Favorite TV series past and present top 10

Ximena · Apr 23, 2004

TOP 10 Oldies
I watched all these dubbed in spanish and they were really good, so far I have never been able to catch any of these in english, I'm happy because they still show this TV series here in my country

- Los Magnificos (the A team, took me 2 years to realized that what popped on the screen what the name of the series)
- Los años maravillosos (The Wonder Years)
- Superagente 86 (Get Smart)
- Mi Bella Genio (I dream of Jeanie)
- Hechizada (Bewitched)
- McGyver (sp?)
- Los locos Adams (Adam's family)
- Family Ties (this one I did watched in english and spanish)
This last two, don't know if you know them but I don't think there's a single latinamerican that don't know this one
- El Chavo del 8
- Chespirito

Top 10 from 90's and 00's (thanks to Sony, Fox and WB I get to watch all this, this time in english)
- Seinfield
- Mad About You
- Friends
- Gilmore Girls
- Arrested development
- Will and Grace
- Spin City (with Fox and Sheen)
- Dead like me
- Buffy the vampire slayer
- Married with Children

show 42 · Apr 23, 2004

Past series.....
1. Donna Reed Show
2. L.A.Law
3. John Doe
4. Golden Girls
5. Mash
6. Hill Street Blues
7. My Three Sons
8. Father Knows Best
9. Bill Cosby Show
10. Bonanza
11. Medicine Woman

Present....
1. Ed
2. Judging Amy
3. E.R.
4 The Practice
5. D.A. (now canceled)
6. A.I. (does that count?)
7. Star Search
8. The Guiding Light
9. As The World Turn
10. House Hunters (Home and Garden Channel)...............42

bronxgirl · Apr 23, 2004

M*A*S*H (still timeless in depicting the utter insanity and waste of war)
All in the Family
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
La Femme Nikita
Deep Space 9 (Best of the Star Treks IMHO)
The Sopranos
Joan of Arcadia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Equalizer
Farscape (I have hated the Sci Fi Channel ever since they reneged on their promise for a 5th season).

Ther's a theme here somewhere, but I think I'm too sleepy to notice.

And totally honorable mention: St Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues

JonnyCoop · Apr 23, 2004

1. China Beach -- WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO BRING THAT OUT ON DVD?? So many episodes of that show just completely blew me away.
2. The Simpsons
3. Filthy Rich (this was a short-lived show done by the Designing Women team years before DW starring Dixie Carter and Delta Burke; it was a takeoff on Dallas-type soaps and was one of the funniest things I have ever seen!!)
4. Santa Barbara
5. ER
6. CSI
7. Hill Street Blues
8. Laverne & Shirley (hey, cut me some slack -- I was like 10, 11, 12 when it was on!!

)
9. The Mole (both the first and second ones; Celebrity Mole, however, is pure bilge)
10. Roseanne -- or at least the "middle period" of it, after she'd worked the bugs out and before the last season she didn't want to do and only made the fact too obvious.

Becca84 · Apr 23, 2004

Past series:

1. I Dream of Jeanie
2. Bewitched
3. Gilligans Island
4. Early Edition
5. Remington Steele
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
7. Diagnosis Murder
8. Scarecrow & Mrs. King

Current series:

1. Smallville
2. Tru Calling
3. Mutant X
4. Friends (just barely qualifies as curent

)
5. Alias
6. American Dreams
7. Crossing Jordan
8. America's Funniest Home Videos

Ximena · Apr 23, 2004

Oh I will erase Married with Children and Buffy to put CSI and ER instead, can't believe I forgot about them, I love CSI!!! and in my oldies one, I will have to add the Cosby show, I loved that show

I read and watch specials about Golden Girls but never got to see it, too bad it did seemed like a good series. I think it was E that did an special about series and they said that M.A.S.H. got to highest rating for its last episode? or something like that? what exactly was M.A.S.H about that was so succesfull?

Piel · Apr 24, 2004

Past:
Moonlighting
St. Elsewhere
Designing Women
L.A. Law
Ally McBeal
Serx and the City
Chicago Hope
Northern Exposure
Picket fences
Thirtysomething

Present:
ER
American Dreams
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Soul Food
Masterpiece Theatre
Friends
Saturday Night Live
Queer Eye For the Straight Guy
Home Garden Channel

mpal2 · Apr 24, 2004

Oldies:
McGyver
Moonlighting
Remington Steele
Scarcrow and Mrs. King
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
MASH
Star Trek - The Next Generation
CHIPs
The A Team
The Incredible Hulk

Current
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Friends
Angel
CSI (the one and only original)
Inside the Actors Studio
Jon Stewart's - The Daily Show
South Park
Mad TV

Tonichelle · Apr 24, 2004

Past...
MASH - even though Alan Alda pushed his agenda in every episode... I love the show... "Here's to you, Ferret Face!"
I Love Lucy - timeless
The Muppet Show
The Cosby Show
Star Search - originals are always the best!
The Muppet Babies
The Addams Family
Chicago Hope
Dianosis Murder
Walker Texas Ranger

Present...
CSI
Friends
American Idol
Judging Amy
The Guardian
JAG - until this season... unfortunately I think it's run its course

Dateline
Today Show
Law and Order (SVU, CI, and the original)
The Red Green Show (yeay Canada! Great show!)

Piel · Apr 24, 2004

Tonichelle said:
Past...
MASH - even though Alan Alda pushed his agenda in every episode...

Huh???

bronxgirl · Apr 24, 2004

Ximena said:
what exactly was M.A.S.H about that was so succesfull?

I think it captured the dark humor you need to survive while horror rages around. It may have been set in Korea, but I think it was the first American show to start to face Vietnam. And Doctors (and Nurses) use dark humor to make it through those long nights on call (Trust me on that one

)

equestrianguy · Apr 24, 2004

Past:

1. Threes Company
2. The Jeffersons
3. Absolutely Fabulous BBC
4. French and Saunders BBC
5. Sex and the City
6. My So Called Life
7. The Golden Girls
8. Good Times
9. Dynasty
10. The Vicor of Dibly BBC

Present:

1. Six Feet Under
2. South Park
3. Nip/Tuck
4. Absolutely Fabulous BBC
5. Will & Grace
6. Mad TV
7. Trading Spaces
8. Changing Rooms BBC
9. Curb Appeal
10. House Invaders BBC

Kateri · Apr 24, 2004

again, in no order:

Red Dwarf (series 1-6 only!)
Cowboy Bebop
E.R.
Vision of Escaflowne
My So-Called Life
Blackadder
What Not To Wear (so sue me..)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Powerpuff Girls
Invader Zim
The Man from UNCLE
Bagpuss

kat, who hasn't actually had a TV in 3 years...nor missed it, except that I have to go to my mothers to watch skating!

Tonichelle · Apr 24, 2004

Piel said:
Huh???

his political views... his personal opinions... during one of the reunion specials he said that's what made the show so great was that he got the opportunity to show what he thought of all that... because the writers let the actors get involved... Alan directed many of the shows... and wrote a few as well

what exactly was M.A.S.H about that was so succesfull?

again I'll go with what was said on the reunion special... the reason MASH stood out was it wasn't your normal war comedy... they weren't soldiers marching in a line week after week and someone trips and what not... they're a makeshift battle front hospital... facing some of the worst casualties... and they don't want to be there (save for Frank Burns, but he ends up going crazy anyway :laugh:

) and so they use their humor to survive... there are some touching moments through out the episodes... some very funny ones... it was just REAL... I can't imagine what they went through... but dad was a coreman in the Navy during Vietnam, and while he enlisted, he says that there's a Hawkeye, a Ferret Face, and a Hot Lips in every unit! :laugh:

show 42 · Apr 24, 2004

I thought the most interesting aspect of "Mash" was that the series actually lasted longer than the "Korean Conflict".....42

rusalka · Apr 24, 2004

I simply LOVE the Addams family!other past tv series: A-team, star trek,McGyver,Hazzard,and an australian series about a girl who came from the future
present series:Friends,Inuyasha,the Simpsons,the dead zone...
now I'm with my parents watching law&order,not bad...also the first series of JAG,even if I don't like much that military stuff...oh, also dark angel and saturday night live

purplecat · Apr 24, 2004

I'm a TV addict so it'll be hard to limit my choices! I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton!

Past Shows:

Cheers
Twin Peaks
Felicity
Seinfeld
Picket Fences
Caroline in the City

Currents Shows:

Alias
Survivor
Friends
American Dreams
American Idol
ER
Scrubs
Frasier
The West Wing
Crossing Jordan

Some other reality shows I like that aren't currently on (either wrapped up or going to start soon):

Amazing Race
Apprentice
America's Next Top Model
The Mole
Big Brother

Johar · Apr 25, 2004

American Dreams

Beverly Hills 90210

Leave It To Beaver

Growing Pains

Little House on the Prairie

Picket Fences

ER

Project U.F.O.

Brady Bunch

Dark Shadows

The Hogan Family

Northern Exposure(cried in episode when Rob Morrow's character left)

Amazing Race

Bionic Man/Bionic Woman

V

Brideshead Revisited(miniseries)

Twilight Zone

The Young Ones

Piel · Apr 25, 2004

Johar said:
Dark Shadows

i used to love that show when I was a kid. Alexandra Moltik (sp) who played Victoria Winters is the lady that Claus Von Bulow had the affair with. David Selbe is a WV guy. Still comes back here to do theatre workshops.

Rixis · Apr 25, 2004

GOLDEN GIRLS is my favorite show EVER.

Others I like...
-Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
-Family Guy
-Whose Line is it Anyway
-Iron Chef
-Love Connection
-Cowboy Bebop
-The Price is Right
-SCOLA Channel
-Saturday Night Live

Favorite TV series past and present top 10

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