What Do You Think Was The Best Tv Show Ever?

DipStick McSwindler

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Rezident

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

MeIsGod

The wire
Band of brothers
Arrested development

Hilly Bill

Prisoner cell block H.

spitfireIRL

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

cjmcork

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

Bosco

Frankie Lee

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

genie

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

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

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

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

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

+1 for MTUSA

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

victorpaul1

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

ShatterProof

Holmes and Yoyo

Sledge Hammer

Pang

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

For me it was Boston Legal.

listen_lady

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

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

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

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

Bozo Skeleton

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

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

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

Ohhhhh, you should watch it again!

And "Fire Walk With Me" too!

Bozo Skeleton

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

Oh, one of his best.

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

And I'm okay with that!

massy086

The wire. Shield. Generation kill oz.

tim3000

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.