<p>One show I’ve watched recently that seems promising is Black Donnellys. Has anyone else seen it?</p>
<p>Kath and Kim (Austrralian ABC parody of suburban life–classic)</p>
<p>French and Saunders BBC</p>
<p>The Office --the original. Don’t like the American version.</p>
<p>Spooks --BBC–before the cast started falling in love with each other and ruining marirages and getting fired)</p>
<p>State of Play–BBC pilot with Bill Nihgy. Sublime.</p>
<p>Boston Legal</p>
<p>I’m well and truly over ‘House’. The plot is predictable. He’s whiny. The women are gutless and strangely enamoured with their deep plunging necklines. I know lots of top docs who dress like that.<br>
N-O-T.</p>
<p>Knowing that House is British makes it worse. I just want to smack him for letting down his side with that snivelling. Man up, House. Man up.</p>
<p>Now:
House
Grey’s Anatomy
Friday Night Lights
Amazing Race
Flip that House (the one on Bravo,not TLC)
Two-A-Days (both S’s played high school football, we can relate)
House Hunters
America’s Next Top Model (H refuses to watch. I record)
American Idol</p>
<p>Old shows :
Andy Griffith
Happy Days
Partridge Family…who didn’t love David Cassidy?
American Bandstand
Hill St. Blues
Dallas…never missed it
LA Law
NYPD Blue
China Beach
Party of Five
American Dreams…loved it, guess nobody else did</p>
<p>cheers - never could get into House. Hugh Laurie as the ‘sniveling’ English company man in “Flight of the Phoenix” did it for me.</p>
<p>I loved 30 something too. Everything about it.</p>
<p>Especially Ken Olin & Peter Horton</p>
<p>And Alumother, the Vegas run of Taxicab Confessions was THE BEST. </p>
<p>Do you remember that one with nurse from the old folks home who was just a saint? So sweet and nice about going in at 3:00 am to calm down one of the residents? I will never forget that one; in the midst of this really seamy, X rated stuff this angel appeared…</p>
<p>I more or less quit watching commercial network TV shows sometime in the 1980s. I did however make a slight exception for the first two seasons of Ally McBeal though.</p>
<p>10 Great TV shows in no particular order:</p>
<p>Nova
Nature
American Experience
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers
Cosmos
The Simpsons
Star Trek TNG, not DS9
Rumpole of the Bailey
Jeeves and Wooster - Hugh Laurie is the perfect Bertie Wooster</p>
<p>& OMG just noticed, I have never been to Vegas EITHER!!!</p>
<p>Scipio, your mention of Hugh Laurie’s other show got me to look up his biography. He’s an author and a musician too. I hope he gets the Emmy this year.</p>
<p>King of the Hill!!</p>
<p>Yes, Dstark, I was interested to learn that Laurie plays his own music in all of those episodes with House playing the piano. Multi-talented guy (especially with that amazing American accent!).</p>
<p>Oh dear. If SBMom and Alumother ever wound up in Vegas together I think the USGS would have to issue seismic warnings:).</p>
<p>I missed the nurse. But the cross-dressing Latino teen was heartbreaking. For some reason I was only able to see the show when traveling to places like Jacksonville, Florida, so the programs are inextricably linked in my memory with the bedspread fabrics in Hampton Inns and the like.</p>
<p>OK, pact: if we ever meet IRL, it should be in Vegas! Maybe we can see Cirque de Soleil. :)</p>
<p>Where DO those hotels get that fabric? Is it recycled from old airplane seat covers, or curtains from old elementary school auditoriums? Uggggh.</p>
<p>The nurse was something… She was about 350 lbs. And she had an absolutely beautiful soul! She worked with alzheimers patients. She spent the whole ride talking about how, for many of them with no visitors, she was their family-- and how she tried to honor that role, and be patient with them, and love them-- because it wasn’t their fault they were so confused and demanding; it was the disease. So, if someone was crying for her at 3:00 am on her night off, she’d go in.</p>
<p>In no particular order</p>
<p>Hill Street Blues
The Andy Griffith Show (B&W)
All in the Family
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
NYPD Blue
M<em>A</em>S*H
Ed
The Office is BRILLIANT
Original SNL</p>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p>Um, Cirque de Soleil…</p>
<p>I hope at some point in my life I can exhibit selflessness like that nurse. Still waiting:)</p>
<p>Heres my list in no particular order.</p>
<p>24
Moonlighting
Designing Women
All in The family
St Elsewhere
Hill St Blues
Star Trek
Mary Tyler Moore Show
M<em>A</em>S*H
Antiques Road Show
Cheers
Law and Order (not SVU)
LA Law
Mission Impossible
Perry Mason
Upstairs, Downstairs
Divine Design
Anne Green Cables & Avonlea series
CSI (all)
Cosby Show</p>
<p>wow, I just realized I left X-Files off my list. We were total X-philes in my house for a while.</p>
<p>Not really “top ten” material, but in addition to those already posted:</p>
<p>Oldie: The Rockford Files - James Garner classic
Current Fave: Mythbusters. They made a rocket engine with salami as fuel - that in itself is enough for me.
Started strong, but lost interest along the way: Lost, 24, ER
Never got: I Love Lucy (Actually, don’t get the entire “embarrassment as humor” genre, although I recognize its ubiquity.)
What was I thinking?: FalconCrest. Um, it was the 80’s - is that an excuse?</p>
<p>SCTV
SNL
Mad TV
Seinfeld
Old b/w Twilight Zone
Taxi
Moonlighting
Three Stooges
Nightstalker
MASH</p>
<p>I love TV, so this might be hard for me…</p>
<p>Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Firefly
Seinfeld
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Soap
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
St. Elsewhere
Northern Exposure
30 Rock</p>
<p>ETA: I responded before reading everyone else’s replies. I forgot about Six Feet Under, The X-Files, The Carol Burnett Show, Homicide: Life on the Street and Freaks & Geeks</p>