TV, whilst being a brain sapping, intelligence draining, advertisement filled whore, does occasionally throw up some real gems. Listed below are TV shows that I think stand head and shoulders above anything else on the box over the last forty years. Click on the title to access details including episode guides, plot overviews and themes.
 
24 A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Alias Annually Retentive
The Avengers Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica Black Books
Blackadder Blake's 7
Brasseye Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Caprica  
Children of the Stones Chocky
Chocky's Children Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Day of the Triffids The Day of the Triffids (2009)
The Day Today Dead Set
Doctor Who (original) Doctor Who (new)
The Doombolt Chase Elfen Lied
Extras  
Fawlty Towers Firefly
Full Metal Panic! Gantz
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Golden Boy
Gunslinger Girl Hellsing
Hikaru No Go House (aka House, M.D.)
I'm Alan Partridge Invasion
The IT Crowd Jam
Jason and the Argonauts The Keith Barret Show
Know Me Knowing You  
The League of Gentlemen Nathan Barley
Neon Genesis - Evangelion The New Avengers
The New Statesman Nightingales
Now and Then, Here and There The Office
One Foot in the Grave Peep Show
People Like Us Phoenix Nights
Police Squad! The Prisoner
Prison Break The Professionals
Psychoville Red Dwarf
ReGenesis Sapphire & Steel
Seinfeld The Soprano's
Spaced Star Trek: DS9
Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: TNG
Star Trek: Voyager Stargate SG-1
Stephen King's It  
Surface Taken
That Peter Kay Thing Threshold
Time Trumpet The Tommyknockers
The Tomorrow People V
V (2009) Wallace and Gromit
The Wire The X Files