Your Top 10 TV Shows

[happyfilmluvguy]

Nick @ Nite

TV Land in the morning and late afternoon

Boomerang (Hanna Barbara, MGM, Paramount, and Warner Bros cartoons)

and Nickelodeon.

 

[LadyStardust]

I'm not sure if I have 10, but here's the ones I watch regularly:

I Dream of Jeannie
Green Acres
Everwood
Sherlock Holmes (on the Biography Channel)
America's Castles
Law & Order: SVU

For the most part though, I just go for TCM, followed by History and Discovery Channel, respectively.

 

[Warden]

What ho everyoine

We are trying hard to beat the telly habit, so not totally up to date with what is 'current' on the goggle box.

Anyway we could only come up with 5 favourite TV shows

1. Jeeves and Wooster
2. Dr Who
3. 1940s House
4. Dads Army
5. World at War

I wonder is the top 5 on a theme?

Other shows worth a meantion are Cheers, Friends, Faulty Towers and Blackadder. Used to love them, but they have been repeated so many times they have lost thier appeal to me.

Pip pip

Harry

 

[GOK]

All time favourites, not just current ones:

General:
Q.I.
Upstairs Downstairs
Duchess of Duke St
Brideshead Revisited
All Creatures Great & Small

'Tecs:
Sherlock Holmes (Brett)
Inspector Morse

Nostalgic:
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
The Waltons
Poldark

Factual:
Time Team
Timewatch

Sci-Fi:
Farscape
Quantum Leap
Star Trek

Comedy:
Blackadder
Spaced
South Park
Coupling

A few more than ten but hey - I've been around a long time!

 

[Liz]

Let's see if I can come up with ten:

1. All of the late '50s/early '60s Warner Brothers detective shows: 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Surfside 6 and Bourbon Street Beat
2. The Twilight Zone
3. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (I'm starting to dig SVU though too)
4. I Dream of Jeannie
5. The Addams Family
6. Project Runway
7. House M.D.
8. Green Acres

Okay, I give up! I guess eight is all I can come up with.

 

[Zemke Fan]

Forgotten thread...

Tough to narrow it down to 10, isn't it?

Recent Years:

• The Sopranos
• Entourage
• NYPD Blue

A While Ago:

• M*A*S*H
• Taxi
• Cheers
• Hill Street Blues

A Long Time Ago:

• I Love Lucy
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Greenacres

 

[HadleyH]

Can't pin them down to ten , but I love many the TV shows up to the mid sixties. Well... and a few, very few of the later ones.

 

[anselmo1]

My Top 10 TV Shows

1. Sopranos
2. The Untouchables starring Robert Stack
3. The Andy Griffith Show
4. Amos & Andy starring Tim Moore as Kingfish
5. You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx
6. My Little Margie
7. The Life of Riley starring William Bendix
8. The Abbott & Costello Television Show
9. SCTV
10. Hawaii 5-0

 

[moustache]

1--All Creatures great and Small-BBC UK
2--Last of the Summer Wine-BBC UK
3--The Waltons
4--CSI
5--MASH
6--Lovejoy-BBC UK
7--Law and Order
8--Murder,she wrote
9--Rick Steves Travels in Europe
10--Monday Night Football (ok,so it's not really a program per se but it has been on for years!)

JD

 

[Mojito]

In no particular order (or genre, for that matter!):

1. X-files
2. Deep Space Nine
3. Black Books
4. Simpsons
5. South Park
6. Antiques Road Show (British and American versions)
7. Simon Schama's A History of Britain
8. Father Ted
9. Jeeves and Wooster
10. Kath and Kim

 

[Warden]

What ho everyoine

We are trying hard to beat the telly habit, so not totally up to date with what is 'current' on the goggle box.

Anyway we could only come up with 5 favourite TV shows

1. Jeeves and Wooster
2. Dr Who
3. 1940s House
4. Dads Army
5. World at War

I have thought of one more, I do like to catch Top Gear on TV. featuring the fastest Hampster on earth and Mr Clarkson who really should work for the Foiegn Office.

Harry

 

[Nathan Dodge]

1. Star Trek (1960s)
2. The Persuaders!
3. Hawaii Five-O
4. Mission: Impossible
5. Alias Smith & Jones
6. Bonanza
7. The Odd Couple
8. The Honeymooners
9. Mannix
10. Leave it To Beaver

My list isn't based on "retro" considerations; I really like only old TV shows! My cut-off point is around 1980, when I was nine!

 

[photobyalan]

This is absolutely impossible.

Well, here goes:

1. The Simpsons
2. Star Trek (Original)
3. Battlestar Galactica (current)
4. Futurama
5. Hill Street Blues
6. The Sopranos
7. Rescue Me
8. The Shield
9. Soap
10. Seinfeld

There are so many others that could have made the list, and probably many more that I have forgotten.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I'll throw something into the mix I don't think I've seen mentioned around the Lounge before, and what a vintage-loving friend thinks is just the cat's meow after I turned her onto it several years ago - Mapp and Lucia.

Set in the early 30s in Tilling, a quaint seaside village in southern England. Clearly, it's actually Rye, where the author, E.F. Benson lived and most of the houses used in the books (with different names) are still there today and were used in the TV series. It's about the battles between an "incomer" (Emmaline "Lucia" Lucas played by Geraldine McEwan) and a dowdy villager (Elizabeth Mapp played by Prunella Scales) as to who'll be the societal queen bee of the village. Oneupsmanship and dirty tricks abounds. Nigel Hawthorne is great as fastidious fop, fussy clotheshorse and Lucia's worshipful lapdog, Georgie Pillson.

It plays on PBS from time to time, and is available on DVD and video - check your local libraries! It's about 20 years old but has a huge following. It's definitely worth viewing and/or reading.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I don't watch TV except for specials and news and such. However, there have been exceptions through the years:

Some Years Ago:

Roots (both mini-series)
Holocaust (min-series)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (my all time favorite mini-series)

Seinfeld
Dark Skies (at least at first and after Jeri Ryan joined the cast)
21 Jump Street, silly show but I liked looking at Johnny Depp
Friends (in its heyday)

Mary Tyler Moore (in its heyday)
Carol Burnette Show (in 60's, early 70's)
Saturday Night Live (the original group, first two years or so)

Way Back When:

Your Show of Shows (Sid Caesar et al, what a funny, funny show)
Ernie Kovaks Show (the Nairobi Trio had brother and I on the floor in stitches)


Also like some of 60 minutes and the CBS Sunday Morning show when Charles Kerault was on it. I miss his voice.

Not much I watch today, sometimes CSI, mostly History channel and Discovery channel stuff. Some football.

karol

 

[Hawkcigar]

1) I Love Lucy
2) The Andy Griffith Show
3) CBS Sunday Morning
4) The Munsters
5) The Dick Van Dyke Show
6) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7) The Odd Couple
8) Green Acres
9) The Beverly Hillbillies
10) The Jetsons and The Flintstones

I would say that numbers 1-3 are in order and the others are pretty random. I can't imagine my Sunday mornings without a pot of coffee, the local papers, and CBS Sunday Morning.

OK, a couple of others:
11) The Tonight Show (when it was hosted by Johnny Carson)
12) Lots of things on The History Channel
13) Giada and Alton Brown on the Food Network
14) Anthony Bourdain's Show on The Travel Channel (most of the time)

 

[Senator Jack]

I didn't know we had so many Green Acres fans here. A show far ahead of its time. How they were able to get away with surreal comedy in the 60s is beyond me. People had enough trouble understanding it ten years ago! I just watched the episode when Lisa wakes up and asks 'Who is Dick Chevillat? I just dreamed there was the name Dick Chevillat above our heads." Dick Chevillat was, of course, one of the writers, and his name had appeared over her head in the credits. Though it may be a bit hackneyed now, back then it was bizarre. I still find it hilarious.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Elaina]

I don't watch a ton of TV, but usually when I do watch it, it's whatever's on the History or Military channel. Some exceptions, of course, like Project Runway, but generally I sew, read or bang around the internet for my entertainment.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

1. The Young Ones
2. Bottom
3. The Thin Blue Line
4. Red Dwarf
5. My Hero
6. Golden Girls
7. Family Guy
8. Mama's Family
9. Just The Ten Of Us
10. Three's Company
11. The Munsters

I don't really watch much TV these days, either. But looking back at 31 years of life, I'd say these TV shows stand out and if I happen to see them while flipping the channels I will stop and watch!

 

[Rafter]

1)The Avengers
2)Dragnet
3)Gunsmoke
4)Mission Impossible
5)I Love Lucy
6)Leave It To Beaver
7)All In The Family
8)Happy Days
9)Taxi
10)The Simpsons