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Thursday, July 27, 2006

My Top 10 Shows Excluding VM

My Top 10 shows, excluding Veronica Mars.

In no particular order:

1. WKRP in Cincinnati
2. Star Trek (TNG and DS9 only)
3. Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
4. The Muppet Show
5. The Simpsons
6. Absolutely Fabulous
7. Futurama
8. The Cosby Show
9. The Sopranos
10. Charlie's Angels (mock me all you want; I don't care)

I watch a ton of Law & Order and its various spinoffs, but I don't consider it a favorite; it's more like snack food TV to me.

Anyone else want to make a list?


Also in no particular order:

1. The Rockford Files
2. SCTV
3. Star Trek (original series only, not that later crap)
4. Father Ted
5. Homicide: Life on the Streets
6. Robbery Homicide Division
7. EZ Streets
8. Action
9. Highlander: The Series
10. Daria

That's a quick take. I'm not sure I should allocate spots to RHD or EZ Streets given that neither lasted a season, but each was like nothing before or since. On a different day I might have given those spots to Absolutely Fabulous and South Park. Highlander is the guilty pleasure, if that's not obvious.


In no particular order:

1. M*A*S*H
2. WKRP in Cincinnati
3. Mystery! on PBS (yes, I know, it's never the same, but I LOVE it)
4. Homicide: Life on the Streets (I miss Frank and Bayliss)
5. Daria (I miss Daria)
6. Black Adder
7. Highlander: The Series
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
9. Foster's Home for Imaginery Friends (yes, a cartoon)
10. Hill Street Blues

This list is almost as embarrasing as my music collection...


My list - no particular order:

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Angel
3. Freaks and Geeks (all 13 episodes...stupid NBC)
4. The Simpsons
5. Beverly Hills 90210 (Yes. It's true. It was my guilty pleasure for 10 sweet, sweet years. I loved/hated it so much!)
6. The Twilight Zone (original 1959-64 series)
7. Twin Peaks
8. The Office (BBC and American versions, which technically counts as two shows, but hey, who's counting?)
9. The Sopranos
10. And last, but definitely not least...Arrested Development.

And of course there's so many more that could have easily made the list.

WKRP was thisclose to being in my top ten. That show rocked my childhood. I used to watch everyday when it was in syndication. I always thought Andy was so dreamy. Hee!

Also, I have to give an honorable mention to Dynasty. I probably started watching this show when I was, like, 8 or 9 years old and I became completely obsessed with who could be possibly one of the greatest television characters of all time - Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan. The outfits! The smackdowns! I even bought a 1000-piece Joan Collins puzzle that I labored over for days one summer. And I would have sawed off my right arm for an Alexis doll. Hey, what can I say? Even my 9-year-old self knew that nobody could take her to bed and to the cleaners in the same night. The lady deserved my respect.


I took the liberty of fixing the Alexis photo so it would work (by downloading the image and then posting it somewhere else that allows remote image loading). WKRP was a great favorite of mine too. I forgot about Twin Peaks. If it hadn't gone crazy at the end it would definitely be listworthy.

Thanks for fixing the picture. It looked like it worked when I did it last night. Guess I'm still learning!

Yeah, the end of Twin Peaks sucked. (Worst. Ending. Ever!) But season one holds a special place in my heart.


Usually if they limit remote loading they will still let it happen a few times and then cut it off (theoretically, someone does pay for the bandwidth involved when you IMG SRC something). So it usually looks like it's working and then stops. But if your browser cache already has the image in it, you might not even notice that it's been cut off.

Yes, Twin Peaks had many wonderful moments. My favorite was when Leland/Bob almost decided to brain Cooper with a golf club when he had, I think, Maddy's body in his trunk and had been weaving around singing "The Surrey With A Fringe on Top."

Cooper: "Leland, we'll see those clubs another time."

1 Comments:

Blogger Steve Barton said...

Okay, no order, and I'm going with the ones I have always thought of as my favorite shows:

1) The Prisoner
2) The Avengers
3) Pee Wee's Playhouse
4) Moonlighting
5) Wiseguy
6) Twin Peaks
7) 24 (tho' it is hard to believe)
8) Hill St. Blues (the long career at NYPD Blue doesn't matter -- I still call him Buntz)
9) Malcolm In The Middle

ooh, ooh -- and I do have a real #1, never to be surpassed: Mystery Science Theater 3000 (bwangggg!).

Y'alls lists reminded me of how much I enjoyed AbFab, Homicide, and SCTV.

The only appointments lately have been Monk (family can watch together and enjoy) and 24 and The Unit (never too many dead terorists on TV -- make more).

All the best, skb

8/01/2006 11:43 PM  

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