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What do you think are the five BEST TV shows ever?  TV ain't been 'round that long, but, what the hell? 

1. I LOVE LUCY 
2. THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW
3. SEINFELD 
4. THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW
5. LEAVE IT TO BEAVER

Feel free to add as many as you care to, but I'm only listing five, and the first three I feel confident about their placement in my generation... but 4 and 5 are ones I love that many love, but, are they great...?  I think so, but what're yours?  :question:

Well - non cartoons... my top 5

1. Gilligan's Island
2. The Munsters (original)
3. The Twilight Zone (original)
4. Tales From The Crypt
5. The Three Stooges

Decalogue

Master and Margarita

Berlin Alexanderplatz

The Prisoner (1967)

Shogun

1) The Twilight Zone
2) SNL
3) 60 Minutes
4) Dennis the Menace
5) Good Times

5 more just cause you said I could

6) St. Elsewhere
7) Three's Company
8) Mad Men
9) Game of Thrones
10) Homeland

1.) Seinfeld
2.) All in The Family
3.) SNL
4.) M*A*S*H
5.) South Park

South Park, honestly, is the best written cartoon, alongside The Simpsons. It's handling of politics is swell too.

In no order, without much thought:

Seinfeld
The Simpsons
The Twilight Zone
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Sesame Street
Mystery Science Theater 3000

Arrested Development comes real close...

In alphabetical order:

• Bonanza
• Doctor Who
• Gunsmoke
• M*A*S*H
• The Twilight Zone (original)

Although to make these top 5 lists more meaningful it might make more sense to have categories:
(Even with more categories it is still difficult for me to narrow down to just 5)

Westerns

• Bonanza
• Gunsmoke
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Guns of Will Sonnett

Sitcom

• All in the Family
• Family Ties
• I Love Lucy
• M*A*S*H
• I Dream of Jeanie

Science Fiction

• Firefly
• Doctor Who
• Farscape
• Star Trek: TOS
• The Twilight Zone (original)

Comedy

• The Benny Hill Show
• Three Stooges
• Mr. Bean
• Monty Python
• The Carol Burnet Show

Drama

• Magnum, P.I.
• Law & Order
• The Prisoner
• Murder She Wrote
• The Rockford Files

Cartoons

• Flash Gordon
• Jonny Quest
• Looney Tunes
• Rocky & Bullwinkle
• Star Blazers

So hard to choose!

Well, I'll do toons.

JONNY QUEST (Original)

ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

SUPER CHICKEN.

DAVE THE BARBARIAN.

EARTHWORM JIM.

Earthworm Jim was underrated.

Top 5 TV cartoons for me...

Transformers (80's)
G.I.J.O.E (80's)
Scooby Doo (70's)
Smurfs (80's)
HEMAN (80's)

Brass Eye
I'm Alan Partridge
The Office (UK version)
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Spaced

Honorable mention...

Star Blazers
WWF Saturday Night's Main Event (80's)
GamePro TV
Super Mario Super show/ Capitan N
Video Power
Popeye
Dungeons & Dragons (80's)
All Tex Avery toons

M*A*S*H
I Love Lucy
Northern Exposure
St.Elsewhere
Twilight Zone

I like what Mithrander did!

By catagory-

Westerns-
1.GUNSMOKE
2.WAGON TRAIN
3.BIG VALLEY
4.RIFLE MAN
5.GRIZZLY ADDAMS

Comedy-

1.GREEN ACRES
2.SNL
3.TWO AND A HALF MEN
4.BENNY HILL
5.ANDY GRIFFITH
6.MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

I noticed that Mithrandir posted the 3 Stooges-but the Stooges didnt do TV-they did theatrical shorts that got lotsa TV air,much like the Little Rascals and 40's and 50's cartoons.

SCI FI/HORROR-

1.TWILIGHT ZONE
2.STAR TREK (60's)
3.THRILLER
4.OUTER LIMITS
5.X-FILES

Crime /Drama-
1.ROUTE 66-yes-most of the episodes-but not all! Had crimes commited.
2.the UNTOUCHABLES
3.CRIMINAL MINDS (unreal,I know,but such a good cast!)
4.CRIME STORY
5.COMBAT

Cartoons-I aint including Warner Bros,MGM,and such-because they were first shown at theaters.

1.REN AND STIMPY
2.COW AND CHICKEN
3.The PINK PANTHER
4.JOHNNY QUEST
5.Ralph Bakshi's subversive 80's version of MIGHTY MOUSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSqSE6Gn2S8

I wish You Tube had a decent vid of the Ren and Stimpy song "Lord Loves A Hangin"-thats why he gives us necks!

We think he's mighty fine!
 :teddyr:

TWILIGHT ZONE (original)
THE MUPPET SHOW
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000
THE WIRE
SEINFELD

runners-up:
BURNS & ALLEN
CHEERS
M*A*S*H*
THE YOUNG ONES
THE SIMPSONS

I'm amazed,-no shocked beyond electricity and death sentence hanging or beheading!! With much squirting blood!!-That  I'm the only one who mentioned MONTY PYTHON.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

OH! By the by!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlBUglE6Hc

How did I forget MST3K? Shoot, I scratched off "Seinfeld" to make room on my list.

Sorry, I'm going to have to argue with you there, RC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

I mentioned Monty Python and so did mithrandir!

I'm surprised I'm the only one who mentioned "Sesame Street." Hugely influential. Almost everyone's seen it and was a fan at one time. No other show has dominated its genre the way SS has.

To add another category

Children/Family shows
Sesame Street
Electric Company
3-2-1 Contact
The Muppet Show
The Magic Garden

~ No you didn't
Oh yes I did!
~ Look. This isnt an argument...  :wink: :twirl:



Whats the magic word today, kids? Yes thats right! Incarcerated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbD-0xkIYuA

You know the world is in deep dodo when Sesame Street talks about 'incarcerated parents'.

I was tempted to add Law and Order to my list.

DOH! Color me assmeller! Yer right,of course!
BUT-I was more influnced by CAPTAIN KANGAROO more than SESAME STREET.
Captain Kangaroo was like being awake and REM sleep at the same time. It hypnotized my little brain. Mr.GreenJeans,Moose and Bunny,Grandfather Clock....I dont know...it was like being on qualudes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VybxAyoXbw

Twin Peaks
The Young Ones
Cheers
The Munsters
I'm Alan Partridge
The League Of Gentlemen

The Kids In The Hall
The Kids In The Hall
The Kids In The Hall
The Kids In The Hall
The Kids In The Hall
 :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

Allhallowsday, I think you've made some great picks there. All terrific shows in their own right. All are shows I've also enjoyed. That said, I don't think I'd personally have any of them on my own top 5 list. There's a big difference between shows I feel are the best and those that are personal favourites but that line sure can get blurred at times. It's almost impossible to differentiate. My top 5 best shows probably is something like this:

1) All in the Family
2) The Dick Van Dyke Show
3) The Avengers
4) The Fugitive
5) The Twilight Zone (original)

Going with favourites, it's a longer list (and particularly sci-fi, spy-fi heavy). Tough to really limit it to just 5.

1) The Outer Limits (TOS)
2) The Twilight Zone (TOS)
3) Star Trek (TOS)
4) Doctor Who (TOS)
5) The Prisoner
6) The Avengers
7) The Fugitive
8) The Wild Wild West
9) The Man From UNCLE
10) The X-Files

Honorable Mentions:

Three's Company
Bonanza
The Munsters
All in the Family
The Time Tunnel
Lost in Space
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Boris Karloff's Thriller
Space: 1999
UFO
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Futurama
Are You Being Served?
Fawlty Towers
Kolchak: the Night Stalker
The Invaders
Batman: the Animated Series
Justice League
All in the Family
The Addams Family
Good Times
The Jeffersons
Gilligan's Island

Honorable Mentions number 1 (  there will be more of these )

Beavis and Butthead

Cripes.  How could I forget KITH?  Add that, HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS  and KING OF THE HILL to my Honorable Mentions list....

I absolutely loved the first season of HOMICIDE, though the rest of the series never quite lived up to it.

To narrow down 5 will be hard...i would say

Twin Peaks
Sherlock
Sopranos
Game of Thrones
Breaking Bad