WKRP in Cincinnati. Probably the first show I really got hooked on. Just loved the characters and their interactions, the serious topics they sometimes discussed and also the great humor.

Cheers. I always enjoyed this show. Thought it was funny and it was consistently good.

X-Files. The last TV show I religiously followed in real time.

Trailer Park Boys. A great Canadian show that is just LOL funny.

24: I've been getting the season DVDs and I've been enjoying them a lot.

Law and Order: A show with a great formula that still works.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: This was my Star Trek but I do have to say the original is also very, very good too.

Batman (60s version): God this show is funny. I wish they'd put it out on DVD already.

Justice League Universe. Probably the best superhero cartoon series ever done. Especially the 2nd last season.

The Simpsons. It brought the funny

Firefly. The only Joss Whedon TV serial I really liked whole-heartedly. Even better than the original Trek. I will sit around and watch Firefly or Jeremiah on DVD if there's nothing good on TV and I don't feel like doing anything.

Babylon 5 is, hands down, my fave show ever. J. Michael Straczynski has spoiled me for other, lesser television shows. It wasn't written down to people, never insulted your intelligence, and often made the viewers think and come to their own conclusions on tough issues of responsibility and honour. The characters actually changed and grew over time, not stagnating at the same thing year after year after year, and they felt real, with often gigantic flaws, and lives outside what we saw every week. And with a planned out story, you felt like you were watching a novel made for television, and some day there would actually be a satisfying conclusion to this epic storyline. For the time, and constraints of the production, the show is simply incredible for what they pulled off in the five year run.

Wings - This is simply my all-time favorite show. I can watch it for hours and know most episodes by heart.

Family Guy - Funny, crazy, just great. Was sucked in from the start by the pop-culture references and twisted humor.

Futurama - Same as Family Guy but swap out the pop-culture for writing that is a bit more "smart"

Scrubs - Funny and makes me think of me and my friends.

Just cuz I'm a geek...the givens: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Stargate: SG-1 and Atlantis

My favorite television series comes down to three series actually: Soap, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the new Battlestar Galatica on the Sci Fi Channel.

For those of you who may not know, Soap was a controversial prime time spoof soap opera that ran from 1977 to 1981. The only thing bad about Soap is that the last season ends with even more absurd cliffhangers rather than any answers. Soap is outrageous, wrong and very politically incorrect. The charm of Soap comes from the fact that you end up caring deeply for the absolutely over the top ludicrous characters and the insane predicaments they get themselves into. Everything happens to these characters from murder to alien abduction to demonic baby possession. It's an absolute scream and a half and it's addictive as all get out. There's no way to just sit down and watch one. I can only imagine the pain the people that watched it on a weekly basis must have gone through. It is television mind candy in high form.

I'm sure most of you are at least passingly familiar with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For years I scoffed and scorned this show. And then they had a musical episode, and being the musical dork that I am, I just had to see that. I watched it with my roommate at the time who was a huge Buffy fan. After watching the musical episode, I was left asking my roommate all sorts of questions about what was going on in the overall plot. The more questions I asked and the more answers she gave, the more convinced I became that I needed to watch this series from the beginning. So being in Cepheid Variable, the Texas A&M Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror committee, I was easily able to find someone who had the series on DVD and I quickly tore my way through the DVDs that were out at that point, while watching the rest of season 6 with Cepheid at someone's house who had satellite. The cable company in College Station had dropped the channel that Buffy played on at that point, so a committee member got cable just so that they and we could get our Buffy crack. And once you get past the horribly cheesy first season it is crack. The thing I like the best about the Buffy series is the character development. No character that's in the series in the long term ends the series the same way they started it. For better or for worse, they grow and change, just like people do in real life.

However, my prime television pop culture dope, is Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar Galactica is perhaps the best television show ever made. Sure the first one was bad and hokey, but this one takes the premise and names and proceeds to kick ass from there. From the original miniseries I was hooked and I'm still anxiously waiting for it to start up early April. The biggest pain with being a Battlestar fan is that they tend to make you wait extraordinarily long periods of time between installments. The plot is that a robot race called the Cylons have eliminated all but a small handful of Humanity. The Cylons have developed to a point where they are undistinguishable from human beings. So the show deals with what does it mean to be human, what does it mean to be the last dregs of humanity and what obligations does that entail. In short it's an epic soap opera in space with some of the best explored "villains" ever. And not only are the "bad guys" thoroughly explored, the good guys are given the exact same unflinching treatment. It's a beautiful piece of television. The final season is just about to begin and that makes me sad. I'm happy that they're going to get to complete the story the way they want and with the emotional whirlwind it's been, it's bound to be exciting.

My favorite T.V. series of all time would have to be "M*A*S*H". Particularly later in the series, I think they hit upon a nearly perfect mix of characters on the cast, and balanced comedy with commentary on both war itself and social issues in general.

Firefly. Without a doubt.

Guns, space ships, hookers and crime. What else could you POSSIBLY ask for?

But wait . . . there's more. There's witty dialog and interesting characters and excellent acting. For me, the additional seasoning, a distrust of distant, uncaring, unrepresentative government was also welcome. Kinda reflects my feeling on my own government, in which I have zero representation due to philosophical conflicts with all the major players on the political scene.

I'm not a big TV person, and in fact, I only watch shows on-line or on DVD. In fact, my favorite show is one I fell in love with on DVD long after it was cancelled, and that is Babylon 5. That show is what sci-fi TV should be: epic storylines; strong, well-written characters that rise above the usual cliches; especially strong female characters who were allowed to be feminine, in power, and three-dimensional; comedic moments that fit in perfectly with the over-all drama.

For current TV, I love Heroes, because I'm a nerd; Monk and Psych because they make me laugh; and The Daily Show and The Colbert Report because heaven forbid I should have to watch real news.

The original "Star Trek", because it's what got me interested in science fiction as a child, and first introduced me to a sense of community among fans, not to mention great writing (at least for some episodes, anyway).

"Deadwood", because it's incredibly well performed, sweary, dramatic, clever, realistic, hard to predict (unless you've read a lot of the history) and I want to be Al Swearingen when I grow up.

"Bottom", because it's just hilarious - the best use of innuendo and slapstick humour that I know of, it never gets old.

Old: Twilight Zone, Jonny Quest, Wild, Wild West, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-0, the '60s Batman, the '70s Wonder Woman. Current: The Office, Dancing with the Stars.

Like others, I am enjoying the current run of Battlestar Galactica. It's got drama, questions of ethics and good old soap opera. What's not to like?

The 4400 - The superhero show before Heroes. People were abducted, they came back with special powers. All sorts of action/adventure/drama ensues. I looked forward to this summer show all year, and now I've found out it's been quietly canceled. I am an unhappy camper, and you should be too. I found 2 online petitions to bring back the show:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/the4400/

http://www.savethe4400.com/

Are You Being Served? - Britcom from the 70's set in a department store. Consistently funny with oddball characters.

Cracker- British police drama featuring an all too human psychologist who works with the police on psychosexual murders.

CSI- Ok, so I must like murder shows. I love the original set in Las Vegas.

Superman and the Legion of Superheroes- I'm watching cartoons at my age, so deal with it. This is a great superhero show and it hasn't been renewed for next season. Hell will be raised with the appropriate people at Comic Con International this summer. It's coming. Be warned.

Presently-- House. He reminds me of a shrink I used to have. As you could probably guess, I think Rod Serling's 'The Twilight Zone' is the best tv show ever made.

My favorite television series is Firefly, hands-down. I've never seen a show that was better written, better acted, and more entertaining. Oddly enough, I've never really gotten into Joss Whedon's other stuff. I guess it was just the perfect mix. It is still a shame that the show was canceled so early, and my subsequent annoyance is one of the things that kept me from ever getting into TV shows again.