I concur and would add a few more high points...........

Posted by danj (A) on June 13, 2004 at 23:01:02

In Reply to: Three brilliant TV series- plus a rant.. posted by Bambi B on June 11, 2004 at 11:03:24:

I would add "The Duchess of Duke Street" and "Upstairs, Downstairs." ANd may I also add the original "Forsythe Saga", "Edward, the King", and "The Six Wives of Henry VIII?" All are outstanding efforts from the land of my forebears, Great Britian.

There have been some exceptional American series. I would count the first couple years of "West Wing" as top television. I would vote for the long-running "M-A-S-H" and the mini-series "Lonesome Dove." One could point to some of the fine productions - mostly live, one episode "teleplays" - such as "Requium For a Heavyweight" and "Marty." Then there was the often exceptional "Rod Serling's Twilight Zone."

My vote for the best dramatic series of all would be "I, Claudius," which is astonishingly good. I also love the original "Black Adder" series and the old "Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin" along with the magnificently daffy "Fawlty Towers," "Tracy Ullman" and the best comedy show of all time, "Monty Python's Flying Circus." I'm also partial to some later shows like "As Time Goes By" and the splendid "Band of Brothers."

Television and movies are mostly crap. Gems like "I, Claudius" and "Monty Python" are much too rare. And things are getting worse. Television is drowning in a sea of banality and stupid shows where no bad idea is wasted and no bad joke goes untold.

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Topic - Movies versus TV shows - Cetaele 18:44:27 06/09/04 (19)

Thanks...another thought - Cetaele 21:31:48 06/14/04 (0)

Re: Movies versus TV shows - RGA 15:43:38 06/11/04 (0)

Three brilliant TV series- plus a rant.. - Bambi B 11:03:24 06/11/04 (5)

I concur and would add a few more high points........... - danj 23:01:02 06/13/04 (3)

Good job... - RGA 20:29:08 06/14/04 (2)

Agreed! I'm a Whoovian from way, way back............ - danj 20:46:25 06/14/04 (1)

Re: Agreed! I'm a Whoovian from way, way back............ - RGA 10:25:12 06/15/04 (0)

Concur on "I Claudius" - grinagog 21:29:27 06/11/04 (0)

Some British TV is brilliant, especially w/o commercials - edta 19:09:35 06/10/04 (1)

Great choices............. - danj 23:07:58 06/13/04 (0)

I repeat: A movie is like a short story, a TV series is like a novel. - clarkjohnsen 09:59:13 06/10/04 (0)

TV works best when it is not trying to be cinema - ephemere 09:50:17 06/10/04 (0)

TV shows are crap - Troy 07:58:36 06/10/04 (4)

Sopranos? Wrong paradigm. I was thinking of Brideshead... Forsyht. Saga... that sort of things. .. - Victor Khomenko 08:09:53 06/10/04 (3)

Forsyte Saga, Brideshead Revisited - grinagog 18:47:35 06/10/04 (2)

Anything associated with Joss Whedon. - J.R. 18:56:47 06/10/04 (1)

Hmm, well Michael Mann made several movies - grinagog 21:09:11 06/10/04 (0)

Re: Movies versus TV shows - Victor Khomenko 06:14:56 06/10/04 (0)

Japanese dramas - Jon L 20:23:05 06/09/04 (0)

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I concur and would add a few more high points........... - danj 23:01:02 06/13/04 (3)

Good job... - RGA 20:29:08 06/14/04 (2)

Agreed! I'm a Whoovian from way, way back............ - danj 20:46:25 06/14/04 (1)

Re: Agreed! I'm a Whoovian from way, way back............ - RGA 10:25:12 06/15/04 (0)

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