# TV series that you know you've seen every episode of.

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**Created:** [May 8, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-series-that-you-know-youve-seen-every-episode-of/495703 "2009-05-08T00:03:58Z")\
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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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\*\*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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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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_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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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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Clone High, but only because it’s only 13 episodes long.

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Queer as Folk  
Buffy  
Star Trek. All of them.  
1960’s Batman  
1960’s Dragnet  
Soap  
1970s Buck Rogers  
My So-called Life  
The first 4 series of The Real World

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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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Friends  
FireFly  
Sports Night  
West Wing  
Two and a Half Men  
Numbers  
Psych  
Monk  
Burn Notice  
Eureka  
Penn and Teller’s Bullshit  
Real Time with Bill Maer

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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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_Wiseguy_ - even the Billy Dee Williams episodes and the reunion movie.

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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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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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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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\*\*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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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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I’ll just include the longest-run series I’m sure I’ve caught every episode of:

Fraggle Rock.

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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

\*Hey, I’m older than most of you guys.

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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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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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