What’s your favorite time period for tv?

[Lance Uppercut]

A couple months ago, I started thinking about how much I missed the quirky procedural dramas. And luckily I found out that Leverage was returning and I started watching that. Then I found out they had all the old episodes. And then I found that that channel also is Burn notice.

Man, it made me think: damn 2005 -2012 was a great period of tv for me

Nbc Thursdays in general
Big bang theory
Scrubs
How I met your mother
Bones
Burn notice
Leverage
The mentalist
Monk
Psych
Chuck

I went from reliving the tnbc years to basically reliving must see tv Thursdays

[Sephiroth]

Late 80’s-late 90’s. Must See TV, TGIF, the Disney Afternoon, Kids WB, Fox Kids, ABC Saturday Mornings, the launch of Cartoon Network and the Sci Fi Channel, Nicktoons and Snick-it was a wonderful time to be a youngun.

[Bo Rida]

Comedy - 90s
Drama - 2004 (S3 of the wire) to 2014 (S4 of GoT).
Not just for those. Other hbo shows and Breaking Bad. BBC had Life on Mars, peaky blinders, being human, Sherlock, David Tennant's era of Dr Who. Like you say shows like Bones and Chuck. The Americans started.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I would say two periods

90s TV as a kid was great. For all ages. When I was a small kid, there was stuff like Playdays, Fireman Sam, Zzzapp! Tots TV, Thomas the Tank.

Then, in the middle preteens, great NickToons -- Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Doug etc. As well as cartoon network -- Dexter's Lab, Cow and Chicken, Ed, Edd and Eddy.

Then late 90s, when I was 11/12, I had Kenan and Kel, Sabrina, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark, not to mention Digimon and Pokemon and Sailor Moon.


As an adult--the time period when we had The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad and more airing at around the same time was a great period. Think there was American Horror Story around that time frame too.

[thechase]

BBC and ITV kids telly in the 80s/90s. Great times. Somebody reboot T-Bag.

[The Barber]

The 90s are #1: TGIF, The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, the best episodes of The Simpsons and WWF Raw, WCW Nitro, Seinfeld, Friends, Home Improvement, Daria, Mad TV, etc.


The 60s are #2: The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Batman, The Munsters, The Monkees, I Dream Of Jeannie, Star Trek, Gilligan's Island, The Addams Family, Get Smart, etc.

[Sephiroth]

On the inverse: the late 200’s-early 2020’s were a least favorite time. Reality tv had lost it’s no empty but networks were still pumping them out. Sitcoms were virtually dead.Saturday morning cartoons began dying off as well. Adult Swim was full on transitioning to being just an anime block. Thanks to global events the doomsday 24 hour news cycle was dominating the airwaves. The Sci Fi channel became SeeFee. TV hadn’t yet started catering to my generation but the first signs were there.

[Push R Truth]

Walker, Texas Ranger leading into RAW and being followed by Silk Stockings/La Femme Nikita/whatever sexy show USA was selling at the time.

[Hypnosis]

Late 80s-90s:

TMNT
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
Simpsons
Cartoon Network's 90s programming block
Duckman
Beavis & Butt-Head
Werid Science
Salute Your Shorts (Donkeylips saying "Whoooa, power puke!" still makes me laugh to this day)
Doug
Rugrats
Power Rangers
The Weird Al Show
Street Fighter
Double Dragon
Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (these last three were guilty pleasures of mine growing up)

[Duke Cameron]

Mid 80s to early 90s

Why?

Two words: Golden Girls

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

The only thing that always pops in my head is Comedy Central in the early 2000s. Daily show, Chappelle show, South Park, crank Yankers etc was my shit.

[AKIMan64]

The Fox Network in the 90s was the equivalent to a sports dynasty. There was The X-Files, The Simpsons, Married With Children, Beverly Hills 90210, Martin, and New York Undercover to name a few. Then you factor in the license to air NFL coverage in acquiring the NFC package from CBS.

Over on Fox Kids, you had X-Men, Spiderman, Animaniacs, Bobby's World, Batman: TAS, & of course, Power Rangers at its peak in popularity. No wonder I gravitated to that channel as a kid. 

[Toilet Paper Roll]

87-93

Covers most of my elementary and middle school years where TV was everything

[Instant Classic]

Early 2000s

Nick, Cartoon Network, Disney

[Deleted]

Jan 6, 2023 11:44:22 GMT -5 Toilet Paper Roll said:

87-93

Covers most of my elementary and middle school years where TV was everything

This was exactly the span of years I was going to answer. This still encompasses the best of the '80s while including the animation Renaissance of the early '90s.

[Hit Girl]

1980 to 1999

[Deleted]

Every era is a bunch of crap and a few good shows.

I don't really have a favorite or !east favorite.

[koreycaskets]

The time period when Lost, Sopranos, Prison Break, House, 24 and I think NipTuk were all still making shows.

[unc40]

Late 70's - Mid 80's.

Different Strokes
Code Red
Hello Larry
Bad News Bears
Dukes of Hazard
The A Team
It's Your Move
Riptide
Airwolf
Eight is Enough

[yokohamacpfc]

1997-2004 is the most important, from Oz's debut to the Sopranos and The Wire hitting their stride HBO's edgy content pushed other networks to do the same and is probably the turning point for TV getting more critical acclaim and bigger fanbases than film.