What are your top 5 tv shows?
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Dvir971 — 9 years ago(September 22, 2016 10:15 AM)
- Game of Thrones
- Oz
- Breaking Bad
- Dexter
- The Sopranos
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getyourdander — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 01:38 AM)
Think it might be smarter as some posters have done to break this down by dates or decades. Television evolved over time, for example in the 1950's -in no order
I Love Lucy 1951- set the standard for sit coms after it
What's My Line 1950- showed that live intellect can make a great game show
Beat The Clock 1950 -live with Bud Collyear and insane fun
Playhouse 90 - 1956- best live drama series ever, several episodes were remade as movies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - 1955 -earliest example of anthology series
Honorable mentions
Jack Benny (1950) and Burns and Allen (1950)
Ozzie and Harriet (1952)- sort of a model for Dick Van Dyke(1961), Father Knows Best(1954), To Tell The Truth -(1956), Twilight Zone (1959), The Honeymooners (1955),
Funny how Hollywood projected an image of TV through the 1950's as a media to look your nose down at, yet by the end of the decade had produced several movies based upon television series episodes. Reminds me much of how the networks looked down their noses at FOX Television Network when it started, then started stealing the networks original ideas as fast as they could for their own shows, news.
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Thor-Delta — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 04:13 PM)
There had been anthology series since the 1940s, so "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" wasn't the first. Actually, 1955 marked the beginning of the genres decline. Each year after that there were less on the air, and by 1960 the genre was pretty much extinct except for "The Twilight Zone".
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getyourdander — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 07:00 PM)
I was addressing the 1950's top shows, as the subject suggests. I did not say Hitchcock was the first of the genre as his movies predate the television show. I was speaking of top programs of the 1950's that were top shows.
I do thank you for your input, and maybe you should check the 1960's the genre did get revived for a few other series including notably Rod Serlings Night Gallery though Serling was only the host of the show, and in the 1970's Fantasy Island is a feel good example of this genre.
There are others that were tried to including a Steven Spielberg entry in the 1980's. The decline you speak of happened when reality television started with Survivor. That genre pretty much wiped out the anthology on network television.
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RIP_IMDb — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 03:00 AM)
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The Six Million Dollar Man
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Doctor Who
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The Twilight Zone
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Battlestar Galactica
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I Dream of Jeannie
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iamvox — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 06:39 PM)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
My So-Called Life
Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
That's probably it. There are others I like a lot, like Game of Thrones, Babylon 5, Farscape, but those three are the ones I just love. Then there's something like Twin Peaks. I love the first season, but the second season wasn't as good. Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under were both really good, but I have some issues with both of them, plus, I just don't love them like I do the others, so if it's just my personal faves? Those three.