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The best American TV shows ever made
The Sopranos (HBO, 1999-2007) The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008) Cheers (NBC, 1982-1993) Breaking Bad (AMC, 2008-2013) Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) Seinfeld (NBC, 1989-1998) I Love Lucy (CBS, 1951-1957) Deadwood (HBO, 2004-2006) All in the Family (CBS, 1971-1979)
Hill Street Blues (1981-1987) The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) Arrested Development (Fox, 2003-2006) SpongeBob SquarePants (Nickelodeon, 1999-present) The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS, 1961-1966) Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC, 1993-1999) Battlestar Galactica (SciFi, 2003-2009) The Bob Newhart Show (CBS, 1972-1978) Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, 200-2006) 24 (Fox, 2001-2010) Frank's Place (CBS, 1987-1988) Batman (ABC, 1966-1968) King of the Hill (Fox, 1997-2010) Review (Comedy Central, 2014-present) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix, 2015-present) Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014-present) The Mindy Project (Fox, 201202015; Huku, 2015-present) The Bernie Mac Show (Fox, 2001-2006) The Comeback (HBO, 2005 and 2014) Crime Story season 1 (NBC, 1986-1987) Dallas (CBS, 1978-1991; TNT, 2012-2014) Flight of the Conchords (HBO, 2007-2009) The Fugitive (ABC, 1963-1967) Gilligan's Island (CBS, 1964-1967) K Street (HBO, 2003) Unscripted (HBO, 2005) Little House on the Prairie (NBC, 1978-1982) Murphy Brown (CBS, 1988-1998) The Odd Couple (ABC, 1970-1975) Quantum Leap (NBC, 1989-1993) The Rifleman (CBS, 1958-1963) Robbery Homicide Division (CBS, 2002-2003) Rubicon (AMC, 2010) Samurai Jack (Cartoon Network, 2001-2004) Sons of Anarchy season 2 (FX, 2009) Star Trek: The Next Generation (Syndicated, 1987-1994) Trilogy of Terror (ABC, 1975) True Detective season 1 (HBO, 2014) The Westerner (NBC, 1960) There's also a section about miniseries and tv movies, and everything in this post is written about in this book. No more details from me.
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Ctrl-F tells me that the word "Married" is not to be found on this page. Therefore, this list is bogus. | |
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My own personal top 10 would be as follows; 1. The Wire 2. The Sopranos 3. Deadwood 4. Seinfeld 5. Curb Your Enthusiasm 6. Justified 7. The Larry Sanders Show 8. Boardwalk Empire 9. Batman: The Animated series 10. Firefly I'm pretty set on that top ten. I considered The Simpsons for the number 10 slot but it's been awful for the last 20 years so it really doesn't deserve a place in the top 10. Had they stopped around season 7, it would definitely have featured. | |
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I love Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt., well the 1st season anyway, 2nd season, likeable. [Edited 9/8/16 15:32pm] | |
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well that covers just about everything | |
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Carol Burnett's Show and Mama's Family tain't on there. | |
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But Fresh off the Boat and Ricky and Morty is | |
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Well that is a stretch but they are to new to be on this list. 20 years from now more than likely they wouldn't make the list. | |
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Just started watching MASH again for the first time in many, many years... I love it just as much now as I did when it originally aired. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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No Sanford and Son? Make it so, Number One... | |
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sexton said:
the jack benny program made the list, what's that? | |
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Friends should be higher ... love it or loathe it that show was the nineties and was huge globally. www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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Where the hell is Family Guy. My list of favs, don't ask which network as we don't get American networks in New Zealand, just buy the episodes for syndication or some shit. No roder just shows I really like here . Good to great - Hail America! (Will go out of my way to watch) 1. Family Guy 2. South Park 3. American Dad 4. Big Bang Theory 5. Cosby Show 6. Married with Children 7. The new normal 8. Fresh Prince of Bel Air 9. Bobs Burgers 10. Who do you think you are 11. The Nanny . Okay/ decent shows (Will watch if its on) 1. Mike and Molly 2. Modern Family 3. Roseanne 4. Family Matters ( first 3 seasons only, before it got Urkelled to death) 5. Step by Step 6. CSI (Original) 7. Bones 8. Brickleberry . Take it or leave it (Sometimes I will watch a chunk, but an adbreak or slow story steers me away) 1. American Pickers 2. Pawn Stars 3. Hardcore Pawn 4. Parolees and Pitbulls 5. My cat from hell 6. Cleveland Show 7. American Idol (Audition/Hollywood episodes only) . Dreadful crap (Most of this shit I have never watched, but will accidentially switch onto when channel surfing) 1. Kardashians (Anything at all Kardashin/Jenner related) 2. Reality shit like Survivor, ultimate race, biggest loser 3. American Idol/Xfactor/The voice type stuff 4. Any thing Tyler Perry related 5. Legends of Chamberlain Heights. 6. Any shows about finding aliens, bigfoot or featuring homophobic and racist rednecks. 7. Cooking and home do up shows. 8. Religious money shows like Creflo dollar/Benny Hinn/Joyce Meyer. 9. Any Judge/Court shows 10. Playboy mansion or any other porno related shows like Holly 11. Any thing on E or MTV channel other than some music videos 12. All shithop and jangly pop/boyband/disney/idol/douche bag frat rock videos). 13. Fox network, we actually get it on our cable tv. . In New Zealand we get a mix of American, British, Australian and local programming, British is by far the best with a long shot. NZ is next best and Aussie stuff the worst. America in the middle, some is excellent, the rest is the most brainless crap ever made. But in general I find American programmes cater for duller audiences with a shorter attention span. . For example - Who do you think you are - British episodes are 55 minutes long without ads and never reiterate stuff and go back centuries, the American ones while still good are only 40 minutes long with ads and often repeat stuff several times and never go back before the revolutionary war for whites and slaves for the Blacks. Also heavy advertising for ancestry .com not in the UK in which a variety of sources and companies are used, an Australian version is like the British too. Antiques Road show - British 55 minutes long, sober normal acting presenters and well dressed people - true antiques mostly before 1900 - American 40 minutes long, people informal dressed like a beach party or hip hop/rusted root concert - most stuff junky collectables from the 1900 - 1970 era and they have a treasure chest run across the screen that pops up the value. . So there you are. Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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So why is Freash off the Boat is mentioned? | |
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Would like to add Space 1999/Buck Rogers/Battlestar Galactica (1978)/True Blood/ Newhart | |
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American shows are getting shorter because of advertisements (MONEY). Plus they also have to pay actors high pay checks so that factors in. Look at the Big Bang Theory, those actors all got big pay increases. Most 30 minutes shows run like 20-22 minutes now (probably ran 25 minutes back in the 70's/80's minutes long). Some of the Big Bang Theory episodes are now 18-19 minutes long now. If you watch American TV shows from the 1960's-1980's they ran about 50 minutes. It's best to watch those classic shows on DVD because when they play them on TV they cut out alot of scenes. [Edited 9/9/16 15:04pm] | |
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What's so great about this shit SpongeBob SquarePants and where is it Desperate Housewives, House Of Cards and Hey Arnold? | |
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Best series Finale EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Exactly, never understood why people like it (adults that is). I love my cartoons but sorry way over rated. | |
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It is the same here, a lot of ads, British shows that run 55 minutes, have cuts in them, if there is only a 60 min timeslot and/or they are programmed to run 75 minutes with 20 minutes ads. . Ads are big business here too, with an average ad break lasting 4½ minutes every 12 minutes, usually these breaks will have a promo trailer at beginning and end and 9 - 12 ads all either 15 or 30 seconds. Several companies monopolise the ads here, mainly a ghetto appliance store called Harvey Norman, with "Shout style advertising", budget graphics and stupid cheap pictures, their stuf is all overpriced, but they have a ghetto layaway system that charges huge interest and fees and ghetto people always go there rather than a better store where you can a better deal with cash.. Also we have the Warehouse, which is our version of Walmart selling most cheap clothes, toys, appliances, homeware, stationery and books and 99% of it is made in Chinese sweatshops and falls apart quickly. Also there is copious advertising for McDonalds, KFC, Burger King and Carls Junior and also Coke and other sugary and junk foods (Only kids TV is free from it). . Outside of Primetime, we get the 0800 infomercial ads, for budget ghetto insurance (Cigna) and things like butt blasters, stoneware frypans and usual home shopping junk sold at exorbitant prices with extreme postage and handling charges that are the true cost. The cable channels often advertise programmes and rugby games, one series of channels advertise the same programme trailers every ad break for 6 weeks inertia advertising (BBC overseas which includes UKTV and Knowledge, otherwise known as the Top Gear and keep Michael Mosely in work channel) before it was a show called Dickensian and now its the Royal Navy. History Channel now is the same, and all the shows are either about Hiltler, bigfoot or aliens and rarely an intelligent show. . New American shows like Mike and Molly, 2 broke girls and the Bigbang theory now have 3 ad breaks per half hour and these are 4 minutes long each. One episode of BBT I taped at 17 minutes long with an extra 2 minutes taken out for opening and closing songs - so 15 minutes or 50% of the actual time slot was programme. Usually here, a half hour show has 2 ad breaks of 4.5 minutes each and a hour show has 4 ad breaks of 4.5 minutes or 5 minutes each. I think there are too many ads and the worst part is that there is almost no variety. Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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Let's not forget that alot of TV shows don't have TV intros anymore (The CW is the worse with almost no TV intros, and the shows still run about 38min-40minutes long) even if they do have an intro it's 50 seconds or less. American shows from the 60's-80's had cool TV intro's lasting about a minute and a half. | |
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Is Dr Quinn Medicine Woman (1993-1998) on there? That was a great show, you could play the drinking game to it.....take a sip whenever Dr Quinn has to perform brain surgery on the townfolk or when the guy who ran the saloon says "we don't like........"
[Edited 9/9/16 18:32pm] [Edited 9/10/16 2:33am] Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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