TV is King

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ganked from kengr

TV meme
The Time/CNN list of 100 Greatest Television Shows of all time. Post in your LJ with the following legend:
Bold - I watch/used to watch this regularly
Strikethrough -- I wouldn't watch it if you paid me
Question mark -- I never heard of it

Add comments if you like.


24
60 Minutes
The Abbott and Costello Show
ABC's Wide World of Sports
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
All in the Family
An American Family
American Idol
Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
The Beavis and Butt-Head Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Brideshead Revisited
Buffalo Bill
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Carol Burnett Show
The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (we were an NBC family.)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Cheers
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
Dallas
The Day After (Pure schlock. But adventerous for the time
Deadwood
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dragnet
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ernie Kovacs Show (discovered this on PBS and was enthralled - the man was brilliant, and was probably the first to understand TV as a medium.)
Felicity
Freaks and Geeks
The French Chef?
Friends
General Hospital
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (prefer their radio work.)
Gilmore Girls
Gunsmoke
Hill Street Blues
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Honeymooners
I, Claudius
I Love Lucy
King of the Hill
The Larry Sanders Show
Late Night with David Letterman
Leave It to Beaver
Lost (I'll admit I fell off the wagon. I need to get DVDs and watch it in bunches.)
Married... With Children
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
The Monkees
Monty Python's Flying Circus (A family sacrament.)
Moonlighting (especially Atomic Shakespeare)
MTV (From day one.)
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Keep circulating the tapes!)
The Odd Couple
The Office [American]
The Office [British]
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Playhouse 90
The Price Is Right
Prime Suspect
The Prisoner
The Real World
Rocky and His Friends
Roots
Roseanne (I understand it was well-written, but I cannot abide that woman.)
Sanford and Son
Saturday Night Live (In the early days.)
Second City Television (Please! SCTV!)
See It Now
Seinfeld
Sesame Street (Proud to say I was part of the orirignal target audience.)
Sex and the City
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Singing Detective
Six Feet Under
Soap
The Sopranos
South Park
SpongeBob SquarePants
SportsCenter (Not much anymore. Since Dan and Keith left, all the snark is gone..."I'm Keith Olbermann, he's Dan Patrick, you're the audience, and this is SportsCenter!")
Star Trek (another thing that was near religion at my home.)
St. Elsewhere
The Super Bowl and the Ads
Survivor (The first six. Then it got tired.)
Taxi
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
The West Wing (My political porn.)
What's My Line
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wire?
Wiseguy
The X-Files
Your Show of Shows

Comments

[pompe.livejournal.com]

Felicity. I can't get paid to watch that. Okay, that's a lie, I can do a lot of things for money, but I'd like to be paid darn well for such pain.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

It's a lot easier for me to leave off than mark... I've seen most of these.

I heartily recommend I, Claudius. I was overjoyed when I finally got to see it in college - my parents always sent me to bed once the episodes with Caligula as an adult started airing. It's the only thing on the list I'd say is a must see.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

The French Chef was Julia Child's show's title - on PBS.

[agoatatrutgers.livejournal.com]

With Battlestar Galactica, does the meme mean new 2004 Ron More version or the original Larson? My answer to the two vary wildly. Also, which version do you watch? 1978 or 2004?