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What are your favourite tv shows of all time?

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Goders · 20/09/2025 17:48

I’m not much of a tv watcher but I’m about to be in bed for an extended period of time (major surgery). Was hoping for tv shows recommendations. Just trying to think of ways to occupy my time.

Have bought a bunch of books and downloaded some games to my laptop.

I loved The Sopranos. But there isn’t a particular genre I don’t enjoy.

Thanks in advance

OP posts:
Echoeingecho · 21/09/2025 01:49

Better Call Saul
Ozark
A Place to Call Home
Slow Horses

PurpleRobe · 21/09/2025 00:26

24
Lost
Homeland
Good wife
Boss
Saving grace
ER

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:25

Ooh - fogot these absolute bangers.

our friends in the north
cold feet
This life

XWKD · 21/09/2025 00:25

The Beverly Hillbillies, Dallas, and Dynasty. 😉

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:23

RainBow725 · 21/09/2025 00:17

A fellow Sorkin fan 🥰.

Show quote history

He’s brilliant. Sooo many words though..

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:22

Yes prime minister.
Downton Abbey
House of cards
game of thrones
band of brothers
the west wing
ungorgotten
the split
line Of duty
ted lasso

bellabelly · 21/09/2025 00:18

Frasier

RainBow725 · 21/09/2025 00:17

perimenopoppet · 20/09/2025 18:03

The West Wing
For All Mankind
Six Feet Under
Mad Men
House
The Newsroom
Studio 60 on the sunset strip
Homeland
Game of Thrones

A fellow Sorkin fan 🥰.

GingersOwner26 · 21/09/2025 00:04

namechangetheworld · 20/09/2025 22:55

Lost (nobody has mentioned it yet, which saddens me!)
Game of Thrones
Rome
Dark
Teachers
Arrested Development
New Girl
Parks and Rec
Motherland

I also really enjoyed The Walking Dead until the quality dropped significantly after they lost Andrew Lincoln.

Edited

Lost is my favourite of all time, and Dark is another! Ever checked out From? That’s the other of my top 3

cantthinkofanythingelse · 21/09/2025 00:03

Frasier
Ghosts
All Creatures Great and Small
Hill Street Blues (must be time for a re showing of this)

whatisthegoddamnholdup · 20/09/2025 23:58

The Sopranos, The Wire, Band of Brothers.

Smallsalt · 20/09/2025 23:57

Frasier
Derry Girls
IT crowd
Anne of Green gables ( Megan follows)
Pride and Prejudice ( 1980s David Rintoul/ Elizabeth Garvie)
Cagney and Lacey
To serve them all my days

LolaSparkle · 20/09/2025 23:54

Friends
Modern Family
Vampire Diaries
Game of Thrones
Sherlock
Broadchurch
The Haunting of Hill House
American Horror Story
Yellowstone

chattyness · 20/09/2025 23:47

Mystery Road
Mystery Road Origins
Outrageous Fortune
Westside
The Almighty Johnson's
Jack Irish
Underbelly

Barmymarnie · 20/09/2025 23:40

Barmymarnie · 20/09/2025 22:47

The Royle Family
This is England (86, 88, 90)
The Handmaids Tale
Gavin and Stacey
The Office (UK)
The American Office

Edited

And GBH! Don’t know how I missed that!

cc99xo · 20/09/2025 23:31

Prison break
Power
Greys anatomy
Gossip girl
The Vampire diaries followed by The Originals

SecretNameforMN · 20/09/2025 23:21

Goodnight sweetheart.
Extras.

Messyandconceited · 20/09/2025 23:20

Jam & Jeruselum (on YouTube if nowhere else), dinnerladies, Darling Buds of May, Doc Martin, Call the Midwife, The Hardacres. Ooh and there's a new Steven Knight period drama starting on Netflix next week called House of Guinness, looks brilliant!

Mottledgrey · 20/09/2025 23:14

There’s so many better ones but in this circumstance I feel all you need is the summer I turned pretty.

Elsvieta · 20/09/2025 23:12

If heavily drugged, Adam Curtis documentaries. Trippy

labamba18 · 20/09/2025 23:10

Handmaid’s tale
schitts creek
fleabag
the crown
slow horses
newsroom

winkywanky · 20/09/2025 23:06

The Young Ones
Friday Night Dinner
Benidorm
Due south
The Rookie
Ted Lasso
Ludwig
Brooklyn 99
The Good Place

Elsvieta · 20/09/2025 23:04

The Wire
Mad Men
Six Feet Under
The West Wing
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Ozark
Northern Exposure

Friends, Frasier, Sex and the City.

Happy Valley

Blackadder, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Father Ted, Yes Minster, Drop The Dead Donkey, Rising Damp, Reginald Perrin, The Thick If It, Butterflies, The Good Life

Pride and Prejudice (the 1995 one). Jeeves and Wooster

Icon15 · 20/09/2025 23:03

Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Line of Duty
Pride and Prejudice (BBC 1995)

HappyHedgehog247 · 20/09/2025 23:00

Another shout out for all creatures great and small. Found it very comforting after surgery earlier this year.

I also enjoyed some non-fiction: new lives in the wild, couples therapy.