Where would you rank this TV show?

[harveycmd]

 

[Hix Green made the Catch]

48 minutes ago, harveycmd said:

Let's go greatest films. I'm a Western fan, so it's going to be all Westerns.

Rio Bravo (1959)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

Unforgiven (1992)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

I would add:  A Man Called Horse, Open Range, and of course,  Lonesome Dove.

[harveycmd]

1 minute ago, Hix Green made the Catch said:

I would add:  A Man Called Horse, Open Range, and of course,  Lonesome Dove.

Good stuff. I met Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy in San Marcos 2010 at the 25th anniversary conference for Blood Meridian. McMurtry lamented that Blood Meridian would outlast Lonesome Dove in the long run. I told McCarthy I thought he based Blood Meridian on Plato. He looked at me for about five seconds and said, "Well, yeah. No one has ever said that to me."

[Viper]

On 2/2/2026 at 6:20 AM, Gerry Hamilton said:

Top 20 for me/my age group 

what is your list for top TV shows?

Family Ties on NickatNite was regular viewing at Prather Dorm in 2001-2002

[Roysterr]

On 2/2/2026 at 8:05 AM, Sarah O said:

Have you been to the Cheers bar, Gerry?

Family Ties and Cheers were great! So many great ones! Not ranked but shows I watched/liked… Diff’rent Strokes, Alf, Three’s Company, The Facts of Life, Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Growing Pains, Silver Spoons, The Wonder Years (late 80s I think), The Cosby Show and The Love Connection lol. Thanks for making me feel old this morning! 😂 

I have been to Cheers in Boston, sorry to highjack thread.  Greatest show in the 80"s

[AceHorn23]

On 2/2/2026 at 6:59 AM, Gerry Hamilton said:

My 80's shows...

1.  Cheers

2. Magnum P.I. 

3. Three's Company

4. The Jefferson's 

5. The Golden Girls

6. Who's The Boss

7. The Cosby Show

8. WKRP in Cincinnati

9. Alf

10. Growing Pains

Nice list Gerry.

[Roysterr]

Family Ties had pretty good writing, Michael J Fox and the Dad were really good at there roles.

[AceHorn23]

On 2/2/2026 at 9:01 AM, .45s said:

Winnie Cooper.

Winnie Cooper and Topanga. 

[harveycmd]

17 minutes ago, Roysterr said:

Family Ties had pretty good writing, Michael J Fox and the Dad were really good at there roles.

Good writing? Living in the Twilight Zone.

Edited 1 hour ago by harveycmd

[harveycmd]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst   

Are full of passionate intensity.

 

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.   

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert   

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,   

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,   

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.   

The darkness drops again; but now I know   

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,   

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

This is writing.

[harveycmd]

I'll take Justified, too.