1. Twin Peaks

2. Sopranos

3. Lost

4. Six Feet Under

5. The Wire

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?"

 All good shows though I haven't seen Gilmore Girls.

Did everyone forget "My So-Called Life," Amanda....????

Susan

PS  Just noticed Angel mentioned "My So-Called Life."

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

I like WKRP in Cincinati.  Our cable has a cool channel, the Retro TV Network which plays all the classics like Dragnet, Get Smart, Incredible Hulk, Newhart, etc.  It's great. 

Something else I liked was Dark Angel, a short lived James Cameron thing.  The second season was dumb as hell but the first one was good.

I should rewatch My So Called Life.

 he's just a smarmy asshole who's clearly full of himself and doing a bad groucho impression when he's not being sanctimonious as all hell.

the show though does have some areas where it's much better than the movie, like the EXTREMELY talented man who played frank burns (i mean no offense to robert duvall, but it just wasnt his role). and klinger is great when written well. i think i just mostly dislike alan alda, loretta switt, and that awful laugh track.

I mentioned it on the previous page of this thread. In the grand scheme of fave tv shows, MSCL lands at number 6 on my list, which is why I didn't mention it in my original post. :)

Tch. Alan Alda is no more full of himself than the next lead actor in a TV series. I think what makes him so easy to dislike in the case of M*A*S*H is that it becomes clear by the middle of the series that he's been given creative control and it's starting to seep into every corner of the M*A*S*H universe. The more Hawkeye becomes a sanctimonious chowderhead, the more irritated we become with Alda. The coup de gras of course is "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" which still makes me cringe to this day. I think the last 20 minutes are perfect, but the previous 60 are unwatchable.

Loretta Switt...when given an excellent script, the woman is spot-on. But she suffers from her character being cartoonish through the majority of the series, and that's sad. I think her shining moments are in eps like "Father's Day" and "Sticky Wicket".

Larry Linville has to be one of the most underrated actors in the series. He made a character so completely despicable and yet at the same time you couldn't help but like Frank Burns and feel a tad sorry for him. I've read interviews with him where he says that he left the series because he felt that Frank Burns had reached the limit of his purpose and he didn't think he could go anywhere else with the character. Made me love him more than ever.

And Jamie Farr...he is one of the best parts of the series. :) Klinger was always a fave of mine, even when I was a kid watching the series in first run on TV. :D Jamie Farr seems like the kind of guy I would have fun hanging out with.

My favorite M*A*S*H episode also serves as a great example of those times when the show balanced silly and serious as well as the film did. Season 4, episode 9, "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?" Bonus: the ep contains my absolute favorite M*A*S*H character ever, Dr. Sidney Freedman, played by the sadly underrated Alan Arbus. AND this ep contains no laugh track. :)

~ Amanda

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

~ Amanda

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