The first time that I watched "In The Heat Of The Night" in 1990 I was totally hooked! It became and still is in my top 10 favorite t v shows!

This was Carroll O'Connor's finest performance as Chief Bill Gillespie!:D

"Laverne & Shirley". Shocking, I know... ;-)

"Star Trek TOS"
"Ghost & Mrs. Muir"
"House Calls"

"In the Heat of the Night" is also one of my favorites.

Others that hooked me with the first episode I watched:
Mama's Family
I Love Lucy
Designing Women
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Murder, She Wrote
Matlock
Desperate Housewives
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Amos 'N Andy
The Andy Griffith Show
Batman
Dragnet (1967)
Gomer Pyle: USMC
Murder, She Wrote
Night Gallery
The Outer Limits (1963)
Picket Fences
Sanford & Son
The Six Million Dollar Man
St. Elsewhere
S.W.A.T.
The Twilight Zone (1959)
When Things Were Rotten

The Rifleman
Bonanza
Star Trek (original series)
Bewitched
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Three's Company
The A-Team

my top shows were hooked on right away :
quantum leap
Early edition
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
the wonder years
family ties
sanfrod & son


comedies:
the wonder years
boy meets world
welcome back kotter
mama's family
family matters
home improvement
whos the boss?
happy days
the odd couple the original
step by step
I love lucy
family ties
night court
perfect strangers

cartoons Anmited series
he-man master of the universe 1980's
teenage mutnat ninja turtles 1980's
the real ghostbusters
fox's 1990 spider-man
fox';s 1990 x-men
swat kats
doug
muppet babies
static shock Anmited series
justice league Anmited series
justice league Unlimited Anmited series
batman 1990 Anmited series
batman beyond Anmited series

"Dallas" also had me in it's clutches right off the bat!:lol:

"In the Heat of the Night" is also one of my favorites.

Others that hooked me with the first episode I watched:
Mama's Family
I Love Lucy
Designing Women
The Beverly Hillbillies
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Murder, She Wrote
Matlock
Desperate Housewives
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Totally forgot about BtVS! Grr, Argh... The Whedonverse had me in it's clutches immediately with that one.

Red Dwarf
Robin Of Sherwood
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Xena
Jonathon Creek
Monk
Psych
Twin Peaks
The King Of Queens
Farscape
Sliders
Star Trek TGN
Stark Trek DS9
Holliston
Picket Fences
Pushing Daisies
Chuck
My Name Is Earl
Smallville

Dallas, Cheers, Family Ties, The Bill Cosby Show, Dateline, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, The Good Wife...just to name only a few.

I've mentioned this in other posts, in 1965, when then-president Lyndon B. Johnson botched my daily fix of Bozo the Clown when he preempted this show for a news conference :angryfire I switched the channel and stumbled on :thumbsup: Thunderbirds :thumbsup:. 37 years later (That's 2002 for those of you in Rio Linda! :rofl:) this show became the first DVD box set I purchased, using :santa2: "Santa Money" :santa: I received for :tree: Christmas. :candle:

Cheers
Family Ties
Bewitched
Maude
All in the Family
Mama's Family
Remington Steele
The Streets of San Francisco
Hill Street Blues
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Svengoolie
Freaks and Geeks
The Wonder Years
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wings
... to name a few.

Being Human

Such a fun show! Who knew a vampire, ghost and werewolf could be roommates?! Had a great run and I enjoyed everything about it. :)

Mine was probably Mary Tyler Moore Show, Green Acres, Rules of Engagement, Hot in Cleveland, funny thing is I didn't watch Gilmore Girls until the final season. Then I went out and bought every season the next weekend.

Family Ties
There are others, but I listed my favorite one, of course. :)

Ironically "The Good Wife". I tuned into the first episode of Season Six hoping to see David Hyde Pierce and I got hooked on the story line involving Cary being sent to prison.

Three's Company
Modern Family
The Simpsons
Beverly Hillss 90210
V (miniseries and regular series)
Knight Rider
CHiPs
Breaking Bad (didn't watch in its original run but later in reruns)

Seinfeld. Kramer talking about how refreshing Junior Mints were floored me.

DALLAS
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
GREEN ACRES
QUANTUM LEAP
STAR TREK (all of them except for ENTERPRISE)

Right now im hooked on
legends of tomorrow
gotham
the flash
shark tank
beyond the tank
agents of shield
power rangers super dino charge
nickelodeon's teeange mutnat ninja turtles

These 5 shows hooked me from the start

Not ashamed to say it. Gilmore Girls!

Not ashamed to say it. Gilmore Girls!


That's awesome!! I've never been ashamed of it. My guy friends took my "man card" but I don't care!! :) :)

Nurse Jackie
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
The Sopranos

What hooked me off the top? Several things, among others:

Perry Mason
M Squad
Barney Miller
Hart to Hart
Hawaii Five-O (original-recipe, not the new one)

Homeland.

There are other shows I love, of course, but Homeland just grabbed my attention, made me sit up and blink and go "WTF?????"

The only other show I can think of that did that for me was Twin Peaks.