Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Top 50 (or so) Forelle TeeVee Shows

  1. The Rockford Files
  2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  3. Seinfeld
  4. The Sopranos
  5. Naked City
  6. Twin Peaks
  7. Boomtown
  8. Harry O
  9. Ernie Kovacs
  10. Jackie Gleason
  11. Sportsnight
  12. Deadwood
  13. The Steve Allen Show
  14. Alfred Hitchcock
  15. Buffalo Bill
  16. Maverick
  17. Get Smart
  18. The Daily Show
  19. The X-Files
  20. The Colbert Report
  21. The Bob Newhart Show
  22. Newhart
  23. Richard Diamond, Private Eye
  24. Hill Street Blues
  25. Boston Legal
  26. Star Trek
  27. Columbo
  28. The Larry Sanders Show
  29. Twilight Zone
  30. All in the Family
  31. The Late Show with David Letterman
  32. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
  33. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  34. The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
  35. Sid Caesar (Your Show of Shows, etc.)
  36. Cheers
  37. Dragnet
  38. You Bet Your Life
  39. Red Skelton
  40. The Wide World of Sports
  41. The West Wing
  42. Dirty Jobs
  43. Monty Python
  44. SCTV
  45. Saturday Night Live
  46. Bakersfield PD
  47. The Night Stalker
  48. Red Buttons
  49. The Avengers
  50. The Ed Sullivan Show
  51. Gumby
  52. Rocky and Bullwinkle
  53. Tom Terrific
  54. Modern Marvels
Please note, I was raised at a time when only one TV could be found in a home. My choices here are often dictated by the family's choices at the time. Thus, Steve Allen was the weekly choice, Ed Sullivan on rare occasions (elvis, johnny cash, the beatles), and no Perry Mason.

2 comments:

Al Quagliata said...

Hi. I enjoyed your post. I run The Ernie Kovacs Blog and mentioned it in my latest update.

Ernie certainly belongs in the top 50!

You can always visit us at:
The Ernie Kovacs Blog
The Ernie Kovacs Tribute Site
and The Ernie Kovacs MySpace Page.

Thanks!

kilgore forelle said...

Thank you! Actually I think Ernie goes much higher than 26. I haven't really ranked more than the top 5-10 so far.