50 greatest shows of all time

[Ziffel]

How come everytime when I post a response in a popular thread, then everyone else stops posting in that thread?

Looks like this very thing happened to me too - it's been a month since the last post here!

There's a lot of other good shows I've enjoyed that aren't as good as these classics, like The Odd Couple, The Jeffersons,

I now have the complete third season of "The Jeffersons" and am going through a couple of those each day. As I said, I wouldn't rank it as high as "All in the Family" but I still find it to be a very satisfying and enjoyable show. Lots of funny people like Sherman Hemsley, Marla Gibbs (as Florence the maid), and Sesame Street's number painter Paul Benedict. There were a total of ten seasons and I intend to get every one of them as they are released to DVD. The show never "jumped the shark" to me, although, as with most shows, I thought the earlier seasons were the best ones. Actually in most shows I like I often feel that the first year or two were very good, but then by seasons 3 through 5 they got really excellent (as the charcaters were fully defined and perfected and the writing was really peaking) and then by the end of the series there is sometimes a little decline (sometimes due to characters leaving as with Don Knotts and Jim Nabors in "The Andy Griffith Show" and Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers and then Jean Stapleton in "All in the Family"). "Green Acres" also never jumped the shark to me. But that show was still going strong in 1971 with high ratings. CBS decided to cancel it as part of its purging of "rural" shows, like "The Beverly Hillbillies".
By the way, I love the theme song of both "Green Acres" and "The Jeffersons" ( Movin' On Up ). Some shows I fast forward past the opening theme songs but these two shows I can't resist the opening theme song every time!

 

[redBoobergurl]

Ok, here's my list of 50, and they are in NO particular order. I don't think I have a favorite show of all time.

1. Friends
2. Fraggle Rock
3. Muppet Show
4. Sesame Street
5. Full House
6. The Cosby Show
7. Fresh Prince of Bel Air
8. ER
9. American Dreams (and it's cancelled! )
10: Joan of Arcadia (also cancelled!)
11: I Love Lucy
12: The Dick Van Dyke Show
13. ALF
14. Sisters
15. Doogie Howser M.D. (I had SUCH a crush on him back in the day!)
16. Whose Line is it Anyway
17. Happy Days
18. Perfect Strangers
19. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
20. Seinfeld
21. Mad About You
22. Murphy Brown
23. Cheers
24. Fraiser
25. Scrubs
26. House M.D.
27. Who's The Boss
28. Growing Pains
29. The Wonder Years
30. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
31. The Brady Bunch
32. The Flintstones
33. Garfield and Friends
34. Hey Dude
35. Today's Special
36. Pinwheel
37. The Simpsons
38. That 70's Show
39. American Idol
40. Saved By the Bell
41. Blossom
42. Gilmore Girls
43. I Love the 80's (ok, I know it was only a week long but I LOVED it)
44. The Real World
45. Rock and Roll Jeopardy
46. Lost
47. Coach
48. Designing Women
49. Touched By an Angel
50. Clarissa Explains It All

Yeah, so some of them are kids shows, but I think they are really good ones worth being on the list.

 

[That Announcer]

No time to do a full list of 50, so here's my shortlist (and these are in order):

1. Seinfeld
2. Eerie, Indiana
3. Penn & Teller: BS!
4. TMS
5. MacGyver
6. Get Smart
7. The Monkees
8. The Cosby Show
9. Good Eats
10. Saved By The Bell

 

[D'Snowth]

Now I remember why I was short one on my list, I forgot about M*A*S*H. Well, NOW my list is complete.

 

[Ziffel]

I forgot about one myself - Hawaii Five O. By far my favorite cop/detective crime drama of all time. And like "Green Acres" and "The Jeffersons", a wonderful music theme! Buh buh buh buh BUH BUHHHH... Bookem' Dano.

 

[That Announcer]

A few more, and these are NOT in order.

11. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
12. Who's The Boss?
13. Just For Laughs
14. Mythbusters (really belonged on my first list)
15. Daily Planet
16. How It's Made
17. I Love Lucy
18. The Munsters (ever notice how people in bars laugh like Herman?)
19. Leave It To Beaver ("Hope she's not giving you the business!")
20. The Jeff Foxworthy Show

 

[HPDJ]

MY TOP 25 (not in order!)

1. Fawlty Towers
2. Eastenders
3. Coronation Street
4. The Muppet Show
5. Neighbours
6. Doctor Who
7. Murder she Wrote
8. Diagnosis Murder
9. The Simpsons
10. Only Fools and Horses
11. Blackadder
12. Muppets Tonight
13. The Paul O'Grady Show
14. Big Brother
15. Strictly Come Dancing
16. Strictly Dance Fever
17. Casualty
18. Holby City
19. Cutting it
20. Saved by the Bell
21. Scooby Doo
22. Sabrina, the teenage witch
23. Tucker
24. Futurama
25. Arthur

 

[That Announcer]

More on my list

21. Today's Special
22. On the Buses
23. Keeping Up Appearances
24. Who Dares Wins
25. Soundstage
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
27. Emeril Live!
28. I Love Lucy
29. The Red Green Show
30. The Adventures Of Tintin
31. Dave's World
32. Gunsmoke
33. Space: 1999
34. Rocket Robin Hood (anybody else know this show?)
35. The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show

 

[theprawncracker]

My top 40 (Yes some of them are kiddy shows, but get over it)

1. Family Guy
2. The Muppet Show
3. Ed, Edd, 'n' Eddy
4. Dragonball Z
5. Sesame Street
6. Yu-Gi-Oh!
7. Futurama
8. Muppet Babies
9. The Fairly Oddparents
10. Spongebob Squarepants
11. Robot Chicken
12. Pokemon
13. Tiny Toon Adventures
14. Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
15. Invader Zim
16. Muppets Tonight
17. The Simpsons
18. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
19. That's So Raven
20. Room Raiders
21. America's Funniest Home Videos
22. Animal Planet's The Most Extreme
23. Star Wars: Clone Wars
24. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
25. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
26. Full House
27. The Cosby Show
28. Gilligan's Island
29. Teen Titans
30. X-men Evolution
31. Best Week Ever
32. Filter
33. Kim Possible
34. Recess
35. Doug
36. Rugrats
37. The Angry Beavers
38. Animaniacs
39. Degrassi The Next Generation
40. American Dad

 

[D'Snowth]

Here's my list of top 50 shows. (Yes, this list does include kiddie shows, but these are classics.

(in alphabetically order/any title in all caps means my most favorites.)
1. All That! (Original eps only)
2. America's Funniest Home Videos
3. America's Most Wanted
4. The Andy Griffith Show (B&W eps only)
5. Are You Afraid of the Dark?
6. Arthur
7. BEWITCHED (Dick York eps only)
8. Bobby's World
9. THE BULLWINKLE SHOW
10. CatDog
11. Clifford the Big Red Dog (First Season ONLY!)
12. COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG
13. COW AND CHICKEN
14. Dexter's Laboratory (Original eps only)
15. Doug (Original eps only)
16. ED, EDD N EDDY
17. The Flintstones
18. Franklin
19. Freakazoid! (a Spielberg classic)
20. The Gene Autry Show
21. GREEN ACRES
22. Grim and Evil
23. Hey Arnold!
24. H.R. Pufnstuf (the only show with a laugh track, that didn't need a laugh track)
25. I Am Weasel
26. I DREAM OF JEANNIE
27. I Love Lucy
28. I Love the 70's
29. I Love the 80's: Strikes Back
30. The Jetsons
31. Johnny Bravo
32. Leave It to Beaver
33. The Little Lulu Show
34. Mister Ed
35. THE PLANET'S FUNNIEST ANIMALS
36. PLAY WITH ME SESAME
37. Police Videos
38. Recess
39. ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE
40. ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
41. Seinfeld
42. SESAME STREET
43. SESAME TOO (early 93 eps only)
44. SESAME UNPAVED
45. Stuart Little: The Series
46. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
47. WIMZIE'S HOUSE
48. Wishbone
49. World's Wildest Police Videos

Wow, it appears I'm one less than 50, oh well, some of these show are either not on any more, or I haven't seen in a long time.

Please forgive me, this list is no longer accurate, because a lot of those I don't really consider "great", some aren't even technically real TV shows, and one I don't even like anymore. Sorry.

Aw d a m n it, I just bumped a thread that hadn't been posted in since 2005... oh well.