Spanning the entire history of television, all genres, animation and live action, what are really your top five television series of all time? Extra points for giving your reasons why.![]()
Spanning the entire history of television, all genres, animation and live action, what are really your top five television series of all time? Extra points for giving your reasons why.![]()
Live Action:
Xena: Warrior Princess
Charmed
Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Power Rangers
Various DC's Arrowverse Series
Animated:
Masters Of The Universe (All Versions Including New Adventures)
She-Ra Princess Of Power & Princesses Of Power
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (All Versions)
Thundercats (Both Versions)
Winx Club
*This question was more complex than I thought, it is so hard to choose only five although I generally LOVE fantasy and superheroes!![]()
"Tell me I am beautiful - it means nothing to me. Tell me I am intellectual - well, I know it already. Tell me I am funny however, and that is the greatest compliment in the world that anyone can give me".
- Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
I'm gonna follow Mikey's lead and also cheat:
Animated:
Bob's Burgers - Hilarious characters and no shortage of stores with bad pun names.
Daria - A cynic's-eye view of high school that holds up decades later (even if the fashions don't).
Gargoyles - The best thing that ever came out of Disney, so naturally they couldn't let it reach its full potential.
Rick and Morty - The most clever sci-fi show out there, constantly turning all the old tropes on their ears.
Transformers Animated - The best Transformers cartoon so far; fun character designs, heady underlying plots, and it lovingly homages all the series that came before it while still being its own thing.
Honorable mention to Megas XLR for having the best theme song in TV history.
Live action:
Arrested Development - A comedy so deep that you find new things to laugh at every time you watch it.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Making unwatchable movies watchable since 1988.
The Office (UK) - The superior original. It's like the US version but the boss is a believable horse's ass rather than a cartoon character, and it knows better than to wear out its welcome.
Police Squad! - From the guys who brought you Airplane!, who later recycled it into The Naked Gun since no one wanted to pay enough attention to their TV to see all the gags.
Spaced - A slice of fried gold from the blokes who would go on to make the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End).
Honorable mention to Seinfeld, who would have made the top five if only they were brave enough to ditch the live audience.
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Live action:
Breaking Bad (just such a great show)
Married with children(watched with my dad)
Everybody loves Raymond (watched with my mom)
Macgyver(2nd favorite show as a kid)
Knight Rider(1st favorite show as a kid)
Animated:
Masters of the Universe(original)
Thundercats
Voltron
American Dad
X-men 90’s
"There's no back door to heaven just a front door to hell" - DIO RIP
Here are mine, and remember I'm the he-man.org elder statesman.
Live action:
Dallas
Dynasty
Seinfeld
The Honeymooners
Tie: The Office/Schitt's Creek (As an elder statesman I'm allowed to cheat.)
Animated: (all because of joyful moments lying in bed watching with my children)
SpongeBob Squarepants
PB & J Otter
Bear in the Big Blue House
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Willy E. Coyote & The Roadrunner
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This question was so hard for me to answer because I am a fan of so many things, it's like asking me to choose five favourite musicians or bands, given that I have around 40 favourite musicians/bands.![]()
"Tell me I am beautiful - it means nothing to me. Tell me I am intellectual - well, I know it already. Tell me I am funny however, and that is the greatest compliment in the world that anyone can give me".
- Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
1. He-man and the Masters of the Universe & She-Ra (this is not bias, the reasons are personal, and it really does hold an incredible place in my heart)
2. Ancient Aliens
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. The Andy Griffith Show
5. The A-Team
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Live Action:
Charmed
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Will & Grace
Friends
Supernatural
Runners up: Smallville and BH90210
Animated:
Filmation MOTU
Filmation She-Ra
American Dad
Family Guy
Thundercats
Runners up: Super Friends, The Real Ghostbusters, and Scooby-
Doo: Where are you!
Live action.
3s company
Alice
Yeah idk. I really don't have a favorite outside 3s company.
Animated
young justice.
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Tough to do
1 Star Trek -mainly the original, but rest also
2 Red Dwarf
3 Batman 1966
4 MacGyver
5 I Love Lucy
1 Masters Filmation
2 Batman TAS
3 The Simpsons
4 TransFormers
5 GI JOE
Hon Mentions
The Twilight Zone, Hunter, Miami Vice, The X-Files, Tales from Darkside/Crypt, Leave it to Beaver....
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"I feel the best when I can't remember anything."
Live action
Monkey
Seinfeld
Police Squad
Firefly
The Water Margin
Animated
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
Visionaries
Ulysses 31
Beast Wars
Robo Story
Live action
Criminal minds - loved almost every episode but slightly marred towards the end when the actor who player aaron was fired.
Supernatural - the first few series were the best but could still watch over again
Buffy the vampire slayer - as a teen this show was everything although it slightly lost its way in the final series
CSI - not necessarily all the series but those series with the original cast still hold a place in my tv heart
24 - even rewatching I get as into it as I did when I first watched it
Animated
Jayce and wheeled warriors - when I was a kid I was up at 6am to watch it
Ulysses 3000 - recently dug this out for my 12yo and he really enjoyed
He-man filmation - will still sit down randomly and watch an episode or ten
X-men - the theme tune is everything
Visionaries: knights of the magical light - dug this up last year and still enjoyed it 30+ years after seeing it as a kid
Live Action:
Cheers
The Office (USA)
Twin Peaks
The Wonder Years
The Incredible Hulk
Animated:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Filmation)
Transformers (original)
The Simpsons (the early seasons are enough to justify their inclusion for me)
South Park (same as Simpsons)
Cartoon Planet (the show with Zorak, Space Ghost, and Brak)
I know I already posted my answers, but I also wanted to state that I am also a fan of all things DC and Disney (live action and animated) and I love classic shows like Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, Addams Family, Munsters and Beverly Hillbillies, I grew up on reruns of all those shows!![]()
"Tell me I am beautiful - it means nothing to me. Tell me I am intellectual - well, I know it already. Tell me I am funny however, and that is the greatest compliment in the world that anyone can give me".
- Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)
Very hard to pick. There were older shows back in the day that meant the world to me that now seem dated.
Live Action (in no particular order):
1. Sherlock Holmes (1984 Granada television)
2. Seinfeld
3. Star Trek: TNG
4. Kung Fu (1972)
5. Letterkenney
Animated:
1. One Punch Man
2. Simpsons
3. Batman TAS
4. Baki the grappler (all series)
5. Demon Slayer
Honorable mention to Naruto Shippuden and Hunter x Hunter.
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
I will not cheat and will make the hard decision of listing only 5 of my favorite shows because I am a rigid person with an inflexible sense of rules and regulations...when it suits me (and the joke I am trying to tell):
1) Mystery Science Theater 3000
2) Monty Python's Flying Circus
3) Mr. Show with Bob and David
4) The Twilight Zone
5) The Venture Brothers
"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade
"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne
Heretical Vintage Purist and Non-Fan Extraordinaire!
Live Action:
1. Married With Children
2. Tales From The Crypt
3. The Twilight Zone (Original)
4. The Munsters
5. The Office (USA)
Animated:
1. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe (FILMation)
2. The Simpsons
3. South Park
4. Looney Tunes
5. Batman (TAS)
"Oh Lord, Bless this M&M... and the mighty cockroach I slain in battle to get it." - Al Bundy
Twin Peaks
Married W Children
Tales From the Dark Side/ Monsters
Friday the 13 the series
V (mini series and the 84-85 series)
Animated
Spidy and Amazing Friends
Gi Joe RAH
Gi Joe Resolute
Avengers Earths Mightiest heroes
Defenders of the Earth
nope
"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade
"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne
Heretical Vintage Purist and Non-Fan Extraordinaire!
1: The Wire
The most compelling, fully realized, fascinating, heartbreaking show ever on TV. Masterful storytelling, so many incredible performances (many by complete unknowns), and I don't believe I've ever seen a show use its setting as a "character" as well as The Wire did with Baltimore. Honorable mention to Homicide: Life on the Streets, without which there would be no Wire.
2: Deadwood
It made me fall in love with Westerns. An absolutely incredible cast led by Ian McShane - who may have created the greatest TV character of all time in Al Swearengen. A masterclass in how to create "fictionalized history". And I could listen to David Milch's dialogue every day for the rest of my life.
3: Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
At this point, I don't think you can separate these two shows. Saul is more than a prequel, in that it actually elevates Breaking Bad into even more than it was before. I believe Breaking Bad had higher highs and lower lows, but IMO, Saul has become the even better show.
4: Twin Peaks
I've never been as affected by a single episode of a TV show as a was in 1990 when I watched the first episode. It changed everything about what you could do on Television. The first season was absolutely perfect start to finish. It made weird "cool" and set the groundwork for so many things to come later. Sadly, the 2nd season is almost completely forgettable as network interference began to mess with Lynch's vision. But it was redeemed 30 years later, with the outstanding 3rd season.
5: The Twilight Zone
So far ahead of it's time. Incredibly smart, clever, funny and devastating. The fact that I've seen every episode and still can't turn away from a marathon is the highest praise I can give something. Genius is a word that has been so watered down over time, but is absolutely fitting in every aspect to this show.
Honorable mention: The Sopranos
The show that paved the way for a new way to watch TV. It was not episodic or procedural. You couldn't miss an episode and still catch up. Cutting down form the American standard of 22 episodes to a dozen or less meant "all meat, no filler". As brilliant as anything ever on TV at its best. The only reason it's not in my Top 5 (today that is), was that it had a few seasons that i did not think were nearly up to par with its best. Maybe the long production delays hurt it, but it did tend to lose its way for a bit - and never reclaimed its's original highs.