TV Watching Meme

[purplecat]

By way of vivdunstan.

So long since I did a meme!


+ Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
+ Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
+ Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
+ Exclamation mark if it's an all-time fave.
+ If you want, add up to 3 additional shows (keep the list in alphabetical order).


24
The 4400
A League of Their Own
The A-Team
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
America’s Next Top Model
Alias
The Americans
*Angel
The Andy Griffith Show
Arcane: League of Legends
Are You Afraid of the Dark
Are You Being Served?
Arrested Development

Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman and Robin
Batman Beyond
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the original series)
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Big Love
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Black Books
Blackadder
The Brady Bunch
The Brittas Empire
*Blake's 7
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
!*Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice

Caitlin’s Way
Carebears
Carnivale
Catweazle
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
The Closer
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling (UK)
!*Cowboy Bebop
Criminal Minds
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Dangermouse
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
The Dead Zone
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Digimon
Dinosaurs
Different Strokes
Dirty Jobs
!*Doctor Who (1963 - 1989)
!*Doctor Who (2005 - present)
Dragnet
The Dresden Files
Due South

Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
!*Firefly
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
*Futurama

Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
The Golden Girls
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains

Hannah Montana
Happy Days
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Heroes
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Homicide: Life on the Street
House

I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Invincible

JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jericho

Killing Eve
Knight Rider

Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Legend of the Seeker
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Little Britain
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Luther

MASH
MacGyver
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married... With Children
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
The Mighty Boosh
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
The Muppet Show
My Mad Fat Diary
The Mythbusters
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
Mystery Science Theater 3000

NCIS
North Shore
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue

The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
One Tree Hill
Oz

Perry Mason
Person of Interest
Phil of the Future
Pokemon
Popular
Power Rangers
*Primeval
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych

QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)

Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
!*Robin of Sherwood
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell

!*Sapphire & Steel
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
seaQuest
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Space: Above and Beyond
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky and Hutch
Superman
Supernatural

Taxi
Teachers
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Jetsons
The Love Boat
The Lucille Ball Show
The Nanny
The Pretender
The Real World
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
3rd Rock from the Sun
Torchwood
Transformers
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks

Veronica Mars

WandaVision
Weeds
*The West Wing
Wheel of Time
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
Wonderfalls

The X-Files
*Xena: Warrior Princess
X-Men: Evolution


I'm interested that there's a lot of stuff from back in the day that I'm pretty sure I watched a lot of "because it was on". Some, such as The Six Million Dollar Man, I don't recall watching so much as playing in the playground - so I deduce I watched it, but there is some uncertainty there.

Comments

[vivdunstan]

There are some more programmes that I probably watched enough of as a youngster, but am not sure enough to mark them up here. Eg The Six Million Dollar Man and original BSG. Whereas I know for sure I watched enough A-Team around the same time, so marked that. It's a very American focused list, but I was surprised just how many things I had seen. And every time I look at it I seem to spot more to mark!

[purplecat]

I observe there are now multiple divergent lists doing the rounds as people add their own shows - some with a more UK focus!!!

I really have no memory of the Six Million Dollar Man, but a vague conviction I watched it. I have very vague memories of the Bionic Woman - sure I watched several of those.

[vivdunstan]

I definitely saw The Bionic Woman though not sure how much. I was surprised the police series with William Shatner wasn’t on there. I added a couple of UK shows in my version of the list - Robin of Sherwood and Sapphire & Steel. Though I also added the US show Alias, which I have seen all of.

[a_cubed]

Fun, but too much work.

[purplecat]

Not as much as I feared - but it would be nice to have a blank version to cut and paste, rather than having to edit an existing version.

[vivdunstan]

The version I copied from had even more comments in it to edit out than my own post did! Yes, a clean version would be nice. But I do rather like how it’s evolving, and e.g. adding more UK shows.

[vivdunstan]

That’s what Martin felt too, though he did start looking through it. He was agog at some of the things I’d seen but he didn’t see. He didn’t have a TV at home at all as a child. For example he asked about “Scarecrow and Mrs King” and I boggled him by saying who was the male lead in that one!

[a_cubed]

Careful, Spoilers! ;-).

I'm surprised that he was surprised. I suppose everyone thinks their own childhood was normal, so if you didn't have a TV, or weren't allowed to watch ITV (I knew some kids whose parents thought ITV was evil and would only let them watch BBC) perhaps you assume everyone else was the same.

From a casual glance through I saw things that you didn't mark and didn't see things you did (never watched any Beverly Hills 90210, for example). Some of that is the two or three year difference in age, some of it is what your parents watched compared to mine.

Something missing from that is whether you saw something on its origina broadcast or later. I watched all of Blakes 7 on original broadcast for example, and all of DR who from late Pertwee, but have watched The Prisoner (well before my time) and eearly Dr Who (likewise) on repeats/disc/streaming/download.

[vivdunstan]

I think he was just agog how much telly there was. That he didn't see.

Everything I would have watched on first UK broadcast, apart from stuff I was too young to see then, so saw on later repeats. Eg Star Trek TOS, Bewitched and not on the list The Prisoner.

However for Doctor Who I only started watching in 1978 with season 16 ("Key to Time") so anything before then was on repeat or DVD etc. And I haven't seen (or e.g. heard for wiped stuff) it all. Oh and in 1996 Martin and I somehow missed the TV Movie. Which continues to boggle me. But we saw it later.

[spiralsheep]

I loved Robin of Sherwood and Blakes 7 an embarrassing amount. I Enjoyed rewatching B7 but daren't try RoS.

[purplecat]

I've rewatched RoS and enjoyed it - you have to forgive the mullets though! But, like the original Star Wars, I think you could claim a good chunk of its appeal and the way it endures in people's memories depends upon the soundtrack. Makes writing fanfic that captures the feel of the show tricky.

[spiralsheep]

Yes, that music made the show. And *meaningful looks* are difficult to write in fic so that ruins both Robins and some of the better acting from Marion (*brave and supportive*) or the Sheriff (*enraged stare*). Lots of "smell the fart" acting but good actually, lol.