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Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:07 pm
by Mark Hansen_Archive
H-GM wrote:Soap, Dark Shadows, Good Times
Good call on "Soap" and "Dark Shadows"
Hill Street Blues was good also.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:10 pm
by Steve V_Archive
Although I want to say Twin Peaks, the fact that the show became a fuckin' joke by mid-season 2 with the ridiculous storylines and left the planet without any resolution sucks. So, nah.
The greatest television show of all time, EXCLUDING HBO and Showtime because that isn't really the same thing as television, and excluding BBC because I'm not British, is the Simpsons.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:16 pm
by H-GM_Archive
Mark Hansen wrote:H-GM wrote:Soap, Dark Shadows, Good Times
Good call on "Soap" and "Dark Shadows"
You forgot to repost
Good Times to yr list.
DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:17 pm
by Andrew from tasmania_Archive
simmo wrote:Andrew from tasmania wrote:The Prisoner
every one over-rated and dated.
You say "dated". I say "are you mental?"
That programme doesn't look like anything else, and as much as you can see that it's made in the 60s, it seems like it was made on some other planet or is the spawn of some satanic madman. Also, what genre does The Prisoner fit in to?
science fiction.
It's good sure but I just don't find it to be THAT good. It gets raved about as high point of TV. I don't reckon.
edit: to say more on that, it gets noticed because it's so different, more than because it's so good, if you follow that. I don't think I've put it all that well.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:19 pm
by Mark Hansen_Archive
H-GM wrote:Mark Hansen wrote:H-GM wrote:Soap, Dark Shadows, Good Times
Good call on "Soap" and "Dark Shadows"
You forgot to repost
Good Times to yr list.
DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!
No, I didn't forget. I never really watched it.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:25 pm
by Andrew from tasmania_Archive
tommydski wrote:Andrew from tasmania wrote:tommydski wrote:The Larry Sanders Show.
Very good stuff, yes.
not the best show ever.
I love it when people post just to tell me that my subjective opinion is wrong.
Are they thinking "Hey, this guy needs to know that I, random internet person, thinks his personal taste is incorrect" or that I will read their correction which has no explanation and totally change my entire view of the world.
Either way, thanks for posting.
hey, it's just my subjective opinion. I love impossible things like this topic where it just get down to taste. Certainly don't expect to change anyone's mind either.
I'll also confess that I was kind of drunk there.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:31 pm
by Andrew from tasmania_Archive
sparky wrote: Another of my choices also features Joanne Whalley: Dennis Potter's
The Singing Detective. I still marvel at how this series could turn on a sixpence and go from comedy to thriller to tragedy to musical and back again seamlessly; I also marvel at the way it supported a very complicated and fractured series of simultaneous narratives and the doubling-up of characters without ever becoming obscure; incredibly entertaining.
If you're going to pick one, this is could well be it. Potter could really, really write well (obviously) and all his work is unique and high quality. Ever seen the interview he did with Parkinson just before he died, when he knew he was dying and was drinking morphine (or something, I am pretty sure it was morphine) from a hipflask? It's quite a moment.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:35 pm
by kenoki_Archive
i'll also nominate:
twin peaks
star trek (original and tng, but in that order)
the wire
mash
curb your enthusiasm
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:38 pm
by TwoTwoZeroSeven_Archive
Porridge.
Greatest Television Show Ever?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:42 pm
by El Protoolio_Archive
I forgot to mention the American "Office". I think that is one of the greatest shows on television ever.