What is your all-time favourite television programme?

[PartyPooper]

Hands down, mine is "Twilight Zone" by Rod Serling. This sci-fi drama was done superbly in black and white. To me, nothing else comes close. (And, I love to watch the marathons which are usually broadcast during holidays. Yum!)

What's your favourite TV show?

[Birthmark]

1. The Simpsons

[Insider]

2. I Love Lucy

top of the list

[montana_hazeleyes]

28. First thing that came to mind

Lucy will go on forever and still be funny.

[Catch22Dem]

3. M*A*S*H

In the same 30 minute episode, they could make you laugh till' you cried and cry till you laughed. Brilliant writing, and fantastic cast.

[Goldom]

4. Seinfeld

Pure genious. Every episode is a classic.

[Piperay]

32. Mine too

I could watch that show everyday and never get tired of it. In fact sometimes I do watch it everyday because my local UPN is showing the reruns. :-)

[LiviaOlivia]

5. Farscape

[neoteric lefty]

6. ah so many good ones

1. Simpsons
2. Family Guy
2. Seinfeld
3. West Wing

im sure there are more but those are the DVD sets I can see from my chair (sans the seinfeld).

[PartyPooper]

9. Excellent choices. And, welcome to DU, neoteric lefty!

:toast:

:beer:

[neoteric lefty]

30. thanks...

PartyPooper (what a downer of a name :) j/k). I am a long time lurker and finally decided to jump on in with you crazy rascals!

[Burma Jones]

7. Monty Python's Flying Circus

Then the Simpsons
Then Homicide

[Parrcrow]

41. Monty Python set the tone for comedy for 30 years

great stuff.

I'd include The Sopranos too.

and welcome aboard New Beawr!!!:toast:

[lpbk2713]

8. Probably Hill Street Blues

Gunsmoke was pretty good too.

[PartyPooper]

10. 'Gunsmoke' was a classic. The fifties were great for "westerns".

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Wild Bill Hickock, Nick Adams, et. al.

'Have Gun Will Travel', 'Bonanza' and 'Rawhide' were all pretty cool shows, too.

:toast:

[lpbk2713]

18. Wyatt Earpp, Wagon Train, Laramie, Maverick

:thumbsup:

[Edge]

11. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel...

any show that involves vampires and hot chicks is aight with me. :) :evilgrin:

[Whitacre D_WI]

63. Another Buffy vote.

I dig Angel, but sure 'tis no Buffy.

[bobthedrummer]

12. I agree with The Twilight Zone as #1-Thriller is a solid #2 though

I loved that show too.

[Digger]

13. I hate most TV

except for PBS, C-span, etc.

That said, my opinion is that Seinfeld is (was) the best ever to emerge from network TV. I never tire of selectively watching Seinfeld reruns.

My wife thinks I'm nuts...uh...well that's a whole other thread. :crazy:

[bobthedrummer]

14. Welcome to DU Digger!

:hi:

[Digger]

15. Thanks

glad to be here.

[The Magistrate]

16. Married With Children

[Edge]

17. Ha! I forgot about that one!

[Rhiannon12866]

40. You have got to be kidding, LOL! n/t

[POed_Ex_Repub]

19. South Park

O8)

[DS1]

20. Nothing has had me laughing harder than "The Young Ones"

No, I take that back.

The first episode of "The Dangerous Brothers" had me on the floor.

"I have NO brakes! I have NO brakes!"

[Burma Jones]

61. and...The Alexei Sayle show

Which I can't find anywhere

[VOX]

21. "The Prisoner"

Holds up well over time. In fact, it's even more relevant in many ways today.

Only 17 episodes, so it's manageable. Terrific use of color, and the scripts are imaginative and clever.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

46. Good Call.

Be seeing you.

[Dr Fate]

22. The Munsters, Batman(Adam West), Star Trek, Simpsons...

...Twighlight Zone, Larry David..

[The Zanti Regent]

23. The original OUTER LIMITS

Scared me to death as a kid. The one that scared me the most was the episode where the President was killed and replaced with a foreign agent who injected a serum that made his skin totally plastic. I got a feeling that fiction in the 60s is today's reality....

[UnAmericanJoe]

24. I have two

Seinfeld and Fawlty Towers.

Other shows that I've found to be consistently excellent:

The Simpsons, MASH, Law and Order (the original flagship show), The X-Files (early seasons only), The Wonder Years, Three's Company, Star Trek:TNG, and both the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits.

Some lesser recognized favs:

Farscape, Newsradio, Kids in the hall, "It's Gary Shandling's Show", Perfect Strangers, and Quantum Leap.

The only current shows I consider "must see" are Monk, 24, Scare Tactics (a great show on Sci-FI), and The Daily Show.

Joe

[Enraged_Ape]

25. Tie between Twilight Zone,,,and Firefly

Firefly may even get the edge for me, because it only lasted 14 episodes and was fiercely incandescent in its brilliance, which I, sadly, was only able to fully appreciate recently when it emerged on DVD.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

26. Frasier

M*A*S*H
Buffy&Angle

[Rhiannon12866]

27. I went to summer camp with Rod Serling's daughter

She was older than I was, so I didn't really know her, but I saw her Dad when he visited. He was a very small man, which surprised me. His daughter was on only child and only interested in horses, as a teen-ager.

I have so many favorites, it's hard to choose. Perhaps "Bewitched." I think all little girls of my generation wanted to be Samantha.:-)

[Fight_n_back]

29. West Wing

If I could create a show, it would be about people working in the White House. Except someone already did.

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[VermontDem2004]

33. Chappelle's Show I guess

Season I was funny as hell but season II isn't nearly as funny but it still can be.

[onebigbadwulf]

34. Cowboy Bebop

Simpsons
Seinfeld
Family Guy
Friends

[VermontDem2004]

35. Family Guy is funny as hell

Definately one of the best sitcoms out there.

[TOhioLiberal]

36. Another vote for Star Trek...

...all versions except Enterprise. But then, You all should know that, based on my s/n... ;-)

Also love 'Twilight Zone'.

Trekkerlass

[terrya]

37. "The Simpsons"

A show I can still laugh at after repeated views. Sharp, clever humor.

My all time favorite.

Terry

[camero]

66. another vote for the Simpsons

It's mine too.

[Matilda]

38. Yes, Twilight Zone was a ground-breaker in its time.

And I loved X-Files, until Mulder was virtually written out, and
um - bit of a sucker for Buffy, until the last couple of seasons.
And when I was a teenager, I adored Robin Hood - Richard Greene
had the most fabulous voice. And early Star Trek, especially Mr
Spock. You can practically see the sets wobble, but I can still
watch it.

[Matilda]

39. And hey - The Fugitive was great television for years.

n/t

[arwalden]

42. Bewitched

[terrya]

43. I've been wondering. Allen. Did you have a favorite Darrin?

Or did you like them both?

IMO, Dick York was and always will be Darrin for me.

:-)

Terry

[arwalden]

52. Dick York

When I was a kid watching the show, I was totally oblivious to the change in Darrins.

Now, I'm partial to the more neurotic Darrin as portrayed by Dick York. (Dick Sargent eerily reminds me of my ex... so that might have something to do with it as well.)

-- Allen

[MissMillie]

44. It's a tie

between All in the Family and The Golden Girls.

[KansDem]

45. "Rockford Files"

Always good, very VERY few so-so episodes...

http://www.thesandbox.net/arm/rockford/

[Betty]

47. Ab Fab

funny every time

[Beaker]

48. Northern Exposure or Sports Night or Six Feet Under

northern exposure.

[southpaw]

51. Definitely Northern Exposure...

The first three seasons were pure art.

[Loonman]

49. Blackadder and That 70s Show

n/t

[Burma Jones]

60. What an odd combination

I heartily approve

[loftycity]

50. X-Files and Stargate...n/t

[Hotler]

53. I like

Taxi

[mac56]

54. "The Dick Van Dyke Show"

That's how I wanted my grownup life to be.

[kodi]

55. x files, a cross between the outer limits and night stalker

superb writing and acting, and just the right sense of paranoia to fit the modern age.

the arc stories over several episodes sustain tensions well, provide both confusion and enlightenment, and the stand alone episodes are amazing in their blend of creepiness and suspence.

also, gillian anderson is hot.....beauty and brains.

every time i hear "Wonderful" ('Oh so wonderful, my love') by johnny mathis i think of the mutant peacock family episode.

[UnAmericanJoe]

59. "Home"

I think was the name of that ep.
VERY creepy episode.

The stand alone epsiodes of the X-Files absolutely rocked.

[underpants]

56. Hmmm hard to say between Becker, Charles in Charge, and TJ Hooker

Tough call.

[FDRrocks]

57. Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Futurama.

Can't decide. Can't believe Futurama got cancelled!

[Beaker]

58. two more: Harry-O, and Buffalo Bill.

David Janssen was too fuckin' cool...



and Dabney Coleman as Buffalo Bill Bittinger was....well,...God.

[Las Vegas Canuck]

62. Nightstalker

Simpsons

Fawlty Towers

Seinfeld

Freeks and Geeks (God how I miss that short lived show)

Star Trek (First Series)

Venture (CBC Show)

As a family we used to religiously watch This Old House with Bob Vila

[LibertyorDeath]

64. The fall and rise of Reginald Perrin

It's a Brit sitcom from the 70's weird and very funny.

[kodi]

68. loved the grot shop & wine tasting like it was strained thru dirty cobwebs

such a take great on advertising and consumerism. a lot like the film "how to get a head"

[thermodynamic]

65. Doctor Who

What else is there? :shrug: :D

[Jade Fox]

67. St. Elsewhere