# What TV series had the biggest body count? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894 "2014-12-10T23:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/41 "2014-12-11T19:23:14Z")
How about **Sledge Hammer!** - didn’t he accidentally nuke LA? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/42 "2014-12-11T19:59:18Z")
**Breaking Bad** wouldn’t have the highest body count, but it’s high up there. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/43 "2014-12-11T20:10:41Z")
Neither one ran very long but I submit that both _Rome_ and _Deadwood_ had pretty decent bodycounts. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/44 "2014-12-11T20:36:06Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Neither one ran very long but I submit that both _Rome_ and _Deadwood_ had pretty decent bodycounts. “Cut her face off!” has got to be one of the most memorable lines ever spoken on TV! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/45 "2014-12-11T20:37:21Z")
I was thinking of Rome as well. There weren’t that many battle sequences, but a lot of folks died in them. Similarly, Game of Thrones has some battle sequences; any estimates how many onscreen deaths would appear in these? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/46 "2014-12-11T20:43:37Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Doctor Who was going to be my answer because it depicts the complete end of the universe with the complete extinction of all life everywhere. Didn’t the _ **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** _ series show the same thing? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/47 "2014-12-11T21:44:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Didn’t the _ **Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** _ series show the same thing? :dubious: I’m not sure they got that far. And in Doctor Who they show it twice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894/48 "2014-12-11T23:49:00Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > A goodly number of her victims were, as you say, vampires, so they were already dead and shouldn’t count. What she was mostly doing was littering. Killing a vampire ain’t littering; the corpse cleans itself up automatically. Other species of demon, not so much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-had-the-biggest-body-count/706894.md?page=2)