Nothing much worthwhile on TV during the 2000′s except for these gems.

24

Band of Brothers

Boston Legal

Breaking Bad

Carnivàle

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Deadwood

Dexter

Friday Night Lights

Last Comic Standing

Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson

Mad Men

Malcolm In The Middle

The Office (U.K.)

Six Feet Under

Star Trek Enterprise

The Wire

My shortest list so far and it has nothing to do with the decrease in memory cells over the ages.

More classics from a biased viewpoint.

3rd Rock From The Sun

Cracker

Dame Edna’s Hollywood

Frasier

Homicide: Life On Street

Larry Sanders Show

Law And Order

Northern Exposure

NYPD Blue

Picket Fences
The Practice
Prime Suspect

Seinfeld
The Sopranos
Star Trek Voyager

Twin Peaks

The West Wing

Most of these shows are still worthwhile watching today. Do you agree?

Not much here. I must have been out a lot during the eighties.

Black Adder

Brideshead Revisited

Cheers

China Beach

Hill Street Blues

L.A. Law

Red Dwarf

Roseanne

Thirtysomething

Wonder Years

The Young Ones

Were there really only eleven decent shows on in the 1980′s? I challenge you to add any others to the list that I may have missed.

More favourites. Jeez, what happened? The list is getting shorter than the previous two decades. I think I need a transporter to beam me up to the 2000′s.

All In The Family
Are You Being Served?

Baretta
Barney Miller
Benson
Bob Newhart Show

Columbo

Fawlty Towers
Flip Wilson Show

Happy Days

The Invisible Man

Kojak
Kung Fu

Lou Grant

M*A*S*H
Mork And Mindy
The Odd Couple

The Parkinson Show
The Persuaders
The Professionals

Quincy M.E.

Rich Man, Poor Man Miniseries
Rockford Files

Soap
Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
Space 1999
Streets Of San Francisco

Taxi

What are are your 1970′s favourites? Or are you still stuck in the 50′s and 60′s like me.

Are you old enough to remember these?

12 O’Clock High
Adam 12
Addams Family
Andy Griffith Show

Batman
Ben Casey
Benny Hill Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
The Big Valley
Branded
Bugs Bunny Show
Burke’s Law

Car 54 Where Are You
Carol Burnett Show
Combat

Daniel Boone
The Defenders
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dr. Kildare

F Troop
The F.B.I.

The Flintstones
Flipper
The Flying Nun
The Fugitive

Garrison’s Gorillas
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gomer Pyle USMC
Green Acres
The Green Hornet

Hawaii Five-0
Here’s Lucy
High Chaparral
Hogan’s Heroes
Hong Kong

I Dream of Jeannie
I Spy
Ironside
It’s About Time

The Jetsons
Julia

Land of the Giants
Laredo
Lost In Space
The Lucy Show

Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Mannix
Marcus Welby
McHale’s Navy
Mission Impossible
The Mod Squad
The Monkees
Mr. Ed
The Munsters
My Three Sons

No Time For Sergeants

The Outer Limits
The Outsider

Patty Duke Show
Petticoat Junction
Popeye the Sailor
The Prisoner

Rat Patrol
Route 66
Rowan/Martin’s Laugh-In

The Saint
Star Trek
Surfside 6

Then Came Bronson
Thriller
Time Tunnel
Tom and Jerry

The Virginian
Voyage To Bottom Of Sea

Wackiest Ship in the Army
Wild Wild West

If you do not remember any of these shows you are either too young or your memory cells have been destroyed by all the LSD you swallowed in the sixties.

Footnote: LSD = Lollies Sweets Drinks

I may be carbon dating myself but here goes – my favourite 1950′s television shows. Off the top of my head (where else?)

77 Sunset Strip

Adventures In Paradise
Adventures Of Superman
Adventures of William Tell

Bat Masterson
Bonanza
Broken Arrow
Burns And Allen Show

Cheyenne
Circus Boy
Cisco Kid

Dennis The Menace
The Detectives
Dragnet

Ed Sullivan Show

Father Knows Best

Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
Hawaiian Eye

I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver
Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp

Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Perry Mason
Peter Gunn

Rawhide
Real McCoys
Red Skelton Show
The Rifleman
Rin Tin Tin (1954)
Robin Hood (1955)
Roy Rogers

Sea Hunt
Sgt. Bilko
Sugarfoot

Three Stooges
The Untouchables (1959)

Wagon Train
Wonderful World of Disney

Zorro (1957)

If you are a dinosaur like me – what are your favourites?

This clip on voice recognition cracked me up. We’ve all been there. And we are still there. One day they’ll create a voice recognition system that actually recognises voices – even my mumbling voice!

Click here to view the embedded video.

I was standing in a long line at the supermarket express lane waiting to be served.

Well, they call it the  express lane – but really, it’s as slow as a snail on valium so I grabbed my new android phone and pressed the Kindle icon.

Up came the novel ‘Crime and Punishment’ by that Russian dude Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and I started reading it. I thought I’d get through a few chapters before being served.

I waited – shuffled – waited – shuffled and edged closer to the holy grail of the check out counter. Eventually the supermarket honoured my herculean effort of waiting in the express lane – I finally got to be served by a human.

As l left the supemarket express lane I thought that Fyodor had it easy.

Sure he was imprisoned and sentenced to death. And just minutes before his sentence was carried out he was suddenly reprieved and then sent to do hard labour in prison.

But he never had to the endure waiting in line at the express lane of a supermarket. Now that’s worse than death.

Yeah, my crime – standing in a supermarket express lane. My punishment – watching my life ebb away.

Footnote: Photo courtesy of Scott Liddell