Are There Any Television Shows That You Have Seen Every Episode Of ?
Or almost every episode. It's kind of hard to know you've seen every episode of a show that lasted 7 or 8 years unless you kept a diary. 
Over the course of many years and endless reruns, I am fairly sure I have seen every episode of Andy Griffith Show, King Of Queens, MASH and Seinfeld. Those are the only ones I can think of right off hand.
Conversely, I have almost never watched Friends, Will and Grace, any Star Trek series after the first one, or Grey's Anatomy, ER, or Hill St Blues.
What shows have you seen from start to finish ?
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I'm waiting for someone to say Bonanza.
I probably did but I could watch them again because it was so long ago I wouldn't remember having seen it.
Hour long westerns and dramas have never been seen as much in reruns as the sitcoms. I think ME TV, the channel that airs nothing but old shows, has Bonanza but it may be only once a week.
Back when I was a kid that stuff was on every day and with only a half dozen channels they were often the best thing on TV.
Sadly here in Phoenix that's still true.
M*A*S*H
That and Seinfeld.
Definitely M*A*S*H.
I think I have watched every episode at least 4 times by now.
Bonanza! I grew up watching Bonanza. Gunsmoke. The Big Valley. The High Chaparelle. The Lone Ranger. . . . . STAR TREK (All through Voyager series.)
The Jeffersons. The Cosby Show.
Remember The Rifleman ? I used to love that show and that badass Winchester.
Sure do. RIFLEMAN. It's one of those amazing shows you can never forget, because it becomes a part of you. Remember: The Wonderful World of Disney [ Host: Walt Disney]?
Every Sunday night !
Something I just realized, Gunsmoke, began before I was born! So, I guess I watched the shows from the point of which I 'begin' forward to the end.
How about "Green Acres" or "The Beverly Hillbillies" ?
Of the TV shows you listed as seeing every episode, it's the one you featured - King of Queens, that I got to see every episode. I got to see those episodes, as old reruns during the past year - the year of the pandemic. Also during the year of the pandemic I got to watch two TV shows I recall my mother was fond of - Perry Mason and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (245 episodes available on the Peacock Network.) It's funny how you suddenly become interested in what your mother used to enjoy. I think I got it!
Other than that I can say with some regret/some pride that I saw every episode of Maverick (James Garner) as a kid. There is one more. After being told about a specific TV show via a customer a few years ago, I finally got to catch every episode during an AMC marathon - Breaking Bad.
I guess most of my TV watching took place during the past year. I don't know if that's good or bad?
PS: I think the secret formula for King of Queens was creating characters that were close to real.
A few years (more like 10 or 15) ago a local tv station was showing King Of Queens reruns every night at 10:30. Since I have never been a big fan of the network late night shows like the Tonight Show I began watching King Of Queens reruns at least a couple nights a week. Thus over the course of a couple years I was able to see all of the episodes of the show. I know that is the case because eventually I was seeing reruns of reruns.
King Of Queens is one of the most underrated sitcoms, imo, as it is never mentioned in the same breath with the classics. No matter, I still laugh at it. These were classic characters, Doug, the turn of the century update on the Ralph Kramden character of the 50's. Carrie, the boisterous and sexy wife who enjoyed asserting her New York style aggressiveness , Arthur, the live in father (and father in law) always scheming , bragging, and complaining.
The show revolved around what a childless 30 something couple in a blue collar neighborhood might do, a set up that hasnt been on tv that often. Blue collar couples usually have kids on tv sitcoms, it is the professional people that dont. King Of Queens went that slightly off kilter direction, with Carries 70 year old father acting like the child in the family.
In 2020 Lifetime showed King of Queens episodes from morning to night. Now CMT does it from 1PM EST to 4PM EST.
I'd love to have a share of the residuals.
I love the opening of King of Queens since it's all the places that I would go to right by my house when I lived in Queens. Nothing beats the King of Corna Ices. That is real Italian Ice, homemade, and you can eat it while watching older men play bocce ball.
I tend to go to the local library, borrow every season of a particular show and binge watch. Since the pandemic have watched every episode of LOST, Firefly, Hell on Wheels, Deadwood, Tour of Duty, Longmire and many, many more.
My local library is part of a network of small town libraries that lend to each other. Availability is rarely an issue as they have dedicated drivers who spend all day shuttling books and DVDs back and forth.
Ya gotta love public libraries! There's no cable out here yet and got sick of paying for satellite that had limited content that I wanted to watch and way too many commercials.
When I was unemployed and dirt poor I used the local library a lot. Saw every episode of Frazier that way. I saw somewhere that Frazier is coming back too.
Police Squad
Scrubs
Star Trek (all of them)
Breaking Bad
Nowadays, with all the resources available ( Hulu, Netflix, Red Box, Walmart ), it is very very easy to find all the episodes for any of your favorite shows.
OH! I forgot about Scrubs!
1 of the top 3 sitcoms of all time, IMHO.
I loved the character Perry. His rants always made me laugh.
There really wasn't a character on the show that was not completely fleshed out and provided their own essential part. The show could not have lasted without all of the main cast remaining, from Perry to the sweaty, singing lawyer.
FYI, his habit of calling JD girl's names was something the actor brought in, it was not originally written in the scripts.
Agreed.
That I'm aware of and John C. McGinley is friends with Chelios [former Red Wings hockey player] and that's one of the reasons that McGinley frequently wore a Red Wings jersey.
Did you read who his neighbor was that he started calling by girl's names?
Me too! And Northern Exposure and The Wonder Years.
Also "Men of a Certain Age". I just loved that show. It really was tuned into a guy's psyche and had a great cast, Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Brougher.
Damn! The Wonder Years. I used to come home from work and that show was 'appointment tv' for me. Heck, I think The Wonder Years was one of the several shows that coined the phrase: "Appointment TV."
("Must-see tv"?)
That part I don't remember.
The Golden Girls
MASH, Friends, Golden Girls, and Seinfeld.
I need to read comments first. Haha
I have seen every episode of MASH.
Mash, Breaking Bad, Weeds, Last Man Standing, NCIS
Breaking Bad is one of my all time favs...
One more, one of my all time favorites, Frasier. I'm not sure I've seen all of them but if not I'm close.
Seinfeld, Taxi, Bull (contemporary), Monty Python. Soon I will be able to add Star Trek TNG (on season 7 now).
The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Andy Griffith,The Walton's, The Sopranos, Goodtimes, The Jefferson's, Dallas, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Home Improvement, Twilight Zone, The Big Valley, Wagon Train, Dexter. All the Super Bowls to date.
Come to think of it, I've probably seen every All In The Family.
Does that include Archie Bunker's Place?
Good question. I saw quite a few Archie Bunker's Place but I don't think I saw all of them. Then again, it only lasted a couple years so I may have. .
Six Feet Under
True Blood
Game Of Thrones.
Wow, how could I have forgotten GoT in my list?
No spoilers. I'm only up to the 4th season.
My lips are sealed.
I've forgotten anyway
We just sent the Session 8 DVD to my MIL. She's excited about it...
I'm halfway there. Tyrion is an awesome character.
True Blood. How could I have forgotten it in my list? "POWER." Empire.
I have seen all of those too
Gilligan's Island, Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Watched the whole first season of Once Upon a Time in one sitting
This List could really get long if I tried but I can say the first ones were probably Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Leave it to Beaver, Sanford and Son, Barney Miller, Good Times, and The Jeffersons. Of course there were multiple cartoon series that I'm sure I watched all of them but I can only be sure of Star Blazers because it was a continuing series and I went through great pains to never miss it. I could go on and on through the 70's 80's 90's and up not to mention the reruns from the 50's and 60's.
Same here with Star Blazers. The whole neighborhood had to shut down whenever it was on when I was a kid. Drove our parents nuts that for 30 minutes to 1 hour every day 10 to 20 kids (if we were playing sports- and we were always playing sports) would be in someone's house grouped around the tv. Usually it was a good idea if the kids from that house were actually there. It happened more often than I care to admit they were not.
Every episode is on youtube...it was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid.
All the Star Trek series up to and including Enterprise.
GRIMM. BREAKING BAD. Once Upon A Time.
Oh, and how could I forget this long: DALLAS!
I Binged all of Grimm it was a cool show.
I binged "Breaking Bad" in one weekend. Oh, let me add - BEWITCHED. (In real time.)
BTW, "Breaking Bad" is the only series that I have listed to this point that was 'done' on Netflix.
and "I Dream of Jeannie" ?
Binged Breaking Bad and GoT a few months ago.
Breaking Bad was 'the fhit.' I was/am in awe of myself for staying 'down' that long that weekend. 61 episodes was a 'monster-run' but I enjoyed every minute of it!
Once broke bad myself which was a reason for loving the show.
Am now a force for positive good things.
There is a way I come to process a really good 'start' to a show:
NOTE: Glad you are okay, cjcold! (Smile.)
I totally forgot about Dallas, and I live here!
Pssst. "Dallas" (J.R. Ewing) almost changed the trajectory of my life (in a 'bad' way).
All right I'll admit it "The Facts of Life" but it's not my fault I had two Sisters.
I guess nobody loves "I Love Lucy", I must have watched them all because my sisters Loved Lucy. I didn't mind watching most of the shows my sisters watched but I hated the Mary Tyler Moore show but I probably saw them all.
Loved it!
I used to love Flipper reruns and Superman, Batman, The Munsters, Adam 12, and Emergency.
Dark Shadows. The Addams Family.
Chips, The A Team, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Knight Rider, 6 million dollar man, The Fall Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard, Grizzly Adams, Little House on the Prairie.
CHARMED (Original cast.) Highway To Heaven.
Happy Days, Laverne and Sherley, Alice, One Day at a Time, Fish (Abe Vigoda), Chico and the Man.
Pretty sure I misses 'sizable' numbers of these shows (though I loved them immensely each in its own way)!
No Barney Miller? Fish must have obviously been an offshoot of Barney Miller, right? I vaguely remember it. Didn't he and Bernice adopt those kids?
Yes they had a bunch of Foster Kids, it was only on two seasons. I mentioned Barney Miller in another comment before I remembered Fish. Has anybody listed Diff'rent Strokes yet ?
My all time favorite episode of Barney Miller, I loved the characters on that show, was the pot brownie episode. Hilarious!
They were great Cop characters and the funniest Perps committing the stupidest crimes. I liked Detective Nick Yemana, Wojciehowicz, and of course Fish but they were all great.
Ha!!!
Dark Shadows
Northern Exposure
CSI
The Odd Couple
Brideshead Revisited
Probably more than I can list off the top of my head. If I enjoy a show, then I often want to see it from start to finish, in the order it aired, as if I was reading a book. It's easy to do these days with DVRs and all of the cable channels and/or streaming services making repeats constantly available. Not to mention full-series DVD box sets.
Here's a few I can recall at the moment...
Many more are coming to mind now that I'm thinking about it, including a few short season cable or streaming shows that got cancelled early on (it's easy to see every episode of those). I won't bore everyone by listing every last one of them, though.
Right now I'm in the middle of the original Will & Grace. I didn't watch it when it was first airing, but I recently grabbed the entire series with my DVR and have been trying to knock it out. It's okay, but not great (IMO). If it wasn't for the Karen character I probably wouldn't be bothering.
I can't believe I forgot to mention my favorite post-2000 sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. I started picking up TBBT DVDs as soon as they came out.
🎵 Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state...
I read thru the comments and laughed many times.
All the sitcoms above I have watched all my life and yes probably saw almost all of most of all of the episodes on many of them. (I never was a movie guy, I figured I'd save movies till I was too old to move myself) lol
I live in Phoenix and have an antenna system. Almost every one of those old sitcoms are still playing here on antenna channels daily.
All of these:
3s company, that 70s show, Charles Angels, I love lucy , Chips, The A Team, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, 6 million dollar man, The Dukes of Hazzard, Grizzly Adams, Little House on the Prairie. Flipper Superman, Batman, The Munsters, Adam 12, and Emergency. "I Dream of Jeannie" Archie Bunker's Place All In The Family Frasier. Last Man Standing . Mash Friends, Golden Girls, and Seinfeld "Green Acres" "The Beverly Hillbillies" Bonanza. Gunsmoke. The Big Valley. The High Chaparelle. The Lone Ranger. STAR TREK, rat patrol, the Andy Griffith show, Gommer Pyle,
Plus A couple of my old favorites Have gun will travel and wanted dead or alive.
No Shit these shows still show regularly every day here in phoenix using an antenna ...
It kinda sucks though cause sometimes I feel stuck in time.
Man I forgot about Gomer Pyle, McHale's Navy, Hogan's Heroes. So many great shows
Yeah I missed a few as well. There were so many and most were at least OK . I guess that's why they are still being aired.
I don't think we've collectively even still named them all.
facts of life, the Jefferson's, Sanford and son .....
There are many shows I watched and liked but I guess nobody else did because they only lasted one season and I can remember the show but not the names.
That's a long list, but off the top of my head..
M*A*S*H
Breaking bad
Gilligan's island
Deadwood
Star Trek, (all of them...multiple times)
Battlestar Galactica, (all of them)
My Favorite Martian
Lost In Space (both old and new)
American Gods
Band Of Brothers
Game Of Thrones
Into The Badlands
Salem
The Expanse
The Terror
The X Files
Happy Days
Laverne And Shirley
ALF, 3rd Rock from the Sun.
ALF yes, never was a big fan of 3rd Rock. Not a bad show, just didn't hit my funny bone. Mork and Mindy though...
I had forgotten ALF. That was one of my all-time favorite shows
Salem was 'damn' good. Loved the ending; made me want it to go a 'step' (level) further. Also, SPARTACUS (STARS-cable).
Perry Mason, I wrote a paper on those shows in college and reruns were every night at 10PM, had to watch them all and keep a list
Babylon 5, Get Smart, old Star Trek
I can think of 5 - Dallas, Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, the Original Star Trek cast series, and The West Wing. As well I probably watched a lot of Seinfeld, All In The Family and Mash but don't think I watched all episodes.
If I were ever able to watch only one of them again, I'd choose The West Wing.
Good take off. Buzz
I really liked shows that had a lesson in them stuff like Andy Griffith when I was real young until I realized O Andy used a lot of manipulation and deceit to teach the lessons.
Now If I only was able to see one show I think it would be maybe "Have gun will travel" The show about a western gentleman gun fighter who used his brain to problem solve problems and issues before his gun.
w.dailymotion.com/video/xnd/.have./gun/will/travel
Was reminded when I saw Perrie's list that I think I watched all the X-Files and some of ER as well.
There was an American criminal justice program I used to watch but they had an episode where a criminal had run to Canada to hide from a crime he had committed that upon conviction would lead to execution. Canada refuses to extradite anyone to another country where he/she would face capital puishment, so the Americans agreed with Canada that the individual would not face exection in order to get their hands on him, and at the end said "Fuck Canada, we're going to hang the bastard." It was then that I lost total respect for the series and never watched it again.
I remember the episode it was one of the Law and Order shows but they didn't say FU to Canada they extradited him for certain crimes and kept their word not to pursue the death penalty on those crimes but later charged him with others that they hadn't been sure of at the time of the deal and which were still capital crimes and not limited by the agreement with Canada. I think the perp claimed he hadn't killed someone and it was later learned he had killed them, I think it was the owner of the truck he stole to get to Canada.
Thanks, zuksam. At my age my memory is fading so I just interpreted the fact that they TRICKED Canada as saying "Fuck Canada". America is doing the same thing today with the CFO of Huawei. As I've said many times already, Life Imitates Art.
While they didn't violate the letter of the deal they did violate the spirit but rest assured since it was NY was he never actually executed (even in the pretend world of TV Cop Dramas).
I am so glad that I am not alone in being a TV addict. Here is my shortlist:
I'm going to stop here before you think I am nuts and refer you all to this article:
When did you have time to go to the bathroom?
On commercial breaks, silly!
I had a DVR that let you pause regular TV, if you had to go you just hit pause and it would start recording right at that spot and you could watch while it was still recording then you could fast forward through the commercials to catchup (otherwise you'd run into the next show's time slot). It was great for when the oven timer went off.
We do the same thing with our DVR, Zuksam. Matt often makes popcorn then, too.
I was waiting for someone to mention Homicide, Life on the Streets. I loved that show. No one has offered that on any streaming service and I've looked for it. Amazon has a crappy box set that I've heard it would be a waste to buy.
I love it because it is based in Baltimore.
Becker's a great show. I love his surly doctor character.
That has to be one of my all-time favorite crime shows. Not only was it based on true stories, but the acting was amazing and so was the writing. The show even had a poetic ending, albeit upsetting.
When my kids went to school in Baltimore, it was hard not to think of that show.
And you just have to love Becker, surly but caring doc. A lot like House, which I forgot to put on that mile long list.
My dad has a used and rare book store in Old Ellicott City (it's in Howard County, MD) and one time they were filming there. Two of the characters, I forget which two, came into the shop, and one of them bought some books for his daughter. They actually filmed the front of the store but of course they blocked out the name and they edited out my mom who was on the porch when they were filming!
I love how the characters roll over to some of the Law and Order series like Detective Munch. I always liked him.
Yeah, I know. We just finished "For all Mankind" and "Raised by Wolves" and this week starts "A Handmaids Tale". It just never ends.
I had almost forgot about some of those British series. Ab Fab was great! I loved Patsy and Edina and Saffron was more of a mom to Edina than Edina was to Saffron.
Yeah. I watch a lot of TV.
A complete list of TV shows that I've watched every episode would probably dwarf most of the lists here. Recently I purchased the complete Game of Thrones in 4K BluRay and I have a number of complete TV series in physical media as well:
Lost,
Battlestar Galactica,
Eureka,
Wharehouse 13,
Castle,
Bones,
Fringe,
Parks & Rec,
Absolutely Fabulous,
There might be some others I can't think of right now... My gf has New Girl, Shitts Creek and Friends in heavy streaming rotation. I recently completed Star Trek TNG on Netflix.
If we're talking about only shows that are complete...
For those that are ongoing and are on a final season or just have been running for a long time...
I know there are a few that I've watched on Amazon Prime or Netflix, but I can't remember them all right now. The above are / were on cable TV except for Stranger Things.
I has been announced that Stranger Things season 4 will drop on Netflix sometime between October and December of this year.
Oh YAY! Thanks!
I love The Walking Dead and have seen them all in real time but I just can't get into Fear or World Beyond. I binged Stranger Things and hopefully there'll be more. I also have watched all the Snowfall episodes so far. A show has to be really good for me to remember and make time to watch as it's aired so I've mostly been a rerun watcher all my life but these days with streaming I'm a Big Binger if I like it I can't stop. Streaming old shows helps prevent disappointment from canceled shows which I hate.
I had trouble with Fear the first two seasons. It was really dull in comparison. I wasn't a big fan of season 4 either, but the past couple seasons have proved better, at least in my opinion.
Since you're a big fan of TWD original though... Morgan, Dwight, and Sherry [Dwight's wife] are all on FTWD now.
I knew Morgan was and I had tried to watch again when he joined but I lost interest. Even the original kind of pisses me off these days to many stories running at once the first few seasons there were two or three stories running but now it seems like there's a dozen stories going at all times. I liked it better when they were one small group against the world. Maggie left for so long I don't care about her anymore so if she tries to kill Negan I hope he takes her out so she can go make more movies or what ever she was doing. As far as I'm concerned Morgan should come back and He, Daryl, Carol, Negan, and Judith should take a trip across the USA and leave everybody else behind. I'd invite Michonne but she's gotten all civilized so she's going to have to leash up a couple zombies to win me back.
Yeah. I agree. I personally think that Negan will save Maggie and little Hershel against the Reapers though... and that's why they'll both live. After that... my opinion... Maggie and Hershel will leave again. She won't kill Negan, but she can't live with him either.
The spin-off after TWD season 11 is going to be Carol and Daryl. I'm looking forward to that one, because not only have they been around since the beginning, they work well together AND it will be interesting how that will play out.
I had heard about the spinoff but no specifics, I think they should bring Judith she's badass and she doesn't get enough screen time on TWD.
Yeah... I love her.
Lol of all the various Dead characters Negan is my fave, although Princess has a certain charm as well
I really like Princess. Negan is pretty awesome. Not bad to look at either... just sayin.
The character I loved most across the entire Dead universe was unfortunately killed off two episodes ago. John Dorie played by Garret Dillahunt played on FTWD. Garret wanted off the show; he said he gets restless and likes frequent changes.
Yep I saw that the other week and was a little surprised they killed off such a prominent character. Of all Dead character I think Grant was my fave (killed off long ago)
I was about to be angry, but when I found out it was because Garret wanted out, I felt a bit better.
I don't think I remember a character named Grant.
Sorry the characters name was Glenn Rhee. He was married to Maggie and was killed by Negan
So since you like post-apocalyptic shows did you ever watch the BBC show Survivors ? It was only on two seasons 08-10 but it was really good but they canceled it for some reason. Another good post-apocalyptic show they canceled was Jericho I think there were four seasons. I understand that sometimes shows must be canceled but I hate when they just stop, there should be a law that says they must produce an ending and at least try to tie up the lose ends and give us some closure. Heroes was another good show that ended abruptly but they had screwed it up when they had that one season the writers went on strike and they let scabs write the episodes and then when the real writers came back they tried to ignore that season and it all got screwy then they canceled it. I really liked these three show and watched all the episodes and I'm still disappointed to this day about how they ended.
HEROES - I watched every episode and it's finale. Afterwards, I let that show be an example to me of overUSE and "powers" abuse.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This show was so despairing. It actually left me with no hope for a good outcome. The leading characters were manic depressed. In its final episode, at the last minute, something flew and slammed into a skyscaper window and the 'lead' protagonist transformed into some sort of advanced shield physically. I wanted to see more of that.. . .
The show was cancelled.
Yeah... Glenn died that way in the comic and it was specifically requested by Stephen Yeun (the actor that played Glenn) that he die in the same manner as the comics.
I never got into Heroes. The others I don't think I've even heard of before. I might have to check them out.
I forgot about TWD. I've seen every episode so far. All the spinoffs, too. I have my DVR set to record new episodes whenever they come on. I have to admit I watch mostly out of habit now. They've been going down hill for quite some time. In my personal opinion the original was best before the whole Negan arc, and Fear almost lost me when they killed off Madison and Nick and brought Charlie back into the group, even though she was the one who shot Nick.
I'm also getting tired of how the producers ignore how hard basic survival would be for them all when it comes to food. Canned goods from before the turn would be a finite resource for them and would start going bad after a few years, and the piddly little garden plots they show every now and then just wouldn't cut it. They'd need hundreds of acres under till (at least) for all of the people they've supposedly had in all the settlements over the years. Lot of staples like potatoes, corn, oats, and wheat, too, in addition to the seasonal veggies they mostly show. And unless I missed it, they never even tried to explain where they got non-hybrid seed from (stuff that will breed true and reproduce new seed for the next season).
I know it's just a TV show, but stuff like that still annoys me. I'm too invested to stop watching now, though. I'll have to stick it out to the bitter end.
I yell at the TV all the time when they do shit that doesn't make sense. Like Why is Daryl riding his dirt bike but they don't have a Farm Tractor plowing the fields, priorities folks. And there are no soft, chubby, fat people a decade into the apocalypse they're hard or dead and there are to many people who are still acting like it happened two months ago if they had survived thus far they'd all be smart and capable. That's why I like Judith she acts like a kid who grew up after the apocalypse would, she sees zombies like we see wasps or snakes as part of her world and something to be dealt with but no big deal. Also I don't know why they don't learn from what works for others, like Michonne's pet zombies allowed her to safely move among the dead. I'd have a whole stable full of jawless zombies for people to use when they go out, the same with the zombie masks they work so why doesn't everyone carry one for emergencies you don't need to make it from a zombie face some canvas and rubber cement or pine tar would make a reasonable mask. I'd move near the coast or a big lake because imagine how good the fishing has become a decade after commercial and sport fishing ended. Another thing is their weapons they still all have different weapons like they picked them up on the side of the road yesterday, after a decade 99% of people would be using the same weapon because it works best like a Tomahawk or those short roman/zulu fighting spears that you thrust with but don't throw. Just a couple weeks ago Carol borrowed Daryl's pocketknife, everyone would carry a pocketknife (among other things) especially a woman like Carol in the apocalypse when your life is on the line daily forgetting your tools and weapons at home would be like forgetting to put on pants and shoes. Lets face it more than a decade after the apocalypse unless you have mental or physical limitations you would be a highly skilled fighter, a knowledgeable survivalist, and a very capable woodsman. I think one of the big mistakes they made early on was they ran around gathering food and weapons but they never bothered to go to the Library and gain some useful knowledge.
I thought about that every time I saw Tara.
Good point. They could even construct traps. No regulations preventing it.
They've never really shown them with a decent, sustainable protein source (except for John Dorie in FTWD when he was at his cabin, although they had it too close to the river where it certainly would have flooded, which I thought was stupid).
Agreed. The focus seems to be on violence and gore. No shortage of that. It's just gratuitous now.
Now see... I didn't like the character Madison at all. I loved the character Nick, but the actor wanted off the show. As far as crops and other food stuffs go... I'm surprised that they don't show things like people raiding farms that had food already planted; I'm guessing that the writers realize that it would be an awfully boring show to viewers to show the mundane stuff like that though.
Now... on TWD, they showed people finding and obtaining seeds and a lot of them. They went to the museum [I think it was a museum anyway] where they got the old school tooling for farming and the museum had a stash of various seeds.
The one thing that bugs me is that when a human turns walker, they're dead; there's no blood movement, right? Why in the HELL weren't those walkers frozen solid when they showed the winter weather? Moreover, wouldn't places like say, the UP of MI or Canada have an easier time ridding of walkers by stabbing them in the head while frozen? I mean... that's what I would do. Crops grown in the spring and summer and hunting in the fall would provide a lot of food in places that get really cold in winter. You can't tell me that there's an abundance of walkers in northern MN after a harsh winter with actual temps in the -30F (or colder) range. One would think that the brain would completely freeze over; thus making them walkers-no-more.
Some people store everything they take in as fat in a situation where the body is not getting regular meals. It's just the body's chemistry. That's why even though some people try to starve themselves to lose a few lbs. actually don't lose weight at all.
That's because of a sedentary lifestyle, the kind of work many people do these days just doesn't provide enough exercise I'm not saying they don't work hard but if they're not sweating it's not the same as TWD peoples work would be. TWD doesn't really show the reality these people would actually be living with, we're taking a minimum of 8-10 hours of hard manual labor every day just to stay warm and fed and their diet would be low in sugars and fat. Wild game is lean even wild boar isn't like pork you buy because that boar works it's ass off just to survive in the wild. Not everyone would or could be super thin because people have different body types but no one would be soft after 10 years of of that life going through periods of famine but still having to do your work so you can hopefully survive.
Forget about raiding, they should have been setting up their settlements on vacant farms with huge amounts of previously worked ground readily available to them, not to mention equipment to mine for things like plow shares. Especially farms with large nearby woodlots for firewood and rudimentary lumber. Fence and barrier work would have been needed to keep out the walkers, but that's true for anywhere in the story.
For me, one of the main attractors for post-apocalyptic stories is precisely that stuff -- how in the world people might survive if civilization collapses. In my opinion, higher levels of realism is a very good thing, and gripping, dramatic storylines can be woven into realistic background settings just as easily as unrealistic ones. I've been constantly let down, though, especially by TWD, which has proven to be more concerned with grossing people out with zombie blood and guts than anything else. That stuff got old quick. I tend to fast forward through it now.
Hmm. I vaguely remember that now, but that was in season 9. They should have been doing stuff like that shortly after the beginning. The museum was a dumb place to do it, too. You'd want large quantities of fresh, strong, viable seeds; not dusty little packets of old and probably mostly dead crap that nobody grows anymore. I don't know why a museum like that would have seeds to begin with. They wouldn't be any good unless they were growing and reproducing the plants for display in an arboretum or something. It didn't look like that kind of place, and they didn't find them in a cryogenic seed vault or anything.
As far as the implements go, there should be all kinds of farming equipment lying around unused in the rural areas, not to mention the occasional farm supply store here and there (which is where they should have looked for seed early on). There should be a huge supply of that stuff out there for them to modify for their own use (horse- or people-drawn). That one little horse-drawn plow from the museum wasn't worth the effort. There'd be much better stuff available. Big eye roll moment, now that I remember it.
That actually reminds of another problem with the show. They keep showing horses being used for various things. Horses eat a lot. They need plenty of pasture range, and also need to be fed in the winter. That adds greatly to the amount of food they'd need to be growing, especially grains. To the best of my recollection, the most they've ever shown was a few smallish plots of corn outside Hilltop's gate.
Their settlements should be resembling early American colonial villages by now -- a central group of buildings where people live, completely surrounded by pastures, woodlots, and worked fields. Many, many worked fields. Hilltop is was close as they got, and it still wasn't anywhere near enough. I know there's filming limitations involved. It's not like they're going to create a huge farming village on hundreds of acres, but there is such a thing as CGI, and non-human landscape scenes are the easiest things to create with it. They already use it for plenty of other things, like walker hordes.
No idea. Nothing has ever made scientific sense about the walkers. Not one damn thing. They are fantastical and complete works of fiction, and as such, the writers can do anything they want with them. Like lots of things in fiction, the viewer has to completely suspend disbelief about them just to watch the show.
That's a good point. I didn't think of it like that; however, in communities like Alexandria, there were people sheltered and had a relatively sedentary lifestyle... hence the few "fluffy" people.
Oddly enough, despite my husband's disgust with the show the past couple seasons, we've had conversations that involve the downfall of civilization and what we would do to survive. We live in Southeast Michigan, about 12 blocks from the Detroit River. First thing we would do [after a large portion of the people in the area either left or died] is go to a place called Grosse Ile; it's an island with two bridges that can be opened so that no one can get to or off the island without a relatively large and/or powerful boat. TONS of fishing and forestry with plenty of rabbit and deer... crops would be an issue though, it's sandy. We would procure a boat... strong enough to fight the current. There's a lot of usable things along the river, including scrap steel, hospitals [yes plural] and of course fresh water. Further south along the river, you run into Lake Erie and can get to farm land from there if necessary. Again, this is assuming that a large portion of the people fled or died. Actually with a strong enough boat, one could make it all over the Great Lakes... that would be convenient anyway. The issue would come in when fuel goes bad and there's none to squander... although, the Marathon plant would have large quantities of fuel. My main concern would be Fermi, the Nuclear Power Plant not too far south of where we live.
Yeah, I wondered about that too. I know that it's fiction, but still... could try to be a little more realistic.
That's why I said TWD doesn't portray what it would be really like, they would have been working hard farming, building the wall especially since they didn't travel around a couple hundred people would have depleted what could be salvaged locally pretty quickly. As far as the seeds Alexandria and the other communities were set up quite early so they could have gotten seed right off the shelf and grown potatoes right from some they found but they'd need many acres of cultivated land to feed everyone. With intensive farming practices at least 2 to 3 acres per person with reasonable sources of meat and fish for protein and if they want wheat, corn, or other grains at least double the acreage. They'd be working at least a few hours a day in the fields then they'd be canning, drying, processing the food for storage. They would need to irrigate their crops. They'd also have to warehouse a lot of things like shoes and clothes because unused stores and houses get damp and moldy and it's a lot easier to store and preserve than to make from scratch. I'd build a collection of shoes to last me a lifetime and around the compound I'd wear sandals made out of car tires and seatbelt webbing.
Think about everyone you know and what they have, now times that by how many houses, farms, shops, stores, factories in your area. It's all yours now, to be used in any way you can think of to help you survive and keep yourself comfortable. There must be 50,000 guns within 10 miles of my house, a thousand woodstoves, generators, 100,000 tanks of propane (I can make any gasoline generator run on propane), 25,000 tanks of heating oil in basements which is diesel fuel. Given the huge reduction in population and how fast it happened TWD would still have plenty of salvageable fuel left after a decade. Even though Gasoline gets old I'd bet it can be reprocessed (time to go to the Library) and the the average gas station has at least 30,000 gallons in the ground and there must be 200 stations within ten miles of my house. There's no way they used it all give the lifestyle TWD portrays them living.
Certainly true about a lot of stuff, but the diesel and gasoline would degrade over time. I don't know exactly how long it takes to go bad, but I don't think it would last a decade. Maybe with stabilizers added to it. Not sure, though.
That's what makes keeping horses and cows worth it, they eat a lot of hay but they provide good fertilizer so manure and peat moss which can be gotten at any home center will get you off to a good start when mixed with sandy soil. Sandy is actually better than clay so get all the peat you can get then start composting leaves, grass, garden waste, chicken poo, fish guts, if you can get weeds and lily pads from the lake they are very good to compost.
Diesel lasts decades especially in basement tanks the only problem is water from leaks or condensation but every diesel tractor and many old trucks used to have a water separator so they're not hard to find. Gasoline needs octane to run in a engine but now we use alcohol as octane and it bonds with water and becomes inert so moisture lowers octane and make gas go bad but it would be much less in underground tanks and like I said I'm certain gas can be reprocessed/redistilled to remove the moisture then make some grain alcohol for the 5% needed for octane and you're in business. I'm not saying reprocessing gas would be easy but if you consider the amount of plowing 10 gallons of gas in a farm tractor can accomplish compared to manual labor it's worth the effort.
You can find water separators at any auto parts store... probably covered in lots of dust.
Farms usually have large tanks of bright pink "farm fuel" diesel too.
That's #2 heating oil, they use it because they don't have to pay road tax for fuel they use on the farm or for heating so it doesn't have the dye the state adds to indicate the road tax was paid.
That part I knew. I didn't realize it was heating oil. Us here in MI... not too many use heating oil for heating [at least in SE MI]. It's generally steam baseboard heat [provided by boiler] or natural gas.
I have a oil fired steam boiler for heat with cast iron radiators. You can run diesel in a oil furnace a lot of people do if they run out and can't get a delivery right away they get 5 gallons of diesel to last a day.
I liked the Walking Dead at first.
The show should have ended already. They kinda ruined it keeping it alive. I haven't watched it since Carl died.
Thanks to A&E, BBC America and my DVR, was able to download and watch in chronological order.....
The Twilight Zone, ST-Voyager, and ST-DS9. The various story arcs of the Trek series made more sense that way
I am embarrassed to admit it, because I don't think I saw anyone else mention it- but "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Even when it got really bad towards the end.
My uncle LOVED that show!
I must have seen every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've watch so much TV I can't remember half of it. How about "Welcome Back Kotter" ?
Wow. I loved me some Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I consumed it all too. And that reminds me: TEEN WOLF.
I've got three more and I know I've seen them all, The Monkeys, The Little Rascals, and The Three Stooges. I know The Little Rascals and The Three Stooges started their lives as film shorts but they were later formatted into TV shows.
Law and Order Criminal Intent
Vincent D'Onofrio is one of my favorite actors.
NYPD Blue
And remember - be careful out there . . .
Justified
The Wire
Seinfeld
Cheers
Deadwood
Arrested Development
Parks and Rec
The Office
I watched all the Justified episodes, Good Show!
Great acting, great characters. (Outside of the Michael Rappaport story line). I think it's probably the most underrated TV show of all time. I don't think it gets the credit it deserves.
Loved Timothy in Justified. Great series.
If Netflix shows count. Then the new series Lost in Space; Orange is the New Black; The Umbrella Academy; and 300. I never bing watched anything before Covid-19.
These days so many shows are continuing stories it's better to binge, it's like a real long movie and you avoid all the cliff hangers. I like The Umbrella Academy too.
Oh... I just thought of another one.
That 70's Show.
I watched all of That 70's Show. They reminded me of my friends growing up, getting stoned, Hitting each other, making fun of each other, laughing if one of us got hurt and poking the wound. Did you watch "The Ranch".
No. I haven't.
See... I was a teenager in the 90s, but believe it or not... it wasn't much different from That 70s Show. Just different clothes really.
And the stars are still bumping nasties to this day.
Love that one, but I don't think I've seen every episode yet.
Another show I liked in the beginning yet it went to pot.
After Eric left, it lost its luster.
Agreed. It wasn't the same show without him.
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Law and Order - SVU
Friends
MASH
The Crown
Schitt's Creek
Full House
I watch every episode of every show I’m interested in. I also watch way too much tv. I like Ridiculousness because it’s almost always on and there are a bazillion episodes. My wife hates that show so it works out well - she watches Hallmark crap upstairs and I get some me time in the mancave. Hallmark is basically Hal repellent.
While I have some familiarity with many of the shows mentioned the only one I believe I've watched every episode of was Person of Interest. I was absolutely addicted to that show
Very good show, wished it could have continued for another couple seasons
The fans loved the chemistry between Shaw and Root
Me too
Root was an awesome character but really they all were in their own ways
Farscape. Stargate SG-1. The Following. Seven Days.
A tidbit about "The Following" and "Seven Days":
The Following - a dangerous show which just "went away" without notice, because it illustrated danger that could 'translate' to the real world, in my opinion. This show was like a train-wreck that you—I could not unwind from, because it was literally psychotic sick.
Seven Days. Frank Parker ("dreamy"). This show ended abruptly around 9/11/2001. It seems the plot (NSA going back in time seven days to stop national security happenings from. . .well - happening failed to pick up the real world New York City incident September 11, 2001.
I just remembered two of my more recent favorites "Vikings" and "The Last Kingdom". I had heard The Last Kingdom was getting another season but I think it got postponed but I'm not sure either way at this point
I love The Last Kingdom. Who couldn't love Utred of Bambenberg?
Which reminds me of another one I missed on my list, "Outlanders". Love that show, too!
I binged it till she went back to the future and never got back to it after that. I'll have to watch the rest someday when I have time.
Paladin, ''Have Gun - Will Travel''.
Still airing in Phoenix weekdays @8am
One of my favorites. "The gentleman gunslinger". lol
"Wanted dead or alive" is good as well. Its on right before "Have gun will travel".
Are you talking about the TV show, or yourself?
I might be wrong, and maybe missed it, but the last half of the final season of "Vikings" has yet to air
Checking the episode guide, it appears the last 10 were broadcast earlier this year in Canada
Another excellent show viewed in its entirety was "Gotham"
Also watched most of "La Femme Nikita" starring the lovely Peta Wilson
The Final episodes have been Broadcast and I must say the final was the most disappointing final considering how good the show was. They should do it over like Breaking Bad did in El Camino.
Downton Abbey, Bob Newhart, Firefly and The West Wing.
Oh, yeah. I saw all of Firefly, too, including the movie.
I forgot Bob Newhart and The West Wing.
I've done all but Newhart at least twice.
Star Trek - TOS, TNG, and Voyager. I'm working through DS9 and Discovery.
Wings
Cheers
The Cosby Show
Mad About You
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch (I think I've seen them all, anyway)
Downton Abbey
Upstairs, Downstairs (the relaunch, not the original)
Bramwell
The Crown
Derry Girls - try it, it's a scream
What, no Enterprise? Hang your head in shame, LOL!
Not yet. I'll get there someday.
Loved wings. I didn't list any shows that I watched in reruns as I never know if I saw them all or not.
I worked at an ice cream stand in high school and college, and "Wings" reruns were always on when I finished up my shift at 10:00. So that's what I watched. Had a bit of a crush on Tim Daly.
Derry Girls! I watched all of that, too. It's hilarious.
I just finished watching it for the second time. Some jokes I missed, because I was still laughing at the jokes before them. I hear it's been continued, but filming was delayed by the pandemic. Also, the actress who played Clare is in Bridgerton, which may affect her availability.
Yeah, I suppose that happened to a lot of shows. I'm certainly looking forward to more of it. I hope they can figure the Clare thing out. With so few episodes, surely they can schedule around other productions.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
It only had 2 seasons.
Every episode of all Star Trek series including ST: Discovery and ST: Picard.