So today is cup day, a public holiday here in Vic, and I am home with the kids while wifey is at work (actual post finished and published months later, hey I have been busy!). I was sitting upstairs, trying to find something to watch, and spotted an old favourite on my tablet - The X Files. As it happens, 2024 marks its 30th anniversary since release, amazing! It is the same vintage as my career really. I fondly remember the old days, starting in Hanbury St in Kalgoorlie with my old mate Dave Lowe, watching all these. I even had the I Want To Believe poster for a lot of years. What a classic show.
So this has prompted me to think about all the classic TV shows of my life. These days, we only watch TV shows on streaming services, largely Prime and Stan right now, with occasional others ones coming in if they don't host the show we want to watch. But before streaming, it was all about sitting on the couch and either tuning in each week, or perhaps buying the seasons box sets and bingeing. I would like to look back and think about the shows I used to love as a kid, and an adult. So let's do this by decade:
1980's
The A Team - lots of fun
Dukes of Hazzard - lots of fun
Knight Rider - pretty cool
Who's The Boss - pretty cool, I was an Alyssa Milano fanboy back in the day
Miami Vice - very cool
The Love Boat - lots of fun
MacGyver - pretty cool
The Golden Girls - lots of fun
Magnum PI - loved this show, classic!
Star Trek TNG - absolute, all-time classic, must watch!
Battlestar Galactica Original - loved this show, classic!
1990's
Star Trek Voyager - loved this show, classic!
Home Improvement - lots of fun
Everybody Loves Raymond - lots of fun
The X Files - absolute, all-time classic, must watch!
Frasier - loved this show, classic!
Seinfeld - lots of fun
The Simpsons - lots of fun
Red Dwarf - loved this show, classic!
2000's
Big Bang Theory - lots of fun
Scrubs - lots of fun
Parks & Recreation - lots of fun
Buffy The Vampire Slayer - lots of fun
How I Met Your Mother - loved this show, classic!
House - lots of fun
Supernatural - lots of fun
Myth Busters - lots of fun
Lost - lots of fun
Band of Brothers - loved this show, classic!
The IT Crowd - loved this show, classic!
24 - lots of fun
CSI Miami - lots of fun
Battlestar Galactica Reimagined - absolute, all-time classic, must watch!
I won't bother with 2010 and beyond. Originally, I wasn't going to bother with 2020 and beyond, but I could not find a single show in the 2010's that I liked, at least not on the lists that I looked at. It's fair to say that the whole definition of TV shows has changed since the beginning of the 2010's, although episodic entertainment is still very much a thing. There have been a few shows I have watched and enjoyed, like From, but nothing I would venture to call a classic at this point.
So we have three shows that make the all-time list - TNG, X Files and BSG Reimagined. All are utterly amazing and all have aged very well. Well worth a look if you need some binge watching.
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