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

Surely Brass Eye and South Park have to be in that top 10?

ok so this is as good a place as any to ask this, if i am a hardcore Wire In The Blood stan, are there any shows i should be searching out that have the same sort of thing going on?

brass eye xpost

and hopefully kenan and kel

Top 10s are usually the least fun :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTukY9fV9Y

is kids in the hall a total lock or are we forgetting something?

this top ten will be GREAT because 4 of my top 5 will be in it

Oh, yeah. KITH will def. be in the top 10.

I suspect 1 of my top 5 will make the top 10. 3 have already appeared, and 1 is about to be wrongly overlooked.

the top ten will be fun because youll all get to hear me go into another "i hate mad men you are all fucking idiots"-style petulant rampage if im alan partridge doesnt make it

5 of my top 7! The other two being Adam And Joe (already passed) and The Crystal Maze (lol)

IAP will not only make it but might hit top 5

My vote for How Do You Want Me? looking a bit optimistic now too.

Shame about Sesame Street not featuring, btw. Grew up on that shit.

Predicting The Mary Whitehouse Experience ftw

is that the one with the actually quite funny history professors 'that's YOU that is!' sketch

Hang on, have Lee and Herring not made the list at all??? OH FFS

xpost yes, yes it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nCKYEM8qRc

^^^childish lulz

My ballot so far, with stuff that will probably still show up omitted and stuff that probably won't in bold:

1. The Larry Sanders Show
2.
3.
4.
5. Mr. Show
6.
7. Newsradio
8. Roseanne
9.
10. Star Trek: TNG
11. My So-Called Life
12. Friends
13. Get a Life
14. 120 Minutes
15. Homicide: Life on the Streets
16. Superman: The Animated Series
17. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
18. The Storyteller
19. Beavis & Butthead
20. Riget (The Kingdom)
21. The X-Files
22. Ren & Stimpy
23. Cartoon Planet
24. (seems like a pretty slim chance at this point, but it might still make it)
25. The Tom Green Show

LJ, Sesame Street is a lock if we have a '70s or '80s poll. Ha.

(11 minutes ago)

We're all watching that Mary Whitehouse Experience clip, right?

Not me, I hated it the first time around and I doubt if it has got any funnier.

the American stuff on this poll is really lining up with my taste well, so far 11 shows from my ballot have appeared, plus 3 that will definitely appear later and 2 shows that were on my '00s ballot. by comparison 13 shows from my ballot were in the '00s poll.

i've lost all hope of seeing The Tick, SNL, Get A Life, Dr. Katz or Boy Meets World in the poll, though, which bums me out.

I just don't think SNL is gonna make it on any of these polls, unless maybe if there's an '80s poll. It doesn't seem decade-specific enough and it's generally too spotty to make it into the top slots. That mid to late-'80s run, though, is pretty unimpeachable.

SNL would definitely make my '80s list, partly because I'm not sure I could even come up with 25 '80s shows ... because I was a child and I refuse to include the stuff I actually watched then, like Alf and Family Matters and the like.

And Get A Life is another show that suffers from not having received a proper DVD release. I was one of the twelve people who watched it when it was on, and I've since tracked down the complete series torrents. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't know much of anything about it.

that seems like an odd thing to say given that a) surely the show would do better in a '70s poll and b) most of the cast members that defined the show in the mid and late '80s were on it well into the '90s. xpost

Yeah, I honestly wonder how much mileage we'd get out of an '80s poll. It would surely be even more infantile than this one. Ha ha ha. I can think of a few more mature shows I'd vote for, though, for sure.

A 70s poll would be good. Dr Who and Fawlty Towers ftw.

that seems like an odd thing to say given that a) surely the show would do better in a '70s poll and b) most of the cast members that defined the show in the mid and late '80s were on it well into the '90s.

a) Althought I like it fine, I'm not personally the biggest fan of the '70s cast of SNL, and b) after the first couple of years, the first half of the '90s was a slow decline for SNL.

yeah but late 90s SNL >>>>> early 80s SNL

I feel like a 70s poll wd drive the transAtlantic wedge in even further as I feel like less shows crossed from the UK to the US back then. Are You Being Served and Benny Hill iirc.

Also wd vote Rockford Files over the mummified corpse of Fawlty Towers.

yeah but late 90s SNL >>>>> early 80s SNL

Interestingly enough, I've been watching Doumanian-era (1980) SNL lately, and it's actually not all that bad so far! History is written by the victors...

This poll has a lot of adolescenty stuff in it, imagine what a '70s poll would be like. All Mary, Mungo & Midge at #18 and so on. Bagpuss ftw etc.

TiSWAS!

do they rerun doumanian SNL in the states? have never seen any, want to see the one where bill murray guest-hosted...

To my knowledge they don't rerun it. They'll rerun the Piscopo-era stuff sometimes but not often.

I'm not aware of them rerunning it anytime recently, no. I acquire most of my obscure TV stuff via not entirely legitimate means...

*coughioffer.comcough*

cough!appreciated!cough!

Mysterious Cities of Gold would probably take my no. 1 spot in a hypothetical 80s poll. I was so deep into that.

is kids in the hall a total lock or are we forgetting something?

I'd say that The Cosby Show has about as much chance of winding up in the top ten as Silk Stalkings does.

i think Cosby Show is thought of enough as an '80s show, and its '90s seasons are thought of enough as "the Raven Symone era," that it could totally miss this poll.

this is an abomination

BTW, stevie, the sets I've bought from the dude who sells complete SNL seasons on the afore(un)mentioned site are of shockingly high quality. I was expecting them to all be barely watchable transfers from rapidly-degrading VHS, but such has not been the case as of yet.

tyrna find language strong enough to accurately register my disgust but im not sure it exists... p much suffice to say none of u deserve to own a tv or breathe oxygen ever again

Thank you, Lamp. I'd been waiting for someone to audit my taste and/or worth.

P.S. Am I allowed to still watch stuff on my computer?

Here's my rough draft of my '80s ballot:

Blackadder
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Cosmos
The Day the Universe Changed
The Garry Shandling Show
Golden Girls
The Greatest American Hero
Hill Street Blues
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Family Ties
Knight Rider
Late Night with David Letterman
Magnum, P.I.
Married…With Children
M*A*S*H
Miami Vice
Moonlighting
Newhart
Night Court
Roseanne
Tanner '88
V
The Wonder Years
The Young Ones

Lamp post a list of shit u would've voted for or shut the fucking fuck up

Not holding out much hope for People Like Us, which was in my top 5 as it was gently brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtRUrEaRA0