The Best TV Shows to Rewatch

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[Leaning Right]

List of the best TV shows to rewatch, as ranked by television fans and critics. When the weekend comes around and you can’t bring yourself to get out of your PJs and go out into the sun, it can be nice to have a lazy few days doing nothing but having a marathon of your past favorite shows.

[Leaning Right]

Something nonpolitical for a Sunday.

Below are their top five TV shows to rewatch.
As always with lists like these, your mileage may vary.

1. Friends
2. The Simpsons
3. House
4. The Office
5. Cheers

And among older voters:

1. The Simpsons
2. Seinfeld
3. The Twilight Zone
4. M*A*S*H
5. Looney Tunes

And gee, Wally. The Eddie Haskell Show didn't make the main list at all.
And it was only #89 on the older voters' list.

[arkfreepdom]

Any list without The Andy Griffith Show at the top or near is bogus.

[Zirondelle76]

I Love Lucy
Dick Van Dyke
Taxi
WKRP in Cincinatti

[ArtDodger]

And no F Troop!?
I could actually hear my brain cells dying after every episode.

[Carl Vehse]

Old TV series, including westerns, have been put out on DVD, or on YouTube or in reruns on third-tier TV stations.

It’s enjoyable seeing some of the actors, especially ones who have gone on to movie fame (or just gone on), even though the shows seem more formulaic and the plots more predictable. Some of the fashions, hairstyles, and dialogue of the 60s and 70s are a lot more outlandish than I remember when I originally watched the shows.

[moovova]

NYPD Blues.

[Do the math]

I would love to watch reruns of the Jack Benny show. I loved F Troop. That girl in the show was a hottie, and I can't remember her name. Dagnabit I'm getting old, young whippersnapper.

[jughandle]

Emergency!

I know, real corny but I loved it as a kid..

[ChocChipCookie]

Hard to believe that Frasier is so far down the list.

[jonascord]

Screw M*A*S*H.

The US Army is ALWAYS stupid.
The North Koreans are ALWAYS nice guys, put upon by the mean ol' US.
The ROK are sadistic thugs.
The Marines are stupid thugs.
The Air Force are dreamy zoomies who fly home for dinner and clean sheets.
The Soviets? MASH writers never heard of them.
The Chinese? Joined the Soviets in the Memory Hole.

I kept hoping that US artillery would land short on the O Club...

[central_va]

I pity the fool that doesn’t watch the A-Team.

[Interesting Times]

The Carol Burnett Show.
Hill Street Blues.
SOAP.

[Donkey Odious]

Deadwood, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Hill Street Blues, Rockford Files.....

[freedom1st]

The Honeymooners would be on my list. I always laughed hard watching Jackie and Art interact.

[Dr. Sivana]

Their idea of “old” is pretty young. Remember, FReepers skew traditional culturally. The Simpsons and Seinfeld are after I pretty much stopped watching new TV, and I’m only middle aged (55). Twilight Zone and Looney Tunes were good choices, though.

1. Burns and Allen
2. I Love Lucy
3. Dick Van Dyke
4. The Prisoner
5. Perry Mason (but only if you forgot what happened)

[jeffc]

Wow, am I out of the loop on this one. Only Seinfeld and Loony Tunes would make my list.

We've been binge watching the following shows for a few years now: 24 (watch a whole season in one sitting! WHEW!), House, Breaking Bad, Last Man Standing, Justified, to name a few...

[MortMan]

Stargate SG1

[Dr. Sivana]

I could actually hear my brain cells dying after every episode.

You can improve that effect if you watch an episode of "Lost in Space" as a chaser. I've been rewatching LiS with the kids. We actually own F-Troop on DVD! It's like a G rated Blazing Saddles.

[hardspunned]

Melody Patterson.

I vote for The Phil Silvers Show and Car 54 somewhere near the top. Nat Hiken was a comedic genius.

[gundog]

Wrangler Jane.