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Your top 10 TV shows of all time (1 Viewer)

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I started a thread recently about "What are you currently watching." It got me to thinking about my all time top 10.

Top 10 (in no particular order)
M*A*S*H
Seinfeld
Breaking Bad
Star Trek
The Wire
Chappelle’s Show
Taxi
The Office
The Twilight Zone
The Sopranos

Honorable Mention: Fargo, The Rockford Files, The X-Files, Curb Your Enthusiam, Justified, Cheers, The Bob Newhart Show, Carol Burnett Show, All in the Family, The Andy Griffith Show, The Simpsons

 
Very tough to get down to just ten.  I don't watch comedies (not since Friends and Fraser ended - however, those eps of It's Always Sunny that I have seen have been unfailingly hilarious, so I probably should be watching that one), and I therefore don't have the comedy/drama mix issue.   

Star Trek (original series)

NYPD Blue

Mad Men

Angel

Boardwalk Empire

24

X-Files

L.A. Law

Law & Order

Lewis (UK police drama, sometimes known as "Inspector Lewis" in the U.S.)

Loads of honorable mentions.  And not firm on X-Files or 24 depending on the day. 

 
- SNL: simply put, my religion for 40 yrs, my scourge the last 2

- Get Smart: talked like Don Adams for two solid yrs. would you belieeeeve....

- Rockford Files: my grillcheese/tomatosoup to this day

- Monty Python's Flying Circus

- Letterman: you have noooo idea how differently people talked once Dave's sarcasm grabbed ahold of us

- Hill Street Blues

- Seinfeld

- West Wing

- Mad Men

- Jeopardy

Honorable mention: Ernie Kovacs, Moose & Squirrel, Perry Mason, Benny Hill, Lonesome Dove, Twin Peaks, Alias, Angels in America, Chappelle Show, BrBa, Fargo, DailyShow/ColbertReport, Sherlock AND Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes.

 
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Some personal favorites, I'm not claiming any of these are masterpiece theatre in any way.  Many of them are just favorites from when I was a kid and have a lot of emotional resonance.

WKRP - still has the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV in the "Turkey Drop"

Seinfeld - classic across the board

Star Trek - watched with my dad and now with my son

Magnum PI - classic action TV

Wild Wild West - watched a ton with my dad

Night Court - my favorite comedy TV from my childhood

Dukes of Hazzard - probably the first TV show that I ever considered my "favorite"

Game of Thrones - great TV

Lost - ok, nobody loved the ending....but it was a great ride

Law & Order - great watchability

 
no particular order, but Seinfeld is tops for me -

Seinfeld

All in the Family

Sopranos

Sanford and Son

The Odd Couple

Maude

The Black Donnelys

The Young Ones

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Twilight Zone

 
Breaking Bad

The Sopranos

The Wire

The Office

Six Feet Under

The Simpsons

Seinfeld

Cheers

NYPD Blue

LA Law

I can't put shows like Fargo or Better Call Saul on the list after just a couple seasons, but they'll probably end up in my top 10. The Affair and Mad Men just missed the cut.

If we go back to favorite shows from way back, I'd have to put the original Battlestar Galactica, Dukes of Hazzard Knight Rider and Hunter up there too.

 
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Based on liking the show enough to buy DVDs, no particular order:

Firefly
Sopranos
Game of Thrones
Twin Peaks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Battlestar Galactica (2000s version)
West Wing
House of Cards
Babylon 5
Deadwood
 

Westworld may or may not bump one of these eventually

 
Breaking Bad

Seinfeld

The Office

Sportscenter

Friends

Law & Order

Psych

The Chappelle Show

Daredevil

Gilmore Girls (NTTAWWT)

 
Breaking Bad

The Wire

Game of Thrones

The Shield

Cheers

Seinfeld

The Simpsons

Archer

Terriers

Hannibal

Honorable mention to Community, South Park, Sunny, The Americans, The Magic Hour, Sherlock, and ER  

 
Happy Days

All in the Family

Soap

Game of Thrones

Breaking Bad

Seinfeld

The Office

Taxi

I Love Lucy

Cheers

 
Seinfeld

All in the Family

MASH

Cheers

Get Smart

Lost

Breaking Bad

NYPD Blues

The Simpsons

Flintstones

 
Lost 

Breaking Bad

The Simpsons

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Game of Thrones

Archer

The Walking Dead

Seinfeld

Its Always Sunny in Philadelphialphia

Band of Brothers (Not sure if this counts since it's more a miniseries)

 
Breaking Bad

Seinfeld

Law and Order

Andy Griffith

Lost

Pardon the Interruption (not normally something people would talk about but it's a TV show)

TWIB - This Week in Baseball (TWIB notes baby!)

Law and Order (SVU)

Modern Family

Sopranos

 
Setting aside artistic value and focusing solely on enjoyment and "must see'ness" at the time I was watching.

And emphasizing that not all of these have aged well but "at the time"...

Seinfeld (natch)

Firefly (made significantly better since it had a chance to "wrap up" via an excellent movie)

Frasier

Burn Notice (really strong television for a USA Network show)

Buffy

Angel

Star Blazers (I honestly remember virtually nothing about this cartoon except the theme song and that it RULED when I was a kid...space soap opera on a freakin' battleship-space-cruiser)

Modern Family

Dukes of Hazard (again, this was "must watch" TV of my youth...could also have gone with Knight Rider or Magnum PI or The A-Team but this was the one)

Cheers

My problem is there were so many shows that were REALLY GREAT for a few seasons but then tailed off. Which is also why I'm not listing anything on the air today (other than Modern Family) simply because there's no guarantee they don't turn into lousy shows. For instance, I enjoy the present-day super hero shows (Arrow and Flash and Daredevil, etc) but I see vast potential for shark jumpingness in the future (I couldn't even finish the first season of Legends of Tomorrow it got so bad).

True confessions: I've only seen the first four episodes of Breaking Bad (but I will someday watch the rest). I think Sopranos and Game of Thrones are vastly overrated. I really liked How I Met Your Mother and Friends. I've never seen The Wire. As a kid, I could have watched Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and Challenge of the Super-Friends all day, every day. Anyone else remember Manimal? Remington Steele was awesome. So was Moonlighting (until it wasn't). I still like the theme song to Greatest American Hero. Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie really did it for me. The Fonz was the bomb. Gilligan's Island earns credit as "best show to ever feature the Harlem Globetrotters stranded on a desert island".

End of confessions.

 
Some I haven't seen mentioned

Spartacus

HBO Rome

Deadwood

Bob and David

Madmen

Breaking bad, Seinfeld, and game of thrones, sopranos must be on it.

 
In no particular order,

The Wire
Firefly
Stargate SG-1
Battlestar Galactica (new one)
Game of Thrones
The Chappelle Show
Babylon 5
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Leverage
Burn Notice
Arliss
Sports Night

Honorable mentions:

Seinfeld
Cheers
Breaking Bad (currently watching, only 2 seasons in)
24
MASH



 

 
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In no particular order...

Breaking Bad

Firefly

Battlestar Galactica (new one)

Lost

The Simpsons

Arrested Development

The Office

The Walking Dead

24

(open slot)

 
Aerial Assault said:
Very tough to get down to just ten.  I don't watch comedies (not since Friends and Fraser ended - however, those eps of It's Always Sunny that I have seen have been unfailingly hilarious, so I probably should be watching that one), and I therefore don't have the comedy/drama mix issue.   

Star Trek (original series)

NYPD Blue

Mad Men

Angel

Boardwalk Empire

24

X-Files

L.A. Law

Law & Order

Lewis (UK police drama, sometimes known as "Inspector Lewis" in the U.S.)

Loads of honorable mentions.  And not firm on X-Files or 24 depending on the day. 
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Angel over Buffy?

 
Aerial Assault said:
Yes, by far.  One of those strange cases - not usually found in the TV world but in movies - where the sequel eclipsed the original. 
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Interesting. 

I remember trying Angel a bit ago and not loving it.  Got a bit into the 1st season and then let it go.  Keep seeing it on people's lists and have been told the best couple seasons of Angel rival that of the best of Buffy (which is my favorite show). 

I am currently on a rewatch (yet again) and just got done with Season 3 of Buffy.  A bit ago I printed a list of episodes that I saw on a website that suggested a way to watch Buffy and Angel together and alternating between the two as their plots line up a bit, which would start now with Season 1 of Angel and Season 4 of Buffy.  Thought that was interesting, so when I fire up Season 4 of Buffy, I will start back up and give Angel a serious go. 

 
M*A*S*H

Simpsons

Cheers

All in the Family

I Love Lucy

Seinfeld

24

LA Law

Family Guy

Honeymooners

 
This is based on the shows that I either own or at least love enough to watch over:

Buffy

Arrested Development

Curb Your Enthusiasm

X-Files

The Office

Six Feet Under

Seinfeld

Breaking Bad

Game of Thrones

Battlestar Galactica

That is more what most of us would consider for the list, but stuff like Nova, Frontline, Pardon the Interruption, Real Time, etc.. are usually must watches for me. 

 
I am very surprised to see The Wire on so many lists.  I tried my hardest to watch it but to be honest I don't even know if I got through the last season.  

 
1. west wing

2. buffy

3. veronica mars

4. friends

5. boy meets world

6. jag

7. sports night

8. angel

9. monk

10. newsroom

hm: dawsons creek, switched at birth, psych, alias, wonder years, early edition, house, one tree hill, heroes

 
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-  Friday Night Lights:  Just amazing television.  It started right when me and my wife moved to Austin (where it was filmed).  It encapsulated so much for me in our new home.  It meant more to me than just television. 

-  Alias:  Jennifer Garner = hot and it was fun and exciting.  Always interested in "intelligence" / "covert ops", etc.

-  Seinfeld:  Should go without saying.

-  X-Files:  Chemistry between Scully and Mulder was always great, loved the subject matter.

-  The Walking Dead:  Was never a "binge watcher" until I picked up watching this in Season 4 or 5 and had to go back and watch the first few seasons, which were simply amazing.

-  Game of Thrones:  After I got caught up with TWD and it went on "break", I needed another show in the same wheelhouse.  Wife watched (and loved) it so I gave it a try.  Glad I did.

-  Diff'rent Strokes:  Had to include one from my childhood.  Was my go-to, out of all the big 80's sitcoms.

-  Friends:  The perfect 90's sitcom.  The anchor of that awesome NBC night with Frasier and ER (see below).

-  True Detective (S1):  Had to include it even being just a handful of episodes.  Probably the best 1 season of TV ever.

-  ER:  Sliding this into my top-10.  Was never really into the genre but it was just too compelling to ignore.

 
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Parks and Recreation 

The Wire

Saturday Night Live

Cheers

LOST

Key & Peele

Malcolm In The Middle

Friday Night Lights

Breaking Bad

Psych

 
Seinfeld

MASH

All in the Family

Dallas

Cheers

Simpsons

CSI

Friends

Law and Order

House

Special nod to Baywatch for the babes

 
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joffer said:
Tough to mix comedies and dramas
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It is, but if forced to...

Breaking Bad
The Sopranos
Seinfeld
Cheers
Six Feet Under
Dexter
All in the Family
The Simpsons (on the strength of the first 10 seasons or so)
Friends
The Office

 
Breaking Bad

Seinfeld 

Game of Thrones 

Walking Dead

The Office

LOST

The Sopranos 

Mad Men

Friends

WKRP in Cincinnati 

 
Don't Noonan said:
I am very surprised to see The Wire on so many lists.  I tried my hardest to watch it but to be honest I don't even know if I got through the last season.  
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You're surprised to see the consensus No. 1 show of critics on so many top-10 lists?

 
No real order

Seinfeld

Curb Your Enthusiasm 

Extras

Sopranos

Deadwood

X-Files

Rockford Files

Larry Sanders Show

No Reservations 

Lost

 
HellToupee said:
No real order

Seinfeld

Curb Your Enthusiasm 

Extras

Sopranos

Deadwood

X-Files

Rockford Files

Larry Sanders Show

No Reservations 

Lost




 
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Top notch ...top notch!!!

I would replace Lost with the Fargo series or something like The Wire.  There's a bunch.  

Rockford Files wouldn't make my top 10 but liked the show a lot.  James Garner doing an updated version of Maverick.  How can you not like that?

 
Captain Fantastic said:
Setting aside artistic value and focusing solely on enjoyment and "must see'ness" at the time I was watching.

And emphasizing that not all of these have aged well but "at the time"...

Seinfeld (natch)

Firefly (made significantly better since it had a chance to "wrap up" via an excellent movie)

Frasier

Burn Notice (really strong television for a USA Network show)

Buffy

Angel

Star Blazers (I honestly remember virtually nothing about this cartoon except the theme song and that it RULED when I was a kid...space soap opera on a freakin' battleship-space-cruiser)

Modern Family

Dukes of Hazard (again, this was "must watch" TV of my youth...could also have gone with Knight Rider or Magnum PI or The A-Team but this was the one)

Cheers

My problem is there were so many shows that were REALLY GREAT for a few seasons but then tailed off. Which is also why I'm not listing anything on the air today (other than Modern Family) simply because there's no guarantee they don't turn into lousy shows. For instance, I enjoy the present-day super hero shows (Arrow and Flash and Daredevil, etc) but I see vast potential for shark jumpingness in the future (I couldn't even finish the first season of Legends of Tomorrow it got so bad).

True confessions: I've only seen the first four episodes of Breaking Bad (but I will someday watch the rest). I think Sopranos and Game of Thrones are vastly overrated. I really liked How I Met Your Mother and Friends. I've never seen The Wire. As a kid, I could have watched Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and Challenge of the Super-Friends all day, every day. Anyone else remember Manimal? Remington Steele was awesome. So was Moonlighting (until it wasn't). I still like the theme song to Greatest American Hero. Barbara Eden in I Dream of Jeannie really did it for me. The Fonz was the bomb. Gilligan's Island earns credit as "best show to ever feature the Harlem Globetrotters stranded on a desert island".

End of confessions.




 
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This is by far the worst take on the board.  

 
In rough order. Yes, it's more than 10.

Breaking Bad
Twin Peaks
Letterman
Seinfeld
The Wire
SNL
Game of Thrones
Hannibal
Sopranos
Rescue Me
IASIP
Lost
Deadwood
 

 
Don't Noonan said:
I am very surprised to see The Wire on so many lists.  I tried my hardest to watch it but to be honest I don't even know if I got through the last season.  
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It's ok, not everyone has good taste. 

 
Homer J Simpson said:
Breaking Bad

The Wire

Game of Thrones

The Shield

Cheers

Seinfeld

The Simpsons

Archer

Terriers

Hannibal

Honorable mention to Community, South Park, Sunny, The Americans, The Magic Hour, Sherlock, and ER  
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Crap, I forgot Justified but can't remove any.

Screw it, this one goes to eleven. 

 
Difficult to do but here's my quick list based on my interest in rewatching (a show like Seinfeld is hurt here since it's been so over exposed)

Game of Thrones

Taxi

The Office (i just pretend it ended after the Jim/Pam wedding)

Mad Men

Sopranos

Curb Your Enthusiasm 

The Wire

SNL

Parks and Rec

The last spot is cheating a bit as it's a tie between 2 shows that had great starts but fell off fast

Downton Abbey (S1-2) and True Detective (S1)

. 

 
1a. Wire

1b. Breaking Bad

1c. Chuck

4. Friday Night Lights

5. The Shield

6. Parks and Recreation

7. Justified

8. 24

9. Seinfeld

10. it's Always Sunny

 
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Bruce Dickinson said:
Parks and Recreation 

The Wire

Saturday Night Live

Cheers

LOST

Key & Peele

Malcolm In The Middle

Friday Night Lights

Breaking Bad

Psych
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I like that list, though I've never seen Psych (though I've heard it's somewhat similar to Chuck which oddly makes me hesitant to watch it). 

I like Malcolm on there. I couldn't quite do it, but damn that's a good show. I'm going to rewatch that soon.

 
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