The top ten most influential TV shows
When you're little you have your favourite TV shows. Then your teens you watch a little bit still and your favourites now and again but you're out most of the time partying. Then in your twenties still partying Then you meet someone perhaps reproduce and you end up having your fave kids show! Then as life moves on you like certain things. In the days of box sets it's easier now. I don't often binge watch unless I've seen them and want to see them again. Anyway this is my list from five to fifty. YEAH that old. See if you agree.
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- CreatorStan LeeSteve DitkoStarsPaul SolesPeg DixonPaul KligmanOriginal cartoon series based on the web-slinging Marvel comic book character, Peter Parker, who, after being bit by a radioactive spider, assumes extraordinary powers.I saw this when I was little and loved it. I remember playing out and my sister shouting me in to say Spiderman was on. I totally believed I could climb like Spidey. Then one day I climbed to the top of the landing in my house I was five. I swear I stuck until my mum screamed and I fell. I woke up on the couch with a cold cloth on my head.
- StarsCorinne OrrPeter FernandezJack CurtisMarine Boy can breathe underwater using oxygum. With jet boots and help from his dolphin friend, he explores the ocean's depths, having adventures.This is the first recognised Manga style cartoon. I was pretty young when I saw this around again 4 or 5. I remember oxy gum is what he took so he could breath underwater. I loved the dolphin and as my dad was a submariner and his logo was a dolphin I can say I fell in love with them then, before everyone had bumper stickers!
- StarsNia PeeplesSwaylee LoughnaneStingA USA version of 'Top of the Pops'.They don't' have the years I want so this will have to do. As a teenager TOPTP had a huge influence on you as the bands you loved were on. I was a very young punk, and this was one of the only programs I had time for when I was a teenager. Oh and the TUBE loved that too. The old grey whistle test. All music of course. With the teen hormones you and boyfriends music is paramount to your survival from broken hearts.
- CreatorGraham ChapmanEric IdleTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseTerry GilliamThe original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.This again I loved all through my life. I watched it when I was 5 to now. I had older brothers and sisters so they used to watch it and I used to love it Of course when younger didn't get it but in my teens I had a best friend called Nigel and we watched it over and over again on his betamax video. Especially Life of Brian and the Holy grail Funny when you're a teen how you can do that. Amazing really
- StarsRik MayallAdrian EdmondsonNigel PlanerThe crazy and sometimes surreal comedic adventures of four very different students in Thatcher's Britain.This I loved it showed how stupid you were at a certain age. I loved all of and would watch this before I went to the pub that's how much! Of course then everyone you knew was a character in the show and it was funny too. Everyone where I drank used to want to be Vivian because they were all punks. But of course loads of them were more like Rik or Neil.
- CreatorRob GrantDoug NaylorStarsChris BarrieCraig CharlesDanny John-JulesThe adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.Oh all of them from series 1 to 11. In the early 90s and I was a young parent this kept me sane. I loved it and eventually as it went on I wrote and got tickets. Three of us went to London to see it being made. One of those magical nights. I made them a cushion as I'm an artist and because of that I got invited behind the curtain to meet both Grant and Naylor who were still friends then. I also met the cast. Craig Charles was a let down, as I come from the same place as him and he wouldn't talk about it. Like he was almost ashamed of being a scouser. The others were brilliant, through the filming Danny John Jules (cat) would sit in the audience with us all. I had to go to the loo and got back late. I just managed to get in before the recording light come on. Kryten who's my hero (he is clever and loves cleaning!) was standing watching in full costume so it was Kryten not Robert the actor. He turned around and looked at me and gave me a Krytie face. Amazing I was trying to attract my friends attention to say LOOK!! The whole night was cool and I have their first novel signed by both authors Grant and Naylor and all the cast. Got to be worth something one day. Not that I'd part with it.
- StarsSimon PeggJessica HynesJulia DeakinFriends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.God this was pure genius. Although I was a little older than the main characters it didn't make any difference as they made so many cultural references to all my fave stuff it was ace. I was very early 30s to their mid 20s and as life proves they've nearly caught up now. The whole 2 series were glorious, perfect in every way. They finished it before it got sad too. Love this very much. Plus Simon Pegg and the whole cast have all been part of amazing TV and films ever since. Marvellous
- StarsScott GrimesDamian LewisRon LivingstonThe story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord to V-J Day.What an amazing experience this was. A first hand look at war and the disgusting and awful consequences. It was so brave and bloody and brutal like Saving Private Ryan. I was at the age in my 30s where I started to understand the wars and what amazing sacrifice that both these generations had given us. My dad was a submariner in WW2 and I have never been more proud. (He was 47 when I was born and died when he was sixty) A decorated war hero and he never told us what he got the DSM for. I think because of growing up with parents who'd lived through WW2 I sort of took it for granted until I saw this program and it hit me just how much the greatest generation had done for us. You need to be a certain age to get it. This was an amazing example. Still love it now.
- CreatorConstance M. BurgeStarsHolly Marie CombsAlyssa MilanoBrian KrauseThree Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendants of a line of good female witches and are destined to fight against the forces of evil, using their combined power of witchcraft known as the "Power of Three".This helped me through grief when I lost a lot of my family over the last decade. I will be honest I ignored it when it came out at first and didn't get into it until it had finished on TV. I watched the re-runs on E4. I avoided it although I love all things witchy (even written a book called the Silent Moon detective agency). But it was Shannen Docherty that turned me off to it. I sort of watched it when Rose McGowan entered into it because she rocks. But as E4 put on three a day I soon caught up. It helped me a lot when I was full of grief. I have lost my older family over ten years. All of them sisters, brothers mum, aunts uncles cousins, friends. The list goes on. Anyway it gave me something to focus on and I loved it. The first two series were all about Pru and I loved Phoebe and Piper more. But then when Rose came in it was amazingly good. It became a ritual to give me something to focus on. Apart from the last series which I still liked not loved it was and is amazingly good TV.
- CreatorFrank DarabontStarsAndrew LincolnNorman ReedusMelissa McBrideSheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.Oh how I love thee. I watched the first episode because Andy Lincoln was in it and I was a fan. I couldn't believe how good he was as Rick, always been a great actor. The irony is although I've seen all the decent Zombie films not a fan of that genre until this. The Walking dead is so good I watched it when under a million had seen it and then it's grown into a phenomena. I love it and will defend it. You see like me millions of us love the human stories behind the zombies. The story and the special effects are amazing well done Greg but it's not that. It's being with the good, no matter what you have to do to stay good and save the people you love. Loyalty and love in the apocalypse. Plus it's been a long time since I was a fan, as in buying a bit of merchandise going on twitter, even doing fan art. You think as you get older you won't do that type of thing but the Walking Dead brought something out in me that I've not felt for a long time. Probably belonging to something as well. I think Red Dwarf was the last time I was a true fan. Anyway I hope this list makes you think of yours and your influential TV. I will do one with films but I love so many I'd have to do my favourite two hundred or something like that.