Favourite shows..past or present.

Name a few of your favourite type of shows you like to watch on tv.

Mine:-

1. Knight rider (great as a kid to watch but never like the modern ones)

2. Quantum leap (brilliant show and needs to come back)

3. Red dwarf (stopped watching it after the episode rimmer went in the time machine, all the later/modern ones were crap)

4. Columbo (love this..never tiring)

5. Office (inc american version..only seen up to season 5)

If im not watching repeats of the above, any decent documentaries about nature and etc is what i like to learn about...youtube has some great info.

What are yours?

I also finished watching breaking bad last month and just started watching episode 5 of 24...im not sure i have the strength to complete another 138 episodes!

Current shows I like:

The Blacklist
Hannibal
Black Sails

Can't wait for the 2nd episode of The After :cool:

I thought I was the only one that loved Columbo. "Just one more thing"


Don't watch much TV recently but have to say


Sopranos
Sons of Anarchy
Modern Family
Trailer Park Boys
24
Oz
Blue Bloods
Happy Days (I had a Fonzie lunch box)
All in the Family
Law and Order

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I thought I was the only one that loved Columbo. "Just one more thing"


Don't watch much TV recently but have to say


Sopranos
Sons of Anarchy
Modern Family
Trailer Park Boys
24
Oz
Blue Bloods
Happy Days (I had a Fonzie lunch box)
All in the Family
Law and Order

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Sopranos was good but i could only watch it once.

Columbo and the others i could watch over and over again..

Shows I enjoyed in chronological order..

Air Wolf- this super helipcopter fascinated me as a child.. first season is classic..

Married with children - is probably the first comedy show that me laugh my ass off.. the jokes that al bundy made were so different compared to other tv characters and was so funny to me because he had the kind of jokes that real life kids would use on school playgrounds.. it was corny , sexist, cheesy but funny as fuck. This show is special to me because I was going through puberty at the time and got so excited whenever a hot chick would come out.. I recorded all the episodes on vhs especially the ones thst had some hot broad in it... married with childten is the shit..

Wonder Years...... I grew up with this show.. went from a kid to a teenager while watching WY..

Then I stopped watching tv during my teenage years cuz I was busy exploring life outside...

The Sopranos is the first show I got into years later..

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Shows I enjoyed in chronological order..

Air Wolf- this super helipcopter fascinated me as a child.. first season is classic..

Married with children - is probably the first comedy show that me laugh my ass off.. the jokes that al bundy made were so different compared to other tv characters and was so funny to me because he had the kind of jokes that real life kids would use on school playgrounds.. it was corny , sexist, cheesy but funny as fuck. This show is special to me because I was going through puberty at the time and got so excited whenever a hot chick would come out.. I recorded all the episodes on vhs especially the ones thst had some hot broad in it... married with childten is the shit..

Wonder Years...... I grew up with this show.. went from a kid to a teenager while watching WY..

Then I stopped watching tv during my teenage years cuz I was busy exploring life outside...

The Sopranos is the first show I got into years later..

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Didn't want to admit to Wonder Years as I didn't want to look like a girl but if you can do it I guess I can too. Winnie was cute
Forgot about Married with Children. Crush on Christina Applegate along with Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazard earlier on.
I see a theme here. Maybe I was just a perverted kid.

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Shows I enjoyed in chronological order..

Air Wolf- this super helipcopter fascinated me as a child.. first season is classic..

Married with children - is probably the first comedy show that me laugh my ass off.. the jokes that al bundy made were so different compared to other tv characters and was so funny to me because he had the kind of jokes that real life kids would use on school playgrounds.. it was corny , sexist, cheesy but funny as fuck. This show is special to me because I was going through puberty at the time and got so excited whenever a hot chick would come out.. I recorded all the episodes on vhs especially the ones thst had some hot broad in it... married with childten is the shit..

Wonder Years...... I grew up with this show.. went from a kid to a teenager while watching WY..

Then I stopped watching tv during my teenage years cuz I was busy exploring life outside...

The Sopranos is the first show I got into years later..

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Didn't want to admit to Wonder Years as I didn't want to look like a girl but if you can do it I guess I can too. Winnie was cute
Forgot about Married with Children. Crush on Christina Applegate along with Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazard earlier on.
I see a theme here. Maybe I was just a perverted kid.

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Yep Yep on Kelly Bundy and Daisy Duke ;D

Anyone for Nicole Eggert on Charles in Charge :confused:

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Shows I enjoyed in chronological order..

Air Wolf- this super helipcopter fascinated me as a child.. first season is classic..

Married with children - is probably the first comedy show that me laugh my ass off.. the jokes that al bundy made were so different compared to other tv characters and was so funny to me because he had the kind of jokes that real life kids would use on school playgrounds.. it was corny , sexist, cheesy but funny as fuck. This show is special to me because I was going through puberty at the time and got so excited whenever a hot chick would come out.. I recorded all the episodes on vhs especially the ones thst had some hot broad in it... married with childten is the shit..

Wonder Years...... I grew up with this show.. went from a kid to a teenager while watching WY..

Then I stopped watching tv during my teenage years cuz I was busy exploring life outside...

The Sopranos is the first show I got into years later..

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Didn't want to admit to Wonder Years as I didn't want to look like a girl but if you can do it I guess I can too. Winnie was cute
Forgot about Married with Children. Crush on Christina Applegate along with Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazard earlier on.
I see a theme here. Maybe I was just a perverted kid.

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Yep Yep on Kelly Bundy and Daisy Duke ;D

Anyone for Nicole Eggert on Charles in Charge :confused:

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Remember Fall Guy and Heather Thomas. :cool:

1. The Young Ones
2. Bottom
3. Blackadder
4. Father Ted
5. Jools Holland
6. Panorama
7. Newsnight
8. South Park

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1. The Young Ones
2. Bottom
3. Blackadder
4. Father Ted
5. Jools Holland
6. Panorama
7. Newsnight
8. South Park

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Bottom was good.

And alan partridge.

Anyone remember "orrible" with jonny vaughan and ricky groves?

Fucking hell! How did I miss Alan Partridge? An absolute hero. Fawlty Towers also.

Both great programmes.

Ideal - Johnny Vegas is a genius and Moz was a great character.

MASH - even the theme music was full of Pathos.(great cover by the manics) brilliant cast.

Arena,Horizon,The South Bank Show - Imagine tries but Yentob is a bit sycophantic.

Absolutely - essential cult viewing, Mr George and Mr Don and Denzil and Gwynethddddd were hilarious.

The Winter Paralympics - The limbless luge is a hoot and everybody turning into Yentob and sucking up to Putin is hilarious.

Who remembers the Adventure Game on bbc?

Weird as fuck game show where the plants used to wobble and make a strange noise and the final test was called the Vortex, a kind of draughts match with one contestant against an invisible alien thing? :)

Harold Lloyd was another fave after school as a nipper ;)

I love the Middle, we watch that as a family, excellent US comedy show.

Remember He Man, Dungeon and Dragons and Thunder Cats.

The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Horizon.
Monkey.
Play for Today.
Thunderbirds.
Cracker Jack.

Monkey was my favourite. 10/10.:cool: I've rewatched a few episodes recently. Really nuts with those horribly fake Asian accents.

Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
and Grange Hill

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The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Horizon.
Monkey.
Play for Today.
Thunderbirds.
Cracker Jack.

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Monkey ! ...Classic..Water Margin was good too. CrackerJack "ooh I could crush a grape" ;D

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The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Horizon.
Monkey.
Play for Today.
Thunderbirds.
Cracker Jack.

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Monkey ! ...Classic..Water Margin was good too. CrackerJack "ooh I could crush a grape" ;D

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A big grape or a small one using your Cracker Jack pencil.;D

A Cracker Jack pencil I would have killed for one, never ever seen one bit like a Dodo.;D

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A Cracker Jack pencil I would have killed for one, never ever seen one bit like a Dodo.;D

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A Cracker Jack pencil I would have killed for one, never ever seen one bit like a Dodo.;D

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I can now die a happy man.;D

what a good thread, in no particular order (and with no reference to the age I was at the time)

The Sopranos
Dexter
The Wire
True Blood
Father Ted
Alan Partridge
Family Guy
The League of Gentlemen
Different Strokes
Gilligans island
Mighty Mouse
Dangermouse
Black adder
Only Fools and Horses

Blake 7
Dr Who Tom Baker
Different Strokes

That bizzare carton during tv am called Ludwig ;)

Lol at crackerjack hahahaha

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I love the Middle, we watch that as a family, excellent US comedy show.

Remember He Man, Dungeon and Dragons and Thunder Cats.

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Hated he-man
Loved dungeon and dragons
Loved thundercats.

Anyone remember "visionaries"?
Holograms on the chest etc.

And my favourite of all time..the transformers cartoon movie when optimus prime finally dies and rodimus prime arrives!

"This is the end of the road, Galvatron!"

No one watched quantum leap?!

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No one watched quantum leap?!

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We've had that out here or something very similar. I used to catch a few after the news cutting edge stuff and all that.

I preferred the English shows really as I grew up cause thats the majority of what we got served up until the late 70's. The Aussie ones were probably kept here and not released over there not sure :-\.
Skippy the bush kangaroo was a decent show for a youngster. I also dreamed of Jennie as well as every other red blooded boy on the block.

Every English show you guys have mentioned except cracker jack dont think we got that :-\ maybe I was out and about by then?:-\

I grew up with Porridge, Softly softly,Minder, Used to watch Cat Weasel a bit later on.The Avengers with Dianna Rigg, now were are going back into early hard on days.
Parkinson was great. So is Graeme Norton these days, very engaging at times.


Sinefield was one of the funniest things, I wouldnt swap that era for anything. Americans really shone out with that style of comedy, prior to that it was all about hanging shit on someone in most American humor which Australia and England didnt really get, not when it was on mass.

Hogans Heros was great for its time a real family show.

A show called The Invaders was fun and creepy too for its time.

America has always ruled with cartoons still does; Looney tunes no 1. Ren and Stimpy fuck me :-X, the list goes on and on.


Monkey was magic and the english translations made it even more so.

England: Pie in the sky, Love the ambiance captured in that series the music and the soft English lighting seem to set a whole feel to country life there and the police business storyline was just a bonus.

Little Britain first few series were epic but ran thin when over in the states.

Bellbird, Homicide ,Division four, for any older Aussies out there.

Lately Blacklist. Antiques roadshow. The Aussie version of 'Wilfred' is so funny you guys got your versions balls snipped off cause of your weird ratings and not being allowed some words or total nudity. Our Wilfred was a total mongrel.

House'os is just insane, funny, but watchable.


Ive watched Downtown Abbey :p yeah yeah I know, should never had started.

I havent got to the latest installation yet though, as we got a local crime docufilm on thats running in the same time slot which is watchable,its called Fat Tony;
a Melbourne crime story about all the fools that are in boxes under the ground and in jail for it.

The Addams family ruled.

I love Banshee ;)

The Twilight Zone. Tales from the Crypt. Mystery Science theater 3000. Kung Fu. Rat Patrol. Combat. The Young Ones. Northern Exposure. Animal Kingdom. Ba Ba Blacksheep. Rockford Files. Columbo. Freaks and Geeks. Fat Albert and the gang! Sigmund & the sea monsters. Hill Street blues. Few favs as a "kid".

Star Trek Generation and Voyager when seven of nine came in.

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The Twilight Zone. Tales from the Crypt. Mystery Science theater 3000. Kung Fu. Rat Patrol. Combat. The Young Ones. Northern Exposure. Animal Kingdom. Ba Ba Blacksheep. Rockford Files. Columbo. Freaks and Geeks. Fat Albert and the gang! Sigmund & the sea monsters. Hill Street blues. Few favs as a "kid".

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I have a signed James Garner Photo somewhere that my old man got when he was out in Hollywood in the 1970's ;D

Manimal, Knight Rider and Red Triangle films late on channel 4.

;D James Garner. The every man disheveled sleuth. Oh and of course..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d5dKBMK5mo this was great at 5....or many years later stoned on high grade bud :-X

am i the only one man enough to say i loved:

miami vice
magnum p.i.
the equalizer

???

or no one else liked them???

currently:

elementary (yeah i know bbc sherlock is supposed to be superior but have not watched it)

black list

agents of SHIELD




just recently:

alphas
alcatraz

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am i the only one man enough to say i loved:

miami vice
magnum p.i.
the equalizer

???

or no one else liked them???

currently:

elementary (yeah i know bbc sherlock is supposed to be superior but have not watched it)

black list

agents of SHIELD




just recently:

alphas
alcatraz

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Miami vice - only for the white ferrari testarossi and the theme tune.

oh yeah,

Twin Peaks first season, watched second season, but they jumped the shark already


as a kid - watched (in no order)

MASH
Happy Days
Laverne and Shirley
Welcome Back Kotter
Mork and Mindy
Fantasy Island
Love Boat
Thundarr the Barbarian
Blackstar
Star Trek TOS
The Avengers (John Steed and Emma Peel... Emma Peel !!!)
Batman (Adam West... Julie Newmar!!!)
Buck Rogers (Erin Grey!!!)
UFO
Twilight Zone
Mission: Impossible
Spce: 1999
Six Million Dollar Man
Fall Guy (Heather Thomas!!! as noted by Master)
Bionic Woman
Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter!!!)
Charlie's Angels (Jacklyn Smith!!!)
Dallas
Voyagers
Quantum Leap
Shazam
Isis
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Superfriends
Greatest American Hero (Connie Seleca!!)
I Spy
A Man from UNCLE
Get Smart (!!)
Sledgehammer (!!!!)


man, thank you -- feel like a kid again lol

The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
Cheers
The Simpsons
South Park
Venture Brothers
Squidbillies
AquaTeen Hunger Force
The Cosby Show
All In The Family
Family Ties
Miami Vice
Night Court
Empty Nest
Seinfeld
The Honeymooners
I Love Lucy
Happy Days
Bored to Death
Boardwalk Empire
Deadwood
Rome


And game shows...
Match Game
Hollywood Squares
Family Feud
Press Your Luck
Win Lose or Draw
Scrabble
Joker's Wild

and of course if you add in video podcasts... Getting Doug With High

Ooooh how could I forget

COPS
Wipeout
Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (aka MXC)
Jackass
Wildboyz

Seeing people get injured is humorous