Top 100 TV Shows

[IanH]

I watched Hollyoaks on and off for about two years at university, and never saw anyone in a hospital. Maybe you ARE watching Holby City?

 

[Rammy]

76. Skins
Points: 33 | Lists: 4 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: N/A | 2011 Position: 178th
Seasons: 7 | Episodes: 61

The episodes are a bit hit and miss, but the hits are absolutely superb.​

A unique one here (although it does happen again, so not so unique), in that it appeared in 2011 but not in 2013, so on the basis it wasn't in last time I shall call it a new entry.

Skins is a British teen drama that follows the lives on a group of teenagers in Bristol, through the two years of Sixth Form. Its controversial storylines have explorer issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, substance abuse, death, and bullying. Each episode generally focuses on an individual character and the struggles they face in their life.

Over its initial six year run, Skins replaced it's primary cast every two years. Plans for a film spin-off were discussed in 2009, but never came to fruition. Instead, a specially commissioned seventh and final season were broadcast in 2013, featuring some of the cast from its 2007-2010 run.

A number of actors from the series have gone on to feature in high profile movies. Nicholas Hoult (Tony) from series one was no stranger to movies having been the little kid in About A Boy but since Skins, has appeared in the X-Men movies along with the recent Mad Max release. Also from series one, Dev Patel (Anwar) was the lead role in the worldwide hit Slumdog Millionaire. Kaya Scodalario (Effy) from series 1-4 has featured in The Maze Runner series and will feature in the upcoming iteration of Pirates of the Caribbean. Finally, Derby County fan Jack O'Connell (Cook) from series 3-4 has featured in a number of films including '71, 300:Rise of an Empire, and Unbroken.

 

[Rammy]

75. One Tree Hill
Points: 34 | Lists: 2 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: N/A | 2011 Position: N/A
Seasons: 9 | Episodes: 187​

One Tree Hill is an American drama series, which premiered in 2003. The show is set in the fictional town of Tree Hill in North Carolina and originally follows the lives of two half brothers, Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan Scott (James Lafferty), who compete for positions on their schools basketball team. Wow, this show sounds thrilling!

Their relationship evolves from heartless enemies to caring brothers as the show progresses, and the drama that ensues from the brothers' romances with female characters including Peyton Sawyer, Haley James, and Brooke Davis.

 

[blade1889]

Bloody Groundforce beat Spooks? Now I used to love Groundforce but my word...spooks was fantastic.

Surprised Skins is a new entry

 

[White Army]

I loved watching skins, takes me back to being 16 and watching it thinking i could relate. Series 3 and 4 were my favourite with Cook at his best.

 

[Madejski]

Skins was terrible series 5 and 6, never got round to watching 7 and didn't hear much positivity about it either. Was a shadow of it's former self, probably why it was ranked so lowly in 2011/2013 top TV shows as those were around the times that series 6 and 7 were released.

One of those programs where you had to have been around the right age at the right time, but it had great storylines and series 1-4 were almost all great episodes. Series 2 and 3 my favourites.

Think it made my top 10.

 

[Rammy]

74. One Foot in the Grave
Points: 34 | Lists: 3 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 81st | 2011 Position: 141st
Seasons: 6 | Episodes: 42​

One Foot in the Grave is a British sitcom written by David Renwick. The show was on the air for six series, plus seven Christmas specials. The first five series were broadvast between 1990 and 1995. For the next five years, the show appeared only as Christmas specials, followed by one final series in 2000.

The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson), and his long-suffering wife Margaret (Annette Crosbie). The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I watched Hollyoaks on and off for about two years at university, and never saw anyone in a hospital. Maybe you ARE watching Holby City?

I once commented to my wife that "There's always someone giving birth in this programme!" before being informed the name of the show was: "Call the Midwife"

 

[Hooray]

One Foot In The Grave didn't make my list but possibly would have scraped in if I'd thought of it. One of those sitcoms where it remains funny no matter how many times you watch the episodes

 

[Rammy]

It's a shame it's not held with the same regard as Only Fools, The Office, I'm Alan Partridge, and Fawlty Towers.

 

[BCFC Jordan]

Yeah, I'm a fan of One Foot In The Grave also, although it didn't make my list. Victor Meldrew is one of the greatest television characters.

 

[Murphy]

Completely forgot Skins, would have made my top 10 had I remembered. Went through the first 4 series of it when I was meant to be revising for my A-Levels last summer

I still consider it a better use of my time.

 

[Veggie Legs]

I agree with the comments about Skins series 1-4 being the best, I never got into 5 or watched the subsequent ones. Series 1 and 3 were my favourites, as the second series of each generation seemed to lose focus a bit.

 

[Rammy]

73. Futurama
Points: 34 | Lists: 3 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 40th | 2011 Position: 39th
Seasons: 7 | Episodes: 140​

It's quite a drop in positioning for Futurama, having finished 40th in 2013, and just one place higher in 2011. It couldn't match that though this time.

Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening. The series follows the adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century. The series was envisioned by Groening in the late 1990s while working on The Simpsons.

 

[Rammy]

72. The X-Files
Points: 34 | Lists: 4 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 47th | 2011 Position: 40th
Seasons: 9 | Episodes: 202​

Like the previous show, The X-Files drops down a significant number of places having placed in the 40's in the previous two lists.

The X-Files is an American science fiction horror drama created by Chris Carter. The programme originally aired from 1993 to 2002, spanning nine seasons and over 200 episodes. The series revolves around Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) investigating 'X-Files' - unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Whilst Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal, Scully is a sceptic and is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries to debunk his work and thus retusn him to mainstream cases.

Two movies have been released, the first in 1998 whilst the tv series was still being broadcast, and the second in 2008. The first was far more successful, taking in a worldwide total of $189m, whilst the sequel took $68m.

The series is set to retun to US screens in January 2016, with a six epsiode event series. A UK broadcaster and release date are yet to be announced. It has been suggested that Sky One (it's original home in the UK), Channel 5, Fox UK, Universal Networks International, and Netflix UK are preparing to bid for the rights.

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[Rammy]

71. Red Dwarf
Points: 34 | Lists: 4 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 32nd | 2011 Position: 38th
Seasons: 10 | Episodes: 61​

nuff said. When you find yourself in possession of a strange device that can do monstrous things to time, space and the very fabric of being, here's a tip: don't point it at anything. The Dwarfers did, and ended up reversing a little bird's evolution several million years. Result: one massive, hungry dinosaur by the name of Pete. The only thing more frightening than it was the huge vat of cow vindaloo they tried to feed him…

Another one to suffer a big drop, it's the British sitcom Red Dwarf. The programme originally aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1993 and then from 1997 to 1999.

UK broadcaster 'Dave', secured the rights to broadcast the original series. Having built a cult following, Dave announced that it would return for a new series. Red Dwarf returned in 2009 for a three episode mini series, but it was three years before any more new episodes were produced.

In May 2015, it was announced that series 11 and 12 will be filmed back to back later this year, and will air exclusively on the Dave channel in 2016 and 2017.

Despite the pastiche of science fiction used as a backdrop, Red Dwarf is primarily a character-driven comedy, with off-the-wall, often scatological science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. In the early episodes, a recurring source of comedy was the "Odd Couple"-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other and are trapped together deep in space. The main characters are Dave Lister, the last known human alive, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's dead bunkmate. The other regular characters are Cat, a lifeform which evolved from the descendants of Lister's pregnant pet cat Frankenstein; Holly, Red Dwarf's computer; Kryten, a service mechanoid; and, as of Series VII to Back to Earth, Kristine Kochanski, an alternative-reality version of Lister's long-lost love.

 

[hodge]

Futurama was one of mine I think

 

[Rammy]

70. Malcolm in the Middle
Points: 34 | Lists: 4 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 120th | 2011 Position: 156th
Seasons: 7 | Episodes: 151​

Malcolm in the Middle is an American sitcom, which was first broadcast in January 2000, and ended its six year run in 2006. The series received critical acclaim, and won numerous awards.

The series followed a family of six (later seven), and starred Frankie Muniz in the lead role of Malcolm, a more-or-less normal boy who tests at genius level. His mother Lois, father Hal (Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston), and brothers Francis, Reese, and Dewey complete the family with Jamie being born half way through the series.

For the first few seasons, the show's focus was on Malcolm. As the series progressed, however, it began to explore all members of the family equally.

 

[cufc17]

I had Malcolm in the Middle on my list, thought it was entertaining.
I enjoy those types of TV series.

 

[Rammy]

69. Quantum Leap *
Points: 34 | Lists: 5 | Number One's: 1 | 2013 Position: N/A | 2011 Position: 57th
Seasons: 5 | Episodes: 97​

And here's the other show that appeared in 2011, but not in 2013 so is treated as a new entry. Was quite a fall from grace in 2013, having finished in the Top 100 first time round to not appear AT ALL.

Quantum Leap is an American science fiction series that originally aired for five seasons from 1989 to 1993. It starred Scott Bakula as Dr Sam Beckett, a physicst who leaps through spacetime following his quantum experiment in time travel, by temporarily taking places of other peoples lives in order to correct historical mistakes.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

There's a lot of shit in the top 100 isn't there?

 

[Rammy]

There's a lot of shit in the top 100 isn't there?

Just you wait...

 

[blade1889]

Just you wait...

Losts not in it again is it?

 

[Rammy]

Losts not in it again is it?

The question is, has it held on to its top ten place?

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Just you wait...

I had no doubt that it would get worse before it gets better

 

[hodge]

Malcolm in the Middle was one of mine as well

 

[Hooray]

Still none of my top 8 have been announced

 

[MagpieBee]

Red Dwarf another one of mine to fall. Love that show!

 

[Oaf]

Had Futurama on my list, fucking brilliant show. So many great characters.

Malcolm in the Middle... used to love it but haven't seen it in such a long time. Always feel like I should give it another watch. Especially post Breaking Bad... I always fucking loved Hal in Malcolm in the Middle and in fact it was my love of his character in that which was a major reason for me wanting to see Breaking Bad in the first place. Well, that and the fucking overwhelming hype that show got.

 

[Meadow]

71. Red Dwarf
Points: 34 | Lists: 4 | Number One's: 0 | 2013 Position: 32nd | 2011 Position: 38th
Seasons: 10 | Episodes: 61​

nuff said. When you find yourself in possession of a strange device that can do monstrous things to time, space and the very fabric of being, here's a tip: don't point it at anything. The Dwarfers did, and ended up reversing a little bird's evolution several million years. Result: one massive, hungry dinosaur by the name of Pete. The only thing more frightening than it was the huge vat of cow vindaloo they tried to feed him…

Another one to suffer a big drop, it's the British sitcom Red Dwarf. The programme originally aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1993 and then from 1997 to 1999.

UK broadcaster 'Dave', secured the rights to broadcast the original series. Having built a cult following, Dave announced that it would return for a new series. Red Dwarf returned in 2009 for a three episode mini series, but it was three years before any more new episodes were produced.

In May 2015, it was announced that series 11 and 12 will be filmed back to back later this year, and will air exclusively on the Dave channel in 2016 and 2017.

Despite the pastiche of science fiction used as a backdrop, Red Dwarf is primarily a character-driven comedy, with off-the-wall, often scatological science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. In the early episodes, a recurring source of comedy was the "Odd Couple"-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other and are trapped together deep in space. The main characters are Dave Lister, the last known human alive, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's dead bunkmate. The other regular characters are Cat, a lifeform which evolved from the descendants of Lister's pregnant pet cat Frankenstein; Holly, Red Dwarf's computer; Kryten, a service mechanoid; and, as of Series VII to Back to Earth, Kristine Kochanski, an alternative-reality version of Lister's long-lost love.

Only on 4 lists? Unbelievable.

Red Dwarf was second on my list and that's all mine gone now :-(