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Which decade was the best in your opinion for T.V. shows???

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View Poll Results: Best decade for T.V. shows..
50's
0
0%
60's
11
15.07%
70's
16
21.92%
80's
10
13.70%
90's
13
17.81%
00's
23
31.51%
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Which decade was the best in your opinion for T.V. shows???

Old 10-28-07, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
That's why I said to name a few.

more sci-fi?
- Quantum Leap
- Stargate: SG-1 (began in 97)

More comedy?
- Cheers was still going strong through 93.
- Mad About You
- Frasier
- Wings

More drama?
- LA Law
- Northern Exposure
You still missed one....Sliders.

Edit because I missed one also: errr.. two...Eerie Indiana.

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Old 10-28-07, 02:00 AM
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Every decade has its classic shows, so it's almost impossible to put one hands down over the other; therefore, I'm not voting.

This decade alone for example has, so far:

The Wire
Friday Night Lights
Arrested Development
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos*
Sex & the City*

*the bulk of which was shown in the '00's.

If anything, I'd say the 00's, in particular, are when first run, pay-service shows came into their own.
Old 10-28-07, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by DrRingDing
If anything, I'd say the 00's, in particular, are when first run, pay-service shows came into their own.
Considering the glut of reality programming, cable programming just balances things back out.
Old 10-28-07, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
Considering the glut of reality programming, cable programming just balances things back out.
The poll isn't "What decade had the best balance?".
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The 21st century has to be the worst with all these reality shows.
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
I don't know how old you are , but back then in the late 70's all the t.v. critics and family groups said t.v. in the 70's was junk.
I guess that settles it - if tv critics and family groups thought it was junk, it must have been the best decade for TV
Old 10-28-07, 06:52 PM
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Like has been said, every decade has had it's classics. I try to think of which decade in which the most shows have held up the best --- and I think that's the 60's.

Batman,Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Green Acres, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Wild Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie, etc.

There seems to have been a boom in creativity and most of those shows are still watchable forty years later.
Old 10-28-07, 07:23 PM
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For dramas, the 2000s. For comedies, anything but the 2000s.
Old 10-28-07, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by creekdipper
There's not a genre on tv today (outside of "reality programming"...and I don't think anybody's going to realistically argue for that commodity representing the best of television) that didn't exist in the '60's.
Allen Funt's show Candid Camera existed in the '60s (and '70s) and was an example of "Reality TV" back then.
Old 10-29-07, 12:36 AM
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The 60s and 70s are filled with some of the best tv shows ever made IMO.

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