What are your five favorite TV shows of all time?

Invader Zim
Absolutely Fabulous
The Young Ones
CSI
X-Files
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The six above tie for first place

Others include :
Fawlty Towers
Good Neighbours(The Good Life)
Butterflies
Roseanne
Cheers(with Sam and Diane)
Mr Bean
The Naked Chef
I Love Lucy
Star Trek: TNG
The Twilight Zone(original)
The Outer Limits(original)

More than 5

1- "Sabrina the Teenage Witch". Don't like it now, but was obsessed with it when 11 or so on that great TGIF thing ABC did. What a terrific idea.

2- "The Nanny". Didn't watch it until it was in sindication, but love it anyway. It's so overdone and cultish.

3- "Dark Angel". For obvious reasons >

4- "Friends". Just because everyone else loves it.

5- "The Osbournes". New favorite. Obsessed out of any reasonable limit. Love Sharon best, but adore Ozzy as well

6- "E! News Daily". So frothy and pretentious it's fantastic.

7- "Becoming". That's what it's all about, man. That's why anyone should get into the music business. To see some kid in their sophomore college year crying because they get to do a sincerely adoring parody of your video.

8- "Fashion Emergency". They always look worse in the end, it's amazing. But Leon Hall is fabulous.

9- "Spin City". Who, I repeat, who doesn't love Charlie?

10- Anything with Joan and Melissa Rivers. Why is it that I care so much what these overly unattractive and unintelligent women think?

Filthy Rich (80s sitcom starring Dixie Carter, etc.); Powers that Be (90s sitcom); Columbo (70s murder mystery); AbFab (British sitcom); Some of my Best Friends (90s gay-oriented sitcom, canceled) (or was this '01?).

1) Fawlty Towers
2) Saturday Night Live
3) SCTV
4) The Tick
5) The Simpsons

Off the top of my head...

Perry Mason was on from 1957 to 1966 (The original starring Raymond Burr). You couldn't possibly be talking about "The New Adventures Of Perry Mason" with Monte Markam?! That show was cancelled in 1974 after one dreadful season. I don't think I know anyone that actually watched an entire episode. It sucked!

Did you just edit your comment? The part I just responded to disappeared! Or am I losing it?

Alf
Law & Order
Friends
Everybody Love Raymond
Judging Amy
All In The Family
ER
The Andy Griffith Show

I know that's more than 5, but I love them all equally.

How could I forget Roseanne and I Love Lucy? I love both of those. I used to watch Nick at Nite all the time. They show I Love Lucy re-runs all the time and I fell in love with her.

In no particular order:
1- Murder, She Wrote (and yet I'm really only 22)
2- All In The Family (such a scary reminder of where I came from)
3- CSI
4- Osbournes
5- Tales From The Crypt (I never had HBO so I had to watch it at like 2am, but I loved it).
Honorable Mention-Survivor (we all need a little drama, and some of the contestants are so pitiful it makes me feel good.)

Classic Star Trek, Dark Shadows (both versions), Forever Knight, Twilight Zone (original version), The Outer Limits (original version). I am currently addicted to the Osbournes as well. My son has been taping episodes for me to see.

The Simpsons, Transformers, He-man, G.I Joe, Kids in the Hall and The Crocodile Hunter

of all time..

24
the simpsons
the family guy
dungeons and dragons cartoon
sesame street

oh yeah..cant forget the ozzbornes!!! although i dont have cable to watch them i got to see one episode and laughed my ass off. now i cant get anyone to tape it for me.

1. The Smurfs
2. The late Show with David Letterman
3. Are you Being Served?
4. Are you Being Served Again?
5. Keeping up Appearances

Quantum Leap
Frasier
Antiques Roadshow
Austin City Limits
......................um...

i LOVE Mr. Bean!!!!!!
can't believe that i forgot about that!

South Park
Frasier
Ellen (before she came out)
Charmed
Prisoner Cell Block H

how great is KIDS IN THE HALL?!?!


"it's a fact: my uncle can spit really far....(sounds of a loogey)....my uncle is a very lonely man...it's a fact!"

5. The Dukes of Hazzard
4. Knight Rider
3. Cheers
2. Night Court
1. Gilmore Girls

I used to watch a -lot- of televsision, and really bad television, to boot. But once I got to college I basically stopped watching altogether.

Now I watch one show: Gilmore Girls. This fact is on my list of things not to mention in Basic Training

Punky Brewster
Friends

SITCOMS
Friends
Alley Mcbeal
The Practice
Rosanne
Law and Order

HOME IMPROVEMENT/GARDENING/DESIGN SHOWS
Gardening by the yard
Hometime
This Old House
Rebbeca's Garden
Designing for the sexes

All in the Family
Malcom in the Middle
Red Dwarf
BlackAdder
Cheers
Not necisarilly in that order, however.

Ok...Is it just me or do the opening credits suggest Mr. Bean is actually an alien disguised as a human dropped out of a spaceship and onto the road to observe life on earth? I mean, I cannot help but think that considering some of the things he does....

"24" "Friends" "Beverly Hills 90210" "Cheers"
"Three's Company"

I can't do this! I'm going to forget something that I love In no particular order (well B5 is certainly first, but after that in no particular order).....

1) Babylon 5
2) The West Wing
3) Homicide: Life on the Street
4) Stargate: SG1
5) Farscape

And I'm adding a sixth one because I don't want to leave it off my list!

6) Blake's 7

Homourable mention goes to PREY for being my internet catalyst and introducing me to the idea of internet communities (without which I may never have progressed to SC!)

I have a really funny pain because I know that I've missed off a lot of wonderful shows - things that I really enjoy. I can't think what all of them are right now though! Things like Reboot, Night and Day (I've only recently started watching that - I love it!), The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grange Hill (it's really bad, but I like it), Frasier, So Graham Norton, Have I Got News For You (new series starting tonight), ER, Chicago Hope, Black Books, Spaced, Quantum Leap, Teachers, 24 (but I don't think it's nearly as good as people make out - not in the same league as West Wing!), The X-Files (well, the early series anyway), Dark Skies, C4 News (okay, a little sad but it's the best news that I've ever seen!), At Home With the Braithwaites, American Gothic.......etc.

I think I'm a little over the stipulated 5!

While I'm going on at length, I might as well add that I'd love to see a tv adaptation of UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com everywhere but here). It's my all-time favourite computer game (even beats my usual favourite point-and-clicks and *even* Fallout II!) and it would translate so well to a tv series. A bit Space: Above an Beyond, but better! (Note that S:AAB is *not* on my list!!!)

OMIGOD!!!!
totally!
i just was speaking of mr.bean w/ my bro....he thinks the same too...
whatever it is, great show

The Simpsons
The Sopranos
The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science
Law and Order
The FBI Files

There are so many to choose from, but I would have to pick these:
Andy Griffith
Ed Sullivan (a variety show)
Jeopardy
The Honeymooners
Leave It To Beaver

Yup, you scared us all now on the 'Murder She Wrote' confession.

*backs away from you slowly*

I forgot Saturday Night Live (especially the old ones from about 1973) and The Little Rascals.

1. The Honeymooners
2. CSI
3. Saturday Night Live
4. The Osbournes
5. Survivor

CSI & The Osbournes are my current favorites.

Oh yeah -- since it was supposed to be only FIVE shows, I realized after I'd put down Perry Mason that I liked AbFab a helluva LOT better, so put that instead. I actually DO like the 70s Perry Mason better than the older one, but I liked the older one too. I didn't know it was called "The New Adventures... with Monte Markham..." There was this curly-haired blond dude that was Perry's assistant in the 70s ones. I haven't seen one of either of these shows in a while, however.

I thought I was the only one.

Funny. Guess I should never tell you what I read then, I wouldn't want you having nightmares about me....*devilish grin*
What's "Prisoner Cell Block H"?

Star Trek Voyager
Gilmore Girls
Charlie Rose
Ally McBeal
Dark Angel
talk radio / frasier / spin city / caroline in the city
Addams Family
old X-Files
various pbs programming
antiques road showsimpsons
mash / cheers / friends
twilight zone / outer limits - orig & new.miscellany weird stuff like python or the prisoner.

no ma'am!
to be honest, i thought i was the only one who even liked mr.bean....nice to know of a fellow weirdo

Buffy, Angel, Popular, Twin Peaks, West Wing.

all from when i was much younger,
the million dollar movie
the mod squad
the partridge family
ellen
rosanne

Hmmm...I'm not sure. I'll just pick 5 that I love, in no particular order.

1. Mary Tyler Moore show
2. Ed
3. Laverne and Shirley
4. Survivor
5. The Amazing Race

Right! I forgot the Gilmore Girls! I know there are others. This requires some serious thought. I also loved Zoobillee Zoo when I was little.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, Homicide, The West Wing, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Millennium, The Prisoner, Invader Zim, Twin Peaks. Yeah, that's nine. So much for five...

If by five you mean ten:
Babylon 5, Millennium, Six Feet Under, Futurama. Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Buffy, Angel, Homicide, and Twin Peaks.

I hope that whenever you get to see it, you'll enjoy the Farscape episode we saw last night as much as we did. It was the 2nd to last episode of the third season.

Cleo loves him!!!!!!

Designing Women
Law and Order (all of them)
Judging Amy
I love Lucy
First Monday

really?!?
learn something new everyday!

That's okay, I've been known to enjoy bad TV shows too.

I think that's been shown over here already. Is season 3 the one with Aeryn's mother? I've seen all of those except for the last two - we have them on tape but I just haven't got round to watching them yet! It just keeps getting better and better though!

yep... the episode I'm thinking about looks like it's pretty much the conclusion of the plot lines about Scorpius' wormhole research, and Talyn's hostility... I was impressed with what they were willing to do.

I'll have to get them watched soon then

1. Serial Experiments Lain
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion
3. X (the TV series, not the movie, obviously)
4. Rurouni Kenshin
5. The Maxx

Top 4 are Japanese, bottom one in American.

http://www.prisoner-cellblockh.co.uk/

It's an Australian prison drama set inside a women's prison. Famous for its bad acting, over the top storylines and wobbly cardboard set. I loved it.

I just saw part of one on my neighbor's TV the other night that I wanna rent, Omen IV. I absolutely loved all the other Omen films.

Sounds good, I love a low budget show. I'm a big fan of corny 80's slasher flicks with bad acting, so that probably would have been right up my alley. I'll go check out the site.

Star trek. All of them

friends, simpsons, saturday night live, malcolm in the middle, bernie mac show

Doctor Who
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Television/Programs/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Doctor_Who/

Quantum Leap
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Television/Programs/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy/Quantum_Leap/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/A/Adams,_Douglas/Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy/

The Simpsons
http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Animation/Cartoons/Titles/S/Simpsons,_The/

I can Only think of four! DOH!

WWF Wrestling, Fear Factory, The Maury Show, Spongebob Squarepants, and Kenan & Kel

I saw the first one in the theater, back in 1976. I thought it was good, I've seen all the others (apart from IV), I didn't think much of them. II was particularly bad as I recall.

Wonder Years
Magnum PI
Clueless
Sienfeld
Fraiser
Wish I could've listed more.

I forgot about Mr Bean.......I still watch the tape of him from time to time.

Geeze! I forgot about SCTV & Saturday Night Live. Good pick!

I love Keeping Up Appearances. We used to have it here in Southern California,until just recently.I'm so bummed they took it off about 2 months ago.I got my husband hep to the program, & he was just beginning to really get into watching it.

I do love Mr Bean!!! I wish they still had him on tv.I miss him so much.

Did you ever see "The Bad Seed" with Patty McCormick (I think)? I loved this one. This was kind of a "devil child" also... 50s I think. I read the book when I was just a kid.

???

ASB loves the antiques road show.

Saturday Night Live was best from 1976 to 1980 (The ones where Steve Martin hosts are the ultimate!). There have been some good bits since then; Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me", Mike Myers' "Sprockets", Chris Farley's "Matt The Motivational Speaker", and the all time classic spoof-ad "Old Glory Robot Insurance".

No, but I just read the plot synopsis http://allmovie.com/ it sounds pretty amusing...

cbs fox has the video rights to them and has releed all of them in boxed sets. they might be avalible on dvd too.

1. Buffy
2. The X-Files (when David Duchovny was in it)
3. ER
4. The Simpsons
5. Ally McBeal

Thank god for America.

Jeez, I completely forgot about AMerican Gothic - that was fantastic. The sheriff was to die for!
Whatever happened to that? The story seemed to be tootling along quite happily and then boom! Crappy ending and no more episodes. Such a shame.

The American Christians didn't like the fact that the main character was bad, and quite possibly evil or even the devil. Even though it was treated in a wonderful way and as the series went on you started to doubt whether Buck *was* really evil and whether Merle (or whatever her name was) was really good. It got cancelled

This is fun!
1. The Christopher Lowell Show
2. Richard Simmons' former Dream Maker
3. Crossing over with Jon Edwards
4. Samurai Jack
5. (I haven't watched enough to list a fifth.)

Golden Girls
The Price Is Right
Friends
Fraiser
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
M*A*S*H*
Mama's Family
Family Feud

Yeah,I loved the old ones too! They were the best during those years. I think it all kinda went down hill after Gilda & John passed,tho But I did love the ones with Mike Myers as well. SCTV was great also.

I think I'll go to E-bay & see if I might be able to find the "Keeping Up Appearances" box set there. Thanks for the tip,Strider.

acctully many video stories have them you shouldn't have to check e-bay.

what's your favorite hometime episode.

Humm like Blockbuster video??? **crosses her fingers**

the log cabin probably :)

acctully you local music store might have them.

mine too

Star Trek:The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, Wings, and Golden Girls. But I can't leave out Bugs Bunny, the best cartoon of all time.

Wow at the Quantum Leap entries...if so many people liked it, why can't they re-run it more?

i know!!!!!
poor sad us...withdrawls of mr.bean

really, it is such a great show...i know that i've learned a lot from it

Yeah but they're so outrageously priced! But I'll check,anyway.Thanks Strider!

They only recently took him off the circuits here
in LA.I'm so bummed!

Totally off the subject of mister Bean.......
I'm sending something totally off the wall for
a house warming present.You'll both probably
look at it & think, this is not our style,but
it it's stuff I wish I would've gotten when we
had our first house warming... It's a bit
snobbish but oh so classy.If you don't like it,
keep ti for Noah & it would be worth something
someday.

Open with care!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe what some of that stuff is worth. Do you think they exaggerate any?

I think so, but i also think that they underestimate a lot as well, so that they themselves can pffer the people that $ for the item, so that they can make mucho dinero in their own shops.....i mean, i know that you've seen some stuff that someone will say is only worth a couple hundered bucks, and you think, are they crazy? it should be a couple thousand bucks!.... i just think that some of them are trying to scam the uninformed people who come to the show....always out for them selves.....

That's a hard one but I'd have to say (in no particular order)....."Three's Company" "Family Matters" "Malcom in the middle" "That 70's Show" and my new favorite is "The Osbournes"!!!!

Okay, after reading everyone else replies I have to slap myself I left off some of the greatest shows ever!
Six Feet Under- total rocks I have a sick sense of humor so it really works for me
South Park-I liked it alot more when no one else did, but it's still cool
Roseanna- She's my girl
I Love Lucy- What can I say...
Saturday Night Live- I can't comment but I agree the older ones were alot more funny I watch the re-runs I'm not that old
The Simpsons- Funny Funny Funny
King of the Hill- Reminds alot of where I'm from white trash America
Fear Factor- I love watching other idiots doing stupid stuff that makes them sick!
I also have a hidden obsession with The Golden Girls...I spent alot of time at Grandmas as a child!

friends, murder one, cosby show, west wing, law & order

Never thought of it that way. Given the nature of some people in a position to make easy money by screwing someone, I would say that it's very likely to happen.

right?!?!?!
some of those people look pretty shady to me

i would have to go in there w/ at least some knowledge about the object, for i don't think that i could really put my trust into what they were telling me...anyhow...don't let that disgourage you from watching, but just keep it in the back of your head next time you watch, see if you can pick out the ones that are bullcrap!

Recall that e-Bay is their sponsor. If a victrola goes for $3800 on the show, and you find one at e-bay for $570, you're sure to think it's a marvellous place. I can usually guess the prices on road show within 40%.

oh really??? I had no idea, obviously. i'm pretty much a "new-bee" at watching and learning and figuring it out...i never really had much interest in such things until recently...i just have a great appreciation for these things now, the history mainly....
i guess what made me thought that some of it was a bunch of crap, is w/ some items like native american artifacts and things...personally, i would think that the "value" on such item would be rather great, but every time i've seen such objects, they have all been extremely low in value...just doesn't make any sence to me as to why a beautful detailed piece of pottery,for say, is only worth a couple thousand bucks, and then you see something form france dating around 1850,for say, and the value is simply astronomical! worth like a couple 10's of thousands of dollars....it just doesn't make any sence to me....can you shed some light on this subject???

The european stuff was from name brand designers and commissioned for specific patrons. It was more of a 'high art', not a 'craft' something every 14th person in the family did. Also it involved tools and materials from all over the world (japan, holland, etc.) to achieve a vast range of colors. They were made for the rich in the first place. The european pottery for the masses doesn't even appear on the show and can't be identified well. At least that's my take on it.

ahhhh...ok i'm beginning to understand now.
i see that stuff made for the rich is still made for the rich, makes sence.
i guess i still don't quite understand as to why native american stuff isn't worth more...i understand that they were poor, so acording to what you just said that makes sence that way, but i still don't get it. oh well. thank you my friend, i appreciate it.