As every two-bit observational comic will tell you, men love making lists. It's one of those sweeping generalisations that happens to be broadly true. So here's an unbidden dead sea scroll of my favourite television programmes of all time.
I'm not for a moment suggesting that these are necessarily the best TV shows ever made - although most of them admittedly are - as it's an entirely subjective rundown of my own particular favourites.
Should future generations develop an inexplicable urge to find out what that obscure, forgotten TV critic once held up as the pinnacles of televisual excellence in the 20th and early 21st centuries, let this list provide them with empirical evidence. (I will almost certainly have made some glaring omissions).
So, in time-saving alphabetical order, here it is.
Abigail’s
Party
Arena
The
Armando Iannucci Shows
Arrested
Development
Auf
Wiedersehen, Pet
Better
Call Saul
Big
Train
Blackadder
Brass
Eye
Breaking
Bad
Cheers
Columbo
The
Comic Strip Presents…
Cracker
Curb
Your Enthusiasm
The
Day Today
Deadwood
Detectorists
The Dick Cavett Show
Doctor
Who
The Elvis '68 Comeback Special
The Elvis '68 Comeback Special
The
Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
The
Fast Show
Fawlty
Towers
Getting
On
Ghostwatch
Hancock’s
Half Hour
Happy
Valley
I’m
Alan Partridge
In Bed With Chris Needham
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Inside
No. 9
The
Killing
Knowing
Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge
The
Larry Sanders Show
Late Night with David Letterman/Late Show with David Letterman
The
League of Gentlemen
Line
of Duty
Mad
Men
Marion & Geoff
M*A*S*H
The
Monkees
Monty
Python’s Flying Circus
The
Morecambe & Wise Show
The
Muppet Show
My
So Called Life
The
Naked Civil Servant
Not
the Nine O’ Clock News
Nuts
in May
The
Office (UK)
Only
Fools and Horses
Outnumbered
Parks
& Recreation
Peep
Show
Pennies
from Heaven
Porridge
Prime
Suspect
The Prisoner
Ready
Steady Go!
Roseanne
The
Royle Family
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Seinfeld
The Shadow Line
The
Simpsons
The
Singing Detective
Six
Feet Under
Smashie
& Nicey: End of an Era
The
Smell of Reeves & Mortimer
Some
Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
Spitting
Image
Steptoe
& Son
Storyville
Talking
Heads
The
Thick of It
Threads
Top
of the Pops
24
The
Twilight Zone
Twin
Peaks
The
Two Ronnies
Vic
Reeves Big Night Out
The
War Game
Whatever
Happened to The Likely Lads?
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
The
Wire
The
Young Ones
So there you are and there you have it. Be seeing you.
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