I may need some time to recover from a few of these picks...
You say this?
Damn, Will & Grace should be somewhere on my list too.
And then you say this?
People who live in glass TV show judgment houses shouldn't throw stones.
This and Oz were the first shows I was old enough to like with my mom.
It debuted it's pilot in 1994 and Oz aired it's pilot on 1997.
ER had like 15 seasons. So by 1997 I was old enough to watch adult shows. However both ER and Oz had a lot of sex in them. I was way too young (14) to not squirm if anything sex related happened while near my mom so we had a plan. I would watch the shows in my room and she'd watch in the living room and then once they were over I would come to the living room and we'd talk about them.
I have really happy memories about that.
Anyway I'm not sure if ER deserves to be on my honorable mention list or I'm just being too nostalgic about it.
The modern ER remake, The Pitt, on HBO Max is good. So good Crichton's widow is suing them because it't too much of an ER ripoff.
Crazy how in the early 90's Michael Crichton had ER as the #1 hit drama that dethroned NYPD Blue on TV, Jurassic Park #1 at the box office and Disclosure as the #1 NY Times Bestseller all right around the same time.
That guy was awesome and remains my all time favorite author.
