TV Shows you can watch over and over

On reg. TV, The Big Bang Theory. Limited series, Band of Brothers

I'll cast a vote for:

MAS*H The Big Bang Theory Freaks and Geeks

Ha, the site interpreted the asterisks as an attempt to italicize...lol

So it will have to be just MASH, without the asterisks!

ATHF

Original Law and Order

Getting back to the Ted Turner theme, the way he ran CNN and Headline News was awesome. For example, the first war in Iraq, the nation was glued to Headline News for up to the minute coverage of a shooting war.

HN did not hire reporters based on looks. They were hired because they were good reporters...

I remember CNN had inside information in Iraq because Ted Turner had hosted a worldwide media get together of some type. Thus, relationships had been formed with people in Iraq - there was a level of trust no other news agency could match.

Then there was the"two wire communication device" (or something similar). When communications to the world were shut off by the war, CNN was the only news agency able to get stories out because they had this communication system that could not be disrupted.

Then Turner sold both channels, and it became the fucking "Nancy Grace" channel. Why? When someone is independently wealthy, why do that? My not knowing the answer to that is probably why I will never become independently wealthy.

Lastly, big dish satellites. Predecessor to DirectTV. Turner started that industry because he wanted to be able to watch his baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, even when he was out of the area. So he knew the satellite technology that beamed baseball games to affiliates. It wasn't that expensive to set up the same tech at a private residence. Young guys imagine this - back in the 80's and 90's, we got all NFL games free, with no commercials. All premium cable channels free. And the neighbors bitched because we had big satellite dishes in our yards. Oh, fuck off and die.

To me, Turner's greatest insight may have been that there would be so many TV channels there would be no content to broadcast. Therefore, he bought out the old film archives of the major movie studios, just to have something to broadcast.

I don't know if he foresaw the necessity of dumbing down the population so they would be willing to watch crap like "Ridiculousness", "Storage Wars", and other useless shit.

So Turner probably enters the discussion of possibly having come from an alien planet, like Orson Welles, Michelangelo, and Leonardo DaVinci. Too insightful and different to be from regular human stock.

Taxi Barney Miller Night Court (1980s) The Twilight Zone Two and 1/2 Men Frasier Good Eats

Ted Turner changed up news in a wicked way w/CNN 24/7, not that I bother with it today, I just happened to be watching it when Reagan was shot outside the DC Hilton.

He had vision like so few over the past 100 years. Same with Elon Musk, like him or not - I happen to.

MASH, Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Seinfeld, EE. Now the best show is The Pitt.

The Sopranos. Goddamn that's some good TV.

Some semi-prominent commenter on social media alluded to a rumored home video of Jane Fonda pegging Ted, as if it were something everybody had heard about. First I'd heard of it.

Seinfeld How I met your mother Big Bang Theory SWAT

Seinfeld is endlessly re-watchable. The Shield Sons of Anarchy Friends

Other great shows, like older Law & Order episodes or The Wire, just aged badly. They look so stuck in the 90s or early 2000s that it is too distracting. Don't even get me started on the 80s (and I was there for all of this)

I was going over Ted Turner's Wikipedia page with a couple people at work and in addition to all the TV stuff he did, he won the America's Cup and he was also America's largest landowner, mostly to raise buffalo.

Star Trek (TOS) Star Trek: DS9 Big Bang Theory Taxi MASH Get Smart (Don Adams, not Steve Carrell) Green Acres Beverly Hillbillies Buffy the Vampire Slayer Gilmore Girls Doctor Who (the David Tenant years) Batman: The Animated Series Batman Beyond Justice League (and JL Unlimited)

@Wooddr2, is that the original SWAT from the '70s or the reboot? The original, I can definitely agree with.

My favorite memories of him are aligned to his sailing exploits, which included winning the America's Cup. Lesser known - single handing a Flying Dutchman at the Florida Yacht Club including finishing under spinnaker! My favorite quote came from the 1974 Cup when he was skippering the ill-fated Mariner campaign. Britton Chance, who was the designer, accused Turner of "butchering the fastest 12 ever " (it wasn't!). Turner replied, 'Britt, do you know why there's no square tailed fish in the sea? Because the the pointy-tailed fish caught them and ate them !". He turned, walked away a few steps, turned back and said, 'Britt, even shit's pointed at both ends!". A man of many words..

I own all 14 seasons of Archer. First 10 on DVD and the rest on Prime. When I want a day to do absolutely nothing of importance, I'll get some whiskey, weed and pizza and watch a season or two. The final couple seasons are not my favorites, but still worth watching sometimes.

Seinfeld Simpsons The Americans The Sopranos The Wire

Good Times Sanford & Son

I would be in favor of a Two & a Half Men Channel . I watch that show over and over again. Beautiful women and it's funny as heck.

I went a little nuts on the Michelangelo and DaVinci thing. He wasn't that great.

Breaking Bad A-Team Blue Thunder Air Wolf Tour of Duty Simpsons

Except for NFL, college football or an occasional movie I don't watch much tv but when it came to tv series, when I can I mostly enjoy watching...

Walking Dead Hell on Wheels Seinfeld Married With Children Also Nature, Nova, Frontline and the Ken Burns documentaries on pbs

ALF

@PhantomGeek - I grew up watching the original SWAT, I also really like the new reboot TV show, especially the original cast. Also because they film on location all around LA and San Fernando Valley (were I live), they had filmed twice at the grocery store a block away from my house. I've seen the "black Betty" SWAT truck rolling down the street a few times.

Also liked the movie too.

Someone else mentioned Blue Thunder, that was a great movie too.

Fauda. Love watching terrorists get their ass kicked