Writer Jordan Oakes recently posted a list of his all-time Top 10 favorite TV series. One could do worse than copying someone as cool as Jordan, so I slapped together my own list.
(Except my list is twice as long. I didn't feel like narrowing my choices down to a mere 10. That would be, in the immortal words of Maynard G. Krebs, WORK...?!)
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| And, for all that, The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis didn't make my list. |
The shows are not ranked, just listed alphabetically. My all-time # 1 is probably either The Good Place or maybe This Is Us. Or Jeopardy!, really. Batman, The Monkees, and Star Trek--a 1966 trifecta!--have had the most prevailing and pervasive influence on impressionable li'l me.
I'm an unabashed fan of television. I hate reality shows, but I do watch American Idol without shame (and without ever thinking it belongs on this list). I love game shows, though only Jeopardy! rises to the level of an All-Time Fave Rave. Syracuse University men's basketball games are also must-see TV for me, but that can't count as a TV series.
And there's a lot missing from this list. Hell, I probably forgot something I would have absolutely included if I were, y'know, actually thinking about it. It's important to note that I'm not under oath. From Get Smart to M*A*S*H to The Mary Tyler Moore Show to a number of Marvel Comics-based programs, my love of TV borders on the promiscuous.
But there's no shame in that. These are the 20 I think I've loved the most.
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I missed a lot of TV over the years we were able to travel around the Midwest (yes mostly as Midwest Guest) and then as Timmy got progressively too ill to travel, and the TV offerings in hospital and medical rehab places didn’t allow me to really regularly get involved with watching scripted shows , so the only one that is popping into my mind that I really enjoyed is “Northern Exposure”.
ReplyDeleteNorthern Exposure! Another good one.
DeleteThe shows I go back to are; M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Honeymooners, Frasier and The Rockford Files. I'm sure there are more.
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