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197) Wheel of Fortune (KenJennings)

 

I always enjoy the hangman puzzles, and it's amazing how timeless Pat and Vanna have become. I might not watch every day, but rarely a week goes by that I don't catch an episode of wheel while making supper.

I lost interest when they stopped buying prizes with the money they won.

so your interest was solely about who bought the ceramic jaguar?

Yup. I think there was some more strategy in solving a puzzle or not based on what prize a contestant was eyeing and if they had enough money for it.
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198-- The Newlywed Game (1966-1974) and (1977-1980). Bob Eubanks was my favourite game show host. Where's the weirdest place you've made whoopee?

That really made contestants consider the difference between singular and plural and curse the English language for having one word for both.

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199-- Siskel & Ebert (1986-1999/2010). Never saw their original show on PBS starting in the mid-70s and I can't say I was a consistent watcher of the show for too much longer after Siskel's death in 1999 even though it ran with other co-hosts with Ebert until 2010 (and I believe even Ebert was off the show it's last season or two). Richard Roeper was actually on for 407 episodes to Siskel's 581. While I didn't always agree with their reviews, I always enjoyed watching them discuss their thoughts and views on what they'd seen, even if it was a film I had little to know interest/likelihood of seeing. Edited by Rushian King
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200. NCIS

 

Not really a big fan of these kinds of shows but I like this one when I'm in the mood for it. The different characters make it interesting and sometimes it leaves you on the edge of your seat.

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201) St Elsewhere (LABT)

 

Gritty drama that showed the trials and tribulations of an inner city hospital. And stayed mostly clear of cliches.

 

Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington went on to bigger and better things.

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201) St Elsewhere (LABT)

 

Gritty drama that showed the trials and tribulations of an inner city hospital. And stayed mostly clear of cliches.

 

Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington went on to bigger and better things.

http://seriesandtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/doug-ross-classic-tv-doctors-clooney.jpg

 

:ahem:

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201) St Elsewhere (LABT)

 

Gritty drama that showed the trials and tribulations of an inner city hospital. And stayed mostly clear of cliches.

 

Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington went on to bigger and better things.

http://seriesandtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/doug-ross-classic-tv-doctors-clooney.jpg

 

:ahem:

 

No, I think George Clooney was on E.R.

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Wrapping up the Top-200!

 

1) Star Trek (KenJennings)

2) The Wire ( Maverick )

3) Kung Fu ( Johnny Blaze )

4) Mad Men ( Rushian King )

5) All In The Family ( Narps )

6) The Twilight Zone ( Lucas )

7) Six Feet Under (custom55)

8) 30 Rock (Segue Myles)

9) Taxi (thesweetscience)

10) The Ren and Stimpy Show (hemibeers)

11) The Venture Bros. (ReRushed)

12) Green Acres ( Narps )

13) X Files ( Permanent Rush )

14) The Odd Couple ( Lucas )

15) Monty Python's Flying Circus (goose)

16) Seinfeld (Rushian King)

17) Twin Peaks (original)(hemibeers)

18) M*A*S*H (Narps)

19) Cheers (Johnny Blaze)

20) Leave it to Beaver (LABT)

21) Columbo ( Lucas )

22) SCTV (Russian King)

23) Night Gallery (goose)

24) Coach (thesweetscience)

25) The Rockford Files (ReRushed)

26) The Big Bang Theory (New_World_Man)

27) Curb You Enthusiasm (Russian King)

28) The Simpsons (KenJennings)

29) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Stormtron)

30) Friends (Permanent-Rush)

31) Breaking Bad (thesweetscience)

32) Happy Days (hemibeers)

33) The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( Lucas )

34) Joanie Loves Chachi (LABT)

35) The Equalizer (Toymaker)

36) Battlestar Galactica (2003) (Rushian King)

37) The A-Team (KenJennings)

38) NYPD Blue (thesweetscience)

39) Firefly (toymaker)

40) In Search Of..(johnnyblaze)

41) The Munsters (hemibeers)

42) WKRP in Cincinnati ( Toymaker )

43) Trailer Park Boys ( Rushian King )

44) Arrested Development ( Rushian King )

45) The Avengers ( 1960s ) ( Lucas )

46) The Dick Van Dyke Show (LABT)

47) Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (KenJennings)

48) South Park (Rutlefan)

49) Barney Miller (thesweetscience)

50) Sanford and Son (toymaker)

51) Star Trek: The Next Generation ( New World Man )

52) Hockey Night In Canada ( Rushian King )

53) The Prisoner ( Lucas )

54) Time Team (Rushian King)

55) Get Smart ( HemiBeers )

56) Newsradio (KenJennings)

57) Hogan's Heroes ( LABT )

58) ABC's Wide World of Sports (pjbear05)

59) The Addams Family (pjbear05)

60) Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( Lucas )

61) Law and Order: SVU (New World Man)

62) Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (Goose)

63) I Love Lucy (HemiBeers)

64) Survivor (Rushian King)

65) Better Call Saul (KenJennings)

66) Full House (Permanent-Rush)

67) Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom ( Rushian King )

68) The Muppet Show ( Johnny Blaze )

69) Paw Patrol ( CyriK )

70) The Ed Sullivan Show ( Hemi Beers )

71) Don Kirshner's Rock Concert / The Midnight Special ( Lucas )

72) Nature (Rushian King)

73) Quincy M.E. (ReRushed)

74) Frasier (New World Man)

75) Dexter (thesweetscience)

76) Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (JohnnyBlaze)

77) The Nature Of Things (Rushian King)

78) Stargate SG-1 (toymaker)

79) Scooby Doo, Where Are You? (goose)

80) Mythbusters ( HemiBeers )

81) Da Ali G Show ( Lucas )

82) Family Guy (KenJennings)

83) Civil War ( Rushian King )

84) Unsolved Mysteries (JohnnyBlaze)

85) F Troop ( LABT )

86) American Horror Story (Segue Myles)

87) ALF (New World Man)

88) Futurama (Stormtron)

89) The Sopranos ( Lucas )

90) The Gong Show (hemibeers)

91) Gilligan's Island (Rushian King)

92) The Incredible Hulk (JohnnyBlaze)

93) Syd and Marty Kroft Shows (goose)

94) Hell on Wheels (KenJennings)

95) Antiques Roadshow (Rushian King)

96) My Three Sons ( Narps )

97) Bob Newhart/Newhart (goose)

98) Moonlighting ( New World Man )

99) Dark Shadows ( Lucas )

100) The Flintstones (Rushian King)

101) I Dream of Jeannie (LABT)

102) The Andy Griffith Show (Hemibeers)

103) American Pickers (Narps)

104) The Joy of Painting (KenJennings)

105) Nova ( Rushian King )

106) The Wild Thornberrys (Segue Myles)

107) Dungeons and Dragons (JohnnyBlaze)

108) The Outer Limits ( Lucas )

109) Jeopardy (LABT)

110) Lost in Space (HemiBeers)

111) Northern Exposure (New_World_Man)

112) Deadwood (Rushian King)

113) The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein (Rushian King)

114) Electric Company (goose)

115) Game Of Thrones (Segue Myles)

116) Flipper (LABT)

117) Doctor Who (KenJennings)

118) The Wayne & Shuster Show ( Rushian King )

119) 60 Minutes ( HemiBeers )

120) House ( Narps )

121) Fear Factor ( New World Man )

122) The Kenny Everett Video Show ( Lucas )

123) Married... With Children (KenJennings)

124) Rome ( 2003-05 ) ( Rushian King )

125) Monday Night Football ( LABT )

126) Hollywood Squares ( goose )

127) Carnivàle (2003-2005)( Rushian King )

128) Late Night With David Letterman ( Rushian King )

129) Majisuka Gakuen ( Lucas )

130) The Wonder Years (greyfriar)

131) Captain Kangaroo (hemibeers)

132) The Honeymooners ( New World Man )

133) Gomer Pyle, USMC ( LABT )

134) Mork And Mindy ( greyfriar )

135) Spartacus: Blood And Sand / Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena (Rushian King)

136) Hannibal ( Rushian King )

137) The Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show ( Rushian King )

138) Firing Line ( LABT )

139) Oh! Mikey ( The Fuccons ) ( Lucas )

140) American Bandstand ( HemiBeers )

141) Soul Train ( HemiBeers )

142) The Orville ( KenJennings )

143) Freaks And Geeks ( Rushian King )

144) Get A Life ( Lucas )

145) Match Game (goose)

146) Grand Slam (LABT)

147) Benson (KenJennings)

148) The Larry Sanders Show (Rushian King)

149) Shark Tank (New_World_Man)

150) Stranger Things (Rushian King)

151) This Week In Baseball (LABT)

152) Monk (ReGorLaTory)

153) The Americans (Rushian King)

154) Norm MacDonald Live (KenJennings)

155) Larry King Live ( HemiBeers )

156) Thunderbirds ( 1964-1966 ) ( Lucas )

157) Legion (Rushian King)

158) Who Do You Think You Are (LABT)

159) That Metal Show (New_World_Man)

160) Psych (ReRushed)

161) Charlie's Angels ( HemiBeers )

162) Finding Your Roots ( Rushian King )

163) Speed Racer ( Lucas )

164) The Starlost (1973-74)(Rushian King )

165) Wings ( Librarian )

166) The Little Rascals/Our Gang ( Rushian King )

167) Everybody Loves Raymond ( Librarian )

168) The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( Librarian )

169) Gatchaman / Battle Of The Planets ( Lucas )

170) Astro Boy ( 1963 / 1980 )( Lucas )

171) The Real World (HemiBeers)

172) Win Ben Stein's Money (goose)

173) Thundarr the Barbarian (JohnnyBlaze)

174) Bizarre (Rushian King)

175) Emergency! (ReRushed)

176) Night Court (KenJennings)

177) Dallas (HemiBeers)

178) The Carol Burnett Show (librarian)

179) LA Law (Rushian King)

180) Whose Line Is It Anyways (KenJennings)

181) Louie ( Rushian King )

182) The Mentalist ( New World Man )

183) The NFL Today ( LABT )

184) Storage Wars ( Rushian King )

185) One Step Beyond ( Lucas )

186) Little House On The Prairie (Rushian King)

187) Gunsmoke (Hemibeers)

188) Police Squad (KenJennings)

189) James At 15 ( LABT )

190) Cheaters (New World Man)

191) Cops ( Hemibeers )

192) Jackass ( Lucas )

193) The Partridge Family (LABT)

194) Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D (Rushian King)

195) Vikings (Rushian King)

196) The Six Million Dollar Man (ReRushed)

197) Wheel of Fortune (KenJennings)

198) The Newlywed Game (Rushian King)

199) Siskel & Ebert (Rushian King)

200) NCIS (New_World_Man)

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201) St. Elsewhere (LABT)

 

202) Angie Tribeca (KenJennings)

 

Created by Steve Carrell, Rashida Jones stars in this ridiculous TBS cop spoof that is going into its 4th season next year. Very much in the style of Police Squad or the Naked Gun movies, it would've made Leslie Nielsen proud. While it's first season was almost unsurpassably funny, subsequent seasons have dealt with format changes and serialization attempts at the direction of the network. Nonetheless, the writing is funny without fail, and the ensemble cast looks like they're having a genuinely good time. Add in great guest stars like Chris Pine, Alfred Molina, James Franco, Natalie Portman, and Keegan Michael Key, and it's really hard to beat.

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203) Dr. Jeff Rocky Mountain Vet

 

This is one of the few must see shows for my wife and I. Love Jeff's commitment to keep animal care reasonable for everyone and straight shooter style.

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204-- The Goldbergs (2013-present). Based on comic actor Adam Goldberg's childhood in the 80s. Plays loose with the timeline for the pop culture references but it's a nice, fun, nostalgic show with comedy veterans Jeff Garlin, Wendi McLendon-Covey and George Segal as the adults and 3 good young actors as the kids.
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205. Medium (Jan. 2005-Jan. 2011)

 

I was a pretty big fan of this show when it was on. Regardless of whether you believe in psychics or not it was a very entertaining and well done show. Apparently it was based on a real life psychic's life and experiences(whether you personally believe in that stuff is irrelevant to the quality of the show though). I thought the show could have continued for a bit longer but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I actually liked it better than Ghost Whisperer with Jennifer Love Hewitt that was on around the same time. After Medium Patricia Arquette was also on CSI Cyber which was also a really good show but rather short lived unfortunately.

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201) St. Elsewhere (LABT)

202) Angie Tribeca (KenJennings)

203) 203) Dr. Jeff Rocky Mountain Vet ( HemiBeers )

204) The Goldbergs (Rushian King)

205) Medium (New World Man)

 

206) Oz ( Lucas )

 

HBO's first hour long drama .. Gritty, unnerving and consistently great, set in, presumably, a maximum security prison in New York State ..

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201) St Elsewhere (LABT)

 

Gritty drama that showed the trials and tribulations of an inner city hospital. And stayed mostly clear of cliches.

 

Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington went on to bigger and better things.

http://seriesandtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/doug-ross-classic-tv-doctors-clooney.jpg

 

:ahem:

 

No, I think George Clooney was on E.R.

Those were two different shows?
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201) St Elsewhere (LABT)

 

Gritty drama that showed the trials and tribulations of an inner city hospital. And stayed mostly clear of cliches.

 

Howie Mandel and Denzel Washington went on to bigger and better things.

http://seriesandtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/doug-ross-classic-tv-doctors-clooney.jpg

 

:ahem:

 

No, I think George Clooney was on E.R.

Those were two different shows?

Quite different.

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210) That 70's show (1998-2006)

 

In some ways I am a tad too young to relate to this show in that I was only in single digits during the decade it takes place. However, it seems like a lot of it is probably pretty accurate. The truth however is that the themes and characters could be from just about any decade though and there are probably some inconsistencies here and there. For example did anyone really say "burn" to mean you insulted someone back then? Maybe it was a regional thing. Not sure. Anyway, it was good fun while it lasted. A bit of trivia here. The theme song(not the version on the show) was originally written and recorded by a relatively obscure band called Big Star. At some point in the series Cheap Trick did the version of the same song for the show.

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211) Alaister Cooke's America

 

I don't exactly remember it all that well, so maybe I'd find the political leanings of the show (if any, I really don't remember it all that well) not necessarily coincident with mine (and who knows, maybe they would), but as a 9 or 10 year old kid, this show was a great introduction to American history.

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201) St. Elsewhere (LABT)

202) Angie Tribeca (KenJennings)

203) 203) Dr. Jeff Rocky Mountain Vet ( HemiBeers )

204) The Goldbergs (Rushian King)

205) Medium (New World Man)

206) Oz ( Lucas )

207) Wonder Woman ( Rushian King )

208) American Masters ( Rushian King )

209) American Experience ( Rushian King )

210) That 70s Show ( New World Man )

211) Alaister Cooke's America ( Laughed At By Time )

 

212) Jack Horkheimer's Star Hustler / Star Gazer ( Lucas )

 

PBS' astronomy series starring Jack Horkheimer - each ep was never longer than 10 minutes, but the show is still running after 41 years on the air ..... Great memories of this show, as it was usually the last thing on the air before the test pattern was put up and for Tomita's incredible performance of Arabesque #1 as the theme music ...

 

Geared towards kids, the Star Hustler name was changed to Star Gazer in 1997 with the advent of the internet, and some misguided searches on the web :LOL:

 

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