# What series have you watched in its entirety more than once?

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_And_ what’s the most number of times you’ve watched a series?

ST: DS9, 4 times over a handfull of years.  
ST: Enterprize 2 times

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Wonderfalls: 3 or 4 times  
Pushing Daisies: 4 or 5 times, easy.

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Off the top of my head:

I love Lucy  
The Honeymooners  
The Odd Couple  
Taxi  
The Brady Bunch  
Seinfeld  
Curb Your Enthusiasm  
Laverne & Shirley  
WKRP in Cincinnati  
The Twilight Zone (original)

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You missed Happy Days?

I’ve seen every episode of Kim Possible. and the movies.  
Firefly  
West Wing  
Star Trek: original series, Enterprise, and I think I got all of Next Generation.

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MASH

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**I Claudius  
The Civil War  
Monty Python’s Flying Circus  
Star Trek  
Fawlty Towers  
Arrested Development  
The Prisoner**

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The Wire  
Deadwood  
Buffy  
Angel  
Firefly

And after this week is over, The Sopranos. “Kennedy and Heidi” was on last night. Just two more episodes to go.

ETA: Poldark and The Forsyte Saga

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I’m quite sure I’ve seen every episode of certain syndicated shows multiple times (Dick Van Dyke, MASH, Bonanza, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan’s Island, ST:TOS, ST:TNG, etc.) The series I own and rewatch all the time are:

BtVS  
Angel  
The Avengers (Emma Peel years)  
WKRP (bootlegs with original music)  
Babylon 5  
Fawlty Towers  
Good Neighbors  
Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends  
Animaniacs  
Firefly  
Thin Blue Line  
Jack of All Trades  
Wings  
The New Avengers  
Father Ted  
Connections  
Connections 2  
Connections 3  
The Day the Universe Changed

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> [@aNewLeaf](#):
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> You missed Happy Days?

I considered it, but I’m not certain if I saw the last season or two more than once. Same with MASH.

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> [@epbrown01](#):
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> Pushing Daisies: 4 or 5 times, easy.

I’ve seen every episode of Pushing Daisies three times (though, with only 22 episodes, it’s not tremendously difficult).

Same thing for Firefly; with only 14 episodes, I know I’ve seen every episode twice (intentional runs through my DVD set), but I’m pretty certain that I’ve seen every episode at least one additional time through showings on Science Channel.

I’m reasonably certain that I’ve seen every episode of the original Star Trek, and WKRP in Cincinnati, multiple times, but as those were picked up through many years of re-runs, I can’t give a good number for those. 🙂

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Firefly - at least 10 times  
Sopranos - 4 or 5 times  
Deadwood - 4 or 5 times  
The Monkees - 4 or 5 times  
Friends - probably about 100 times

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I think I watched Fullmetal Alchemist twice, the first time on TV (probably slightly out of order), and once straight through.

I think I also watched Fooly Cooly 3-4 times because it’s only 6 episodes.

Granted, the number of TV series I’ve watched **total** is not much bigger than that list, so the number I’ve seen more than once is bound to be small. (New) Doctor Who and Torchwood are the only other series I can think of that I’ve seen all the way through off the top of my head. I have a tendency to get bored halfway through TV series and do something else.

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I’m not going to count Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Partridge Family, etc. which I watched only because that was pretty much all that was on at the time, and not because I actually enjoyed those shows.

ST:TNG probably twice  
ST: TOS an untold number of times  
Babylon 5 twice  
X-Files probably 3 times  
Firefly 4 times  
Arrested Development 5 times (season 4 twice)

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Firefly x3  
Babylon 5 x3  
Deadwood x2  
Fawlty Towers x4  
Drop the Dead Donkey x2  
Futurama (S1-S4 lost count)  
Band of Brothers x2  
Ultraviolet (UK vampire series) x2

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I have the DVD’s of these and have watched each several times (UK series in italics.)

(Aaron Sorkin)  
West Wing  
Sports Night  
Studio 60

(Crime)  
CSI (Vegas)  
Law and Order (+ Law and Order Criminal Intent)  
Life  
Nero Wolfe Mysteries  
_Sherlock_  
_Jonathan Creek_

(Spy)  
_Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy  
Smiley’s People_

(Comedy)  
Big Bang Theory  
Two and a Half Men  
Entourage  
_Yes Minister_ (+ _Yes, Prime Minister_)  
_Porterhouse Blue_

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There are a number of series where I’m sure I’ve seen all of the episodes at least twice due to reruns, but I’m assuming you’re talking about watching them all in order from some canned source such as Netflicks, On Demand, or DVDs.

_Twin Peaks_ I’ve seen at least 3, maybe 4, times and I’m sure I’ll watch it again at some point, since I have the DVDs. Fawlty Towers I’ve seen at least 3 times. I’ve see all of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ at least twice.

I’m not sure if _Breaking Bad_ counts, since it still has a handful of new episodes starting in August, but I’ve seen all of it to date at least twice.

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ST:TOS (infinity number of times)

ST:TNG (infinity minus 1)

Firefly

Keen Eddie

Life On Mars (UK)

HHGTtG (80s version)

Profit

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The various Star Treks  
Buffy, Angel, Firefly  
How I Met Your Mother  
Quantum Leap  
Futurama

Not sure how many times, probably at least three. The Whedon shows I actually deliberately watched alone and with friends on DVD several times. The others I caught daily in syndication.

I watched each new Lost several times, partly because I liked it and partly because I worked on the wiki. I plan on doing a complete rewatch when the Bluray comes down in price.

I also tend to watch new episodes of Dexter, True Blood, New Girl, Big Bang Theory, and Glee once on my own and once with a friend, as well as some of the SyFy shows.

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\*\*Star Trek

The Prisoner

Connections

The Day the Universe Changed

The Outer Limits

\*\*

Probably **The Twilight Zone**

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**Freaks and Geeks  
Tremé**

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