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Top 6 TV progs of all time? 10:55 - Sep 24 with 4443 viewsRyorry

Flawty Towers
Boys From the Black Stuff
7-Up
Spitting Image
I Claudius
M.A.S.H.

for me.


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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 09:57 - Sep 25 with 518 viewsvilanovablue

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 21:25 - Sep 24 by Keno

Ken burns is a good shout!

See also his country music and jazz series


And a nod to his Vietnam doc as well which is also superb.
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:06 - Sep 25 with 497 viewsnorfsufblue

A possible glaring omission and a staple for so many years..

Top of the Pops has to be an iconic long running show thatthe countrys teenagers looked forward to on a weekly basis.
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:07 - Sep 25 with 497 viewsBlueBoots

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 20:36 - Sep 24 by Portmanteauxcurling

Easy come, easy go

.....but they would be amongst the twenty or so in my top six along with

Vic Reeves Big Night Out
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer
Shooting Stars
House of Fools


Already done my Top 6, but if I was going to include some Vic and Bob it would be Catterick for me

Regarding honourable mentions, I'm surprised we've got to 5 pages with no votes for either The Singing Detective or Abigail's Party; some classic telly right there.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:19 - Sep 25 with 483 viewsRyorry

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:07 - Sep 25 by BlueBoots

Already done my Top 6, but if I was going to include some Vic and Bob it would be Catterick for me

Regarding honourable mentions, I'm surprised we've got to 5 pages with no votes for either The Singing Detective or Abigail's Party; some classic telly right there.


I did give a late mention to The Singing Detective on the previous page, along with Pennies from Heaven (which I preferred of the two); Blue-Remembered Hills was another excellent one by Dennis Potter, but agree with you re those and Abigail’s Party. Nuts in May should probably also be on an ‘honourable mentions’ list.

Edit - correction, hadn’t included Singing Detective on previous page, but should have done.
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:29 - Sep 25 with 461 viewsBlue_Balls

Ever Decreasing Circles and The Good Life should get a mention...
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:48 - Sep 25 with 439 viewsWeWereZombies

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:48 - Sep 24 by oldburian

Cathy come home.


There's a good antidote to recency bias, see also 'Edna, The Inebriate Woman'. Back in the days of only two channels to choose from there was a remarkable care and attention paid to a lot of productions because almost everybody watched them, and then discussed the topics raised at work or school the next day.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:59 - Sep 25 with 430 viewssohamblue74

Line of Duty
Strike
Unforgotten
Peep Show
Inbetweeners
The Traitors (UK)
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:03 - Sep 25 with 429 viewssohamblue74

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:41 - Sep 24 by Axeldalai_lama

It's all deeply personal of course but I'd have to have the detectorists in there, beautiful calm perfect hug of a series. Not packed with drama, twists and massive sweeping plots, just cosy telly at its absolute best.


Great shout.
Love the detectorists.
Very easy watching, believable characters, gentle humour.
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:10 - Sep 25 with 422 viewsbaxterbasics

Much like with similar lists of our favourite music, it's quite easy to use some of these picks to figure out the posters approximate age. Mine gives me away as a teenager in the mid 90's.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:36 - Sep 25 with 395 viewsBenters

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:29 - Sep 25 by Blue_Balls

Ever Decreasing Circles and The Good Life should get a mention...


Both excellent I will give you that.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 17:08 - Sep 25 with 315 viewsmellowblue

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:21 - Sep 24 by bsw72

M.A.S.H. is gold, always has been. Last episode is brilliant closing and the one when Lt Col Henry gets his honorable discharge and heads home is one of the saddest .
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M.A.S.H was great in its time. Watching it now, it seems a bit corny and over-sentimental, Hawkeye too smarmy and sanctimonious, Winchester, Hawkeye's buddy and the Colonel(s) I still like and of course Hot Lips Houlihan is as fantastic as I remember her as a kid. Either it hasn't aged well, or I have aged in a grumpy way. Disappointing as I used to love it and now don't really get why I don't like it.
My choice:
Dads Army
Colditz
Brideshead Revisited
Frasier
Sopranos
BoardwalkEmpire
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 19:26 - Sep 25 with 273 viewsOldFart71

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 11:48 - Sep 24 by homer_123

And this is why you can't choose 6. Chernobyl is brilliant.


That's why you shouldn't wear Russian boxer shorts, Chernobyl fallout.
Agree a brilliant program.
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 21:05 - Sep 25 with 243 viewsRyorry

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 17:08 - Sep 25 by mellowblue

M.A.S.H was great in its time. Watching it now, it seems a bit corny and over-sentimental, Hawkeye too smarmy and sanctimonious, Winchester, Hawkeye's buddy and the Colonel(s) I still like and of course Hot Lips Houlihan is as fantastic as I remember her as a kid. Either it hasn't aged well, or I have aged in a grumpy way. Disappointing as I used to love it and now don't really get why I don't like it.
My choice:
Dads Army
Colditz
Brideshead Revisited
Frasier
Sopranos
BoardwalkEmpire


Yep, you got grumpy :))

Good shout for Brideshead though.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 22:47 - Sep 25 with 209 viewsTheBlueGnu

Babestation
Coronation Street
Blackadder
Fawlty Towers
Football Focus
Match of the Day

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 22:52 - Sep 25 with 205 viewsGodzilla

In no particular order

Father Ted
Gomorrah
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
I'm Alan Parrtridge
Mad Men
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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 00:19 - Sep 26 with 166 viewsRyorry

Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 10:48 - Sep 25 by WeWereZombies

There's a good antidote to recency bias, see also 'Edna, The Inebriate Woman'. Back in the days of only two channels to choose from there was a remarkable care and attention paid to a lot of productions because almost everybody watched them, and then discussed the topics raised at work or school the next day.


Swingometer back to recency - as in right now watching This Country - absolute genius, & groundbreaking in genre of p.take-umentary. How do they keep it deadpan? Think in 20 years time it might well be regarded as a classic.

Also no idea how I forgot Happy Valley. Just brilliant in every way. If I re-wrote my top 6 it might squeak in.

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Top 6 TV progs of all time? on 15:20 - Sep 26 with 74 viewsLegendofthePhoenix

Can't believe no one's mentioned The Fall yet- absolutely gripping.
Monty Python
Porridge
Chernobyl*
The Bridge (Swedish version)
The Office

*On Monday. I'm meeting up with a retired work colleague, Matilda, who was is a Radiation Protection Advisor, and was working at a University in the Czech Republic measuring environmental radiation in 1986. She was one of the ones who identified elevated radiation in the hours after the accident - there were several physicists across Europe who for the purposes of the screen adaptation were merged into a single actor.

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