Best Mystery TV Series of All Time

Troyaferd

What is the best mystery show ever?

Joe10000

First time I have ever voted first in a poll, will feel special for the whole day now.

Years since I've seen the twilight zone but used to be glued to it every week, never heard of a few of the names on the list but the x files I enjoyed too.

Technocentral

You forgot Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Tales Of The Unexpected, but for sheer, impenetrable weirdness the original Prisoner I'd say.

Edit: Now that I think of it the very odd Sapphire and Steele gets my vote , even more bizarre than The Prisoner!

squonk

Also the Outer Limits. Serously though, I can't believe Twin Peaks is leading. it was ****e! the Prisoner is pure quality and gets my vote.

Troyaferd

squonk wrote: »

Serously though, I can't believe Twin Peaks is leading.

Maybe because it's the Greatest TV Series of All Time?;)

juan.kerr

Millennium?

brian_t

juan.kerr wrote: »

Millennium?

I voted for The Prisoner but should there not be an option for "Other" ?

Niles

I voted Lost.

When I read the title I was expecting crime-solving mysteries, like Murder She Wrote or Columbo!

NotorietyH

I don't know how Lost is winning, when the show raised loads of tantalising questions, promised answers and then failed to deliver on any of them! I know that's kinda the definition of a mystery, or at least there are shows that can be about unexplained mysteries, like The Twilight Zone, but with Lost there was no payoff to the mystery element at all.

brian_t

brian_t wrote: »

I voted for The Prisoner but should there not be an option for "Other" ?

Can I just clarify that my vote is for the original 1967 version of The Prisoner and not the 2009 remake.

Niles

NotorietyH wrote: »

I don't know how Lost is winning, when the show raised loads of tantalising questions, promised answers and then failed to deliver on any of them! I know that's kinda the definition of a mystery, or at least there are shows that can be about unexplained mysteries, like The Twilight Zone, but with Lost there was no payoff to the mystery element at all.

I wouldn't say it didn't deliver on any of the mysteries; seasons 5 and 6 did start attempt to answer some of the more prominent ones. Although stuff like Walt could have been elaborated on more... even what we get in the DVD extra isn't much. I suspect the reason it gets the most votes is simply more recent viewers are probably more likely to have seen it than some of the older stuff.

batistuta9

NotorietyH wrote: »

I don't know how Lost is winning, when the show raised loads of tantalising questions, promised answers and then failed to deliver on any of them! I know that's kinda the definition of a mystery, or at least there are shows that can be about unexplained mysteries, like The Twilight Zone, but with Lost there was no payoff to the mystery element at all.

Niles wrote: »

I wouldn't say it didn't deliver on any of the mysteries; seasons 5 and 6 did start attempt to answer some of the more prominent ones. Although stuff like Walt could have been elaborated on more... even what we get in the DVD extra isn't much. I suspect the reason it gets the most votes is simply more recent viewers are probably more likely to have seen it than some of the older stuff.

The first few seasons are brilliant - i couldn't wait for it the next week.
Niles is right they answer nearly everything too - albeit a bit rushed/tongue in cheek for something's - but they are answered even the fúcking hurley bird(never got that obsession). Although the mysteries of the island were a big part in the show the producers always said it was more a show about the characters

im invisible

Eerie Indiana

NotorietyH

batistuta9 wrote: »

The first few seasons are brilliant - i couldn't wait for it the next week.
Niles is right they answer nearly everything too - albeit a bit rushed/tongue in cheek for something's - but they are answered even the fúcking hurley bird(never got that obsession). Although the mysteries of the island were a big part in the show the producers always said it was more a show about the characters

Yeah as a character show it was fine, but as a mystery show it was quite weak i felt. They answered minor questions, but boiled down everything to do with island to basically "Magic!" which was frustrating if you'd been mainly watching it for the mystery element. They set up the mysteries well but never answered them or dealt with them in a satisfying way for me, and them saying "It's more of a show about characters," felt like a cop out to me as they often said there'd be answers to the mysteries too. They kept hinting as pseudo-scientific reasons for everything the happened on the island and I was intrigued to see how they'd work it all together, and they just never bothered really for the most part.

Niles

batistuta9 wrote: »

The first few seasons are brilliant - i couldn't wait for it the next week.
Niles is right they answer nearly everything too - albeit a bit rushed/tongue in cheek for something's - but they are answered even the fúcking hurley bird(never got that obsession). Although the mysteries of the island were a big part in the show the producers always said it was more a show about the characters

Yeah in the case of the DVD mini-episode I was actually surprised at some of the stuff that got answered; never expected (or was that bothered about) an answer to the Hurely Bird myself. It also clarifies what the purpose of the Hydra station was (somewhat known before this but it sheds extra light on it), and why there were polar bears on the island (the latter was quite apparent from season 3 on yet people still kept asking it for some reason ).

As for general mysteries like the island itself, I was always happy to accept that it "just was" a special island when it came to things like "the light"/electromagnetism etc. I think over-explanation of these things might have actually ruined it a bit. But that's just me.

smilerf

Only ran for 1 series but I loved Nowhere Man

Autosport

What about Millennium or Profiler???

juan.kerr

Or Scooby Doo?

juan.kerr

Dark Skies?

KoolKid

For me its Lost, But Alcatraz has got off to a good start.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Where on Earth is Carmen San Diego?

A show so full of mystery I don't think they ever found her... Mind you, I don't think they were clever enough to look in San Diego...

Seriously though - gotta be LOST... 6 years of shouting "What the F**k?!?!" at the TV...

Almaviva

I'd vote for Mrs Brown's Boys.
Which involves two mysteries really. How can someone make a TV show that is that bad? And how can any reputable TV channel broadcast it? We will probably never know. Puzzling though.