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What was your favorite decade of TV programming?

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aparisi2274

aparisi2274

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So I was sitting here watching Season 1 of Welcome Back Kotter, and it got me thinking, if I had to pick one decade that had the best programming, I think I would go with the 70's. Think about it... shows like:

Welcome Back Kotter
All in the Family
Mary Tyler Moore
Newhart
Good Things
The Jeffersons
Soap
Taxi
Diffrent Strokes
SNL
Happy Days
Laverne & Shirley
Mork & Mindy
MASH
WKRP in Cincinatti
Three's Company
Sanford & Son

I could keep listing shows, but I think you get my drift..... So what was your favorite decade for TV?
 
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linkboy

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For me it was the 80s.

Cartoons were better and from September to January, my 49ers kicked ass.

Now cartoons suck and the 49ers could get beat by a team comprised of invisible players.
 
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Costanza

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Hootie said:
Sort of ironic considering your name and avatar. :D
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:lol True, but LOST, Arrested Development, Battlestar, Journeyman, 24 and Friday Night Lights add up overall compared to just one or two memorable shows.
 
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DrForester

Kills Photobucket
90's. BY FAR

Star Trek TNG Finale
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Home Improvement
Majority of Roseanne (except craptacular final one)
Majority of Quantum Leap
Majority of Married with Children
X-Files
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sliders
seaQuest
From The Earth To The Moon (Mini-series)
Season 8 of The Simpsons
Batman: The Animated Series
Futurama begins
South Park begins
Farscape begins
King of the Hill begins

aside from all of those, the 90's wins based on Nickelodeon alone.

Nickelodean Classics:
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Salute Your Shorts
Welcome Freshmen
Hey Dude!
Clarissa Explains it All
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Are You Afraid of the Dark
 
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Guybrush Threepwood

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DrForester said:
90's. BY FAR

Nickelodean Classics:
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Salute Your Shorts
Welcome Freshmen
Hey Dude!
Clarissa Explains it All
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Are You Afraid of the Dark
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Don't forget pre-movie SpongeBob.

It had most of its meat during the 00s, but it began in '99.
 
way more

way more

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90's had a lot of youthful sketch comedy.

Upright Citizens Brigade

SCTV

The Kids in the Hall

In Living Color

Mr. Show

The State

I just discovered A Bit of Fry and Laurie and that was 90's too. Nothing like the prosperity and peace of the Clinton years to really give absurdest comedy time to shine.

Also Simpsons and Northern Exposure. The 90's had a lock on comedy.
 
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Anasui Kishibe

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the eighties definitely

fucking Hill Street Blues
A-Team
Mc Gyver
Magnum P.I.
Star Trek: the next generation
Hokuto no Ken
City Hunter
Cheers guys..fucking CHEERS
BLACKADDER GUYS...BLACKADDER

and how can you forget Riptide, Knight rider, Manimal?? Atrocious, but guilty pleasures indeed

winrar
 
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The Storyteller

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icarus-daedelus said:
This one, duh. BSG, The Wire, The Shield, the bulk of Farscape and Futurama, Arrested Development, Band of Brothers, the first seasons of Friday Night Lights and Veronica Mars, Avatar, Home Movies, and Samurai Jack, etc. etc.
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Just to reiterate: The Venture bros, Firefly, Love My Way, Both versions of The Office, Dexter, the new Doctor Who, Jekyll, Pushing daisies, hell even Terminator in all its cheesy glory.
Yes, this decade by far.
 
Jade Knight 08

Jade Knight 08

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In no order: The Best in Bold


Silver Spoon
21 Jumps Street
A-Team
M.A.S.H. (David Ogden Stiers)
Magnum P. I.
Knight Rider
Wolf or Air Wolf (about a black helicopter)..... i think that's the name of the show?
Our House
Star Trek :TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Sliders
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
The X-Files
Hercules (all movies before the series began)
Xena: Warrior Princess
Beverly Hills 90210
Party of Five
N.Y.P.D. Blues
In Living Color
The Fresh Prince
Living Singles
Home Improvement
Roseanne (Final Season sucks HARD)
Quantum Leap
Married with Children
McGyver (the one with RDA in it)
The Dead Zone ( all 6 seasons)
Rome
Carnivale


It goes on forever...... ah, the good old times!!!! Thanks for the bittersweet memories!
 
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Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
For cartoons, the 90s remain supreme. I mean, I totally can get that many of the shows that I loved during that period have aged horribly, and some are as lame as anything out today, but the good during that period far surpasses the good during any other period imo. Not to mention that even most of the bad shows had one advantage over most shows nowadays: Kickass music.
 
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DevelopmentArrested

Banned
Jade Knight 08 said:
In no order: The Best in Bold


Silver Spoon
21 Jumps Street
A-Team
M.A.S.H. (David Ogden Stiers)
Magnum P. I.
Knight Rider
Wolf or Air Wolf (about a black helicopter)..... i think that's the name of the show?
Our House
Star Trek :TOS
Star Trek: TNG
Sliders
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
The X-Files
Hercules (all movies before the series began)
Xena: Warrior Princess
Beverly Hills 90210
Party of Five
N.Y.P.D. Blues
In Living Color
The Fresh Prince
Living Singles
Home Improvement
Roseanne (Final Season sucks HARD)
Quantum Leap
Married with Children
McGyver (the one with RDA in it)
The Dead Zone ( all 6 seasons)
Rome
Carnivale


It goes on forever...... ah, the good old times!!!! Thanks for the bittersweet memories!
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That's one decade? The FUCK?
 
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kozmo7

Truly deserves to shoot laserbeams from his eyes
90ies. This decade isn't over yet, perhaps we could have something truly horrible on its way, we just don't know.

That and I haven't gotten around to most if not all of the 00's shows mentioned on this thread.
 
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flem1

Member
The 90's..

There were so many good shows and cartoons..

My favorite show was Mr. Bean and I also enjoyed watching Cow & Chicken/ I M Weasel..
 
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TheRipDizz

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKvCPJffM0&feature=related

80's :bow

Seriously though, the 90's deffinatly had some quality, but it just can't compete ith tthe non stop shit that came out in the 80's. I didn't thnk that kind of avalanche of great shows could be topped, but the 00's has deffinatly bested the 80's in dramas, with some good comedies sprinkled in here and there.

The 80's = unbeatable comedies and cartoons with great action/drama here and there.

The 00's = unbeatable dramas with some comedies here and there. No cartoons. They are horrible now for the most part

The 90's = A little bit of greatness of everything here and there, but overall a very inconsistant decade as far as quality is concerned.
 
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Skittleguy

Ring a Bell for me
Early 90s by far. On saturday mornings, I would spend HOURS in front of the TV.
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