All-Time Best Television Series - List for 2009

[tasha99]

Babylon 5
Farscape
Star Trek Deep Space 9
Black Adder
Arrested Development
Dr. Who
South Park
Battlestar Galactica (new one)
Six Feet Under
Buffy
Angel


Current bests: Dexter, Big Love, True Blood, Dr. Who

 

[etoiles]

Dexter
24
Heroes
The X-Files
Rome

Reality shows:
The Amazing Race
Top Chef

 

[unfreshdiva1]

In no particulare order:

1. I Love Lucy
2. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3. Golden Girls
4. Rosanne (except the last season)
5. Gilmore Girls
6. Ally McBeal
7. Designing Women
8. Family Guy
9. The Simpsons
10. South Park
11. Murder She Wrote
12. LOST
13. Heroes
14. Pushing Daisies
15. Sex and the City

 

[Stinkerbell's Daddy]

In a very random order:

Hill Street Blues
St. Elsewhere
All in the Family
The Cosby Show
Family Ties
Cheers
Friends
West Wing (personal favorite)
MASH
The Simpsons
South Park
I Love Lucy
The Dick VanDyke Show
Saturday Night Live
Seinfeld

Best Mini Series: Band of Brothers
Best show currently on TV that didn't make the all time list: The Big Bang Theory

 

[princess63]

Here are my 15 faves, in no particular order:

1. MacGyver
2. Carol Burnett Show (especially loved the "Gone with the Wind" sketch!)
3. Dukes of Hazzard
4. M*A*S*H
5. All in the Family
6. Bob Newhart Show
7. Taxi
8. WKRP in Cincinnati (the Thanksgiving turkey giveaway was the best!)
9. Babylon 5
10. Star Trek (the original series)
11. Stargate SG-1
12. Soap
13. Cosby Show
14. Muppet Show (still just a kid at heart, I guess)
15. Mary Tyler Moore Show

 

[suejai]

In no particular order:

Carol Burnett Show
MASH
Nature and National Geographic
WKRP in Cincinnati - agree with a pp about the Turkey episode
Cheers
Friends
Star Trek - just because it started it all
Star Trek - the Next Generation - because of its superior dialogue and characterisation

Babylon 5 - I think it does stand the test of time, even with the outdated CGI, DS14 loves the show even with a steady diet of sci fi with superior effects. Story wins out every time; and the concept that the writer had the whole 5 years mapped out before they started filming is amazing.

Wonderful World of Disney
Barney Miller
Dr. Who - through the ages, but my fave is still Tom Baker

Columbo - not sure if it was the first, but it was probably one of the better detective shows that added humour and led to a whole genre. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I wasn't allowed to watch Columbo when it first came out and only saw episodes later. But I did watch all the other detective shows that came after like Rockford Files, Simon and Simon, Magnum, PI, etc.

I can't think of any more that haven't already been mentioned.

I have to say that I tend not to watch network tv too much anymore as I prefer to watch channels such as Discovery Civilization, History, NG, etc and because so many of the network shows are disappointing. I have to agree with Stinkerbell's Daddy though about Big Bang Theory, it's my favourite current sitcom.

 

[lulubelle]

Here's my list....

The Rockford Files (I L-O-V-E James Garner)
I Love Lucy (how could she not make you laugh?)
The Brady Bunch (grew up with it)
Survivor (the first reality show and man was I glued to each episode)
American Idol (even WITH Ryan Seacrest!)
Without a Trace (such inventive story lines)
60 Minutes (it's amazing how much you can learn from this show)
Moonlighting (loved it in it's time)
Boston Legal (amazing offbeat humor)
Saturday Night Live (the 70's & 80's)

Ok, that's ten. That's all for now.

 

[ead79]

Here is my list:

The West Wing (my top choice for sure!)
ER
JAG
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Friends
Alias
Grey’s Anatomy
24
The Amazing Race
CSI
Numb3rs
Army Wives
Designing Women
Everybody Loves Raymond
Profiler

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Seinfeld (More great epsiodes than any other show)
Bulwinle Show
Twilight Zone
Mash
WKRP (Turkey episode if funniest I have ever seen)
Deadliest Catch(I cannot miss an episode and I do not know why)
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
Taxi
Fraiser
Mary Tyler Moore
All in the Family
Antiques Road Show
Life on Mars
Fawlty Towers
SNL

 

[Pakey]

Seinfeld is definitely first.

Others, in no particular order:

I Love Lucy
Weeds
Soap
Ally McBeal
Twilight Zone
Sons of Anarchy
You Bet Your Life
Lost in Space
Star Trek
Carol Burnett Show
Sex and the City
Friday Night Lights
The George Burns Show
That Girl

 

[KristinBelle]

#1 for me- Lost

Others not in any order-

Alias
Homefront
American Dreams
Friday Night Lights
Survivor
Journeyman
Felicity
Spongebob
Law & Order
Life on Mars
24
Friends
Scrubs
Homicide-Life on the Street
Seinfeld

 

[Calrissian13]

Let's see if I can come up with fifteen...
(in no paticular order, I watch all of them over and over when I get the chance)

Friends
Sex in the City
Firefly (only lasted one season but was soooo good!)
My So-Called Life (another one season-er, but again, amazing show)
Little House on the Prairie (Still makes me cry on a regular basis)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Muppet Show
Three's Company
Felicity
Chicago Hope (I liked it better than ER)
Law & Order: SVU
Degrassi Jr High/Degrassi High (cheesy but classic)
The Munsters
Fraggle Rock (what can I say, I love my muppets!)
Party of Five

 

[bcvgal]

Don't have time to list 15 but

The West Wing
Friday Night Lights

two best written shows ever imho

 

[frndshpcptn]

I don't know if I could come up with 15, but my personal, top #1 best television series every made is The West Wing. I like other shows, but the West Wing is the only show I've ever bought the DVD seasons of. I have every season on DVD and still watch it quite often. Best. show. ever.

Same here - it's the only show I have purchased on DVD and I still watch it all the time. It never gets old.