Continuing the discussion from I'm rewatching every episode of Columbo:
If you could set up your own Comfort TV channel (you probably can – we have the technology), what shows would you put on it?
I’m replying to my own post so the OP can stand alone.
For openers:
Miss Marple (Joan Hickson episodes only)
Monk
Perry Mason (the 1950s-60s one)
Golden Girls
Father Brown
Will & Grace
Have Gun Will Travel
Midsomer Murders
I already watch ‘House’, ‘ER’, ‘Golden Girls’, ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’, and ‘Mom’.
I wouldn’t say no to an all-PBS classic channel, a menu of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, ‘Poldark’ (the original series and the remake), ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ (original and I suppose the remake) and ‘Downton Abbey’.
How I wish I could go back in time and be 10-ish years old, staying up late watching the midnight Creature Feature. A bad frozen pizza or tv dinner, and eventually drift off with the flickering black and white bad old sci-fi movies: ‘Monolith Monsters’, ‘It Came From Beneath the Sea’, ‘The Killer Shrews’, ‘Man With the X-Ray Eyes’…
Friends, The Office, Will and Grace, Parks and Rec, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place (I know, I like Michael Schur), Two and a Half Men, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, Big Bang Theory, Community.
There is a lot of series that I would consider comfort TV but I’ve watched them too many times now or I’ve recently watched them and there are no more seasons - My Three Sons, Andy Griffith, Leave It To Beaver, Downton Abbey, Poldark, old version of All Creatures, etc.
Here’s what I’m watching now that I’d consider comfort TV:
Call the Midwife
More of the new All Creatures Great & Small (waiting for a new season)
What We Do in the Shadows
All of the Zoo shows on Animal Planet
Chicago Med, Fire & PD
I used to love all of the vet shows on Animal Planet, but haven’t seen any new seasons yet. I suppose Covid is to blame.
QI, WILTY, CatsDoesCountdown ( 
), Mock o’ the Week, Bake Off, TaskMaster, Only Connect, Bob Ross, Mythbusters, The Woodwright’s Shop, The New Yankee Workshop, Begin/Weekend Japanology/Japanology Plus, Time Team and a lot of YouTube content like ClickSpring, Sampson Boat Co, Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, etc…
No love for Law & Order (Classic only)? I own the complete box set, and am confident that I could watch it an infinite number of times. I have even brought a portable DVD player to the dentist to watch it during a procedure. You could do almost anything to me, and it wouldn’t bother me as long as I’m watching Law & Order.
Also, the Decades channel has been showing reruns of The Love Boat, which is a lot more fun and occasionally more thoughtful than I remembered. The episode with MacKenzie Phillips as a transgender woman is particularly impressive, especially for the 1980s.
AGTV would do it for me.
(All Andy Griffith Show, all the time)
mmm
Earlier this year I discovered Doc Martin based on a suggestion on the “Dramedy” thread. It’s now one of my favorites. I think that would fit as Comfort TV.
The Wild, Wild West
Star Trek (Original)
Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Columbo
Tales of the Unexpected
Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting
The West Wing
Chucklevision
Throw in some of the old-fashioned game shows where the prizes were actual prizes and not just a lump sum of cash. A lot of the prizes were totally inconvenient or so lame it was funny on shows like Bullseye (contestants going home with a new washing machine or a ceiling fan or a speedboat) but it made the game more interesting because people weren’t going in expecting to play for luxury rewards.
Hehe. I own the set, too. 
And love it.
I really loved L&O: Criminal Intent, too, mostly because of Goren’s quirkiness. I don’t own the set, but I’ve watched the whole series at least three times. I still watch L&O: SVU, but I wish the expression on Olivia’s face would change-- she always looks like she is smelling something yukky. Haven’t tried the Return of Eliot Stabler and don’t plan to-- never liked him much.
How many discs is that? It’s gotta be massive. Once I tried to figure out if you had a Law & Order franchise channel, just how many days you could go without repeats.
There are 20 cases and each one has six discs. According to IMDB, there were 457 episodes over 20 seasons, 1990-2010.
The first 10 or so seasons of The Simpsons.
Futurama.
Venture Brothers
Metalocalypse
Various other Adult Swim shows
Abandoned
Andy Griffith
Battlebots
Black Market
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Beavis and Butthead
Cheers
Dead Set on Life
Drunk History
Fawlty Towers
Frasier
House MD
L&O SVU
Letterman reruns
Meerkat Manor
Monty Python
MXC
Mythbusters
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Taxi
Vice Essentials
Vice News Tonight
What We Do in the Shadows
Wonder Years
- More Vice investigative programs, like:
Seinfeld
X-Files
Walking Dead
The Big Bang Theory
Young Sheldon
My Name Is Earl
Charlie’s Angels
Wonder Woman
People of Earth
Stan Against Evil
Monty Python
Fawlty Towers
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Blue Planet
Life On Earth
According to Wikipedia there have been 1,208 episodes. If my math is correct, that is over 50 days (50 days and 8 hours).
And while looking that up I see that last month they announced a 21st season of Law and Order.
Huh.
I wonder if Wiki is including ALL the L&Os.
What I want is a streaming service where you pick out what combo of detectives and ADAs you want, and then it just plays a random episode of L&O