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Post by topbilled on Oct 26, 2022 15:52:33 GMT
1. Picket Fences
2. Cheers (it went out on top)
3. Roseanne
4. Hawkeye (1994-95 historical drama filmed in Canada)
5. Beverly Hills 90210
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I was never into The X-Files, and I was not a fan of ER, though I know a lot of people watched it. I didn't mind Friends but it was not must-see for me.
Honorable mentions: Touched by an Angel; Hearts Afire; Seinfeld; Dear John
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2022 18:23:29 GMT
1. The X-Files
2. ER
3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
4. Law & Order
5. The Kids In the Hall
I'm not a sitcom fan, and I detested Seinfeld, but if pressed Cheers was one I usually liked, especially in the earlier years. I also never cared for that touchy-feely subgenre of stuff like Touched By an Angel or Highway to Heaven.
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Post by CinemaInternational on Oct 27, 2022 9:43:41 GMT
Twin Peaks (ABC)
Road to Avonlea (CBC)
Homefront (ABC)
NYPD Blue (ABC)
The Practice (ABC)
Runners-Up: ER (NBC), Sisters (NBC), Brooklyn Bridge (CBS), Ally McBeal (Fox), Picket Fences (CBS), My So-Called Life (ABC), Frasier (NBC)
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Post by hoganman1 on Oct 27, 2022 13:28:40 GMT
Mine were: X-Files, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, Law and Order-SVU and Frasier.
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Post by Moe Howard on Oct 28, 2022 23:21:41 GMT
Just two. Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place. Can't remember what day it was but the shows ran together and we had a small group that got together that night. Always a blast.
Occasional; Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier.
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Post by LiamCasey on Oct 29, 2022 23:42:26 GMT
Ignoring any rollovers from the 80s, my favorites from the 90s would be:
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Remember WENN
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (At the risk of suffering the wrath of Nipkow, I would rank this Shatnerless series even over the original.)
Star Trek: Voyager
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (I enjoy both the UK and the US versions. But I prefer Clive Anderson as the host.)
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Post by topbilled on Oct 29, 2022 23:54:48 GMT
I forgot to mention Cybill in my earlier post. There were a lot of good sitcoms in the 90s.
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Post by LiamCasey on Oct 30, 2022 0:09:44 GMT
I forgot to mention Cybill in my earlier post. There were a lot of good sitcoms in the 90s. Yes, there were. This is the one decade that I really had a problem whittling down my list to 5. |
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Post by CinemaInternational on Oct 30, 2022 18:52:07 GMT
I forgot to mention Cybill in my earlier post. There were a lot of good sitcoms in the 90s. That was one of the last good sitcoms. Pity it could not have run longer..... |
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Post by Swithin on Oct 30, 2022 19:44:28 GMT
I didn't really like 1990s American TV shows and as a result didn't watch many. I did like:
Parker Lewis Can't Lose -- loved this show
Later on (in the 2000s), I got to like Law & Order, because I worked with Sam Waterston on a project and felt I should watch some of the reruns. I did enjoy them, but as always with such series, I was more interested in the crimes than in the tedious personal problems of the cops/DAs.
I got to like some X-Files episodes in reruns, but not the "out there" ones; rather, the "in here" ones.
And of course I loved the original (British) Queer as Folk (1999), but I hated the American one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2022 22:38:04 GMT
Later on (in the 2000s), I got to like Law & Order, because I worked with Sam Waterston on a project and felt I should watch some of the reruns. I did enjoy them, but as always with such series, I was more interested in the crimes than in the tedious personal problems of the cops/DAs. One of the things that made Law & Order stand out was that they didn't delve into the personal lives of the cops/lawyers. For the first several years, you only got the most cursory of glances into their private lives, with perhaps one or two throwaway lines in every 4th episode or so. When Law & Order: Special Victims Unit started in 1999, they started focusing more on the police characters more and their personal lives were featured a little more, and eventually a lot more. Another thing that made it different was that the cops usually just did legwork, questioning witnesses and suspects, with a lot of scenes in interrogation rooms. Unfortunately, since then all of Dick Wolf's shows (and I think there are currently 9 on network TV) like to waste their running time with at least one lengthy foot chase, or guns-out search, and even a few shoot outs. In other words, the kind of mindless crud that most other cop shows used to rely on too heavily. |
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Post by Swithin on Oct 31, 2022 12:31:55 GMT
Although I began watching because of my work with Waterston, by that time the shows he was on weren't as available. It was mostly SVU, which I liked, but I found all that personal stuff about the Hargitay and Meloni characters to be really tedious, though the cases were generally interesting. I didn't like the CI shows because I found the D'Onofrio character tedious as well. When I was able to see the originals, I did like them, particularly the DAs. I thought Dianne Wiest and Steven Hill were really incredible.
I love British television but am not as much of a fan of the crime/detective shows that everyone loves. Too much about the "shtick" of the detective; not enough about the time. Grantchester is an example that delves way too much into the private lives of the detectives. I don't care that the minister's mother has a problem with her love life; or that the gay priest has a problem with his father; or that the detective's mother-in-law is crazy, or about any of that stuff.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Oct 31, 2022 17:07:19 GMT
Frazier
3rd Rock from the Sun
Everybody Loves Raymond
The Simpsons
Dr. Katz
We lived in England for half the nineties and I liked seeing the old black and white Rank movies on their late night TV.
My husband loved Moonlighting and Cybill -- hmmm, wonder what they had in common?
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Post by dianedebuda on Nov 4, 2022 16:42:13 GMT
Like LawrenceA, not a sitcom fan and don't remember ever seeing any during that era. In fact, the only series that I remember regularly watching that began in the 90s was Star Trek: Voyager. Watched the first couple of seasons of The X-Files only - right after coming home from the kids' HS football games on Fridays - and some of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Looked at a list of 90s TV shows over on imdb and found The Pretender - a show I don't remember ever seeing, but sounds like I would have liked. Other than that - nothing.
Back in those days, didn't have cable, 1 TV, 2 kids in HS, and worked long hours.
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Post by topbilled on Nov 4, 2022 17:01:44 GMT
Like LawrenceA, not a sitcom fan and don't remember ever seeing any during that era. In fact, the only series that I remember regularly watching that began in the 90s was Star Trek: Voyager. Watched the first couple of seasons of The X-Files only - right after coming home from the kids' HS football games on Fridays - and some of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Looked at a list of 90s TV shows over on imdb and found The Pretender - a show I don't remember ever seeing, but sounds like I would have liked. Other than that - nothing.
Back in those days, didn't have cable, 1 TV, 2 kids in HS, and worked long hours.
But the main character's name is Jarod, like my name (Jarrod)...so it seems like something I should check out LOL |
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