What Do You Think Was The Best Tv Show Ever?

Troyaferd · 16-11-2011 7:20pm

Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Yahew · 16-11-2011 7:51pm

Deadwood.

( Best of what has not been mentioned so far, I disagree with few posts as it happens. Everything that has been mentioned here has been good or very good, its been a great decade or so of television.)

crash davis · 28-11-2011 11:16pm

I'll go for the shows that I can watch again and again: Columbo, Only Fools and Horses and Star Trek:TNG.

Obviously there's classics I'm not mentioning but they're the ones I can just throw on at anytime.

28-11-2011 11:18pm

Married with Children is up there for me for the laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVg5QqJoxuU

Always number 1 · 15-01-2012 7:53pm

Twin Peaks - the area where is was filmed has not changed at all and is well worth a visit if you are ever in the Pacific Northwest.

Prison Break - it got silly in series 3 but series 1 and 4 made up for it.

For comedy, Friends, it started off well and after a dip it came good again towards the end. I loved Frasier was good too.

American Gothic was brilliant aswell. Even when he was cast as Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch, I was still freaked out by Gary Cole!

chris139ryan · 15-03-2012 3:40pm

sopranos, the wire or the shield. although the wire takes a good while to get into

DyldeBrill · 15-03-2012 11:24pm

The Sopranos, what a show! Tony Soprano has to be one of the best characters ever made.

Smarmy · 07-04-2012 1:52pm

The Sopranos
Seinfeld
The Wire
Arrested Development.
The Shield
Arrested Development.

5 best TV shows no longer on the air. Probably (along with Breaking Bad which is still running) the best ever in my opinion

Heckler · 10-04-2012 11:33pm

Millennium - Great show and Lance Henriksen was a joy to watch. Vastly underrated actor.

Band of Brothers

Life - with Damien Lewis from Band of Brothers.

Buffy

Angel

Twin Peaks for its total originality.

vgv · 15-08-2012 2:26am

Heckler wrote: »

Millennium - Great show and Lance Henriksen was a joy to watch. Vastly underrated actor.

Good call I loved this show as well.Pity it only got 3 seasons.I think prefer it to Carters other more famous show the X-Files which I also loved.

Heckler wrote: »

Twin Peaks for its total originality.

I have watched all of this show and I did enjoy the first season.But I think they dropped the ball in season 2.Too much attention was given to minor charachters and irrelevant storylines.

The Sopranos at its best was very good.Also South Park.

DipStick McSwindler · 20-09-2012 4:00pm

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Rezident · 20-09-2012 4:04pm

Dallas
Then MacGyver and the A-Team (what a combo that would be
Red Dwarf
Sopranos
The Wire (my favourite overall)

MeIsGod · 30-09-2012 2:11pm

The wire
Band of brothers
Arrested development

Hilly Bill · 01-10-2012 1:29am

Prisoner cell block H.

spitfireIRL · 01-10-2012 1:44am

The Wire
The Sopranos
Oz
The Simpsons
Breaking Bad maybe..
Boardwalk Empire has the potential I think, love it.

cjmcork · 16-12-2012 11:06pm

The West Wing - hands down one of the best tv shows ever made

Life on Mars (Ashes to Ashes - but not half as good - Keeley Hawes aggrevated me intensely)

Third Watch (no one else I know watched this - Bosco was one of the best tv characters ever written..........miss it loads)

molly09 · 16-12-2012 11:08pm

Bosco

Frankie Lee · 16-12-2012 11:47pm

Love Hate has to be up there with the greatest shows ever at this stage.

genie · 16-12-2012 11:49pm

In no particular order:-

Six Feet Under
State of Play (the BBC series with John Simm)
Robin of Sherwood (especially the Michael Praed years)

Life on Mars (didn't like Ashes to Ashes either)
Frasier (apart from Daphne's awful family)
Upstairs Downstairs (the original series, not the recent BBC effort)
The House of Cards Trilogy (with Ian Richardson as Francis Urqhart)
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder

cjmcork · 04-02-2013 11:03pm

cjmcork wrote: »

The West Wing - hands down one of the best tv shows ever made

Life on Mars (Ashes to Ashes - but not half as good - Keeley Hawes aggrevated me intensely)

Third Watch (no one else I know watched this - Bosco was one of the best tv characters ever written..........miss it loads)

should have waited 5 weeks - you can add Breaking Bad (which I watched all over Christmas Season 1 to the latest ep), it's only flipping brilliant!

Declan A Walsh · 06-02-2013 1:47am

I just spotted this thread.

I could not pick one but all of the following would be amongst my favourite TV Shows no longer being made:
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Tube
Morse
Star Trek (the original series)
The Morecambe and Wise Show
Scooby Doo
The Good Life
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
Blockbusters
Hill Street Blues
The Odd Couple
Columbo
... and I forgot:
The Two Ronnies
Top of The Pops (especially in the '70s and the early '80s)
The Old Grey Whistle Test

Best Irish TV series - MTUSA

Honourable mentions, i.e they would be in the second best list:
Mike Yarwood Show
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Are You Being Served?
15 to 1

markfinn · 16-02-2013 11:12am

I couldn't possibly narrow the best down past a top 5.

Flying Circus
Babylon 5
Knight Rider (The original, not that marketing teen crud thing)
A - Team.
Red Dwarf.

Magill · 11-03-2013 11:51pm

Band of Brothers for me is easily the best show i've seen on TV, it was incredible.

Not including BoB, theres so many great shows.

Im gonna go for shows that I've watched all the way through and not got burnt out on (I'm on the last season of The Wire/Shield and Sopranos.. great TV series, but i'm finding it hard to sit down and watch the last seasons)... and go with Stargate SG1/Atlantis. I know they don't deserve it, they're cheesy and silly.. but i've watched them both from start to finish over a period of 2/3 months... twice. Loved it.

If Game of Thrones can keep up its current standard, it could potentially overtake BoB for me.

chughes · 11-03-2013 11:58pm

+1 for MTUSA

Used to love watching this on a Sunday afternoon. Had a particular fondness for the ZZ Top videos.

victorpaul1 · 29-06-2013 8:33am

I think The Sopranos is deserving for best TV Show ever.

ShatterProof · 29-06-2013 8:44am

Holmes and Yoyo

Sledge Hammer

Pang · 26-07-2013 9:43pm

Hands down, Oz.

Nothing will ever beat it for me. I used to wait up until half 11 every Thursday night when in secondary school to watch it on TG4. I was devastated when it finished. Although I was glad that it had a definite ending and didn't just continue on like some shows and become crap.

So many great characters and actors. Chris Meloni was amazing.

ei8dqb · 26-07-2013 9:59pm

For me it was Boston Legal.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 12:50am

Anything by Bryan Fuller. I love that his shows are always cynical and sarcastic but have a very tangible undercurrent of hope and optimism.

Oh, except for "Hannibal", that's a very different kettle of fish.

obliviousgrudge · 08-08-2013 12:55am

Dman001 wrote: »

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!

Fringe was simulcast in January

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 1:01am

I have loads of favourite ever tv shows, but what tops the lot for me is Breaking Bad, the best show I've ever seen, and it's about to enter it's final episodes next week some time. I can't wait.

gammygils · 08-08-2013 1:14am

Quantum Leap
Alias Smith & Jones
Mac Gyver
The Rockford Files
Father Ted
Nash Bridges

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 1:23am

The Wire
30 Rock
Forbrydelsen (the Danish The Killing)
The Young Ones (when I was a young lad I loved this)
The Adventures of Pete and Pete (ostensibly a kids show, but great, guest appearances by all sorts of cool people, Iggy Pop, Martin Donovan, etc)
Arrested Development
Twin Peaks (1st series is brilliant, the tv network interfered with the 2nd series and spoiled it somewhat)
The Odd Couple (someone mentioned it and I was reminded of it, used to be repeated on RTE in the late 90's some time, the theme tune is great)
There's more, that's just off the top of my head. I must confess, I've never seen a full episode of the Sopranos (!!!), I've always worked nights, so I couldn't watch it in sequence, people have always recommended it, but it's a bit daunting, there's loads of episodes to get through. I only caught up with The Wire last year for the same reason. Other potentially great tv series I have to watch are Boardwalk Empire and Treme.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 1:27am

I adore "Twin Peaks".

Did you know "Mulholland Drive" was originally conceived as a TP spin-off centred on Audrey Horne?

Such a shame it never materialised, Sherilyn Fenn is such an underrated actress.

But I guess without that movie we would never have discovered the incomparable Naomi Watts.

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 2:03am

listen_lady wrote: »

I adore "Twin Peaks".

Did you know "Mulholland Drive" was originally conceived as a TP spin-off centred on Audrey Horne?

Such a shame it never materialised, Sherilyn Fenn is such an underrated actress.

But I guess without that movie we would never have discovered the incomparable Naomi Watts.

I haven't seen Mulholland Drive since I saw it in the cinema. I remember leaving a packed theatre, and everyone's mind was bent. It's high time I watched this again.
David Lynch has made some of my favourite ever films, I'm glad he exists.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 2:17am

Ohhhhh, you should watch it again!

And "Fire Walk With Me" too!

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 2:24am

listen_lady wrote: »

Ohhhhh, you should watch it again!

And "Fire Walk With Me" too!

Fire Walk With Me is excellent, an under rated film, in my opinion.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 2:30am

Oh, one of his best.

Laura's last day in school always makes me cry.

And I'm okay with that!

massy086 · 08-08-2013 2:36am

The wire. Shield. Generation kill oz.

tim3000 · 08-08-2013 2:40am

Best comedy: Spaced Fraiser Father Ted or Arrested Development

Best Sci Fi: X-files without doubt and The 4400 criminally under-rated. Taken was great

Best Drama: I liked Dexter early on but it is increasingly convoluted and should have ended 3 seasons ago. The first season and a half of Prison Break was great too. House was good for 3-4 seasons. The wire seems promising from what I have watched. Generation Kill and Band of Brothers are also classics

Best Kids show: At the time I would have chosen Kenan and Kel but looking back Hey Arnold and the Wild Thornberrys were perhaps the best.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 2:43am

Do you still watch "Dexter", perchance?

The last two seasons have seen a return to form.

Somewhat.

tim3000 · 08-08-2013 2:48am

listen_lady wrote: »

Do you still watch "Dexter", perchance?

The last two seasons have seen a return to form.

Somewhat.

I do, I'am up to date but I wish the current story line with Deb hadn't happened was a huge mistake and was un-necessary.

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 2:49am

Dexter is yet another one of the shows I haven't gotten around to watching. I like the idea of it, but again, there's so many episodes to catch up on. Worth watching from the start?

tim3000 · 08-08-2013 2:53am

Bozo Skeleton wrote: »

Dexter is yet another one of the shows I haven't gotten around to watching. I like the idea of it, but again, there's so many episodes to catch up on. Worth watching from the start?

The first 4-5 seasons are great, really tense and rewarding but after that it just becomes a show that needed to be cancelled 2 seasons ago. But it is worth watching I would heartily recommend the earlier seasons. Its a show that you will watch a season in 2 days and be craving more.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 2:55am

Really? I thought seeing Deb on the edge was refreshing and honest.

And yes, definitely watch it from the start. The first two seasons are extremely well-written and sharp. The third fails to raise the bar. The fourth was not my personal favourite, though John Lithgow's performance was interesting. The fifth season was a return to form for the series. The sixth... was not.

The seventh turned out to be a one of the better seasons of the show.

tim3000 · 08-08-2013 2:58am

listen_lady wrote: »

Really? I thought seeing Deb on the edge was refreshing and honest.

And yes, definitely watch it from the start. The first two seasons are extremely well-written and sharp. The third fails to raise the bar. The fourth was not my personal favourite, though John Lithgow's performance was interesting. The fifth season was a return to form for the series. The sixth... was not.

The seventh turned out to be a one of the better seasons of the show.

I hated what they did with Deb. Its directionless now though if you ask me seemingly no over-arching story line or villain which is a shame, I was hoping that there would be a villain to rival the Trinity Killer.

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 3:02am

I guess I just like watching a woman in trouble. Comes with being a David Lynch fan, haha.

I think Dex's new friend is being set up as the big bad this season. Oh, and then there's the return of a certain blonde gardening fanatic too...

Bozo Skeleton · 08-08-2013 3:14am

I might get round to watching Dexter some day. I have so much tv to catch up on...

listen_lady · 08-08-2013 3:16am

What's next on your list?

tim3000 · 08-08-2013 3:19am

listen_lady wrote: »

I guess I just like watching a woman in trouble. Comes with being a David Lynch fan, haha.

I think Dex's new friend is being set up as the big bad this season. Oh, and then there's the return of a certain blonde gardening fanatic too...

Never got into David Lynch. That new friend of Dexter is not much of a villain but I hear there is a spin off that could be it.

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