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  1. Taurus's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    In priority:

    1. Breaking Bad
    2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
    3. The Sopranos
    4. Arrested Development
    5. The Walking Dead
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    I'm really happy for you and I'm gonna let you finish but Lost is one of the best tv shows of all time!

    Despite bad last season(s).
  3. SweatyGoldfish's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    1.Doctor Who
    2.Friday Night Lights
    3.The Office
    4.Curb Your Enthusiasm
    5.South Park
  4. annabelisme's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    1 - FRIENDS
    2 - Doctor Who (but not so much the recent series)
    3 - Blackadder
    4 - Fawtly towers

    I'm not sure about the 5th, possibly big bang theory, but I can't really watch the same episode twice, unlike all the other ones I put down. So maybe the Inbetweeners... But it was not quite good enough... So I'm just going to say:

    5 - Rastamouse (Because it was genius...)
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    Fawlty Towers
    Star Trek TNG
    Countdown
    Top Gear
    Blockbusters

    Future candidates:
    Archer
    Game of Thrones
    The Walking Dead
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    Skins
    The Inbetweeners
    Glee
    Desperate Housewives
    Family Guy
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    In no particular order:

    House (during seasons 2 to 4, it was the best show i've seen on tv)
    Game of Thrones (still early days, but if the first season is anything to go by, it'll definitely be up there)
    Friends
    Sherlock
    Scrubs

    Honorable mentions would be Dexter, Arrested Development and Family Guy.
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    1. BBC Sherlock :cookie:
    2. Firefly
    3. Star trek voyager
    4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    5. Blake's 7 OR Torchwood

    Simpsons, queer as folk, six feet under, desperate housewives,glee, waterloo road, american dad, scrubs, doctor who and Brothers & Sisters, are all pretty high in my list though
  9. starfish232's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    1) Friends
    2) House
    3) Big Bang Theory (How Sheldon Cooper makes me happy!)
    4) Sherlock
    5) Grey's Anatomy (Gotta love the drama!)
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    1.)The Walking Dead
    2.) The Wire
    3.) Scrubs/Friends

    Can't be bothered to think of anymore right now :P
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    Breaking Bad
    The Wire
    Deadwood
    Seinfeld
    The Office (UK)
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    All shows from the 90s.

    TV is terrible nowadays. I only watch Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, documentaries and Friends.
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    1. 24
    2. ER
    3. Sherlock
    4. Downton Abbey
    5. Big Bang Theory/ Friends
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    The Real Housewives of Orange County
    The Real Housewives of New York City
    The Real Housewives of New Jersey
    The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
    The Real Housewives of Miami
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    Depends on whether you're asking for the most popular/long running series or everyone's personal favourites. If it's the former then Dad's Army, Blackadder, Only Fools & Horses etc would probably be there, just for sheer widespread popularity to this day.

    But going on personal favourites that I've actually watched at the time of airing:

    House
    Inbetweeners
    Men Behaving Badly
    The Office
    Any quality murder mystery series e.g. Lewis, Midsomer Murders

    Albeit all of the above have their drab episodes occasionally.
  16. Roxas's Avatar
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    1) Grey's anatomy
    2) The Good Wife
    3) The big bang theory/friends/2 and half men/comedies basically
    4) Doctor Who
    5) Ringer
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?

    & prison break have got to be up there
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    (Original post by T-Toe)
    TV is terrible nowadays.
    Well of course you think that if you primarily watch Desperate Housewives and Family Guy (and, to a lesser extent, Friends)
  19. DarrenDM's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    (Original post by ElMoro)

    & prison break have got to be up there
    24 and Prison Break are by far the best TV series I've watched.

    For comedy, it has to be The Big Bang Theory
  20. ScottishShortiex's Avatar
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    Re: What are the 5 greatest TV Series' of all time?
    1. Desperate Housewives
    2. House
    3. Shameless (well series 1-7)
    4. Glee
    5. Two and a Half Men (with Charlie Sheen)

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