Top 50 TV Shows of all time

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As decided by Empire magazine:

  1. Quantum Leap
  2. Prison Break
  3. Veronica Mars
  4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  5. Sex And The City
  6. Farscape
  7. Cracker
  8. Star Trek
  9. Only Fools And Horses
  10. Band Of Brothers
  11. Life On Mars
  12. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
  13. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  14. Star Trek: The Next Generation
  15. Father Ted
  16. Alias
  17. Frasier
  18. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  19. Babylon 5
  20. Deadwood
  21. Dexter
  22. ER
  23. Fawlty Towers
  24. Six Feet Under
  25. Red Dwarf
  26. Futurama
  27. Twin Peaks
  28. The Office
  29. The Shield
  30. Angel
  31. Blackadder
  32. Scrubs
  33. Arrested Development
  34. South Park
  35. Doctor Who
  36. Heroes
  37. Firefly
  38. Battlestar Galactica
  39. Family Guy
  40. Seinfeld
  41. Spaced
  42. The X-Files
  43. The Wire
  44. Friends
  45. 24
  46. Lost
  47. The West Wing
  48. The Sopranos
  49. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
  50. The Simpsons

Surprised to see Buffy at #2. Also Spaced seems very high on the list (mainly because I don’t know what it is). Same with Firefly at #14 for the same reason.

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Well you know what I am going to say should be number one and it is number 42 for fook sake…

Buffy at number two is very, very strange…

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[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Well you know what I am going to say should be number one and it is number 42 for fook sake…

Buffy at number two is very, very strange…[/quote]

Funny you should say that - I was thinking you would even before I saw your post.

I’ve never seen about half of those on the list.

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I wouldn’t argue with promoting OFAH in the list. Not sure how they balanced the English-American angle. Maybe it suffers from not making it in the US.

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Spaced is a stone cold classic of a show

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Agreed! Good to see the X-Files in the top ten aswell.

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I’m surprised Stargate SG-1 didn’t make the list. Very few shows of its type get a 10 season run. Actually as far as I know it’s the only Sci-Fi show to ever get so many seasons. Personally, my interest waned after season 7 when the show had lost it’s main theme.

Black Books would have to be a contender too.

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No Macgyver, A-team, Dallas, Greatest American Hero, Melrose Place, Sexetera, Sin Cities, Porno Week, Pajo’s Junkbox, home and away entourage, Always sunny in Philly, American Office, Anything Goes…

Joke of a list IMHO!!

9

Where is Caroline and the City? Damm them.

10

No space for Oz?? Fook that… The stand out errors would be Buffy at No.2 and Battlestar Galactica at no.13. Also, no place for Family Guy is a joke, considering that hape of shite Futurama is at no.25.

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Family Guy is 12.

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You’re wrong - it’s actually on at 11.30pm on BBC3.

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Futurama wasn’t shite!

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Agree with that Ben. It had subtle jokes that werent as obvious as Family Guy. I saw the new Family guys and found they are using so much bad language its getting to the point you dont notice it.

15

Farscape at 45 is crazy. Useless

16

What the fook is Babylon 5? Also, Dexter is a relatively new show afaik so why would it merit inclusion at no.30? Apologies for my Family Guy blunder, i’d say i had ye (the rock) rifling back through the list with bated breadth!

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Babylon 5 is about a Space station in the 23rd century. I never watched it, saw bits and pieces of it over the years.

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My breath took a fair bating alright.

Nah I had checked the list when I first read it to check where Simpsons, Family Guy and Southpark were in relation to eachother so thought it was there alright.

Everyone makes a blunder sooner or later Dunph, just let this be your last.

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Good to see Quantam Leap making the list. I’d watch twelve out of those fifty programmes. Not a high ratio but better than I thought.

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Just seen this now. Band of Brothers at 41, fucking joke, best show ever on TV.

By the way, the BSG on the list is the new Battlestar, which is quite good.