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...these lists will always be controversial because everyone has their favorites.
But they left off 3 of my favorites: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun Will Travel and The Prisoner.
What do you think?
Follow Ups:
The top 100 of anything always include those unworthy.
Narrow it down to ten ...maybe twenty ...tops.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
What a steaming pile of crap this list is!
:-(
...it brought back a lot of memories.
Des ( Shaking head!)
Raiderman (shaking head as well).
Must be nice to work in an industry where you can write pretty much anything you want, and pat yourself on the back about it, (despite that what you've written is is a big steaming pile!), and still keep your job.
:-(
Dexter needs to be on the list - it had issues later but based on what IS listed it is hard not to sit back and say that Dexter isn't at least better than half the list.
And there is no F-ing way that David Letterman is better than Johnny Carson - Letterman couldn't lick Carson's boots. So that's just plain dumb.
Plus it's kind of weird to have sitcoms versus hour long dramas and talk shows. Comedies are generally not taken as seriously (even though many actors will tell you that it is far more difficult to pull of comedy than drama).
Granted these things are personal taste - I much prefer Boston Legal to most of the stuff on this list. And I would have DS9 or TNG over the original Star Trek. Since the list is all over the map - I'd put COSMOS on it. Teach the southern American some science they clearly never learned in school - it helps when you read more than one book your whole life. Blackadder has to be here and there is no better sitcom than Faulty Towers.
Is Frasier there? It's probably the best American sitcom that eclipsed the show it spun off from. I may have missed it but if it's not there something is seriously seriously wrong - it should be way ahead of Friends at the very least.
Did it occur to you that one of us might read this? Of course you're assessment of the southern American is correct, generally. There are exceptions. I'm merely geographically challenged.
Now, I must see this list.
Sorry about that but it does seem that certain US States in the south have a whole different view than the rest of the world on things like Science, Evolution, Climate Change, and in general things called "facts".
The fact that if there were a Jesus he would not be a white man with blonde hair; but, in fact, an Arab! Shock! Horror! Indeed, Jesus would be one of the people who would not be allowed into the US under a certain presidential candidate. Sorry Jesus but you're the wrong colour - and you talk about peace and love and forgiveness - damn Commie Liberal Terrorist! Someone crucify this man! That's okay - he has dark skin - the police will probably shoot him before then.
just wanted you to know that we have pockets of progressives all over the American south. Obviously, we are political/social minorities and I for one would leave this area if I wasn't working in a family business.
On the plus side, our literary history holds its own. Legislating morality and holier-than-thou attitudes have spawned many decadent southern tales.
Perhaps I missed them,
Andy Griffith Show love the simple values.
Outer limits of the 1960s version, one of these episodes was used as the launchpad for the movie Terminator with Arnold S. Great series with terrific moral comments at the end of each episode.
Did I not see the original Beverly Hillbillies? Great comedy, one of my personal fave.
Sanford and Son.
Threes Company.
Carol Burnett show..
I concur on Combat series, own the box set and not one bad episode in it.
So many to list. I do prefer the older anthology sitcoms and comedy. Not sure basic TV will ever be that way again. A golden era for sure.
Regards,
/// Tim W. ///
Geez, no mention of "Northern Exposure", the series where David Chase got his start (in season 5)? If Bill Cosby didn't have his sickness for strong-arming sex, bet his ground-breaking series "I Spy" & "Cosby Show" woulda been included somewhere on that list. Along with "A Different World". No "12 0' Clock High" either? A lot of Rockford's vibe was incorporated from David Janssen's last series "Harry O", which introduced Farrah Fawcett-Majors & Loni Anderson as next door stewardesses. And how can a supposed music magazine not even mention "WKRP"? Nor A.B.C.'s "Monday Night Football", which brought N.F.L. football to main-stream audiences via Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell (who informed America about John Lennon's tragic death), & Dandy Don Meridith? These nowadaze Rolling Stone lists should be taken with proverbial grain of salt, like when Bessie Smith or Billie Holliday are rated as the 60th greatest singers of all time.
I thought David Chase (of the Soprano's) got his break in the 1970's Rockford Files? It may have been before that.
You're right, eppis1. Chase did work on Rockford Files. He morphed NEx from its' gentle nature into a more mean-spirited direction in its' last seasons. Which apparently inspired that Soprano vibe a few years later. ... Another show which deserved mention would be "The Lieutenant", Gene Roddenberry's first show. Hard to imagine nowadays, but it depicted a peace-time Marine Corps. Although Viet-Nam's spectre was in the back ground. Only lasted one season, but starred Gary Lockwood as Lt. William Tiberius (yes, Tiberius) Rice & Robert Vaughn as Captain Raymond Rambridge. Plenty of future Star Trek actors too.
"12 0' Clock High" & "WKRP"
--------Thumbs Up!!!-------
with the exception of "The Sopranos" (which is the best TV show to ever air) where are the other landmark TV shows. What, no 'Combat', 'Miami Vice', 'Mission Impossible', 'Get Smart', 'Are You Being Served?' and countless others.
...Miami Vice was probably my favorite show in the 1980s.
Look what "Mission Impossible" wrought.
No "Ernie Kovacs" who started an entire genre of TV, although they did get Sid Caesar's "Show of Shows".
No "Laugh In".
They got Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show" but his predecessors, Steve Allen and Jack Paar were as good or better.
No "Sargent Bilko" or the later WWII shows like "Combat" you mentioned, "McHales Navy" or "Hogan's Heroes".
.
...,never heard of it so I Googled it - guess that's where Mr. Bean got his start.
Speaking of British shows, was Monty Python on the list?
The final season is about the trenches of WWI and it was hilarious but had one of the most touching endings. Quite unexpected.
Hugh Laurey got his big start on the series and was quite funny.
Yeah, the Pythons made the list at #29. Given some of the other English shows that made the list I do not understand why/how "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" did not make the list at all.
First off they had never heard of it.
Second if they have they would have found anything that doesn't find government adorable to be deplorable.
Those two shows could be the most incredible that ever made it on to TV, anywhere.
Like 1984, everyday I use what I learned from YES to understand what is going on in the world of government bureaucracy.
Second season of BLACKADDER is the best for me. Though the one about getting married to the Spanish princess in the first is a standout.
Third and fourth did nothing for me.
How Atkinson segued into BEAN is a mystery to me. BEAN was initially funny but got old really quick.
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