What were the best TV shows?

The Past | 10/24/23

[DallasBiff]

My three favorites, "I Love Lucy". "Star Trek", and "Lost in Space", with a special mention to "Green Acres"

[wally_bert]

My high school history teacher hated the book Connections.

I carried it most ever day to class.

[wally_bert]

Remington Steele is also a top favorite.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Sanford and Son!!!

[Allegra]

Joanie Loves Chachi

[waterhill]

Twilight Zone...

Montgomery and Bronson comes 2 mind.....heehee.

[wally_bert]

Barney Miller.

[dforest]

Night Court

[cyclotic]

Dick Van Dyke Show was absolutely priceless

I read that they didn’t even script Morey Amsterdam. They just wrote Buddy tells jokes, 50 seconds.

I knew a guy who was a Vaudeville comedian way back in the day. Every time we spoke I thought of Morey Amsterdam.

[waterhill]

Elizabeth and Braniff Airline stewardesses opened my little 7 year old mind...

[LilFarmer]

LOST

[Bookshelf]

Rockford Files! You have the winner.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Week in week out good old fashion TV.

[waterhill]

I influence the wife to wear go-go boots on occasion...

[wally_bert]

CI-5 The Professionals 1st version.

Danger Man

Prisoner

Naked City

Sweating Bullets aka Tropical Heat

[Rockingham]

My favorites scripted fictional shows: The Rockford Files; Kolchak, the Nightstalker; X-Files; Supernatural; Frasier; The Sopranos; Mad Men; The Walking Dead; Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, its spinoff; Justified and spinoff Justified: City Primeval; Game of Thrones; and Yellowstone.

These shows all feature strong narratives and often (but not always) traditional subject matter and themes; excellent writing and acting; main characters who are both admirable and flawed in varying degrees; and with solid supporting characters in family, work relationships, as adversaries, and as friends.

Moreover, these shows take place in and keep true to a well-imagined world that puts characters in situations that are different to but still recognizable in ordinary experience. Notably, all of these shows had show creators with large degrees of creative control. And conservative ideas and themes sometimes pop out.

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Mad Men was a great recreation of the early ‘60s, but it tried too hard to be politically correct and make pat little feminist lessons.

Also, I don’t think the showrunner/creator had much of an overall plot vision or exercised much control over his underlings.

[waterhill]

Justified was really good. Loved that bad guy who looked like a young Jack Nicholson.

Tried to explain to wife that Hollywood likes return/re-establish doppelganger. She changed her thinking when I said who does” Decaprio” remind you of?

Watch an old movie. You will find him.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Super Chicken was the best.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Super Chicken was the best.

[LibertarianLiz]

My dad, a WWII vet liked Combat

I have memories of watching Combat with my WWII vet Dad.