Your favorite tv shows by decade

[caj]

List your 3 favorite shows by decade (you may not go all the way back to some decades, so you can skip):

50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
00s
10s

[Powerboy]

I was thinking about this lately.

1950s: Okay, I wasn't old enough to consciously remember anything from that era. Looking back now, I would say "The Honeymooners" warts and all.

1960s: Many wonderful shows but, then and now, there's no contest. It's "The Wild Wild West".

1970s: At the end of the '70s, I would have said "The Incredible Hulk" but, despite having a great actor in the role of Banner, it's too formulaic. Nowadays, I would say "The Six Million Dollar Man" with "The Bionic Woman" pretty much equal.

1980s: This is a tough one because I wasn't watching much television in that era. There were some great shows. I'm sure there are ones I'm forgetting so it's hard to latch onto a show that stands out totally from the rest. There was this show called "Werewolf" in the fall of 1987 in the first season of the Fox Network. It only lasted one season and I'm tempted to name it but for shows that had any duration, I would have to say Star Trek: the Next Generation.

1990s: This was my favorite era. Television was developing subplots but without becoming total soap operas. Plus it was maybe the best era ever for syndicated fantasy shows starting with Hercules, then Xena along with the Beast Master show and the Lost World show. I loved them all but I would list "Hercules the Legendary Journeys" as my favorite.

00s: Well, since Beast Master and the Lost World were mostly after 2000, I'll list the Lost World as my favorite.

10s: I started out loving "Once Upon A Time". Like most shows I like, I got enough momentum going to carry me through to the end though I wasn't as enthusiastic by then. I would probably have to say "The Flash" but there's nothing so far I feel really stands out as truly my favorite.

My favorite show of all-time would be Hercules. Again, I feel it was in this middle era between the shows of my childhood and more current shows and captured the best qualities of both without the worst of both.

[caj]

50s:
1. Leave It To Beaver
2. Adventures of Ozzie And Harriet
3. Father Knows Best

60s:
1. The Andy Griffith Show
2. Star Trek
3. Bewitched

70s:
1. Mary Tyler Moore
2. The Waltons
3. The Carol Burnett Show

80s:
1. The Golden Girls
2. Dallas
3. Cheers

90s:
1. Frasier
2. Melrose Place
3. Friends

00s:
1. Everybody Loves Raymond
2. The Middle
3. Big Bang Theory

[AndrewCrossett]

Going by the decade in which they started, since some of these straddle decades:

50s: 1. The Twilight Zone
2. Bonanza
3. I Love Lucy

60s: 1. Star Trek: TOS
2. Monty Python's Flying Circus
3. The Big Valley

70s: 1. WKRP in Cincinnati
2. SCTV
3. M*A*S*H

80s: 1. The Simpsons
2. Mystery Science Theater 3000
3. Blackadder

90s: 1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Xena: Warrior Princess
3. Northern Exposure

00s: 1. The Venture Bros.
2. Veronica Mars
3. Arrested Development

10s: 1. Game of Thrones
2. Agents of SHIELD
3. The Good Place

[Güicho]

Edit:
I don't know about "best" I mean I know All in the Family is better than Six Million Dollar Man and Scooby-Doo , but which did I enjoy more?
just going with favorite - Damn jus 3 is making this difficult I can do 5.
Haven't even reached my favorite decade, and I can't even begin to edit down

50s
-Zorro (Disney)
-Adventures of Superman
-Johnny Staccato
-The Untouchables
-Lone Ranger

60s
-Star Trek
-Addams Family
-Get Smart
-Johny Quest (Hanna Barbera Action heroes)
-Batman & Green Hornet (same Universe.)

70s
-Scooby-Doo
-Kung Fu
-Welcome Back, Kotter (LOL yeah I loved it)
-Six Million Dollar Man & Woman & Maximillian & Bionic Sasquatch!
-Hulk
-SWAT

80s
-Hill Street Blues

90s
00s
10s

[Dr. Skeleton]

50's: I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Twilight Zone

60's: The Munsters, The Addams Family, Star Trek

70's: All In The Family, Taxi, The Odd Couple

80's: The Facts Of Life, Alf,The Cosby Show

90's: Sliders, Farscape, Lexx

00's: Masters Of Horror, Birds Of Prey

10's: The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Bates Motel

[Jekyll]

I'm just going with the decades in which I've been alive.

80s:
1. The A-Team
2. Knight Rider
3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

90s:
1. Seinfeld
2. Coach
3. Fraiser
Shout out to the best decade of cartoons! Batman, Animaniacs, Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc....

00s:
1. Monk
2. Burn Notice
3. Arrested Development

10s:
1. Justified
2. Community (premiered in 09 but I consider it more of this decade).
3. Daredevil

I am including one streaming show because streaming has been a big part of TV this decade.

[Powerboy]

I didn't catch that it was my 3 favorite shows.

50's: Honeymooners, Jack Benny Show, Twilight Zone.

60's: The Wild Wild West, Bewitched, Andy Griffith (at the time, I would have said Batman instead of Bewitched) and I want to sneak in the Dick Van Dyke show since I go with less than three in some decades.

70s: Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Incredible Hulk

80s: Nothing really. I'll say Star Trek the Next Generation.

90s: Hercules, Xena, Buffy.

00s: Lost World, Beast Master.

10s: Once Upon A Time, the Flash.

[Jokerz79]

50's: I Love Lucy, Your Show of Shows, Have Gun Will Travel, Wagon Train, Adventures of Superman, and The Honeymooners.

60's: Munsters, Star Trek, Wild Wild West, Batman, Bewitched, Addams Family, Twilight Zone, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Gilligan's Island, Days of Our Lives, and Dark Shadows.

70's: All in the Family, Dallas, Chips, MASH, Streets of San Francisco, Quincy, Cannon, Waltons, Jeffersons, Little House on the Prairie, In Search Of, What's Happening, and The Incredible Hulk.

80's: Knight Rider, A-Team, Airwolf, Equalizer, TJ Hooker, Fall Guy, Scare Crow and Mrs. King, Dukes of Hazard, Highway to Heaven, Matlock, Unsolved Mysteries, Family Ties, Different Strokes, Golden Girls, Rosanne, Married with Children, and Facts of Life.

90's: Star Trek Shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Babylon 5, Stargate SGI, Sliders, Melrose Place, Seaquest DSV, Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman, Tales From the Crypt, Seinfeld, Drew Carey Show, Law and Order, Homicide Life on the Streets, and the X-Files.

00's: Sopranos, The West Wing, Smallville, Stargate Atlantis, The Wire, Oz, Star Trek Enterprise, Farscape, Ed, Law & Order SVU, The Shield, Malcolm in the Middle, Firefly, Angel, and Battlestar Galactica.

10's: Fringe, Chuck, The Walking Dead, Agents of Shield, Arrowverse Shows, DC Universe Shows, Community, Office, Parks and Rec, & Marvel Netflix.

[MyriVerse]

Obviously, this is the way I feel now. I have no memories of TV before 1968, and even then, most memories are of Nichelle Nichols.

50s:
1. I Love Lucy
2. Superman (only Superman I like, sorry Reeve)
3. Perry Mason (only 50s series I still regularly watch)

60s:
1. Dark Shadows
2. Star Trek
3. Outer Limits (most might not agree, but I like it much more than Twilight Zone)

70s:
1. Doctor Who (wasn't available until the 80s, but those TBaker years ♥♥♥)
2. M*A*S*H
3. Rockford Files

80s:
1. Cheers
2. Night Court
3. Golden Girls

90s:
1. Stargate SG1
2. X-Files
3. Seinfeld

00s:
1. Stargate SG1
2. House MD
3. Big Bang Theory

10s:
1. Stranger Things
2. Big Bang Theory
3. Psych

20s (so far):
1. Doom Patrol
2. Picard
3. Stargirl

[C_Miller]

50s - I Love Lucy, The Twilight Zone
60s - Star Trek: TOS, Batman
70s - I don't really have many shows that I've watched from this decade. I did like Happy Days though.
80s - Cheers, Star Trek: TNG
90s - The X-Files, The Wonder Years, DS9
00s - The West Wing, The Office, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, 30 Rock
10s - Parks and Rec, Community, Stranger Things

[Synestra]

80s:

1. The Golden Girls

90s:

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel (grouping these together)
2. Xena: Warrior Princess
3. The X-Files

00s:

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender
2. The Boondocks
3. Community

10s:

1. Stranger Things
2. Game of Thrones (before it went to ****)
3. Pose

[TriggerWarning]

I haven't watched any shows put out before the 80's since the 80's so I don't think I can rate those really. Star Trek would get my #1 in the 60's but after that I wouldn't even be sure if what decade it came from.

For the ones that straddled decades I made my choice by convenience as I wanted it on my list somewhere and it filled a spot better there.

80's: Wiseguy, The A-Team, and Knight Rider. Wiseguy still holds up fairly well but the other two are cringy - I was a teen and there weren't a lot of options.

90's: The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape

2000's: Angel, Alias, Lost

2010's: Supernatural, Game of Thrones, Daredevil

2010's was tough. Stranger Things, Jessica Jones, Orphan Black, Breaking Bad, and many others were much stronger candidates than some of my other decade choices.

[Kieran_Frost]

List your 3 favorite shows by decade (you may not go all the way back to some decades, so you can skip):

What a fun idea for a thread, I'll do my best to play along.

60s
- the Jetsons (1962-1963)
- Thunderbirds (1965-1966)
- Batman (1966-1968)
70s
- Doctor Who (1970-1981) [the Third and Fourth Doctor are my Doctors]
- Are You Being Served? (1972-1985)
- Blake's 7 (1978-1981)
80s
- the Golden Girls (1985-1992)
- Blackadder II (1986)
- Star Trek: the Next Generation (1987-1994)
90s
- Frasier (1993-2004)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
- Cowboy BeBop (1998-1999)
00s
- the West Wing (1999-2006)
- Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
- Boston Legal (2004-2008)
10s
- Modern Family (2009-2020)
- Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
- RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-PRESENT)

[AnakinFlair]

For only three, each decade I've been alive:

80's:
Knight Rider
Star Trek: TNG
Night Court

90's:
Buffy
The X-Files
Stargate SG-1


00's:
Battlestar Galactica
Angel
Stargate Atlantis

10's:
Arrow
Flash
Supergirl