Your Favorite All-Time TV Shows

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With the apparent enjoyment of two threads with similar purposes:

The greatest actors of your lifetime with 48 Replies and 650 Views

and

Best Western (movie) with 81 Replies and 734 Views

…where the intention is to get preliminary data for polls on those topics, maybe we can do similar things with TV Shows, past and present, all genres.

If you can limit it to a Top 5 or a Top 10, great. Otherwise, just make sure they are indeed favorites.

I’ll start with:

The Sopranos
Cosmos
House
Nova
Deadwood

Whatcha got?

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Northern Exposure
ER
NYPD Blue
House
Married With Children (sorry, I find it hilarious)
Lost
Dirty Jobs
Mad Men
Carnivale
Star Trek (original, and why is it never on one of the billion cable channels, on a weekend afternoon?)

3

Hill Street Blues
Babylon 5
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Doctor Who
The Dick Van Dyck Show
Arrested Development
Coupling (UK version, of course)
Pushing Daisies
The Simpsons
Picket Fences

4

Frontline
Sunday Morning on CBS
Monday Night Football
NOVA
Seinfeld

5

Saturday Night Live
West Wing
Futurama
Mythbusters
Doctor Who
The Simpsons
Newsradio

6

30 Rock
Six Feet Under
ER
MAS*H
L.A. Law

7

MASH
Buffy
The Wire
The Simpsons
Cheers
SNL
Law and Order (the Brisco and Green years)

8

In no order:

On The Air
The Young Ones
Coupling
Max Headroom
Deadwood
Northern Exposure
Twin Peaks
Get Smart
Star Trek (TOS)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Others I thought of are Cosmos, The Day The Universe Changed, Nova, American Experience, and numerous others shown on The Science Channel, Discovery, and The History Channel (THC, with the caveat that their inaccuracies bug the hell out of me).

9

Seinfeld
Futurama
The Simpsons
Mythbusters
Star Trek: TNG
My Name is Earl
King of the Hill

10

The Wire
Six Feet Under
Rome
My So-Called Life
Mad Men
The Cosby Show
The Office (UK)

11

Star Trek TOS, TNG
Night Court
WKRP in Cincinnati
Barney Miller
Monty Python
The Muppet Show
Good Eats

12

The Rockford Files
Spaced
Star Trek TNG
Clangers
Doctor Who
Futurama
Monk
The Avengers
The Old Grey Whistle Test
Whose Line is it Anyway

13

Deadwood
Firefly
Band of Brothers
Planet Earth
Generation Kill

14

There are more I like, but in order to keep it exclusive I’ll keep it to three:

Buffy
West Wing
The Office (oridinal)

15

The Wire
Deadwood
Seinfeld
News Radio
3rd Rock from the Sun
Arrested Development
Mad Men
Psych

16

The Pretender
MacGyver
Prison Break
Gilmore Girls
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

17

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Especially the Joel years)
Simpsons
Star Trek
Star Trek TNG
Wallace and Ladmo (local kid show, off the air after decades)

18

Firefly
Coupling
BSG
Doctor Who
Top Gear

19

The Wire
Buffy
Firefly
Twin Peaks
Freaks & Geeks

20

Twin Peaks
Homicide
Carnivale
Deadwood
Battlestar Galactica
The X-Files
Mad Men
Sons of Anarchy
Arrested Development
The Simpsons