The Most Influential TV Shows of All TIME(Not in Order. Except #1)
[Excuse my english i'm not American/English/Australien]
This a List with some of the Most Influential TV-Shows of all Time featuring some new ones that will probably do so. Some Shows in this List are or have Elements New or Unique which will affect the future of Television.
[Please excuse my English im foreign, and please dont take anything described or mentioned as an attack on you, im open to discuss.]
This a List with some of the Most Influential TV-Shows of all Time featuring some new ones that will probably do so. Some Shows in this List are or have Elements New or Unique which will affect the future of Television.
[Please excuse my English im foreign, and please dont take anything described or mentioned as an attack on you, im open to discuss.]
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- CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingRobert McCordJay OverholtsOrdinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.One if not The Most Influential TV Show of all time.
Countless Movies and TV Shows got inspired or directly made a Carbon copy from one of the ideas of this Marvelous Show.
Movies the Terminator, Cube(1997),Childs Play aka Chucky 1 (1988),
Poltergeist (1982), Donnie Darko (2001), The Box(2009).
Lost (2004-2010), The Outer Limits, Fringe, The X Files, American Horror Story, Quantum Leap, X-Factor (1997-2002), Amazng Stories, Alan Wake, Alone in the Dark (2008).
There are Countless more but it is too much to name every single film/tv show inspired by this Show. In fact nearly every Episode of this show inspired Movies tv Shows books Video Games Music - CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingLarry WatsonJoanna PettetRod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.Unique and for it's time it features Advanced Story Telling and mixture of Genres (such as Sci-Fi, Mysterie, Horror, Drama and Comedy) Displayed how most of the TV Shows of today are told.
TV Shows like The Killing (Original and US Version) Carbon Copied this Show, they just took out the Scifi, Mysterie, Horror.
The X Files also got lightly Inspired by this Show, in fact David Duchovny himself has a Cameo (I won't spoil what role) in this Show.
The Mysterie and Story Telling of this Show Inspired Heavily the Well Known Award Winning Show Lost, in terms of Story telling character development and the mysteries itself, to avoid as many spoilers as possible i'll give you a hint: The Red Lodge in Twin Peaks and The Lodge in Lost with a mysteries person(youve seen the Show ? you know who i mean).
Mullholland Drive was before it got turned into a movie a Tv Pilot for ABC which would have continued the story of Rita.
There is also a Twin Peaks Movie which is a Prequel but whatch it after youve seen the show otherwise many things wont make sense or would spoil the show.
Even Video Games are Inspired by this Show, such as: Alan Wake, Deadly Premonition, Alone in the Dark and more.
Rumors begin to circulate that Lynch is in talks to eventualy continue the show after more then 20 Years. - CreatorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiTwo F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.Inspired by Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972) and All the President's Men (1976) The X-Files continues to inspire other Shows and Movies by its Ideas and Story Telling, Characters and theyre Development.
This Show had nearly Every genre existing like: Drama, Horror, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Film Noire, Mystery, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller, Crime. The Show Inspired Heavily Shows such as Dark Skies (1996) (which is a direct copy of The X-Files) and Fringe.
Fringe could be seen as a modernized X Files at least the first 3 seasons till it slowly found its own Voice during the Third Season.
The Creators Knew they where Similar and even hid Easter Eggs in the Show to call out X Files fans and even Made an Episode inspired by the Intro, you Remember The Moving Shadow filmed by the Surveilance Camera in the X Files Intro ? in an Episode of Fringe in Season 1 or 2 the FBI hunts for a Person who can move as some kind of Shadow. There are much more Episodes directly copied or inspired, watch booth shows and you'll see what i mean.
The Story telling Structure of Supernatural and its vibe( if you know what i mean) are also inspired by the xfiles, this is no coincidence because Kim Manners himself was Producer and sometimes director on booth shows.
Movies like Wrong Turn got inspired by the episode Roadrunners(s08e04) and another one (which i forgot how its called)
which is about a town where strange murder happen and are commited by "cannibalistic men grossly disfigured through generations of in-breeding". Also on this Show there are countless Movies and TV Shows inspired by which would take forever to name them all, just watch the show and you will be amazed by how advanced it still is for today how good its technically made and how many deja vue moments you will have with all the movies you've seen since the show ended. (Please forgive and forget the second X Files Movie from 2008. There is still a possibility for a third movie. - CreatorDoug EllinStarsKevin ConnollyAdrian GrenierKevin DillonFilm star, Vince Chase, navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.Realy Entertaining feel good TV Show which will inspire future TV Shows and already inspired another Show which is preety good and the exact same kind of show just not about show business but Fashion business (dont be affraid its not a girl show): How to make it in America.
Movie in the works - CreatorTracy TorméRobert K. WeissStarsJerry O'ConnellSabrina LloydJohn Rhys-DaviesA boy genius and his comrades travel to different parallel universes, trying to find their way back home.The Show runs with on of the Most Interesting questions of Human kind. What If !, for example how would America be if it got ruled by the Soviet Union or if the World would be dominated by Women and man are only used for birth.
To Conquer the Question of what if Every Episode The Show operates with the Theory of Parallel Universe and could be seen as one of the most groundbreaking Tv Shows of all time at least for the first 2 seasons. Sadly season 3 has only a handful of good episodes and is besides that a catastroph same as season 5, season 4 is mediocre.
Sliders inspired shows Like Lost and more mysterie scifi shows.
Steven Spielberg will produce a movie which will be Sliders'esque
which got picker up by Christopher Nolan called Interstellar - CreatorGene RoddenberryStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyIn the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.I dont really have to tell you about this but this show inspired Movies and shows such as: (besides the other star trek shows) Firefly,
Star Wars (don't bash me im not a Trekkie fanboy), Battlestar Galactica (old and new), UFO (1970-73), Farscape, Buck Rogers, Earth 2, Stargate (all its spin offs), Seaquest, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and much more.
Star Trek The Next Generation even Invented the Tablet PC which Microsoft try'd to sell in the 90's but flopped and years later Apple
Revamped it as Ipad.
Star Trek even brought the Ultimate Nerd Dream of a Console working like the Holodeck, and of course last but not least the mobile phone Beaming and more technical revolutionaire ideas - CreatorTim KringStarsJack ColemanHayden PanettiereMilo VentimigliaCommon people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.WIth it's many Characters a lot of people thought it will be a mess but the creators, writers found a great way to manage this problem. Many People consider that only the 1 season is great and the rest of the show is a total disaster, because of the mistake the writers made
(watch the show you will understand why) but the rest of the 3 seasons are still preety entertaining. The Show has one of the Best Effects i've seen on TV. This Show will for sure inspire Future Shows, there already been attempt's to take the idea of this show but failed, there is also a show in development which will be Heroes'esque.
The Show got Cancelled after it's 4 Season by NBC (What a surprise as soon as a TV Show becomes to be One of the Greats they cancell it, as they did with Awake).
There' rumors that Microsoft Entertainment Stream Service will pick up the Show and Continue it, i hope so, cause the Show ends with a Cliffhanger. - CreatorDavid ChaseStarsJames GandolfiniLorraine BraccoEdie FalcoNew Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.Inspired By The Godfather, Casino, Goodfellas, Scarface and other classic Gangster Movies the Show depics inimitably the life of Family and friends in a Mobster World.
TV Show like Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, The Black Donellys and more got inspired.
It Even inspired Video Games Such as Grand Theft Auto 3+4 even the 5th one, the Character Michael seems to be inspired by Tony Soprano. - CreatorPatrick McGoohanStarsPatrick McGoohanAngelo MuscatPeter SwanwickAfter he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is actually a bizarre prison. He refuses to give his warders information while attempting to escape.One of the Most Influential Show of all time and sadly not well known. This Show could be seen as Lost from the 60's if you whatch the show you will see that Lost took the Island Mysterie The Shadow Smokey, observers and even the crappy finaly from this show (at least in terms of dissapointment).
There is also a Remake TV Show with Jim "Person of Interest" Caviezel and Ian Mckellen, which i havent seen but isnt
nearly as good as the original. - CreatorMick GarrisStarsKaren Elizabeth AustinJ. Winston CarrollMiho NinagawaAnchor Bay's collection, which has amassed some of the best horror film anthologies.Every Episode of this Anthology Series is a standalone mini Horror Movie directed by a Director that has had a History in Horror Filmmaking.
What makes most Episodes Great is that all of the Directors had Complete freedom of what and how to do their respective entry into this Show, they had a limited Budget but the effect while being restricted of what is possible also gives a creative freedom rarely seen at the Studios.
You could argue that Rod Serling´s "Night Gallery" sort of did that already, but the great difference is that every episode (with some exceptions" is by a different Director which has the effect that the style is totally different.
By the way the Show got cancelled after two Season, but there is an Unofficial third Season, which aired on a different network, the Show is called "Fear itself" - CreatorRodrigo GarcíaHagai LeviNir BergmanStarsGabriel ByrneUzo AdubaDianne WiestA psychotherapist questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years.Based on the israeli show be tipul it continues to influence other shows.
Many countrys remade the show for theire language, like netherlands, germany, italy and more - CreatorChris CarterStarsLance HenriksenMegan GallagherTerry O'QuinnA former FBI profiler with the ability to look inside the mind of a killer begins working for the mysterious Millennium Group which investigates serial killers, conspiracies, the occult, and those obsessed with the end of the millennium.Great Show which inspired Hannibal (2013) to be exact you could even say that Hannibal(2013) is an Updated Version of this Show just with all the Hannibal Universe things (i don't mean bash Hannibal im actualy a big Fan) if you watched both shows you will recognise the similarities, except for the obvious.
- CreatorAnthony YerkovichStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra Santiago-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.Nothing in TV form catches the 80's as good as this show did
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.As of its release Year of 2017 this show after more than 25 Years, and coming back is again one if not as of now and surely for the years to come one of the most unique if not the most unique Shows you can Watch anywhere.
If youd watch the original twin peaks as of today youll probably recognise lots of TV Shows from the last years to have had copy its formular and maybe even its tone and character development.
If you where a fan of the original Show youd certainly watch the Return, but mind that if you hated the twin peaks movie or most of Lynch Movies, Youll hate this Show, as it is nothing like the first 2 Seasons. The less you know the better, lets just say if you loved the really dark parts of the original you will Love this Show.
There was and is nothing else on TV that is comparable to this Master Piece of Show (im talking about the return), without going into detail
The Show feels like an 18 Hour Movie (which is the exact number of episodes) the reason for that is, that Lynch and Frost wrote the Show as a Movie, which you will feel during your watching experience.
This Show became so much more than most of Watching experiences (especially TV Shows) are, just like 2001, this Show lets you think about Life, yourself, Love, Earth, Humanity, Death, Ego, duality in our selves and more.