A retrospective of the first fifty years of my life, picking fifty items that resonate with me. This one is about TV Shows, and they have to have been running in or after 1970. Which rules out a number of shows that could have made the list – the obvious one that sprang to mind for me were The Invaders and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
These are lined up in typical alphabetical order.
- 24
- The A-Team
- Beavis & Butthead
- Black Adder
- Breaking Bad
- Cheers
- Deadwood
- Dr. Who
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
- Fringe
- Game of Thrones
- Grange Hill
- Heroes
- Hill Street Blues
- Hong Kong Phooey
- International King Of Sports
- Jonathan Creek
- Knight Rider
- Life On Mars (UK, not the US remake)
- Line Of Duty
- Luther
- Mock The Week
- Mr. Benn
- N.C.I.S.
- Northern Exposure
- Only Fools And Horses
- Porridge
- Prison Break
- QI
- Quantum Leap
- Red Dwarf
- Revolution
- The Rockford Files
- Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (The original episodes before they ruined it with the addition of the chief irritant Scrappy.)
- Silent Witness
- The Simpsons
- Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
- The Sopranos
- Spitting Image
- Spooks
- Starsky and Hutch
- Stumptown
- Top Of The Pops
- Twin Peaks
- Viva La Bam!
- Wacky Races
- Westworld
- The Wire
- The Young Ones
Did I mention that I went without a TV for a couple of years on more than one occasion? There are some of the above that were cancelled without getting to an end point, and at least one that never had a point.