Top 5 favorite (completed) television shows

[K07]

My criteria for this list is the show has to have concluded and you have to enjoy every season of the show's run. As we're well aware, a bad conclusion to a story can ruin the whole thing.

Seinfeld
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Breaking Bad
I Love Lucy
Arrested Development

There are actually a handful of shows I enjoy more than some of these but there were some really BAD seasons that make the show as a whole ineligible to make the final cut. Those include TNG (seasons 1 and 2), Disney's Gargoyles (season 3), B:TAS (season 4), Futurama (haven't seen the newer seasons yet), and The Legend of Korra (hasn't ended yet).

 

[EVILFACE]

I don't get into many TV shows, but here we go!!

1. The A-Team
2. Batman: The Animated Series
3. Breaking Bad
4.
5.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Off the top of my head ...

The Unit
Deadwood
Star Trek: The Next Generation
House
Smallville

SnakeDoc

 

[a-dev]

Completed shows...hmmm. I guess I haven't really watched much...

1) Spartacus
2) Rome
3) Star Trek Deep Space Nine
4) The Sopranos
5) Star Trek The Next Generation

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

1. Spartacus
2. Futurama
3. Frasier

Would add Game of Thrones and Always Sunny if they were finished.

 

[DarkAngel]

Seinfeld
Siberia
Avatar the last airbender
......
......

3 is all I got

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Without a doubt #1: Wonderfalls
Firefly
Gilmore Girls
Angel/Buffy
30 Rock

 

[morphosis]

1. X-Files
2. X-Files
3. X-Files
4. X-Files
5. X-Files

also:
Breaking Bad
Seinfeld
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica ('04)

 

[Jameson Rook]

Don't watch that much TV, and my top 5 comes and goes but those that will forever stay in the top 10 one way or another are:

5 Castle
4 Justice League/Justice League Unlimited
3 Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
2 Batman: the Animated Series
1 Firefly

 

[Cocoboloboy]

Fringe
Seinfeld
Cheers
Firefly
Frasier

Four of these instantly came to mind. One I had to think about for a bit.

Ryan, is Castle completed already?

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Angel
Spartacus
The Twilight Zone
Seinfeld
Speed Racer

 

[a-dev]

Forgot about Buffy and Angel, Firefly and Sarah Connor chronicles.

The latter 2 were cancelled before their time. I don't know that you can call them complete in the same sense as a show that gets to end when and how it wants.

Out of Buffy and Angel I preferred Angel and that one ended on a strong season. if either of those were to make my top 5 it'd be Angel.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

1. Chuck
2. Futurama
3. Sliders
4. Deadwood
5. Friends

 

[filip629]

Breaking Bad
Sopranos
The Shield
Friends
Spartacus

 

[Wor-Gar]

Good question, got me thinking.

In no particular order:

Buffy
Lost
Seinfeld
Twilight Zone
Bugs Bunny


My wife:

Sex in the City
Lost
Sopranos
The Carol Burnett Show
Melrose Place

 

[Cocoboloboy]

I would have put Lost in an honorable mention list. It would have made it in my top five had it not been for how they ended it.

 

[Niltusk]

BtVS - actually been powering through the episodes in blocks the last couple weeks, hadnt watched in years, had almost forgotten how good it is.
Cowboy Bebop - one of my favorite to rewatch.
67 Spiderman - yes it reuses the same art in repeated scenes, but this was something I watched anytime I could find it long before I ever read a Spidey comic. One of my favorite box sets and it's Spidey theme is as cool today as it was when I was a kid.
There's probably some I'm forgetting, a lot of shows like Breaking Bad that could possiby make my list, i haven't finished yet so didn't consider them. But from the Eps. I've seen BB and House were both great. Need to just be determined and finish these off.

 

[batfan08]

My criteria for this list is the show has to have concluded and you have to enjoy every season of the show's run. As we're well aware, a bad conclusion to a story can ruin the whole thing.

Seinfeld
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Breaking Bad
I Love Lucy
Arrested Development

There are actually a handful of shows I enjoy more than some of these but there were some really BAD seasons that make the show as a whole ineligible to make the final cut. Those include TNG (seasons 1 and 2), Disney's Gargoyles (season 3), B:TAS (season 4), Futurama (haven't seen the newer seasons yet), and The Legend of Korra (hasn't ended yet).

Off the top of my head ...

The Unit
Deadwood
Star Trek: The Next Generation
House
Smallville

SnakeDoc

1. Chuck
2. Futurama
3. Sliders
4. Deadwood
5. Friends

To a lesser extent, Deadwood, but can we consider Arrested Development completed? There's still either a movie or another season seemingly on the way, last I checked, and, as far as Deadwood goes, while it's most likely never going to happen, without a definite conclusion, there's always a chance that it could make a return in some form, especially with stuff like crowd sourcing catching on.

 

[beeshaw]

1. Lost
2. Breaking Bad
3. Alias
4. Fringe
5. Buffy/Angel

Honorable Mentions
Firefly
Pushing Daisies
Chuck
24 (I know, it's back...)
Better Off Ted

 

[greatlakes6]

1. Seinfeld
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
3. Lost in Space
4. Batman
5. Room 222