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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:
babouchette · 24/12/2021 07:48

Mad Men
The Wire
The Sopranos
Killing Eve
Succession

MummyofTw0 · 24/12/2021 07:50

Friends
Homeland
Stranger Things
Greys anatomy
Peaky blinders

ThinWomansBrain · 24/12/2021 07:51

Our Friends in the North
Green WIng
This Life
Cold Feet
Fleabag

I watched an ancient episode of Blackadder the other day - it hasn't aged well Xmas Hmm

PurpleFlower1983 · 24/12/2021 07:53

The X-Files
ER
Friends
Sex and the City
Game of Thrones

AgnesNaismith · 24/12/2021 07:54

Friends
Schitts Creek
Westworld
The Boys
Fleabag (this should be at the top of the list)

CHEM20 · 24/12/2021 07:58

Chicago PD (best by miles)
The West Wing
ER
Game of Thrones

Can’t think of a fifth…

RememberThePenguins · 24/12/2021 07:58

This is tricky to choose!

Battlestar Galactica (the one this century).
Stargate SG-1.
Desperate Housewives.
Gilmore Girls.
Spooks.

Teethhelp · 24/12/2021 08:07

Game of thrones
The tudors
Dexter
Freshers
Fleabag

That was very hard!

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 24/12/2021 08:16

Sherlock
Hannibal
Lucifer
ER
Spooks

(With Whitechapel and Line of Duty and Greys Anatomy, close behind).

GlitchStitch · 24/12/2021 08:23

The Wire
Frasier
Prison Break
Greys Anatomy
Sen Anlat Karadeniz (Turkish series, best show I've ever seen. Turkish dramas are amazing and I could probably have filled all 5 spots with them)

StrongerThanA90sTrend · 24/12/2021 09:15

@StrongerThanA90sTrend

Gavin and Stacey South Park The OC Gilmore Girls The Inbetweeners ... probably. Though, it could possibly be Friends.
Scrap that last one (inbetweeners/friends). Totally forgot about Peep Show. Not very Christmasy of me.
movpov · 24/12/2021 09:26

Hill St Blues
St Elsewhere
24
West Wing
Big Little Lies

Burgerqueenbee · 24/12/2021 09:38

Desperate Housewives
Mad men
Hannibal
Once upon a time
That 70's Show (my favourite as a teen and is now what I would call a comfort programme I tend to watch when feeling blue)

TheCreamCaker · 24/12/2021 09:42

Only Fools and Horses
Frasier
The Office
Cracker
Happy Valley

Colourfulrainbows · 24/12/2021 09:46

Fringe
Dexter
Battlestar galactica
Life on mars/ashes to ashes
How to get away with murder ( viola davis is brilliant).

gukvguk · 24/12/2021 09:47

Buffy
Merlin
Firefly
Spooks
Pride and Prejudice

gukvguk · 24/12/2021 09:48

Argh and no 6 Supernatural

BadPlaceJanet · 24/12/2021 09:53

Succession
The X Files
Battlestar Galactica
Seinfeld
Buffy

That was hard! I'm such a TV nerd 😁

Yorkshireteaalwayswins · 24/12/2021 10:00

The West Wing
Line of Duty
Alias
Friends
Game of Thrones

Christmasisallaround · 24/12/2021 10:04

I completely forgot about 24!!!

Going to check out Succession. A number of posters have listed it, haven't heard of it.

NorthernSoul55 · 24/12/2021 10:05

Succession (just binged all 3 series)
Prime Suspect
Its a Sin
ITCrowd
Cheers

RonObvious · 24/12/2021 10:08

American Gothic
The Punisher
Poirot
The Killing (scandi version)
Cracker

CounsellorTroi · 24/12/2021 10:09

Star Trek in all its manifestations
Frasier
Line of Duty
Upstairs Downstairs (original version)
Stranger Things

mumofEandE · 24/12/2021 10:12

Homeland
Prison Break
Line of Duty
ER
Friends

&

Money Heist
Succession

NorthernSoul55 · 24/12/2021 10:15

Oh, how could I forget!
Spiral