Rank your favorite Series of all time

[Othello]

1- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Easily my favorite of all time. Hell it would be my favorite for just having In The pale Moonlight alone. Add in a ton of other great epiodes and it's an easy pick.

2- Supernatural- the brothers always bring great tv. Great characters and great drama.

3- Smallville- The Luthors are, along with Elim Garak from DS9 and a charcter from the 4th series below, my absolute favorite tv characters of all time.

4- Stargate Atlantis - I wanted several more season of Rodney McKay! I also think the Wraith are the best of the SG villians.

5- Enterprise- Never should have been canceled. The show kept getting better and better.

6- Voyager- I really enjoyed this series. One of the best character growths in a series with Tom Paris.

7- Stargate Universe- Could REALLY vault up the list. I like the darkness to this series. Reminds me of the tone of DS9.

8- Star Trek: TNG - how can you not like the series that relaunched Trek?

9- Stargate SG-1- Ranks below the other Stargates because mcKay is the ebst SG based character ever and I like Universe tone better. Still a damn good show though.

10- Lost- I've really enjoyed the roller coaster ride. That said this could easily go the way of nuBSG where I came to despise the series because of the ending arc.

Honorable Mentions

Doctor Who, Torchwood, Eurkeka, Warehouse 13, Star Trek:TOS, Hercules, Xena, Sanctuary.

 

[Starbreaker]

1. Lost
2. Babylon 5
3. Farscape
4. True Blood
5. Star Trek: DS9
6. Star Trek: TNG
7. Stargate SG-1
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. The X-Files
10. Fringe

 

[label]

1- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - ..........

You watched all that and ranked DS9 as your top show and haven't watched Bab5? Or is it that you've watched it and for some reason didn't care for it?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Red Dwarf - showing that comedy in space is doable. I haven't watched all series (up to three or four I think) but what I saw was hilarious.

You need to watch more. At the very least, Series V & VI have many of the show's best, most popular episodes. Series VII & VIII are controversial. Series VII had a lot of behind the scenes problems, since Chris Barrie wanted to leave the show and they got rid of the studio audience. Series VIII is kinda weird. It's almost a different show, but it's fun to see how the show adapted over the years. Plus, Series VIII really brings the Rimmer/Lister relationship back to the forefront.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" [...] Most of all I love how insightfully its characters and their lives reflect the high school and university experience (with a few major exceptions, like a lecturer yelling at and kicking a student out of a university class for talking. Ridiculous! They simply wouldn't care that much!)

Agreed. Although, the way that professor made Buffy feel was often the way I felt during my years at ASU.

1. Doctor Who (10th Doctor Era) My favourite series and favourite Doctor, i could rewatch all but 1 episode multiple times without getting bored.

Which episode? Is it "Love & Monsters"? "Love & Monsters" is the only David Tennant episode that I refuse to ever watch again.

Anyway, my list....

1. Angel. This show helped me get through a lot of tough times in my life. Like Angel, I too often felt like my life was meaningless and that nothing I did would ever make a difference. Then, Angel told me, "If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do." Great fight scenes. Addictive story arcs. Significant character evolution. Razor-sharp wit. Pretty much perfect TV. While I wanted more, I suspect the show ended exactly when it needed to. (Although, I wouldn't have minded some extra time with Illyria & the Angel/Spike relationship.)

2. Star Trek: Deep Space 9. While other shows have done more compelling story-arcs, this show was my introduction to a more serialized form of television. Plus, the characters all feel like my best friends. Of all the fictional worlds TV has created, not evoke a greater sense of comfort & longing than Quark's bar, hanging out with Odo, Nerys, Julian, Miles, Quark, Jadzia, Ezri, & Nog.

3. Wonderfalls. For those who don't know, Wonderfalls was a short-lived FOX fantasy comedy series about Jaye Tyler, a cynical Niagara Falls retail clerk who starts hearing voices from inanimate objects shaped like animals. The talking animals tell her to do things, often nonsensical things, that create a chain of events that somehow help people. This show has some of the sharpest comedy I've ever seen anywhere. "Wonderfallsian" has become an adjective I often use for brilliant TV comedies. It's got a sharper, darker edge than Pushing Daisies and better characters than Glee. Sadly, FOX cancelled it after only 4 episodes, even though they produced 13. (It's such a brilliant show but such a difficult concept to market, I'm sure it would have fared better if FOX had just aired all of the episodes, allowing word of mouth to build up.) Thankfully, all 13 episodes are available on DVD. And unlike most short-lived series, this one ends in such a way that, while it leaves things open for another season, you can just as easily tack on an "And they all lived happily ever after" to the end and feel satisfied.

4. 7 Days. "You are about to be let in on the most highly classified data America holds." "We have a device that can send one human being back in time 7 days." An unambitious but incredibly fun sci-fi action series about a government experiment in time travel, sending chrononaut Frank Parker back in time 7 days to avert plagues, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, assassinations, etc. The missions-of-the-week weren't important. What made the show so fun was the easy charm Jonathan LaPaglia brought to the role of Frank Parker, Parker's classic love/hate relationship with Russian scientist Olga Vukavitch, and Parker's playful antagonism against stuck-up security chief Nathan Ramsay. Goddammit, CBS, just PUT 7 DAYS ON DVD ALREADY!!!!!!!!

5. Stargate Atlantis. Three words: Dr. Rodney McKay. Lots of shows have an arrogant, cowardly scientist. But Stargate Atlantis is the only one where he manages to be the hero week after week, even if he's shitting himself while doing it. I also like the easy charm that Joe Fanigan brings to the role of military leader John Sheppard.

6. Red Dwarf. A great sci-fi comedy with one of the most talented casts in TV history. So many classic moments, from "It's a smegging garbage pod!" to Lister's shrinking boxers to Mr. Flibble to their unique, irreverant take on the JFK assassination. "It'll drive the conspiracy theorists nuts, but they'll never figure it out."

7. Star Trek: The Next Generation. The show that introduced me to adult sci-fi.

 

[Silent_Bob]

1. Doctor Who (10th Doctor Era) My favourite series and favourite Doctor, i could rewatch all but 1 episode multiple times without getting bored.

Which episode? Is it "Love & Monsters"? "Love & Monsters" is the only David Tennant episode that I refuse to ever watch again.

Spot on. I've seen it once when it aired and i will never watch it willingly again.

 

[ares93]

1. ST: DS9
2. The dead zone
3. NCIS: Los Angeles
4. ST: TNG
5. House MD
6. Sanctuary US
7. Stargate Atlantis
8. Star Trek: Enterprise
9. Fringe
10. Barátok Közt. (Dont ask...)

 

[Orac Zen]

Since this is the SF&F forum I'll stick to SF shows.

1. Blakes 7 / Babylon 5 / Farscape. B7 is slightly ahead of the other two but realistically it's so close it doesn't matter. For mine these shows are almost perfect, endlessly rewatchable, and (especially B7) infinitely quotable. They're among my favourite ever TV shows of any genre.


4. classic Doctor Who (to the end of the Davison era). The show that got me into TV SF. I must be one of the few people in existence who considers classic Who to be much more enjoyable than the new show. To each their own.

5. Lost. I'll need some time / perspective to determine if it will remain in this spot, but for now it seems about right.


6. TOS / TNG / Voyager. Very different shows but their best parts place them on the same sort of level for me.


There's nothing else I can think of offhand - SF-wise, anyway - that I'd place on this list. If Heroes had continued as brilliantly as it started it would definitely be there; I don't loathe it as much as some others but it certainly didn't maintain the standard of that incredible first season (maybe it wasn't possible). Fringe is okay but that's about all it is, IMO. Most of the shows others have mentioned I either never saw, disliked too much to continue with, found too boring to continue with, or just did absolutely nothing whatsoever for me. Again, to each their own.

 

[Darth_Daver]

1. ST: DS9
2. The dead zone
3. NCIS: Los Angeles
4. ST: TNG
5. House MD
6. Sanctuary US
7. Stargate Atlantis
8. Star Trek: Enterprise
9. Fringe
10. Barátok Közt. (Dont ask...)

I'm pretty sure the last one is a soap opera.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Just counting series that had at least a year (hard to judge otherwise).

1 - Lost
2 - DS9
3 - TOS
4 - Farscape
5 - The Twilight Zone
6 - Futurama
7 - B5
8 - nuBSG
9 - The X-Files
10 - Carnivale

But if Heroes had maintained its first season quality, it would be #1 by now.

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, just off the top of my head:

1) The Twilight Zone (original, of course)

2) TOS.

3) Buffy

4) Xena

5) The Avengers

6) TNG

7) DS9

8) Farscape

9) Angel

10) Kolchak: The Night Stalker


Honorable mentions: ALIAS, BABYLON-5, the new GALACTICA, THE X-FILES, the later TREK shows, FIREFLY, ROSWELL, THE 4400, LOST, the new DOCTOR WHO, PRIMEVAL, etc.

I was tempted to list DARK SHADOWS, but I fear that's mostly nostalgia speaking. It was an important part of my childhood, but I haven't had the nerve to watch it again for years . . . .

 

[Broccoli]

My favorite sci-fi series:

Earth: Final Conflict
Enterprise
Futurama
MST3K
Smallville
Stargate: SG-1
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation