TOP 5 FAVORITE TV SHOWS.
POSTED BY: OPPYH
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 21:35
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well considering I only caught 3 eps of Firefly while it was on the air...it's not going to be on this list.
1. Third Watch
2. Stargate SG-1
3. Space Above and Beyond
4. Tour of Duty
5. Pony Express
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Gah I always keep forgetting S:AAB. That would go on the Honorable Mention on my list with a good shot at a tie for #5.
Bah, I need to start taking those memory enhancin...ohh look a puppy...what was I sayi...bah. 
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Angel
Firefly
Homicide Life on the Street (first 5 seasons only)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Star Trek DS9
Honorable mentions: Due South, Forever Knight, Carnivale, Space Above and Beyond, The Pretender, Star Trek TNG (which I liked better than DS9 when I first watched them), Touching Evil (British version), X-Files (haven't seen the crappy seasons yet), OZ, Simpsons, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Air Farce, American Gothic
Kiddie mention, AKA the first shows I remember running indoors for even though I now remember next to nothing about the shows themselves: V, Battlestar Galactica, The Smurfs, Mr Dressup, Seeing Things, Fraggle Rock, The Edison Twins
Heh and now that I've listed practically every show ever made 
I'll stop.
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this is hard!
5.Andy Richter Controls the Universe
4.DangerMouse
3.WKRP
2.Firefly
1.Star Trek--DS9 and TNG
I wanted to put Firefly first, but it did only run for one season. And DS9 was really good.
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ThatWeirdGirl is correct, this is a hard decision, as is anything that you have to pare down to just five choices out of almost 50 years of tv viewing. But I'll give it a shot, but reserve the right to come back and edit if I recall something else. To make it simpler I will put the five into categories.
Best SF - Firefly (beating out Babylon 5 by a small margin, mainly because I know it would still have been fantastic in season 5...6, 7 and 8 too I'm sure.
Best Fantasy - American Gothic
Best Comedy - The Dick Van Dyke Show (honorable mention goes to the one-season run of My World and Welcome To It)
Best Drama - The Bold Ones (a rotating series that included The Senator, The Lawyers & The Doctors...maybe another but I can't recall now. Late 60s-early 70s show that did not pull any punches in depicting life in those turbulent times)
Best Western - Cimarron Strip (hey, when it features a Harlan Ellison script about Jack the Ripper, what more can I say?)
Best Animated - The Simpsons (although I wish they would put it out of its misery already. The first 7-8 seasons were golden though)
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1. Firefly
2. Angel
3. MASH
4. Cheers
5. Wings
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In no particular order:
Firefly - Naturally I love it, and actually consider it a superior show to both Buffy and Angel. Also, I think I'd be keel-hauled as a traitor by some of the gang around here if I didn't put it on my list.
The Office - Quintessential comedy. There have been very few shows I have consistently laughed out loud at during their run, and in 12 episodes I've laughed more at this show than pretty much any other. If you have not seen this show, find the DVD's and watch it now. You will not be dissapointed.
Cheers - The sitcom that was happy to break all the rules. There was actually a lot of studio resistance to a show set in a bar when Cheers first premiered. It ran for I believe 10+ years, and its spinoff (the equally good, though essentially different, Frasier)ran even longer. Along with MASH, Cheers paved the way for the kind of sarcastic, biting, intelligent humor that is today a sitcom staple. I'm not afraid to say I actually shed a few tears after the final episode of this show.
Quantum Leap - A wonderful show that never really had the following it deserved. Sadly, this show lost a lot of steam after a few seasons- due mostly to poor writing; the acting remained top-notch. A gentle, alternatingly bittersweet and hopeful show that, in my opinion, was ultimately about how the little choices we make in life are the most important. This is the series I wish I could show to my children.
The Adventures of Brisco County Junior - The fact that I still think fondly of this show, considering how long it has been since it aired, must say something. This is the kind of show that rarely survives, as it flat-out refused to pander to its audience. A show that truly marched to the beat of its own drummer, and wasn't afraid of smart social commentary. DVD's of this are something I hope for, but don't expect to have.
This list, naturally, could have been a lot longer, but since many of my choices )The Simpsons, Buffy, etc. had already been elaborated on, I decided to go with these. Close alternate to this list: The Sopranos.
Interesting point- I noticed Star Trek: Deep Space Nine found itself onto a lot of lists. This rather surprised me, as I'd always considered ST: The Next Generation to be the superior show, and most people I'd talked to had agreed with me. Perhaps I've found a dissenting opinion here?
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Wow It's good to see there are some Due South fans out there. I thought I was pretty much alone.
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well, lemme think about it...
1. Firefly (who would've guessed? 
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2. Quantum Leap
3. Buffy
4. The X Files (up to season 5, I didn't like the rest)
5. Space above and beyond
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So difficult...
Top 5 with eps less than an hour and fairly recent:
1 Firefly
2 Stargate SG1
3 Titus
4 Twin Peaks
5 American Gothic
with honours: CSI, Space: Above and Beyond, Due South, Babylon 5, Deep Space 9, Star Trek the Next Generation.
Top 5 with eps more than hour:
1. Sharpe
2. Touch of Frost
3. Hornblower
4. Cadfael
5. Midsomer Murders
Yep great British serialised tv movies.
Top 5 for when I was a kid:
1. The A-team
2. Dukes of Hazzard
3. V
4. Knight Rider
5. Nonnie and Mannie
With honours: Riptide. I left out the shows I watched and loved before I was ten.
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