Your All Time Favorite 3 TV Series

[RustiePyles CPG]

Time Team
ST:NG
Batman:TAS

Time Team is definitely one of my top 5 along with The Repair Shop.

 

[warren]

Mash, the book, was hilarious. The movie had it's moments. The first couple of seasons for the series had some laughs. Then Alda exerted his "star" power and took the show waaaaay left of the book and movie. It became unwatchable for me. I suspect I wasn't in the demo Alda and the producers were trying for.

My wife loved Brisco". I enjoyed it. Well written and cast.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Great question and too difficult of one so I am forced to go with five.

I am going with:

I, Claudius
Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
Six Feet Under
Homicide: Life on the Streets
and
Deep Space 9

 

[kcghost]

Well, this is a little silly because I have been watching TV since the early 50's. I can no more pick r than I can fly to the moon. Here is what I'll say today.

1. Star Trek
2. Perry Mason
3. Fawlty Towers

 

[warren]

Top Gear! A bunch of pointless zaniness I thoroughly enjoyed. Well thought out and produced with three perfectly nutso hosts. A great series for of us who have said, "Watch this!" at least once too often.

 

[sablebrush52]

UK Television
Shetland
Life on Mars
Luther
Hinterland

US Television
Terriers
Hell on Wheels
The Wire

Life on Mars is brilliant! Its sister series is also good

 

[Kobold]

Seinfeld
freaks and geeks
Twilight zone

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Mine are regular shows,not streamed series.

I Claudius, PBS
Upstairs Downstairs PBS (The original series in black and white)
Are You Being Served PBS

Runners Up:

Seinfeld
Fawlty Towers PBS
Cheers
Carol Burnette
You Bet Your Life/Groucho Marx
Meet the Press with Lawrence Spivak as moderator, 1950's
Soupy Sales

Fawtly Towers gets a

 

[mso489]

Oh no, not forgotten, but maybe not on television long enough to be a "series" in any sense, Ernie Kovaks was a brilliant comedy guy who saw into the future and germinated SNL, The Daily Show, and much else in TV and movies. I loved him as a kid and had to wait about ten years to hear him lauded appropriately.

Kudos also to the long-running early comedy variety series "Your Show of Shows," with Cid Caesar and Imogene Coco, a Saturday night standard in the 1950's

 

[Bassman65]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Game of thrones
Star Trek Next Gen.

 

[huntertrw]

House, M.D.
Dragnet
The Dick Van Dyke Show

 

[prairiedruid]

M*A*S*H
House
Archer

Guilty Pleasure: Hogan's Heroes

 

[Brewfan]

Seinfeld
Family Guy
Mr. Rogers

I took a "whole life" approach to the question.

 

[karam]

Hmmm this is hard, going by rewatch rates I'd have to say:

• Sopranos
• House MD
• Friends

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I am surprised at the huge diversity! I don't think there is a common one mentioned 5 times. And the number of people listing some ancient one surprised me. I think I'm the only one that picked Prison Break and Yellowstone. The taste in TV is as diverse as it is in pipe tobacco. Awesome.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I haven't been invested in a sitcom since high school, some 23 years ago. Studies, work life and family took priority. Back then, it was Fresh Prince, Saved by the Bell, and Nickelodeon shows like Hey Dude and Salute Your Shorts.

I would be interested in a more recent child friendly sitcom, if anyone has suggestions.

The only more recent sitcom I watched all the way through was Prison Break. It was well done, action packed, suspenseful, and captivating. The downside of the show was also the intrigue: okay, what's next (since the bad luck and obstacles were non-stop).

 

[Aomalley27]

The Rockford Files
Tales of Wells Fargo
Matlock

 

[Searock Fan]

I keep quite a few tv shows and movies on my hard drives. It would take too long to make a separate list, so here are the tv series and movie series. Individual movies are elsewhere. Sometimes I add or delete one, but here's the current list of favorites.

 

[Aomalley27]

Seen a bunch of Brit TV on PBS... my favorites there were
Are you being served? (Absolutely flawless comedy.)
Benny Hill (irreverent comedy, and the iconic yakety sax tune)
Dave Allen at large.
PBS used to have some GREAT programming. Now it’s all political clap trap. Heck, they don’t even air Dr Who anymore

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Seinfeld
freaks and geeks
Twilight zone

Was such a downer when Freaks n Geeks was cancelled!