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Poll Question: Choose any favourites (multiple votes enabled)
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [1.82%]
2 [3.64%]
2 [3.64%]
2 [3.64%]
3 [5.45%]
1 [1.82%]
1 [1.82%]
6 [10.91%]
1 [1.82%]
1 [1.82%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [9.09%]
2 [3.64%]
2 [3.64%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [9.09%]
6 [10.91%]
1 [1.82%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [1.82%]
7 [12.73%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
5 [9.09%]
1 [1.82%]
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Forgot about Stella Street! Unforgivable! The Corner Shop sketches had me rolling on the floor!
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No votes for Kieslowski's "Dekalog"? Fixed.
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Lots and lots of my favourites here!

But I have to add 'Stella Street' with John Sessions & Phil Cornwell playing multiple personalities and celebrities  who all have taken up residence in a middle England suburban street.. watch any of the 'Mick & Keith's corner shop' sketches..

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Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Young Ones... 
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I see that ‘Allo ‘Allo is not on my list, even though it was on it. It’s one of my favourites, as I think you know from another topic, that just got missed somehow when I decided to shuffle the positions of some of these. I always make mistakes when I prepare these polls.
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Allo Allo is my favourite
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Singing Detective....Brideshead....and of course Morse....perhaps my favorite grumpy detective of all time.
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The Professionals was a good one per my tastes, noni. I prefer it to a number on my own list (I added a few to these lists that I thought certain people at the site, like Dwill, might enjoy).

My faves of this list are Kieslowski's Dekalog (brilliant, every person serious about the medium should try it, I think). It's way more artistic than, say, Airwolf (imo of course), and deeper even than ALF. The Singing Detective is brilliant, as is Das Boot. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is such a witty satire. Morse is Morse, fabulous show.

The New Statesman is not as witty as Yes Minister, it's pretty blunt and sadistic, but it has some, I think, really great moments, and the darkness of it did appeal to me. There's this presentation scene from the episode "Sex is Wrong" that I found hilarious which involves a pamphlet and a Conservative party conference.

The First Born "miniseries' I found ultimately very moving, and I think Traffik was very good.



I also have a big thing for Chocky (one of my all-time favourite children's shows), and I do find it moving.



Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

Morse - best detective series ever!
Black Adder - second only to Fawlty Towers as the best comedy ever.
Red Dwarf - almost as good, except for those dodgy later series or two before the latest reboot.
The Singing Detective - Potter's best work
Brideshead Revisited - loved it at the time, but haven't been tempted to rewatch it since.
Das Boot - gripping war drama - must have been special if I start caring about what happens to a U-Boat crew!
Yes Minister etc. - witty and perceptive political comedy with a great cast and writing (Sir Humphrey lives on with Lazland's avatar!!!) - Always found The New Statesman a bit too broad and bawdy - although Ric Mayall and the gang in The Young Ones were superb!
Dr Who not as good in the 80s - my interest faded somewhat.
The Tripods - really interesting children's Sci-Fi, but the BBC messed with the schedule and it got cancelled early - so a flawed classic.
Hill Street Blues - I hung in there for many series, but probably missed more episodes than I saw - as life got in the way! As teachers, we always used to say "let's do it to them before they do it to us" after every Monday staff meeting before the first lesson!!!

Elsewhere - A BBC Wednesday play - The Flipside of Dominick Hide - remains my favourite Sci-Fi one off programme - although recent Black Mirror episodes run it close. Highly recommended. A Very Peculiar Practice - campus medical comedy - although the first series was best. The Beiderbecke Tapes etc. were fun too!


Great reading, Squonk, and some for me to look into. I also lost interest in Doctor Who in the 80s, but I appreciate it rather more now. I still think that there were some superb episodes made during that time, and I like the weirdness of the Colin Baker episode, Revelation of the Daleks.
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I watched Quantum Leap and Star Trek TNG back in the day :)
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Black Adder and Red Dwarf from this list.

Some of my favourites:

Seinfeld (started back in '89)
Married with Children
Sledge Hammer
The Twilight Zone (1985)

Some series I enjoyed, but aren't that great: V, ALF, Mr. Belvedere, MacGyver, Taxi.
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Morse - best detective series ever!
Black Adder - second only to Fawlty Towers as the best comedy ever.
Red Dwarf - almost as good, except for those dodgy later series or two before the latest reboot.
The Singing Detective - Potter's best work
Brideshead Revisited - loved it at the time, but haven't been tempted to rewatch it since.
Das Boot - gripping war drama - must have been special if I start caring about what happens to a U-Boat crew!
Yes Minister etc. - witty and perceptive political comedy with a great cast and writing (Sir Humphrey lives on with Lazland's avatar!!!) - Always found The New Statesman a bit too broad and bawdy - although Ric Mayall and the gang in The Young Ones were superb!
Dr Who not as good in the 80s - my interest faded somewhat.
The Tripods - really interesting children's Sci-Fi, but the BBC messed with the schedule and it got cancelled early - so a flawed classic.
Hill Street Blues - I hung in there for many series, but probably missed more episodes than I saw - as life got in the way! As teachers, we always used to say "let's do it to them before they do it to us" after every Monday staff meeting before the first lesson!!!

Elsewhere - A BBC Wednesday play - The Flipside of Dominick Hide - remains my favourite Sci-Fi one off programme - although recent Black Mirror episodes run it close. Highly recommended. A Very Peculiar Practice - campus medical comedy - although the first series was best. The Beiderbecke Tapes etc. were fun too!
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The Professionals.   Very similar to The Sweeney of the 70s
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ALF
The Cosby Show
Hill Street Blues
Miami Vice
Airwolf
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Didn't spend enough time thinking about this. Multiple choice enabled. Edit: Missed two of my absolute favourites with the First Born and Traffik "miniseries" -- edited in..

Edited by Logan - August 18 2018 at 13:38
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