Top 20 TV Shows

[Jax]

Carrying on the theme of TOP 20 (Games & Movies), lets move on to TV shows...

IN NO ORDER...

Boston Legal
House
Lost
Jericho
Buffy
Angel
Babylon 5
Life on Mars
Red Dwarf
Doctor Who (Nu)
Star Trek TNG
Star Trek DS9
Star Trek Enterprise
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
The X Files
Have I Got News For You
Scrubs
The Sopranos
The Simpsons

 

[Hermiod]

In no order:

Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Enterprise/Star Trek: Enterprise
Babylon 5
The X-Files
Stargate SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (Remake)
The West Wing
Lost
The Simpsons
Futurama
Oz
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Heroes

 

[Orac Zen]

Hill Street Blues
Six Feet Under
Blakes 7
Babylon 5
Farscape

Those five are in a league of their own. Followed by (in no particular order):

The Avengers
Doctor Who (classic)
Star Trek: TOS
TNG
Voyager
As Time Goes By
The Golden Girls
Friends
I Love Lucy
Lost
Heroes
Yes, Minister / Prime Minister
Get Smart
Now and Again
The Good Life.

 

[D Man]

TNG
DS9
Babylon 5
Firefly
BSG (new)
Lost
Heroes
Friday Night Lights
Dexter
24
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Futurama
Arrested Development
Freaks & Geeks
House, M.D.

That's 16 off the top of my head in no particular order, right now I can't think of another 4. Those are all the shows I could watch over and over without getting sick of them (with a few bad seasons here and there, of course ).

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

In random order

Star Trek - DS9
Star Trek - TNG
24
Farscape
Heroes
LOST
CNNNN (Chaser Non-Stop News Network)
Backberner
D-Generation - The Late Show
Firefly
Life On Mars
Doctor Who
Red Dwarf
The X Files
Futurama
Get Smart
Arrested Development
The Goodies
How I met your Mother
BSG (new)

 

[Roshi]

In no order:

Star Trek (TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VGR, ENT)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Lost
The Blackadder (I, II, III and Goes Forth)
Spaced
Life On Mars
The IT Crowd
Dexter
How I Met Your Mother
Doctor Who
Torchwood
Veronica Mars
Twin Peaks
The Sopranos
Firefly
Reaper
Chuck
The Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Six Million Dollar Man
Californication


Heroes is "on the bubble". If the series regain the same sense of awe as in the first season, it might return to the flock.

 

[Josh_Lyman]

All five Star Treks
The West Wing
Mash
Hill Street Blues
NYPD Blue
Hawaii Five-O
The Simpsons
ER
St. Elsewhere
The Cosby Show
All in the Family
Maude
Emergency
King of the Hill
South Park
Cheers

 

[TheMasterOfOrion]

Mythbusters (love this one of the few shows where you might learn something)
StarTrek TOS
Jericho
Rome
Top Gear
Firefly
The Simpsons
Cops (mindless but very entertaining)
Babylon-5
Farscape
BBC's Sky at Night
Twin Peaks
South Park
The Sopranos
Band of Brothers
The Tick
Napoléon (french historical drama)
Deadwood
Twilight Zone: The Original Series
Planetes (japan anime series)
Charlie Jade
Commander in Chief

 

[crouteru]

Can't quite think of 20, but don't want to put shows in for the sake of it, even if I watch them often:

The X-Files
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Stargate SG-1
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Battlestar Galactica (New)
The Simpsons
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Angel
Lost
Babylon 5
Alias
24
Sliders
Farscape
Stargate: Atlantis
Prison Break

 

[Jono]

No particular order:

Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Stargate SG-1
Coupling
The Simpsons
Firefly
The Micallef Program
Robotech
Transformers G1
The Office UK
The Office US
The Adventures of Lano and Woodley
Full Frontal
The Chappelle Show
Scrubs
Invader Zim
Hustle
Lost
Red Dwarf
NuDr Who
Blackadder

 

[unimatrix7]

The West Wing
24
The Practice

These three are a class above the rest. Everything else is in no particular order...

Third Watch
Jericho
Angel
Buffy
SG-1
Keeping up Appearances
Lost
The Simpsons
Smallville
Alias
One Tree Hill


I think that's about it. No others spring to mind anyway.

Oh, I'd put The Nanny on the list. But then you'd all laugh at me

 

[cardinal biggles]

1. Boston Legal
2. NYPD Blue
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. Doctor Who (2005-present)
5. Father Ted
6. Star Trek (TOS)
7. M*A*S*H
8. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
9. Waiting for God
10. Knight Rider
11. The Critic
12. Firefly
13. The Muppet Show
14. Mythbusters
15. Robot Chicken
16. Deadwood
17. Monty Python's Flying Circus
18. Family Guy
19. Countdown with Keith Olbermann
20. The Colbert Report

 

[Mistral]

1-Star Trek
2-Babylon 5
3-The Simpsons
4-The mary Tyler Moore Show
5-The Carol Burnett Show
6-MASH
7-All In the Family
8-The Twilight Zone
9-Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
10-Sesame Street
11-The Muppet Show
12-Law and Order
13-I Love Lucy
14-Saturday Night Live
15-The Big Valley
16-Family
17-nBSG
18-Family Ties
19-Firefly(yeah, I'm serious-talk about leaving them wanting some more!)
20-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Honorable Mention-
Good Times
Cheers
Barney Miller
The Cosby Show

 

[judge alba]

in no order
1-star trek ds9
2- star trek tng
3- buffy
4- stargate sg-1
5- scooby doo
6- poirot
7- star trek tos
8- enterprise
9- wacky races
10- red dwarf
11- black adder
12- time team
13- bbc's sky at night
14- bbc's walking with dinosaurs
15- big cat week
16-simpsons
17- bbc's walking with cavemen
18- bbc's coast
19- the goodies
20- cops

 

[Spider]

In no order......

Star Trek TOS
Star Trek TNG
Combat!
The X-Files
SG-1
Twilight Zone (original)
Outer Limits (original)
Firefly
BSG (the new one)
Babylon 5
South Park
MASH
The Carol Burnett Show
Miami Vice
Frasier
Get Smart
Cimarron Strip
La Femme Nikita
Earth 2
I Spy

 

[kitkat]

No particular order:

NCIS
The X-Files
Firefly
BSG (new)
Stargate SG1
Stargate Atlantis
Medium
Lost
Heroes
Chuck
Cheers
CSI
Ghost Hunters (yeah, silly maybe, but I love that show)
The Twilight Zone (old, as in from the '60s)
Cold Case
M*A*S*H
Veronica Mars
That 70's Show (pretty much the only decent sitcom to come out in the last 15 years)

 

[backstept]

1 Battlestar Galactica
2 Journeyman
3 The Middleman
4 Star Trek
5 Charlie Jade
6 Heroes
7 Doctor Who
8 Arrested Development
9 Firefly
10 The Office
11 Farscape
12 Stargate SG-1
13 Dirty Jobs
14 Mythbusters
15 Last Comic Standing
16 Seven Days
17 Sliders
18 Highlander
19 The Invisible Man
20 Starhunter (I know I know, really really bad and campy show, but I love it for its charm and different approach to scifi)

 

[auntiehill]

In no particular order:

Dexter
Deadwood
Blake's 7
Doctor Who
ST: Deep Space Nine
ST: The Next Generation
MASH
Magnum, PI
Jonathan Creek
LOST
Stargate: SG1
Heroes
Firefly
St. Elsewhere
Boomtown
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries
All Creatures Great and Small
Robin of Sherwood
The Prisoner
The Sentinel

 

[Mistral]

Auntie-I'm surprised you didn't pick more "older" shows. Didn't watch much tv as a child?

 

[Warp Coil]

Alias
Angel
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Carnivale
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Everwood
Family Guy
Firefly
Futurama
Gilmore Girls
Heroes
Lost
The Office
The Simpsons
South Park
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Veronica Mars
Wonderfalls
The X-Files