Favorite TV shows

[DarthNut]

Here's mine- 1-Seinfield 2-SportsCenter 3-Judge Judy 4-History's Mysteries 5-History's Lost and Found

[Darth Tater]

I like Frasier and the X Files.

[bmilder]

I don't like TV, I'd much rather spend my day in front of a device that you can actually interact with :P

[Elanor]

No tv here.

[gdl96]

No particular order: Simpsons X-files (they kissed!!) WWF Wrestling (includes WWF Smackdown, Raw is War, and Sunday night Heat, and PPV's) Dilbert MTV in general Futurama King of the Hill There's probably others, but they're not on the top of my mind at the moment.

[anduin]

That 70's Show

[Homer Maddux]

Don't watch much tv.

[captain Tarpols]

hmm well I like all tv but my favorite show is sliders on the sci fi chanel

[Son of a Hutt]

Why should I watch TV when I could be here?

[dmaul96]

Sliders is an exceedingly wierd show. I think I saw an episode before, and everything was all wierd. I have a feeling i spelled that wrong.

[dmaul96]

The best shows ever were Seinfeld and Simpsons.

[DarthNut]

Ya, I saw Sliders. I must say, it is Very Weird.

[anduin]

Hey, isn't Gimli in that? ;P

[Darth Tater]

Freaks and Geeks was the best show ever, but way too intelligent for the country of Survivor.

I love the West Wing.

[DayStar2002]

I like digimon pokemon card captors freaks and geeks the drew carry show and reboot

I am an anime freak!!

[Shanamir Duntak]

SIMPSONS!!!!!

[Johnny Lurker]

Space: Above and Beyond (They cancelled it after 24 ep's)
Starship Troopers: Roughnecks (44 ep's so far, unknown if there are more)
Futurama (29 ep's and going strong)
Student Bodies (Absolutely hilarious, no idea of ep count)

I'm sure I'll think of some more later, if I remember...

GAME DAY, BABY!

[Niffiwan]

Most Japanese anime, one of my favorites being Escaflowne.
Second to those is The Simpsons.

[cee2lee2]

Freaks and Geeks was excellent. My current favorite show is Who's Line Is It Anyway. (I think that's the title; I usually just call it the other Drew Cary show). Wayne Brady is very talented.

[Darth Tater]

I love Who's Line and the Simpsons!

[Salli Canaliya]

Some random comments:

The Sliders currently showing on the Sci-Fi channel (a channel I hate with a vengeance for this very reason) is very weird. It is radically different from the original series, which I liked. The show was much, much better before it became a Sci-Fi channel show. They are only operating with one original character these days, and he isn't one that I liked in the first place. (This is somewhere in the vicinity of a pet peeve, okay?)

Second, I don't really watch much T.V. either. And these days I only watch what nice people record for me, because we get such awful reception. But I am thoroughly adicted to The West Wing, a show I recommend to everyone. Then you, to, can have the novel experience of watching a wonderful show that lots of people like and that actually wins things.

Can you tell that most of the shows I like end up getting cancelled? For example, I really enjoyed Now and Again, and, after a nasty cliffhanger, it got cancelled. Totally unfair. :p

[Darth Tater]

I hate to do this, especially to a fellow West Wing fan ;) but do you think you could make the image in your sig a little smaller? 60 pixels long is the standard length of an ezboard message, and that's a nice size.

[Salli Canaliya]

Sorry. I don't actually know how to make it smaller. And this size may not be standard here, but it is standard in a lot of places. Really. This is a pretty new account, so it doesn't have many posts on it, but I have been on Ezboards for quite a while. It's funny how standards differ, and we don't even realize it.

The only thing I can do is leave it off all together. Which is depressing, because I like it.

But that does give me an excuse to end with my favorite smiley. :eek:

[Johnny Lurker]

Seriously, I am.

[Salli Canaliya]

I think I am too, but such is life. <g>

[Johnny Lurker]

Are we talking about the signature image or the personal photo?

[Ghost of Gilthalion]

Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitch@#%$
Andy Griffith
Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
Star Trek (Classic, TNG, Voyager a little)
Frasier
Simpsons
Futurama
The O'Reilly Factor

[Salli Canaliya]

I don't even have a personal photo. (Yet. One of these days I'll take the time to upload something.)

[Johnny Lurker]

*backs away slowly*

[Niffiwan]

I think I ought to add to my previous message that my real favorite thing on tv is not any show but a channel; The Discovery Channel.
I like almost everything that they have there, except for a select few "hardware" shows and ones about how certain machinery is constructed.

[anduin]

He ( Tater) was talking about her sig, not her user pic....which is the small pic under your user title. And he is just being grummpy. ;)

Mello dude, mello.......Om.......


Niffiwan......I love their commercials for their website. "Hello meteror........" ;)

[Niffiwan]

anduin:

:lol: !!!

I LOLed the first few times I saw those! Hmm, I like that type of humour. ;p (new smilie)

[arynetrek]

Niffiwan - aha! another true anime fan!

my list -
Star Trek (DS9 first, then TNG, then TOS, then VOY)
Simpsons (but i haven't seen a lot of the newer eps)
Batman Beyond (the NEW batman)
the new Outer Limits
Escaflowne (except they screwed with the version they showed on network TV - cutting a lot of the music (which is sacriledge - the music IS escaflowne), claiming the 2nd ep was really the 1st, etc. the subtitled video set is SO much better.)

aryne *

[Kworb]

Here's my top 10!

1. Dragonball Z
2. Pokémon
3. Futurama
4. Friends
5. Angela Anaconda
6. The Simpsons
7. Charmed
8. Jerry Springer
9. Judge Judy
10. As the world turns

:)

[jedi master princess]

ben stein's money (though i still need to get used to the new sidekick)
sailor moon (it's dum. but i can't stop watching it!!)
gundam wing (a recent interest...)
dbz (another recent interest....this toonami thing is insane!)
angel (cordy is nummy...)
buffy (spike is nummy...)
wwf (go HHH!!)

:)

::goes back to jedi meditation::

[Darth Tater]

lol, alfred hitch@#%$


Om

[Elanor]

Does anyone watch The Pretender?

My roommate is a big fan of this show--watches it every day. So I watch it too sometimes. It's pretty interesting and unique, as far as I can tell, though half the time I don't know what's going on...

[etherealunicorn]

The Simpsons
Futurama
Titus
That 70s Show
Haunted History
History's Mysteries
'Allo, 'Allo
MASH
The various Star Trek series
Win Ben Stein's Money
Hogan's Heroes
Junkyard Wars

I also like a lot of the misc programming on TLC, Discovery and History Channels

[arynetrek]

i used to watch Pretender but had to get out of it because of a very rough (mentally, not academically) senior year. they cancelled it on NBC down here - are you watching it on cable or an indie station? i liked that show & want to get back in, even if it's just in reruns.

aryne *

[Elanor]

I think it's on cable...TNT? and I'm not sure if it's reruns or new episodes (are there new episodes?)...they seem to show it at different points in the story at different times of day--that helps confuse me a lot. :rolleyes:

[arynetrek]

i recently found Pretender on an independant regular-TV station down here, but of course it's on at a horribly inconvenient time...

aryne *

[Elanor]

Yes, we watch it on TNT at 5 pm mdt. I like it pretty well, but what exactly IS the Centre? What's the point? I have not yet been able to figure this out, and my roommate doesn't know either, for all she's watched it for I don't know how long. And what's the role of Miss Parker's dad? Maybe the point is to just be mysterious and not know.

[X Rogue]

YES!! Somebody besides me watches Pretender!! Elanor, The Center, so far as I can tell, is a group of people (think Shadow Government types, but better organized and we assume, privately owned) which develops technologies, weapons, and people for its' own ends and profits along the way to those ends. About Mr. Parker, his purpose is unclear, but I get an impression that he is higher ranking than we are ever allowed to know. Sure is useful for a writer when dramatic tension is needed. I swear, every time they have had a bad ratings dip, the writers have found someone else for that creep to sell out and there go the ratings. Luckily, they do have good writers on the series. It's stopped first run production, but TNT will be making a couple of two hour Pretender movies, same cast, etc. So maybe some questions will get answered in those. If the movies do well, TNT has an option to make more new epis and up to 4 movies total. So tell your roomie to watch for them . My favorite TV shows are: anything Star Trek( no particular order) Pretender, Highlander, and biography and Sherlock Holmes.

[arynetrek]

Pretender movies? on TNT? grr, now i need to get some cable-blessed friend to tape them...

Elanor & X Rogue, my theory is that Mr. Parker, and Raines too, are just below the Triumvirate in power - or maybe members in disguise (the Triumvirate = The People In Charge). i think Mrs. Parker knew a hell of a lot too (maybe another high-up person?), that's why she knew enough to get some of the kids out of the Centre & why she was killed. i have theories on why she died too, but they're a little far-fetched.

as for Mr. Parker selling people out, sometimes it's very useful for writers to have a "do-something-evil" character that they can do ANYTHING nasty with. in a show like Pretender where most of the Bad Guys are invisible, someone tangible who does evil things can be seen as even more evil. not only do we see Mr. Parker's bad behavior but that of The System, & THEIR actions get projected onto Mr. Parker, because he's the one we SEE Being Bad. he's a figurehead of menace & sneaky Centre acts; of course he has his own share of evil deeds done.

aryne *

[X Rogue]

Oh, yeah, I like the way they have written Mr. Parker in, and I like Harve Presnell's acting in the part too. It has been very consistent on both counts, and I keep watching and wondering, "What is that creep going to pull next?" I used to think Mr. Lyle was the worse of the two, but no more. I probably shouldn't say that I like the show as much as I do though. I am a TV jinx. Every time I say I like a show, it gets cancelled. I told my mom she should watch Pretender, and it wasn't two weeks later I heard that that season would be the last and NBC was pulling the plug.Good thing TNT picked it up. And another good thing I wasn't around during ST:TOS's first run. I woulda killed it for certain. I believe that the first Pretender movie is coming January 2001, aryne. So you have a bit of time to get someone to tape it. The scuttlebutt is that they will go back to the beginning, Jarod's kidnapping and Jarod and Miss Parker's childhoods in the Centre. Do you know that the ability to be a Pretender results from a particular gene complex and that according to a third season episode, Miss Parker has the complex and was slated to receive treatments as a child to make her into one? The kid ahead of her in line (Angelo) reacted adversely and became an empath instead of a Pretender, so that line of research was shut down and Miss Parker was kept around to work for the Centre instead. (And presumably to pass on her gene complex if necessary.) Evidently, the complex is passed heavily in the maternal line, because Mrs. Parker had it too. Or major components thereof. Evidently there is something about the paternal line that activates it, but there is no definitive rule as yet. Oh well,as you can see, I rahter like mysteries and knowing the whys and wherefores. :)

[arynetrek]

i didn't know that - must have missed that episode. i knew about the Timmy/Angelo thing though & how he reacted to the treatment.

by Jan 2001 i might have cable - that's good -

aryne *

[Elanor]

Well, that clears a few things up, but I'm still confused! :p Oh well, I probably just haven't seen enough of it. I've only watched it about 10-15 times. How long is the series and where are they in it now, relatively? In the last few episodes I've seen, Miss Parker found out Mr. Lyle was her brother, and Jarod helped the kids with the nasty missile-making father.

[X Rogue]

We are in the middle of the third season and there are four seasons,
with 86 total episodes. The end of third season epis were pretty
good and had some interesting twists in them, so watch for them,
or you may get more confused than ever. The next episode or two
on TNT are going to begin some good plot/characterization lines
also. Try looking for pretender pages/directories on the web,
it may help that I'm- lost feeling.

[Johnny Lurker]

... three reasons why Canada produces the world's best TV political
comedy...

1) Royal Canadian Air Farce
2) This Hour
Has 22 Minutes
3) Double Exposure

The above shows
are primarily run on Canadian government-owned television, and
make their living ridiculing the Canadian government and the
politicians thereof.

Isn't socialism great?

[juntel]

The West Wing
Seinfeld (reruns)
ER
Third Watch
Who's Line Is It Anyway
The Practice
Made In Canada
DaVinci's Inquest

[Darth Tater]

juntel, a man with taste (even though he used the gollum smilly)

[arynetrek]

hey, juntel's back!

aryne *

[Elanor]

maybe we should have a Pretender thread...I just wanted to mention how much I enjoyed the season ending (at least I think it was a season ending) that I just watched! Jarod has a clone! It was extremely wacky. Now things are basically back to normal, except Mr Lyle seems to be one of the leaders, Major Charles is out somewhere with the clone (what are you supposed to call the clone?), Broots has a crush on Miss Parker (maybe he did before but I never knew about it) and there's this Mr White person...and Mr Parker seems to be hiding out somewhere...anyway, it's very cool.

When my one roommate watched this every day at the start of the semester, we were slightly curious; now all six girls in the apartment are just as addicted! :lol:

[X Rogue]

Yeah it was a season ending. Now we are in the first epis of season four, which was quite good despite being a short season. And a pretender thread would be nice. Oh and if you don't mind a graphics intensive page, try www.mydaily planet.com/frntpg.htm for pretender info(sorry, but I've no idea how to make that a link). That's a good page to use for Pretender info. The clone never really gets a name that I know of (I call him Jarod mark Two), and Broots has always had it bad for Miss Parker, he just never dared let is show till now. He's still scared of her though.

[noldo]

I always miss all the good shows by doing stuff on my computer all day long. :(

That's why I only watch late series like Millenium and the X-files... Late Night with Conan O'Brien... South Park...

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

*pokes thread*
Hogan's Heroes
Monk
Psych
Mythbusters
Burn Notice
Hell's Kitchen :p
Supernanny
Deadliest Catch
What Not to Wear

[HOBBIT]

uh why did you bring up a nearly 7 year old topic?

You know that this is in the wrong forum too. I guess this topic was pre-entertainment forum.

There are also much more recent similar topics in the Entertainment Forum. Please do not needlessly bring up more old topics.

*moving to entertainment forum for now, will remain open*

[Lotesse]

Wow, holy cow, you're not kidding - the last time this site was frequented was in the year 2000!!! Now that, my friends, is a bump. Is there a newer thread at Entmoot whose subject is "Favourite TV Shows?" There's gotta have been; I suppose the mods'll figure it out for the big Merge...

But while we wait for the merger, I guess I'll mention mine - by far and away, ever, ever, my favourite television show was The Sopranos. Genius stuff, that show, which has had its final closing season and is now no more. I still have not gotten to see the final season of The Sopranos, so anmyone here who has BETTER not blurt out any unhidden spoilers about it, 'cause I intend to rent the DVDs of the final season aand watch it all fresh, the moment it becomes available. I asked my video-rental guy about it last week, and he said within about 3 months he'll know for sure when the release date will be, but that it should not be any longer than 6 months from now that this final Sopranos season will be released to the public. Can'twaitcan'twait....

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

uh why did you bring up a nearly 7 year old topic?

You know that this is in the wrong forum too. I guess this topic was pre-entertainment forum.

There are also much more recent similar topics in the Entertainment Forum. Please do not needlessly bring up more old topics.

*moving to entertainment forum for now, will remain open*
Sorry, wasn't aware it was even in the wrong forem, didn't really check and I just thought I'd post.

[Acalewia]

*coughs on dust* Was this way back in the archives? I didn't think there was any threads open that were this old.


NCIS
CSI: LV and Miami
Ghost Hunters
History's Mysteries


Just to name a few...

[brownjenkins]

Anything on Science, Discovery or Home Improvement channels. :D

[hectorberlioz]

Home Improvement shows? Those, for me, are about as interesting as squash. I never believed that what they did on those shows was worth it anyways: like watching cooking show hosts put the seasoning on their dishes. *yawn*
Shame on you BJ...

[HOBBIT]

hmm well I like all tv but my favorite show is sliders on the sci fi chanel
Haha, that was my response back in 1999. Sliders is long since cancelled. A year or two later I probably would have said "Stargate SG-1" But the later seasons got worse and worse and now it is cancelled (after 10 seasons, not bad).

Now my fav TV shows currently still in production:

The Office (US version...well UK version is no longer in production).
Lost
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Battlestar Galactica
Flight of the Conchords

[OldHippie]

I'm with BrownJenkins on this one, Home Improvement shows that actually show construction tecquniques and not just "makeovers". The Deadliest Catch, American Hotrod, American Chopper. Actually I watch anything which contains people actually building or fabricating somthing. Oh and my Favorite...... Dirty Jobs.

[Lotesse]

Oh!! I love The Deadliest Catch! I got to see a few episodes last week while I was at my Dad's. I really, really, really, really, really love fisherman. The hard-core fishermen who do that stuff. Oh, YES, do I ever...

[OldHippie]

Just found out one of my co-workers was on a Coast Guard boat in the Bering Sea during one of the fall crab seasons. He went out on a mission to find an overboard crewman who unfortunately was never found. He was talkin about the 11 foot seas and the cold.

[Acalewia]

Those guys on The Deadlest Catch are very brave men. They have my respect.


Speaking of brave men, has anyone seen Ice Road Trucker? I think that was the name of it. It was on the History Channel about the truck drivers on Alaska's ice roads.

[OldHippie]

Yes I have, Thats a dang googd show. I have alot of respect for the danger those guys put up with. Guess thats the draw for me. Although I personally woud never have the testicular fortitude to do it myself.

[Ingwe]

Favorite TV shows:

CSI: Las Vegas
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: The Next Generation
The Simpsons
Family Guy

I don't watch TV much anymore, usually just those shows if I get a chance to.