<p>OK. Except I want to make it a top 15 or 20 list.</p>
<p>Odd Couple </p>
<p>Seinfeld</p>
<p>Mary Tyler Moore show</p>
<p>Hawaii Five-O</p>
<p>Bob Newhart show with Suzanne Pleshette </p>
<p>House</p>
<p>I love Lucy or the Dick Van Dyke Show</p>
<p>All in The family</p>
<p>The Prisoner</p>
<p>Connections</p>
<p>Leave it to Beaver</p>
<p>Whose Line Is it Anyway</p>
<p>Curb Your Enthusiasm</p>
<p>Felicity</p>
<p>I want to think of more shows.</p>
<p>I’d put House as my #1. There are very few shows for which I can enjoy watching the episodes over and over again, and that’s one of them.</p>
<p>corranged, you can list a few more. :)</p>
<p>College has had the unfortunate side effect of severely cutting into my TV time. I’m sad to say that House is currently the only TV show I watch.</p>
<p>I do find it hard to resist the drama of Project Runway, and I will shamefully admit catching bits and pieces of Work Out on the same channel, which has really no redeeming value except for the fact that I liked to watch the trainer in her work out clothes. ;)</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>House, is just a great, great show.</p>
<p>Sex and the City
Murphy Brown
Designing Women
Will & Grace
Buffy & Angel
Cagney & Lacey (really, any show with an “&” in it…)
M<em>A</em>S*H
Star Trek & its permutations</p>
<p>and…I may have to take the CC Walk of Shame here, but I like reality TV. Husband, on the other hand, likes music videos. We can shame walk together.</p>
<p>Best Night of Television in History:</p>
<p>CBS, Saturday nights, early 70s:</p>
<p>All in the Family, MASH, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Carol Burnett Show. Has there ever been a time when watching teevee on a Saturday night was practically guaranteed to be better than going to see a movie?</p>
<p>Other great television series (scripted):</p>
<p>(Leaving out the CBS lineup above)
I Love Lucy (invented the sitcom)
The Twilight Zone (smartest tv show ever?)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (what’s not to like)
Northern Exposure (compelling setting, and Grant Goodeve [the satellite boyfriend] is a friend of ours)
Malcolm in the Middle (best conceived characters in the last 10 years)
The Wonder Years (these are my people)
Cheers (smart writing, appealing characters, Carla Tortelli)
Frasier (I have a soft spot for things set in a mythical Seattle)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (still too hip for the room 40 years later)
Fawlty Towers (O that it didn’t last longer…)
Newhart (if for no other reason than the last scene in the final episode)
WKRP in Cincinnati (“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”</p>
<p>Favorite one-season wonder: It’s About Time</p>
<p>Guilty pleasures: LA Law, ER, the first season of Desperate Housewives, early seasons of The West Wing</p>
<p>I didn’t get it: Dallas, Miami Vice, Dynasty, Gunsmoke, Roseanne</p>
<p>Washdad, I really like your list and I think those Saturday nights were the best nights in tv history.</p>
<p>It’s About time…wasn’t that the caveman series or the going back in time series. If it was, I really liked that show too.</p>
<p>There was a show with Dan Dailey playing a governor, I really liked that show. Do you remember it? Maybe, the Governor and JJ? </p>
<p>I think I would add The Wonder Years to my list. Maybe Cheers and Monty Python too.</p>
<p>Desperate Housewives, WashDad? Better not let that into the ManCard thread! :)</p>
<p>Now I HAVE to put something here, right? :)</p>
<p>Nostalgic( English-learning aids) :
The Wonder Years, Star Trek-Next Generation, Northern Exposure, Cheers, Murphy Brown,early seasons of Roseanne </p>
<p>Later: Buffy/Angel, The West Wing, Law and Order, ER( early seasons) , Frasier, Sex and the City, Carnivale, The X-Files, nip/tuck, Felicity</p>
<p>Now : The Wire, Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Weeds, Heroes, Lost, Friday Night Lights, Entourage, Closer
“I can’t believe they canceled this show” : Firefly, Wonderfalls
“I don’t get it” : Seinfeld, Friends, Dawson Creek, Desperate Housewives, reality TV.
TV junky here, aha. :)</p>
<p>Parabella, I am going to give you a pass about Seinfeld because you have Felicity on your list. :)</p>
<p>And yes, you look like a tv junkie. :)</p>
<p>My failing to appreciate Seinfeld surprises people greatly. I look like the type of person who should like it, but somehow it’s not THAT funny to me.
My addiction to TV is easier to control now, thanks to a nifty DVR thingy. :)</p>
<p>This is going to be a lot harder than the 10 best movies thread - not so much great stuff to choose from:</p>
<p>Homicide (best cast, best writing, best directing ever)
Will & Grace
Barney Miller
Bob Newhart (the Chicago one)
24 (though I have to be in the mood)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Taxi
Columbo
I Love Lucy (making my kids laugh 50 years after the fact? Amazing)
St. Elsewhere (husband and I thought David Morse would be the breakout star - sorry, Denzel! Though David Morse is still one of my favorite actors and I hope a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination is in his future)</p>
<p>Just missing my top 10: Night Court, Wings</p>
<p>Great first few seasons but then got too ridiculous to watch: ER</p>
<p>Loved it as a kid: The Man from UNCLE, It Takes a Thief</p>
<p>Seinfeld
The Office</p>
<p>The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin
Rumpole of the Bailey (I think that was the name)
Crocodile Hunter
Nova
Austin City Limits</p>
<p>Then I have several already mentioned. ;)</p>
<p>Most of my favorites are already taken, including Newhart, M<em>A</em>S*H, and Sopranos, but I remember arranging my schedule around:</p>
<p>Moonlighting
Twin Peaks
Hill Street Blues</p>
<p>What is it about me and hospital shows? Maybe because I worked my way through college in one, but my sorority sisters & I never missed St. Elsewhere (Mark, Howie, Denzel, what not to love?)</p>
<p>ER (before it jumped the shark)
Chicago Hope (LOVE Mandy Patinkin)
House (the main reason for my DVR)</p>
<p>Everyone in the office is hooked on Grey’s Anatomy, so I guess I have to rent the first couple of seasons and hop on the bandwagon…</p>
<p>For comedy - Two and a Half Men is well written and has great characters
The BRITISH version of The Office is classic - LOVE Ricky Gervais!!
Curb Your Enthusiasm (people who didn’t like Seinfeld wouldn’t like this either)</p>
<p>Reality - Project Runway and Workout (Jackie Warner makes me want to get back to the gym)</p>
<p>Finally - I am a closet fan of ALF, the show with the furry alien, got all the seasons on DVD : )</p>
<p>In Living Color (the first 2 seasons especially)
I Love Lucy (I mean I LOVE her! I own every episode & tons of memoribilia too)
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (I have the entire collection)
Fawlty Towers (John Cleese at his very best)
Family Ties (seasons 1-4; Michael J Fox is a hoot as a young republican!)
The Twilight Zone (and who remembers Night Gallery?)
Get Smart (greatest opening sequence of a TV show)
Friends (still watch it every night)
LA Law
The Amazing Race (the GSN has been faithfully replaying every season - currently at the end of the 7th)
Project Runway (cannot wait for this next season, which is casting now)</p>
<p>I agree with Fawlty Towers/John Cleese–we ended up buying all the tapes. And definitely the old Twilight Zone.</p>
<p>House
The Fugitive (from too long ago)
Dirt (done really well–and some great acting, especially the photographer character)
Nip/Tuck - as somewhat pornographic and as bizarre as it is, I still thought it was done really well. What happened to it, by the way? Anybody know? Did it end, or did the season merely end?
Cold Case - also done really well–love the grainy sort of flashbacks, and the truly amazing casting</p>
<p>No one mentioned The Sopranos yet? One of my favorites was The Larry Sanders Show.</p>
<p>I was also addicted to Mission Impossible and The Smothers Brothers, neither of which would hold up that well today, but were unmissable then.</p>
<p>Actually, the quality of TV has gone way up. Think back to some of the real clunkers: Petticoat Junction, Lost in Space, Love Boat, and on and on.</p>
<p>I used to love thirtysomething, but haven’t seen it in so long that I don’t trust my judgment on it. We still watch reruns of Friends. And recently we got a DVD of old Mary Tyler Moore shows. We watched and my wife said that she had forgotten just how funny they were and how good that series was.</p>