5 favorite TV series

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The Twilight Zone (60s version)
Combat!
Star Trek TOS
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Bonanza
 
–Original Star Trek

–Original Twilight Zone

–The Fugitive (starring David Janssen)

–MASH

–Original Magnum, PI

Honorable Mention (since they may not be “series” at all)" I will call the Youtube/Netflix series Cobra Kai a “TV series.” I loved the British production of Sherlock Holmes’ mysteries starring Jeremy Brett as the defining Holmes. Masterpiece Theatre had some great short serializations. And I liked the BBC serialization of John Christopher’s Tripods trilogy, set in a dystopian earth taken over by mysterious aliens.
 
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M.A.S.H
The Wonder Years
Farscape
Parks and Rec
The X-Files

edit: Also really loved Stargate SG-1, Quantum Leap, JAG, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and NCIS
 
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The Waltons
Wild Wild West
Baa Baa Black Sheep/Black Sheep Squadron
The Dukes of Hazard
Miami Vice
 
  1. Seinfeld
  2. All in the Family
  3. The Mandalorian
  4. Friends
  5. The Sopranos
Keeping it to five is pretty hard, there are sooo many others that I love.
 
  1. I Love Lucy
  2. The Golden Girls (I finally reached Blanches’s age, I think, and I’m shocked that I like some of her outfits. 😳)
  3. Mad Men
  4. My Brilliant Friend (it’s series shown on HBO. It’s from Italy and subtitled)
  5. The Twilight Zone
 
Ok rapid fire time:

I Love Lucy, Golden Girls, Cheers, I Dream Of Genie, Bewitched, 90s X-Men, Batman TAS, Spider-Man TAS, The New Adventures Of Lois & Clark, Tales of the Crypt, OG Twilight Zone, South Park, The Strain, The Real Ghostbusters, Frasier, Game of Thrones, Entourage, Bobs Burgers Rick and Morty, American Dad, Law & Order SVU, Gotham, Smallville, Peter Pan and the Pirates, Roseanne, Earthworm Jim, Rugrats…

Whew! I love every one of these shows and I’m sure there are several others that aren’t immediately coming to mind.
 
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Vintage:
The Wonder Years
The Waltons
Ballykissangel
Keeping up Appearances
All in the Family

Not so Vintage:
Justified
Longmire
Cash Cab
Ozark
Almost anything on the ID channel 😂
 
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American:
  1. 60’s Twilight Zone
  2. Combat! ( My first girlhood crush was Lt Hanley… 😍 😊 )
  3. Frasier
  4. Monk
  5. Seinfeld
British:
  1. Are You Being Served?
  2. Benny Hill
  3. Masterpiece Theatre
  4. Shakespeare & Hathaway
  5. Doc Martin
 
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I don’t watch a whole lot of tv, but here are my favourites in no particular order:
  • Breaking Bad
  • Better Call Saul (evidently, op has good taste!)
  • Sherlock (2010-2017 version)
  • Black Mirror
  • Spongebob Squarepants (the kids show any age can enjoy)
Honourable mentions: The Simpsons and Corner Gas
 
I appreciate your mention of Corner Gas: probably the best Canadian show ever made!
 
Homeland (US)
Breaking Bad (US)
Prison Break (US)
Downton Abbey (UK)
Alta Mar (Spain)
A Very Secret Service (France)
The Crown (UK)
The Office (US)
House of Cards (1. UK; 2. US)
Il Cacciatore - The Hunter (Italy)

They are 5, aren’t they? 😉
 
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That’s interesting. How, may I ask?
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During my 5th grade year, I became the target for almost everyone in my class. My teacher (public school) was utterly ineffective in controlling the class and allowed a “feeding frenzy”–every day, constantly, my classmates would make fun of my clothing (ugly dresses–I still have little fashion sense), my parents (especially my dad, who wore blue jeans everyday because he was a factory worker, not an office worker), my brother (who had to wear orthopedic shoes), my interests (everything! I was a straight-A student who loved every subject and devoured books about everything from anthropology to zoology!)–EVERYTHING!

Going to school was terrifying for me, and finally, at the end of the school year, I snapped and when one of the bullies was making fun of my shoes, I grabbed her and threw her against the war slide, and then walked into the school building (which was against the rules, by the way) and sat down at my desk and watched the ambulance pull up and take her away. My teacher and her teacher walked up to me and asked, “How could you do this?” And I looked at them and said, “All year, you teachers have allowed these students to make fun of me and my brother and you haven’t said one word or tried to stop them. This is YOUR fault!”

They looked at me, left the room…and I never heard anything about what I had done. I wasn’t even sent to the principal.

The teachers knew I was right.

After that day, nobody messed with me anymore. But I had no friends. I was so grateful when the school year was finally over, and my brother and I could enjoy summer–and we discovered Dark Shadows on television!

We loved it, and my mother joined us to watch it! We had no idea that it was immensely popular, and when I returned (with fear and trembling) to school in the fall, my mother agreed to watch the show and tell us what happened everyday. (In Illinois, Dark Shadows started at 3:00 p.m. and public schools didn’t get out for the day until 3:30 p.m., so we always had to miss it. No VCRS back then!)

Many of my schoolmates had also become Dark Shadows fans over the summer, and everyday, I would tell them what had happened on the show. Everyday, the crowd around me on the playground got bigger and bigger, and even the most popular kids showed up to hear my synopsis of Barnabas, Angelique, Maggie, Julie, Willie, and all the rest of Collinsport!

To make it easier to remember, I started writing up the synopsis each day, and made them as colorful and exciting as I could. This exercise developed my writing skills (although I didn’t realize it), and by the end of the school year, I had won two local essay contests, and in Junior High, ended up winning several awards for my creative writing.

The show gave me back my confidence again, although I have NEVER gotten over my trust issues and still distrust people and have very few people that I consider “friends.” But at least I’m not withdrawn–far from it.

My mother allowed me to skip school on the last day that Dark Shadows was broadcast. And one of my Bibles has autographs from Jonathan Frid (Barnabas).
 
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Going to school was terrifying for me, and finally, at the end of the school year, I snapped and when one of the bullies was making fun of my shoes, I grabbed her and threw her against the war slide, and then walked into the school building (which was against the rules, by the way) and sat down at my desk and watched the ambulance pull up and take her away. My teacher and her teacher walked up to me and asked, “How could you do this?” And I looked at them and said, “All year, you teachers have allowed these students to make fun of me and my brother and you haven’t said one word or tried to stop them. This is YOUR fault!”

They looked at me, left the room…and I never heard anything about what I had done. I wasn’t even sent to the principal.

The teachers knew I was right.

After that day, nobody messed with me anymore.
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