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The Three Greatest TV shows ever

Lord of Planar said:
I have to go with:

Battlestar Galactica (the remake)
Babylon 5
M*A*S*H

But then I like mostly Science Fiction and Fantasy. I almost put in Game of Thrones for the third.
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Battlestar Galactica. I remember when I was little kid and someone knocked over a container of milk and it was gradually spilling onto the table and making a huge mess. I ran across the room in a panic, knocking my little brother over to get there first, grabbed my Battlestar Galactica cards to save them and said screw the milk container dumping all over the table. Simply walked away and didn't give a **** that it was destroying my little brother's homework. I got smacked, except my cards were safe. That's my main memory of Battlestar Galactica.
 
Moderate71 said:
Knight Rider was good along with Airwolf, Hardcastle and McCormick, and the very underrated Riptide. The Fall Guy edges out Knight Rider IMO based on theme songs and the premise of a stunt man who chases escaped felons as a bounty hunter for extra cash with Heather Locklear tagging along beside him.
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Ever watch The Six Million Dollar Man?
 
Moderate71 said:
1. The Dukes of Hazard
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2. The A-Team
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3. The Fall Guy
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The three greatest theme songs ever:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmIsMzyohqM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTZMLAED34

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMI6etur0d4

Opinions? Anyone want to share their lists?
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I grew up on TV westerns of the 1950's. Only the Cisco Kid though would be in my top three. The other two would be the Twilight Zone with Rod Sterling and the Red Skelton Show.
 
Starsky and Hutch for best of the cop shows that were just fun to watch without serious content.

Magnum PI for doing bong hits in winter up in Michigan and wishing we were anywhere else.

Miami Vice for when wishing the weed was something else.
 
Moderate71 said:
Battlestar Galactica. I remember when I was little kid and someone knocked over a container of milk and it was gradually spilling onto the table and making a huge mess. I ran across the room in a panic, knocking my little brother over to get there first, grabbed my Battlestar Galactica cards to save them and said screw the milk container dumping all over the table. Simply walked away and didn't give a **** that it was destroying my little brother's homework. I got smacked, except my cards were safe. That's my main memory of Battlestar Galactica.
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The ariginal came out in 1977. The new one was awesome. The "Re-imaged" started in 2004, and went 4 seasons.

 
Black and White TV days:

Bonanza

Perry Mason

Twilight Zone
 
Comedy originals:

Lucille Ball

Dick van Dyke

Andy Griffin--although I guess the comedy there was more subtle than the obvious slapstick above.
 
Dallas
The Waltons
Bonanza
 
Back in the days before cable, we had shows on local stations in big cities that featured movies or other local programming.

Creature Feature--weekly show featuring horror on Saturday nights in Chicago on WGN that began at 10:30.

Tombstone Theater--Something Western-related shown on Saturday afternoons on the local station--in Detroit, I believe.

Bozo Circus--absolute must see TV as a kid before reaching school age.
 
Oh my God, you forgot TJ Hooker, Simon & Simon, Jake and the Morbidly Obese Man, Quincy M.E., Rockford Files(with that awful, brown 77 Firebird that I thought looked cool at 9 years old, but ugly now). Lol
 
Cosmos

Wild Kingdom

Masterpiece Theater
 
Some good picks on this thread but I cant believe no one has named WKRP. One of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
In honor of the season we should all remember this episode
 
Quag said:
Some good picks on this thread but I cant believe no one has named WKRP. One of the greatest sitcoms of all time.
In honor of the season we should all remember this episode
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One of the best TV episodes ever

As god as my witness I thought Turkey's could fly
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I know the OP isn’t being serious, though I thoroughly enjoyed the shows he listed when I was a kid, but I’ll play along.
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I recently watched the Fall Guy pilot episode on Hulu. I hadn't seen it since it was originally aired in 1981, but I remembered almost every word of it.

Your brain is a sponge when you're a kid.


. . . and Lou Rawls as Country Joe Baker.
 
This capped off one of the best hours of television ever broadcast:

 
Harshaw said:
I recently watched the Fall Guy pilot episode on Hulu. I hadn't seen it since it was originally aired in 1981, but I remembered almost every word of it.

Your brain is a sponge when you're a kid.


. . . and Lou Rawls as Country Joe Baker.
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The brain is amazing. Every once in a while I will look up theme songs or commercials on YouTube from my childhood. Many of them are songs I haven’t heard or even thought of in 30 years and yet I can sing along to them. Somehow those memories have just been sitting, stored, and unused for decades. It makes me wonder what all is stored in there that I just won’t ever get around to recalling again in my life.
 
LAW & ORDER, FRIENDS, and ELEMENTARY come to immediate mind
 
ModerationNow! said:
Oh my God, you forgot TJ Hooker, Simon & Simon, Jake and the Morbidly Obese Man, Quincy M.E., Rockford Files(with that awful, brown 77 Firebird that I thought looked cool at 9 years old, but ugly now). Lol
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Rockford Files is a good choice but the firebird was gold and wasn't it a Trans Am? BTW, the gold Trans Am was called the Persian Ride in my day because many rich Iranian oil sheik kids living in the US drove them during that time.
 
cabse5 said:
Rockford Files is a good choice but the firebird was gold and wasn't it a Trans Am? BTW, the gold Trans Am was called the Persian Ride in my day because many rich Iranian oil sheik kids living in the US drove them during that time.
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The firebird in The Rockford Files was a Firebird Esprit. I had a '77 myself. Mine however had the trans am body parts added.
 
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