Favourite old television shows?

[covent]

Survivors - post apoc  drama
Dr Who - I prefer the newer seasons but the old also good
The Good Life - Britcom - female lead voted best arse on the planet
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width - Britcom - religion, business and friendship
Til' Death us do part - Britcom - outrageous bigotry
Citizen Smith - Britcom - delusional militant defiance
Boys from the Blackstuff - social commentary with comedic elements
Only Fools and Horses - Britcom

Book adaptations
Penmarrick -  family saga
East of Eden
Centennial

Childrens
Bill and Ben
The Magic Roundabout

[DontTreadOnMe]

Frasier
Dynasty [original]
Cheers
Newhart
The Bob Newhart Show
Hawaii 5 0
Magnum PI  [original]
The Waltons
Rockford Files
Mary Tyler Moore
Boston Legal
Columbo
The Sopranos

Book Adaptations
Winds of War/War and Remebrance
Thornbirds
Lonesome Dove

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Okay never mind the world spinning into chaotic oblivion, it's been doing that for a while anyway....

What are your favourite old TV shows to watch, to get away from it all? Your "comfort food" that you have enjoyed?

Star Trek
Scrubs
Friends
Firefly
Stargate
Fringe
House
Buffy
Frasier
30 Rock
MASH0

I don't seem to watch any new TV!

What's old? Like Nick at Nite? 

That list with Joss Whedon and Tina Fey looks familiar..

Before I was born:

Maude 
Laverne and Shirley
I Love Lucy
MASH 
Twilight Zone
I, Claudius. 

Post Gen X: 

Buffy (meh on Angel) 
Firefly 
30 Rock
Seinfeld 
X-Files (more for the stand alone episodes - like Home - than the serial episodes)
Star Trek: TNG and Voyager (Meh on DS9) 
Stargate SG1 and Atlantis (Meh on Universe)
Parks and Recreation (For April and Ron)
Twin Peaks (original and The Returm) 
Dark Angel

Shows that only women and gay guys watch: 

Absolutely Fabulous 
Gilmore Girls 
Sex and the City

Jenji Kohan (favorite writer):  

Orange is the New Black
Weeds 

Cartoons:

Sailor Moon (Japanese)
Aeon Flux 
The Simpsons (Seasons 1 though 8)  
South Park 
Futurama 
Rick and Morty

And that's enough of a list.

[Rigel4]

In no particular order or of timeline:

The Munsters
Dark Skies ( the series)
X Files
Fringe
Sword Snow Stride
Joy of Life
Nirvana in Fire
Star trek
Grimm
Warehouse 13
Battlestar Galactica 

To name a few

[putnam6]

The Night Stalker... the movie that started the show.




Barney Miller still makes me laugh

[rickymouse]

Many of the older shows others have mentioned are good.  We are not fond of the new shows, they require a viewer to think too much.  The wife and I had jobs where you had to to be responsible and think all day, the last thing we would have wanted is to watch shows that require you to pay close attention, and keep track of if the info was a flashback or the new things, multiple scripts coming together in the end and connected together.

When I watch a show I like just comedy, a mystery, a science fiction with a predictable plot train....not something you have to think about and decipher.

We watch more European and canadian shows now, the plots are more like the old shows used to be from Hollywood, where you can walk out make popcorn, and come back and are lost in the show.

We still watch the old American shows, but the last five years we hardly watch any Hollywood productions anymore, a show is supposed to not require advanced thinking to watch it.

[argentus]

The Wild, Wild, West.   (apparently it was just me that liked it, nobody else).  
Benny Hill
Monty Python
Mannix
Columbo
Are You Being Served?
Julia
Outer Limits
Twilight Zone
The Night Stalker
Fawlty Towers
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
The Time Tunnell
My Favorite Martian
Lost in Space
The Ed Sullivan Show
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in

Hey, I'm up in years.   I've probably forgotten more favorite shows than I remember 

OMG!  GUNSMOKE! 
The High Chaparral
Star Trek
Kung Fu!   Loved that.

[Tecate]

X-Files for sure!
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 
Blackadder
 House 
and I just finished watching the whole Firefly series again!

All great stuff!


Tecate

[Maxmars]

All I know is that if I hang out with any of you folks, I have absolutely nothing to worry about for entertainment.

I kind of agree with the observation about newer stuff making one think more... or I think it mightbe it forces you to think differently  - maybe that's only because we have to translate it in our heads... generations seem to communicate differently.

All the entries are great!  Even Wild, Wild, West (I leaned into Maverick.)

Of course I have a few of my own that aren't included...

I had a soft spot for The Outer Limits, and a production of presentations like Chiller Theater (neat fingers)...

Almost anything Rod Serling had hand in...

All stop motion animation theater, from Jason and the Argonauts to every damn fantasy or sci-fi that used them...

My 'never forget' old time movie is "It! The creature from beyond space!"... which glued me to the screen.  (early Aliens vibes.)

Truly there are too many to just list....  maybe it's my advancing decrepitude... but it doesn't feel right to leave any of them off the list... sentimental, I guess.

[UltraBudgie]

I had a soft spot for The Outer Limits, and a production of presentations like Chiller Theater (neat fingers)...

Oh, The Outer Limits! I actually suspect there's a few episodes I haven't seen. I'm saving them as a life-preserver for my decrepitude, I suppose.

Have you ever started watching a series, enjoyed it, and then realized about 3/4 of the way through that you almost don't want to finish it, because once you have, there will be no more new episodes to watch? Yeah, that.

And any new show with moody quiet dialog that cannot be clearly heard without subtitles, I turn that garbage off right away. Why was clear sound-mixing something that seemed to be a solved problem, but has become unpopular in the last few decades? It's annoying.