I don't know what makes a show great. I used to hang on every episode of Maverick and Cheyenne. But I would be alone here in asserting them as "great," I suppose.
Situation Comedy: (Tie) Sienfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm
Live Comedy: The Daily Show
Drama: (Tie) Six Feet Under and The Sopranos
News: Meet the Press
Mini-series: (Tie) Shogun and Peter the Great
Music: (Tie) The Orchestra and Beethoven's Ninth, Leonard Bernstein Berlin Wall Commemeration
Musical: "Sunday in the Park with George"
Oh, and science fiction:
Dr. Who
MASH
Daria
Sopranos
Andy Griffith
Daily Show
Star Trek (Original)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Glad to see all the votes for Curb Your Enthusism. I was going to nominate that show myself but decided it hadn't been on long enough. It's Seinfeld with the gloves off.
The Twilight Zone
The Jack Benny Show
The Honeymooners
The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
Underdog
The Simpsons
keep em coming, i figure i'll make a poll with every show that gets more than four or so mentions
Haven't watched TV for years. Can't think of any prog I'd stay in to watch instead of going out or reading a book or magazine.
forgot one. perhaps the funniest (IMO of course) TV show ever:
"You Bet Your Life" Groucho rules!!!
Smallvile
The O.C.
Everwood
Every Star Trek - execpt the first
Gillmore Girls
C.S.I.
Friends
That 70's Show
I can't believe *no one* said this:
West Wing
The Phantom of the Open Hearth.
Was on PBS... 'bout 2 hours (maybe an hour and a half) movie adapted from Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters by Jean Shepard. some of the same material was used for the movie Christmas Story ("You'll put your eye out!")
"The Beverly Hillbillies": quite possibly the show that inspired then-FCC Chairman Newton Minow to declare that TV was "a vast wasteland." And this was years before cable!
The Simpsons.
The Goodies.
Monkey.
Monty Pythons Flying Circus.
Blackadder.
Red Dwarf.
Seinfeld. (But only just.)
The Money Or The Gun. (Aussie show you've probably never heard of.)
The Simpsons (before Series 11)
Seinfeld (The best show ever)
The West Wing
Curb your Enthusiasm
Six feet under
Frasier (before it got inexplicably shite).
Carnivale.
Blackadder (brilliance! I pity anyone who has not watched it)
Present day:
Six Feet Under
24 (the first series)(it's a little soap opera now)
Alias (same thing.)
Ah freshness.
Edgar votes for Maverick and Cheyenne, me too. Still have nightmares about the bear. :wink:
Also from the past:
the Disney shows
Mickey Mouse Club (and the Corky and White Shadow inner series)
Wonderful World of Disney
(and the Davy Crockett series)
(and the programs about the race to space)
On a par with Saturday Night Live (though not live)
This was the Week that Was
Laugh-in
the greatest television show of all time:
60 Minutes
Joe
Star Trek
Seinfeld
Leave it to Beaver
Law and Order
Re: Nominate your favorite TV show for greatest show ever.
Twilight Zone - classic episodes (Rod Serling was a genius)
Late Night w/ Conan
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Monster Garage (Discovery channel)
All in the Family
Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Bob Newhart - shrink
Cheers
CSI
Starksy and Hutch
Twilight Zone
SpongeBob Square Pants
