Best Ever Television [Poll]

[Hayden]

runnin’ the clicker through that LCD plasma display, home theatre, surround sound,
magic box antenna telecasting broadcasting that ace primetime until the boob tube
cable hits that station static getting thumped til the right spot-on-the-money bonk
opens access to an ionized spectrum interlaced with drama, comedy, dramacomedy,
comedydrama and absolute 100% soap opera, telenovela, MTV, mute-the-commercials
smack the bunny ears small screen gogglebox gold amplified, twisted, scrunched and
compressed waveforms pumped through to the vacuum tubes fizzling fluorescent 480p
analogue, flying-spot-scanner, nipkow disk rotation, straight-to-DVD monochrome busting
the set-top box media running through copper wire at 4:3 tuned to high-def reruns until that
complete series blu-ray/VOD/Netflix-hit-play/no-need-to-rewind the VCR telly transmission
choked solely by bandwidth no radio frequency media programming drops—

and we watch.
(please note, most of that did not make technological sense)

WELCOME

To BEA's first ever television poll. Where being a couch potato is not only encourage, it is required.

SUBCATAGORIES:

10 Best Male Performances
&
10 Best Female Performances
+
10 Best Music Scores

Which you may submit up to 25 each, but the final lists will be the top 10. (I am well aware this will be painful).
—Acting submissions will account for all performances in a series.
—Music score will only account for original material.

The gist/ rules:

BEA composes a list of our 100 favourite works of television.

All lists will be PMed to me or posted in this thread, maxing out at 100 (lists will also be accepted in IMDb format). The final list will be 100 entries. I'll be accepting lists of any denotation up to 100. The size of your list determines its weight.

Rules will be discussed as the poll goes on, and the original conversation around eligibility can be found here. Some basics—
—Miniseries will be allowed
—Entries must be episodic
—No 'made-for-TV-films'
—No Youtube videos/series

Deadline will be in early 2023

Eligible releases—
Will be updated

Ineligible releases—
Will be updated

[BozoTyrannus]

I posted a draft of this in the other chat, but I've revised with a few shows I forgot about, and dropped some webseries that don't match the eligibility you posted before.

1. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988-1999)
2. Community
3. The Twilight Zone
4. Firefly
5. Futurama
6. M*A*S*H
7. Dekalog
8. Doctor Who (1962-1989)
9. Fawlty Towers
10. Star Trek: Original Series
11. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American, 1998-2007)
12. Monty Python's Flying Circus
13. Berlin Alexanderplatz
14. Police Squad!
15. QI
16. Key & Peele
17. Planet Earth
18. Breaking Bad
19. Jeeves and Wooster
20. Bob's Burgers
21. Steins;Gate
22. Planet Earth II
23. A Bit of Fry and Laurie
24. Atlanta
25. Invader Zim
26. Death Parade
27. The Andy Griffith Show
28. Pride and Prejudice
29. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
30. Assassination Classroom
31. Flight of the Conchords
32. Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law
33. The Carol Burnett Show
34. Cowboy Bebop
35. The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard
36. Blackadder Goes Forth
37. Phineas and Ferb
38. Doctor Who (2005 - )
39. Ergo Proxy
40. Rutland Weekend Television
41. Whose Line is it Anyway? (British)
42. Blackadder the Third
43. Regular Show
44. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
45. Better Call Saul
46. Over the Garden Wall
47. Animaniacs (1993-1998)
48. Star Trek: The Next Generation
49. The IT Crowd
50. North & South
51. Fringe
52. The Adventures of Brisco County Jr
53. Hyouka
54. That Mitchell and Webb Look
55. Blackdder II
56. The Mighty Boosh
57. Poirot
58. The Tick (1994-1997)
59. One Punch Man
60. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
61. Mr Bean
62. Parks and Recreation
63. Arrested Development
64. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
65. Johann Sebastian Bach
66. League of Gentlemen
67. Babylon 5
68. Documentary Now!
69. Bron/Broen
70. The Critic
71. Brooklyn Nine Nine
72. Columbo
73. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (2016 - )
74. Big Little Lies
75. March Comes in Like a Lion
76. Dune (miniseries)
77. The Fugitive
78. Upstart Crow
79. Good Eats
80. Oblongs
81. The Tick (2016-2019)
82. I, Claudius
83. Stargate SG-1
84. Monk
85. Honey and Clover
86. Ed, Edd n Eddy
87. Castle
88. Get Smart
89. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (American, 2013 - )
90. House
91. The Saint
92. Made in Abyss
93. Broad City
94. Pinky and the Brain
95. Dick van Dyke Show
96. Erased
97. Taxi
98. The Honeymooners
99. Dilbert
100. Beverly Hillbillies

Gonna think about the acting and music performances.
_________________
I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean

[BozoTyrannus]

1. Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies
2. Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who
3. Zazie Beetz, Atlanta
4. Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
5. Hanna Schygulla, Berlin Alexanderplatz
6. Stephanie Beatriz, Brooklyn Nine Nine
7. Gina Torres, Firefly
8. Claire Foye, Little Dorrit
9. Sofia Helin, Bron/Broen
10. Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers
11. Alison Brie, Community
12. Carol Burnett, Carol Burnett Show
13. Ilana Glazer, Broad City
14. Joan Chen, Twin Peaks
15. Aubrey Plaza, Parks & Recreation
16. Laura Dern, Big Little Lies
17. Jane Seymour, East of Eden
18. Kristen Schaal, Bob's Burgers
19. Olivia Colman, Broadchurch
20. Jewel Staite, Firefly
21. Alison Steadman, Pride & Prejudice
22. Jessica Walter, Arrested Development
23. Mary Tyler Moore, Myler Tyler Moore Show
24. Stana Katic, Castle
25. Paget Brewster, Harvey Birdman Attorney-at-Law

1. Alan Alda, M*A*S*H
2. Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
3. Jordan Peele, Key & Peele
4. David Tennant, Doctor Who
5. Donald Glover, Atlanta
6. Tim Conway, Carol Burnett Show
7. Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
8. Leslie Nielsen, Police Squad!
9. Danny Pudi, Community
10. Colin Firth, Pride & Prejudice
11. Lakeith Stanfield, Atlanta
12. John Hurt, I Claudius
13. Hugh Laurie, Jeeves & Wooster
14. Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
15. Rowan Atkinson, Blackadder Goes Forth
16. Tom Baker, Doctor Who
17. Nick Offerman, Parks & Recreation
18. John Noble, Fringe
19. Tony Shalhoub, Monk
20. Chevy Chase, Community
21. Andy Kaufman, Taxi
22. Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine Nine
23. John DiMaggio, Futurama
24. Ed Norton, The Honeymooners
25. Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek
_________________
I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean

[Hayden]

Thanks Bozo, you'll be first on the tally

[theblueboy]

[theblueboy]

Thanks Hayden for setting this up. All looks good and I am looking forward to seeing some more lists. I will post my final one once I have had time to mull it over a bit more.

[Hayden]

[BozoTyrannus]

[BozoTyrannus]

Top 25 musicks!

1. Cowboy Bebop (THE ORIGINAL ONE)
2. Planet Earth II
3. Mission: Impossible
4. Rome
5. Flight of the Conchords
6. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
7. Chernobyl
8. Firefly
9. Roots
10. Bob's Burgers
11. The Mighty Boosh
12. Community
13. Lost
14. It
15. Steins;Gate
16. Twin Peaks
17. War & Peace (2016)
18. A Series of Unfortunate Events
19. Star Trek: Voyager
20. Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
21. Invader Zim
22. Masada (1981)
23. Taboo
24. Little Dorrit
25. Miami Vice
_________________
I wanna take Sean Penn
And take Sean Bean
Put 'em in a blender
And make Sean Pean

[LTSings]

I only have a few favorites.

1. Touched By An Angel
2. Highway To Heaven
3. Little House On The Prairie
4. Twice In A Lifetime
5. Early Edition
6. Christy