pretty sure I could put up the other 4 against any show listed in this thread. After all, it's a personal preference as stated by the title of this thread. Your 5 is no better or worse than mine.

 

[McGarnicle]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

I'm guessing mostly Caruso-related?

My favorite scene is after Sipowicz meets Silvia's family and falls off the wagon, and calls them a bunch of Greek idiots.

 

[NCCommish]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

I'm guessing mostly Caruso-related?

My favorite scene is after Sipowicz meets Silvia's family and falls off the wagon, and calls them a bunch of Greek idiots.

No actually it was David Milch. He has many demons. Heroin addict, compulsive gambler, etc. He would literally be writing that days script minutes before it was to be performed. By year 7 it was complete chaos and that's a big part of the reason he left.

 

[Josie Maran]

Breaking Bad

The Shield

The Wire

Game of Thrones

True Detective

The Simpsons

Seinfeld

Cheers

Arrested Development

American Dad

 

[jamny]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

I'm guessing mostly Caruso-related?

My favorite scene is after Sipowicz meets Silvia's family and falls off the wagon, and calls them a bunch of Greek idiots.

No actually it was David Milch. He has many demons. Heroin addict, compulsive gambler, etc. He would literally be writing that days script minutes before it was to be performed. By year 7 it was complete chaos and that's a big part of the reason he left.

I loved the show when it was on, at least until the last few seasons. I don't think I made it through the whole run.

Is there a good book on the behind the scenes stuff?

 

[NCCommish]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

I'm guessing mostly Caruso-related?

My favorite scene is after Sipowicz meets Silvia's family and falls off the wagon, and calls them a bunch of Greek idiots.

No actually it was David Milch. He has many demons. Heroin addict, compulsive gambler, etc. He would literally be writing that days script minutes before it was to be performed. By year 7 it was complete chaos and that's a big part of the reason he left.

I loved the show when it was on, at least until the last few seasons. I don't think I made it through the whole run.

Is there a good book on the behind the scenes stuff?

Milch and the cast have done a lot of interviews where it got talked about but I don't know if anyone wrote a book.

 

[GregR]

I find this thread fascinating on a personal level. I grew up without cable and only a B+W television with an antenna to watch local channels. For several years I did not have a tv at all. Then finally got basic cable as an adult but never had Netflix. So there are at least 100 shows listed here that I have never seen at all. And we are talking some MAJOR shows.

I never really was that driven to watch television and always had a million other things to do. Even missing that huge chunk of shows mentioned here, there are still plenty that I have seen the majority of, if not all of.

And with such a huge list to catch up on (and still very little free time), I'm not sure I feel compelled to want to catch up on all of them. Of shows from say the past 10 years, what would you guys list as the "must sees"? The only shows I really watched in that time were Lost, Dexter, Six Feet Under, 24, L&O SVU, CSI, and Rescue Me.

If you like sci fi at all, and enjoyed the type of humor in the Avengers movie, then Firefly is a must see.

Edit to add: Also, after watching the whole series, go back and watch the pilot episode again with the Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion commentary turned on.

 

[Rove!]

I completely forgot about Freaks and Geeks

 

[Rove!]

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Seinfeld

Always Sunny

The Andy Griffith Show

my next 5 would be

Freaks and Geeks

The Shield

Larry Sanders

The Twilight Zone

The Office (Gervais version)

too early to tell, but could crack the top 5: Rick and Morty

 

[HellToupee]

Seinfeld

Curb

X Files

Sopranos

Deadwood

HMs

Rockford Files/OfficeUK/LarrySanders/Extras/Get Smart/

 

[Ilov80s]

I dont get all the GoT love

Great political drama, violence, smart writing, a massive cast of good actors, lots of nudity, and production values that blow away anything ever put on TV.

 

[Hunterbeer]

To keep it at 5 I have to just seperate dramas and comedies. Even that makes it hard, but in no order:

The Wire

The Shield

Babylon 5

NYPD Blue

Buffy

(Can't believe I left off Sopranos, Mad Men, Battlestar and so many others)

 

[The General]

GoT

Breaking Bad

West Wing

MASH

The Wire

Honorable Mention: Seinfeld, Deadwood, Curb, Colbert, The Shield, Mad Men, Survivor, Dexter, LOST, Original Star Trek, Law and Order, Sopranos,

 

[pollardsvision]

Just went with the 1st 5 that came to me, might regret it later:

The Shield

MASH

Friends

Boston Legal

Cheers

I wouldn't put it in my Top 5, but that really was such a great show. Very funny and the cast was outstanding.

 

[shuke]

Breaking Bad

Twin Peaks

Seinfeld

The Wire

MST 3000

 

[shuke]

3 of my 5 aren't on anyone's list.

OMG you're so cool!

 

[pollardsvision]

NYPD Blue

Good call. This was a big favorite of mine through the first Jimmy Smits season. Totally forgot about this show.

Once you learn what the behind the scenes was like on that show it's amazing the high caliber work they did. The drama on the screen had nothing on the drama on the set for a long time.

I'm guessing mostly Caruso-related?

My favorite scene is after Sipowicz meets Silvia's family and falls off the wagon, and calls them a bunch of Greek idiots.

No actually it was David Milch. He has many demons. Heroin addict, compulsive gambler, etc. He would literally be writing that days script minutes before it was to be performed. By year 7 it was complete chaos and that's a big part of the reason he left.

I loved the show when it was on, at least until the last few seasons. I don't think I made it through the whole run.

Is there a good book on the behind the scenes stuff?

Sepinwall's book (The Revolution Was Televised) goes into a lot of Milch detail, though mostly as it relates to Deadwood. There's a lot of NYPD Blue stuff too though. He was a huge fan.

It's a great book in general.

 

[The General]

Tough...

I could choose ones for periods of my life.

I mean dukes of hazard was an all timer for me as a kid but not as a best show ever. I need to think.

cheers

Seinfeld

NYPD make my list so far...i think

The Dukes, The A Team, and Knight Rider was all I needed as a kid. Think I dabbled in Airwolf, Night Court, Quantum Leap, and Wonder Years.

 

[skol asylum]

There are a ton of shows ive never seen as well inclusing Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Lost, and most of HBO going way back other than Game of Thrones and True Detective. Gonna have to catch up with Netflix and HBO Go now that I have it. What to watch first...

 

[skol asylum]

The Dukes of Hazzard was everyone's favorite when I was in Kindergarten/1st grade.

 

[skol asylum]

Tough...

I could choose ones for periods of my life.

I mean dukes of hazard was an all timer for me as a kid but not as a best show ever. I need to think.

cheers

Seinfeld

NYPD make my list so far...i think

The Dukes, The A Team, and Knight Rider was all I needed as a kid. Think I dabbled in Airwolf, Night Court, Quantum Leap, and Wonder Years.

Same with Cheers and Dallas and Knots Landing thrown in their along with V when I was a little older.

 

[Warsteinner]

Trailer Park Boys

Eastbound and Down

South Park

Dukes of Hazzard

Magnum PI

 

[chauncey]

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Six Feet Under

Chuck

How I Met Your Mother

 

[Daywalker]

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Six Feet Under

Chuck

How I Met Your Mother

Chuck is actually a solid network show. Always wondered why it stuck around when I saw the promos every year. Looked so generic. I'm on season three now. The supporting cast is good and they do an excellent job of "showcasing" Strahovski every episode. Would have been a huge show if it debuted 10 years earlier.

One of the few shows that I don't skip the opening credits for on Netflix.

Not a top show for me but underrated overall.

 

[Josie Maran]

Breaking Bad

The Wire

Six Feet Under

Chuck

How I Met Your Mother

Chuck is actually a solid network show. Always wondered why it stuck around when I saw the promos every year. Looked so generic. I'm on season three now. The supporting cast is good and they do an excellent job of "showcasing" Strahovski every episode. Would have been a huge show if it debuted 10 years earlier.One of the few shows that I don't skip the opening credits for on Netflix.

Not a top show for me but underrated overall.

Great comedy, fun action sequences, eye candy galore, and a lot of heart. Thoroughly entertaining show.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Breaking Bad

Twin Peaks

Seinfeld

The Wire

MST 3000

I like the cut of your jib.