The TV meme..

[fajrdrako]

I got this from thdancingferret. I should not be doing this meme. It will become clear to all that I don't watch anything on TV and I am, in fact, a total fannish fraud.



Bold the series that you've seen for 3 or more episodes. Underline the series that you've seen them complete. If you want, add three more series (keep it in alphabetic order).

[Editorial note from fajrdrako: Help! I've never even heard of most of these! Were they ever actually shown in Canada?]

I have added two more designations. I put * beside shows in which I participated in its fandom - which usually means that I wrote stories about the characters in it, and might also have sought out friends I could discuss it with, held video-parties, taped it or bought the DVDs, bought fanzines devoted to it, joined net mailing lists and/or LJ-comms, and in some cases, attended conventions.

I put ** beside shows when I think I saw it long ago but I can't recall if I saw one episode or five or six.

24 (I saw one episode once - the pilot)
227
7th Heaven
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
A Different World
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias (I saw one episode once - the pilot.)
Ally McBeal
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/Latin American Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model/Australia's Next Top Model/Britain's Next Top Model/Germany's
Next Top Model
Anything But Love
Angel
Animaniacs
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Arrested Development
As:If
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Batman (1966) (hated it!)
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman Beyond
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bill Nye: The Science Guy
Blackadder (Maybe. Maybe I only saw two episodes. Maybe only one. I know I saw something.)
Black Books
Bleach
Blossom
Bonanza
Bones (I saw one episode once - the pilot. Disliked it.)
Bo'selecta
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Brimstone
Brothers and Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Case Closed
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers (Only because my husband liked it. I hate sitcoms!)
City Guys
Clarissa Explains It All
Code Lyoko
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coronation Street (C'mon, nobody in the world has seen all of Coronation Street!)
Coupling (Watched five minutes for the sake of Jack Davenport and couldn't stand any more...)
Cowboy Bebop
Criminal Minds
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Daria
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives (I saw one episode once - the pilot - didn't like it. Too much comedy.)
Dexter
Dexter's Laboratory
Dharma & Greg
Diagnosis Murder
Digimon
Different Strokes
Doctor Who: New *
Doctor Who: Old (Saw a couple of episodes once, but don't even remember what Doctor it was. William Hartnall, at a guess. I was bored.)
Double Dare
Dragnet
Dr.Phil (I've seen a few minutes when I visited maaseru and she was watching)
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
Due South*
Earth 2
Eastenders
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Hates Chris
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Fear Factor
Felicity
Firefly*
Frasier
Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Project
Friends
Full House
Full Metal Alchemist
Futurama
Gargoyles
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island (I was a kid - it was before I hated sitcoms.)
Gilmore Girls
Gimme a Break
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Ghost in the Shell / Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost Whisperer
Good Times
Gravitation
Green Wing
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hawaii Five-0
Heroes
Highlander*
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
Hogan's Heroes
Hollyoaks
Home And Away
Home Improvement
Homefront
Homicide: Life on the Street
Horatio Hornblower*
House (because lmondegreen invited me over for a House video-party once)
How I Met Your Mother
Hell's Kitchen
Hex
I, Claudius
I Dream of Jeannie (I remember it with horror - but I've watched the Julius Caesar episode a few times!)
I Love Lucy
In Living Color
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
JAG (because gem225 sent me episodes on video-tape when I was betaing her JAG stories)
Jackass
Jericho (UK)
Jericho (US)
Joan of Arcadia
Joey
John Doe
Judging Amy
Justice
Justice League / Justice League Unlimited
Killer Instinct
Kindred: The Embraced
King of Queens
Knight Rider
LA Law
Law & Order (I saw one episode once)
Law & Order: SVU
Law & Order: CI
Laverne and Shirley (I think...)
Little House on the Prairie
Little Britain
Living Single
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
Loveless
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Martin
Medium
Melrose Place
Men In Black
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Moesha
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Mr. Belvedere
Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Murder, She Wrote
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
My Wife and Kids
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
Primos lejanos
Padres forzosos
Punky Brewster
One Tree Hill
Out All Night
Outlaw Star
Oz
Paranoia Agent
Perry Mason (Could be called my first fandom! I have good memories of watching this with my mother on Friday nights when I was six.)
Pinky and the Brain
Pokemon
Popular
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway/Project Catwalk
Quantum Leap
Queen of Swords
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British) (absolutely loved it)
Queer eye for the straight guy (US)
Queer eye for the straight guy (UK)
(I saw several episodes of one of these - more than three - but I don't remember if they were American or British.)
Real Stories
Reba
ReGenesis
Remington Steele (loved it, though it wasn't a fandom)
Ren & Stimpy
Rescue Me
Ripley's Believe it or Not (original)
Road Rules
Robin of Sherwood
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Rove Live
Sailor Moon
Salute Your Shorts
Saved by the Bell
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
Scarecrow & Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sesame Street
Sex and the City
Sister Sister
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville* (I'd seen it all till this season, but I've fallen some episodes behind)
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Starting Over
Star Trek*
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Stingray* (with Nick Mancuso, not the puppets)
Student Bodies
Superman
Superman: The Animated Series
Supernatural (I saw the pilot, and one other episode)
Surface
Survivor
Sweet Valley High
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's Incredible
That's So Raven
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The 4400
The Adams Family
The Andy Griffith Show**
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies**
The Bill
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Catherine Tate Show
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Incredible Hulk
The Inside
The I.T. Crowd
The Jamie Foxx Show
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*
The Mary Tyler Moore Show**
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender (another video-party thing)
The Professionals*
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man**
The Sopranos
The Steve Harvey Show
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Teletubbies
The Tweenies
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Gear
Torchwood*
Touching Evil (US)
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks**
Twitch City
Two and a Half Men
UFO
Ugly Betty
Ultra Maniac
V
Valerie
Veronica Mars
Veronica's Closet
Webster
Werewolf
What's Happening?
What's Happening Now?
What's New Scooby-Doo?
What I Like About You
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Winnie the Pooh
Witch Hunter Robin
Without A Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wolf's Rain
Wonderfalls
X-Files*
X-Men
X-Men: Evolution
X Factor
You Can't Do That On Television
Yu-Gi-Oh

I added more than 3. Most of my favourite fandoms weren't on the list.

Y'know, I've seen more TV than I thought I had!

Comments

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

You know, I have to refuse on principle to participate in any meme that asks me to alphabetize any additions I make to the list, then places titles beginning with "the" under the letter "T."

::shakes head::

I think my head would probably explode. ;-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There were several strangenesses on this list.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

OMG, Jean, is that you? (Well of course it's you. d'oh) This is Jean C from ZebraCon. How the hell are you??

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

::feels self gingerly to make sure of existence::

Um, yep, it looks like it is, undeniably, me. ;-)

I'm hangin' in there. You've got me just the teensiest bit confused, though -- Jean C the artist, or Jean C the nice lady I hung out with? (Not that I'm not delighted to hear from either, of course!) :-) How are *you*?

[dargie.livejournal.com]

The former, Jean C the artist. (Emphatically not a nice lady *g*) I'm okay. I lost my mother at the beginning of the month, so feeling kind of annoyed with life right now, but coping. Whatcha been up to?

[jkluge.livejournal.com]

P.S. Your icon rocks. :-)

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you.

[judymoe.livejournal.com]

Okay, I accidentally tried to post while logged out, so here goes again:

I may do this meme, even though there's strong potential for embarrassment. My family didn't have very good taste in t.v. shows, and I ended up watching what they did. :P

Some of the listings are anime series, so maybe you don't get some of them? I have [adult swim], so I get to watch anime at night. Wolf's Rain: the anime of pain.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My family didn't have very good taste in t.v. shows, and I ended up watching what they did. :P

Well, truthfully, through 50 or so years of television now, how much really good TV has there been for people to have good taste in shows? I mean, I think I have good taste in TV, but some years that phrase has been an oxymoron. I think it's only in the past decade or so - maybe a little more - that there has been really top-notch writing on TV.

I've seen some anime, especially yoai, because maaboroshi gets it and shows me some. But I'm really not familiar with most anime.

[spherissa.livejournal.com]

Hi!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.*
You've got a mistake in your HTML there, don't know if you care or not but here I am to point it out to you.

I think i've seen 3 or so episodes of quite a few of those. I think you might like Daria. Of course you might not too but smart and cynical protagnist, ditzy sister and awesome best friend... I love it and well I'm probably just projecting.

With Queer Eye.. D'you remember the names of any of them eg was there a Kyle or a Carson?

I might do this meme sometime but not right now as I don't think Ill have the time.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Fixed "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", thanks. I loved that show - it was the first show I wrote fanfic about. I liked "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." too, because I liked Noel Harrison.

I don't remember a Kyle of a Carson on "Queer Eye". I might remember if I saw them. I have a notion it was the American version I saw, but I'm really not sure.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

TV? I don't really do TV either ... and *especially* not sitcoms -- though I'll make an exception for Batman (60s). :-) [IMHO, it was a superhero sitcom, which is probably why I find it hard to bear now, and you can no longer stand it.]

That said, here are a list of TV shows I saw that are *not* listed in your list (no particular order):

Space: 1999
New Avengers [from the 70s, set in or near T.O.]
Bewitched [60s series; don't like it nearly as much as when I was a kid]
McMillan & Wife [cop show, usually showing alongside Columbo]
McCloud [also a cop show; *may* have seen all the episodes]
Quincy [medical examiner, late 70s]
Sabrina the Teenage Witch [I thought it was a follow-on to Bewitched above ... not]
Saint, The [original series, in Black+White, from the 50s; I saw it once or twice in reruns, with a young Roger Moore]

The other ones I saw were:
Batman [apparently ran from '66 to '68; mostly too "camp" now]
Columbo
CSI
ER
Firefly [just barely -- looking forward to seeing more]
Flintstones, The [don't believe in putting 'The' first]
Get Smart**
Hawaii Five-0 [if not complete, then pretty close to it]
I Dream of Jeannie**
Jetsons, The [don't believe in putting 'The' first]
Man from U.N.C.L.E., The** [ditto]
Munsters, The** [ditto]
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?**
Six Million Dollar Man, The** [ditto]
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Twilight Zone, The** [ditto]
X-Files**

This list may be as long as yours, but I doubt it somehow ... and I definitely think I watch *less* TV now than when I was a kid.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I liked the New Avengers! I'm not sure how much of it I saw, but I remember it with fondness.

Bewitched also had a Julius Caesar episode, which I watched recently. Well... comparatively recently.

Firefly is/was a wonderful show.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I scored 36!!! (way more than I thought, since I don't have an TV) but lots of older stuff I saw at home or slightly older and long running stuff that my sister liked and I saw at her place. Plus anime I've downloaded and watch.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

36 is pretty good! I watched a number of things as a kid that I can't even remember - which is not to say I watched a lot of TV when I was young, either, but some. There was a comedy show I liked, whose name I can't remember now, when I was eight. And variety shows, like Andy Williams and Ed Sullivan.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I actually saw a few more in the list that I remember seeing. Oh well. And there were no Dutch Programms on it. I was just discussing a very good children's program from our youth. I was 7 when it was broadcated and she 14 and for both of us it had left very vivid memories. She both the series on DVD and still liked it a lot. I've also read the book it was based on several times (in fact, the author is amongst my list of favourite authors, she wrote one of the first books I ever read, one of the first series and she managed with only the few words you have for such a type of book to write a mysterious and scary story, a real story in wich something happened. I felt the difference with many 'books for young readers keenly'. Anyway, her name is Tonke Dragt and she wrote and illustrated books for all age groups upto young adults, mostly with a fantasy or science fictionish theme.
The book and the television series that started me of is "De zevensprong" (like crossroads but with 7 roads - a sprong also means a jump and there is a nursery rhyme 'de zevensprong' elements that are used)

Anyway, there must be more Dutch stuff that is lacking, but I am not so good at retrieving examples from my memory.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

And there were no Dutch Programms on it.

Well, you could add some! There were only two Canadian programmes, "Due South" and "Slings and Arrows" - both of which starred Paul Gross. And an underrepresentation of British shows. I think the list was compiled by an American, which fits the odds on the Internet, so it's for us to add other good stuff. I should have added "Inspector Morse", now I think of it. I saw all of that series, too.

I'd like to add "The Friendly Giant", a Canadian kid's show that people my age grew up with, along with "Chez Helene" and "Razzle Dazzle". Aaah, those were the days.

"De zevensprong"

What a great title! Like a nexus of realities! Well, potentially.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

"De zevensprong"

What a great title! Like a nexus of realities! Well, potentially.

yes, I think it is an appropiate way to describe it. Though it is a long time that I saw and read it I remember a solid world and a world of ridles and rhymes shimering behind it. It was never quite clear when you passed from one reality into the other. A recurring theme in her work BTW.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It sounds very imaginative.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

eh, update... (shufles a bit with feet)
I copied/paste the list to word and made the shows I've seen bold and than did a thorough recounting,I now score a blasting 63!

(I've added Monty Python's FLying circus and Yes Minister (and De Zevensprong) but I am not sure whether I want to put it in my LJ.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I now score a blasting 63!

Wow - excellent!

Monty Python

Great choice!

Yes Minister

I only ever saw one episode of that but I remember it as being funny. Since most of my friends work for the government, they were really into it.