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Top 10 TV Shows of All Time
catalogs ^ | July 6, 2010

Posted on 10/15/2010 9:08:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono

"Any top ten list is bound to be subjective, but this one has criteria: to make this list, a show must have longevity (Sports Night was great, but didn’t last), staying power (Three’s Company was funny, but hopelessly dated), strong writing (hopefully self-explanatory) and memorable moments (there’s a good reason that the final episode of M.A.S.H. was until very recently the most watched show in television history). Here are my choices, and let the debate begin."


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: seinfeld; television; top10
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To: JoeProBono
And just where in the heck is Chester Goode in that picture?
I can see him right now running through town hollering "Mr. Dillon, Mr. Dillon, JoeProBono left me out of the dang picture" ;^)
101 posted on 10/15/2010 9:48:31 PM PDT by The Cajun
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To: JoeProBono
As a 12 year old, I found Batman particularly interesting every time Cat Woman was tied up...
102 posted on 10/15/2010 9:50:47 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: JoeProBono

103 posted on 10/15/2010 9:51:09 PM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: samadams2000

104 posted on 10/15/2010 9:51:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono
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105 posted on 10/15/2010 9:51:26 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
There ya go!

Death Valley Days w/Ronald Reagan

High Chaparrel

26 Men

Wagon Train

Sgt. Preston of the Yukon

Judge Roy Bean

Captain Gallent

Jungle Jim

Adventures in Paradise

Whirlybirds

106 posted on 10/15/2010 9:51:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to do something about "Public Servants Gone Wild".)
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To: JoeProBono
The Beverly Hillbillies

"I cain't believe we didn't make the top 10"

107 posted on 10/15/2010 9:52:55 PM PDT by Semper Mark (0bama - "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.")
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To: smokingfrog

The Simpsons... 464 episodes and counting...

Gunsmoke..... 635 Episodes

(I would have thought The Simpsons had more by now....)


108 posted on 10/15/2010 9:52:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: JoeProBono
Dad - "Where's Little Joe?"

Hoss - "Gone to town to get his ass kicked again."

109 posted on 10/15/2010 9:53:45 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: JoeProBono
Did you know:

* Cheers had an old-time radio grandfather---co-creator James Burrows is the son of Abe Burrows, eventually a Broadway writing legend but once the co-creator (with star Ed Gardner) and original co-writer (with Gardner) of Duffy's Tavern, perhaps the first situation comedy (of sorts) centered around a downtown bar, albeit one that made Cheers resemble the pub in the Waldorf-Astoria, and a show that blueprinted just about any fabled television bar, whether recurring sketches (Jackie Gleason's famous Joe the Bartender sketches were practically Duffy's Tavern derivatives, right down to Frank Fontaine's Crazy Guggenheim being an explicit cop of Duffy's deceptive nitwit Finnegan) or full shows (including All in the Family's offspring, Archie Bunker's Place).

* M*A*S*H also could be called a Duffy's offspring---M*A*S*H mastermind Larry Gelbart got his comedy start writing for Duffy's Tavern . . . as a precocious teenager.

110 posted on 10/15/2010 9:53:49 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Ronald Reagan on the set of Death Valley days


111 posted on 10/15/2010 9:54:04 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: death2tyrants
And a one-ah and a two-ah...
112 posted on 10/15/2010 9:54:32 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: death2tyrants

Harry Caray was on Lawrence Welk? Holy cow, who knew, lol.


113 posted on 10/15/2010 9:55:55 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Markos33

114 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:43 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Though I don’t know, I think the television season was much longer in days of yore. I liked watching the beginning of Combat! starring Vic Morrow. Just once I wanted the bomb blasts to cover the entire screen.


115 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:43 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
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To: massmike

116 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:57 PM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (0BAMAC0RN)
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To: JoeProBono

Best shows on now:

Dexter

Breaking Bad

The IT Crowd

Weeds

Californication

Nurse Jackie

Graham Norton

None on the major networks, how sad is that?


117 posted on 10/15/2010 9:57:10 PM PDT by Sto Zvirat
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To: JoeProBono

Combat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat


118 posted on 10/15/2010 9:57:31 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: massmike
I'm surprised The Twilight Zone didn't make the list myself. I'm glad, though, that Gunsmoke didn't---the original radio show was ten times as good as its television offspring and probably one of the three most intelligently-written and intelligently-acted Westerns of either medium.

The others? Frontier Gentleman, and a dead heat between Fort Laramie---absolutely no relation to the eventual television hit Laramie, and starring Raymond Burr pre-Perry Mason---and the too-short-lived but brilliant James Stewart vehicle, The Six Shooter.

Bonanza may have been entertaining but it doesn't belong in the aforesaid league. (Come to think of it, neither did The Lone Ranger.) As if much of anything really does.

119 posted on 10/15/2010 9:58:12 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: JoeProBono
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120 posted on 10/15/2010 9:58:35 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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