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| Avengers and Spooks are ’cool TV’ |
| 2004-02-17 |
| Nothing like a "Best Of" list to inspire well reasoned discourse: The Avengers, Miami Vice and BBC hit Spooks have been included on a list of the "coolest" TV programmes ever made. The decades-spanning list, published in this week’s Radio Times, extends from political drama The West Wing to cult shows like Twin Peaks and The Prisoner. "At its best cool TV makes you want to leap from your armchair and shout ’Yes! I want to live like that,’" said Radio Times TV editor Alison Graham. "It makes you think, ’I want to wear sunglasses to work and walk down corridors in slow motion!’" "I want to nail a different hot chick every week!" Here is the list in full, in alphabetical order: The Avengers (1961-69) Mrs. Peel in her leather cat suit, sigh! CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2001-) If you like hot chicks at room temperature The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1965-68) They had the coolest toys Miami Vice (1985-90) And yes, I had a white jacket, why do you ask? Murder One (1996-97) Huh? The Prisoner (1967-68) Number Six, your Balloon of Death is waiting Queer as Folk (1999) Don’t ask The Saint (1962-69) Very cool Seinfeld (1993-2001) Very funny, but not cool. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The Sopranos (1999-) Tony will be happy Spooks (2002-) State of Play (2003-) Twin Peaks (1990-91) Strange, not cool The West Wing (1999-) It’s a BBC list, what can I say. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 Actually, Shipman, it was after Marlin dang near got drug into a river and squished by an Anaconda that he started staying in the chopper and letting Jim wrestle the various beasties... Never get off the boat, man... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-2-17 1:11:11 PM |
| #12 The Rockford Files |
| Posted by: Unmutual 2004-2-17 1:06:32 PM |
| #11 Marlin Perkins was tight with chainey and made Jim do all the work. I remembe Marlin watching from a helicopter as Jim wrastled with an anaconda at the end of the tussle Marlin sez "We've got him!" By the way Mutual of Omaha is dominated by bilderbergers. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-17 12:33:57 PM |
| #10 What, no "Hat Squad? No "Misfits of Science"? What bullshit! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-17 12:05:37 PM |
| #9 fuckin meddling BBC,can't they spend my fuckin license money intelligently! |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-17 11:53:10 AM |
| #8 Screen American Chopper for the BBC crowd. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-2-17 11:23:32 AM |
| #7 I am not a number, I am a free man!! |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-2-17 11:09:18 AM |
| #6 what!!! no mutual of omaha? that jim guy was the best! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-2-17 11:08:44 AM |
| #5 The Avengers as #1? Unquestionably correct. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2004-2-17 11:00:18 AM |
| #4 I'm an Ernie Kovacs man, myself. Funniest routine I've ever seen was when he played a real estate agent showing a house. On a hill. During an earthquake. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-2-17 10:46:10 AM |
| #3 Secret Agent -- Coolest theme music ever Mission: Impossible -- Cool, clever spies Twilight Zone -- being a Zone afficianado is cool Jonny Quest -- Coolness for those under 15. (I had a crush on Race Bannon's girlfriend Jade at age 7.) |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-2-17 10:38:04 AM |
| #2 Where's Chimmey Rockford? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-17 10:05:22 AM |
| #1 What does the BBC know about cool? All they know is how to compose biased information, a tactic that they are using to great advantage here. Any list of "the top 10 most" whatever is subject to great scrutiny whenever it appears. The biases of the list composers are on full display. You might as well get a Grammy or Oscar award, they're just about the same thing. |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-2-17 10:00:27 AM |