Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

Dr Jacoby said:
South Park should be higher.

The first dozen or so seasons are fantastic.
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I think it got better with age actually. The best one for me was a few years ago when they actually turned it into a serial for a season and had a story that went over 10 weeks. That was genuinely great.

Also if anyone hasn't played it, South Park: The Stick of Truth is the single best videogame script ever written.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
Stranger Things first season was pretty groundbreaking but didn't warm to second series at all.

Homeland is excellent - disappointed when people say they gave up watching when Brody died, it did have a little lull afterwards but the last few seasons have been very consistently good.
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Erm, Spoiler!
 
Saddleworth2 said:
really difficult getting to a top 20 given the volume of choice but Madmen would always be in my top 10 and Stranger Things was, well, fluff.
the world would be boring if we all liked the same thing I suppose. The half time queue for a pint would be a tad longer if we had 7,800,000,000 city fans for one thing.
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I had stranger things on my list, and not mad men. Because i've never seen mad men.
 
Netflix seem to have taken Mad Men off. i'm sure it was on my list before.
 
39. Star Trek 10/91

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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise originating from the 1960s television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.

Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called "Trekkies" or "Trekkers". The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. From 1998 to 2008, there was a Star Trek–themed attraction in Las Vegas. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The constructed language Klingon was created for the franchise. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek. In addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of December 1998, the franchise had generated $7.8 billion in revenue making Star Trek one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its progressive civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of television's first multiracial casts.


39. This Is England 10/91

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This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indies culture, especially ska, soul, and reggae music, became adopted by the far-right, especially white nationalists and white supremacists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene. The film's title is a direct reference to a scene where the character Combo explains his nationalist views using the phrase "this is England" during his speech.


38. Boys From The Blackstuff 10/92

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Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.

The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play titled The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people… TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture."


37. The Young Ones 8/95

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The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC Two for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included anarchic, offbeat humour. The show often included slapstick gags, visual humour and surreal jokes sometimes acted out by puppets, with each episode also featuring a notable selection of guest stars and a musical number from one of the noted performers during the programme's broadcast period.

The Young Ones helped bring alternative comedy to British television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and received its own game and a home-media release, while becoming the first non-music-related programme to appear on MTV in 1985. The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.


36. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 8/96

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (often referred to as Always Sunny or simply Sunny) is an American sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005, and moved to FXX beginning with the ninth season in 2013. It was created by Rob McElhenney, who developed it with Glenn Howerton. It is executive produced and primarily written by McElhenney, Howerton, and Charlie Day, all of whom star alongside Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito. The series follows the exploits of "The Gang," a group of narcissistic friends who run the Irish bar Paddy's Pub in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The series' fourteenth season concluded in November 2019. The series was renewed for a fifteenth season in May 2020, making it the longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history, replacing The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran for 14 seasons between 1952 to 1966. In December 2020, the series was renewed for a total of four additional seasons, bringing it to season 18.
 
Never watched The Young Ones, even though it was popular in my age group.

I Remember Boys from the Blackstuff - what a great character Yosser Hughes was.

Star Trek - a classic, don't think I've seen all the episodes but it always a good watch.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
39. Star Trek 10/91

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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise originating from the 1960s television series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry. That series, now often known as "The Original Series", debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series of novels, Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels, the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, and television westerns such as Wagon Train.

Star Trek has been a cult phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called "Trekkies" or "Trekkers". The franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. From 1998 to 2008, there was a Star Trek–themed attraction in Las Vegas. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world. The constructed language Klingon was created for the franchise. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek. In addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of December 1998, the franchise had generated $7.8 billion in revenue making Star Trek one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its progressive civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of television's first multiracial casts.


39. This Is England 10/91

View attachment 12069

This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indies culture, especially ska, soul, and reggae music, became adopted by the far-right, especially white nationalists and white supremacists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene. The film's title is a direct reference to a scene where the character Combo explains his nationalist views using the phrase "this is England" during his speech.


38. Boys From The Blackstuff 10/92

View attachment 12070

Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.

The serial was written by Liverpudlian playwright Alan Bleasdale, as a sequel to a television play titled The Black Stuff. The British Film Institute described it as a "seminal drama series... a warm, humorous but ultimately tragic look at the way economics affect ordinary people… TV's most complete dramatic response to the Thatcher era and as a lament to the end of a male, working class British culture."


37. The Young Ones 8/95

View attachment 12071

The Young Ones is a British sitcom written by Rik Mayall, Ben Elton, and Lise Mayer, starring Adrian Edmondson, Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, and Alexei Sayle, and broadcast on BBC Two for two series, first shown in 1982 and 1984. The show focused on the lives of four students and their landlord's family on different plots that often included anarchic, offbeat humour. The show often included slapstick gags, visual humour and surreal jokes sometimes acted out by puppets, with each episode also featuring a notable selection of guest stars and a musical number from one of the noted performers during the programme's broadcast period.

The Young Ones helped bring alternative comedy to British television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers. The show became a notable icon of 1980s British popular culture, and received its own game and a home-media release, while becoming the first non-music-related programme to appear on MTV in 1985. The show was voted number 31 in the BBC's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.


36. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 8/96

View attachment 12072

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (often referred to as Always Sunny or simply Sunny) is an American sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005, and moved to FXX beginning with the ninth season in 2013. It was created by Rob McElhenney, who developed it with Glenn Howerton. It is executive produced and primarily written by McElhenney, Howerton, and Charlie Day, all of whom star alongside Kaitlin Olson and Danny DeVito. The series follows the exploits of "The Gang," a group of narcissistic friends who run the Irish bar Paddy's Pub in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The series' fourteenth season concluded in November 2019. The series was renewed for a fifteenth season in May 2020, making it the longest-running live-action comedy series in American television history, replacing The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which ran for 14 seasons between 1952 to 1966. In December 2020, the series was renewed for a total of four additional seasons, bringing it to season 18.
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The University Challenge episode of The Young Ones was a classic.
 
OB1 said:
Homeland nearly made my 20 but I thought the series lost its way at times.

Cracker was on the list that whittled down but was never going to make the 20; probably top 50 though.

Didn't vote for Eric and Ernie but I have a fondness for them that I suspect many people my age share, beyond the 8 that did vote for them.
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Homeland was one of four progs I completely forgot about, the others being Mindhunter, Laurel & Hardy and, unbelievably given that it was a staple of my youth, The Young Ones.

I thought Homeland was great up until Peter Quinn bit the dust, then tailed off a bit. The ending was out-lamed only by Game of Thrones as well!
 
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