TV Show Meme

[flighty_dreams]

Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.

There's a few shows I love missing from here (Highlander? TSCC? *sniffle*) but oh well.
 

24
7th Heaven
ALF
Alias
American Gothic
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brothers And Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Californication
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Chuck
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Even Stevens
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Fringe
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Glee
Gossip Girl
Greek
Grey's Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Knight Rider
Knight Rider: 2008
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order: SVU
Leverage
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
MASH
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
McLeods Daughters
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
Mystery Science Theater 3000
My Life As A Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Press Gang
Prison Break
Private Practice
Privileged
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Pushing Daisies
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Sanctuary
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South of Nowhere
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Unfabulous
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Weeds
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess
The L Word

 

Comments

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

So many shows I've never heard of, guess they never made it to Australia. :)

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's probably the reason. Some of these are pretty old as well, and I imagine were on before a lot of shows were getting imported to Australia.

And I imagine this is a little surprising for the QAF fans, but I didn't know there was both a UK and US version lol. I only knew of the US one, which I haven't seen more than 5 minutes of. XD

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

We had both versions here, I prefer the U.S. version, great eye candy. :)

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Lol. Yeah from the little I've seen, my impression was that they get naked a LOT. :D

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

They did!!!! LOL!!

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

And no Life on Mars! Any of them!

[fran-fic.livejournal.com]

They have only showed the UK version here, years ago now, and I saw all the episodes and even taped them on VCR :-) I liked them a lot (expect the last of the last episode). I've only seen a little bit of the US version on line and didn't like it at all. But I guess that's how it always is. You see the original and really like it, you tend to look at later versions as some sort of blasphemy *LOL*

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Very true! That's an oversight. I saw all of the US version of Life on Mars. I have the UK version, and I saw the first couple episodes, but the remake was so close to the original (at least in the first couple episodes) that I found it hard to watch. I mean, it was the same stuff happening, just with different actors. And this was only several episodes into the US version, so I had just seen them.

Maybe one day I'll go back and watch the rest of the UK one, when it's not so fresh in my mind. I don't know how the UK version ends; I know the US ending is different.

I did enjoy the look back at the 70s and how different things were. Which is also what I love about Mad Men, which also somehow got overlooked on this list! Boo.

ETA: And I will say the main guy in the US version made better eye candy. ;-)

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's always loyalty to the original, or to whichever version you saw first. How many seasons was the UK one? I so don't have time for watching a whole other series right now, but maybe over Christmas...

The impression I also got from the US one was that it was a lot of casual sex and not much feeling behind the relationships. But that's without actually seeing it, so I don't know. I also don't know how the UK version is in this regard either, of course.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had the same problem in reverse. I'd only just watched the U.K. version, and I could not slog through the first episode of the U.S. version for all the wincing. I sat there hissing, "How little did they PAY these writers?!"

U.K. Sam is burning out and frustrated. On the one hand, relationship troubles with Maya. On the other, the man they thought was the killer turned out to be innocent.

U.S. Sam is an enthusiastic young officer on the verge of committing to his partner (he's told her he wants to meet her parents) and the man they've caught for the crime really did do it, even though he slipped through the net because he has a twin brother.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

I did, however, eventually watch the whole U.S. one and appreciated it for its merits when it wasn't lifting nearly word-for-word from its source. I really appreciated the young woman who played Rose Tyler. She could deliver lines from songs and sound completely natural.

[fran-fic.livejournal.com]

If I have understood it correctly there was really only one season with eight episodes, and then a sort of TV special with two more episodes. I haven't seen those two extra episodes.

I have't seen enough of the US version to compare it in that way, but even though the UK version was sort of exaggerated in its characterization, I think it did have depth and was really funny too at times. The main character was a man that really had trouble getting too close to anyone and did his best to have a lot of casual sex and not showing feelings - his committment-problems was a theme, so in that aspect, yeah, there were a lot of casual sex. It was also rather explicit, which it was criticized for... Though you wouldn't find me among the protesters :-)

[flighty-dreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. After you'd seen one version it was like, "I get this is a remake, but seriously???"

The main characters themselves are different across each version, but the set up for those first few episodes was the same, sigh.

And yes, after the first few/several (I'm not sure) episodes, I felt that US version was doing its own thing, even without having seen all of the UK version.

Yeah the actress who played Rose was very good, and I loved Harvey Keitel as his boss. And Dean Winters (who played Sam's dad here) is a versatile actor, having guest starred in 3 different shows I watched.

Overall, I enjoyed it. It wasn't 'omg my favorite show must watch it all now' but definitely liked it, and I'm glad they were able to give it an ending before being cancelled.

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

Well, when you do get around to... er, slogging through the UK series hahah I hope you like it. Especially as, if you do (and maybe even if you don't) there is the sequel/continuation Ashes to Ashes which has run two seasons and they are filming the third.

I only hope they don't choose the same type of resolution as the U.S. LoM did.