iPlayer? What's an iPlayer? ILX's top 50 TV shows of the 90s!

yeha, red dwarf was nearly as good as the brittas empire. psyched for keeping up appearances now.

I'm fond of Red Dwarf. Looking back, a lot of the jokes are a bit crap, but the stories and characters hold up well for the most part. I think the first two series are the best though, which were both broadcast in the 80s. There was an interesting atmosphere of loneliness and claustrophobia which were overwhelmed by sci-fi goofiness later on.

psyched for keeping up appearances now.

darraghmac = quentin letts??

oh thanks a bunch, now i gotta get a new login.

Dude I expected more from you on Have I Got News for You last week. You coulda dropped a "Jol out", surely?

CLOSE IN ON THE BADGE I WAS WEARING /derren brown

I AM SCANNING iPLAYER RIGHT NOW

if i've wasted even 2 minutes of a fellow ilxor's time needlessly then it's been a good day

You lying git, it says "JAN MOIR WAS RIGHT"

no probs. I remember quite liking Animaniacs but not that shit in the clip. Slappy Squirrel, Goodfeathers and Chicken Boo were good tho.

I was recently disabused by the notion (implanted in my head by a friend from high school) that Slappy Squirrel was voiced by Kate Bush.

of the notion

xp look again. it's Ian moir

36 - Oz (HBO, 1997-2003)
- 1370 points, 9 votes

http://cosmodromemag.com/files/oz.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74A7kFuh48E

Didn't realise Oz ran for six seasons! Thought it was only two or three.

Oh yeah, NSFW clip, by the way.

Very happy to see both Animaniacs and Red Dwarf place; both hold up much better than I would have guessed at the time.

I'm kind of surprised at the Animaniacs hating - it was such a smart and joyous show, with touches of both the maliciousness and surreality of the classic Warner's stuff, as well as their topicality. Wasn't all gold by any means, but it hit the mark more often than not. For me, it was one of the now rare kid's shows that adults not only wouldn't tear their eyes out when it was on but would want to sit down and watch. I was 20 when it debuted, and caught it as often as I could.

35 - Daria (MTV, 1997-2002)
- 1390 points, 9 votes, 1 first place

http://angeitamoza.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/daria01.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4cGKBr2Cs

Yeah, I never watched it either.

when did ILX TV polls jump the shark

When I started running them?

Daria is another case of 'every time i caught an episode i was surprised by how relatively good it was'

^this

34 - The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer (BBC, 1993-95)
- 1440 points, 9 votes, 1 first place

http://i8.tinypic.com/4xvh3sg.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMaEUv5n9wU

My favourite Vic & Bob series. I also have to post this clip, as it makes me unable to breathe from laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__MUf2Qv6_U

Way the best Vic and Bob series, therefore one of the best things ever made. I don't know how shunted they were into doing the relatively accessible Shooting Stars but it was a poor cousin to their freeform stuff when it was in full effect.

too British; did not laugh.

Somehow Vic and Bob's "impressions" always end up being truer than full-time impressionists' efforts, too.

If anyone can find a clip of that dog telling those stories that end with him saying "oh no, my wife's gonna kill me" in a cockney accent, I'll be eternally grateful if you link to it

Bob's Matthew Kelly is spot on.

xpost

The dog was Greg something, love him so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1yMrYke5v0

GREG MITCHELL HE RULE

Somebody should re-film the entire Only Fools and Horses just with Greg and his mates.

My hero!

Tragically I still say "My wife's going to kiiiiiiill me" all the time.

when did ILX TV polls jump the shark

C'mon, dude, I thought we'd all prepared ourselves for the fact that this poll was going to be pretty heavily tainted by nostalgia. I doubt there were very many of us who were old enough in the '90s to watch TV with a keen critical eye. Most of the stuff I voted for was stuff that I loved in high school. And mostly early high school, at that.

:)

Agree with the somewhere above comment re: Shooting Stars. Would rather see Vic & Bob back with one of their knockabout sketch shows. That Stars For Eyes skit had me falling about laughing.

anyway they jumped the shark at planet earth, everyone knows that.

i'm fully prepared for nostalgia- TMNT is a serious vote for me.

Bang Bang it's Reeves and Mortimer wasn't bad.

No that was great too but it was really Smell of under a different name and I kind of included it mentally in my vote for Smell of.

2 of my Top 10 are gone already then.

i'm fully prepared for nostalgia- TMNT is a serious vote for me.

I didn't vote for it, but I sure wouldn't cry if it placed.

Something tells me this poll is gonna get retarded pretty soon. In a good way.

Tragically I still say "My wife's going to kiiiiiiill me" all the time.

^^^this. And I don't even have a wife.

My votes were fairly evenly split between shows I genuinely think were great and nostalgia shows. Except Knightmare really was great - fvck the haters.

33 - Shooting Stars (BBC, 1993-present)
- 1480 points, 12 votes

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2008/07/15/shootingstars460.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OydP343QxxI&feature=PlayList&p=83FB7988C1E9D5D8&index=0&playnext=1

What are the odds, eh?

lol you boring gits

Wow in fact I never even placed SS and I voted for Smell of and Big Night Out. Not saying it wasn't often v. funny and all but still.

32 - The Adam & Joe Show (Channel 4, 1996-2001)
- 1490 points, 10 votes

http://www.channel4.com/assets/programmes/images/the-adam-and-joe-show/the-adam-and-joe-show_625x352.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1fQyN1mmg

Just how did Joe Cornish get the gig of writing the Tintin movie for Spielberg?

the "tainted by nostalgia" crowd better be prepared to rattle off a long list of Good Serious Artistic Accomplishments in Television Sciences in the Nineteen Hundred and Nineties that didn't make the poll when this is all over.