Crap. Looks like Friends ran 1994-2004! Drat. I had it listed in the 2000s.
Crap. Looks like Friends ran 1994-2004! Drat. I had it listed in the 2000s.
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
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"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November, The Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
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The Black Adder was classed as a normal series here in the Uk
my own nominations
1950 ;
1060 ; DR WHO THE CLASSIC SERIES
1970 ; BLAKES 7
1980 ; STAR TREK TNG
1990 ; STARGATE SG1
2000 ; DR WHO
We're going to have some questions here, I think ... I mean, for something like Doctor Who - which started in 1963 and is still running.
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
“I’m always on the Batman rule, sir.” - Kate Kane / Detective Comics 857
"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November, The Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
Well then it's a 1960s series.
Going to edit mine now!
Okay, so ... I nominate :
1970s : The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1990s : Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
“I’m always on the Batman rule, sir.” - Kate Kane / Detective Comics 857
"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November, The Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.
Master list of nominees:
1950s:
01. I Love Lucy
02. The Twilight Zone
03. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
04. The Honeymooners
05. The Red Skeleton Show
06. The Benny Hill Show
07. The Price is Right
08. The Adventures of Champion
09. Gunsmoke
10. The Jack Benny Program
11. Lassie
12. Maverick
13. Blue Peter
14. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
15. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
16. Leave It to Beaver
17. Zorro
18. Perry Mason
19. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
20. Bonanza
21. The Rifleman
22. Wagon Train
23. The Mickey Mouse Club
24. The Untouchables
1960s:
01. Star Trek
02. Doctor Who
03. The Addams Family
04. Get Smart
05. Gilligan's Island
06. The Monkees
07. Monty Python's Flying Circus
08. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
09. Dark Shadows
10. The Munsters
11. Bewitched
12. The Flintstones
13. The Andy Griffith Show
14. The Lucy Show
15. The Prisoner
16. The Carol Burnett Show
17. The Avengers
18. Sesame Street
19. The Outer Limits
20. Here's Lucy
21. The Jetsons
22. The Big Valley
23. The Patty Duke Show
24. The Fugitive
1970s:
01. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
02. All in the Family
03. The Brady Bunch
04. Fawlty Towers
05. You Can't Do That on Television
06. Blake's 7
07. M*A*S*H
08. Little House on the Prairie
09. Saturday Night Live
10. The Six Million Dollar Man
11. The Bob Newhart Show
12. Welcome Back, Kotter
13. Facts of Life
14. The Waltons
15. The Bionic Woman
16. Happy Days
17. The Muppet Show
18. Kung Fu
19. Monkey
20. Dallas
21. Night Gallery
22. Taxi
23. Laverne & Shirley
24. The Jeffersons
1980s:
01. The Simpsons
02. The Wonder Years
03. Blackadder
04. Married With Children
05. Star Trek: The Next Generation
06. Moonlighting
07. Seinfield
08. Cheers
09. Growing Pains
10. Roseanne
11. Murder, She Wrote
12. Transformers
13. Hill Street Blues
14. Dragon Ball Z
15. Mystery Science Theater 3000
16. Saved by the Bell
17. Family Matters
18. The Ray Bradbury Theater
19. The A-Team
20. Family Ties
21. Amazing Stories
22. Red Dwarf
23. Quantum Leap
24. LA Law
1990s:
01. The X-Files
02. Jeeves and Wooster
03. Family Guy
04. Stargate SG1
05. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
06. South Park
07. Northern Exposure
08. Dawson's Creek
09. Twin Peaks
10. The Sopranos
11. That '70s Show
12. Fraiser
13. Lexx
14. Sex and the City
15. As Time Goes By
16. My So-Called Life
17. Angel
18. Batman: The Animated Series
19. Absolutely Fabulous
20. Dream On
21. Friends
22. News Radio
23. The Larry Sanders Show
24. West Wing
25. Freaks and Geeks
26. King of the Hill
27. Evening Shade
28. Beavis and Butt-head
29. Futurama
30. X-Men
31. ER
32. NYPD Blue
2000s:
01. Breaking Bad
02. Sons of Anarchy
03. Lost
04. Six Feet Under
05. Arrested Development
06. 24
07. Heroes
08. Battlestar Galactica
09. Boston Legal
10. The 4400
11. Curb Your Enthusiasm
12. The Shield
13. Green Wing
14. Supernatural
15. Dexter
16. Life on Mars
17. The Osbournes
18. In Treatment
19. Coupling
20. Modern Family
21. Mad Men
22. Monk
23. Torchwood
24. Carnivàle
25. Nip/Tuck
26. True Blood
27. Fringe
28. Big Bang Theory
29. The Wire
30. Dead Like Me
31. Firefly
32. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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1950s: Twilight Zone
1960s: The Addams Family
1970s: M*A*S*H, Saturday Night Live
1980s: Moonlighting
1990s: Northern Exposure
2000s: Arrested Development
M*A*S*H
1950s:
I Love Lucy
1960s:
Get Smart
1970s:
Little House on the Prairie
1980s:
Seinfield (fist episode aired 1989)
1990s:
Dawson's Creek (shut up I loved this show! )
2000s:
Six Feet Under
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Wow this is extremely hard. I did find this link and it helps - just substitute the other decades to get all decades from the 50's to the 00's. I did get carreid away with this but had loads of fun!
1950's
My Pick The Three Stooges - nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
I also considered
- I Love Lucy (classic Comedy from the Queen of Comedy)
- Bonanza (a Family Fave on Sunday nights at 9pm)
- Red Skeleton (Humor ahead of its time)
- The Rifleman (Chuck Conners at his best)
- The Honeymoners (Hey Ralph...)
- Dragnet (the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent)
- The Twilight Zone (You are about to enter another dimension)
1960's
MY Pick Gilligan's Island (Hey little Buddy..)
I also considered
1970's
- Addams Family (They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're all together ooky, The Addams Family!),
- Batman ("POW!", "BANG!", "THUD!", ),
- Beverly Hillbillies (poor mountaineer barely kept his family fed)
- F-Troop (totally inane humor)
- Jonny Quest (one of the 1st Prime time Animated Series)
- McHale's Navy (Tim Conway at his bumbling best)
- Smother's Brothers Comedy Hour (pushing the network censorship buttons weekly),
- The Wild Wild West (reprised by Will Smith decades later)
- The Munsters (competition for The Addams Family)
- The Rat Patrol (commandos, jeeps, 50 cal machine guns - what more is needed)
- Dark Shadows (Barnabus Jones the original TV Vampire)
- Get Smart (Missed it by that much),
- Hawaii Five-O (book 'em Dano),
- Hogan's Heroes (I know nothing, I see nothing ...,)
- The Man From Uncle (Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, now known as Dukky on MCIS)
- The Avengers (Emma Peel - Yum Yum),
- The Fugitive (where is the one-armed man),
- Combat (war, war and more war)
- The Outer Limits (There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission.),
- Star Trek (to boldly go where no man)
MY Pick M*A*S*H
I also considered1980's
- All in the Family Edith!!!!!)
- Black Sheep Squadron (WWII Pilots and Nurses)
- Fantasy Island (Boss, da plane, da plane)
- Happy Days (Who can forget the Fonz! Heyyy!)
- Night Gallery (you can't go wrong with Rod Serling
- Kojak (Who loves ya, baby?)
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls)
MY Pick Cheers (barflys and womanizers)
I also considered1990's
- China Beach (if I were a woulded soldier I'd want Dana Delaney fixing me up)
- The Cosby Show (clean honest fun, never a dull moment)
- Newhart (a 9 year dream, the finale was simply awesome)
- Night Court (John Larroquette was awesome)
- Roseanne (a different view of the All American family)
- Hill Street Blues (they actually aired Dennis Franz naked butt in one epioside! And this was the 80s!,
- Star Trek Next Generation (an obvious choice),
- Tales from the Darkside (Horror not unlike the Outer Limits or the Twilight Zone,
MY Pick Twin Peaks (Special Agent Cooper "Damn good coffee! )
I also considered2000's
- Chicago Hope (Mandy Patinkin was great as Doctor Jeffrey Geiger)
- Law & Order:SVU (still going strong)
- Northern Exposure (quirky Alaskans, the ever hot Janine Turner, Maurice the ex astronaut, Hollings the 70 something with the hot 20 something wife, and the Jew Doctor that did not want to be there!
- NYPD Blue (A natural progression from Hill Street Blues),
- Picket Fences (small town living with lots of crime and strange happenings)
- Seinfeld (A show really about nothing - fave episodes Soup Nazi, Shrinkage, The Contest )
- ER (redefining hospital drama series)
MY Pick Lost - Simply the Best TV EVER!!!!
I also considered
- 24 (Keifer to the rescue - dont miss an episode)
- Criminal Minds (Mandy Patinkin returns),
- The Closer (Brenda always gets the confession; Lt Provenza provides great comic relief)
- House (Hugh Laurie is such an AHOLE you gotta love him),
- CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York (Foresnsics and more)
- NCIS (Spun off from JAG, this one is ten times better, especially with one Goth Forensic Scientist named Abby -Pauley Perrette - and DiNosso with his Sawyer-like nicknames for Probie Agent McGee)
- Sons of Anarchy (I jsut started and am thoroughly hooked - ready to go back season 1)
- Fringe (my kind of show - don't blink twicve or you'll get lost)
- Without a Trace (intense FBI drama))
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Spoiler:
Wikipedia said Seinfield's original air date was July 5th, 1989....so even though nearly it's whole running was during the '90's, according to the criteria for this thread, it was an
'80's series.
*Great list though, CRinVA! I can't believe I forgot about Gilligan's Island!
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CRinVA as much as I love lost, I don't think it's the best TV ever. That right goes to Six Feet Under and The Sopranos for me.
I think it's odd to have sitcoms and dramas going against each other, personally. As good as shows like Fraiser and Seinfeld are, dramas will beat them everytime for quality. It's hard to compare the two, at least for me.
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CRinVA, that is an amazing list! However, M*A*S*H and Lost have already been nominated, and I'm not sure about The Three Stooges. Those were theatrical shorts.
This is an awesome idea, the main flaw is that if there is voting there are several series that they have not seen, so there cannot be an accurate vote. Only someone who has seen all of the series nominated can really say if one is better than the other... I'm not sure if I worded this right.
1950- Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1960- The Monkees
1970- Saturday Night Live
1980- The Wonder Years
1990- The X- Files
2000- Arrested Development
1950 - Twilight Zone
1960 - Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 - Siz Million Dollar Man
1980 - Seinfeld
1990 - Sopranos
2000 - LOVED Arrested Development, but it has been picked... so, 24
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