The Greatest TV Show of All Time

[Gringo]

The Greatest TV Show of All Time

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. I see you meant to say Greatest American TV Show.

[Gringo]

4. Oh Come On Now, Like there's any other kind?!?!

Just playin' with you.

Okay, honorable mention to "Fawlty Towers" and "AbFab"...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Cheers.

[BurtWorm]

7. What are some of the Greatest Canadian TV shows?

SCTV is my all time favorite. After that and Kids in the Hall, they start to get a little hazy.

Do all those cartoon shows you guys make for PBS and Nickelodeon count?

Then there was the golden age of Vancouver-based variety shows like The Irish Rovers and the Bobby Vinton show...

[Screaming Lord Byron]

14. I'd go with those two, and not a few British ones. Python at least.

Along with Dr. Who, Father Ted, Fawlty Towers, The Fast Show and others.

[BurtWorm]

18. RTI made a great series about Leonardo da Vinci

that was even shown, dubbed, on CBS TV in the early 1970s for a summer.

[11 Bravo]

33. SCTV gets my vote as well.

n/t

[iverglas]

41. Trailer Park Boys!!

And BBC America subscribers will get to see it starting in April. Don't worry, I'll post reminders! Just remember to watch the late-night airing, not the prime time expurgated version. Expurgated trailer park boys just wouldn't make much sense.

(Ricky to judge, in his trial on charges of siphoning and selling gasoline in the trailer park, asserting his right to a fair trial under the People's Choices and Voices Act: "But if I can't smoke and swear, I'm fucked!")




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Overall, BBC wins the best TV show sweepstakes hands down. I'm currently re-watching Inside the Line (Brit title, Between the Lines), and deciding whether to take the leap and get a code-free DVD player so I can buy and re-watch the greats from the 70s and 80s, like Secret Army (the Belgian line returning downed Allied pilots to the UK) and Tenko (Brit, Australian and Dutch women in a Japanese prison camp) and Boys from the Blackstuff (unemployed asphalt workers in northern England). Unlike goodies like the various mystery and comedy series -- Red Dwarf! -- they've never been put out in zone 1 (North American) format.

Aussie TV isn't too shabby either. And Canadian TV does hit some lows (that talking St. Bernard, and the dreadful Yes Minister wannabe a few years back) along with its highs.

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[Kahuna]

2. You trippin.' Where's, "Sex in the City," "Married with Children," and..

"The Beverly Hillbillies?"

[Armand]

11. "Married With Children" owns!

The list also forgot "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," and "WWE Monday Night Raw."

[Kahuna]

17. The "No Ma'am" years with Jefferson were some of the best..

BUNDYS rule! Without the Bundies, there would be no Simpsons.

[DenverDem]

3. The Simpsons!!

Greatest show ever.

[gyopsy]

8. Agreed

When I think of what they've accomplished and how good they still are, it astounds me.

[quispquake]

22. A third in total agreement with "The Simpsons"

and a coupla others:
Twin Peaks (although it died out for most of it's second season, it came back with the most heavily weird finale ever!)

Six Feet Under (although the last season was uneven, the first two were mind blowing)

[Beaker]

5. Northern Exposure.

Season 1 finally available on DVD this May!

[southpaw]

43. Second that...

NE was the best...

[gulfcoastliberal]

6. Star Trek: TNG

Masterpieces, every one of em.

[gyopsy]

10. The Simpsons and Seinfeld

Both great. ER might well be the best drama of all time.

[Richardo]

12. Get Smart...

with honorable mention for F Troop, Fractured Flickers and Addams Family.

Richardo <--- TV's Golden Era was the early to mid 60s, apparently.

[Kahuna]

19. Those were some really great shows. The Munsters were..

really great too.

[starroute]

13. The Prisoner

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. Damn Straight!

[chiburb]

30. Yes to the Prisoner...

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[Wilber_Stool]

16. Andy Griffith n/t

[Faygo Kid]

36. Yep, and "The Smothers Brothers"

Barney Fife was a God, and there was never a more topical network show than "The Smothers Brothers." Those are my two.

[grannylib]

20. Mission: Impossible, fave US; Python and Brit sitcoms rule though!

[terrya]

21. "Fawlty Towers"

Barely edging out "The Simpsons", IMO.

John Cleese, a great cast, and sheer comic genius.

Terry

[pnb]

23. Night Court

With Married With Children running a close second.

[tridim]

24. MST3K and The Simpsons are tied

for greatest show of all time.

[bowens43]

25. It was 'My Mother the Car'

[StClone]

26. Seinfeld

I can't believe it went this long without...

[Norbert]

27. What!! No Twilight Zone!!

[Kahuna]

29. Ahhh. And Alfred Hitchcock too. Love those SCI FI ..

marathons!

[arwalden]

28. BEWITCHED!!!

[Burma Jones]

31. SIMPSONS

I got so sick of MASH after Blake and Trapper left. Alan Alda's weepy, weak "concerned" look (you know the one I'm talking about)labeled us Liberals as wimps to this day.

[LandOLincoln]

32. Homicide: Life on the Streets. Gunsmoke. The West

Wing. The Prisoner. Kojak. Northern Exposure. Upstairs Downstairs. The Jewel in the Crown. Brideshead Revisited. Elizabeth I. The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Poldark.

[Endangered Specie]

34. Star Trek, all the way

[lpbk2713]

35. I liked Hill Street Blues

Still do.

[DEM FAN]

37. 24. The BEST Show On TV Bar None. Other GREAT Shows.

The Shield
The Sorpranos
:-)

[geniph]

38. Masterpiece Theatre

and the best thing ever on Masterpiece Theatre was I, Claudius.

[Whitacre D_WI]

39. Buffy the freakin' Vampire Slayer, dammit!

[Ishoutandscream]

40. Green Acres, followed by Family Guy and the Simpsons

nt

[MrSlayer]

42. The Honeymooners out of this lot.

I'll give it the "best ever" nod. Jackie Gleason was a genius.