If they were going to take the time to specify the original 1951-1959 Dragnet run, they could have found a picture from that run instead of using one from the campy 1960s show.

namegoeshere: They missed a bunch. West Wing* and Northern Exposure for starters.

I had Northern Exposure on my "they missed it" list. Also had X-Files, M*A*S*H, Cheers and Police Squad! (In color).

The Short List is not aptly named.

A lot of those are intentionally and decidedly un-cool. Or does that make them cool? I can't tell any more. Where's The X-Files? 24? And Knight Rider but no A-Team?

Mugato: The Short List is not aptly named.

A lot of those are intentionally and decidedly un-cool. Or does that make them cool? I can't tell any more. Where's The X-Files? 24? And Knight Rider but no A-Team?

And no Airwolf.

Diss. A. Point.

Mother of God - its a wall of thumbnails for a 50 slide craptacular slideshow about crappy TV shows...

/ won't some farker please translate into a nice summarization sans slide format.

Columbo. Rockford Files. Quantum Leap.

1) You damn right "Miami Vice" made the list.

2) "How to Make it in America" did not belong on the list.

3) Absent from said list:

The A-Team
Riptide
Simon & Simon

West Wing
Northern Exposure
All in the Family
Golden Girls
Mash.
The Jackie Gleason Show
Combat!
The Red Skelton Show


List f**king sucks.

The Dick Van Dyke Show was cooler than a dozen Seinfelds or Fresh Princes.

Nice to see Spaced and Bored To Death on there. List fails without Arrested Development.

Also, I really tried to get into Portlandia. I love nonsense humor, but it just tries too hard. The characters are so odd that we hardly feel anything for them, so it comes across as nothing more than a glorified sketch show.

DrippinBalls:
Combat!


My ol' man was a combat veteran and as a rule, HATED any war movie or TV show with a passion. But for some reason he liked Combat! and watched it every week with my brother and me. He once mentioned it was the only show that featured what he remembered most: walking endlessly in the mud, never having enough of anything, never having a clue as to what was going on, and trying to figure out where his next meal was coming from. It was also the first show to show what we now call PTSD, where a squad member (someone like Fess Parker) simply dropped his rifle and started plowing the fields of an abandoned farm. They just left him plowing and figured the medics would come for him eventually.

And as a special "get off my lawn" comment: it went to hell when they switched to color.

/lawn, off

Snapper Carr: No Twin Peaks, no Northern Exposure, no X-Files, no Buffy.

DeltaPunch: Nice to see Spaced and Bored To Death on there. List fails without Arrested Development.

Um.... both AD and Twin Peaks were on there.

Having recently finished Spaced, this list has some things going for it.

In reverse chronological order:

Portlandia
How to Make It IN America
Community
Bored To Death
Misfits
Eastbound and Down
Party Down
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Flight of the Concords
Life On Mars
30 Rock
The IT Crowd
Nathan Barley
Deadwood
Arrested Development
State of PLay
Firefly
The Wire
Six Feet Under
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Freaks and Geeks
The Sopranos
Spaced
This Life
Our Friends In The North
The Day Today
The Larry Sanders
Twin Peaks
Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
The Singing Detective
Miami Vice
The Young Ones
Knight Rider
Magnum, PI
Monkey
The Muppet Show
Saturday Night Live
Starsky and Hutch
Happy Days
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Joe 90
The Prisoner
Batman
The Man From UNCLE
The Avengers
Top Cat
Dragnet

jiaxiaobo: My So-Called Life


Are you kidding me? If I wanted to watch a show about mopey teens in the 90s, all I had to do was show up to high school the next day.