The X Files
Buffy
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
Dexter
The Wire
Californication
Arrested Development
Sons Of Anarchy
Nurse Jackie
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
As Time Goes By
Merlin
Deadwood
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Bones
Criminal Minds
Big Love
I know there are more that I’m not thinking of right now.
Star Trek (original series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gilligan’s Island
Blackadder
Pushing Daisies
WKRP in Cincinnati
Castle
Probably a few others I’m not thinking of at the moment.
I very likely have seen every episode of MAS*H, between its network prime-time run, its simultaneous run on CBS on weekday afternoons in the late 1970s / early 1980s, and infinite repeats ever since, but it would not surprise me if there’s an episode or two which slipped through the cracks.
Recalling off the top of my head, I believe I’ve seen all episodes of these shows:
Seinfeld
Cheers
Taxi
WKRP in Cincinnati
Mary Tyler Moore
The Bob Newhart Show
MASH
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Blackadder (1 through 4)
Fawlty Towers (All 12 episodes)
Police Squad! (All six episodes)
The Simpsons (However, I have missed a few minutes in a couple episodes.)
*The Flintstones *(Again, missed a few minutes of a few episodes.)
*Star Trek *(TOS)
Moonlighting
Nearly all:
*Hill Street Blues *(There’s at least one episode from late in its last season that I missed because I was living somewhere without a TV and it was not repeated during the summer. Also, they never had HSB repeats in syndication where I lived so I never managed to catch up on it.)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (I’ve only seen a few episodes from the first season but everything from season 2 afterward.)
Late Night with David Letterman (I missed a few from the first two seasons but saw every show from 1984 until 1993 when Dave left for CBS.)
The Sopranos (Everything after the “College” episode in the first season.)
Missed it.
Wednesday was Daktari night.
Probably have seen all the Daktaris, though.
We usually watched Daktari too, but this was from the people who made Laugh-In. The idea was to have a one hour show with quick sketches and zingers all centered around one topic. Tim Conway was the guest star for the pilot episode. The subject was Sex. My Dad stopped watching 15 minutes into it. I was 15 at the time, so an hour of comedy about sex with pretty girls in it was fine with me. Looking back, it’s easy to see why it was shut down so hard so fast.
Well, I saw every ep of the US-shown Prisoner and the US-shown HHGTTG, but it required A) considerable trouble and B) them being Brit style “limited” series.
I could list a good smattering of the listed shows, the only fresh titles I can add are Harry O and Duet, an early Fox rom-com.
Lost
Desperate Housewives
Revenge
MAS*H
Futurama
South Park
Night Court
Dilbert
Another probable: Angel (1960s)
Probably saw them all between reg season and reruns. “Angel” was soooo cute!
Prof P, Turn On sounds neat but I know I didn’t see it, and had the impression it would be the Bobby Sherman version of Laugh-In–don’t really know why–and didn’t bother. On such prejudices empires are lost.
The Andy Griffith Show - (Goober says “Hey”)
The Prisoner (both the original and the bastardization)
Secret Agent / Danger Man
ST: TOS.
Mad Men
Lots of British shows like A Touch of Frost.
Police Squad
My Name is Earl
This is gonna be a long list.
Mash
Duck tales
Darkwing Duck
Transformers gen 1
Doug
Family matters
Full house
Buffy
Angel
Twilight zone (original)
Outer Limits (90s)
Stargate SG1
Boy meets world
Step by step
Beverly hillbillies
Supernatural
Justice league
Batman beyond
4400
Files
Millinium
True calling
Doll house
Justice
Bones
Louis and Clark
Kenshin
Dbz
Stargate universe
Unsolved mysteries
Unexplained mysteries
All of the surviving Doctor Who serials/episodes.
Except for the ones Jim Mallon has kept back in the vault, all extant MST3K.
Thanks to enthusiastic fangirls and Youtube, I’m closing in on all of Casualty (which is in its 26th series) and Holby City (which is 15 this year.)
Wikipedia and a half-arsed calculation tell me that’s about 860 episodes of Caz and 680ish of Holby, but I’ve also been at it since 1998 or so (not with the youtube episodes, of course, but my travels combined with well meaning pals who VCR’d and dvr’d episodes until youtube and the UKBA gave my catching-up a boost). I would imagine die-hard soap fans would have similar tallies with daily/weekly shows.
A 6 or 13 part tv show is a doddle in comparison!
Not an accomplishment I’d on my resume, though.
Lots of short run series if they count: Arrested Development and HBO’s Deadwood and Rome, for instance.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every Supernatural and Sanford & Son. I think I’ve seen every All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and other '70s/early '80s staples, but once in a blue moon one will come on that doesn’t seem familiar.
I have a few, most of which have already been mentioned, but my crowning achievement in this category is:
Law & Order (Original Flavor)
(And thanks to A&E and TNT, I’ve seen most of them more than once).
Not too many:
Project Runway.
Downton Abbey
Friends
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Wyatt Earp
The Avengers
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Daniel Boone
Davy Crockett
Branded
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Twilight Zone
Star Trek
(a shitload of others in the 70s and 80s)
Seinfeld
Larry Sanders
Deadwood
Carnival
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
The Wire
Flight of The Conchords
Several that are still ongoing, including
Treme
Breaking Bad
Walking Dead
Nurse Jackie
Doc Martin
Downton Abbey
etc.
All in the Family
The Big Bang Theory
The Bob Newhart Show
The Carol Burnett Show
Dharma and Greg
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Everybody Loves Raymond
Father Knows Best
Frasier
The Golden Girls
Hill Street Blues
House
I Love Lucy
Leave It to Beaver
Lost
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
MAS*H
Maude
Modern Family
Monk
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Northern Exposure
NYPD Blue
Outer Limits (both)
Picket Fences
The Powers That Be (greatest show that nobody else watched)
Quantum Leap
Seinfeld
Star Trek: TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: DS9
Star Trek: VOY
The Twilight Zone (both)
Will & Grace
My only excuse is that I’ve been around a lot longer than most of you.
My list is fairly short.
The Prisoner (Original UK)
Buffy
The IT Crowd
The Critic
I don’t know if I’ve seen all of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, but if I haven’t, I’m just missing an episode or two.
I’ve given several series up. The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and Big Love all come to mind. All but the last are shows I’d still watch, I’m just no longer interested in catching all of them. I’m also still debating whether to watch the last season of Angel.
I don’t know if it will be a Christmas special, but one more episode has been confirmed.
Absolutely Fabulous
Arrested Development
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Burn Notice
Charmed
Cold Case
Covert Affairs
Criminal Minds (until boycott at end of Season 7 to present)
CSI: Miami
Cybill
Designing Women
Ghost Whisperer
Golden Girls
In Plain Sight
Las Vegas
Leverage
Major Crimes
NUMB3RS
OZ
Queer As Folk
Reba
Rizzoli & Isles
Six Feet Under
Smallville
Supernatural
The Closer
The Nanny
The Unit
White Collar
Will & Grace
XENA: Warrior Princess