Best TV series ever?

[ASC1951]

A lot of the votes are for US imports, and rightly so. It's just not true that US telly is crap.

I would put my hand up for the first series of Ally McBeal. Some brilliant lines - "Your trouble, Ling, is that you think everyone hates you. In fact it's only the people who know you."

 

[ianrauk]

Another one for The Wire.

Currently working my way through several series' of Curb Your Enthusiasm which I borrowed from a friend. I've given up now though because it gets stale after a while, it was worth it for the chef with tourettes episode at the end of season 3 though.

Brilliant, had me laughing like a hyena when I first watched it... though definitely not for here though

 

[wait4me]

NYPD Blue from the US
and definitely SPOOKS from UK

 

[jonny jeez]

I still regularly watch episodes on Comedy central, as do the kids and still laugh out loud now and again

Nearly 20 years after airing.

now that must be good.

 

[dellzeqq]

A lot of the votes are for US imports, and rightly so. It's just not true that US telly is crap.

We see the best stuff. Her Nibs, selling fifty million quid's worth of telly in to the States (most of it produced in New York by UK expats) would probably say we have skills here that are only available at vast cost there.

For all the polish that the best US series have, there's something that we and the Danes do better - and that's make space. Where you've got half a dozen or more highly intelligent writers putting a script together (I think that ER had fifteen on some episodes) it's going to be frenetic. The slice of 'Tinker Tailor...' I linked to above, and the work of Stephen Poliakoff is different. There are pauses. Not every shot pans at high speed. Sometimes there's a bit of time for something quite inessential. I like that.

 

[PaulB]

I still regularly watch episodes on Comedy central, as do the kids and still laugh out loud now and again

Nearly 20 years after airing.

now that must be good.

That tops my list. Of programmes I most despise. I cringe when that comes on and go out of my way to avoid any programme or film (a couple of episodes of Band of Brothers excluded) that features any of those people. Along with Dr. Who, Emerdale Farm and Last of the Summer Wine, I am happy to say I've never seen a single episode of that dross.

 

[jonny jeez]

I am happy to say I've never seen a single episode of that dross.

then how can you comment?

 

[PaulB]

then how can you comment?

Three minutes and the subsequent cackling giggly girlishness of work colleagues about it rendered it a death-zone for me. And Sex and the City. Equally vomit-inducing.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Most recently Mrs S and I really enjoyed Suits on Dave.

It's a great series that we fell into quite by accident, but loved every episode.

New series should be due pretty soon too

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

1. The Prisoner
2. Kojak "who loves ya baby!"
3. The Mysteries Of Edgar Wallace.
4. The Singing Ringing Tree
5. Children Of The Stones.
Showing my age as they are all 60's & 70's series.
The coolest theme tune has to be "Highwire" the Danger Man theme!

 

[jonny jeez]

Three minutes and the subsequent cackling giggly girlishness of work colleagues about it rendered it a death-zone for me. And Sex and the City. Equally vomit-inducing.

Ahhh you're missing a great pleasure in life. Its like coming home each time i watch an episode.

 

[ianrauk]

Has anyone said Family Guy yet?

Brilliant....

 

[Hover Fly]

Judging by long term impact, the original "Survivors" and "Threads" (yes I know it wasn't a series), I haven't seen either since they were first broadcast 30 or more years ago, but they still stick in my memory.

 

[Darren Jeffrey]

The shield is by far my favourite although closely followed by sons of anarchy.

Prison break was good as was falling skies.

Further down my list

Fringe
The bill
Southlands

 

[Darren Jeffrey]

Give this a look

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1124373/