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Old 05-07-2009, 07:03 PM
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TV series that you know you've seen every episode of.

Cheers
Seinfeld
Newsradio
The Wire
Arrested Development
Flight of the Conchords


Near Misses:

-- The Simpsons (I actually may have seen every episode, but it's probable that at least one has slipped through; I've definitely seen all of seasons 1-16).
-- The West Wing (missing one or two episodes in Season 6)
-- Friends


There's also a good chance I've seen the entire runs of a few crappy, short-lived sitcoms that happened to be next to shows I was watching religiously (I've seen way too many episodes of Caroline in the City, for instance).
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:09 PM
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House, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Star Trek (all), M*A*S*H, Supernatural.

That's just off the top of my head.
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:10 PM
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None. In fact I just saw a Star Trek TOS episode today that I'd never seen before. As for anything from say 1980 on I've seen 0% to 50% of any show.

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Old 05-07-2009, 07:12 PM
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Buffy, Angel, Gilmore Girls.

I'm not counting shows still on the air, in which case it'd be a good few more.
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:19 PM
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Firefly, though it wasn't hard.

I watched the whole run of Arrested Development on Hulu, so I'm sure I've seen all of them.
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:22 PM
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I'll copy a few of yours, Varlos, since I think we have similar tastes in shows!

Cheers
Seinfeld
Newsradio
Arrested Development

And add...

30 Rock
All in the Family
Yes Minister
Yes Prime Minister
The Office (UK and US)
Good Neighbors / Good Life
L.A. Law (pretty sure)
Kids in the Hall
Coupling (UK)
The Brady Bunch
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Star Trek: TNG and DS9

Close but no cigar:

M*A*S*H - mostly missing the early seasons (don't like pre-season 4 much)
The Simpsons - only missing two or three episodes that I don't really want to see
Futurama - seen 'em all except Jurassic Bark, which I am procrastinating on watching
Friends - mostly the last season
The Cosby Show - just a couple of eps in the last season
Roseanne - last two seasons only very sporadic; earlier seasons are practically memorized
Frasier - mostly missing eps from last couple of seasons
Torchwood - just missed a couple from the 2nd season
American Gothic - never saw last two episodes
Xena - two or three from 1st season, several from last season (hated it)
Buffy - never saw most of final season

Conclusion: I have watched entirely too much TV.

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Old 05-07-2009, 07:26 PM
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More difficult to do

The Sopranos
The Shield
The Wire
Rescue Me
Futurama
WKRP In Cincinnati
Magnum P.I.
Heroes
Lost
Twilight Zone TOS
Star Trek, TOS, TNG

Easy to do

Firefly
Deadwood
Rome
Flight of The Conchords
Dexter
Arrested Development
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:27 PM
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I have the DVDs of 'West Wing' and 'Studio 60'.
Plus 'Murder One'.

There were only 12 episodes of 'Fawlty Towers', so I've seen all of them.
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:34 PM
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24 (through Redemption)
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Superman
Battlestar Galactica (new)
The Critic
Firefly
Futurama (through Beast with a Billion Backs)
A Man Called Hawk
Quantum Leap
Remington Steele
Seinfeld
Soap
The Sopranos
Star Trek TOS, TNG, and Enterprise*
Police Squad
The X-Files





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Old 05-07-2009, 07:42 PM
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I even saw the missing KTMA episodes when the show came out)
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Little Britain
The Amazing Race
Lost
Six Feet Under
Penn and Teller's Bullshit
Wonderfalls
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Old 05-07-2009, 07:46 PM
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I Love Lucy
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:03 PM
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M*A*S*H, multiple times over, mainly due to syndication. For newer episodes, I often notice when something's been removed to make room for more commercials.
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:06 PM
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Cheers
Seinfeld
Newsradio
The Wire
Arrested Development
Flight of the Conchords
I knew there'd be a bunch that I forgot about. This thread has reminded me of:

Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Critic
Firefly
Futurama
Rome
The Office



So, of the TV shows that I've devoted entire days (or weeks) to, I'd completely forgotten about at least half. Time well spent.

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Old 05-07-2009, 08:06 PM
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ST: TOS

Time Tunnel

Lost in Space

My Mother the Car

F Troop

Where's Huddles?

I kinda fell out of the TV habit in the early 70's
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:06 PM
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God, I watch WAY too much TV, so I could be here a long time.

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Futurama
Seinfeld
Buffy
Angel
Survivor
Lost
Firefly
Dollhouse
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Invisible Man
Friends
Roswell
Batman The Animated Series
Heroes
Six Feet Under
Wonderfalls
The Critic
Sports Night
Batman Beyond
I'm sure there's more...

Near Misses:
The Simspsons... I've missed a bunch of the last 2 seasons
Family Guy... Same deal
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:10 PM
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Ooh I forgot about:

Fawlty Towers
I Love Lucy
Sports Night.

Admittedly the first and third of these are fairly easy to see. With 200 or so eps, ILL is way more of an 'accomplishment' (dubious though some may think it).
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:12 PM
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Sports Night

Futurama

Family Guy

Friends

Rocko's Modern Life

Batman Beyond

Oh I am sure there is more....but thinking makes the brain hurt
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:16 PM
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Yep, and add Sports Night to my list as well.
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:20 PM
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Off the top of my head:

The Rockford Files
ST:TOS
Six Feet Under
The Office
Seinfeld
MASH
The Outer Limits (original)
Batman
The Monkees
The Wild Wild West
I Dream of Jeanie
Green Acres
Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
Man From UNCLE
Extras
The Addams Family
The Munsters
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
Turn-On (easy-only one episode!)
Love Connection (Chuck Woolery era)
Get Smart
Flipper
Garrison's Guerrillas
Bewitched

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Old 05-07-2009, 08:34 PM
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All watched on DVD, so may not count as "viewed" since I wasn't required to tune in at the right time.

Dark Angel
Friends (my wife loves it and got the monster boxed set when it came out)
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (the old one; they used to run the couple of seasons they actually made all the time when I was a kid)

I will watch the last season of The Wire sometime soon, ditto for Heroes, and I'll catch up with BSG when the final season comes out on DVD.
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:37 PM
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Twin Peaks; The Sopranos; Big Love. That's it. I'm not a mainstream TV-show guy.
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:46 PM
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X-files

Buffy

Angel

Firefly

MASH

Battlestar Galactica

Arrested Development

30 Rock

The Office(both versions)

Extras

Veronica Mars

Supernatural

Fringe

Legend of the Seeker

Dollhouse

Wonderfalls

Pushing Daisies(including final 3)

Babylon 5

Farscape

30 Rock


And many more....
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:02 PM
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The Venture Bros.

I'd say Black Adder, but I understand there are a couple of specials that BBC America didn't run.
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:03 PM
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Firefly and Babylon 5 are the only ones I'm remotely confident of, having watched both on DVD after they went off the air. And honestly, I doubt there are any others.
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:04 PM
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Buffy
Firefly (yeah, that's hard)
Queer as Folk (US)
Supernatural
Due South
Roswell
possibly Sports Night (my roommate had the DVDs and we went through 'em over a period of time; I might have missed one or two)

I have awesome taste, do not mock my love of cheesy TV shows!
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:10 PM
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Clone High, but only because it's only 13 episodes long.
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:32 PM
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Queer as Folk
Buffy
Star Trek. All of them.
1960's Batman
1960's Dragnet
Soap
1970s Buck Rogers
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The first 4 series of The Real World
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Old 05-07-2009, 09:39 PM
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Six Feet Under
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dexter
Damages
Saving Grace
Lost
Gray's Anatomy
The Tudors
Friends
Gilligan's Island
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family
Saturday Night Live
The Sopranos
Murder One
Desperate housewives
Star Trek - original
deadwood
Rome


And almost certainly more that aren't coming to mind.

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Old 05-07-2009, 09:45 PM
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Sports Night
West Wing
Two and a Half Men
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Psych
Monk
Burn Notice
Eureka
Penn and Teller's Bullshit
Real Time with Bill Maer

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Old 05-07-2009, 09:53 PM
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Star Trek: TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Arrested Development
Action
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The West Wing
Middleman
Coupling (UK, of course)
Doctor Who (the revived series. I've also seen every existing series of the original version, but missed the lost episodes, obviously).
Turn-On
Blackadder (all four series, plus the Christmas special)
The Americans (a series about the Civil War)
Pushing Daisies (every episode so far, and I'll catch the last three).
Babylon 5
Crusade
Nightmare Cafe (touch that dial . . . and you die!)
Masters of Science Fiction
Once a Hero (alas)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Do Not Adjust Your Set (all existing shows).
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Old 05-07-2009, 10:14 PM
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Wiseguy - even the Billy Dee Williams episodes and the reunion movie.
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Old 05-07-2009, 10:24 PM
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Queer as Folk
Sex and the City
Entourage
Dexter
The Office (US)
Six Feet Under
Arrested Development
Freaks and Geeks
Undeclared
IT Crowd
Lucky Louie
Rob and Big

Close:
House - seen most but missed one here and there
Had seen all of CSI until season 6, then I started getting spotty and only watched when I knew something interesting with Sara and/or Grissom was gonna happen
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Old 05-07-2009, 10:31 PM
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Even though it seems I am -always- watching TV.....

Almost certainly:
House M.D.
Stargate SG-1
The Riche$
Dead Like Me

Likely:
The Simpsons
Family Guy

Probably....though a long time ago, so I might not remember them well:
I dream of Jeannie
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
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Old 05-07-2009, 11:34 PM
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Here's my list:

The Prisoner
Gilligan's Island
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Love, American Style
Absolutely Fabulous
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Star Trek TOS

That's about all I can think of at the moment.
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Old 05-07-2009, 11:42 PM
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Roseanne

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Golden Girls

Frasier

Friends

Seinfeld


(From the first few, you can tell I watch a lot of Nick at Nite, late at night while battling insomnia)
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Old 05-08-2009, 12:23 AM
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Avatar: The Last Airbender (3 seasons)
Fullmetal Alchemist (2 seasons)
Black Lagoon (1 season)
Genshiken (1 season)
Stargate: SG1 (10 seasons)
Firefly (1/2 season)
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Old 05-08-2009, 12:27 AM
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I'll just include the longest-run series I'm sure I've caught every episode of:

Fraggle Rock.
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:16 AM
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All in the Family
Dick Van Dyke Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Frazier
Golden Girls
House
I Love Lucy
Lost
M*A*S*H
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Monk
Monty Python
NYPD Blue
Outer Limits: TOS
Quantum Leap
Roseanne
Seinfeld
Star Trek (except Enterprise)
Twilight Zone (both series)
Will & Grace

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Old 05-08-2009, 09:04 AM
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Battlestar (the new one), Lost, Firefly.

I'm close on The Simpons and Buffy. My wife and I started watching The Wire on DVD, and I figure I'll add that to the list soon enough.
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Old 05-08-2009, 10:08 AM
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Off the top of my head:



Brideshead Revisited

the Office (both versions)

I, Claudius

Gilmore Girls

Sex and the city

House MD

Fawlty Towers

Futurama

Arrested Development

Dexter

Studio 60



I know there's more, but that's a good chunk, I assume.
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Old 05-08-2009, 10:31 AM
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Old 05-08-2009, 10:44 AM
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Oh, and I guess I've also seen every episode of Entourage. Now if only someone could explain to me why that is. . .
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:24 PM
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The Wire
The Sopranos
Rome
Deadwood
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Six Feet Under
True Blood
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
Dollhouse
Wonderfalls
24
The West Wing
Studio 60
House
My So-Called Life
Arrested Development
Seinfeld
Scrubs
Burn Notice
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy
Chuck
Freaks and Geeks
Dead like Me
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Taxi
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:36 PM
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I'm somewhat sure I've seen every episode of:

"Taxi"
"Cheers"
"Seinfeld"
"Fawlty Towers" (there are only 12 of them so that was fairly easy)
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
"Frasier"
"Mary Tyler Moore"
"Bob Newhart"
"Newhart"
"The Simpsons" (however, I still haven't seen the first half of the episode where Bart becomes a rapper and somehow ends up getting Millhouse's sent to jail)
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:38 PM
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The Wire
Rome
Deadwood
Dexter
Star Trek-TOS, TNG, DS9
Babylon 5
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The West Wing
MASH
Barney Miller
Battlestar Galactica both versions
Life
John Doe
Terminator:SCC

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Old 05-08-2009, 02:47 PM
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The Simpsons (I've seen probably seen every one a couple of times)
Futurama
Arrested Development
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:50 PM
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:55 PM
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Same as a lot of people's:

Arrested Development
The Sopranos
The Wire
Soap
The Shield
Get A Life
Seinfeld
Freaks & Geeks
30 Rock
NewsRadio
Lost
Strangers With Candy
WKRP in Cincinnati
Twin Peaks
Mad Men
The Prisoner
The Office (UK) (and probably U.S.)
Spaced
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Extras
Ren & Stimpy
The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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Old 05-08-2009, 03:56 PM
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Seinfeld
Barney Miller
LA Law
Friends
Star Trek: TNG
The West Wing

Also some shorter run series like:
Andy Richter Rules the Universe
Rome
Maximum Bob
The Job


There are some others that I believe I have seen every episode but I'm not certain
Northern Exposure
Mary Tyler Moore
Cheers
Miami Vice
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Old 05-08-2009, 06:49 PM
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Shows I've seen every episode of at least a dozen times...

Black Adder
Black Books
Father Ted
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