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My Favorite Serious TV Shows – Part 4

Serious Young Man Waiting for His Serious Show

Here is the fourth installment of my favorite, serious TV shows. I’m probably forgetting some great shows. Some I never saw.

Adventures of Robin Hood
Agatha Raisin *
Avengers *
Californians
Connections
Dragnet (1951-1959)
Durrells in Corfu*
Grantchester
Hill Street Blues
Lone Ranger
McCloud
Murder Call
Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Rockford Files
Saint
Scott and Bailey
Star Trek
The Tunnel
Time Tunnel
Viking Valhalla

* = Primarily serious, these shows have a strong element of humor as well.

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

 

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My Favorite Serious TV Shows – Part One

These are the ones that first occurred to me. There should be many more. There is some greatness in TV land.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bonanza
Borgias
Bletchley Circle
Cisco Kid
Columbo
David Letterman
Doctor Who
Edwardian Farm
Grand Tour
Gunsmoke
High Chaparral
Hill Street Blues
Kitchen Nightmares (UK version is a bit better than the US one.)
Last Week with John Oliver
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Medici
Midsomer Murders
Monk
Myth Busters
Peter Gunn
Poirot
Rawhide
Rockford Files
Star Trek
Star Trek, Next Generation
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tudor Monastery Farm
Tudors
Twilight Zone
Upstairs, Downstairs
Versailles
Victorian Farm
Vikings
Whitechapel

 

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D., critic

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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My Favorite Funny TV Shows – Part 3

This a third installment of my favorite funny TV Shows. I sure forgot a lot of them in the previous two lists. I look forward to finding more gems.

* = Shows that were side splitting and I would very much want to see more episodes.

All in the Family
Dennis the Menace, 1959 to 1963
Derry Girls*
Dobie Gillis
Horrible Histories* (Oh my gosh, how did I ever forget this hilarious show?)
Kids in the Hall
My Family*
Our Miss Brooks
Patty Duke Show
Rocky and Bullwinkle, 1959 to 1964. This show goes by various names.

Please let me know your favorites. Thank you.

 

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D., critic

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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My Favorite Funny TV Shows

 

These are my favorite TV Shows. I hope I didn’t forget any.

* = Shows that were hilarious and I would very much want to see more episodes. Alas, it’s not possible. These tend to be shows that produced only a few episodes a year.

I hope the below list is helpful and that you get as much enjoyment from them as I did.

Absolutely Fabulous
All in the Family
Barney Miller
Beverly Hillbillies
Big Bang Theory
Black Adder I-IV*
Blacks Books*
Bob Newhart Show
Cheers
Corner Gas*
Corner Gas (animated)*
Cosby Show
Dad’s Army*
Dick Van Dyke Show
Fawlty Towers*
Father Ted*
Frasier
Friday Night Dinner*
Get Smart*
Goes Wrong Show*
Home Improvement
Honeymooners
How I Met Your Mother – Skip the last two seasons
IT Crowd*
Malcom in the Middle
MASH
Miranda*
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Mr. Bean*
My Name Is Earl*
Northern Exposure
Odd Couple
Parks and Recreation – Skip the last two seasons
Petticoat Junction
Psych
Red Dwarf
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Simpsons
Scrubs
Top Gear (First 20 seasons) Mostly a car show, but the presenters are quite funny.
Workaholics – Mostly hilarious, but a few are a bit mean.

 

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D., critic

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

 

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My Favorite Restaurants – In-N- Out

I’ve heard that the three things Southern Californians love to talk about are:

1) Rain

2) In-N-Out

3) Rain

This restaurant/to-go place is that good.

I said before that the best restaurants often are family run where the family members love to make food. Although In-N-Out has become far too big to have all its restaurants staff by family members, it is still family owned.

The workers at In-N-Out are the most dedicated and competent of any fast-food restaurant that I have ever seen. Perhaps it’s because it pays its employees so well. It has been the highest paying burger eatery since 2013. Store managers earn $160,000. The desire to work at an In-N-Out stays so high, that you realistically only have a chance of being hired if you’re recommended by a current employee. But employees stay on longer than other burger joints. You almost have to inherit a position from an employee who leaves.

In-N-Out runs it’s to-go orders better than any other fast-food restaurant. Whenever there’s any line of cars behind the takeout window, In-N-Out sends employees out to individual cars to take orders. So, their to-go line moves fast.

There food is fresh. I know this. I’ve seen the restaurant make its own French fries. In-N-outs have a machine that cuts potatoes into fresh, individual fries. Those fries go immediately into a deep fryer where they are cooked to a wonderful crispness. I believe the chain extends this commitment to freshness to all of their ingredients.

And I haven’t even gotten to the rest of their menu. Their hamburgers are the best in the county and so are their milkshakes.

Their prices are so reasonable. They rival or are below those the national burger chains.

In short, In-N-Out is the best place for burgers. And fries. And shakes

Oh, ask for their “Animal Style” sauce packets. They’re tasty.

I’m hungry.

 

Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.

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