In 2021, I posted a list of TV series that I've seen in their entirety, every episode. This is another update of that list, still missing a number of shows my memory can't retrieve, but adding some recent completions.
I like TV shows. This is an attempt to list every TV series I've ever watched in its entirety, from Season 1 Episode 1 through the blowout finale. It includes mini-series, broadcast series, cable series, and streaming series without discrimination. And it includes some series I saw piecemeal, as long as I'm sure I saw all of the episodes in whatever sequence I got to them. Some I saw on first run, others I watched after the fact. It is a woefully incomplete list--because, y'know, memory--but it's a start. I may come back here to add more series as I remember them.
The Adventures Of Superman
Angel
Arrow
Batman
Being Erica
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Bionic Woman [2007 series]
Birds Of Prey
Black Lightning
The Bob Newhart Show
Bosom Buddies
The Bronx Is Burning
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Bunheads
The Crazy Ones
Daisy Jones & The Six
Daredevil
The Defenders [Marvel Comics series]
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Echo
Ellery Queen
The Event
The Falcon And The Winter Soldier
Firefly
Firefly Lane
The Flash [1990-1991 series]
The Flash [2014-2023 series]
Flashforward [2009-2010 series]
Freaks And Geeks
Friends
Get Back
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Glee
Go On
The Good Place
Gotham
Gotham Knights
The Green Hornet
Hawkeye
Heroes
High Fidelity
Inhumans
Iron Fist
Jessica Jones
Ken Burns: Country Music
Krypton
Loki
Luke Cage
M*A*S*H
Mad Men
Marvel's Agent Carter
The Munsters
The New WKRP In Cincinnati
The Newsroom
No Ordinary Family
Pan Am
Peacemaker
The Penguin
Pistol
Police Squad!
Poker Face
Powerless
Pushing Daisies
Quantum Leap [1989-1993 series]
Quantum Leap [2022-2024 series]
Quarry
The Queen's Gambit
Reaper
Ringer
Schmigadoon!
Secret Invasion
She-Hulk: Attorney At Law
Sherlock
Smallville
Smash
Square Pegs
St. Elsewhere
Star Trek
Stargirl
*The Steven Banks Show
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
Supergirl
Superman And Lois
This Is Us
Timeless
Unorthodox
V [2009-2011 series]
Veronica Mars
The Village
WandaVision
We'll Get By
The West Wing
WKRP In Cincinnati
The Wonder Years [1988-1993 series]
The Wonder Years [2021-2023 series]
Younger
The Z-Suite
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
If I forgot any series you think I must have seen from start to finish, I welcome attempts to jog my stubborn memory.
There is one series cited with an asterisk: The 1994 PBS comedy series The Steven Banks Show. I saw all of the broadcast episodes, but there were additional episodes completed but never aired. Haven't seen those, so...asterisk. (Some previous versions of this list also asterisked NBC's 2017 DC Comics sitcom Powerless, but I have now seen all of its episodes, including the three that were never broadcast. I also found the series' unaired original pilot on YouTube; the pilot was very different from the later pilot and series, and I wish the show had followed its original direction.)
This list arbitrarily excludes animated shows, only because I didn't want to rack my brain to identify which cartoon series qualified; the cartoon list would include things like The Flintstones, Batman: The Animated Series (and the subsequent related Superman and Justice League series that were part of that B:TAS universe), and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Among live-action shows, Arrested Development and Twin Peaks would have been listed on the basis of their original network TV runs, but both have since been revived, and I haven't seen any of the latter-day episodes. (On the other hand, I have seen the continuations of Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars, and approve of both.)
Nobody Wants This and A Man On The Inside are current Netflix series that will probably make this list some day. I'm presuming Marvel/Disney + limited series Loki and Echo will not be returning; I'm treating the Daredevil: Born Again series as a sequel to the Netflix Marvel shows, but counting it separately.
I'm including Peacemaker, The Penguin, and The Z-Suite on this list, presuming that none of them will return for additional episodes. Peacemaker director James Gunn has said some characters from that show will turn up elsewhere, and plainly some of its story will continue in Gunn's future DC Comics movies (particularly the 2027 Superman sequel Man Of Tomorrow). I do think The Penguin could come back, particularly given its popularity and award-winning reception. I am bummed that Poker Face will not return; a proposed Poker Face reboot without star Natasha Lyonne will not be the same show, even if it happens.
I'm way late to the Ted Lasso party; I'd heard the hype and enthusiasm of the show's fans, but never had any real interest in investigating it. My wife and I wound up watching its pilot episode on a whim, loved it immediately, and obsessively watched all three seasons over the course of the next week or two. Ted Lasso now challenges The Good Place for the title of my all-time favorite series. I can't wait to see more. Believe!
I own home video copies of just a handful of complete TV series. I have
The Monkees on DVD and on Blu-ray,
Batman on Blu-ray (and I proposed a Batman-Monkees comic-book mashup
here),
Shindig! on an unauthorized set of DVD-Rs (and I really need to go back and finish watching those), homemade VHS copies of
The Green Hornet, and
Police Squad!, and, if we count non-physical media, the 2011-2012 series
Pan Am on
iTunes. I may write about
Pan Am some day; the timing of its original network run coincided with some emotional turmoil in my life, and the idea of jetting off to Europe seemed mighty appealing to me. The pilot episode of
Pan Am would serve as part of the climax in the first chapter of a long-gestating memoir I call
Spain, a piece which, frankly, I doubt I'll ever have the will to write
.
There are still a lot of older TV series that should probably be on this list. It's likely that I've seen every episode of Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, F Troop, The Odd Couple, The Andy Griffith Show, Hec Ramsey, Switch, When Things Were Rotten, and a big ol' bunch of others, but my reasonable doubt is sufficient for me to omit them from this list. There are some other older shows--The Guns Of Will Sonnett, the 1960s Tarzan, Disney's Zorro--I'd like the opportunity to re-visit, but for now, I don't think I've seen all of those episodes.
Yet. But Zorro is on Disney +. I've now seen the first season, and I'm digging the second and final season. Then I'll try to track down the four subsequent one-hour specials. They're not technically part of the Zorro series, I guess...
...But I still wanna see 'em.
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