Top 5 favorite (completed) television shows

[Cap'n Cook]

Breaking Bad
Battlestar Galactica
Six Feet Under

 

[mah45]

The Borgias
Fringe
House M.D.
Beware The Batman
Cold Case

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Off the top of my head ...

The Unit
Deadwood
Star Trek: The Next Generation
House
Smallville

SnakeDoc

Time for a major revision of this list. I've caught up on several shows this year -- and a couple more have finished -- that blow a few of those out of the water.

(1) Justified
(2) 24
(3) Breaking Bad
(4) The Shield
(5) ...

Not sure on 5. Deadwood? The Unit? House? Haven't watched SOA yet.

SnakeDoc

 

[Deeznutz6]

Lost was the biggest waste of TV time ever

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Drama

1. Breaking Bad
2. The Shield
3. The Sopranos
4. Miami Vice
5. The X Files
6.The Twilight Zone

Comedy

1. Seinfeld
2. Taxi
3. All in the Family
4. Happy Days
5. Frasier

Cartoons

1. Batman the Animated Series
2. Dragon Ball Z
3. X Men
4.The Tick
5.Tiny Tunes
6.The Real Ghostbusters
7.Doug

Top 5 completed shows

1. Seinfeld
2. Breaking Bad
3. Taxi
4. Batman Animated Series
5.The X Files

 

[Mack]

1. The Wire
2. Justified
3. Breaking Bad
4. Band of Brothers
5. The Killing

Honorable Mention:
Luther
Sherlock
Freaks & Geeks
Arrested Development

If you haven't watched Bosch on Amazon, do yourself a favor and binge it. It might make my list someday if it continues down the path of quality the first season followed.

 

[karamazov80]

Bosch was really excellent. I enjoyed the hell out of it. And I think the Wire is the best, highest quality show I've ever seen. But not at the top of my list of favorites. Muppet Show is still probably number 1 for me after a year or so since my earlier post. I saw Band of Brothers last year for the first time, and totally understand it being on folks' lists, as well. Extremely well done.

 

[cilantropants]

ST:TNG
Newhart
Taxi
Duckman
Justified

Sure, that'll work.

 

[SwiftC]

5. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
4. Parks and Recreation
3. The Newsroom
2. The West Wing
1. Damages

 

[KitFisto]

1. Sons of Anarchy
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Star Trek TOS
4. Star Trek TNG
5. Friends

Honorable mention to the first 3 seasons of Sliders.

 

[Road Blaster]

1. Breaking Bad
2. True Detective
3. The Wire

 

[spindrift]

Battlestar Galactica (new)
The Prisoner
Star Trek TOS
Rockford Files
not sure of fifth..

 

[Adolfo]

Breaking Bad, How the West was Won, Crime Story, Wiseguy, and..... lots others,...

 

[evenflow]

Lost
Married with Children
Seinfeld
I Love Lucy
X-Files

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

1. LOST (will always be #1)
2. Fringe
3. Prisonbreak

 

[Baneofdemon22]

I never wrote my list of favorites. The Simpsons is my favorite tv show, but since it won't die (I'm just kidding; I'll actually be sad when it ends), here's my top 5 completed shows:

1. Breaking Bad- This show might not have the greatest acting (except for Bryan Cranston), cinematography, cast of characters, or action that I've seen on a television series. Like Star Wars, it does a good job of blending genres, and has something that appeals to everyone. Funnily enough, it's the only entertainment outside of Star Wars where the series felt like an event: where everyone was watching it—holding hands and singing like the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. In the same way everyone you encounter will give a little smirk (or groan) when hearing "May the Force be with you," Breaking Bad has a very similar effect on our culture with its "I am the one who knocks".

2. The Twilight Zone- The show is very mixed in quality, but there's never been an episode that I didn't like. I'm not a sci-fi fan, but I love this show. I wish there were shows like this today with great morals without being pretentious and cheesy, or forcing the audience to sit through a lot of gratuitous content to get a decent message.

3. Arrested Development- I actually never found the comedy to be very funny in the show, but I thought the writing was great and I liked every single character. It doesn't make me laugh out loud like The Simpsons, Married With Children, and the works of Larry David, but I like having a serialized light-hearted drama with complex characters.

4. Seinfeld

5. Frasier

 

[devilof76]

Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Sopranos
Firefly
V
Cheers (1st five seasons; Sam and Diane era).

 

[YoNoSe]

LOST
Hannibal
True Detective (Season 1, obviously)
Firefly
X-Files

 

[Rambler]

Breaking Bad
Seinfeld
True Detective (Season 1)
The Sopranos
Band of Brothers

 

[c2close]

Prison Break
Spartacus