The television meme

[klwilliams]

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever. Below is the list and here be the rules.

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least one episode of
3. Post your answers



50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex and The City

45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers

40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted

35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood

30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf

25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel

20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who -- I've seen all of some of the Doctors

15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld

10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24

05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons


I probably watch too much television.

Comments

[martianfencer.livejournal.com]

Having watched very little TV since I finished high school, my list is pretty sparse. I'll spare you the scrolling by skipping straight to the ones I have seen or have a comment about.

47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -- We watched it religiously for a couple of years, despite bad reception because we had no cable.

43. Star Trek
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
26. Red Dwarf -- But only because Teresa sent me a set of videotapes years ago!
21. Angel Exactly once, in a hotel. Hated it. Yet I love Firefly. Go figure.

18. Arrested Development -- On DVD, for hours at a time, for several days running, at Teresa's house, the week after she died, with fearless_em, catinthegrass, and psychicfrog. We didn't make it through the entire series.

14. Firefly -- I'm cheating here, because I'm only 3/4 of the way through, but in a few weeks I will have watched every episode. I think I'm in love.

13. Battlestar Galactica -- not even once, believe it or not, but the first DVD is coming up soon on my Netflix queue

09. The X-Files -- Just once or twice, despite my daughters' enthusiasm

08. The Wire -- Not yet, but fearless_em gave me strict orders to add it to my Netflix queue, so the first season will be right after the rest of Firefly and some Battlestar Galactica

01. The Simpsons -- Just a few episodes

It's not on the list, but I'm sure Teresa and I watched all of the Mission Impossible episodes together, during summers when we were in college and both still coming home for the summer.