Best TV shows of all time.

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Let's talk quality television. Put up your favorite.

Mine with me I run the gamut, The Rifleman, All in the Family, Married with Children, I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Benny Hill but my all time favorite has to be Perry Mason. Lucky me it comes on twice a day on ME TV around here. I never miss it no matter how many times I've seen the episode. Late night at 10:30pm it's hard to nod out in my favorite comfy chair till 11:35 or so. Perry outsmarts everyone especially Hamilton Burger and Lt. Tragg. William Hopper as Drake is a pretty tough guy. Ray Collins as Tragg is superb. Great cast, great guest stars, Perry and Drake always drive the hottest cars and speaking of hot, Barbara Hale as Della.

What's your choice for great TV?
 

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Older ones - All in the Family, Barney Miller, Rockford Files, Jeopardy, I dream of Jeannie (who DIDN'T dream of Barbara Eden?)and Gilligan's Island

Newer ones - Blue Bloods, Chicago series - Med, Fire, PD, Blacklist
 
I once had a college professor who was a retired police detective. He said the two most realistic cop shows were NYPD Blue and Barney Miller. I liked both of those shows.

Another cop show I liked was Crime Story, starring Dennis Farina.

I don't know if they're the best shows of all time, but other shows I really liked were:

The Equalizer
Wiseguy
Outer Limits (original and recent versions)
Tales of the Golden Monkey
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Law and Order: Criminal Intent (the ones with Vincent D'Nofrio and Kathryn Erbe)
Sherlock (the 1st three seasons, anyways)
The Sherlock Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett (the best of the tv/movie Sherlocks, imo)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (don't judge me)
True Blue (cop show about NYPD ESU)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I guess that's a good enough list for now.
 
1. MASH
2. Sopranos
3. Twilight
4. Outer limits
5. Honey mooners
6. Married with children
7. Two and a half men.
8. Combat
9. Desert patrol or rats?
10. 12 o'clock high.
11. World at war on channel 9 for decades.
12. Movie for a Sunday afternoon. Every Sunday.
13. Million dollar movie every night channel 9
14. Red Skelton
15. Dean Martin.
16. Carrol Burnett
17. Amos and Andy
18. Three stooges
19. Andys gang saturday mornings.
20. The rifleman
21. Elvira spooky movies.
22. Popeye
23. Krazy Kat with ignatz.
24. Tom and Jerry
25. Woody wood pecker
26. Yogie bear.
27. Sea Hunt

This is when tv was interesting not the crime killing stuff of today.
 
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I will add one that may surprise some of you. The original Saturday Nite Live with John Belushi,Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and the list goes on. It to me was truly funny before it went totally political. We used to get together with friends and watch it every Saturday night. I haven't watched it for years since it's turned into a travesty!
Jim
 
Lots of shows mentioned here that I really enjoyed watching since about 1955 when my family got its first TV set. I can think of many shows I would call good to excellent entertainment , but for some reason can't call them "quality" shows.
 
your show of shows
M.A.S.H.
the prisoner
the avengers (patrick macnee & diana rigg)
american bandstand
monty python
coronation street
are you being served
law & order (jerry orbach)
the tonight show (johnny carson)
adventures of superman
lunch with uncle johnny coons
sea hunt
the cisco kid
 
Barney Miller (LAPD thought it was a comedy. NYPD thought it was a documentary.)
Married with Children
X Files
Breaking Bad
The Avengers
Hopalong Cassidy
Bonanza
 
italiansport said:
I will add one that may surprise some of you. The original Saturday Nite Live with John Belushi,Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin and the list goes on. It to me was truly funny before it went totally political. We used to get together with friends and watch it every Saturday night. I haven't watched it for years since it's turned into a travesty!
Jim
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I'm of the opinion that comedy has no boundaries. I've watched George Carlin make political jokes that are 180 degrees from my leanings but I still found the humor genius.

SNL is interesting to me because if you can sift through all the "attempts" that are horribly lame, SNL has made simply dozens of absolute gems over decades, even at many times when the cast lacked talent. Case in point-- many skits with guest star Justin Timberlake make me fall down laughing.

I have no doubt that like -so- many Hollywood/entertainment folks, they are a liberal tank full of folks wholly detached from the living reality of the average, good, hard working American, but that ship sailed years ago.

If it's just about being entertained, SNL has earned it's place.
 
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