One TV Marathon You'd Sit All The Way Through

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In Chicago on WMEU-CA (Called MeToo) in Chicago, channel 48 (subchannel 26.3 on WCIU as well) on Monday through Friday they run marathons of TV shows.

For instance on Friday from 10am - 10pm they ran Square Pegs and on Monday they are running Gilligan’s Island from 10am - 10pm

My question is if you could choose ANY TV show and have a complete marathon of it, meaning you’d watch it from Episode One till the last episode, which show would you choose. The catch is you would have to sit through EVERY episode, you couldn’t skip or turn it off.

Are there any TV shows (comedy, dramas, soap operas, etc) that you like well enough to sit through EVERY single episode, and that would include the ones like clip shows etc.

I think I could sit through my favourite soap opera from Australia called Prisoner, called Prisoner: Cell Block H elsewhere. Also Fawlty Towers but that’s an easy one 'cause there are not a lot of episodes.

What about you? Remember the catch is you’d have to sit through ALL episodes run in their original order.

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Night Court
Barney Miller
Taxi
Star Trek-TOS, TNG, DS9
WKRP
Burn Notice

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Twilight Zone. Usually done here in L.A. once or twice a year. I don’t usually catch many of the episodes, but if I had the time, I’d sit through them ALL!

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Babylon 5. I’d tape it(again) as it played.

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Star Trek. The original series. Back in the days before DVD sets, I’d always try to catch and record the marathons that were on once a year or so. I got the chance to see episodes that weren’t in the regular rotation that the local independent channel would show once a day. They always did a marathon over one of the holiday weekends. With Star Trek, it isn’t as important to go in order, but I could sit through a marathon from season one to season three easily.

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I suppose it might not quite fit here, since it’s a miniseries not a series… but I lost most of my day because Band of Brothers was on History. Again. And this is not the first time this happened. While my DVD set was sitting not five feet from me, no less.

And it only got halfway through! I’m tempted to stick in the “Bastogne” DVD and finish off… except, what’ll I do tomorrow?

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  • House. Oh, wait, they already do that on USA channel! :smiley: I’ll watch them all over again.
  • Northern Exposure, sadly disappeared from TV completely. I’d run out to Walmart and buy a case of VHS tapes.
  • Star Trek.
  • Dream On (an old HBO series starring Brian Benben and Wendy Malick).
  • Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (starring Blair Brown).
  • Dirty Jobs and Man vs. Wild, yes, I know they’re on all the time, but there are some
    episodes I must have missed.
  • ER - if, say, I was confined to bed for 6 months, I would love to see all episodes.
  • East Enders. There must be a decade of shows I missed.
  • Lost.

Those are the shows I really have enjoyed the most, though there are others.

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Buffy, or if time were limited:

Chuck (so far).
You’d watch all of Prisoner Cell Block H? Seriously?

Have you ever watched a similar UK series called Bad Girls? It might be your cup of tea.

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It’s been running for 24 years. For the first nine years, there were two half hour episodes per week (a full half hour - no breaks) Then for the next 7 years there were 3 half hour shows. From then on it’s been four shows a week. Christmas specials can last up to two hours (and if you haven’t seen the Dot and Ethel one yet, that’s one to watch. Simple, classical, well-acted drama). That’s a helluva long marathon!

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Buffy
Babylon 5
Doctor Who
Once a Hero (if time is short)
Homicide: Live on the Street.

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Sci-Fi:
Firefly
Farscape
BSG-TOS
BSG-Reboot
all Star Treks
Doctor Who
Red Dwarf
MST3K
Airwolf
The A. Team
Knight Rider

Retro
H.R. Puffinstuf
Land of the Lost
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
Bigfoot and Wildboy
The Lost Saucer
Far-out Space-Nuts (Gilligan and Skipper in SPAAACE!)
Electro-Woman and Dyna-Girl (she makes me feel kinda’ funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class)
Yes, I was a Krofft kid growing up… it’s scarred me for life
Weird Science

Animation;
StarBlazers
Animaniacs
Freakazoid
Pinky and the Brain
The Tick

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Wanted to add to my list.

The Muppet Show. Not a bad episode in the bunch.

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This is easy…Firefly. Very enjoyable, fun show…and it has the distinct advantage of few episodes.

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Cheers
Frasier
Hill Street Blues
WKRP in Cincinnati

The Avengers, but only the Diana Rigg seasons

and if I had the time, The Simpsons

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The Larry Sanders Show (but it would have to be uncensored).

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Father Ted.
If I was retired (they are both in the thousands now I think) Last of the Summer Wine and Sesame Street.

Yes, really. I’d love to do an anthropological report in the changes in Sesame Street over the years. . .

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Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Funny show, and wouldn’t require a huge time commitment. :slight_smile:

Of long(er)-running shows, Arrested Development and The Dick Van Dyke Show.

I tend to binge on shows anyway. I think I watched all (13 episodes?) of Extras in a few days. And whole 10-episode seasons of *Curb Your Enthusiasm *in one sitting.

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Futurama
Arrested Development
The Office
The Shield
Dexter
Lost

short lived shows:
Stark Raving Mad
Mission Hill
Clone High

If I didn’t have to eat or sleep:
The Tonight Show
Late Night with Conan O’Brien

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Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into The Future. And I’d tape it, since the idiots haven’t released any DVD’s!

Plus Pushing Daisies. Why didn’t somebody tell me I needed to watch it? I caught the last show…

ETA: Don’t know about a marathon, but I’m happy catching Angel most mornings as I get ready for work. No matter how many times I’ve seen the episodes. Buffy & *Xena *are other shows that ought to be in permanent repeats, somewhere…

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I cannot hope to watch an entire 23.3 marathon, but, of the shit they broadcast, I’d like a Batman marathon. Not even Wife could force her way through the ST (Star Trek), TZ (Twilight Zone), and OL (Outer Limits) marathons, though, because one or more kids shifted her infatuation to “Family Feud.” Which an insane person in this market can see FOUR TIMES A DAY! :eek: