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Your Top 5 TV Shows/Series
- Thread starter American Pilgrim
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So very very difficult to narrow these down. Ask me again tomorrow and I'll probably throw something else in there!
24
Stranger Things
South Park
Taskmaster
What we do in the Shadows
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Stranger Things
South Park
Taskmaster
What we do in the Shadows
The Prisoner
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Blackadder
Dad’s Army
Life On Mars
As with the movie list, ask me again in a couple of months and the list will be different, but not all of it.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Blackadder
Dad’s Army
Life On Mars
As with the movie list, ask me again in a couple of months and the list will be different, but not all of it.
I always find picking favourites like this an impossible task because, of course, it all depends on what criteria you use to define ‘best’, ‘top’ or ‘favourite’ and what kind of mood you are in at the time. So to join in with this thread I’m going to list below a single programme/series that immediately comes to mind when I look back to each decade of my life so far:
0-10: Camberwick Green (especially Jonathan Bell, the go-ahead farmer; I still have the songbook and can sing most of the characters’ songs)
11-20: Secret Army (especially the credit sequence/music and Natalie…; although I have to say that a specific incident in an episode of the BBC adaption of Emile Zola’s book ‘Therese Raquin’ sticks in my mind and was much talked about in school the next day from when I was about 14 or 15…[such innocence])
21-30: Inspector Morse (although having watched all of the Morse, Lewis and Endeavour episodes in the last few years the latter two series are, in most respects, a lot ‘better’)
31-40: Playdays (a strong representative of the programmes we used to watch with our kids when they were little; I made VHS compilation tapes mixing up episodes of various kids TV programmes like Playdays, Fireman Sam [the originals not the horrible computer animated ones], Topsy and Tim etc.)
41-50: The Killing (just so good; see also The Bridge)
51-…: Game of Thrones (we were late to this and I can’t think of another series that took over our TV watching quite as much and in such epic fashion)
And yes, I know I have cheated and listed 6 which is technically cheating, but it’s not my fault I’ve almost made it to my 60s!
0-10: Camberwick Green (especially Jonathan Bell, the go-ahead farmer; I still have the songbook and can sing most of the characters’ songs)
11-20: Secret Army (especially the credit sequence/music and Natalie…; although I have to say that a specific incident in an episode of the BBC adaption of Emile Zola’s book ‘Therese Raquin’ sticks in my mind and was much talked about in school the next day from when I was about 14 or 15…[such innocence])
21-30: Inspector Morse (although having watched all of the Morse, Lewis and Endeavour episodes in the last few years the latter two series are, in most respects, a lot ‘better’)
31-40: Playdays (a strong representative of the programmes we used to watch with our kids when they were little; I made VHS compilation tapes mixing up episodes of various kids TV programmes like Playdays, Fireman Sam [the originals not the horrible computer animated ones], Topsy and Tim etc.)
41-50: The Killing (just so good; see also The Bridge)
51-…: Game of Thrones (we were late to this and I can’t think of another series that took over our TV watching quite as much and in such epic fashion)
And yes, I know I have cheated and listed 6 which is technically cheating, but it’s not my fault I’ve almost made it to my 60s!
Oh Gawd, I don't know if I could list a top five. But for today, I'll say:
Adventures/Return/Case-Book/Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (the Jeremy Brett ones. The definitive Sherlock IMHO)
Battlestar Galactica (the rebooted series, not the original)
Drop the Dead Donkey
The West Wing
The Thick of It
Adventures/Return/Case-Book/Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (the Jeremy Brett ones. The definitive Sherlock IMHO)
Battlestar Galactica (the rebooted series, not the original)
Drop the Dead Donkey
The West Wing
The Thick of It
Top 5 is difficult, but I have just started rewatching The Wire. Without doubt one of the best TV series of all time.
Deadwood
Better call Saul
Breaking bad
Mr Inbetween
Justified
Ted lasso is well worth a look if you haven’t seen it , when you describe it to someone it sounds rubbish but it just works. Highly recommended.
Better call Saul
Breaking bad
Mr Inbetween
Justified
Ted lasso is well worth a look if you haven’t seen it , when you describe it to someone it sounds rubbish but it just works. Highly recommended.
Can only say favourites, as best implies seeing most, and that the time in which you saw it is as important as the content:
NYPD Blue
Frasier
The West Wing
TNG
The last slot is a pcik 'em, just too many - Only Fools, The Inbetweeners, Black Adder, The Sopranos, The Wire, Cheers, Drop the Dead Donkey, Between The Lines - that's just a handful
NYPD Blue
Frasier
The West Wing
TNG
The last slot is a pcik 'em, just too many - Only Fools, The Inbetweeners, Black Adder, The Sopranos, The Wire, Cheers, Drop the Dead Donkey, Between The Lines - that's just a handful
About as cliche as you can get, but there you go...
The Office
Only Fools and Horses
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Detectorists
Honorary mentions for Succession, Slow Horses and Severance in recent years.
Edit... the Lewis mentions has made me think of Morse, that would be right up there.
The Office
Only Fools and Horses
The Wire
The Sopranos
The Detectorists
Honorary mentions for Succession, Slow Horses and Severance in recent years.
Edit... the Lewis mentions has made me think of Morse, that would be right up there.
Never heard of the last one in your list, but going by your other choices, I'm gonna check it out.
Breaking Bad is right up there. As is Battlestar Gallactica btw.
Frasier
Life on Earth
Better Call Saul
The Beiderbecke Affair
The Rockford Files
Life on Earth
Better Call Saul
The Beiderbecke Affair
The Rockford Files
Ah Detectorists is an absolute masterpiece, I can't recommend highly enough. Should still be on iPlayer. Gentle, moving, funny, amazing music and scenery, got the lot.
What you got? - Detectorists: Episode 1 Preview - BBC Four
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