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icecream
01-06-2011, 04:39 PM
2010s- 1. The Middle 2. White Collar 3. Psych 4. Covert Affairs 5. Law & Order: UK 6. Life Unexpected 7. Castle 8. Leverage 9. Heartland (Canadian) 10. Glee

2000s- 1. Corner Gas 2. Grand Slam 3. Dag 4. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? 5. Justice 6. Privileged 7. Grease: You’re the One that I Want 8. 20Q 9. Back to You 10. Merv Griffin’s Crosswords

1990s- 1. Early Edition 2. Frasier 3. Murphy Brown 4. 7th Heaven 5. Touched by an Angel 6. Boy Meets World 7. Coach 8. Doogie Howser, M.D. 9. The Practice 10. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1980s- 1. Star Trek: the Next Generation 2. Family Ties 3. The Wonder Years 4. Benson 5. Newhart 6. Different Strokes 7. Greatest American Hero 8. $100,000 Pyramid/$25,000 Pyramid 9. Too Close for Comfort 10. Growing Pains

1970s- 1. Barney Miller 2. WKRP in Cincinnati 3. Happy Days 4. Lou Grant 5. Adam-12 6. Mork & Mindy 7. Charlie’s Angels 8. M*A*S*H 9. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 10. Laverne & Shirley

1960s- 1. I Dream of Jeannie 2. Bewitched 3. Petticoat Junction 4. Family Affair 5. Gomer Pyle, USMC 6. The Dick Van Dyke Show 7. Gilligan’s Island 8. The Munsters 9. The Andy Griffith Show 10. The Addams Family

1950s- 1. Dragnet 2. I Love Lucy 3. Ozzie & Harriet 4. Leave it to Beaver 5. The Twilight Zone

benjamoon
01-06-2011, 05:28 PM
1950s
1. I Love Lucy
2. Leave it to Beaver
3. Father Knows Best
4. The Donna Reed Show
5. Make Room for Daddy
6. The Honeymooners
7. The Ann Sothern Show
8. The Bob Cummings Show
9. The Phil Silvers Show
10. Bachelor Father

1960s
1. The Dick Van Dyke Show
2. Bewitched
3. Get Smart
4. The Andy Griffith Show
5. I Dream of Jeannie
6. Petticoat Junction
7. That Girl
8. F Troop
9. Gidget
10. The Lucy Show
Close Calls: My Three Sons, The Twilight Zone

1970s
1. Mary Tyler Moore
2. Happy Days
3. The Bob Newhart Show
4. The Brady Bunch
5. Laverne & Shirley
6. Rhoda
7. Taxi
8. The Jeffersons
9. M*A*S*H
10. The Odd Couple

1980s
1. The Wonder Years
2. Cheers
3. Hill Street Blues
4. The Cosby Show
5. Newhart
6. Who's the Boss?
7. Murphy Brown
8. Family Ties
9. Designing Women
10. Benson

1990s
1. Friends
2. Mad About You
3. Coach
4. Everybody Loves Raymond
5. Roseanne
6. Wings
7. Frasier
8. Newsradio
9. Seinfeld
10. Home Improvement
Close Calls: Evening Shade, Spin City

2000s-2010s
1. The Office
2. American Dreams
3. The West Wing
4. Modern Family
5. According to Jim
6. Monk
7. Arrested Development
8. The Middle
9. Detroit 1-8-7
10. Criminal Minds
Close Calls: 8 Simple Rules, Cold Case, Parks and Recreation,

CommonTater
01-06-2011, 06:02 PM
:D
I love the choices you both made so I'll take either of those! :D

broadmoor
01-06-2011, 06:34 PM
This would probably need a lot more thought and contemplation, so it's not set in stone, but I'll give it a whirl. Top ten, but not in any particular order:

1950s: Highway Patrol / Ozzie and Harriett / I Married Joan / Boston Blackie / Have Gun Will Travel / Father Knows Best / Sea Hunt / Life of Riley / Gunsmoke / Leave it to Beaver

1960s: Route 66 / Patty Duke Show / Family Affair / Naked City / The Fugitive / Green Acres / Secret Agent / Rawhide / My Three Sons / Wild Wild West

1970s: Kolchak / Movin' On / Odd Couple / Bionic Woman / Adam-12 / Barnaby Jones / Hawaii Five-O / Six Million Dollar Man / Emergency / Partridge Family

Sal
01-06-2011, 08:09 PM
1950s

1. Leave It To Beaver
2. The Phil Silvers Show/Sgt. Bilko
3. I Love Lucy
4. The Honeymooners
5. The Jack Benny Program
6. The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
7. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
8. Make Room For Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show
9. Father Knows Best
10. The Bob Cummings Show/Love That Bob

1960s

1. Gilligan's Island
2. The Monkees
3. Bewitched
4. The Dick Van Dyke Show
5. I Dream Of Jeannie
6. Get Smart
7. Green Acres
8. My Three Sons
9. The Beverly Hillbillies
10. The Andy Griffith Show


1970s

1. Happy Days
2. The Partridge Family
3. The Brady Bunch
4. Laverne & Shirley
5. Welcome Back, Kotter
6. Mork & Mindy
7. Three's Company
8. The Odd Couple
9. The Mary Tyler Moore Show
10. One Day At A Time

1980s

1. The Cosby Show
2. Family Ties
3. ALF
4. The Golden Girls
5. The Facts Of Life
6. Cheers
7. Night Court
8. Diff'rent Strokes
9. Benson
10. Punky Brewster

1990s

1. Friends
2. Frasier
3. Married With Children
4. Mad About You
5. The Simpsons
6. Sabrina The Teenage Witch
7. 3rd Rock From the Sun
8. Roseanne
9. Coach
10. Blossom

2000-11

1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. Scrubs
3. Two and a Half Men
4. Malcolm in the Middle
5. 8 Simple Rules
6. That 70s Show
7. How I Met Your Mother
8. Will & Grace
9. The Middle
10. S--- My Dad Says

MickeyMac
01-06-2011, 08:32 PM
1950's:
Leave It To Beaver
American Bandstand
Ed Sullivan Show
Father Knows Best
Ozzie & Harriet
The Lone Ranger
M Sqaud
Perry Mason
I Love Lucy
Cheyene


1960's:
Shindig
Hollywood A Go Go
Swingin' Time
Shivaree
Where The Action Is
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Flintstones
I Spy
Mannix


1970's:
Sanford and Son
All In The Family
Barney Miller
Marcus Welby MD
WKRP In Cincinatti
Kojack
The Rockford Files
Baretta
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family


1980's:
Dallas
Miami Vice
Magnum PI

JayTN
01-06-2011, 11:44 PM
I wasn't around for the '50s, '60s, '70s, and didn't watch too much TV in the '80s, so I'll only list the 1990s and 2000s.

1990s (in no particular order)
Frasier
Friends
Married...with Children
Roseanne
King of the Hill
The Real World (before it became a contest to see who can make the biggest fool of themselves on national television)
Wings
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Murphy Brown

Guilty pleasure(s)...Saved by the Bell


2000s (no particular order)
Survivor
The Amazing Race
Friday Night Lights
True Blood
Supernatural
Once & Again
The Book of Daniel
Rescue Me
The Tudors
Dexter

Guilty pleasure(s)...One Tree Hill (the first four seasons), Weeds, The Real World (after it became a contest to see who could make the biggest fool of themselves on national television), and Big Brother (a televised train wreck).

bencasey
01-07-2011, 02:54 AM
1950s:
Make Room for Daddy
Tightrope
Playhouse 90
Our Miss Brooks
My Little Margie
Have Gun Will Travel
Studio One
The Millionaire
One Step Beyond
Phil Silvers Show

1960:
The Fugitive
Outer Limits
The Defenders
Bus Stop
East Side West Side
Naked City
Route 66
The Nurses
He and She
Occasional Wife

1970s:
Lucas Tanner
Bridget Loves Bernie
Family
WKRP in Cincinnati
Rich Man Poor Man Book II
James at 15
The White Shadow
Sirota's Court
What Ever Happened to the Class of '65
Sons and Daughters

1980s
The Equalizer
Moonlighting
Murphy Brown
The Wonder Years
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
It's Your Move
Open All Night
Best Times
Wiseguy
Crime Story

Zoneboy
01-07-2011, 04:21 AM
1950's:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Amos 'N' Andy
What's My Line?
The Millionaire
Highway Patrol
One Step Beyond
Death Valley Days
Dragnet
The Phil Silvers Show
Sea Hunt

1960's:

The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Batman
The Fugitive
The Andy Griffith Show
Gomer Pyle USMC
Thriller
My World and Welcome to it
Star Trek
Dark Shadows

1970's:

The Six Million Dollar Man
When Things Were Rotten
Night Gallery
Emergency!
NBC Mystery Movie
Soap
Sanford and Son
The Waltons
Love, American Style
Then Came Bronson

1980's:

St. Elsewhere
Hill Street Blues
The Twilight Zone (1985) revival
Star Trek TNG
Dallas
Lottery!
Tales from the Darkside
MacGyver
Wildside
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo