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Speaking of the 70s, The Persuaders (starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis) deserves an honourable mention despite not quite making it into my top 3.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
And Chris gets an exult for mentioning the Hooded man (oooooooo the hooded man)

Can’t love that and not love Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Which is top flight Telly for anyone!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
And Chris gets an exult for mentioning the Hooded man (oooooooo the hooded man)

Can’t love that and not love Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Which is top flight Telly for anyone!

like I've said before I suspect many of the props from Robin ended up recycled on Marion, which as you say was a excellent show, and lead to getting horrible historys on the telly box

Kolchak, the Night Stalker. feth I love that show.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Can’t love that and not love Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Which is top flight Telly for anyone!

The first season finale is legendary!

For me?

Aqua Teen Hunger Force. 'cause nothing matters.

Attack on Titan. Major caveat here, huge opportunity for this to turn south since it hasn't ended yet, and could yet pull a Lost/Battlestar/Mass Effect/GoT and bork its final moments, but it's been fantastic so far.

Babylon 5, for its time it was a narrative marvel.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
And Chris gets an exult for mentioning the Hooded man (oooooooo the hooded man)

Can’t love that and not love Maid Marian and Her Merry Men. Which is top flight Telly for anyone!

like I've said before I suspect many of the props from Robin ended up recycled on Marion, which as you say was a excellent show, and lead to getting horrible history's on the telly box

They were masters of the cheap prop on the hooded man. My favourite was the gold necklace made from rectangular biscuits and gold spray.

 Lance845 wrote:
Kolchak, the Night Stalker. Feth I love that show.

Yep, Darren McGavin was the man!!!

 Vaktathi wrote:
Attack on Titan. Major caveat here, huge opportunity for this to turn south since it hasn't ended yet, and could yet pull a Lost/Battlestar/Mass Effect/GoT and bork its final moments, but it's been fantastic so far.

Just to satiate my curiosity, what event(s) in BSG constitute the Bork? I could think of a couple that might turn someone off, although none ruined the show for me personally.

Alfus Piedro wrote:

 Vaktathi wrote:
Attack on Titan. Major caveat here, huge opportunity for this to turn south since it hasn't ended yet, and could yet pull a Lost/Battlestar/Mass Effect/GoT and bork its final moments, but it's been fantastic so far.

Just to satiate my curiosity, what event(s) in BSG constitute the Bork? I could think of a couple that might turn someone off, although none ruined the show for me personally.

For me, there's a point in the show where whatever plan they had kinda went out the window, and the showrunners admit to it. They start doing things for shock value without any idea of how they're going to wrap up (like killing Starbuck), and then they have a writers strike in there too. Eventually the show moves away from post-apocalyptia in space, the killer robots and starships and space battles drop away, and it gets increasingly lost in incomprehensible metaphysical stuff to untie their gordian knot.

The final episode was the perfect encapsulation of the whole series.

Jeeves and Wooster - Masterpiece Theater (Fry and Laurie): Seasons 1&2 is fantastic

Mine are (in no particular order

Farscape

Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister (oh Nigel Hawthorne, how we miss Sir Humphrey :( )

and a more recent entry,

Peaky Blinders.

 Lance845 wrote:
Kolchak, the Night Stalker. feth I love that show.

Rebooted for modern times just didn’t/won’t work.
It relies on 70s values and technology (lack of compared to everyone now carrying a tv studio in their pockets) to work. But brother how well the original worked.

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
And Chris gets an exult for mentioning the Hooded man (oooooooo the hooded man)

Maid Marian and her Merry Men was vastly superior

Damnit… ninja’d

I would also add Mork and Mindy to the mix.

I'd put down:

Top Gear (the run with James, Jeremy, and Richard. . . any other personnel combo is not great)


The IT Crowd. They attempted to treat it like "The Office" (as in, create a US version), but that goes to show how good the show is on its own, the US version didnt go beyond a pilot

And 3rd I'll throw Mad Men in (honestly, I'm just trying to list a top three that haven't been mentioned ITT, that I have seen and enjoyed) I especially appreciated the attention to details in the show, making sure that as much as humanly possible, everything looked exactly as it did in the time being portrayed

I'm not sure I have a list of just three best ever shows. On my list, which would need to be much larger than just three picks, would be.

ROME.

The Young pope followed by the New Pope.

And. Either Beavis and Butthead or Legion.

B&B are always good for a dumb laugh.
Legion was just amazing and very well done.


Honest there are more shows I love than I can put into any list with out actually spending a lot of time on it. Far more time that I feel it is worth so why bother!
Clearly there is a place on my list for MASH, Farscapre, Stargate SG1, Band of Brothers, Always sunny and more.

Anime list is a little easier, almost.
FLCL.
Goblin slayer, including the movie they had last year.
And I'm again not sure what my third choice would be.

 warhead01 wrote:
I'm not sure I have a list of just three best ever shows. On my list, which would need to be much larger than just three picks, would be.

ROME.

Rome was great. I liked the first season better than the 2nd, but that's mainly due to the grown up version of Octavian, who I don't think did such a great job, but everyone's a critic.

I like watching I Claudius right after watching Rome, it fits in just right with the timeline assuming a gap from Augustus youth to his middle age.

Band of Brothers
The Sopranos
Futurama

That took a while.

Futurama

South Park

Friends

Sapphire and Steel.
Ultraviolet.
The Good Place.

At time of writing. Tomorrow might be different.

Westworld
Dexter (sadly both endings sucked)
Person of Interest




(True Detective (especially season 1), The Mentalist, Breaking Bad, Lost, Fargo, GoT, Death Note, AoT all strong contenders)