Best TV shows
 

Well, I just updated my list again after watching several shows on DVD, obviously I like fantasy/horror/drama genres as my list shows...I say these are the "best" because they create characters that I love, address important moral and philosophical issues and entertain the hell out of me. I know there are folks who will disagree with every one of these...I'm simply listing them cause I greatly enjoyed them and feel others may also!
1) Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7 years, WB & UPN)
2) Angel (5 years, WB)
3) Dead Like Me (2 yrs, ShowTime)
4) Forever Knight (3 years, CBS, syndication, USA)
5) Firefly (part season, Fox)
6) Charmed (8 seasons, CW)
7) Dark Angel (2 seasons, Fox)
8) La Femme Nikita (5 seasons, USA)
9) Veronica Mars (3 seasons...current, CW)
10) The Highlander (6 seasons, syndication)

The Odd Couple, Oscar is a slob and a degenerate horse player!

not a big fan of any of these on the list lol, maybe it's just me. I like The Fresh Prince of Bellaire and Saved By the Bell, easily the best!!

As I said, different folks like different things....

Grey's Anatomy. :p

TurdBucket and my list are pretty similiar, except no Walker Texas Ranger for me. I also like the Wonder Years, it is everyones duty to.

sopranos
six feet under
cheers
good times
dallas
V
Walker: Texas Ranger
Renegade
MacGyver
The Honeymooners
Sanford & Son
The Andy Griffith Show

anyone here like Coach???

ya know, Hayden, Dober, Luther???

The interesting thing with this thread is the diversity of taste that is represented...bottom line is that if you enjoy a show, that's all that is important.
I just finished watching Forever Knight....as you can tell by my list, I loved it! I saw a few episodes in the early 90's when it was on CBS latenight but it is so much better watching the DVD's, the plots are sometimes a bit loose, some continuity problems but those are over-shadowed by the rich characters and the darkness of the show...not for everyone, some episodes are disturbing but they are thought-provoking. The main character (Nick Knight) is only my third favorite character, normally that would be a problem but not in this case...Nigel Bennett is supurb as the dark master, Lacroix and Deborah Duchene absolutely stole my heart as Janette. If I have any complaints, aside from the somewhat unsatisfying ending, it would be that Janette is only in one episode in season three....if that character was actually real, I would volunteer to be her slave, I think she is one of the best fictional characters ever to appear on TV. The flashbacks make the show and it is unique in that it is primarily a "cop show" aside from the vampire element!

Here is one where people will have mixed feelings about, I love it and so does most my family, but one of my best friends thinks its terrible and so does his family.

Everybody Loves Raymond

I think it is brilliant!

ok, but please tell me that Seinfeld had the ability to do that for you, cause that might be the best of all time.

I love it. :)

Did I go somewhere? :confused:

Again, the diversity of opinion...I never really cared for that show (Seinfeld), I do like Everybody Loves Raymond. Comedy shows just don't do it for me, I love comedy but prefer it in the context of storytelling. When I turn off the TV and spend several hours thinking about an episode of a show, debating the moral complexities, allowing my mind to wander into the dark and back to the light...then I feel I've watched something worthwhile. I just watched the next to last episode of Forever Knight and now I wonder, what would have been my decision if faced with the choice Lacroix had almost 2000 years ago? Would I have killed my own daughter or....???

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Boston Legal
3. Buffy
4. Angel
5. Veronica Mars
6. Friends
7. The Cosby Show
8. Charmed
9. Brothers and Sisters
10. Dark Angel

My personal top 10. :) Sorry Somer, but Buffy is #3 for me, but it and Angel did make my list! Gilmore Girls and Boston Legal are the only tv shows that I have ALL the seasons on DVD and watch them over and over. Boston Legal never gets tiresome.

Hey, Buffy, Angel, VM, Dark Angel, Charmed...half my list! Have you ever seen Forever Knight....if not you should try it! It really is disturbing and I like that! Vastly underrated show...sure, it's not Joss and suffers in comparison but still a wonderful show!

I will have to look for that one. What is it about?

P.S. I put that Joss song on my page too!

I LOVE Veronica Mars right now.

VM will probably be cancelled after this year, they didn't order an entire season of episodes as is...shame cause it is far and away the best show on TV right now imo! Ms Bell and her "father" along with Logan are fantastic characters!
Forever Knight...well, it was on TV starting in 92 I think, so it predates Buffy and Angel. It's a story about Nick Knight, a homicide detective in Toronto and most plots have human bad guys like a typical cop show. Knight is however an 800 year old vampire trying to become human and atone for his past. His "father" is Lacroix, a general of Pompeii who was "brought across" about 24AD by his daughter Dalia. Nick has a "sister" named Janette who runs a local nightclub, she is slightly older than Nick (perhaps 900+). It is a fantastic mythology...the characters (Janette, Lacroix and Nick along with Nat...Nick's human girlfriend and several others) are wonderful and their relationships very complex. They cover a lot of issues, some very dark! In this world, vampires can fly and have some hypnotic powers, they reflect in mirrors...otherwise close to Angel/Buffy. There are good and bad vampires, very few episodes involve killing bad ones. I love Janette...truly a wonderful character as is Lacroix!

I haven't seen it yet but most folks I know like the series!

I prefer fantasy to sci-fi usually, I loved Star Trek in it's day and reincarnations and Firefly of course (but Firefly was a space western really with no aliens). I want to catch up with Battlestar sometime too!

And...to be clear, I like suspenseful horror, not blood and guts stuff. Never cared for Texas Chainsaw Mass or Devils Rejects type stuff. I like Buffy type horror...Hush for example. Forever Knight is very dark and has it's share of blood (hard to do vampires without blood) but doesn't rely on sensational violence and visual shock...it's horror is more in the mind...and to me, that's 1000x more scary!

Well, Forever Knight has an ending that is well, I wouldn't say happy...it's left open a crack but pretty much, Lacroix goes on alone, perhaps Janette is somewhere and the rest...well, I guess it comes down to faith. Buffy had a happy ending (to be continued soon), Angel was left to conjecture but certainly there was death, Charmed was happy, Dark Angel had zero closure...I guess endings, especially once you've become vested in characters, are never satisfying!

Welcome Back Kotter??

Doesn't anyone remember The Greatest American Hero!!

That's a classic!!

Now I know this is one of those to each his own threads, but those are some of the worst shows ever....I'm sorry I can't help it.....but again, it's all opinion....enjoy your dvd's....

Your entitled to your opinion but because you dislike something it doesn't necessarily make it bad! Others have chosen to list the shows they enjoy, it would seem to add more to the thread than simply making negative statements!

WOW! Someone mentioned V! I enjoy the mini-series (Beginning and The Final Battle)
The series went off target.

Currently tops
Boston Legal - Denny Crane!
24
House
Gilmore Girls - show is dying
Smallville - wife says show is getting too weird though - always wait to kick Lex Luthor's a$$ in whiffleball twice a year
Scrubs
Desperate Housewives
Two and a Half Men
CSI Miami - trying to catch up on CSI Vegas - NY bores me.
Lost - just started watching - I have not a clue why though

Past
Dallas
Knots Landing
Cheers
Charlie's Angels - LOL

C & C,
Have you started Lost from the beginning or current episodes? I haven't watched it and want to at some point, let me know what you think!

Current Shows-
The Sopranos
Cops
High Stakes Poker on GSN
Project Runway
Law and Order
Law and Order SVU
Sportscenter?
Yikes... I guess looking at this list I don't watch lot of TV anymore, and if Ido, it's a lot of re-runs.

All-time favorite shows-
The Simpsons (although I don't watch it anymore, because I don't like to watch comic genious degraded... it's like watching Funny Cide at the top of his game, and then trying to watch him run now... ick)
Wire2Wire lol
NYPD Blue
Law and Order C.I. when Goran was the man
The Fresh Prince
G.I. Joe
SNL from '90-93
WCW Monday Nitro from '96-98

Best Tv Shows
 

Honeymooners
Leave It To Beaver
Gilligans Island
Andy Griffith
Mike Douglas Show
Merv Griffin Show
Odd Couple
Dragnet
Superman With George Reeves
Ozzie And Harriet
Sopranos
Er
Brady Bunch
Welcome Back Kotter
Old Bill Cosby Show - Chet Kincaid
Room 222
Family

Not In Any Order............

What about M.A.S.H?