# TV shows you've never seen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299 "2006-03-14T11:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/41 "2006-03-18T16:39:49Z")
I haven’t watched any primetime or series shows in the last 10 years or more. However, I’m trying to remedy that and watch the best of those on dvd now. I’ve gotten as far as Six Feet Under, Firefly, Arrested Development (currently watching), and plan to watch on dvd: Battlestar Gallactica, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls, Freaks and Geeks, House, Lost, La Femme Nikita, Scrubs, Monk, Alias, The Wire, Dead Like Me). I like to read in the evenings, not watch tv. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/42 "2006-03-18T16:42:40Z")
I don’t watch a whole lot of things, but I’ll just mention The Simpsons. I don’t watch them because they’re so damn ugly. When they first appeared on TV I was working in a depressing and bleak corner of Van Nuys. People would urge me to watch The Simpsons and I would say to them, I’m already spending 48 hours a week and more at the corner of Woodman and Saticoy. I’ve already got enough ugliness in my life without making an effort to watch more. But when fortune smiled on me and I got jobs in nicer areas, I found that I still wasn’t very interested in watching the show. Which is too bad, because I know it’s a good show with some very talented writing. I’d rather just have a fan tell me about the last great episode. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/43 "2006-03-18T17:58:44Z")
A complete list of the shows I watch regularly: _Roper and Ebert At the Movies_ I never saw any episodes of Friends, The Simpsons, any reality show (except one episode of a show where they try to lose weight that my wife was watching), Seinfeld, etc. I’d rather read. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/44 "2006-03-18T20:01:15Z")
Survivor Desperate Housewives The Apprentice 24 Arrested Development The Office BTW, don’t consider any of this judgmental. I’m not above any of it, just haven’t seen 'em. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/45 "2006-03-18T20:13:28Z")
Law & Order – any of them. Even the intro bores me CSI - any of them, though I have seen individual scenes In fact, it’d be a shorter list if I just told you what I do watch: Survivor Lost Desperate Housewives HGTV/TLC (Trading Spaces/House Hunter/Designer’s Challenge, etc) Raymond reruns I’ve watched “24,” “Veronica Mars,” “Sopranos,” “Buffy” and “Angel” after they aired by buying the DVDs ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/46 "2006-03-18T21:24:52Z")
I’ve also never seen any incarnation of **Doctor Who**. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/47 "2006-03-19T03:56:12Z")
24 Alias Medium Ghost Whisperer Firefly Veronica Mars Arrested Development Smallville My Name is Earl The O.C. Falcon Beach (Canadian) Corner Gas (Canadian) Well actually ANY Canadian Show Roswell American Dad Oz Joan of Arcadia L Word One Tree Hill 2 1/2 Men George Lopez Show That Jim Belushi Thing - is it still on? That one with Jamie Gertz - is it still on? That John Ritter one with Peg Bundy And probably lots of others ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299/48 "2006-03-19T05:30:13Z")
Limiting it to things currently/recently on the air (and not new mid-season replacements): War At Home Prison Break The Apprentice How I Met Your Mother Miracle Workers NCIS Scrubs - at least not a full episode, anyway, I’ve walked into a room while was on Freddie Criminal Minds My Name is Earl Living With Fran American Idol Suvivor Trading Spaces Deal or No Deal (never heard of it til a commercial said it was “returning”) Battlestar Galactica In Justice & Conviction (I don’t know which is which, but they’ve been on a couple months) According To Jim Still Standing Americia’s somethingorother Model The Amazing Race and what the hell is Four Kings? If it’s not brand-new that one too Thanks, TVGuide Online! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-youve-never-seen/348299.md?page=2)