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."
Star Trek.
MASH would be my only top 10 choice. Maybe All in the Family and SNL in its first couple years might make my top 100. I could never stand watching Seinfeld, West Wing, Cheers, or Dick Van Dyke.
Can't have a top ten list of TV’s best without including The Honeymooners, Andy Griffith Show with Don Knotts, Twilight Zone, CSI with William Peterson, Law and Order through Dennis Farina and my #1 pick, Gunsmoke.
OTOH, there is no accounting for taste.
LOL! Yeah. I’m more of a “Gunsmoke” kinda guy.
Helllllo,,,, Sea Hunt?? They include Lost, but no Sea Hunt??
No Star Trek?
In no order.....
All in the Family
I Love Lucy
Mary Tyler Moore
Andy Griffith Show
Bonanza
Carol Burnett Show
Twilight Zone
The Honeymooners
Dick Van Dyke Show
Gunsmoke
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Thank you. That’s more like it.
By the way, thanks. It’s a fun post:-)
All in the Family hasn’t aged well. Norman Lear was too heavy-handed inserting his politics in the show, and now it’s boring to hear Archie and Meathead argue about some long forgotten issue from the 1970s.
Where’s The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Love Lucy, The Red Skelton Show, Father Knows Best, My Three Sons, The Ed Sullivan Show, Laugh-in, I Spy, the Man From U.N.C.L.E., ........
Best show on TV now: The IT Crowd. Hilarious, its on Netflix
What night was that on?
You’re right.
How about the Prisoner? First season F-Troop (esp. those directed by Charles Rondeau). Any episode of Hogan’s Heroes directed by Gene Reynolds (who also did MASH). Black Adder. I don’t agree with many of those on the top ten list. I agree with most of those on your list Pissant.
Agree first two seasons of Happy Days before it jumped the shark.
Star Trek.
The original Star Trek’s were great.
Dick Van Dyke is #7 on his list.
Laugh-in? Funny for the two years it was relevant, but its so dated now its just an anthropological curiosity, My Three Sons went about 4 years too many - when you introduce a new kid, the show is doomed. Red Skeleton, never got into it, never found it funny. Isle of Lucy, good, not my bag, but much better than the Lucy Show and brilliant compared to Here’s Lucy.
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