BOF's Top 50 Television Shows of All Time - Deadline closed, PM me blurbs about why you chose a show!

[Avatree]

Okay, this is my list. My top 50 is basically an ordered list of every single show I've ever seen. I had to get pretty desperate thinking of them, ended up with things like BBC News and Teletubbies... haha 

I may be missing a couple that I can't think of, but I don't think I have watched 50 shows.

 

If a TV show isn't on here, I haven't seen it.

 

1. The Vampire Diaries

2. Glee

3. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

4. Frozen Planet

5. Planet Earth

6. The IT Crowd

7. Fawlty Towers

8. House

9. South Park

10. The Office

11. The Thick of It

12. Arrow

13. The Simpsons

14. That Mitchell and Webb Look

15. Skins

16. The Originals

17. Downton Abbey

18. The Big Bang Theory

19. Mock the Week

20. Vicar of Dibley

21. Sherlock

22. Pokemon – Indigo League

23. The Mentalist

24. Top Gear

25. Scooby Doo

26. Neighbours

27. QI

28. Question Time

29. Mr Bean

30. Friends

31. Mythbusters

32. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

33. BBC News at 10

34. BBC News at 6

35. Black Mirror

36. Doctor Who

37. Spongebob Squarepants

38. The Wiggles

39. Miranda

40. Peep Show

41. Brainiac

42. The Inbetweeners

43. Teletubbies

44. The Tweenies

45. Brum

 

 

[iceroll]

Lmaooo BBC News at 10 and BBC News at 6 I love it  

 

You didn't have to include 50 shows, I'm just going to present a top 50 countdown because I've received like 300 different shows already.

[Avatree]

Lmaooo BBC News at 10 and BBC News at 6 I love it

 

You didn't have to include 50 shows, I'm just going to present a top 50 countdown because I've received like 300 different shows already.

Haha, the 6 o clock news is significantly worse than the 10 o clock news, so had to rank them in that order.

 

I really haven't watched a lot of shows, so I figured it would be amusing to put every show I've ever watched on my list, hehe.

[Spidey Freak]

I see a lot of lists with no Buffy even though it seems that going by the actual entries in the list, those folks would absolutely LOVE the adventures of a certain blonde vampire slayer! Watch Buffy, people! Most of the stuff that you like in your current YA and adventure shows was most probably derived in one way or the other from the very influential Buffster.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Spidey Freak

[iceroll]

I see a lot of lists with no Buffy even though it seems that going by the actual entries in the list, those folks would absolutely LOVE the adventures of a certain blonde vampire slayer! Watch Buffy, people! Most of the stuff that you like in your current YA and adventure shows was most probably derived in one way or the other from the very influential Buffster.

I wouldn't be too worried about Buffy's performance in this list

 

Too bad fmpro doesn't post here anymore, I'm sure he'd have had it on his list.

[Fancyarcher]

At last, my list is ready, and just in time too.

 

1. Breaking Bad
2. Batman: The Animated Series
3. The Twilight Zone
4. The Simpsons
5. Community
6. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
7. Avatar: The Last Airbender
8. Arrested Development
9. Futurama
10. Samurai Jack
11. Scooby-Doo (The Scooby Doo Franchise in general, Where Are You, The Scooby-Doo Show, What’s New Scooby Doo, Mystery Incorporated etc..)
12. Blackadder
13. South Park
14. Dexter’s Lab
15. The Muppet Show
16. Looney Tunes
17. Justice League / Justice League Unlimited  
18. Mad Men
19. Tom & Jerry
20. Disney Cartoons (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy etc…)
21. Twin Peaks
22. Cowboy Bebop
23. Hey Arnold
24. Game of Thrones
25. Mash
26. Gargoyles
27. Powerpuff Girls
28. The Legend of Korra
29. The Walking Dead
30. Sesame Street
31. Fullmetal Alchemist
32. Courage The Cowardly Dog
33. The Spectacular Spider-Man
34. Young Justice
35. Battlestar Galactica
36. Rugrats
37. Darkwing Duck
38. Duck Tales
39. I Love Lucy
40. Digimon
41. Gravity Falls
42. Naruto
43. Teen Titans
44. Angel
45. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
46. Spongebob Squarepants
47. Rurouni Kenshin
48. Batman Beyond 
49. Gundam / Gundam Wing
50. Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z
51. Friends
52. Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
53. Wolverine & The X-Men
54. One Piece
55. Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers
56. Pokemon
57. The Jack Benny Program
58. Samurai Champloo
59. Honeymooners
60. Firefly
61. X-Men (1992)
62. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
63. Family Guy
64. Bleach
65. Johnny Bravo
66. Freaks & Geeks
67. Yu Yu Hakusho
68. American Dad
69. Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1990’s)
70. Tailspin
71. Scrubs
72. The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
73. Green Lantern: The Animated Series
74. Parks & Recreation
75. Yu-Gi-Oh!
76. Kim Possible
77. That’s 70 Show
78. Batman: The Brave & The Bold
79. Ed, Edd and Eddy
80. Malcolm In The Middle

Edited December 5, 2014 by Saintarcher

[Leyla]

1 Game of thrones

2 Pride & prejudice (1995 BBC) 

3 North & South (2004 BBC)

4 LOST

5 the Mentalist

6 Felicity

7 Lost in Austen (2008 ITV)

8 Downton Abbey

9 Mad men

10 Queer as folk

 

adk if i can remember all the shows I ever watched   so I just listed what i remember

Edited December 5, 2014 by Tauriel

[Wrath]

Ok, I don't watch as much TV as I might, and a lot of these shows are going to be pretty old, dating from back when I *did* watch a lot of TV, but here's something:

 

1. MASH

2. Sopranos

3. Arrested Development

4. Band of Brothers (the Europe one, not the crappy Pacific one)

5. Cosmos (the old one)

6. Babylon 5

7. Dr Who (Really, this should be #1 just by sheer volume and longevity)

8. Mad Men

9. The Wire

10. Star Trek: The Next Generation

11. ER

12. Game of Thrones

13. Law and Order

14. Monte Python's Flying Circus

15. Seinfeld

16. South Park

17. The Muppet Show

18. Oz

19. Cheers

20. The Twilight Zone

21. The Office (English version)

22. 30 Rock

23. The Simpsons

24. Friends

25. Frasier

26. Curb Your Enthusiasm

27. X-Files

28. Dexter

29. I Love Lucy

30. Scrubs

31. The Office (American version.  If it had stopped prior to the final season, I would have bumped it up a spot or two.  If it had stopped prior to the dreadful last few seasons, I would have bumped it into the top 20.  If it had stopped right after the season 3 finale, it would have been in the top 10/possibly top 5 and only serious Anglophiles would walk around talking about how the English version was so much better)

32. Community (and as a bonus, it had the second best pilot I've ever seen, though it did suggest a somewhat different direction for the show.  Best Pilot I've ever seen was for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip which was amazing but the show wasn't able to maintain that level of quality)

33. West Wing

34. Twin Peaks

35. Moonlighting

36. Mystery Science Theater: 3000

37. Sex and the City

38. Fawlty Towers

39. Survivor (yes, really.  The first season was amazing)

40. Night Court

41. Gilmore Girls

42. Speed Racer

43. Real Housewives of New Jersey (No, not really.  Well, kind of.  Whatever.)

 

Ok, 43 is kind of a weird number but I'm getting tired of renumbering the whole list when I remember something and add it.  So I'll just stop here.

Edited December 5, 2014 by Wrath

[iceroll]

The final deadline is 12 midnight EST tonight! You have about 9 hours left to submit/edit lists.

 

I've got 44 lists so far, that's incredible but your list might be the one to give that final sway!

[fmpro]

I wouldn't be too worried about Buffy's performance in this list

 

Too bad fmpro doesn't post here anymore, I'm sure he'd have had it on his list.

He's here

Just more of a lurker now

[fmpro]

Here's mine

1) Buffy

2) Sons of Anarchy

3) Friends

4) Beverly Hills 90210

5) Angel

6) Dallas Original

7) Dynasty

8) Big bang theory

9) Two and a half men

10) Walking Dead/The good wife

Edited December 6, 2014 by fmpro

[Blankments]

Say this to any anime fan and they start foaming at the mouth. I like to do it to piss them off.

To be fair, I'm not an anime fan and it still pisses me off

[Spidey Freak]

To be fair, I'm not an anime fan and it still pisses me off

Meh, fetishized underaged girls (which is 85% of anime) don't do it for me. Even some of the good ones like Bleach can have their excesses.

[iceroll]

Sooo it looks like we'll have 46 lists and over 500 unique shows when it's all said and done.

 

This will be even more work than that Top 100 Animated Films thing haha. I'm procrastinating from exams though so it should be up soon.

[Infernus]

My final list. Took quite some time but finally complete.

1 Sket Dance

2 Dragon Ball Z

3 Yu Yu hakusho

4 Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood

5 Bleach

6 Loony Toons

7 Fairy Tail

8 Spiderman(1994 series)

9 Avatar:The Last Airbender

10 Yu Gi Oh!

11 City Hunter

12 Batman : Animated Series

13 Friends

14 Scooby Doo

15 Detective Conan

16 Digimon

17 Ben 10

18 Inazuma 11

19 Phineas and Ferb

20 Samurai Jack

21 Pokemon

22 Spongebob Squarepants

23 Winter Sonata (Anime version)

24 Chihayafuru

25 Kochikame

26 Attack on Titans

27 Dragon Ball

28 Bakugan

29 Mr bean (animated series)

30 Naruto

31 Steins; Gate

32 Duel Masters

33 Prince of Tennis

34 Courage the Cowardly Dog

35 Doraemon

36 Fullmetal Alchemist

37 Dexters laboratory

38 Slam Dunk

39 Mr Bean (Live Action)

40 Justice League

41 Space Dandy

42 Pink Panther

43 Hayate no gotoku A.K.A Hayate the Combat Butler

44 Recess

45 Kiteretsu Daihyakka

46 Case files of Young Kindaichi

47 Kim Possible

48 Ben 10 : Ultimate Alien

49 Big Bang Theory

50 Sword Art Online/ American Dragon Jake Long

Edited December 7, 2014 by Infernus

[Kalo]

I see a lot of lists with no Buffy even though it seems that going by the actual entries in the list, those folks would absolutely LOVE the adventures of a certain blonde vampire slayer! Watch Buffy, people! Most of the stuff that you like in your current YA and adventure shows was most probably derived in one way or the other from the very influential Buffster.

I've watched to halfway through the second season, it's alright and some episodes are better than others, but some of it is kind of boring and it hasn't hooked me yet. 

[Spidey Freak]

I've watched to halfway through the second season, it's alright and some episodes are better than others, but some of it is kind of boring and it hasn't hooked me yet. 

 

While the first two seasons are incredibly entertaining and one of the finest mid 90's television had to offer, Buffy really hits its stride from the third season onward.

 

Actually scratch that, it hits the sweet spot in the second half of the second season. So you are about to reach the best part now. Keep in mind that YA and fantasy genres were nowhere as developed on television when Buffy was around as they are now. Buffy was a trailblazer in the true sense of the word.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Spidey Freak

[Infernus]

On my TO SEE list!  I usually avoid anime like the plague unless it is truly transcendental like Avatar/Korra or Ghibli. Heard a LOT of great things about Titan though so will watch it soon.

 

Also, please do the GIF thing you did for your Greatest Animated Movies list. LOVED IT!

 Wow, we are, like, reaaally opposite, aren't we spheak?  (except, maybe, for our mutual love for Aladdin, though I don't consider him to be even close to being the best disney character of all time and apart from that -Who doesn't love him?)

Edited December 8, 2014 by Infernus

[Infernus]

 

Sooo it looks like we'll have 46 lists and over 500 unique shows when it's all said and done.

 

This will be even more work than that Top 100 Animated Films thing haha. I'm procrastinating from exams though so it should be up soon.

 

I am guessing that the large no. of lists means a show appearing on only a single list, even if on top, has no chance of appearing? 

Any chance of the top 50 cut-off being less than 65?

[Spidey Freak]

 Wow, we are, like, reaaally opposite, aren't we spheak?  (except, maybe, for our mutual love for Aladdin, though I don't consider him to be even close to being the best disney character of all time and apart from that -Who doesn't love him?)

 

When you watch the movie on rewind, he comes across as a major asshole, you know.