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The Onedin Line
Black Beauty
The Mallen Streak
When the Boat Comes In
Mr Ben
Magpie
Stars in their Eyes
Rent a Ghost
Grange Hill
Branded
Vandervalk
The Wire
Farty Towels
Boys from the Blackstuff
Breaking Bad
St Elsewhere
The Sweeney
Father Ted
Borgen
Still Game
Can't think of any more
Lots of the above. Plus The Sandbaggers.
No Brideshead
I've only skimmed this thread
Haven't seen
Broadchurch (series 1)
Also
Fawlty Towers
Only Fools & H
World at War
Detectorists
Life on Earth
Band of Brothers
Blackadder (2 and 3 especially)
Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience
Horizon (questionable whether it's a series, TBF)
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Band of Brothers
Sopranos
The Wire
Detectorists
Yada yada yada
And.... This Life!
The Wire
Deadwood
Suits
Game of Thrones
Banshee
Homeland
Gomorah
The Night of
Billions
The Affair
Game of thrones
Family guy
Only fools
Scrubs < there I said it ,I loved it >
Generation kill
The fast show
Deep space 9
24 (mainly the first 4 seasons )
Blackadder
Men behaving badly
Edge of Darkness
Band of Brothers
Life on Mars
I, Claudius
First 2 series of 24
First 3 series of Walking Dead
First series of Fargo
State of Play
The Day Today/I'm Alan Partridge (I know, cheating!)
[s]The Thick of It[/s] Father Ted
So many more...Our Friends in the North, The Singing Detective, GBH, first few series of Line of Duty...
EDIT: Father Ted instead of Thick of It...
Easy this,.
Planet Earth
Planet Earth 2
Blue Planet
Life
Life on Earth
The Life of Planets
The Life of Birds
The Life of Mammals
The Living Planet
Life in Cold Blood
"Thunderbirds" should be in there too. Have you all forgotten yer youth? Good to see, at least, the talent of Anderson making one list. ("Captain Scarlet" is up there.)
[i]The Singing Detective[/i] - most Dennis Potter stuff was brilliant; like nothing else that had been on TV.
I also love stuff where catchphrases, or quotes stay with you - I still say "It were Mark Binney, miss!"
Where do these come from:
1. "Where we goin now?" in Brummy accent, or was it North East?
2. "Play with me Daddy" in erm, Manc, was it?
3. "At your age? At my age? Young man!"
4. "Who pushed air though poo?!"
Or being more serious:
Planet Earth
Life, Frozen Planet or Blue Planet, don't make me decide which
Black Adder
Blue Peter
Flight of the Concords
The Last Leg (but only the first 2 series)
Red Dwarf to series 6
Scrubs
Friends
Ski Sunday
No mention of Soap! or Frazer. Quite fond of Cheers too.
Tour of Duty
Father Ted.
Hell on Wheels
Band of Brothers
The Wire
Sopranos
The Shield
Breaking bad
MASH
The 2-3 series of 24
Cheers, good call, this still makes me laugh...
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1. "Where we goin now?" in Brummy accent, or was it North East?
Aaaargh!
North East, can picture the fella.
"L.I.V.E.R.P.double O .L Liverpool FC"... man, that was brilliant too!
Blue Peter
Top of the Pops (before MTV or any such like was invented)
Northern Exposure
X Files
Heros
Friends
All of Star Trek
Spaced
Alan Partidge
North East, can picture the fella.
The Machine Gunners.
The book is way better than the TV series.
[i]The Machine Gunners.[/i]
Yep, I read it when I was a kid. Great book. Series was good too.
Grand designs
I have the winner.....
Chocky
Forgot about Harry Hill's TV Burp.
Probably the most paused-because-we-are-laughing-so-much show ever.
Chorlton and the Wheelies
The Wire
<umm ... thinks ...>
NYPD Blue
<thinks a bit more ...>
Breaking Bad
The Killing - obviously
The Bridge - while we're on a Scandi thing
Brookside - for a bit, anyway
The Simpsons
<err ... >
Game Of Thrones
Rick And Morty
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Firefly
Black Sails
The Expanse
Breaking Bad
Band of Brothers
Spaced
X-Files
Frasier, yes!
GBH
Was brilliant, I haven't watched it since it was actually broadcast, however I have found it on itunes for 5.99, so it is now downloading 🙂
It will be interesting to see if it has stood the test of time, I think it probably will, but the scripting and slickness of some big budget series over the past 10-15 years has really upped the game and expectations.
For me, hands down winner is the Man in the High Castle.
As for sitcoms - Yes Minister obvs. Head and shoulders above.
OK as no-one's playing 😆
[s]1. "Where we goin now?" in Brummy accent, or was it North East?[/s]
2. "Play with me Daddy" in erm, Manc, was it? Alan Bleasedale's [b]GBH[/b] (with Robert Lindsay)
3. "At your age? At my age? Young man!" Harry Enfield's randy old ladies
4. "Who pushed air though poo?!" McKenzie Crook's gym teacher in[b] Barking[/b]
then there was Cracker.
(and the Shield!)
In no order,
The Wire
True Detective (S1)
Life on Mars
The Bridge
MASH
Generation Kill
Borgen
Westworld
Father Ted
Fast Show
Northern Exposure
Due South
eh, how many can we list..............?
Haven't read all the way through but no one had mentioned these by the end of page 1.
The Lakes
This Life....remember these classic British series' in the 90s?
Monkey.
Grange Hill?
No
Minder
Bod
Randall and hopkirk (deceased)
Terrorhawks
"L.I.V.E.R.P.double O .L Liverpool FC"... man, that was brilliant too!
I'm not much of a tv watcher now but that's probably the most hard-hitting telly I've seen.
(as an aside)
Looking at the OP's No. 1...Madmen. I finally caught up with this and watched the whole shebang. Never have I watched anything that had so many loose ends in the story line that never got tied. Was a bit weird. Still loved it though, in a funny sort of way.
anyway, my ten:
Breaking Bad
Pride & Prejudice (Jennifer Elle version)
Poldark (Eleanor Tomlinson version)
Fawlty Towers
Game of Thrones
Rockford Files
The Good Life
House of Cards (original)
Kung Fu
Just Good Friends
Taggart
I will add Some shows to the ones already mentioned.
Wheeler Dealers
Survivorman
Last man standing
Bosch
Arrested Developement
The Blacklist
The Wire
Elementary
Luther
House of Cards
Power
Billions
Generation Kill
True Detective
Flowers
Peep Show
Spitting Image
The New Statesman
The Thick of It
The Camomile Lawn
The Green Man
The Last Train
GBH
Chimera
Honourable mentions: IT Crowd, Blackadder, Drop The Dead Donkey, The Day of the Triffids, The Young Ones, Citizen Smith, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, oh and the obvious Only Fools and Horses.
Pride & Prejudice (Jennifer Elle version)
Speaking of ..
The Camomile Lawn
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Game of Thrones
Planet Earth II
The X Files
Scrubs
The Simpsons
Band of Brothers
Stranger Things
Not much has changed.