My 20 Favorite Television Shows 1. The
Wonder Years Sean Sloan's Commentary OK. I’ve put a bit of thought into this... about twelve hours… But, no matter how many hours I put into it... my top two will NEVER change… "And now here’s something we hope you’ll really like..." 1. The Wonder Years – My fave show ever. I wanted to be Kevin Arnold. But I never wanted that Winnie Cooper. I always wanted Madeline. I wanted her to stick around for more than five or six episodes. 2. The Prisoner -- McGoohan!!! How can you dislike the first ever sci-fi, spy, adventure, political drama?? 3. The Monkees -- I have nothing to actually say about this one. 4. The Mary Tyler Moore Show -- A strange obsession with Mary that dates back to the Dick Van Dyke Show. Something about her, I can’t put my finger on... ha ha... Seriously, that Ted Knight cracks me up every time he walks on the screen. I can’t help but laugh at him as soon as I see him. 5. The Simpsons -- Not just a kiddie cartoon as most people I know would be led to believe. 6. Monty Python’s Flying Circus -- I still never expect the Spanish Inquisition. 7. Seinfield -- Never watched it when it aired. Picked it up in reruns later and loved it. So many things go on during each episode that I can’t remember what happened in what episode when I tell people about it. 8. Leave It To Beaver -- My grandmother wouldn’t let me join the BMG Music Club when I was a kid because one time Beaver joined a record club and they kept sending him a bunch of 45s that he didn’t order and he needed his dad to bail him out of the whole mess... as usual. 9. Are You Being Served? – Mrs. Slocumbe’s pussy, Mr. Humphries’ sailors, Mr. Lucas’ libido, Mr. Rumbold’s ears, Mr.Granger’s naps, Ms. Brahms tart accent, Capt. Peacock’s snobbery… you couldn’t cram any more double entendres in one show. 10. The A-Team -- Week after week went by and the boys blew all kind of shit up... but never killed anybody. Good wholesome family values. I love it when a plan comes together. 11. Sanford And Son -- I asked a friend of mine to pick me up the $1 red fox stamp... and she went to a whole bunch of post offices looking for Redd Foxx on a stamp… 12. Voyagers! – One of my very favorite shows as a kid. I always wanted an Omni. I thought it was so cool that it would glow red when history was incorrect and once Jeff and Bogg set it right, it turned green. Way cool. My friends and I used to play Voyagers! and pretended we had an Omni and could pop through time. Shame it was only on for one season. 13. The Jetsons -- Original season only. The Jetsons that came on for that one and only 1961 season was way different than the 1980s version. I chipped my tooth on my bike as a kid because of the episode when Grandpa Jetson visits and "space surfs." No Hands. No Feet. No Teeth... Grandpa Jetson owes my grandparents some large cash for dental surgery… 14. WKRP In Cincinnati -- My dad always told me that the local CBS affiliate (which was owned by the Jesuits) wouldn’t play this show because the KRP stood for crap!! 15. The Beverly Hillbillies – Something about people who wear ropes for belts and swim in the cement pond… I often can’t take too much of this show... it is so damn funny to hear the Clampetts screw everything up and to have Mr. Drydsdale always worrying about the large cash. That episode where they go to New York and buy Central Park kills me… 16. The Partridge Family -- OK. They were already a band... they had a lot less kids... they had Susan Dey… They had Danny Bonaduce... And... I had a much bigger thing for Shirley Jones than I ever did for Florence Henderson... Still do… See the MTM show for another diatribe about obsession with older women… 17. The Howard Stern Show (WWOR NY) – Howard was much raunchier on this show... That crap he calls a show today is tame compared to this... I once saw a skit called Gagagin’s Island with Bob Denver... one of the dirtiest things I ever saw on TV. Howard dressed like a drag version of Ginger and "his water broke" all over the place because he was preggers with "Gagagin’s" child… 18. Tales Of The Gold Monkey – The only thing I ever liked with Stephen Collins. Sort of like an Indiana Jones with a seaplane in 1940s South Pacific. Shame it only lasted one season. 19. Too Close For Comfort -- Ted Knight again! Two really hot daughters who lived downstairs and... Jim J. Bullock. What more could you ask for except a guy who draws cartoons with a cow puppet on his hand!! Oh wait!! It already had that… Sheer Perfection!! I do actually find myself watching this on the rare occasion I catch it in reruns... 20. Parker Lewis Can’t Lose -- I really really wished I had watched more episodes of this when it came on, but of the episodes I saw and remember (syndication sux)... I thought it was way cool… |
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