Favorite TV shows and mini series of all time?

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Hello everyone, after sharing many tastes in different film genres, from westerns, to animation to horror, this time lets share our all time favorite TV shows and mini series of all time. So I'll start with my top 15 favorite.

1) V - the original mini series from 1983
2) Californication
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Banshee
5) Nip/Tuck
6) Game of thrones
7) The Sopranos
8 ) The Simpsons
9) The Avengers (the old British tv show)
10) Orange is the new black
11) The Walking dead
12) Band of brothers
13) Firefly
14) Deadwood
15) Twin Peaks

1. Survivor
2. Big Brother
3. Roseanne
4. American Idol (older seasons)
5. Breaking Bad
6. Family Guy
7. Malcolm in the Middle
8. Friends
9. The Simpsons
10. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

1. Queen of Swords (sacrilege, that there was only 1 season of this - sacrilege, I say!)
2. The X-Files
3. The Lone Gunmen
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. Two & a Half Men
6. Relic Hunter
7. The Girl from Tomorrow
8. The Outer Limits


There's probably some more I can't think of at the moment...

ETA: #8 - how could I have forgotten that one

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1) The X-Files (1993-2002)
2) Sherlock (2010- )
3) The Lone Gunmen (2001)
4) The Big Bang Theory (2007- )
5) Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)
6) Millennium (1996-1999)
7) Doctor Who (2005-2010)
8) John Adams (2008)
9) The West Wing (1999-2003)*
10) Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
11) Are You Being Served? (1972-1985)
12) Blackadder (1983-2000)
13) Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995)
14) The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)
15) Second City Television (1976-1984)

*The first daughter getting kidnapped in 2003 jumped the shark once and for all

The Sopranos

Nurse Jackie

Monk

American Experience

Big Bang Theory

original Dark Shadows

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Oppenheimer miniseries from 1982 in U.S., 1980 in U.K.

Oz

Hiroshima miniseries

Breaking Bad

Star Trek

In no particular order:

Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Babylon 5
Star Trek Voyager
The walking dead
Lost (although not equally impressed by all of it)
The returned
Terra Nova (which was also cancelled)
Invasion (the one season they made)
The first 3-4 seasons of the X-Files

Two and a half men
Friends
How I met your mother
The Big Bang Theory (even if it also annoys me)
Blackadder
Mr. Bean

I also like The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama and what I?ve seen of Family Guy, but I think they have much lower re-watch value than the sitcoms above.

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Here's mine.

Tv series.

A Country practice:
Sons and Daughters:
Bewitched:
The Girl from Tomorrow:
The Henderson Kids:

There's more but I can't think of them at the moment.

Mini Series.

Bangkok Hilton:
Against the wind:
Harp in the south:
Vietnam:
A Woman of Substance:

In no particular order:

The Life of Riley (what a revoltin' development this is)
I Love Lucy
The Twilight Zone
The Andy Griffith Show
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Top Cat
Car 54, Where Are You?
The Jack Benny Program
Sgt. Bilko
Burns and Allen
Lassie
Bonanza
The Rifleman
Superman (1950's series only)
Dragnet
The Naked City
Captain Kangaroo
Adam-12
Highway Patrol
Emergency!
Star Trek (The Entire TV canon, except for Enterprise)
60 Minutes
M*A*S*H
The Honeymooners
Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine
The Mike Douglas Show
Tonight Show with Steve Allen
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Jeopardy (both Art Fleming and Alex Trebeck)
Kraft Music Hall
The Andy Williams Show
The Carol Burnett Show
The Smothers Brothers (the sitcom,NOT the variety show)
The People's Choice (1950's sitcom, where you had Cleo the basset hound making the sarcastic remarks about her owner)
Murder, She Wrote
Columbo
Macmillan and Wife
McCloud
Quincy, M.E.
The Rockford Files
Hogan's Heroes
Combat
The Virginian
The High Chapparel
Bozo's Circus (only Stu Kerr from WMAR-TV Baltimore and Bob Bell WGN-TV Chicago)
Hill St. Blues
St. Elsewhere
Law and Order (Except Criminal Intent. I also include the British Version of Law and Order)
Criminal Minds
CSI (except CSI: Miami)
Miami Vice
NCIS
JAG
Blue Bloods
Magnum, PI
Maverick
Dave Allen at Large
Benny Hill (in small doses)
Disney's Wonderful World of Color
Doctor in the House
Monty Python
The Man from UNCLE
The Avengers
The Saint
The Muppet Show

I forgot Lassie and JAG.
And Tremors (also cancelled after one season)

I remembered some that I didn't put in before.


Are you being served:
Mind your language:
Keeping up Appearances:
Everybody loves Raymond:
Family matters:

Not sure how many of these are well known outside the UK (or even inside the UK in one or two cases....):

Brookside
The Sweeney
Bad Girls
UFO
Space 1999 (Series 1)
Knowing Me Knowing You (Alan Partridge). Also "I'm Alan Partridge", Series 1.
A Kind of Loving (mini series, 1982)
Rising Damp
A Fine Romance
To Serve Them All My Days

And an honourable mention must be made of Blake's Seven, a series so mind-bendingly dreadful that it was actually quite entertaining!

Here is my list.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999)
Daria (1997-2002)
The Red Green Show (1991-2005)
Gidget (1965)
Garfield & Friends (1988-1994)
The Simpsons (1989-1998)*
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999)
Cardcaptor Sakura (1998-2000)
Strawberry Marshmallow (2005)
Digimon (1999-present)**


*still on, but pretty well jumped the shark after '98
**Seasons 1-4

Most of these shows I own. Others, I would LOVE to own. Others, have the HIGHEST re-watch-able value.

Television Shows:

• Doc Martin
• Monk
• M*A*S*H
• Roseanne
• The Big Bang Theory
• Good Times
• All in the Family
• The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
• The Cosby Show
• Call the Midwife
• As Time Goes By
• Seinfeld
• Will and Grace
• The Facts of Life
• To the Manor Born
• The Vicar of Dibley
• Project Runway
• I Love Lucy
• Gilligan's Island
• Stargate SG-1
• The Gumby Show
• The Flinstones
• The Jetsons
• Thomas the Tank Engine
• Fat Albert
• Sid the Science Kid
• Jane and the Dragon
• Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures (and all his other animal shows)
• America's Test Kitchen
• Bonanza
• Gunsmoke (I thought "Miss Kitty" was EXTREMELY COOL!! !)
• The Carol Burnett Show
• My Favorite Martian
• Quincy, M.E.
• Law and Order: Criminal Intent (with Vincent D'Onofrio, ONLY)
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• The Flip Wilson Show
• American Bandstand
• Soul Train
• Everbody Loves Raymond
• Columbo
• The Rockford Files
• The Munsters
• Batman
• Lassie
• The Waltons
• Little House on the Prairie
• Touched by an Angel
• Sanford and Son
• Maude
• The Golden Girls
• Ugly Betty
• Alice
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Happy Days
• Laverne and Shirley
• Saturday Night Live (several different years, but especially with the original cast)
• Market Warriors
• It's Academic
• The Love Boat
• Fantasy Island
• Family Affair (in the 60s)
• Are You Being Served (when Trevor Bannister was on)
• Keeping Up Appearances
• Harry's Law (FIRST season, ONLY)

TV shows: Lost, The Shield, Babylon 5, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica (recent version), The Wire, NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Homeland, LA Law, The Practice, Boardwalk Empire, The Borgias (recent Showtime version), The Simpsons, Married With Children, Perfect Stranges, Fringe, Game of Thrones

Miniseries: The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, North & South parts 1 & 2, Band of Brothers, The Pacific

Little House on the prairie: