Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

Boo or Boo-urns said:
Band of Brothers (S1 E9) - Why We Fight

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Probably the single greatest TV episode ever, brilliant but devastating.
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Band of Brothers was my #1 pick. Superb series that for me, was a gear shift in TV. Before it, many TV shows were low budget 4:3 aspect ratio - this was the first time that a cinematic vision had been fully realised on TV. Damian Lewis in the role of a lifetime and many other great performances as well. If this had been a fictional series, it would still have been great, but the fact that it was all true just adds to its legendary status in my eyes.

Shocked that it is so low to be honest - I'd have thought it would be nailed on for top 5.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Malcolm in the Middle was a brilliant show, the writing was as good as anything around at the time and Bryan Cranston showed he could do comedy just as well as he would go on to do drama in Breaking Bad
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It won 7 Emmys and had 7 Golden Globe nominations, yet seems to fly completely under the radar when it comes to this kind of poll. I think a lot of people mistakenly regard it as a kid’s programme, but it just isn’t. The central cast were superb, and some of the ‘occasionals’ were even better. Cloris Leachman was outstanding as Lois’ bitter old bag mother, Ida, as were David Anthony Higgins as Craig Feldspar and Gary Anthony Williams as Abe Kenarban.
Scrubs was another comedy that I thought was excellent, but unlike MITM it didn’t make my top 20
 
Band of Brothers was my no3. Nothing short of brilliant.
Up to 7 now but lots of my history/travel stuff will miss out. I did go for documentary series by Neil Oliver, Bruce Parry and Michael Palin so not surprised.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
15. Hill Street Blues 12/169

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Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the staff of a single police station located on Hill Street in an unnamed large city. The "blues" are the police officers in their blue uniforms. The show received critical acclaim and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada. In its debut season, the series won eight Emmy Awards, a debut season record later surpassed only by The West Wing. The show received 98 Emmy nominations during its run.



14. Band Of Brothers 13/169

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Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. The executive producers were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan and the 2010 World War II miniseries The Pacific. The episodes first aired on HBO, starting on September 9, 2001. The series won Emmy and Golden Globe awards in 2001 for best miniseries.

The series dramatizes the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division, from jump training in the United States through its participation in major actions in Europe, up until Japan's capitulation and the end of World War II. The events are based on Ambrose's research and recorded interviews with Easy Company veterans. The series took some literary license, adapting history for dramatic effect and series structure. The characters portrayed are based on members of Easy Company. Some of the men were recorded in contemporary interviews, which viewers see as preludes to several episodes, with the men's real identities revealed in the finale.


13. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 15/169

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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet is a British comedy-drama television programme about seven English construction workers who leave England to search for employment overseas. In the first series, the men live and work on a building site in Düsseldorf. The series was created by Franc Roddam after an idea from Mick Connell, a bricklayer from Stockton-on-Tees, and mostly written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who also wrote The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Porridge. It starred Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach and Gary Holton, with Noel Clarke replacing Holton for series three and four and the two-part finale. The series were broadcast on ITV in 1983–1984 and 1986. After a sixteen-year gap, two series and a Christmas special were shown on BBC One in 2002 and 2004.


12. I'm Alan Partridge 14/171

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I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC sitcom written by Steve Coogan, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci. Coogan stars as Alan Partridge, a tactless and inept radio DJ and television presenter who has been left by his wife and dropped from the BBC. The show follows Partridge as he lives alone in a roadside hotel and presents a graveyard slot on local Norwich radio, all the while desperately pitching ideas for new television shows.

Two series of six episodes were broadcast five years apart. Series 1 was released in late 1997, while a second season followed in 2002, with Partridge now living in a static caravan after recovering from an off-screen mental breakdown. Iannucci said the writers used the sitcom as "a kind of social X-ray of male middle-aged Middle England."

Supporting Coogan in the cast are Felicity Montagu as his faithful but timid personal assistant, Lynn Benfield; Simon Greenall as Geordie handyman Michael; and Phil Cornwell as Partridge's rival DJ Dave Clifton. Series 2 also featured Amelia Bullmore as Partridge's Ukrainian girlfriend Sonja.

The show received critical acclaim and was a success amongst audiences, being nominated for three BAFTAs (winning two), two British Comedy Awards (winning both), and a Royal Television Society award. In a list drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted by industry professionals, I'm Alan Partridge was named the 38th-best British television series of all time.


11. The Simpsons 16/190

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The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.

The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks. Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members, substituting Bart for his own name; he thought Simpson was a funny name in that it sounded similar to "simpleton". The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19, 1987. After three seasons, the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became Fox's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989–1990).

Since its debut on December 17, 1989, 697 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast. It is the longest-running American animated series, longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series, both in terms of seasons and number of episodes.
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Surprised The Simpsons didn’t make the top 5 to be honest. It’s gone past its sell by date to the tune of about 15 seasons, but seasons 2 through to about 12 were fantastic with literally hundreds of golden moments
 
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