# What programs should go on your personal "Comfort TV Channel"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [October 27, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312 "2021-10-27T13:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/1 "2021-10-27T13:30:00Z")
Continuing the discussion from [I'm rewatching every episode of Columbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rewatching-every-episode-of-columbo/953309/8): > [@I'm rewatching every episode of Columbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rewatching-every-episode-of-columbo/953309/8): > > I’ve been watching Columbo reruns, too, as the OP says, for comfort food TV. I like that there’s a formula-- part of the comfort food effect. [etc.]… If you could set up your own Comfort TV channel (you probably can – we have the technology), what shows would you put on it? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/2 "2021-10-27T13:34:23Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/3 "2021-10-27T13:43:27Z")
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’… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/4 "2021-10-27T13:55:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/5 "2021-10-27T14:01:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/6 "2021-10-27T14:13:17Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/7 "2021-10-27T16:35:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/8 "2021-10-27T16:41:22Z")
AGTV would do it for me. (All Andy Griffith Show, all the time) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/9 "2021-10-27T16:58:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/10 "2021-10-27T17:03:07Z")
The Wild, Wild West ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/11 "2021-10-27T17:16:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/12 "2021-10-27T17:47:55Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > No love for Law & Order (Classic only)? I own the complete box set… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/13 "2021-10-27T18:10:43Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > o 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/14 "2021-10-27T18:19:37Z")
There are 20 cases and each one has six discs. According to IMDB, there were 457 episodes over 20 seasons, 1990-2010. [![](https://i.imgur.com/XmYNzZi.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/XmYNzZi.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/15 "2021-10-27T18:23:25Z")
The first 10 or so seasons of The Simpsons. Futurama. Venture Brothers Metalocalypse Various other Adult Swim shows ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/16 "2021-10-27T19:10:38Z")
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: > **[Qanon](https://video.vice.com/en_us/topic/qanon)** > > Everything with the topic 'Qanon' on VICE Video: Documentaries, Films, News Videos ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/17 "2021-10-27T19:23:22Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/18 "2021-10-27T20:14:43Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Once I tried to figure out if you had a Law & Order franchise channel, just how many days you could go without repeats 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/19 "2021-10-27T20:24:03Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > According to Wikipedia there have been 1,208 episodes. Huh. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > According to IMDB, there were 457 episodes [of the original L&O] I wonder if Wiki is including ALL the L&Os. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312/20 "2021-10-27T20:25:01Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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. 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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-programs-should-go-on-your-personal-comfort-tv-channel/953312.md?page=2)