Participation Required: Favorite TV Shows!
Without a doubt, Doctor Who is the best TV show ever. Next would be LOST. Top Gear on the BBC, BSG, Stargate SG 1, and most quality SciFi shows.
Yours?
Without a doubt, Doctor Who is the best TV show ever. Next would be LOST. Top Gear on the BBC, BSG, Stargate SG 1, and most quality SciFi shows.
Yours?
House
Red Eye
Mike and Mike
Morning Joe
Downton Abbey
Andy Griffith
Star Trek
New Amsterdam (ran on 1 season, but was a great show!)
Bones (at least the original series)
Seinfeld
Monk
The Mentalist
Star Trek: TNG
Law and Order (any of the myriad series)
Holmes on Homes
House Hunters International
Friends
And yes, I know I will probably “go straight to Hell, do not collect Eternal Life” but I gotta say
… Will and Grace
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Ed
X-Files
The Office
The Middle
Modern Family
King Of Queens
Northern Exposure
Arrested Development
Everybody Loves Raymond
Kildar & Casey
Andy Griffith
Good Times
WKRP
The Jeffersons
Seinfeld
The Office
Burn Notice
Seinfeld (started season 1 a year ago, watching in order, ALMOST done!)
Mythbusters
And a few notches down:
Shark Tank
Wipeout
And I want to taser anyone and everyone involved with “Lost” after that finale…..
Sooooo glad I don’t have (can’t afford) cable. I go on vacation and EVERYBODY has it wherever I stay, and all of a sudden I watch 8 hours of tv in a row! Deadliest Warrior, Whale Wars, How It’s Made……all kinds of “reality shows”.
Ohhh, and those “True Hollywood Stories”
Monk
Breaking Bad
Newsroom
West Wing
Little House on the Prairie
Moonlighting
Dodgers’ Baseball
“How It’s Made” – what fun that is
Firefly.
Initially we had no remote control and we were constantly adjusting “Rabbit Ears” so they pointed in the right position while turning dials to stop the vertical roll. And if that did not work often times a good smack on the side of the TV did the trick. All shows were in faded black and white…no true couch potato, we were up and down adjusting the big box and turning the channel constantly…
Favorite TV shows? I liked them all as did all of my friends. We would talk about what we saw the night before when we were at school every day.
Arthur Godfrey And Friends
The Howdy Doody Show
Captain Kangaroo
The Flint Stone
The Jack Benny Show
Father Knows Best
My Three Sons
Mr. Ed
My Favorite Martian
Virginian
Lassie
Alfred Hitchock Presents
Wagon Train
The Honey Mooners
Sky King
Ozzie And Harriet
Leave It To Beaver
Rat Patrol
Man From U.N.C.L.E
Outer Limits
The Prisoner
Gun Smoke
Mission Impossible
I Spy
The Avengers
The Mod Squad
Ironside
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
I Love Lucy
Dick Van Dyke
Lost in Space
Star Trek
The Monkees
Beverly Hillbillys
Car 54 Where Are You
Brady Bunch
Donna Reed
Dobie Gillis
Doris Day
Dragnet
Dennis The Menace
There were so many more. But we watched them all. TV was our joyful addiction. And then along came the computer and the internet and here you are…
I can’t think of a GOOD father/husband (or even leading man) on tv since Bill Cosby…..tell me they haven’t been systematically wiped out
In no particular order:
Start Trek: The Next Generation
Bill Cosby
Picket Fences
I Love Lucy
Gilligan’s Island
Superman (w/ George Reeve)
Dick Van Dyke
Bear and the Big Blue House
The Koala Brothers
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Monk
Almost everything that David Sloane mentioned
Criminal Minds
Castle
The Waltons
Whale Wars
Deadliest Catch
River Monsters
Sesame Street (older episodes)
Matlock
Jtk, OK, I won’t tell you…but…
Fringe
Battlestar Galactiaca
Psych
Monk
Merlin
Pushing Daisies
SG1
SG Atlantis
Kung Fu
Mary Tyler Moore
Bob Newhart bothe series
All In The Family
Bonanza
Star Trek Next Generation
Star Trek
Andy Griffith
Beverly Hillbillies
Smallville
Cosby Show
The Waltons
Little House On The Prairie
Everything that’s ever been broadcast on TBN. 😉
Grimm, Once Upon A Time, The New Doctor Who (David Tennant On), Criminal Minds, Downton Abby, The Walking Dead, Falling Skys, 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Rec, Modern Family, Kitchen Nightmares, Bones, Law and Order (all svu, criiminal intent, etc..) Torchwood, Vampire Diaries, Parent Hood, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Friends, Merlin, Super Natural, The Cosby Show, Little House on the Prairie, Lost, Alphas, and many more I can’t think of.
They need to come up with a new Lassie series, or something.
We went without a TV for a year. We have one now but we don’t watch it. Lost was a great show but the end was STOO-PID! The one and only Dr Who that was good was Tom Baker. When he looked at the camera he was saying “This is so hokey. Play Along. Jelly babies?”
Here are some faves in order most recent to oldest:
Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Bret
Monk
Law and Order with Vincent D’nofrio
Lost
Cosby show
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Wonder Years
Home Improvement
the first 3 years of The Waltons
Laugh-In
Leave It To Beaver
Of course we NEVER watch TV … we are much too busy and our lives are too important and it is all beneath us.
I like snark. Bring it on. Right after these important messages from our sponsor… Friends, this is Ralph Spoilsport of Ralph Spoilsport Motors here in the city of Fine Used…
Shows I Legitimately Love:
Star Trek
Star Trek DS9
Psych
Batman (the Adam West one)
Mystery Science Theater 3000
X-Files
Shows I Love Because They’re So Bad
CSI Miami
I’ve only seen the 1st season of 24. It’s totally the sort of show that would suck me in with its hilarious awfulness but I just don’t have the time right now.
Anything on the History Channel or one of its affiliates presenting the beliefs of Ancient Astronaut Theorists.
I watch very little TV…not because I’m too busy or too holy, but because it bores me to tears.
Same with movies.
I’m weird.
I watch some sports and Trey and I will watch some of those shows on wilderness survival.
That’s about it.
That’s a good idea for a topic- shows that were so bad they were good. All in theFamily
Michael,
I thought Babs-a-lot’s Dread’s comment was aimed at me. If you didn’t watch too much TV you’re missing out on a lot of near humor and pseudo thought. In other words, you’re not missing out on much. Nothing that would commend you to God. imho
Best TV show ever? That’s a really tough one.
Dr. Who is very high on my list…but so is Andy Griffith, Twilight Zone, & I Love Lucy.
I’m with you Michael that most TV bores me to death. If I removed sports…I probably watch 2 – 3 hours a week.
Tom Baker was the best Doctor. By far. My wife, as we saw, is only into the pretty boy era.
I don’t watch much TV because most of it is alien to my world view. Sometimes when I have a knitting project that I need to finish in a hurry I will put on a detective program, NCIS or Criminal Minds. I think most of TV is totally worthless and I don’t care how arrogant that sounds.
Reuben, and the search for the next doctor is now underway!
Anyone ever see the BBC Narnia series that5 had Tom BAker as Puddleglum? That was awesome.
Tom Baker was a very good Puddleglum.
I’ve got those on DVD. My kids watch them all the time.
Agree with Reuben and Gary about Tom Baker being the best Doctor Who. It really was hokey with sonic screwdrivers, robotic dog and Tardis…….exterminate, exterminate……..
My list would be most of David Sloane’s, plus most of Captain Kevin’s and erunner’s with a few more added –
Laramie
Wanted Dead or Alive
Maverick (original with James Garner)
The Rockford Files
Laredo
The High Chapparal (favorite character was Buck Cannon)
Colombo
Murder She Wrote
Hazel
Gidget (one season original with Sally Fields)
Wagon Train
Wild Wild West
DUCK DYNASTY
Petticoat Junction
Hee Haw
1967 is the magic year for some reason.
Just about any TV show before that date: You can sit and watch it comfortably with your family.
Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart – we have about all the DVDs.
After 1967 you are taking your chances.
Yes, Rockford Files – totally awesome
*Call the Midwife (Such an excellent show, Christians in the show are portrayed honestly and the show doesn’t mock God. Some of the characters in the series are some dedicated midwife/nuns in a poverty stricken area of London in the 1960’s. They are portrayed as real, vulnerable, spiritual and sinners) It is an excellent show.
*Downton Abbey
*Modern Family (these 2 are just so funny)
*The Middle
*Big Bang
*Breaking Bad (Like a Greek tragedy, where the protagonist is caught in the web of his own making)
Oldies:
I Love Lucy
Rockford Files
Seinfeild
In order: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Rome, Game Of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Sons of Anarchy.
For Old Times: The A Team.
My wife and I have enjoyed watching The Little Couple as they have been adopting a special needs baby from China.
I think every pastor should watch, Intervention
Breaking Bad might have been the greatest series ever if they had not come back for the final year (I won’t put in any spoilers from what was supposed to be the last season). Last summer was good in its own right, but the writers are going to really have to come up with something special to end the series any better than it was supposed to end.
Spongebob is truly classic comedy….(don’t judge me) 🙂
And if you let yourself not analyze the clock issues too much (when did anyone go to the bathroom) – 24 was excellent and a very creative idea. I only saw about half the seasons though…
Down and Out In BuenO Park
My top ten list
1. Star Trek: The Next Generation
2. The Pretender (For those who never watched it, you need to.)
3. The Office
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. Outsourced (for it’s single season)
6. Babylon 5
7. The Walking Dead
8. The Outer Limits
9. Get Smart
10. All the other Star Trek Series (my wife prefers DS9, I prefer to call it by it’s real name, Star Trek: The Soap Opera).
Never heard of Dr. Who
My comment was aimed at WE … I frankly don’t care who watches or however much they watch. I love far more than I admit
Bob has never heard of Doctor Who…
I have seen everything now.
1. Dr. Who. Prefer the older series. Started watching it in 1989 on WKNO, the PBS affiliate in Memphis, with the 4th Doctor. My wife and I have a lot of Classic Dr. Who on DVD and VHS. Now Doctors in order of preference:
a. Tom Baker -4
b. Sylvester McCoy -7
c. Jon Pertwee -3
d. William Hartnell -1
e. Peter Davison -5
f. Patrick Troughton -2
g. David Tennant- 10
h. Matt Smith – 11
i. Christopher Eccleston – 9
j. Paul McGann – 8
k. Colin Baker – 6
2. Any Star Trek Series.
3. The Walking Dead
4. X-Files
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
6. Downton Abbey
7. Last of the Summerwine
8. Duck Dynasty
9. Battlestar Galactice
10. Game of Thrones. Might catch flack over it, but I have been reading he books for years and I love seeing the books come to life.
Starsky and Hutch
Welcome Back Kotter
Brady Bunch
MASH
Seinfeld
Once upon a Time
Little House
High Chaparral
Rescue
Doc Martin
Wallander
Doctor Who (David Tennant)
General Hospital
Oh yeah and
Get Smart
And CSI NY but only the parts with Gary Sinise
Everybody Loves Raymond
Craig Ferguson Show (especially with the revelation that Geoff Peterson the gay robot and Secretariat the horse are Lutherans)
Leave it to Beaver
Seinfeld
I’m with London–I love CSI: NY but only the parts with Gary Sinise. But, if I’m honest, I just really love him because he looks like Dr. McCoy.
And, since everyone is talking about Dr. Who. My fave Doctor was Christopher Eccleston.
White Shadow
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Family Guy
NCIS
NCIS: Los Angeles
Bones
CSI: Miami
The Office (early seasons)
Star Trek: Next Generation
Battlestar Galactica (the 2000s remake)
Rizzoli & Isles
The West Wing
Law and Order: SVU
I’m also watching Continuum on Netflix and may give Criminal Minds a shot.
BrianD sighting!!!!!!
Faves of all-time in no particular order:
Monday Night Football
Carol Burnett
Saturday Night Live (older days and some in the 90’s)
Seinfeld
X-files
24
In Living Color
Chapelle’s Show
A-Team
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Hogan’s Heroes
Andy Griffith
I Love Lucy
Daniel Boone
Quantum Leap
The Shield
Battlestar Gallactica (old one)
Happy Days
M.A.S.H.
Apprentice (first season)
Survivor (first season)
Heroes
Faves current:
Duck Dynasty
Pawn Stars
Hard Core Pawn
Storage Wars
Chopped
Iron Chef America
Top Shot
Red Eye
Reno 9-11
Daily Show
Colbert Report
Breaking Bad
Soupy Sales
The Prisoner
gong Show
Sheck…The Gong Show was my favorite show…ever.
Some choices from LONG AGO
The Man From UNCLE
Dark Shadows
The Rockford Files
Walt Disney
Rawhide
The Ed Sullivan Show
Amos n Andy
Amos n Andy was AWESOME and especially because it would offend everyone today.
All these old shows I’ve long since forgotten about. So many I liked… all 3 of Jeff’s, Can You Top This, Who’s Line is it, TW3 (That Was The Week That was), Monty Python, Monday Night Football, Benny Hill, Andy Griffith, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies. So much fun.
The gong show was the bomb.
How about E.R.?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was another good one.
Hill Street Blues.
Cheers……Norm.
Currently:
Once upon a Time.
Greys Anatomy.
Friends – to go to sleep by.
Love most of the shows on HGTV.
Used to love watching Barney Miller with my dad, he cracked up the whole time.
Later… with Jools Holland
Dread,
I loved Amos and Andy, especially Kingfish and Lightning. My favorite quote, “it’s time to proceed with the proceedins’.” It was funny the same way the Beverly Hillbillies was or Duck Dynasty is, but I guess it isn’t pc.
RIght Gary, relegated to You tube
I was only about 11 or 12 but my older brother and his friends were on the gong show (we lived in Glendale just minutes from where it was filmed) – I only remember what a big deal it was to him when they showed it on TV. I don’t remember the act (I think it was something with dancing trash cans) and I don’t remember if they got gonged or not.
I’m sure I went back to something baseball related as soon as it was over….
Will have to call my brother on that….
I haven’t thought of The Gong Show in years. I didn’t care for it.
Chuck Barris, of Gong show fame, said that he was a CIA hit man.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,404266,00.html
Glen added some good ones:
Maverick
The Rockford Files
Columbo
Wild Wild West
Petticoat Junction
Hee Haw
I also like M*A*S*H* and Cheers!
Speaking of The Gong Show. Has anyone seen the film about Chuck Barris’ life? He was supposedly a CIA agent. I thought that ridiculous until I saw “Argo” and found out how the CIA has a lot of agents (albeit part time) in show business. Now I wonder if Chuck Barris was telling some truth in his wild story.
Sheck, that was hilarious!
St. Elsewhere (it made Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington famous).
Pray for me on some issues, thank you
H.R. Pufnstuf
Regis and KathiLee
11 O’clock Eye Witness News
Politically Correct with Bill Mahar
The McGlaughlin Group
Ok brian. *Asking the Lord to minister to brian.*
Steve @ 42
Breaking Bad should have ended when ‘the book’ was found in the bathroom (imo). Their doing okay dragging the story out though.
Sponge Bob is great & clean slap stick.
Kiefer reading a paper on the john while the classic clock ticks would have been epic.
Every time I see that pic of the tardis, the theme song comes to mind. One of the best theme songs ever.
I don’t watch much TV now. All my favorites are old.
Addams Family
M*A*S*H
Get Smart
Green Acres
Combat
Hogan’s Heroes
Rat Patrol
etc.
Pee Wee’s Playhouse
Hobo Kelly
Sheriff John
Captain Kangaroo
Engineer Bill
Popeye
CPO Sharkey
Hill Street Blues
M*A*S*H*
Angel
Burn Notice
Haven
Eureka
Funniest close to a series ever. At the end of the second Newhart show when Bob wakes up next to Suzzanne Pleshette.
erunner grew up in southern California. Red light green light, ya little mischief maker. Put another candle on your birthday cake. I grew up in Santa Ana.
Gary, So we were doing the same thing at the same time some 50 years ago….. I guess we have a special bond now!! 🙂
Gary and erunner,
I grew up in Covina and watched those shows in front of a Packard Bell console. It was black and white with mono phono and am radio. Lunch was with Sheriff John and dinner was with Engineer Bill. KFI was big and Vin Scully announcing the Dodger games was the best……….
Glen, I sat in front of our black and white television imagining I could see colors as I watched. I remember hearing Vin Scully and Jerry Dogget as a ten year old. My gosh! Me and Vinnie have been together longer than me and my wife!! 🙂
erunner,
Is your computer digital or analog?
Joe Pyne Art Linkletter Lloyd Thaxton Ninth Street West Roller Derby
Glen,
Did you drink your milk with Engineer Bill?
Gary, My computer is an HP. I drank with the Engineer and believe I beat him regularly!
Hey! What about Romper Room? “I’m looking through the Magic Mirror and I see some boys and girls who are celebrating their birthday today.”
She was my first crush until Ann Margaret in Bye Bye Birdie
Fright Night with Seeeeeeemour and Banjo Billie
Sharry Lewis and Lamb Chop. She was my crush.
Sonia Hurwitz, née Shari Lewis was a 3rd cousin to me. My great grandparents name in Russia was Hurwitz. Gary, it’s nice you had an eye for a nice, Jewish girl.
Jeff,
are you the sheck of iheartsheck?
erunner, Gary and Jeff,
Those were the days and I did drink my milk with red light green light on Engineer Bill.
Crushes – Angela Cartwright, Patty Duke, Sally Fields………..
Angela Cartwright was a cutie on Lost in Space but she was a brat on the Danny Thomas show.
Glen, My crushes Angela Cartwright from Lost In Space and Elinore Donahue from Father Knows Best.
erunner, yes, Angela in Lost in Space (not Make Room For Daddy) and Elinore also in season one of The Andy Griffith Show was a favorite. I just remembered Shelly Fabares on Donna Reed Show, too. The things we old guys remember……..
Good wholesome programming back then…….
How did I miss a discussion on Doctor who? Those who are friends on FB will not be surprised….
here is my list:
Doctor Who… ( I can list my favs in order, but will leave it as 5 and 10 are the best!!)
Firefly… come on I didn’t see this on other lists…
Buffy the Vampire slayer
How its MAde
Castle
Red Dwarf
Nerdist
Keen Eddy
The real Top Gear
Big Bang Theory
Grimm…. cause it is all about Portland
All the stuff they show on Masterpiece and Mystery
Heart of Dixie
Anything on the BBC
Gary
No. I think I Heart Sheck was a person who maybe liked my posts back in the early days over at CCA. People called me Sheck as a nickname for my Pseudonym.
OK, since some have mentioned crushes. Stephanie Zimbalist from Remington Steele. Wrote to her once and she sent me an autographed picture. What you couldn’t tell from the TV, but that was very clear in her picture, was that she is a freckle-face. So cute!
Also had crushes on Patty Duke and Haley Mills, and Jan Brady.