The Best TV Shows and/or Series Past/Present

**MizMotown** · May-24-10, 12:18 PM

few personal picks are...

Entourage [[HBO)
Sex & The City [[HBO)
The Sopranos [[HBO)
Seinfeld
Soap
My So-Called Life
Married With Children
Southpark
Hill Street Blues
Rescue Me
Saturday Night Live

**Jimaz** · May-24-10, 12:44 PM

I'd have to go way back. TV quality seems inversely proportional to the number of channels available.

The following always made me feel disappointed as they approached the end of their time slot every week so I'd consider them the cream of the crop:

**Johnlodge** · May-24-10, 12:51 PM

Police Squad - all 6 glorious episodes.

**Islandman** · May-24-10, 02:14 PM

Miami Vice

**tetsua** · May-24-10, 02:38 PM

The Wire
South Park

**Detroitnerd** · May-24-10, 02:40 PM

Petticoat Junction [[1963-'70)
My Mother the Car [[1965-66)
B.J. and the Bear [[1979-81)
Joanie Loves Chachi [[1982-83)
Mama's Family [[1983-90)
Manimal [[1983)
Pink Lady and Jeff [[1980)
Barney & Friends [[1992-present)
Homeboys from Outer Space [[1996-97)

**Gannon** · May-24-10, 02:54 PM

From what I just heard from an old friend, I nominate Freaks and Geeks, although I haven't seen it yet.

Apparently it was the Lakeside version of my Fairlane Towne Centre youth.

LodgeDodger · May-24-10, 03:31 PM

The Wire. The best show of all time. If you haven't watched it, rent it.

**Pam** · May-24-10, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by Gannon

From what I just heard from an old friend, I nominate Freaks and Geeks, although I haven't seen it yet.

Apparently it was the Lakeside version of my Fairlane Towne Centre youth.

That was a good show until the end of the last episode where the lead girl decided to become a Dead Head. Boo.

I liked the goofy guidance counselor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnCCMEMF9c

It looks like there are a lot of episodes on You Tube.

**n7hn** · May-24-10, 10:45 PM

Weeds [[recent)
Soap [[70"s)
Strangers with candy [[1998-2000)
Pushing Dasies [[2008)

**Meddle** · May-24-10, 10:48 PM

Anybody remember "Frank's Place"?

"The John Larroquette Show" [[First Season Only)

**oladub** · May-24-10, 11:46 PM

Dae Jang Geum

A Korean tv series shown all over the world. I've watched the first 18 hours which is all Netflix had of the series.

It is a fascinating series about an orphan in 1500ad Korea who eventually becomes the King's personal doctor; unheard of in Confucian Korea. A very bright woman in a sophisticated society.
reviews
Start watching it here episode 1, part 1 of 5

**Meddle** · May-24-10, 11:52 PM

^^^ I don't think so Tim.

**sirrealone** · May-25-10, 06:45 AM

The Shield
Damages
Breaking Bad
The Sopranos

**ggores** · May-25-10, 07:16 AM

Favorite topic!

5) what's happening
4) TMZ
3) prisoner cell block H
2) will & grace
1) fraggle rock

honorable mention goes to the Peter Gunn show.

**Detroitej72** · May-25-10, 07:37 AM

St. Elsewhere. The show took on controversial topics long before it was the norm.
WKRP in Cincinnati
M*A*S*H
Newheart [[the one where he owns and Inn)
NYPD Blue
Third Watch

**sirrealone** · May-25-10, 07:42 AM

On the sitcom front:
Seinfeld
Leave It To Beaver
The Jeffersons
Friends

and of course the best sitcom in the history of TV

The Golden Girls

**Maof** · May-25-10, 07:51 AM

-All in the Family
-The Jeffersons
-Modern Family
-Parenthood
-E.R.
-Dallas
-Carol Burnett Show

...and some reality tv...the real housewife's of new york..."that sum good t.v."

oh...and the Kwame Kilpatrick Show too

**jiminnm** · May-25-10, 09:51 AM

For me, there was a lot of good TV that I will watch once. There is not much that I will watch often enough to get on DVD.

Soap [[complete series)
Northern Exposure [[complete series)
WKRP in Cincinnati [[1st season)
Saturday Night Live [[first 4 seasons)
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

**rb336** · May-25-10, 10:48 AM

I'm a fan of the failed

When Things Were Rotten [[Mel Brooks first attempt at a Robin Hood spoof, with two Get Smart! alums - Dick Gautier [[Hymie the robot) as Robin and Bernie Koppel [[Siegfried). Dick Van Patten as Friar Tuck, Misty Rowe as Maid Marion

Sledge Hammer!
and, recently,
Better off Ted

**Johnlodge** · May-25-10, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by rb336

I'm a fan of the failed

When Things Were Rotten [[Mel Brooks first attempt at a Robin Hood spoof, with two Get Smart! alums - Dick Gautier [[Hymie the robot) as Robin and Bernie Koppel [[Siegfried). Dick Van Patten as Friar Tuck, Misty Rowe as Maid Marion

Sledge Hammer!
and, recently,
Better off Ted

You mentioned awhile back in a similar thread also being a Manimal fan, and I said how much I liked Tales of the Gold Monkey.

Another show that was awesome, but didn't quite make it, was the British game show Interceptor. Good synopsis of that show here.