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valley_girl · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: OT: Top 3 dramas?

Since we have the Top Three Comedy Shows thread, I thought I'd add the Top Three Dramas thread. Smile

My current top three:

1. Lost (awesome show...three episodes and I'm an addict already)
2. ER
3. Sue Thomas F.B.Eye

What are your favourites?

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

(What does "OT" mean?)

I thought I'd chuck in an honourable mention for The Sopranos.

Sadken · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 341

That's quite a difficult one, actually. I think mine would be (in no order):

The Sopranos
This Life
Byker Grove circa 94

I may reconsider the last one later.

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

1. All the different Law & Orders (in order: SVU, original, CI)
2. Nip/Tuck

I don't watch any other dramas...

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

1. The first few years of ER - - awesome!
2. The first couple seasons of The Practice - - really enjoyed.
3. I don't know if it qualifies as a "drama", but Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I'm sad it's gone).

I've heard good things about Nip/Tuck and I now have it on my satellite here in China, so I will make an effort to check it out.

Captain Yossarian · Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 385 Location: Dongbei

America TV is a lot better than it was in the 70s and 80s - shows like '6 Feet Under', 'Sex and the City', 'The Sopranos', '24', 'The West Wing' have all challenged moribund TV norms.

Still, it's a difficult one this...

Right now I'll go for:

Inspector Morse (the greatest fictional detective since Holmes).

Prisoner/early Avengers (for their all-round, delightful weirdness).

Dr Who - from Patrick Troughton to Peter Davidson (appalling special effects but great scrips from the likes of Douglas Adams).

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

The Sopranos
24
and..... can I nominate Eastenders(I'm an addict)

sadken and Leeroy, Grange Hill was far superior to byker Grove

extoere · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 543

ER
Boston Legal - New entry by David Kelly, replacing "The Practice."

Don't have cable; don't want cable. I buy each season of the Sopranos when it's released on DVD. Quite good.

Cap'n Yoss: Inspector Morse, excellent; Holmes was the greatest!

Robert: Prime Suspect, indeed, is the finest television production I've ever seen. Why is it that British TV and movies, produced with budgets a fraction of those in Hollywood, are so much better? Strictly a nonsense question. Prime Suspect 6 is the best so far. Seen it yet?

Overall-Still-My-Favorite: Fawlty Towers!

Valley Girl: Don't care too awfully much for "Lost," but occasionally look at it for a few minutes to reminisce. It's filmed in a valley in Ka'aawa on the island of Oahu. Years ago, when I was teaching in Hawaii, we lived about a half-mile down the road from this idylic place, just across from the beach. Each morning, our three young sons would walk to a little country school, followed by their dog, Bluto, who'd wait outside on the schoolgrounds and join them for lunch. At night (no TV), we'd walk along the beach, watching the moon rise from the ocean, as Bluto chased sand crabs. Those years are the fondest memories of our lives. "No other place in all the world holds such deep strong charm for me as that one. No other place could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, for half a lifetime as that one has done. In my nostrils still live the breath of flowers that perished 20 years ago." (Mark Twain)

cheers,
extoere

valley_girl · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject:

valley_girl · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: OT Top 3 Dramas

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

Showing my age....

1) China Beach

2) Twin Peaks...the first years before it sucked

3) X-Files ... ditto

4nic8r · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 68

I'd go with..

1. The West Wing
2. The Sopranos
3. Lost -- for a new show.. it's the best new show I've seen in a long time...

willie wonka · Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

Midsomer Murders - how can one quaint English area have so many bodies?!
Scales of Justice - a 3 part Aussie drama which caused a huge stink when it aired and resulted in a Parliamentary enquiry.
OK, it's not really a drama but a doco currently showing on the BBC - The Power of Nightmares focussing on how the powers that be have a vested interest in keeping us all afraid but inventing bogey men and phantom threats.

benno · Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 501 Location: Fake Mongolia

what about Cracker, robbie coltrane and that fat geezer from liverpool, class act,
i will never forget the hillsborough one,
and to think that they changed it to "Fitz" for american TV, f uck wits

what about the A team