Drama
Oz
The Shield
The Wire

Comedy
Seinfeld
Simpsons

http://dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=411331

Drama
Deadwood
Six Feet Under
Twin Peaks
Carnivale
Oz
The Wire

Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror
Buffy
Angel
Dark Shadows (1966-1971)
Babylon 5
Farscape
X-Files

Sportscenter
The Simpsons
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
The Shield
Star Trek The Next Generation
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Law & Order
The Office (BBC)
Arrested Development

My votes:

Drama:
Twin Peaks (2 seasons)
Six Feet Under (5 seasons)
Deadwood (2 seasons so far)
Carnivale (2 Seasons)
Oz (6 seasons)
Dead Like Me (2 seasons)
The Wire (3 seasons so far)

SciFi/Fantasy/Horror
Farscape (4 seasons and a miniseries)
Angel (5 seasons)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7 seasons)
Babylon 5 (5 seasons)
Dark Shadows (1966-1971)
The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)

Comedy:
Strangers With Candy (3 seasons)
Coupling (UK) (4 seasons)
Absolutely Fabulous (5 seasons)
Sports Nights (2 seasons)
Fawlty Towers (2 seasons)
The League of Gentlemen (3 seasons)

I'm going to keep collecting nominations until, say, midnight Eastern tonight, and then work up the brackets for the first round. I have to mix in the nominations here with the ones I got from friends and on another message board where I posted a similar thread.

Lots of good shows in here, and some mentioned in other places that weren't mentioned here. (One of my favorite shows would definitely be Moonlighting, I don't think anyone has nominated it here.)

The Wire

My votes:

Drama:

Twin Peaks
Sharpe
Hornblower

SciFi/Fantasy/Horror:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Dr Who

Comedy:

Red Dwarf
Trailer Park Boys
I'm Alan Partridge

Married with Children - Made a network, look at all tasteless comedy that it inspired. Al Bundy is an American hero

MASH
Simpsons
NYPD Blue
Cheers
X-files
Seinfeld
South Park
Hogan’s Heroes
Get Smart
Dream On

5 of each

Drama

NYPD Blue
Sopranos
X-files
Magnum PI
Hill Street Blues

Comedy

The Simpsons
Cheers
Frasier
The Cosby Show
MASH

Other

Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Saturday Night Live
Niteline

It was Phil Hartman.....but the Cartman typo set of a flurry of images......

Duh. The C is really near the H, that's what it was.

Comedy
M*A*S*H
Seinfeld
Fawlty Towers
Cheers
Dick Van Dyke

Drama
DS9
West Wing
Sopranos
Six Feet Under
Homicide : LOTS

I'm rather partial to Dennis Miller Live.

oh why not
drama
law and order
shield
nip tuck
alias
24
sopranos
comedy/sitcom
all in the family
scrubs
friends
married with children
simpsons.

Buffy & Angel

I would nominate more, because there are several show that I love (I own about 60 TV DVD Box sets. Many complete sets), but these two are my favorites. I consider them the 2 greatest things I've ever seen (as does my best friend after I got him hooked. ).

The Dick Van Dyke Show is awesome, but I find Seinfeld and Friends to be funnier.

It is like "I Love Lucy"... ive seen the show so many times that I just do not care to watch it anymore. I have probably seen Friends/Seinfeld even more (since sometimes Friends is on what 6 times a day) and never get tired of them.

I'll narrow it down to 1:

M*A*S*H

I don't know what it is, but I find most old shows kind of annoying (especially sitcoms and extra especially, I Love Lucy). I loved them when I was a kid, but I've turned on them. Imo tv has gotten a lot better in the past 10 years or so.

Okay, folks. I've got to take my daughter to ballet this morning, but when I get back, I'll work up the brackets and open voting for round one. We had a lot more shows nominated than I expected (well over a hundred) so we might have a few more than 64 shows in and have a big play-in round.

Oh, oh! I forgot one!

Cracker (British)

I guess the question is whether we're picking best shows or favorite shows. If we're going for best, I Love Lucy has to be up there. Desi and Lucy invented the three camera sitcom, the rerun, and a host of other things we take for granted. Not only was I Love Lucy a brilliant show, but it was also one of the most groundbreaking and influential shows ever, if not the most.

Obviously if we're going for favorite that's a whole other thing.

For what it's worth, my nom's were based on best, not favorite. My list would have been substantially different in that case.

BTW, tasha99, I'm not really replying to you directly or trying to pick a fight. After reading this thread there is some confusion in my mind over how we're supposed to interpret "best", and your quote just helped me illustrate the question. Please don't take this as an attack!

I've posted the matchups for the first round, and voting is open.

See http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=434882.