My favourite TV shows of all time (what's yours)?

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Here is a list of TV shows I watched and enjoyed, some as a child and some as an adult. Nethertheless, these shows I have watched every episode of, can watch again and again, and many I have got on DVD.

My favourite TV shows of all-time

AFL (game coverage)
Alice (80's U.S. Comedy)
All-Saints (Australian Drama)
All Together Now (Australian Comedy)
Amazing Race (U.S. Reality Show)
Apprentice (U.S. Reality Show)
A-Team (80'S U.S. Action show (I pity the fool who doesn't like this show))
Autopsy -The Last Hours Of....(U.S. Reality Show)
Batman (60's TV Series)
Becker (U.S. Comedy)
Benson (U.S. Comedy)
Beverly Hills 90210 (U.S. Teen Drama)
Brady Bunch (U.S. Comedy)
Challenge Of The Superfriends (Animated)
The Chaser Australia (Aust Quiz Show, don't really care for the UK version)
City Homicide (Aust Drama)
Cluedo (Australian Game Show/Whodunnit)
Cold Case (U.S. Crime Drama)
Comedy Company (Aust Sketch TV Show)
Degrassi Junior High/Degrassi High (Canadian Drama Series)
Diff'rent Strokes (U.S. Comedy)
Dynomutt The Wonderdog (Animated)
Early Edition (Sci-Fi/Drama)
Fame (U.S. Musical Drama Series)
Family Ties (U.S. Comedy Series)
The Flintstones (Animated)
Footy Classified (AFL Panel Show)
The Footy Show (AFL) (Aust Sport/Comedy)
Friends (U.S. Comedy)
Frontline (Australian Comedy)
Get Smart (U.S. Comedy) (The GOAT TV show, IMO)
Gilligan's Island (U.S. Comedy)
The Goldbergs (US Comedy)
The Goodies (UK Comedy)
The Greatest American Hero (US Superhero TV Series)
Have You Been Paying Attention (Aust Comedy Game Show)
He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe (Animated)
Hell's Kitchen USA (US Reality Show)
The Henderson Kids (Aust Drama)
Hey, Hey, It's Saturday (Aust Variety/Comedy)
H.R. Pufinstuf (Children's Show)
The In-Betweeners (UK Comedy Series, the US one sucks)
The Incredible Hulk (Superhero)
Judge Judy (Reality Court Show)
Kroft Supershow (Children's Show)
L.A. Law (US Legal Drama)
Louis Theroux's Wild Weekends (Documentary Series)
Married...With Children (US Comedy)
Monkey (Chinese Series)
Mork & Mindy (US Comedy)
Mr Bean (UK Comedy)
Mrs Brown's Boys (Irish Comedy)
The Muppet Show (US Comedy, the old one, not the recent one).
The Paul Hogan Show (Aust Comedy)
Russell Coight's All-Aussie Adventures (Aust Comedy)
Scooby Doo, Where Are You (Animated)
Seinfeld (US Comedy)
The Vicar Of Dibley (UK Comedy)
Webster (US Comedy)
Welcome Back, Kotter (US Comedy)
Without A Trace (US Crime Drama)
Wonder Woman (Superhero)
The Wonder Years (US Comedy/Drama)
WWE RAW, SD, NXT and PPVs (Wrestling)
(Also coverage of AFL, Cricket, Tennis, F1, Rugby League).

So, how many of these shows do you remember, or liked yourself? Would some of these shows be on your list as well?

Also, what is your list of your favourite all-time TV shows?
 
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The Shield.
The Walking Dead first 7 seasons.
Kingdom
House of Cards
24
LOST
Smallville
The Fall
The Killing
The Night of
The OC
Animal Kingdom


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Straight off the bat Grott I'll give you these


90210 - Dyland, Kelly and Brenda - How could anyone not love the great Love Triangle of the 90's:tearsofjoy:
Prison Break
Lost
Kingdom
Soprano's
Cobra Kai
Saved By the Bell - The inner child in me has to ( even though it's garbage now )
Dawsons Creek
Party of Five
Fridar Night Lights
Melrose Place - How good was that intro!
Seinfeld
 

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The Incredible Hulk (bill bixby)

best show ever
such an underlying message in it too :(
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I think Bill Bixby was a chronically underrated actor.

He was the first actor to star in three different TV shows that ran for 50 episodes or more (My Favourite Martian, The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, and The Incredible Hulk).

The "Lonely Man" music at the end of each episode was very sad as well.

I also liked how they did the show, as I was never a fan of the comic. Being on an army base would have limited the series, but having him go from one town to another opened up many possibilities for episodes.

I also liked the addition of the news reporter, Mr McGee, who was both a good guy and a bad guy simulatenously (as in, he was only doing his job, but was the antagonist to Banner/Hulk's protaganist). Great show!
 
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I think Bill Bixby was a chronically underrated actor.

He was the first actor to star in three different TV shows that ran for 50 episodes or more (My Favourite Martian, The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, and The Incredible Hulk).

The "Lonely Man" music at the end of each episode was very sad as well.

I also liked how they did the show, as I was never a fan of the comic. Being on an army base would have limited the series, but having him go from one town to another opened up many possibilities for episodes.

I also liked the addition of the news reporter, Mr McGee, who was both a good guy and a bad guy simulatenously (as in, he was only doing his job, but was the antagonist to Banner/Hulk's protaganist). Great show!
yep, bixby was an amazing actor, but theres a big bixby appreciation if you dig about

and yep, the tv show evolved the hulk comic into a human study of duality, psychology, madness, what can happen with loneliness, etc. i think bixby played a big part in that when accepting the role
 

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yep, bixby was an amazing actor, but theres a big bixby appreciation if you dig about

and yep, the tv show evolved the hulk comic into a human study of duality, psychology, madness, what can happen with loneliness, etc. i think bixby played a big part in that when accepting the role


Interesting fact. The producer of the show made the show with Bill Bixby in mind for the role of David Banner, and said that, if Bixby had turned down the role, he would scrap making the show at all, since he couldn't think of anyone else able to pull off the role.

Not only did Bixby accept the role, he had some creative input into it, and even was executive producer of the TV movies they made at the end.

Also, on the TV movies, these were the first examples, NOT MCU, of having a "shared universe" of Marvel Heroes.

In "Return Of The Incredible Hulk", during an experiment to reverse his gamma radiation, and stopping him being the Hulk, he generates Thor, God of Thunder.

In "Trial Of The Incredible Hulk", Banner is represented in court by a blind lawyer, Matt Murdoch, who he discovers to be Daredevil.

In "The Death Of The Incredible Hulk", even though her superhero name is never said, Banner's love interest in this telemovie is Natasha Rusomovv (which I believe is the identity of Black Widow). This girl is a Russian spy in it, and looks more like the comic version of Widow than Scarlett Johannsen does in the movies.

There were even plans for more Hulk telemovies with Marvel crossovers, as this was used as a vehicle to launch new TV series, hoping for a success like "The Incredible Hulk" turned out to be.

I heard that there was a planned "She-Hulk" TV series in the works, where Banner meets a woman who can transform into the Hulk. But Banner's diagnosis of Stage 4 prostate cancer, and production problems meant that the series never got made, and with Bixby too ill to act in them, the telemovies were scrapped ("Death Of The Incredible Hulk" wasn't meant to be the movie that gave a definitive end, but again, Bixby's illness changed plans to wrap up the series in a final way).

Bixby then went onto being director of the TV series "Blossom" until his death.
 
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yep, bixby was an amazing actor, but theres a big bixby appreciation if you dig about

and yep, the tv show evolved the hulk comic into a human study of duality, psychology, madness, what can happen with loneliness, etc. i think bixby played a big part in that when accepting the role

There were a number of episodes I watched as a kid where I would tear up at the end when Banner had to move on because he tore the town to shreds
 
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a lot of British comedies would make my list.
The Young Ones
Fawlty Towers
It Crowd
Yes Minister/Prime Minister

then there's the standard American drama stuff like The Sopranos and The Wire.
i loved Monkey Magic when i was a kid. i must have seen it at least 3 times but i always missed an episode here or there and i'm not even sure if i ever saw the entire thing....i still know most of the words to the theme song though.

plus a whole bunch of other stuff that i can't think of right now. i've watched too much tv in my life to remember it all.
 
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1. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-99)
2. The Wire (2002-08)
3. Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
4. Mad Men (2007-2015)
5. Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
6. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
7. The West Wing (1999-2006)
8. Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
9. Love My Way (2004-07)
10. Janus (1994-95)

11. Treme (2010-13)
12. Life on Mars (2006-07)
13. Seinfeld (1989-1998)
14. M*A*S*H (1972-1983)
15. Frasier (1993-2004)
16. Hill Street Blues (1981-87)
17. Oz (1997-2003)
18. The Sopranos (1999-2007)
19. The Americans (2013-18)
20. Picket Fences (1992-96)

21. The Adventures of Tintin (1991-92)
22. Frontline (1994-97)
23. Downton Abbey (2010-15)
24. As Time Goes By (1992-2005)
25. Yes Minister (1980-84)
26. Boardwalk Empire (2010-14)
27. Better Call Saul (2015-ongoing)
28. Hey Arnold (1996-2004)
29. The Leftovers (2014-17)
30. In Treatment (2008-2010)

31. Veep (2012-19)
32. The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993-95)
33. The Affair (2014-2019)
34. The Street (2006-2008)
35. Louie (2010-15)
36. Crime Story (1986-88)
37. Rectify (2013-2016)
38. Twin Peaks (1990-91; 2017)
39. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-96)
40. Silent Witness (1996-2004 (Amanda Burton years))

41. Friends (1994-2004)
42. Orange is the New Black (2013-19)
43. Deadwood (2004-06)
44. Mr. Bean (1990-95)
45. Girls (2012-17)
46. Dragon Ball Z (1989-1996)
47. Northern Exposure (1990-95)
48. Earth 2 (1994-95)
49. Hit & Miss (2012)
50. The Newsroom (2012-14)

51. That 70s Show (1998-2006)
52. Smallville (2001-2011)
53. Round the Twist (1989; 1992; 2000-1)
54. House of Cards (2013-18)
55. Angry Beavers (1997-2001)
56. Futurama (1999-2003 (original run))
57. Quarry (2016)
58. South Park (1997-ongoing)
59. Spellbinder (1995; 1997)
60. The Office (2005-2013)

61. The Wonder Years (1988-1993)
62. 24 (2001-2010)
63. A Fine Romance (1981-84)
64. Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999-2002)
65. Rev. (2010-14)
66. Blackadder (1983-89)
67. Porridge (1974-77)
68. Turbo (1999-2001)
69. Kath & Kim (2002-4; 2007)
70. Sliders (1995-2000)

Westworld is currently knocking on the door for me.
 
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