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To ask for your top 5 ever TV shows

230 replies

Lemming20 · 23/12/2021 23:02

Looking for inspiration this Christmas.

Mine are:
Line of Duty
Bodies (hospital negligence drama by same writer)
CSI NY
Spooks
Motherland

With mad men and breaking bad a close runner up.

OP posts:
Lotsofpots · 24/12/2021 00:05

West Wing
Hafutim (Prisoners of War)
Friday Night Lights
The Americans
Line of Duty

MissSingerbrains · 24/12/2021 00:05

Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
The Americans
Frasier
The Simpsons

Redshoeblueshoe · 24/12/2021 00:07

Rumpole of the Bailey
Cracker
Dexter
The Human Jungle (Herbert Lom) - check it out
The Professionals

Ireolu · 24/12/2021 00:09

The wire - just rewatched all 5 seasons after Michael K Williams passed away. Favourite show by a long mile
Breaking bad

I just have 2 on my list. Not watched anything else in it's entirety that's blown me away.

savagebaggagemaster · 24/12/2021 00:09

Frasier
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Sherlock
Brooklyn 99

BrusselPout · 24/12/2021 00:09

Criminal minds
Buffy
Angel
Greys Anatomy
House

savagebaggagemaster · 24/12/2021 00:10

Schitt's Creek
Sorry I really had to add that one - it's superb

DaphneDeloresMoorhead · 24/12/2021 00:10

Buffy
Green Wing
Red Dwarf
Scream Queens

DaphneDeloresMoorhead · 24/12/2021 00:11

Forgot 5.
Silk

StrongerThanA90sTrend · 24/12/2021 00:12

Gavin and Stacey
South Park
The OC
Gilmore Girls
The Inbetweeners ... probably. Though, it could possibly be Friends.

Throughabushbackwards · 24/12/2021 00:12

The Leftovers
Mad Men
Game of Thrones
Line of Duty
X-Files

Muddlewitch · 24/12/2021 00:14

Schitts Creek
Life on Mars/Ashes to ashes
It's a Sin
Years and Years
The Office

Oakdog · 24/12/2021 00:17

True Blood
Outlander
Detectorists
Ghosts
Game of Thrones

SocksAndTheCity · 24/12/2021 00:18

The Sopranos
Oz
Better Call Saul
The Thick Of It
ER

MsRedhook · 24/12/2021 00:19

Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Vikings
True Blood
Big Little Lies
SATC

MsRedhook · 24/12/2021 00:19

And This Way Up

DaphneDeloresMoorhead · 24/12/2021 00:20

@Hawkins001

Dark Angel Alias Relic hunter Hustle Madam Secretary
Bum I forgot hustle
IsThisAkissingBook · 24/12/2021 00:21

Only fools and horses
The office (uk)
Pen15
Motherland
This is us

SenseleessThing · 24/12/2021 00:25

Boardwalk Empire
Oz
Vikings
Fraiser
ER

Hawkins001 · 24/12/2021 00:40

@DaphneDeloresMoorhead

It was a good show, although I suspect their was something more too it, when Danny and Stacey left, although I know officially it was schedule conflicts, but it seemed odd.

XelaM · 24/12/2021 00:41

Forgot "Big Little Lies"! Sooo good

christmaspombear · 24/12/2021 00:41

Spooks
Line of Duty (apart from the last series)
Utopia
Threads
The last train

And for just the one episode, brass eye and paedogeddon

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 24/12/2021 00:41

Game of Thrones
The Musketeers (BBC version - not a popular choice but I have reasons…)
Blackadder
Ghosts
The Tudors

Tirediam · 24/12/2021 00:44

Office UK
Office US
Vikings
Father Ted
Only fools and horses / The Inbetweeners (can’t choose!)

Pralinelatte · 24/12/2021 00:44

Anything by Victoria Wood (As seen on tv/dinnerladies/Housewife 49 etc)
I May Destroy You
Shameless (UK - early series)
The Office (UK)
Various period dramas (War & Peace, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion etc)

So hard to choose....these are all dramas I'd rewatch now though there are many others I was utterly gripped by at the time they were first shown, like ER, This Life, lots of cop dramas but seem a bit dated now.

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