# Ever watch an entire TV series from start to finish... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438 "2006-01-11T04:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/21 "2006-01-11T07:11:15Z")
Meant to add that I have tried several times, but failed, to watch all three LOTR movies in one day. ---
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/22 "2006-01-11T07:46:03Z")
Thanks to the wonders of Netflix, I do this all the time. Watched all of _Strangers With Candy_ in a weekend. Started speaking like Jerry Blank and couldn’t stop. I’m on _Millenium_ at the moment . Now I’m sure everyone is a serial killer and the end of the world is imminent. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/23 "2006-01-11T08:18:25Z")
> [@Shana](#): > > I’m on _Millenium_ at the moment . Now I’m sure everyone is a serial killer and the end of the world is imminent. Gah! [Bloodhound Gang] I’m not black like Barry White, no I’m white like Frank Black is. [/Bloodhound Gang] ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/24 "2006-01-11T09:58:53Z")
I do this all the time, but the most notable was with Scrubs in April 2004 (Jesus, was it really almost two years ago?!) I was going through a really hard breakup and I watched the entire run of Scrubs up to that point (almost three full seasons) in three days. I didn’t sleep much or go to any classes. By the end of it I had made myself into Dr. Cox. Despite being verbally abusive to my ex, we eventually started a sex-relationship that lasted for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/25 "2006-01-11T10:23:33Z")
Sledge Hammer series one. 22 episodes in four days. You all remember Sledge? _Trust me I know what I’m doing_. Got it for my brother for Christmas and I had to check that all the DVDs played didn’t I? Left no time for Red Dwarf VI though. ---
**Author:** ![Otanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Otanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otanx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/26 "2006-01-11T11:11:53Z")
All 8 Seasons of SG1 that are on DVD. Took me longer than it should because I had to have the first 4 sent to me from home, and had to save and buy the last 4. I have also seen all of episode 9 that has aired so far. Going to do 24 next I think. -Otanx ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/27 "2006-01-11T11:41:39Z")
I’ve done it with sportsnight and roswell, pretty much. (What kind of time frame are we talking about here anyway?? It took me maybe two and a half weeks to watch all the Roswells, not sure how quickly I’ve been through my sportsnight DVDs, though I’m sure I have.) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/28 "2006-01-11T11:51:58Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Babylon 5. Babylon 5 was one that Mrs D. and I both watched from start to finish. It was a totally original plotline and had engaging characters. We fell in love with it. We also watched all of the Star Trek Series (Except Enterprise) from start to finish. Myself, I have the complete Monty Python TV Episode collection on DVD and have watched all of that. I also recently got the Fawlty Towers series, but haven’t seen it all yet. ---
**Author:** ![nuke8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@nuke8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuke8)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/29 "2006-01-11T12:46:53Z")
> [@MilTan](#): > > I did it with _Sports Night_, and I repeat it with each season of _West Wing_ that comes out. Each season gets finished in about a week. I find myself slipping into “Sorkin-speak” for _weeks_ after that’s over. Sports Night…arguably one of the most criminally canceled shows ever! That is until they kill Arrested Development. ---
**Author:** ![nuke8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@nuke8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuke8)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/30 "2006-01-11T12:48:16Z")
> [@Small Clanger](#): > > Sledge Hammer series one. 22 episodes in four days. You all remember Sledge? _Trust me I know what I’m doing_. > > Got it for my brother for Christmas and I had to check that all the DVDs played didn’t I? > > Left no time for Red Dwarf VI though. Add that to my ever growing list…thank you Clanger. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/31 "2006-01-11T12:50:27Z")
**Dick Van Dyke Show** and **Twilight Zone** – at l;east, I started as soon as I could, but caught all the rest of the episodes up to the end. **Star Trek** , of course **The Prisoner** – easy, it’s short. Also **Police Squad** , **Connections** , and **The Day the Universe Changed**. Would you count Ken Burns’ **The Civil War**? ---
**Author:** ![nuke8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@nuke8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuke8)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/32 "2006-01-11T12:50:32Z")
> [@HoldenCaulfield](#): > > I do this all the time, but the most notable was with Scrubs in April 2004 (Jesus, was it really almost two years ago?!) I was going through a really hard breakup and I watched the entire run of Scrubs up to that point (almost three full seasons) in three days. I didn’t sleep much or go to any classes. > > By the end of it I had made myself into Dr. Cox. Despite being verbally abusive to my ex, we eventually started a sex-relationship that lasted for awhile. I regress into JD. Elliot is soooo much like my girlfriend that the show has become an instruction manual of sorts. ---
**Author:** ![nuke8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@nuke8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuke8)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/33 "2006-01-11T12:56:03Z")
How TV on DVD and DVR’s have changed the way I watch TV. (Crap that’s a lot of acronyms!) I now either Tivo a month of something before I watch or Netflix the entire season. I think it is my desire to not be left hanging until next week. I was screwed so many times as a kid where there was a Dukes of Hazzard 2 part epic that somehow I was unable to catch part 2 the following week. Damned forced social interaction! I still have unanswered Uncle Jesse questions! Oh well, off to Netflix I go! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/34 "2006-01-11T13:41:12Z")
> [@nuke8](#): > > Sports Night…arguably one of the most criminally canceled shows ever! That is until they kill Arrested Development. I was in love with it from the very first episode. I turned to my (now ex-) husband and said, “Well, here’s a show that’s doomed to be canceled!” I was honestly very, very surprised that it made it to a second season; not because I didn’t think it deserved to, but because the ratings were always so low that I was sure it’d get the axe right away. It was only because of my near-worship of Aaron Sorkin that I ever checked out West Wing. Shame they canceled it after the 4th season 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/35 "2006-01-11T14:34:36Z")
Often, with anime. (While it’s not TV season, I would like to point out: friends don’t let friends watch all of Gundam 0083 followed immediately by Char’s Counter-Attack in one 12 hour festival. It’s dangerous.) ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/36 "2006-01-11T14:38:18Z")
FX used to or still does show BTVS every weekday morning from 7-9 am on the East Coast. Since I have Directv and am on the eastern schedule (I LOVE that) that means that Buffy’s on early here in CA. This has afforded me the opportunity to watch _in order_ all of the eps at least 5 times in a row. I would actually get angry when on a holiday or something they’d show eps out of order. I STILL cry during the final ep and had it TIVO’d so I could cry whenever I felt like it. The last season kinda sucked, but I really wanted Buff to love Spike (when she says she loves him and he denies it but thanks her was SOOO poignant) and was a hugely addicted fan in 2004-2005. So much so, that when pregnant with my second boy, I was gonna name him Jonathan Warren. Kinda like that name actually. Ended up with Adam (still a good ref). ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/37 "2006-01-11T14:41:03Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Farscape, Firefly (easy, only one season), Futurama, The Shield, and The Sopranos (I have seasons 1 thru 4 on DVD, and I’ve rented all of season 5). I’ve also done this with Farscape - several times, actually :o . I’m planning to do it with the first and second seasons of Battlestar Galactica, as soon as I get them (plus the miniseries). I did watch most of the first season of Stargate: SG1 this weekend. If it weren’t for the fact that I can’t afford all 8 seasons at once, I’d probably do it with those. E. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/38 "2006-01-11T15:01:12Z")
I’ve had Futurama & Family Guy marathons on rainy weekends. Last year, I watched 2 eps of MST3K every night and 4 each Saturday & Sunday until I’d watched every one. It took about 10 weeks! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/39 "2006-01-11T15:05:23Z")
**Hamish** and I have done this with countless anime series including _Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fushigi Yuugi, Gundam Wing, Please Save My Earth, Fruits Basket, Mahou Tsuki Tai, Fake, His & Her Circumstances, Gravitation,_ and _X,_ and we’ve started a number of series such as _Ranma 1/2, GTO,_ and _Kyou Kara Maou_. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438/40 "2006-01-11T15:21:55Z")
> [@MilTan](#): > > I did it with _Sports Night_, and I repeat it with each season of _West Wing_ that comes out. Each season gets finished in about a week. I find myself slipping into “Sorkin-speak” for _weeks_ after that’s over. And do you find yourself doing a lot of walking during those conversations? I know I tend to start walking faster when I’m under the influence of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-watch-an-entire-tv-series-from-start-to-finish/339438.md?page=3)