/me looks at the name of the forum. 
I always feel like I’m a bit weird, because I don’t really have a favorite anything. I like some things more than others, but everything constantly shifts around.
In general, I’d have to say Batman TAS, Freakazoid, Columbo, Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Jeeves and Wooster, Murder, She Wrote, Sledge Hammer, and Police Squad, but ask me in a month for a slightly different list.
Classic Doctor Who (aside from Andrew Cartmell’s Reign of Error)
Muppet Show
Babylon 5
Farscape
For the last one, I’m in a minority where I regard the fourth season as mostly terrible and the cancellation thereafter as a mercy killing.
These have earned my Multiple Rewatch Badge™:
MST3K
Psych
What We Do in the Shadows
Ghosts (both versions)
The Good Place
Archer
I’ll add more when the caffeine has caught up to my brain this morning.
I’m bad at favo(u)rites as well.
So here are a couple shows that I will always enjoy:
Schitts Creek
The Good Place
Father Ted
Pushing Daisies
Ooo! Great choice! Final season coming probably early 2025!
This could be in my top 3. Was so sad to see it go. It was so innovative, so funny, so different!
Firefly, if watched in the intended order
If you don’t include the post-Jeff episodes, Coupling was pretty terrific
My favorite show is by far The X Files. Followed by Breaking Bad, South Park, and Twin Peaks.
I watched the original Twilight Zone last year and it was a life changing experience.
The Simpsons hands down, no question. There’s certainly a lot of bad episodes and seasons and probably a decade but the show is amazing at it’s best and even the last few years have had some surprising successes. A show with brilliant comedy and anti-authoritarian worldview. But despite it being cynical about systems, establishments and society at large, it is also a show of tremendous warmth and love for the individual. Marge Be No Proud is probably my favourite, both uproariously hilarious but also puts us in the headspace of feeling guilty and the pain of realizing you’ve done something wrong. And the fear that maybe we can do something that will make our parents love us less. Powerful stuff.
This is a really tough question, but after thinking it over, I’d say my choice would be Late Night With David Letterman. I was a twenty-something when I discovered that show, maybe a year and a half into its run. That show was real “must see TV” for me and was one of the reasons I finally bought a VCR (which cost several hundred bucks at the time), so I could tape the shows I was too tired to stay up and watch. LNWDL both shaped and reflected my sense of humor.
Even watching old episodes now on YouTube, so much of the humor still works, for me at least. And even when it doesn’t work, I think that was kinda the point at the time, and he was pretty good at mining laughs out of material that didn’t quite work. I’m pretty sure every late night talk show today has been influenced in one way or another by LNWDL. I know I have. Won’t you? Thank you.
Comedy: Bob Newhart Show
Other: Person of Interest
Could be any number of different shows but right now what comes to mind is Northern Exposure. For some reason that always felt like home.
Selective episodes of Star Trek TOS. As a whole? The first seasons of 24 and True Detective.
I agree with you on all of this. Loving that Dave is posting clips from the series on his Facebook page regularly.
It’s hard to say, as I rarely get to rewatch stuff I fondly remember.
But of course this show, and Columbo are the most obvious answers off the cuff. Oh, and of course Fawlty Towers. These are frequent rewatches at present.
I’ll add a few series we have at home on DVD.
Cheyenne
Kung Fu
MASH
SCTV
The Kids in the Hall
In no particular order:
-“Late Night With David Letterman”–I will never see anything funnier than Larry “Bud” Melman lousing up a bit and Letterman laughing/grimacing at his dreadful performance.
-“Green Acres”–This show was avant-garde. “Airplane!” is a direct descendent. Everyone except Oliver is crazy, and he’s starting to crack.
-“King Of the Hill”–outstanding character-driven comedy. One of the best written and acted shows ever, for my money.
-“Late Night With Craig Ferguson”–Craig Ferguson and Josh Robert Thompson (as Geoff Peterson) adlibbing for an hour every night! They were having so much fun and so was I.
-“Newhart”–shades of “Green Acres.” Watching idiots torment Bob is a joy.
“Seinfeld”–No surprise.
-“The Carol Burnett Show”–Don’t care for the musical numbers, but LOVE Tudball & Mrs. Wiggins, The Family, As the Stomach Turns, the movie parodies, Harvey and Tim doing anything.
I love to cue up Burnett’s Shout Factory stream on Le Tube. Some of it aged badly. Poor Mama Cass. But when it’s great, it’s great. I’d kill to have a disc of just The Family sketches, without any cuts. Our Kirk v. Picard or Joel v. Mike could be who played Phil better.
I think Ferguson was the most entertaining interviewer of any late-night host.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Johnny Carson was called the king of late night for a reason. He would let his guests be the center of attention and rarely made the show about him after the opening monologue.