• TinSoldier said on Oct 04, 2007....

  MASH. Beyond a doubt and head and shoulders above any competition.

• D6fer said on Oct 04, 2007....

  That is a good one TS.....let's see if it holds!

• silverwhisper said on Oct 05, 2007....

  i love lucy. the show in very real terms set the stage for every show--not just sitcom--that followed: using film to record it and then having something to sell afterwards, three camera method, never mind the gags that get recycled by so many succeeding shows...
  
  ed

• secretlife said on Oct 05, 2007....

  my favorite one was M*A*S*H-

  i loved Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie too-

  and how about Twilight Zone?

• pickersplock said on Oct 05, 2007....

  I love Lucy too, but I would have to nominate All in the Family.

• botoni said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Lucy, Carol Burnett and Ed 'Sulliman'. Cannot decide!

• hillbillygirl said on Oct 05, 2007....

  I would have to vote for All In The Family or Carrol Burnett

• anonymous said on Oct 05, 2007....

  No contest...SOPRANOS !!!!!!!! 

   

  www.gasjoe.com

• bloc said on Oct 05, 2007....

  easy, Seinfeld!

• lioneljay said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Best can mean many different things. Ed certainly showed how the I Love Lucy show was highly influential as well as being very entertaining and highly popular for many years. Every show mentioned here so far has a similar claim (well, perhaps we could ignore Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie for the moment) on some measure or another.
  
  So, defining terms:
  
  Best = influential leads me to three shows: I Love Lucy and All in the Family for comedies and Sesame Street for children's television
  
  Best = longest running leads me to Gunsmoke (20 seasons) and The Simpsons (now in its 19th season)
  
  Best = most highly rated for longest leads me to The Cosby Show and Friends (I think; there is no good info on this that I could find easily)
  
  Best = still being shown in reruns after all these years leads me to I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver, and The three Stooges
  
  Best = the ones that I remember most fondly leads me to The Honeymooners, Rocky and Bullwinkle, M.A.S.H., and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
  

• mobil said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Gunsmoke

• jasonrest said on Oct 05, 2007....

  MASH?
  WOW.....anyway I am well aware of all the classics in spite of being only 25 but I will have to go with something fairly recent.
  HEROES. by far one of the best shows ever created from writing to screenplay....everything fits.

• simplyklo said on Oct 05, 2007....

  As a kid I loved Dukes of Hazzard and Happy Days ... can you believe it?  I used to make my brother and younger uncle play Dukes of Hazzard with me ... I was always Bo and I made my brother, the youngest, be Daisy ... kinda weird, huh?

• Antimatter said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Firefly, no contest.

• wakingharmony said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Old timers   Gun Smoke, Bonanza,  The Real McCoys, Lassie, Leave it to Beaver And remember Dr Kildare Marcus Welby MD and How about the Fugitive....Does anyone remember the shows "The Minnionair" And Queen for a Day?? American Bandstand..Hee HAw The Gong Show, Ed Sulivan, "Kids say the darndest things" Candid camera" Now I like "Ellen" and Kid Nation. Oh gosh were we supposed to pick one?? Sorry Ill have to get back on that "One" .

• hotaka said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Three's Company was a part of my life for eight years. Watching it now, it seems so corny. There were days when I watched the re-runs twice a day and then once a week I got  a triple shot with the latest episode later that evening. And then me and a couple of friends would talk about the show at school the next day. I used to have several of the classic dialogues memorized, usually the ones with Mr. Roper.

• Zayda said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Hands down, M*A*S*H

• JohnyBottom said on Oct 05, 2007....

  CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• JohnyBottom said on Oct 05, 2007....

   

• jasonrest said on Oct 05, 2007....

  Three's company?????
  I mean it was a good show and John was a genius but come now, the writing had no range.
  I wonder what happens in this episode, maybe there will be a misunderstanding, hmmm let's watch and see.

• D6fer said on Oct 06, 2007....

  oh wow....looks like we have a tight race between I love lucy and mash....yeah ed you are right on with lucy being the base for all sitcoms......did anyone mention Dick VanDyke? also extremely influential .....you know I can still just about die laughing watching either of the two classics.....and neither ever really bring sexual situations up....other than Rickey or Rob looking at another woman....why cant that be pulled off today?
  
  Bloc....yes seinfeld is one of my favorites as well.....I would have to say that it was one of the "cleanest" of the modern era sitcoms.....and definitely one of the funniest!
  
  
  

• hotaka said on Oct 06, 2007....

  jasonrest, I know, I know. My grade 12 creative writing teacher made fun of the show once and I thought, "Oh yeah, she's right. I never thought about it that way." Sure, every episode was the same, basically. But I was too young to appreciate M.A.S.H so I had to watch something. Hey, at least I didn't say Mork and Mindy. I used to like that show too.

• husbandhater said on Oct 08, 2007....

  WonderWoman.

• silverwhisper said on Oct 09, 2007....

  anitmatter: i'm a browncoat myself but i wouldn't put it at the top of the list...
  
  ed

• bloc said on Oct 10, 2007....

  @d6
  well, seinfeld had a lot of episodes about sponges, orgies, masturbation, 3 somes, etc, etc. They didn't use "dirty words", but is it the words that are dirty?
  

• D6fer said on Oct 10, 2007....

  that's true....but I like the intellectual side of the humor....keeping that thin veil of language as they did.

• Tink11464 said on Oct 25, 2007....

  Okay - current shows - I love CSI (w/Gil Grissom), Pushing Daisies, Cold Case (on cbs)
   
  When I was young - The Monkees, Taxi, Odd Couple, Gilligans Island, All in the Family, Cheers and Moonlighting

• TinSoldier said on Oct 25, 2007....

  Right now? My favorite shows are Scrubs and Corner Gas.

• Taffy000 said on Dec 10, 2007....

  There are several that I love and would love to see back on the air:

  The Original Degrassi Junior High & High....I remember I'd seen children on television who looked like normal children.  Even like Spike with the spiked hair we had a girl like that.

  Jem and the Holograms was the best show on earth and I'd LOVE to see it back on!!!! Come on Rhino put out the last season!!!!

  Life Goes On - was a pretty good show I really liked that show I'm glad it's on DVD now. 

  I loved the cartoon "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" I can't believe they put that out on DVD now-they don't have all the episodes out yet.

  I wish there were a "figure skating channel" where they'd show EVERY figure skating show & competion that has been broadcast!!!!!

• anonymous said on Feb 21, 2008....

  Three's Company. Yes, the formula was the same, but it was flawlessly executed and very funny. The combination of silly situations and physical comedy has rarely been done better. Besides, they aged; they evolved! Yes, "there was a misunderstanding", but every human being misunderstands. Yes, superficially it was about sex, but if you had half a brain you'd notice that it was about life in general when you're not rich, not fully together, and yet earnest and hard-working. --- To make this point as unsentimentally as did the show itself would be too subtle for a simple discussion. I've always thought that people who hate Three's Company have no sense of humor. Of course, they may be well conditioned to respond to irony, to the latest intellectual trends, to deep analysis of the evidently serious -- but they cannot for some reason recognize everyday absurdity -- primarily in themselves. I wish I had come up with this -- If the thing had been written in French and acted on a stage, the cognoscenti would swoon. But tape it live on a stage in English and show the results on television, and only the ordinary and the very deep recognize it for the art it is, and laugh for thirty years handrunning.

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