TV series that stay with you

[Hannahabbott]

I often find a tv series will completely suck me and remembering it takes me back to that point in my life.

Friends - growing up in the 90s as a teenager.

Lost - it began as DH and I got married and ended literally on the day we completed our family. Annoyed about the ending but it signifies such an important time for us and we were addicted as a couple.

Dexter - mat leave, again the end devastated me :(

Just started Breaking Bad (no spoilers please) and know this will be another one. Well into Walking Dead too, it's the only thing we sit down together to watch nowadays.

Quantum leap. God I love that show. At boarding school we were allowed to stay up and watch it on Tuesday's i think. Happy times 25 years ago

Afterlife (after he was Egg and before he was Rick ) very sad at the end

dinnerladies (my DS was born in the Millenium December)

Between the Lines - love that series , not seen all of Series 3 though.

DH binge watched 'Lost' before we went on holiday , (on netflicks or similar, he had a month to watch it all )
All the excitement and preparation for our first family forrin holiday to the backdrop of "Previously on Lost"

My so- called life- I was the same age as the characters when it was on. My bf was obsessed with it.

Buffy reminds me of being a broke student saving up to buy the individual videos (before box sets!).

Er I watched when on May leave with dc1

24 I watched on mat leave with dc2.

Friends- when it finished I was the age they were when it started. I remember so many girls at school having a 'Rachel'.

As a young child I remember watching Dallas after my bath on a weds night.

This life- made law look very appealing- did law at uni but never became a lawyer. I think the Anna character changed my teenage sanctimonious attitude to sex.

Brideshead Revisited in the early 80s. The scenery, the music, the clothes. It also left me with a lifelong crush on Jeremy Irons (who has stood the test of time, fortunately)! it was back on local TV recently and I was so disappointed at the quality of the film. We're spoilt with HD now, and it was almost impossible to watch.

The Waltons remind me of Monday nights during primary school and The Wonder Years at university

Buffy the vampire slayer, reminds me of being a young married mum with 1 young child, it just reminds me of the days before DVD 's and making sure I didn't work the night it was on. Just takes me back to being younger and how different my life is now

Prison Break- I have refused to watch Wentworth Miller in anything else.

Love him

I loved the Lakes and was really absorbed by it. Ironic really as I ended up living there.

And YY to This Life.

Lots that have also been mentioned, but for me the no.1 has to be queer as folk

Does anyone remember 'Queer as Folk'? That reminds me of university. My flatmates and I used to look forward to it every week.

DH and I gave up on 'Lost' halfway through.

But yes to 'Breaking Bad' and currently it's 'The Killing'.

Happiness, I honestly hadn't read your post before I posted! (I know that will be hard to believe, but it's true )!

ER- I was devastated when it finished. Nothing has come close to it since. Re watched the whole thing on mat leave 1.

Dawsons creek takes me back to my late teens.

Sex and the city- twenties

I actually also love Gilmore girls. Want my dd to watch it in the future.

Current faves are The Good wife, Ray Donovan and Homeland. Time will tell if they'll stay with me like the others.

CSI - loved it but was very upset when Warrick died, struggled after Grissom left and gave up when Ted Danson took over. just couldn't take him seriously, he will always be Sam Malone to me

ER
Scrubs
Friends
Frasier

House - when it moved to SKY. but thankfully watched the seasons I had missed on Netflix since.

Shark

And where is Eli Stone?

there must be more. I watch a lot of TV

oh and Ally MacBeal.
loved it

The Golden Girls! Still cracks me up and so sharp even now. Can't believe 3 of them are gone

The Wire. The second season was a bit weak in comparison, but bloody hell, the rest was amazing. The way it looked at drugs, schools, politics, policing was eye-opening. The characters were well-rounded and really fucked your mind over as to who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. Omar, the articulate, gay stick-up man certainly came across better than the lawyers and politicians.

Series 3, the one with Hamsterdam, the area where they legalised drugs, was my favourite.

I'm not sure I'll ever see a better written, more intelligent, more interesting or chilling series.

Life on Mars

Seems like I've missed a lot of good stuff over the years.

All time faves

Gavin and Stacey...just love it to bits

Cold feet...fabulous

Just good friends...who could forget vince and penny

Dallas...the first couple of series

Love the very recent Our Zoo

The first poldark.

The avengers.. Showing my age now

The saint...with roger Moore

The persuaders with tony Curtis and roger Moore

Some mothers do ave em...Michael Crawford and Michelle dot rice

Oh and all creatures great and small...James Herriot and Tristan far on

All the dickens dramas that used to be on on a Sunday night. The old curiosity shop. Nicholas nickleby. Oliver twist.

The hardy novels...the mayor of casterbridge....Alan bates

Casanova...frank Findlay

Moll Flanders

Ahhhh!

Steptoe and son
George and Mildred
Faulty towers
Porridge
Early coronation st...Elsie tanner and ena sharples going at it hammer and tongs...priceless

Agree with Queer as Folk and Friends.

Also Watching with the bloke with the motorbike and sidecar, used to watch it with my Mum as a child.

More recently, absolutely loved Derek.

Alias Smith and Jones

Series thatvreally stayed with me?

Roots - was amazing and so powerful
the Waltons
The World At War

The xfiles and its coming back

Goodnight sweetheart

The Young Ones

Prisoner cell block H

Northern Exposure. I was living in an insalubrious flat share in south London and it was on Monday nights at 11.15 - as it was an hour long it was really too late for a work night but we all watched it religiously. I absolutely loved it, it was a soothing oasis to get through Mondays for, it had the message that people could live good lives being nice to each other in a beautiful place and made me feel that I wouldn't always be strap hanging on the Northern Line in despair.

This Life - I was just slightly older than the characters. Funny to look back on it now, it was genuinely groundbreaking in the amount of recreational shagging it involved. It felt something like reality, not that I was doing that much shagging but I knew people who were usually in the room next door when I was trying to sleep

My xh had all the videos of Jeeves and Wooster and we watched them a lot. A shame really as they are really good but I don't think I can ever look at them again, they are too flavoured with the marriage.