Greatest TV series

[ProfJohn]

Babylon 5. (first four seasons) Probably the best continuing sci-fi story line I have ever seen.

Friends. (surprised no one mentioned it yet, very funny all the time)
Sienfield
Those two are probably two of the best sitcoms of all time.

 

[joesmoke]

Homicide

came to post this. So The Wire completely eclipses it?

 

[fjmeat]

ALF

 

[Gibsons]

At the risk of sidetracking - just when did MASH jump the shark? When Trapper/Henry Blake/Frank Burns/ or even Radar left? When Hot Lips let her hair down and became Margaret? When BJ grew a mustache? When it became the "Alan Alda thinks war is bad" show?

 

[woodie1]

The Rockford Files
NYPD Blue
Hill Street Blues

 

[SLCentral]

Listen, all of you are wrong. These are the undisputed best TV shows ever aired (in no particular order, besides the Sopranos being #1).

1. The Sopranos
2. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
2. Lost
2. Seinfeld
2. Arrested Development

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[CallMeJoe]

Prime Suspect
Homicide: Life on the Street
the West Wing
the Avengers (the Diana Rigg era)

 

[Ichinisan]

Airwolf
Knight Rider
The A-Team
Magnum P.I.
Dallas
Scarecrow & Mrs. King
Miami Vice
Hunter
Stroker & Hoop

Wait a minute...what year is it?

 

[Red Dawn]

The Soprano's what?

Are going to knock you and your frozen faced brother off.

 

[chalmers]

Listen, all of you are wrong. These are the undisputed best TV shows ever aired (in no particular order, besides the Sopranos being #1).

1. The Sopranos
2. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
2. Lost
2. Seinfeld
2. Arrested Development

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Dexter isn't on that list, so I am unable to complete your command.

 

[Brutus04]

Sienfeld

 

[SLCentral]

Dexter isn't on that list, so I am unable to complete your command.

I've seen all five seasons of Dexter. Good show, but overrated. Very poor writing compared to the above.

 

[JMapleton]

Sanford and Son
Magnum PI

What else is there?

 

[zerocool84]

Babylon 5. (first four seasons) Probably the best continuing sci-fi story line I have ever seen.

Friends. (surprised no one mentioned it yet, very funny all the time)
Sienfield
Those two are probably two of the best sitcoms of all time.

because Friends is a TERRIBLE show

 

[JMapleton]

And Friends is the worst show of all time.

Expected cast. Expected jokes. Expected situations. They just had a hot cast of characters loaded with bunch of rehashed jokes.

 

[Spydermag68]

Quantum Leap
The Pretender
Highlander
ST: DS9
B5
Farscape
M*A*S*H
Firefly
Dexter
Dead Like Me
True Blood
Star Trek
BSG old and new

 

[Locut0s]

Quantum Leap
The Pretender
Highlander
ST: DS9
B5
Farscape
M*A*S*H
Firefly
Dexter
Dead Like Me
True Blood
Star Trek
BSG old and new

:thumbsup:

 

[silverpig]

The wire

 

[silverpig]

Wait. Thread title said the greatest and then you list like 10? OP fail.

 

[jlee]

tagged, so when I finish the ones I'm working on I can watch moar

 

[whistleclient]

I need to check some of these out.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Firefly
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Elfin Lied (ahem!)
Dead Like Me
Bleach (Soul Society arc + any episode with RUKIA!)


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[lyssword]

Fringe
Dexter
Lost
SG1

 

[coreyb]

six feet under
sopranos
mad men
south park
seinfeld

 

[ichy]

came to post this. So The Wire completely eclipses it?

Yes IMO. Homicide was great at first, but it was easy to tell that the network executives were sticking their fingers into the show from the beginning. The Wire's writers were given much more freedom to do what they wanted and it showed. HBO is a much better place to make serious TV shows than the major networks.