Maybe this has been done, I looked back several pages and did not see it. I read the thread on the Family Guy and thought I would try this. My favorites: Red Dwarf - funniest TV show ever Black Adder - 2nd funniest TV show ever Simpsons- I love the satire Futurama- Just plain fun Family Guy - Love the satire Highlander - love the premise, fun show Battlestar Galactica - original, not that remake crap Changing Rooms/Trading Spaces - I love interior design and architecture, and no, I am not gay! Antiques Roadshow - fun, love to keep an eye out for such things The Phoenix - loved the mystery Space 1999 - I like sci-fi Dukes of Hazard - cool car and Daisy Duke, what else does a teenage boy need Malcom in the Middle - if you have boys, you would understand Oliver Beene - if it is good they take it off the air X files - liked the show, but not how it ended Myth busters - cool show, that would be an awesome job Scare tactics - this was a great idea Cops - use to watch it, but now has lost appeal Law and Order - love it, the original Giligan's Island - a classic I am basically a Learning Channel/Discovery junkie, especially anything on ancient history.
I always enjoyed these shows 1. Boy Meets World-awesome all around funny but serious too. 2. Star Trek Next Generation: Best star trek around. 3. Whose Line is it Anyway? Just all around hilarious
The Practice Boston Public Ally McBeal The Brotherhood of Poland, NH These shows were all written by David E. Kelley, my favorite scriptwriter.
The Dick Cavet Show The Steve Allen Show The Red Skelton Show The Lone Ranger Flash Gordon Lassie Walt Disneys Original shows Soap All In The Family Dr. Who Star Trek ( the original series) The Twilight Zone ( the original series) Captain Kangaroo Winky Dink Howdy Doody The Buster Brown Show Ed Sullivan M A S H Kung Fu ( the original series) The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show The Bugs Bunny and Road runner Show Cartoon Hour Fawlty Towers Just to name but a few. These aren't listed in any order but as I remembered them.
The Daily Show Late Nite with Conan O'Brian Dexter's Laboratory Jimmy Neutron Passions Wildboys History's Mysteries Kids In The Hall Who's Line Is It Anyway Frasier Will & Grace Jeopardy Wheel of Fortune ...Any Tennis or Motocross coverage I can get my hands on...
most of Truth's plus: - Miami Vice. - Murder One (1st series) -Sopranos. -Cheers. -Seinfeld. -Bakersfield PD (anyone remember that?) -NYPD blue. -LA law. -Dallas. -The equalizer. -The A-team. -Sex and the city. -Fawlty Towers.
Canceled shows I think the problem with this type of thread is that before too long people get tired of reading everybody else's long lists. But it was sure nice to see somebody from my generation who remembers Howdy Doody! I'll just name some of the shows that would have been my favorites if they had just lasted long enough. Why do so many of my favorite shows get cancelled? Why do the TV networks hate me personally? What ever happened to the promise of subscription TV? Five hundred bucks a year for cable TV and it's all sports, shopping, and preachers. We all assumed that by now there'd be an all-Shakespeare channel and way more than just one single Sci-Fi channel that padded its schedule with horror flicks! Dark Angel Vengeance Unlimited The Tick (the live one, but the cartoon was good too) The Invisible Man The Family Dog Witchblade Santa Barbara God, the Devil and Bob Pasadena That's My Bush Daria Babylon 5 (a long run but it was cut off early) Farscape (ditto) Mighty Mouse (that was not cocaine, you idiot censors!)
Yeah Fraggle, I liked Daria too, forgot about that one, watch it on Nick sometimes. I loved the Underdog cartoon and Sweet Polly Purebread. Johnny Quest was cool to. For once, I would love to see the coyote catch the freakin' roadrunner!
Because I'm high and have nothing better to do Favorites • M*A*S*H • The Simpsons • South Park • Monty Python's Flying Circus • Star Blazers • Battlestar Galactica • X-Files • Family Guy • Cheers • The Daily Show • DB/DBZ (a personal weakness that does not, thus far, extend to DBGT) • Scooby Doo • The Maxx "Best" • M*A*S*H (I truly believe this the best television product I've seen; it will most likely be replaced by The Simpsons when that show is done.) • I Love Lucy (Most people who know this show are familiar with the famous "candy factory" scene; there is an episode, however, where Ricky steals away from a dinner party to quiet the baby and performs "Little Red Riding Hood" in Spanish. If you haven't seen this episode, you haven't seen television.) • The Simpsons (Barring serious disasters, this will, at the end of its run, go down in history as the best show ever made.) • Taxi (Andy, did you hear about Elvis? Taxi was a formula hitting stride.) • Cheers (The Taxi formula optimized; there is no other show like it. In addition to spawning one of, if not the most successful spinoff in history, Cheers' final episode contains a key that reminds us, on the way out, that the writers hung with us until the very end. I'm touched. They gave an entire television series meaning as they walked away and struck the sets. Coach, we miss ya.) • Battlestar Galactica (What can I say? The per episode production cost wouldn't be matched until the Cheers salary fight and the rise of The Simpsons. • Monty Python's Flying Circus (American entertainment media should take a note; Tom Greene, "Jackass," and the fleet of American "absurdity" shows have nothing on a bunch of Brits who openly admit they had no clue what they were doing. Flying Circus is one of the few things in the world that make me wish I was older. It is so potent, so unmatched, and inasmuch as the Ticking Scotsman struck me funny when I was nine, I can tell you that the profundity of what Python gave me could only be outdone if I was closer to its original arrival, and could have measured the impact firsthand.) • Star Trek (Science fiction gained much legitimacy as a storytelling device through ST. Don't underestimate redshirt security guards and bad eye shadow. Did you know that Dr. King, Jr., himself, talked Nichelle Nichols into keeping her job? Sex symbol or not, she was the first known black female military officer on television. On that merit, so goes the story, she decided not to quit. That is how important Star Trek is.) • Nova (If I have to say anything here, you need to throw your television set out the window. Exempt, of course, are internationals who may not have heard of this program, one of the finest broadcasting standards in American history.) • Sesame Street (Jim Henson is .... well .... Thank you, Jim. Thank you.) • Frontline (Again, a standard of American broadcasting. Oft-controversial, Frontline is the sort of program that gives me hope despite my sardonic mocking of America and Americans. If more Americans watched Frontline, or were capable of thinking about the very basic issues the show presents, our politics would not look so damned strange.) Honorable Mention Respecting Wraith's invocation of Bakersfield PD, I'm wondering if anyone remembers the Bochco-produced Hooperman, starring the late John Ritter? Is it live, or is it Mammarex? Lower-Tier Television A number of shows I've watched, not necessarily because they were good, but because they were very basic and taught me much about how to shoot television. A strange number of them are Canadian, such as Counterstrike (starring Christopher Plummer and Simon McCorkindale). The recent serial adaptation of La Femme Nikita had the knack, so much so that I actually prefer it to the De Palma-directed, Cruise-starrer cinematic disaster called Mission: Impossible. They're the kind of shows that Knight Rider would have given its left nut to be. (Giving up Hasselhoff would have been a good start.) Favorite Episodes Assorted fave episodes: • M*A*S*H - Title unknown: Sleep deprivation leaves the surgeons facing their darkest fears in waking nightmares. • M*A*S*H - Title unknown: Hawkeye cracks up after a Korean woman smothers her child to death. • The Simpsons - "Grumbling Grandpa Simpson and the Flying Hellfish" • The Simpsons - "The Summer of the 4'2" • The Simpsons - "22 Short Films About Springfield" • The Simpsons - "Bart After Dark" • South Park - "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" • South Park - "Scott Tenorman Must Die" • South Park - "Super Best Friends" • Cheers - Title unknown: Thanksgiving Episode • Cheers - Title unknown: Last Episode • I Love Lucy - Title unknown: "Little Red Riding Hood" episode Off the lists, episodes: • Ren & Stimpy - "Space Madness" • The State - "Born in a Barn/Just the 160,000 of Us" • Diff'rent Strokes - Title unknown: Willis gets high • Aeon Flux (speaking) - Title unknown: Trevor replicates Aeon. • Aeon Flux (speaking) - Title unknown: Border control system amputates unauthorized intruders. • Liquid Television/Stick Figure Theatre - "Hindenberg Disaster" • Liquid Television/Stick Figure Theatre - "Battleship Potemkin" • Animaniacs - "Anvilania" • Silver Spoons - Title unknown: Features Rick Schroeder in a dress and balloons in his bra. If I have to remember it, I'm mentioning it here so that you do also. I'll stop now.
Because I'm high and have nothing better to do Hey, I resemble that remark! Aaaanyway... Lots of good tv referenced here! So many good shows, and thankfully so many that are off the air now, but available on DVD, video & other people's servers. Number one, without a doubt my very favourite tv show ever, is Babylon 5. I don't deny that it has its faults, but what's good about it easily outweighs what's bad. For me, at least; ymmv! My top several are heavy on the cheesy scifi -- Farscape, ST:TOS & ST:TNG, Firefly. Then there's The Simpsons, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Nova, CSI. I wouldn't rank it with my favourites, but H R Puffinstuff [sp?] left quite an impression. That kid and his wacky talking flute were integral to my first hallucinogenic experience when I was very young. And I sure do miss The Courtship of Eddie's Father. I chuckled to read Passions on someone's list. It comes on after Days of Our Lives, which for some reason I watch fairly regularly, so I catch Passions quite often as well. When I first started watching it, I remember realizing this wasn't an ordinary soap, as someone's closet turned into a portal to hell and demons started pulling folks in. Wacky hijinks ensued!! • I Love Lucy (Most people who know this show are familiar with the famous "candy factory" scene; there is an episode, however, where Ricky steals away from a dinner party to quiet the baby and performs "Little Red Riding Hood" in Spanish. If you haven't seen this episode, you haven't seen television.) This is not an ep I recall having seen and I am intrigued. It sounds great!
Andromeda Highlander Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: Deep Space Nine American Gothic Farscape Cowboy Bebop The X-Files Dark Skies Special Unit 2 First Wave South Park The Simpsons
Eek the cat - Cartoon done right, it is philosohpical grandeur compared to todays staurday morning cartoon shows. The Simpsons - A perfect mirror for seeing how crazy and absurd Americans can be. This show is a religion to me. Family Guy - "wish it was simpsons" show of hillarity. It isn't as heartfelt or has a human side like the Simpsons but it'll go far lower than the Simpsons ever did to get laughs and 95% of the time it succeds. Futurama - a.k.a Worst cancellation FOX ever made. Just plain funny and deeper than most live shows. Scrubs - ER but actually watchable and oh so more hillarious. Ruroni Kenshin - If i could only remember every week to watch it. There are 100 other ninja animes but none go so deep and tactical. Watch a normal fight scene and see what i mean. Too bad it is all exaggerrated and impossible. Any Discovery Channel special - The world is amazing ain't it. Daria - When god is about to judge the creator of MTV and punish him for creating a channel that sold itself to the devil atleast the creator of MTV can use Daria as a hook to land himself in heaven or as a method to ease his punishment. Mission Hill - Sweet show that no one watched. Come on Cartoon Network, revive the show already. DBZ - Guilty pleasure killed by CN's absurd programming and timing. Aqua teen hunger force/Sealab 2021/The Brak show - Still growing on me. MadTv - Much of the magic is lost but it still wins over SNL anyday. Dave Cheappelle show - Better than Madtv and far ahead of SNL. Southpark - "Towlie"...nuff said. Comedy Central stand up night on Friday nights - The boy's gotta laugh. Premium Blend(CC)/Comic view(BET) - Wonderful new rising comics showcase their talents. Nip/Tuck - Actaully makes surgery interesting and THEN SOME.
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A few I forgot to mention... The Shield Nip/Tuck Lucky I also enjoy watching motorsports (F1, rally, GP Bikes, touring cars, motocross), but I don't consider those to be television shows in the same sense as the others I have listed.
For Honey Found it ... it's Episode 80, "Ricky Minds the Baby". A note at that link says this is the only episode of "I Love Lucy" filmed without a studio audience. That lends to the effect. A fan page has a still image from the episode. I've only ever seen it once.
The Simpsons Curb Your Enthusiasm The Larry Sanders Show Mr. Show with Bob and David Reno 911 Seinfeld Chappelle's Show
^ so you're the one who keeps annoying shows like that on the air...... anyhow. hre are mine good morning miami just shoot me emeril live south park stargate sg1 will and grace
If i couldn't find a blade to slit my wrists to commint suicide i would watch Zee TV instead to commit suicide more painfully. More methodical? yes, Less messy? yup
....a few more - Happy Days (how could I forget?) - Hawai Five-O - Columbo - The sweeney - Yes Minister/primeminister - The Good life - The proffesionals - Morcambe and Wise - Open all Hours - Only Fools and Horses. the last 7 are Brit series, so don't worry if you haven't heard of them.
