Shaken & Stirred: My Secret TV Life

July 14, 2006

My Secret TV Life

So, it's Friday, and why not do one of those listy things? This one comes courtesy of Erin at Rarely Likable. Bold the ones you've seen at least three episodes of, add italics for those you've seen every episode of, and I'm adding a star to the ones I actually loved/love, etc. The others I just liked enough to watch at least three episodes.

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7th Heaven

Adam-12

Aeon Flux*

ALF

Alfred Hitchcock Presents*

Alias

American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.

America's Next Top Model*

Angel*

Arrested Development*

Babylon 5

Babylon 5: Crusade

Battlestar Galactica (the old one)

Battlestar Galactica (the new one)

Baywatch

Beavis & Butthead

Beverly Hills 90210

Bewitched*

Bonanza

Bones*

Bosom Buddies

Boston Legal

Boy Meets World

Buffy the Vampire Slayer*

Bug Juice

Chappelle's Show

Charlie's Angels

Charmed

Cheers

Columbo

Commander in Chief

Coupling (the UK version, of course)

Cowboy Bebop

Crossing Jordan (People, I'm not proud, but there was nothing on and it was always on Friday nights when we were visiting my parents.)

CSI

CSI: Miami

CSI: NY

Curb Your Enthusiasm*

Dancing with the Stars

Danny Phantom

Dark Angel

Dark Skies

Davinci's Inquest

Dawson's Creek

Dead Like Me*

Deadliest Catch

Deadwood*

Degrassi: The Next Generation

Designing Women

Desperate Housewives

Dharma & Greg (the early year was excellent)

Different Strokes

Doctor Who (new Who)

Dragnet

Due South

Earth 2

Emergency!

Entourage*

ER* (It used to be wonderful.)

Everwood

Everybody Loves Raymond

Facts of Life

Family Guy

Family Ties

Farscape

Fawlty Towers

Felicity*

Firefly*

Frasier

Friends

Futurama*

Get Smart

Gilligan's Island

Gilmore Girls*

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Green Wing

Grey's Anatomy (I want to pick this one up.)

Growing Pains

Gunsmoke

Hannah Montana

Happy Days

Hogan's Heroes

Home Improvement

Homicide: Life on the Street*

House*

I Dream of Jeannie*

I Love Lucy*

Invader Zim*

Invasion

Hell's Kitchen

JAG

Jackass

Joey

John Doe

LA Law

Laverne and Shirley*

Little House on the Prairie

Lizzie McGuire

Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Lost

Lost in Space*

Love, American Style

M*A*S*H *

MacGyver

Malcolm in the Middle

Married... With Children

Melrose Place

Miami Vice* (Simpler times.)

Mission: Impossible

Monk

Moonlighting* (Loved this one when it was good.)

Mork & Mindy

Murphy Brown* (Ditto.)

My Life as a Dog

My Three Sons

My Two Dads

NCIS

Nip/Tuck

Northern Exposure*

Numb3rs (I like this more than it deserves, actually. It's the Friday night thing.)

One Tree Hill

Perry Mason

Picket Fences* (Still the best David Kelley show.)

Pokemon

Power Rangers

Prison Break

Profiler

Project Runway* (Yay!)

Psyche

Quantum Leap

Queer As Folk (US)

Queer as Folk (British)

ReGenesis

Remington Steele

Rescue Me

Road Rules

ROME*

Roseanne

Roswell

Saved by the Bell

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?*

Scrubs

Seinfeld

Sex and the City

Six Feet Under* (The first couple of seasons anyway.)

Slings and Arrows

Smallville

So Weird

South Park

Spaced

Spongebob Squarepants

Sports Night*

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Enterprise

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate SG-1

Superman

Supernatural

Surface

Survivor* (Depending on the season.)

Taxi

Teen Titans

That 70's Show

That's So Raven

The 4400

The Addams Family*

The Andy Griffith Show

The A-Team*

The Avengers*

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Brady Bunch

The Cosby Show

The Daily Show*

The Dead Zone

The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Flintstones

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Golden Girls

The Honeymooners

The Jeffersons

The Jetsons

The L Word

The Love Boat

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mighty Boosh

The Monkees

The Munsters

The Mythbusters

The O.C.

The Office (UK)*

The Office (US)*

The Pretender

The Real World

The Shield

The Simpsons

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Sopranos

The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

The Twilight Zone

The Waltons

The West Wing* (Some seasons.)

The Wonder Years*

The X-Files

Third Watch

Three's Company

Top Gear

Twin Peaks*

Twitch City

Veronica Mars*

Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)

Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)

Will and Grace

Notable omissions: Where are Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Max Headroom, Popular, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, V, Father Ted, Ab Fab, etc.? No Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? Dallas?

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Okay, get thee to a DVD rental place and RENT "Fawlty Towers" immediately! It's a must.

Posted by:ed | July 14, 2006 at 12:07 PM

Wait a sec. No Star Trek either? I'm shocked!

Posted by:ed | July 14, 2006 at 12:10 PM

I didn't know you've not seen Fawlty Towers. Ed's right about that.

We watched the first episode of the Miami CSI, I think. Some dude fell out of an airplane into a swamp or something. That redheaded guy from NYPD Blue looked like he should be wearing a lot more sunscreen.

I'm recording the Dominion War arc of Deep Space Nine for you to watch.

Posted by:Christopher | July 14, 2006 at 12:56 PM

Nooooooooooo!!!!!

Posted by:Gwenda | July 14, 2006 at 01:03 PM

Oh, and I've seen stray Star Trek episodes and the movies. And probably even enough to bold it. But honestly, I remember almost nothing. I can barely keep the main characters straight.

Oh and Fawlty Towers lovers should check out Not Only, But Also... -- what's left of it anyway. I've always _meant_ to catch FT, just haven't done it yet.

Posted by:Gwenda | July 14, 2006 at 01:07 PM

OK, now I am abusing the comment system and really writing about something days ago but HAPPY BIRTHDAY. In your most apocalyptic honor, I attended Nuestra Belleza Nuevo Leon last night (last year's winner won Miss Mexico and is a favorite for Miss Universe. This year's won't, I don't think) and I called the top three within the first 20 minutes of the show, even though I eventually lost 10 pesos with respect to the actual order. My poor hilarious and upstanding friend Matt was also treated to long descriptions of the sugar-buzzed pageant beginning of it all. Much love and birthday wishes (your birthday doesn't end until the last slacker gets it right)
Miss Sunshine

Posted by:Sunshine | July 14, 2006 at 09:40 PM

Hey, Gwenda - how do you do the text cuts in TypePad? I can't figure it out. Help! (Pretty please?)

Posted by:La Gringa | July 16, 2006 at 12:27 AM

Yay! Much love back, Miss Sunshine! Package incoming very soon to you and Mr. Cavin. Next time you are in the states, I want to hear all about the beauty pageant adventures (and read your book and eat junk food!). xxx

La Gringa -- I think you have to go into the edit for the default post settings or appearance; you want it to Show Extended Field or something like that, and then you just type in the lower field when you want to do a cut. It's a little obnoxious sometimes, in that you'll inadvertently type an extra letter or two down there by hitting tab and have to go back and delete it later, but overall works fine.

Posted by:Gwenda | July 16, 2006 at 11:34 AM

I stumbled across your blog while I was in the process of doing some online research. I guess I don't watch nearly enough T.V. I hardly recognized half of these shows!

Posted by:thebizofknowledge | August 22, 2006 at 07:25 PM

Read Read

E. Lockhart: Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The
You might think the world doesn't need any more boarding school novels, but if you haven't read this one then you're wrong, wrong, wrong. E. Lockhart has surpassed herself with this fable of a girl coming into her own and challenging the boy's club at her prep school -- while falling in love with its members at the same time. Lockhart never simplifies or skirts gender issues and power dynamics, and lets Frankie be realistic instead of a treatise disguised as a character. The sly omniscient narrator tells the story perfectly, and leaves hope that maybe one girl can change the world. More novels as funny and true and perfect as this one, please.
Kathi Appelt: The Underneath
Appelt's first novel is a beautiful, magical fantasy for younger readers that will instantly become a classic. Seriously. I can imagine this book being in classrooms right alongside Charlotte's Web in a hundred years. The writing is poetic in the good way, and there's a lamia. Children are going to absolutely fall in love with Appelt's equally kind and brutal universe, where love conquers most, and it can take millenia to come to your senses.
Jincy Willett: The Writing Class
With her second novel, Willett matches the perfect pitch and execution of her brilliant short stories. Every writer will want to read this novel--very little wincing is involved, but expect a great deal of laughter. C and I found ourselves reading pieces aloud, after howling provoked the "what's so funny?" question. As with any good writing workshop or class, the characters become more appealing as you get to know them, and ultimately what she has pulled off is a satisfying mystery, and a satisfying exploration of humanity. Amy Gallup is a character to remember.
Karen Joy Fowler: Wit's End
A new novel by Karen Fowler really is something to be excited about, unlike many of the writers for whom such praise gets bandied about. (If you're smirking because you think you know something about her work from the title--not the book--The Jane Austen Book Club, please go sit in the corner and read any of her novels. You're welcome.) This is an unmystery-like mystery, concerned not so much with dead bodies--though there are plenty--as with the mysteries of healing and the heart, politics and people. How is it that a writer gets a lens on the present that's as revealing as the one she employs in historical fiction? Now that's a mystery. Highly recommended.
Steve Erickson: Zeroville
Steve Erickson novels are often like dreams, or revelations, or discovered artifacts, or written just for you. Zeroville's no different, although it is perhaps the most readily graspable example of his work to date. The Rosetta Stone is there; the secret decoder ring is a film projector. The dizzying Hollywood confidential stylings will make your inner film geek happy, but the uncovering of a truly mythic cinematic story--since cinema has existed forever--of sacrifice and redemption is even more memorable. See also: this review.
Ursula Dubosarsky: The Red Shoe (Neal Porter Books)
Set in Sydney during WWII, this wonderful novel travels between the view from inside each of three sisters. Dubosarsky perfectly captures the differences that come from being the younger, older, or middle child. Perfectly conjuring the period, and yet creating a completely accessible story, the narrative contrasts chapters focusing on the family with interstitials from the Sydney newspapers of the time, stories of polio, the H-bomb, and a defecting Russian spy (who happens to be in hiding next door). Nothing here is heavy-handed. Everything is perfectly balanced. It's a beautiful, beautiful novel. See my full take here.

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