Your top 20 TV shows?

[CouchCoach]

I have to divide them because it is an uneven playing field for the major nets because the FCC governs them on content and a huge deal was made out of them showing butts on NYPD Blue.

 

[CouchCoach]

20 isnt enough..

i completely forgot

The Big Bang Theory
Mom
Two and a Half Men
Rescue Me
Sanford and Son
All in the Family
Good Times
Too Close for Comfort
Carroll Burnett Show
The Golden Girls
Married with Children
The Jeffersons
Dream on
Happy Days
The Brady Bunch

and many more.

Glad to see someone else had Rescue Me. Loved that series and Leary writing all of the funny lines for his fellow actors was special. The story behind him being inspired and motivated to make that was special too.

 

[ESisback]

Glad to see someone else had Rescue Me. Loved that series and Leary writing all of the funny lines for his fellow actors was special. The story behind him being inspired and motivated to make that was special too.

Writing is SO important! Mathew Perry and Thomas Lennon are comic geniuses with great chemistry, but the Odd Couple reboot SUCKED MASSIVELY, because of the writing.

 

[Khartun]

20 is tough to narrow down. There are a few extra. No order.

Firefly
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
X-Files
MASH
Quantum Leap
Star Trek
Star Trek Next Generation
The Witcher
Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Deadwood
Band of Brothers
Married with Children
Simpsons
South Park
Family Guy
Ren & Stimpy
The Young Ones
Flying Circus
The Stand miniseries (1994)
Land of the Lost - Loved this as a kid as well as:
Land of the Giants
Night Gallery/Twilight Zone
MST3K

 

[DallasEast]

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

If I ever do a Top 20 list of my favorite television show intros, Kolchak: The Night Stalker would be on it. The music is dead on, transitioning from everyday mundane to eerie. The visual sequence matches it perfectly. Darren McGavin enters the newsroom, whistling carefree. Then he gets down to business, slips a sheet of paper into the typewriter and starts pecking away at its keys. The office goes from light to dim. The freaking wall clock stops! Something catches McGavin in the corner of his eye, twists his head, eyes wide and the camera freezes. Music climaxes.

Even to this day where audio and visuals have made it look obsolete over the decades, it still remains one of my all-time favorite series openings.

 

[ESisback]

20 is tough to narrow down. There are a few extra. No order.

Firefly
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
X-Files
MASH
Quantum Leap
Star Trek
Star Trek Next Generation
The Witcher
Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Deadwood
Band of Brothers
Married with Children
Simpsons
South Park
Family Guy
Ren & Stimpy
The Young Ones
Flying Circus
The Stand miniseries (1994)
Land of the Lost - Loved this as a kid as well as:
Land of the Giants
Night Gallery/Twilight Zone
MST3K

Nice list!

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

20 is tough to narrow down. There are a few extra. No order.

Firefly
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
X-Files
MASH
Quantum Leap
Star Trek
Star Trek Next Generation
The Witcher
Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Deadwood
Band of Brothers
Married with Children
Simpsons
South Park
Family Guy
Ren & Stimpy
The Young Ones
Flying Circus
The Stand miniseries (1994)
Land of the Lost - Loved this as a kid as well as:
Land of the Giants
Night Gallery/Twilight Zone
MST3K

I used to have a crush on Holly, would watch her every Saturday morning

 

[CouchCoach]

Writing is SO important! Mathew Perry and Thomas Lennon are comic geniuses with great chemistry, but the Odd Couple reboot SUCKED MASSIVELY, because of the writing.

In comedy, the writing is critical because comedic actors don't even have to be funny. Peter Sellers didn't have much of a sense of humor and would often stop when the cast was breaking up over something he'd done because he didn't get it.

NBC put so much value on writing they bought Taxi and the writers for just one season because Cheers was their target all along. They even bridged the character Jim to Coach and made it work.

I never thought the TV Odd Couple was funny and never saw the one with Perry. Taking a Neil Simon comedy and not having him write it makes no sense to me. There is brilliance that just can't be duplicated and he was one of a kind. What talent to be able to create characters that we can see ourselves in and laugh.

 

[Big_D]

Glad to see someone else had Rescue Me. Loved that series and Leary writing all of the funny lines for his fellow actors was special. The story behind him being inspired and motivated to make that was special too.

It was a great show. Well done and a nice dedication for those directly effected and dealing with the aftermath.

 

[VaqueroTD]

These might be the only series I’ve watched more than 2 season’s worth and/or was a loyal viewer for years live, syndication or streaming. 20 was a good number because I don’t know if I could go any further.

SNL
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
Sportscenter
FOX NFL Show
TNT Inside the NBA
David Letterman Show
Conan O’Brien Show (the first one on NBC)
Anthony Bourdain’s shows
Frontline
Jeopardy
In Living Color
Cheers
Frasier
Southpark
Big Bang Theory
King of Queens
Drunk History
Simpsons
Chapelle Show

 

[DallasEast]

This is KINDA related to the OP. I created a video of nineteen seventeen of the twenty series intros from my earlier posted list. The one three exceptions are Attack On Titan and Xena, both of which YouTube blocked, and Watchmen, which does not have the typical opening of short visual combined with audio (usually music).

This is not my Top 20 all-time series intros though. That list would likely look up to 75% different I think.

I included video marks below if anyone would prefer jumping to certain intros instead of viewing the entire thing.

Mark/Series Intro
00:00 24
00:11 Attack On Titan (season 1) removed to avoid copyright block
00:10 Avatar: The Last Airbender
00:56 Battlestar Galactica (season 1 | opening for "33" episode)
01:57 Buffy The Vampire Slayer (season 3)
02:46 Dallas (season 2)
03:57 Game of Thrones (season 1 | not sure which episode)
05:39 In Living Color (season 1)
07:19 M*A*S*H (season 6 | I think)
08:06 Roots
09:05 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (season 7)
11:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 1)
12:46 Star Trek: The Original Series (season 2)
13:45 Stranger Things (season 1)
14:45 The Big Bang Theory (season 6)
15:08 The Cosby Show (season 3)
16:05 The Walking Dead (season 1)
16:40 The X Files (season 1)
18:42 Xena: Warrior Princess (season 1) removed to avoid copyright block

 

[Doomsday]

The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Justified
Damages
The Leftovers
Lost
Ozark
Sons of Anarchy
Game of Thrones
Better Call Saul
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office
Cheers
NCIS
The Rockford Files
Law and Order
Two and a Half Men (with charlie)
Rules of Engagement
The Americans
Outlander

 

[Tass]

Game of Thrones
The Wire
24
Justified
The Young Ones
House M.D.
Married...With Children
The Sopranos
Daredevil
The Jeffersons
Chicago PD
Chappelle's Show
The Boys
Black Adder
The X-Files
Quantum Leap
Rescue Me
Kitchen Nightmares
The Office (UK version)
China Beach

 

[DallasEast]

Video unavailable
This video contains content from NBC Universal and ProductionIG, one or more of whom have blocked it on copyright grounds


Sometimes... I REALLY dislike YouTube. My guess is that the video block is related to the Xena (Universal property) and Attack On Titan (ProductionIG property) intros. Xena is the only intro I copied from a non-YouTube source since all the versions of the intro I found on YouTube had been altered.

A non-streaming service content creator had uploaded all 7 AOT intros in a single video, which I cropped-and-copied for my video. That video is public and subscribed while mine is simply and only unlisted.

Whatever. What I find strange is returning to the video and it will sometimes play without the block. I don't get it.

/disgruntled rant

 

[Praxit]

Tom N Jerry
Bugs Bunny and his Tunes
Gilligans Island
Good Times
Twilight Zone

Dont care for contemporary, last show was:

The Middle

 

[quickccc]

Thanks for Sharing ,,,,

In no particular order ...

1) Games of Thrones
3's Company
Speed Racer (1967)
Leave it to Beaver
Beverly HillBillies
All in the Family
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Cosby Show
Empire
Daredevil (Netflix)
Boston Public
The Walking Dead
Into the Bad Lands
The Wire
Good Times
Fantastic 4 (animation 1990's)
Seinfeld
Thundarr the Barbarian (ABC)
20) Justice League/Justice League Unlimited Animation series

 

[quickccc]

Andy Griffith
Hogan Heroes
Soap
Spartacus
Lost
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits
Tales from the Crypt
The Hitchhiker
America's Most Wanted
Sanford & Son
Brady Bunch
Gilligan's Island
Star Trek
Tales from the Darkside
Seinfeld
Cheers
MASH
The Jeffersons
I Dream of Jeanie

Is this the AMM series with Adam Walsh ..?

...this also makes me think about C.O.P. S. series back in da dayz too..... ("bad boys ..bad boyz ...whatcha gonna do " ..??!! )

 

[quickccc]

Is this the AMM series with Adam Walsh ..?

...this also makes me think about C.O.P. S. series back in da dayz too..... ("bad boys ..bad boyz ...whatcha gonna do " ..??!! )

I meant John Walsh ,.. not Adam ..

 

[Runwildboys]

As best as I can remember, and in no particular order:
1) Friends
2) Cheers
3) Frazier
4) Sons of Anarchy
5) M*A*S*H
6) Taxi
7) Hawkeye
8) The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
9) The Carol Burnette Show
10) GoT
11) Vikings
12) Newhart
13) Family Guy
14) Big Bang Theory
15) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
16) Star Trek - TOS
17) Star Trek - The Next Generation
18) Star Trek - Discovery
19) Picard
20) Loki

 

[DallasEast]

I edited my video to get around the copyright block. It is down to 17 intros of my Top 20 television shows.

Darn you YouTube. DARN YOU!