I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.
Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.
I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.
And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.
With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.
I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.
And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.
Title |
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2 Broke Girls |
10 Things I Hate About You |
18 to Life |
21 Jump Street |
24 |
Adventures of Brisco County Jr., The |
Airwolf |
Alarm für Cobra 11 |
ALF |
Alien Nation |
Ally McBeal |
Angel |
Arabela |
Arabela se vraci |
Arrow |
A-Team, The |
Auf Achse |
Automan |
B.L. Stryker |
Baa Baa Black Sheep |
Baby Daddy |
Babylon 5 |
Batman [1965] |
Battlestar Galactica [1978] |
Battlestar Galactica [2003] |
Baywatch |
Beauty and the Beast [1987] |
Beauty and the Beast [2012] |
Bewitched |
Big Bang Theory, The |
Bionic Woman |
Bonanza |
Bones |
Booker |
Breaking In |
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
Burn Notice |
Cagney & Lacey |
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future |
Castle |
Charlie’s Angels [1976] |
CHiPs |
Chuck |
Clown Ferdinand |
Columbo |
Come Fly with Me |
Common Law |
Cosby Show, The |
Cougar Town |
Coupling (UK) |
Daniel Boone |
Dark Angel |
Dawson’s Creek |
Desperate Housewives |
Dexter |
Doctor Who |
Doogie Howser, M.D. |
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman |
Due South |
Dukes of Hazzard, The |
Early Edition |
Elementary |
Emergency! |
ER |
Fall Guy, The |
Family Matters |
Fantaghirò |
Fantasy Island |
Farscape |
Father Dowling Mysteries |
Firefly |
Flash, The |
Flipper |
Forever Knight |
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The |
Friends |
Full House |
Glee |
Go On |
Good Wife, The |
Goodwin Games, The |
Gossip Girl |
Großstadtrevier |
Growing Pains |
Guiding Light, The |
Gunsmoke |
Guys with Kids |
Happy Days |
Happy Endings |
Hardcastle & McCormick |
Hart of Dixie |
Hart to Hart |
Hercules |
Heroes |
High Chaparral, The |
Highlander |
Highlander: The Raven |
Highway to Heaven |
Highwayman, The |
Hogan’s Heroes |
Home Improvement |
House of Cards |
House of Lies |
House, M.D. |
Houston Knights |
How I Met Your Mother |
Human Target |
I Dream of Jeannie |
Ich heirate eine Familie |
Incredible Hulk, The [1978] |
Ironside |
IT Crowd, The |
JAG |
Jake and the Fatman |
Justified |
King & Maxwell |
King of Queens, The |
Knight Rider |
Kommissar Rex |
Kung Fu |
Kung Fu – The Legend Continues |
L.A. Law |
Land of the Lost [1977] |
Land of the Lost [1991] |
Last Man Standing |
Letajici Cestmir |
Leverage |
Life Unexpected |
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman |
Longmire |
Lost |
Love Boat |
M*A*S*H |
MacGyver |
Mad Men |
Man from Atlantis, The |
Man From U.N.C.L.E., The |
Married with Children |
Matlock |
Max Headroom |
Melissa & Joey |
Men at Work |
Midnight Caller |
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers |
Mike & Molly |
Mork and Mindy |
Mortal Kombat Conquest |
Mr. Belvedere |
Mr. Ed |
Munsters Today, The |
Munsters, The |
Murder, She Wrote |
Murphy Brown |
My Secret Identity |
Nashville |
Neighbours |
New Girl |
Newsroom, The |
Night Court |
North and South |
North and South, Book II |
NTSF:SD:SUV:: |
O.C., The |
Odd Couple, The |
Operation Petticoat |
Out of this World |
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose |
Party Down |
Perry Mason |
Person of Interest |
Pretender, The |
Primeval |
Quantum Leap |
Quincy, M.E. |
Raising Hope |
Raumpatrouille Orion |
Raven |
Rawhide |
Remington Steele |
Riptide |
Roseanne |
Sarah Connor Chronicles, The |
Sarah Jane Adventures, The |
Scarecrow and Mrs. King |
Schwarzwaldklinik, Die |
SeaQuest DSV |
Sentinel, The |
Seven Days |
Sherlock |
Shogun |
$#*! My Dad Says |
Simon & Simon |
Six Million Dollar Man, The |
Sledge Hammer! |
Sliders |
Smallville |
Space – Above and Beyond |
Space Rangers |
Spartacus |
Spuk im Hochhaus |
Spuk unterm Riesenrad |
Spuk von draußen |
Star Trek |
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
Star Trek: Next Generation, The |
Star Trek: Voyager |
Stargate SG-1 |
Stargate: Atlantis |
Starsky & Hutch |
Step By Step |
Stingray |
Street Hawk |
Strike Back |
Suburgatory |
Suits |
Superboy |
Supernatural |
Sweating Bullets |
Switched at Birth |
T. J. Hooker |
Tales of the Gold Monkey |
Team Knight Rider |
Tequila and Bonetti |
The 10th Kingdom |
Three’s Company |
Thunder in Paradise |
Time Trax |
Trapper John, M.D. |
Tripods, The |
True Blood |
Türkisch für Anfänger |
Two and a Half Men |
V [1983] |
V: The Final Battle [1984] |
V [1984] |
Vampire Diaries, The |
Veronica Mars |
Viper |
Virginian, The |
Voyagers! |
Walker, Texas Ranger |
War of the Worlds |
White Collar |
Who’s the Boss? |
Xena: Warrior Princess |
Zorro [1990] |
Phew. That’s not bad, is it? 🙂
PS: This list is not guaranteed to be complete. 😉
PPS: And I still remember more which I have overlooked, e.g. Tales of the Gold Monkey and Sherlock, which makes it 246!
PPPS: 247: Family Matters. How could I forget Steve Urkel?