Star Trek TOS
One Piece
Dark Shadows
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Live Action Sailor Moon
Batman
Burns and Allen
The Jack Benny Show
Monty Python
Doctor Who
Ernie Kovaks Show
No one’s gonna mention some of mine, but I feel the need to be included just for the heck of it.
- All in the Family
- Futurama
- Good Neighbors / Good Life
- I, Claudius
- I Love Lucy
- MASH*
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus
- Newsradio
- The Office (US)
- Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (UK)
- Red Dwarf
- Roseanne
- The Simpsons
- Star Trek: DS9
- Star Trek: TNG
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Whose Line Is It Anyway (UK)
- Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
I’d actually have thought I’d include more dramas. But my mind is blanking out for some reason. I think Law and Order would have been included if I could just restrict it to the first seven years or so, when I couldn’t watch it often enough! But since for fourteen years I haven’t enjoyed it, I can’t say it’s my favorite.
And boy, my Anglophilia is really showing here. Embarrassing.
Edited to add: kelly5078! A fellow Good Neighbors fan! Awesome.
Here’s a list of the shows that have received at least four votes as All-Time Favorites.
I’m still monitoring the thread and updating the list as new posts come in. So if you want to post another Top 5 or Top 10 that might change the ranking of some of your really best favorites, do so.
I still don’t want to resort to a poll at this point.
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Deadwood (11)
The Simpsons (10)
The Wire (10)
Buffy (8)
Seinfeld (7)
The Sopranos (7)
Star Trek (original) (7)
Star Trek: TNG (7)
Mad Men (6)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (6)
Rome (6)
All In the Family (5)
Arrested Development (5)
Firefly (5)
MAS*H (5)
The Avengers (4)
Band of Brothers (4)
Battlestar Galactica (4)
Breaking Bad (4)
Doctor Who (4)
Family Guy (4)
Fawlty Towers (4)
House (4)
Lost (4)
Northern Exposure (4)
Nova (4)
Six Feet Under (4)
The West Wing (4)
Could you add the UK version of **Whose Line is it anyway ** &to my list? I can’t believe I forgot it!
Also The Muppet Show.
No problem. However, the list I’m keeping no longer has Poster ID attached. Just numbers of mentions.
Thanks for the additions.
:smack:
I forgot Beauty and the Beast!
Cracker
Gotcha!
Seinfeld
Life
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Gilligan’s Island
Star Trek: TNG
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Twin Peaks
The Bob Newhart Show
The Wire
Burn Notice
Shameless
Rome
Arrested Development
Okay, folks, it’s looking like a poll is in order finally. This thread sat idle for right at a month before some other threads dealing with TV show popularity and/or quality urged a few additional posts here.
As of the previous post 49 individuals have mentioned 211 individual shows!
Those shows that have been mentioned more than once break down like this:
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Deadwood (11)
The Wire (11)
The Simpsons (10)
Buffy (9)
Seinfeld (8)
Star Trek: TNG (8)
Rome (7)
The Sopranos (7)
Star Trek (original) (7)
Arrested Development (6)
Firefly (6)
Mad Men (6)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (6)
All In the Family (5)
MAS*H (5)
The Avengers (4)
Band of Brothers (4)
Battlestar Galactica (4)
Breaking Bad (4)
Dick Van Dyke Show (4)
Doctor Who (4)
Family Guy (4)
Fawlty Towers (4)
Gilligan’s Island (4)
House (4)
Lost (4)
Northern Exposure (4)
Nova (4)
Six Feet Under (4)
Twin Peaks (4)
The West Wing (4)
Angel (3)
Barney Miller (3)
The Bob Newhart Show (3)
Carnivale (3)
Cheers (3)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (3)
ER (3)
Freaks & Geeks (3)
Futurama (3)
Good Eats (3)
I Claudius (3)
My Name is Earl (3)
NCIS (3)
News Radio (3)
The Office (original) (UK) (3)
The Shield (3)
The Twilight Zone (3)
Whose Line is it Anyway (3)
WKRP in Cincinnati (3)
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Bones (2)
Cosmos (2)
Coupling (2)
Generation Kill (2)
Get Smart (2)
Gilmore Girls (2)
The Golden Girls (2)
The Good Life (UK) (2)
Good Neighbors (2)
Homicide (2)
Jeopardy! (2)
Late Night With David Letterman (2)
Monday Night Football (2)
Monk (2)
The Muppet Show (2)
NYPD Blue (2)
The Office (USA) (2)
Outer Limits (2)
Red Dwarf (2)
Sanford and Son (2)
Sons of Anarchy (2)
Star Trek Deep Space Nine (2)
Taxi (2)
3rd Rock from the Sun (2)
30 Rock (2)
The X-Files (2)
The +=+=+=+ mark is where I would break the poll entries if I were to do it today. That would have 50 entries in the poll.
I feel that’s too many, even allowing for multiple votes.
So I’ll hold off a little longer for any posts with a Top 5 or Top 10 list to be added to this thread so as to keep a meaning ful list of entries.
If somebody else wants to go ahead with a poll before I decide to, that’s fine by me. If not, I’ll wait a week from today, next Friday, before making a final selection with hopefully closer to 30 shows to pick from.
Please help narrow this list down some!
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
South Park
Mr. Show
Deadwood
What - no “Friends”? 
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
The Nanny
Law And Order: Special Victims Unit
Summer Heights High
The Golden Girls
Third Watch
The West Wing
LOST
I can’t believe Golden Girls isn’t in the top 50! C’mon people!
Looking over these lists, you can almost tell when posters were teenagers, can’t you?
To be completely honest, I forgot about this thread and my statement that I would get a poll up by today. The flood has been getting my attention all week.
I’ll try to get something in the way of a poll up before Monday.
Freaks and Geeks
Undeclared
Firefly
The Middleman
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Poll entries have been selected. Additional posts after this one will not be counted for the sake of the poll.
The voting in the poll has proceeded this way so far:
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 40 Voters: 50 Voters: 60 Voters: 70
The Simpsons 14 35.00% 14 28.00% 20 33.33% 24 34.29%
The Wire 11 27.50% 15 30.00% 16 26.67% 17 24.29%
The Sopranos 11 27.50% 12 24.00% 15 25.00% 17 24.29%
Firefly 10 25.00% 12 24.00% 14 23.33% 17 24.29%
All In The Family 10 25.00% 13 26.00% 14 23.33% 15 21.43%
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 9 22.50% 9 18.00% 13 21.67% 14 20.00%
The Twilight Zone 9 22.50% 11 22.00% 11 18.33% 14 20.00%
Cheers 10 25.00% 10 20.00% 11 18.33% 13 18.57%
Buffy 7 17.50% 8 16.00% 11 18.33% 13 18.57%
M*A*S*H 8 20.00% 10 20.00% 10 16.67% 13 18.57%
Seinfeld 9 22.50% 10 20.00% 12 20.00% 12 17.14%
Dick Van Dyke Show 6 15.00% 8 16.00% 9 15.00% 11 15.71%
Monty Python's Flying Circus 7 17.50% 7 14.00% 8 13.33% 11 15.71%
NOVA 5 12.50% 6 12.00% 8 13.33% 10 14.29%
WKRP In Cincinnati 5 12.50% 7 14.00% 7 11.67% 10 14.29%
Star Trek: TNG 8 20.00% 8 16.00% 9 15.00% 9 12.86%
The West Wing 7 17.50% 7 14.00% 8 13.33% 9 12.86%
The Bob Newhart Show 7 17.50% 8 16.00% 8 13.33% 9 12.86%
Good Eats 7 17.50% 7 14.00% 8 13.33% 9 12.86%
Northern Exposure 5 12.50% 7 14.00% 7 11.67% 8 11.43%
Battlestar Galactica 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 7 11.67% 8 11.43%
Fawlty Towers 3 7.50% 5 10.00% 6 10.00% 8 11.43%
Doctor Who 4 10.00% 5 10.00% 5 8.33% 8 11.43%
Twin Peaks 5 12.50% 5 10.00% 7 11.67% 7 10.00%
Star Trek: TOS 5 12.50% 5 10.00% 6 10.00% 7 10.00%
Lost 3 7.50% 3 6.00% 6 10.00% 7 10.00%
Arrested Development 4 10.00% 5 10.00% 5 8.33% 7 10.00%
Barney Miller 3 7.50% 5 10.00% 6 10.00% 6 8.57%
House 5 12.50% 5 10.00% 5 8.33% 6 8.57%
Freaks & Geeks 5 12.50% 5 10.00% 5 8.33% 5 7.14%
Breaking Bad 3 7.50% 5 10.00% 5 8.33% 5 7.14%
Futurama 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 5 8.33% 5 7.14%
News Radio 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 5 8.33% 5 7.14%
Angel 3 7.50% 4 8.00% 5 8.33% 5 7.14%
Rome 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 5 7.14%
Band of Brothers 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 5 7.14%
Whose Line Is It Anyway? 4 10.00% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 5 7.14%
Deadwood 3 7.50% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 5 7.14%
The Golden Girls 2 5.00% 3 6.00% 4 6.67% 5 7.14%
The Shield 3 7.50% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 4 5.71%
Six Feet Under 2 5.00% 4 8.00% 4 6.67% 4 5.71%
ER 3 7.50% 3 6.00% 3 5.00% 4 5.71%
The Office (Original -- UK) 3 7.50% 3 6.00% 3 5.00% 3 4.29%
I Claudius 2 5.00% 3 6.00% 3 5.00% 3 4.29%
NCIS 2 5.00% 2 4.00% 2 3.33% 3 4.29%
Family Guy 1 2.50% 1 2.00% 2 3.33% 3 4.29%
Gilligan's Island 1 2.50% 1 2.00% 1 1.67% 2 2.86%
Carnivale 1 2.50% 1 2.00% 1 1.67% 1 1.43%
Mad Men 1 2.50% 1 2.00% 1 1.67% 1 1.43%
My Name Is Earl 1 2.50% 1 2.00% 1 1.67% 1 1.43%
The Avengers 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 1.43%