"At the time that TNG and DS9 were released on disc, I refused to pay the exorbitant asking prices ($125-150 a pop anyone?)."

Even though it didn't make my top 5, I'm a big Trek fan, but I simply refuse to pay the ridiculous prices they're still asking for the DVD sets. Even now, they're like seventy bucks a pop where I live. Trying to collect every season of every series at those prices? I'm not made of latinum...Everything used to be expensive when they first came out, but most shows have come way down. The X-Files was like a hundtred dollars per season when it it first came out, but a few months back I picked up the entire series for twenty dollars per season. Why Trek stubbornly stays so high is beyond me...

I do have all ten movies on DVD. They were very reasonably priced.

On another note, I'm surprised to see how much TP/Buffy overlap there is. Glad to see I'm not alone.    

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

In college I was a religious viewer of Buffy and Charmed.  I never did get into Angel though.  The Spike storyline always interested me more than the Angel one so when the Angel show came out I caught about 2 eps and just couldn't get into it.  I was sad when Buffy was taken off the air and kept up with Charmed.  I love that show and love that it's in reruns on TNT.

I also forgot to mention NCIS.  I love that show.  I have a weird crush on Mark Harmon though so I am sure that has somethign to do with it.

I am really bummed how most of the shows I love end up getting cancelled.  I love Pushing Daisies and that's done after some summer eps.  Men in Trees was good as well and that got canned.  Dead Like Me has some of the greatest dry humor I have seen in awhile and that only lasted 2 seasons.  Dead Like Me is one that I wish would have gotten at least 3 seasons to tie up loose ends.  But there is the movie that recently came out...I need to see that....

I also quite enjoy Dexter and Psych.  I wish that Dexter was on regular tv and I don't miss an ep of Psych.  

X-Files used to be a favorite of mine until I saw Dr. Who.  I just love that show!

Some honorable mentions are: Ghost Hunters, Eureka, Eleventh Hour, Destination Truth, MI-5 (in US, Spooks in UK) (wish A&E would continue to run this, I loved it when it was ran a few years back.), Law and Order Criminal Intent and Special Victims, the original has lost a bit of it for me...

1. Twin Peaks

2. Lost

3. Cheers (surprised no-one's gone for this one!)

4. Carnivale

5. Spaced

(sorry, there's just no way I can limit this to 5...)

6. Seinfeld

7. Black Books

8. Curb Your Enthusiasm

9. Futurama

10. Simpsons

Anthony Stewart Head is the shiznit.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Six musical Episode "Once More With Feeling" is one of the finest hours in television history.  I can listen to the original soundtrack or watch it a million times.  I know it word for word.  Manly man who likes this musical LOL

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

smeds-Much like Buffy, Angel's first season is the weakest. Consider giving it another try, it gets so much better.

I was pissed when Men in Trees got canceled but I have to say, the lame "Patrick loses his memory and becomes a douchebag!" storyline really swung the tone of the series around a little too much. Having it end up with Annie moving on (within, what, six eps?) and Patrick getting himself back in the end but Annie still rejecting him...that was just too much for me. But overall I still loved it. :(  I guess at least we got two seasons out of it, unlike Wonderfalls and My So-Called Life, two other series that I adore and that just barely missed my top five.

Dead Like Me...the last ep of that 2nd season was brilliant. I was furious when it didn't get renewed, much in the same way I was furious about Carnivale being canceled after we got that AWESOME second half of that second season. The Dead Like Me movie is so-so...Reggie got moderately hawt in the meantime, and the premise behind the film is interesting, but parts of it fell flat. Still...I would rather have that movie than nothing at all! DLM is still DLM no matter what. :) I always said it was like the flip-side of Six Feet Under. Where SFU was about how the living dealt with death in a melancholy manner, DLM was about the dead dealing with the living in a darkly wry manner. *sigh* Miss it.

And I'm with Fud. Regardless of splits in the timelines or whatnot, I really see Trek as one whole entity. I reiterate, I don't think you can really enjoy Trek as a whole if you don't consider all the parts of it.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Twin Peaks, about which not much more needs to be said here.

Northern Exposure, which had some of the best character development and general writing of anything I've seen, and which I would totally buy on DVD if they hadn't ruined it by refusing to pay for the music rights.

Sherlock Holmes, Jeremy Brett edition -- there is no other Holmes for me, even in the late episodes where he's really sick and they're trying to cover it with scarves and bad makeup.

The Simpsons / Futurama -- I know it's not fair to group them, but I don't love them enough to give up two spaces.

The Larry Sanders Show, which was one of those shows that was too clever for its own good but managed to survive anyway.

Honorable mention: Python, On the Air, Made In Canada, Harvey Birdman, Black Books, South Park, Fishing With John, Kids in the Hall, The Rockford Files

1.  Twin Peaks

2.  Dark Shadows

3.  The Mary Tyler Moore Show

4.  Friends

5.  Northern Exposure

 Yeah, forgot about that one!  That's up there on my list , too.  Especially, when Kirstie was on.

Also, I used to love Night Court and Get A Life.

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

1.  The Sopranos

2.  Seinfeld

3.  I Love Lucy

4.  Twilight Zone

5.  Alfred Hitchcock Presents

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

 I've been going through the DVDs. I just started Season 6 and I wasn't that keen on Kirstie Alley replacing Diane, but she seems like she is going to be better. Diane could be quite one-track, and grating. Rebecca is a lot more fun, and I like Sam's relationship with her. His relationship with Diane made no sense at the end, one minute she would want to marry him and he wouldn't and then vice-versa!

I have seen the Kirstie Alley ones before btw. But I can't remember them, and never in sequence.

Nuart, you about have my list

1. Twin Peaks

2. Alfred Hitchcock Hour/Presents- excellent stuff, funny and creepy at the same time

3. Twilight Zone- old black and white ones

4. The Munsters- so much funnier than the Adams Family

5. Gilmore Girls- great show but I don't expect much love for it.  Witty dialogue, quirky small town, and I like the fact that it gave young girls a positive role model as opposed to most shows geared towards teenage girls.

I would like to throw out an honorable mention to AbFab.  I laugh until I cry watching this.

 I have had Northern Exposure Season 1 on DVD for a good while now, and have never got round to watching it. I will do soon though, i see so many good things said about it.

Also, good call on South Park and Black Books. I love those shows.

On a sidenote, i was shocked when i went to New York City in January just how many UK shows were available on DVD in the shops there. 'Allo 'Allo, Are You Being Served, Rising Damp, Inspector Morse(!), Miss Marple(!!!!!), Minder, etc. Some of those shows are just so overwhelmingly "English" that even i struggle with them.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE: I am really bummed how most of the shows I love end up getting cancelled.  I love Pushing Daisies and that's done after some summer eps.  Men in Trees was good as well and that got canned.  Dead Like Me has some of the greatest dry humor I have seen in awhile and that only lasted 2 seasons.  Dead Like Me is one that I wish would have gotten at least 3 seasons to tie up loose ends.  But there is the movie that recently came out...I need to see that....   And I'm with Fud. Regardless of splits in the timelines or whatnot, I really see Trek as one whole entity. I reiterate, I don't think you can really enjoy Trek as a whole if you don't consider all the parts of it. Of course it's all part of the same universe and all of them should be enjoyed, but it still doesn't make it one series.  I agree with myself.   On any TV show forum there's gonna be geeky things said. This forum's not too bad on that front, but this is most definitely the geekiest thing I've seen discussed!

 I'm afraid the only thing coming out of your smiley's face is: "Star Trek... multiple series... blah blah blah"

It's okay to be a geek, j.

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."