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Started by Admiral Yi, March 28, 2023, 04:23:19 PM

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Admiral Yi

March 28, 2023, 04:23:19 PM
What's your favorite.

Law and Order for me.  A whodunit and a smart courtroom procedural crammed into one densely written hour of high quality TV.  Some of the greatest eye candy ever.

viper37

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March 28, 2023, 05:20:00 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 28, 2023, 04:23:19 PMWhat's your favorite.

Law and Order for me.  A whodunit and a smart courtroom procedural crammed into one densely written hour of high quality TV.  Some of the greatest eye candy ever.
If I have to pick one not too old, not sci-fi... Boston Legal.
Legal drama, a spin off of The Practice, which was all drama, but Boston Legal was much more humorous, with James Spader and William Shatner as leads.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

frunk

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March 28, 2023, 05:49:16 PM
The first ten seasons of the Simpsons.

Grey Fox

#3
March 28, 2023, 06:47:30 PM
Americans shows? Friends

French Canadian show? Stuff you never heard of.  :D
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Savonarola

#4
March 28, 2023, 07:44:26 PM
The Muppet Show
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

mongers

#5
March 28, 2023, 07:44:33 PM
'I, Claudius'.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

grumbler

#6
March 28, 2023, 08:09:40 PM
Hill Street Blues
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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viper37

#7
March 28, 2023, 09:29:33 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 28, 2023, 06:47:30 PMFrench Canadian show? Stuff you never heard of.  :D

La P'tite Vie
Les Boys
Omertà
Temps Dur
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

HVC

#8
March 28, 2023, 09:31:34 PM
Doesn't mash still have the record for most viewed final?
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

celedhring

#9
March 29, 2023, 01:00:58 AM
Twin Peaks.

Would have said The Simpsons but I feel all those decades of zombie Simpsons have dilluted its legacy.

Seinfeld probably my third choice.

Josquius

#10
March 29, 2023, 02:00:54 AM
Band of Brothers was on BBC iirc so counts?
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Syt

#11
March 29, 2023, 02:10:30 AM
Quote from: Josquius on March 29, 2023, 02:00:54 AMBand of Brothers was on BBC iirc so counts?

Produced by HBO, though, IIRC.
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Admiral Yi

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March 29, 2023, 02:11:00 AM
Quote from: Josquius on March 29, 2023, 02:00:54 AMBand of Brothers was on BBC iirc so counts?

Cheating.

mongers

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March 29, 2023, 08:13:57 AM Last Edit: March 29, 2023, 08:19:05 AM by mongers
My Top 10  TV programmes by category:

   Drama                     Comedy            Lt. entertainment
1   I, Claudius             Dad's Army            Morecombe and Wise
2   Hill Street Blues     Yes Minister            Generation game
3   The Wire                     Faulty Towers    Starsky and Hutch
4   6 Wives of HenryVIII Porridge              Treasure hunt
5   Survivors             Sienfeld
6   Happy Valley             Cheers   
7   River                     Not the Nine O'clock News   
8                                         Allo Allo   
9                                Alex Sayle's stuff   
10                                The Fast Show   
                                Monty Python   
                                     Q8   
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

grumbler

#14
March 29, 2023, 02:28:43 PM
Not sure whether Would I Lie to You is comedy or light entertainment, Mongers, but it should be on your list somewhere.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!
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