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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

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WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 20/09/2025 22:59

The West Wing and Grey’s Anatomy are my most bingeable shows. Schitts Creek, Modern Family or Nashville also good.

Figgygal · 20/09/2025 22:57

Dont know what services you have but these are some recent favourites

The newsreader - bbc
Yellowstone - netflix (final season on paramount)
Slow horses - apple
Hacks - sky
Industry - bbc
Blue lights - bbc

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.

PersephoneSmith · 20/09/2025 22:53

Best show ever made, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I know I’m not the first to say it, I just feel really strongly about it 😆

WokeMarxistPope · 20/09/2025 22:52

The Good Place
The Americans
The West Wing (though too sad to watch now possibly)
Orphan Black
Derry Girls
ER
Frasier
Buffy/Angel

SorcererGaheris · 20/09/2025 22:49

Frasier
Cheers
Taxi
Arrested Development
Friends
Only Fools and Horses
Supernatural
Murder, She Wrote
Diagnosis Murder
Sesame Street
New Tricks

YourTruthorMine · 20/09/2025 22:47

After my surgery earlier this year, I watched Apple Cider Vinegar, I'm rather partial to a con wo/man drama, Inventing Anna is another one of my favourites in a similar genre. I also loved The Walking Dead and Dexter. The Girlfriend on Amazon Prime is good too, binged that last weekend

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

WaffleParty · 20/09/2025 22:44

Vitriolinsanity · 20/09/2025 22:17

The West Wing
Tenko
Modern Family

Oh yes Tenko!

WaffleParty · 20/09/2025 22:43

Happy Valley
Broadcurch
its a Sin
Succession
Chernobyl

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 20/09/2025 22:42

The best TV show ever is Blackadder

Readytoplay · 20/09/2025 22:41

Doctor Who (2005-2010 RTD era)
Being Human (UK Original, couldn’t get into the US remake)
Only Fools and Horses (minus the final 3 episodes, they really were a shark jump that wasn’t needed)
The Simpsons
One Foot in the Grave

And… I’ll forever be a BBUK apologist.

SpottyAardvark · 20/09/2025 22:34

Cardiac Arrest
Top Gear (Clarkson Hammond May era)
Cold Feet (original run)
BrassEye
The Day Today
Planet Earth

hotchocdrinker · 20/09/2025 22:32

The West Wing
Dark (I see only one person has mentioned this. On Netflix in German with subtitles, absolutely brilliant and I don’t know anyone else who has watched it!)
The Newsroom
Dexter
Six Feet under

autienotnaughty · 20/09/2025 22:31

Allo allo
fawlty towers
blackadder
desperate housewives
greys anatomy
gossip girl
modern family

FindingMeno · 20/09/2025 22:27

Vikings
The Last Kingdom
The Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Friends

TenaciousDeeds · 20/09/2025 22:27

Well I’m 59, so:

The Good Life
Dallas
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
Platonic

sparepantsandtoothbrush · 20/09/2025 22:25

Call the Midwife. I'm rewatching them all again now and should be caught up in time for Christmas when the new series always comes out!

Also love Prison Break, Motherland and Manifest

frozendaisy · 20/09/2025 22:20

Lucifer
Ted Lasso
Slow Horses
Only Murders in The Building
bit partial to Sex and the City/And Just Like That
Wednesday is very good
Elementary (Johnny Lee Millard as Sherlock what’s not to enjoy!)
Forever
The Dresden Files
American Gods
Good Omens

Vitriolinsanity · 20/09/2025 22:17

The West Wing
Tenko
Modern Family

AbzMoz · 20/09/2025 22:05

Hoping the surgery goes well!

After my own earlier this year (non weight bearing on feet, extremely reduced mobility) I enjoyed comedies like Derry girls, Friday night dinner, father Ted, etc and easy-going detectiving (Jonathan Creek, Death in Paradise). I found I wanted stuff that was enjoyable and distracting but that I didn’t have to concentrate on.

borisjohnsonsforgottencondom · 20/09/2025 22:00

I believe most of mine have been mentioned.

I would only add ugly betty - watching it again and it’s fab!

RebeccaDecember · 20/09/2025 21:52

This Life

Flight of the Conchords

RedRiverShore5 · 20/09/2025 21:52

Dexter
Prison Break
A Place to Call Home
The Man in the High Castle
Six Feet Under
This Is Us
Homeland
The Americans
24
Fellow Travelers

PinkyFlamingo · 20/09/2025 21:50

Criminal Minds
The Big Bang Theory
Law and Order SVU
Severance
Yellow jackets