What Do You Think Was The Best Tv Show Ever?

4davis7 · 10-05-2011 12:27pm #1

I want to watch some older tv shows maybe gone or still here even because i dont like to many that are on the tv atm. I think the best tv show ever was probably red dwarf or maybe that 70's show! both were brilliant. I thought lost was good aswel but it wouldn't be up there with the best.
So what was your favourite tv show(s)?

DanTheMan91 · 17-05-2011 5:56pm

The Sopranos is without a doubt my favorite TV show of all time. I have watched series 1 through 6 so many times.

sgb · 17-05-2011 6:56pm

In it's day The Sweeney was my favourite tv programme but I've watched some repeats on ITV 4 and it seems so dated now, can't think of any programmes from the 70's that don't look dated

craftypaddy · 20-05-2011 7:11pm

the corner by hbo, great show that inspired the wire

nxbyveromdwjpg · 20-05-2011 7:13pm

The Corner is alright but it's depressing, hardly up there with The Wire.

I'd say The Wire or The Sopranos.

efb · 20-05-2011 7:13pm

The West Wing

FearDark · 20-05-2011 7:20pm

Finished/cancelled TV shows you say? Jericho.

seanybiker · 20-05-2011 7:22pm

Oz was excellent. Watched it a through a few times.

eco2live · 20-05-2011 7:27pm

The Sopranos
The office
The royal family
24
Dexter
Lost (most of it anyway)
Seinfeld
Battle star galactic
Eurotrash (during the teenage years)

craftypaddy · 20-05-2011 7:38pm

the word on chanel four with terry christian and danny bear

FearDark · 20-05-2011 7:41pm

Im gonna second Oz, its definately my favourite show of all time, all seasons are solid, unlike my second favourite show, Dexter. Both are fantastic though.

omen80 · 20-05-2011 7:50pm

The Sopranos
House
Seinfeld
X Files
Mythbusters
Oz

There are loads more I could probably think of.....

Oh yeah the most overrated show ever is Lost......total sh1t!

barone · 20-05-2011 8:26pm

the wire
sopranos
the 3 seasons of brotherhood
bosco
west wing
the a team
minder
only fools n horses

BengaLover · 20-05-2011 8:30pm

Twin Peaks original series was pretty out there.

Humans eh! · 20-05-2011 8:31pm

The Banana Splits

Always made me laugh as a kid.

Adamantium · 26-05-2011 2:59pm

Battlestar Galactica and Jericho

Chnandler Bong · 26-05-2011 3:03pm

Extras was brilliant

ei8dqb · 31-05-2011 9:33pm

My Favorite is Boston Legal (by Far)
Started watching The Defenders (Good so far)

saintsaltynuts · 31-05-2011 9:39pm

Lost,V,The A-Team,Knight Rider,Boys From The Blackstuff,Father Ted, The Equalizer,The Inbetweeners and more recently Mad dogs on Sky 1 was very good.

AntiRip · 31-05-2011 9:44pm

Haven't watched anything since lost and 24

Sopranos was also a classic

pavb2 · 31-05-2011 9:47pm

Land of the Giants

The Time Tunnel

Good call on Mad Dogs

jaykhunter · 01-06-2011 1:06am

I'd say either Arrested Development or Dexter. Both have superlative characters, writing and acting but I'd give the nod to AD, since great comedy is far harder to write than drama, it's intensely reflexive and layered. An extremely smart, witty but overall hilarious programme. I can't speak highly enough about it.

What sets AD from earlier (incredible) Simpsons is the fresh archetypes, intensive joke-per-scene ratio and has season-long (if not longer) plot-threads. It's also far more daring in it's places of humour.

Tauriel · 02-06-2011 4:26pm

The Unit was epic. I would recommend buying the DVDs, absolutely brilliant. Can't understand why it was axed

Freddie59 · 05-06-2011 11:50am

Quantum Leap

Life On Mars

V (80s) - new one also good.

This Life

Star Trek TNG

Time Tunnel

Stargate

And many more.:)

Suffered through all of Lost. Worst thing I ever saw. Watched it through out of spite I'd say.:o

practice · 05-06-2011 12:01pm

Alf

Tauriel · 05-06-2011 3:20pm

Xena
Dads Army

pavb2 · 06-06-2011 9:02pm

Ah!.. Grasshopper

Kung Fu

Fr Tod Umptious · 06-06-2011 9:06pm

FearDark wrote: »

Im gonna second Oz, its definately my favourite show of all time, all seasons are solid, unlike my second favourite show, Dexter. Both are fantastic though.

I'll third that, gritty American prison drama Oz was my favourite.

I have yet to watch the Wire though, hope it lives up to the hype

trashcan · 06-06-2011 9:16pm

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'll third that, gritty American prison drama Oz was my favourite.

I have yet to watch the Wire though, hope it lives up to the hype

Oh, it does, in spades. In a different league to any other TV drama ever, in my humble opinion. Told a story in a way few other dramas have even attempted. I loved the way each series was a self contained story and yet over five series a whole world was created. There were so many characters and yet even the minor ones felt fully developed and real. Awesome.

pavb2 · 06-06-2011 9:24pm

Humans eh! wrote: »

The Banana Splits
Always made me laugh as a kid.

Yep some things are just burned into the memory

'Take out the trash drooper'

I think Ali Bongo and David Nixon had slots on it though I could be mistaken

And the absolute pinnacle in Bannana Splits black and white, exquisitely dubbed Robinson Crusoe.

I loved that theme music to RC anyone know what was it called?

the_bigman · 17-06-2011 8:14pm

The Sopranos without a shadow of a doubt.

Wire next.

Difficult Times · 23-06-2011 7:58pm

'Scuse me newbie here. My favourites of cancelled shows were:

Star Trek - The Next Generation
Star Trek Voyager
Stargate SG1
The X-Files
A Touch of Frost
Morse (Although I do enjoy "Lewis")
Murder in Suburbia

I have many more, which are all "chewing-gum for the brain", to me that's what TV should be.

bogmanfan · 24-06-2011 12:32pm

Seinfeld - Greatest show ever

Alias - Criminally underrated. everyone thinks it's just Jennifer Garner looking hot, but it's probably the most influential show of the last decade.

Larry Sanders Show - Completely messed around by BBC when it was on, so hardly anyone watched it.

I'm Alan Partridge - Genius

Marion and Geoff - again, criminally overlooked. Rob Brydon's is probably the finest performance I've ever seen in a sitcom.

Reamer Fanny · 25-06-2011 12:11am

Heroes was a class show

carlosvan · 30-06-2011 11:13pm

father ted " i hear your a racist, howd you get interested in that kind of thing"

faulty towers " man with beard.... you are a hydias baboon!!!!"

bottom " can we consetrate on the bag......its hard to concentrait on anything els!!!"

dx22 · 30-06-2011 11:15pm

Seinfeld

ancapailldorcha · 05-07-2011 5:27pm

Father Ted
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
The Wire
The Shield
Oz

Cee-Jay-Cee · 10-07-2011 10:59am

There are numerous shows:

As a child/teenager

NE's Multicoloured Swap Shop
The Incredible Hulk
6 Million Dollar Man
The A Team

Last of the Summer Wine
Fawlty Towers
Black Adder
The Young Ones

The Office
Father Ted
Royle Family
Gavin & Stacey

In more recent times;

Stargate SG1 & Atlantis
Lost (watched every single epidsode and then bought the box set)

But there is one show that i think surpasses all the rest of them and that was Only Fools & Horses!

13-07-2011 8:26am

Only Fools and Horses, Bottom and Men Behaving Badly were all excellent UK sitcoms, I thought (though Only Fools was the clear winner in my opinion).

The A-Team was great. It took itself so seriously, but it was just so over the top. Have a great laugh listening to Hannibal's one-liners and looking at his ridiculous disguises.

I just finished watching The Shield, and, though it does go a little silly at times (though it's rare enough), i found it to be very solidly written, with excellent, tiered storylines and plots and possible the greatest TV show finale I've seen since Only Fools. It really was an excellent show.

Arrested Development was good, too (though it got a bit too random and silly as it went on). Still some great laughs in it, though.

jethro081 · 19-07-2011 11:04pm

The West Wing
The Wire
Battlestar Galactica
Firefly
Breaking Bad
Only Fools and Horses

muff03 · 19-07-2011 11:11pm

they really jumped the gun with Jericho

Rubberlegs · 20-07-2011 6:40pm

Cracker,This Life, Six Feet Under,Central Park West, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, are a few that come to mind. Currently watching Dexter on FX and The Sopranos on Sky Atlantic as didn't catch them first time round.

MoscowFlyer · 18-08-2011 5:41pm

Band of Brothers AINEC

x_Ellie_x · 19-08-2011 5:44pm

Boston Public
Cold Case
Dawson's Creek
ER
Gilmore Girls
Judging Amy
Law & Order
Third Watch
Without A Trace
The X Files

paddy kerins · 19-08-2011 5:49pm

Arrested Development

skylight1987 · 19-08-2011 7:16pm

1970s C.h.i.p.s
1980s Alf
1990s seinfeld , yes i know it started in '89 and frasier
2000s 24, entourage
2010s not sure yet

Dman001 · 23-08-2011 10:16pm

Has to be Lost. Never was there a more captivating series, that kept you guessing and wanting more after each episode. The constant discussions, even on Boards, after each episode and Season Finale. I think the fact that the Final Episode was simulcast during the US Showing says it all. Rarely has that ever been done, and it will probably never happen again with a TV Series!

Adamantium · 24-08-2011 12:31pm

Battlestar Galactica- everything about it! I watched the 4 seasons over the course of two months and it was real odyssey from beginning to end. Puts modern cinema to shame(seriously)

It had this vast epic scope mixed with brilliant memorable characters with a wonderful intriguing overarching concept: Find the Earth, what is it ? what year is it?

50000 survivors chased across the universe after a nuclear holocaust!

Even though it was sci fi, the characters and situations felt incredibly real,more real than most tv series, felt like you were on the journey with them. Everything felt deliberate and characters actions carried weight.
and then there was the music!

The whole thing was just pure emotion, it was imo the only tv series to get everything spot on in all areas, lighting in a bottle

I often liken to its "great greak myth"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSYPYq9D_No

For me it was like "LOST" done right- as much as I love that series I went back to it for season 5 and it just felt forced , something was "off"

The whole notion of the supernatural, god imo felt consistent in BSG(from the beginning) but in LOST it felt all over the shop which went down dramatically after the end of season 4

I now recommend it ad nauseaum and they all say the same thing "I can't believe I've never seen this before"

Its kind of ruined all tv for me
My brother and I struggle to find a better series after this one

ok love in rant over

big dar · 16-09-2011 8:23pm

minder
lovejoy
auf wiedershen pet
the professionals
the sweeney................ aah proper telly

Splashwoman · 16-09-2011 8:26pm

Slightly embarrassed to admit but I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I had such a big crush on Angel the Vampire. Oh I'm scarlet even writing this!!!!

montreal2011 · 22-09-2011 4:37am

BengaLover wrote: »

Twin Peaks original series was pretty out there.

This is the best art/tv show ever made!

Great characters :pac: great story :cool: mysterious :rolleyes: confusing

tense

scary :eek: funny

!

Maybe it's the only art/tv show ever made...

What Do You Think Was The Best Tv Show Ever?

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