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Old 09-24-13, 05:42 PM
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Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

1. The West Wing
2. The Sopranos
3. Cheers
4. Buffy
5. Breaking Bad
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel
2. Fringe
3. Firefly
4. Twin Peaks
5. X-Files
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

I know there's a thread for this already:

Twin Peaks
The Sopranos
Seinfeld
The X-Files
Cheers
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

The Andy Griffith Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Bob Newhart Show
The Police Squad Show
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

Simpsons
Married With Children
South Park
Freaks and Geeks
Breaking Bad
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

M*A*S*H
Get Smart
Hogan's Heroes
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The Simpsons
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

M*A*S*H
Law & Order
The X-Files
Star Trek: TNG
CSI
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

The Sopranos
The West Wing
The Wire
Arrested Development
Lost

The Simpsons would have made the list if they would have stopped making episodes after season twelve.
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Fringe
Game of Thrones
Battlestar Galactica
Veronica Mars
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

I don't really like combining comedy shows and action/drama shows into one category so I'm doing two lists.

Comedy:
All in the Family
Cheers
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
South Park

Action/Drama:
Batman: The Animated Series
Breaking Bad
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

I consider only completed series. As much as I love Breaking Bad, the finale could be Walter White tucking his penis Silence of the Lambs style and singing the Macarena for the whole episode.

Seinfeld
All in the Family
The Shield
Newsradio
Deep Space Nine
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Breaking Bad
Firefly
Shield
Freaks and Geeks
Game of Thrones
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The Shield
Star Trek DS9
Angel
Farscape
Simpsons
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The Wire
Duck Tales
Cosby Show
Law & Order (original)
Breaking Bad
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

Lost
Twin Peaks
Samurai Jack (do cartoons count?)
Batman The Animated Series (I'm going with yes)
MST3K
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

Is it too late for me to add Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

Originally Posted by Jimmy James
Is it too late for me to add Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
Too late, or too early? I mean we all know this show is going to revolutionize TV but dose it still have to air first?
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

The Twilight Zone
All in the Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Breaking Bad
The Bugs Bunny Show
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

No particular order

Drama:
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Boardwalk Empire
Rome

Comedy:
Arrested Development
Fawlty Towers
The Office (BBC)
Blackadder
Seinfeld

I also couldn't compare comedy and drama series as it is a bit like comparing movies and TV series. I also left out mini-series such as Band of Brothers, which otherwise would be #1 overall.
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One Tree Hill
Joey
Big Brother
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Jersey Shore

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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
The Shield
Six Feet Under
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Jersey Show
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Re: Your Top 5 TV Series of All Time?

Seinfeld
Beverly Hillbillies
Twin Peaks
SVU
Law & Order
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Real Ghostbusters
Step by Step
Family Matters
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The Wire
The Shield
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Arrested Development


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