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.

[hattend]

And everybody was so happy! Connection?

[minnesota_bound]

Who was running the island, Etc?
These guys....

[morphing libertarian]

you could sit on the other bed if you had one foot on the floor

[GnuThere]

No kidding (#39). I’ve thoroughly enjoyed some Frazier reruns lately. Just so witty.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I will only watch the first three seasons of MASH and that it it. After that the show got to be the Alan Alda rant and I gave up on it.

[sparklite2]

That’s what I had heard. A holdover from the Hays commission. What a superior society came by saving us from our sinful selves.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I like the first three seasons of Law & Order when Michael Moriarty was playing Ben Stone and Chis Noth was on full time.

[MomwithHope]

I will weigh in on The Prisoner too plus All in the Family

[TADSLOS]

The X Files. Pretty much a modern prophecy tale. All about the Deep State two decades before the Deep State became a thing.

The spinoff show, The Lone Gunmen, had an especially chilling episode that was aired 6 months before 9-11.

[MomwithHope]

I don’t know about youtube, but in the US the episodes were numbered differently. Wikipedia has the correct list as it was broadcast in the UK. And it makes sense!

[MomwithHope]

Amen! Be seeing you!

[MomwithHope]

It was about the Deep State! And Patrick McGoohan was victorious.

[motor_racer]

Sky King
Route 66
Combat
The Rifleman
Sea Hunt

[dfwgator]

And Patrick McGoohan was victorious.

Or was he:

The allegorical shift that takes place once the identity of Number One is revealed has been subjected to various interpretations. McGoohan himself commented that it means to say that “Each man is a prisoner unto himself”.[2] The episode’s ending, with Six’s apartment door opening automatically, as in the Village, suggests that he is still not free. The final scene, being the same as the first scene of the series, implies that the series is a cycle that is about to repeat itself, supporting the idea that Six cannot be free from captivity.[3] McGoohan commented on the final scene that it is meant to show that “freedom is a myth,” and there is no final conclusion to the series because “we continue to be prisoners”

[morphing libertarian]

we’ve changed a lot since Lucy was forbidden to say the word pregnant.

[sparklite2]

Ha. I’d forgotten that.

We had to get our titillation from illicit Mexican comic books.

The parents would occasionally get together and screen porn films with a projector, but we had to say outside the house ... and play doctor.

[MomwithHope]

Yes I have heard this analysis. Yes, the motorized door - they would always keep an eye on him. He was victorious in destroying the capabilities of the village and he escaped. That’s a win in my book, he was a free man and would always see right through their BS.

[dfwgator]

Or he just entered a new village, one that just looked like London.

Note the number on the motorized door....1.

Did he just become the new “Number One”?

[Dr. Sivana]

Did that series ever resolve at its ending? For example, what was it about?. Who was running the island, Etc

No, unfortunatly the last episode was an indecipherable mess, and McGoohan had to flee to Switzerland for a while to avoid the wrath of viewers who felt ripped off. In that way, the show was too much late 1960s.

[Dr. Sivana]

Rockford Files is a classic if you can overlook the overplayed car chases. Sometimes it seems like the plot show was a bit too short so they added some extra car chase scenes to pad the hour.

The car chase scenes are great and Garner often did his own driving.

The show has used other types of filler. I just saw a Season One episode called “The Big Ripoff” which opens in Europe with Rockford purposefully boxing Suzanne Somers’ car in so he cane be the big hero and help her get in her car, all planned so he could get to know her and get info out of her.

Not a word was spoken, and completely unnecessary for the time lot, but utterly charming, giving insight into the Rockford character, and how he can charm people into providing info.