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1. Homicide - Great cast and just perfectly written. It worked on all cylinders and I will never know why it didn't get better ratings.

2. Simpsons - We bitch about the quality now, but that is only because it was so incredibly good in its prime.

3. Seinfeld - So few bad episodes.

4. Twilight Zone - The best episodes were some of the best shows ever put on television. I have always wondered why this couldn't be remade successfully. I can still just sit and watch a marathon of Twilight Zone even though I wasn't born when it was on the air.

5. Buffy - It took me a long time to accept that I should be watching this show. It ebbed and flowed a bit but no show was better at subverting your expectations of what it was supposed to be. For evidence of this look at Charmed, which is what Buffy could have, and should have, been given the network it was on and its demographics.