Top 10 TV Shows


This medium has much to blame for the “dumbing down” of our culture, but there have been some great productions as well. What's your list? What might have you leave the "sweet spot" for an hour? (Make me mad that I forgot to include one or two.)

Top Ten TV Shows (Not in order.)

1. Rockford Files
2. Northern Exposure
3. Star Trek
4. Twin Peaks
5. Millennium
6. Andy Griffith Show (black & white)
7. Saturday Night Live (70’s)
8. Law and Order
9. McNeil Lehrer News Hour (PBS)
10. Twighlight Zone
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M*A*S*H
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Babylon 5
Mission Impossible
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Andy Griffith Show (B&W)
NYPD Blue
Saturday Nite Live (first 4 years)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
In no particular order:

The Dick Van Dyke Show
Burke's Law
M*A*S*H*
Mission Impossible
The original Lucile Ball Show
Soundstage
The Simpsons
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Dick Cavett show
Homicide
I just received a couple of negetive votes for my TV choices. It's kind of creepy when you think about it (you creepers out there). Anyway I would like to add "The Rockford Files" but can't think of one from my list to eliminate. I remember being completely lost while watching the series years ago and consider it great entertainment
Burkes Law.....!!!! Didn't even realize anyone else on the
face of the earth remembered it.
Bob Newhart.
Maverick.
MTM.
77 Sunset Strip....only for the "camp" 50's value.
Outer Limits.
Ed Sullivan..
Perhaps the #1...The Tonight Show..w/J.C.
Wanted Dead or Alive....Steve McQueen
Longstreet
Wild, Wild West.
Midnight Special.
Original cast, SNL
Dick Cavett
anything on public TV about animals....
Playhouse 90
The Dean Martin Show.
What's My Line
Did I mention Sullivan...Beatles...DC5...etc.
The Fugitive.....a Quinn Martin Production....
Walt Disney's shows
the original few years of 60 Min....before they started making the show up....
Judd for the Defense.....Carl Betz at his best
Arrest and Trial...see above..ie:CB
I could go on....but Telivision before cable..is like movies
before video's......
The connection between Broadway, the rest of "live stage",
novels, and the written word was as good for T.V. as it
was for films.