from Most Memorable down to those I seldom miss (but still Remember something special of), in order of how strong they have touched my heart and/or impressed my brain.
Only including longer series, of which I have experienced at least twelve short or six long episodes, often many more (in most cases on discs, seldom streaming or classic broadcasting) - so some of my favourites fall outside of this list.
No pure programs, talk shows nor reality docusoaps here, just dramatised stories or directed scenes with actors
(or dolls, cartoons). No room too for christmas calendars, collection
of sketches such as Monty Python, Galenskaparna, neither different short
stories like Hitchcock Presents etc.
I became
surprised of how many I've really have watched, and even more surprised
of how many I still have left to discover (maybe never).
For each I mention the place it's mostly located to, plus the year first
aired. The maker can refer to creator as well as director or manuscript
writer, whoever seems most responsible.
prologue, more like short movies
DOCTOR SNUGGLES
Animated world, British-Dutch
made 1979 by Jeffrey O'Kelly (from Nick Price)
1
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Minnesota
made 1974 by Michael Landon
based on Laura Ingalls
2
VARUHUSET = THE DEPARTMENT STORE
Stockholm
made 1987 by Peter Emanuel Falck
3
LIFE ON MARS (both seasons)
+ ASHES TO ASHES (some parts of)
Manchester
made 2006 by Graham, Jordan, Pharoah
4
ÄKTA MÄNNISKOR = REAL HUMANS
swedish sci-fi-city
made 2012 by Lars Lundström
(original version)
5
BONUS FAMILY
Stockholm
made 2017 by Herngren & Herngren
6
GLEE
Ohio
made 2009 by Ryan Murphy
7 A)
SOLSTOLLARNA
Malmö and Copenhagen
made 1985 by Ola Ström & Per Dunsö
7 B)
TOFFELHJÄLTARNA
a ghost castle hotel
made 1984 by Per Dunsö & Ola Ström
8
EAGLES
Oskarshamn
made 2019 by Adolfsson, Montell, Lindén
9
HEIMEBANE - "YOU WILL WALK ALONE"
Ulsteinvik
made 2018 by Johan Fasting
10
ONE NIGHT
Oslo
made 2018 by Öystein Karlsen
11
GREY'S ANATOMY
Seattle
made 2005 by Shonda Rhimes
12
RIGET = THE KINGDOM
Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen
made 1994 by Lars von Trier
13 A)
BREAKING BAD
Albuquerque
made 2008 by Vince Gilligan
13 B)
BETTER CALL SAUL
Albuquerque
made 2015 by Vince Gilligan
14
GIRLS
New York
made 2012 by Lena Dunham
15
FAME
New York
made 1982 by Christopher Gore
16
S.P.U.N.G
Stockholm
made 2002 by Cilla Jackert
17
SKAM = SHAME
Oslo
made 2015 by Julie Andem
18
BEFOREIGNERS
Oslo
made 2020 by Jens Lien
19
INVASION
Florida
made 2005 by Shaun Cassidy
20
GAME OF THRONES
Westeros and Essos
made 2011 by Benioff and Weiss (from R.R. Martin)
21
THE WIRE
Baltimore
made 2002 by David Simon
22
THE COSBY SHOW
Brooklyn
made 1984 by Bill Cosby
23
VI PÅ SALTKRÅKAN
a swedish island
made 1964 by Olle Hellbom & Astrid Lindgren
directly for TV, not based on her books
24
SVENSKA HJÄRTAN = "SWEDISH HEARTS"
Gothenburg
made 1987 by Carin Mannheimer
25
LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX
Yorkshire
made 2012 by Sally Wainwright
intermezzo : THE PINK PANTHER SHOW
Animated world
made 1969 by David DePatie & Fritz Freleng
26
DOWNTON ABBEY
Yorkshire
made 2005 by Julian Fellowes
27
VÅR TID ÄR NU = THE RESTAURANT
Stockholm (also filmed in Gothenburg)
made 2017 by Harald Hamrell
28
DIPS
Stockholm
made 2018 by Marie Agerhäll
29
30 ROCK
New York
by Tina Fey 2006
30 A)
THE MUPPET SHOW
some UK version of Broadway?
made 1976 by Jim Henson
30 B)
SWEDISH SESAM
Galateatern
made 1981 by Birgitta Götestam & Peter Flack
based on SESAME STREET by Jim Henson
31
MR. BENN
(not to be confused with Mr. Bean)
Animated, historic contexts
made 1971 by David McKee (also books)
32 A)
TÅRTAN = "THE CAKE"
Stockholm
made 1972 by Alexandersson & De Geer
32 B)
PRIVATDETEKTIVEN KANT
Stockholm
made 1983 by Alexandersson & De Geer
33 A)
ENKELSTÖTEN
Kalmar
made 2017 by Herngren & Bucht
33 B)
DUBBELSTÖTARNA
Kalmar
made 1980 by Pelle Berglund
Both based on books by Tomas Arvidsson
34
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
different fictive countries
made 1966 by Bruce Geller
35
COLUMBO
Los Angeles
made 1968 by Levinson & Link
36
BROADCHURCH
southern England
made 2013 by Chis Chibnall
37
THE LORD'S WAYS (Ride Upon The Storm)
Copenhagen
made 2017 by Adam Price
38
IL MIRACOLO = THE MIRACLE
Rome
made 2018 by Niccolo Ammaniti
39
BRON = THE BRIDGE [original version]
Malmö /Copenhagen
made 2011 by Hans Rosenfeldt
40
HEROES
Los Angeles or fictive world
made 2006 by Tim Kring
41
DRÖM = DREAM
Gotland or fictive place
made 2019 by Amir Chamdin
42
TWIN PEAKS
Washington close to Canada
made 1990 by Mark Frost and David Lynch
43
NUMB3RS
Los Angeles
made 2005 by Falacci & Heuton
44
HEDEBYBORNA
Hedeby
made 1978 by Håkan Ersgård
based on Sven Delblanc
45
THE McCAHANS : HOW THE WEST WAS WON
cross USA
made 1976 by Byrnes & Ruddy
46
DALLAS
(especially first season, seen later)
Texas
made 1978 by David Jacobs
47
MAD MEN
New York
made 2007 by Matthew Weiner
48
TWENTY TWELVE
London
made 2011 by John Morton
49
FAWLTY TOWERS
Torquay
made 1975 by John Cleese
50
FRAGGLE ROCK
Fraggle Rock + parts of human world
made 1983 by Jim Henson
intermezzo : LA LINEA = THE LINE
on a chalkboard drawn
made 1971 by Osvaldo Cavandoli
51
THE YOUNG POPE
Vatican State
made 2016 by Paolo Sorrentino
52
FLEKSNES FATALITETER
Oslo
made 1972 by Bo Hermansson
based on Hancock's Half Hour
53
PISTVAKT = "GUARD OF THE PIST" (A WINTER'S TALE)
fictive Svartlien in Lappland
made 1998 by Lars Lundström and Stephan Apelgren
54
STAR TREK (original version)
Space ship Enterprise
made 1966 by Gene Roddenberry
55
Vspace
made 1984 by Kenneth Johnson
56
KILLING EVE
different places
made 2018 by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
57
DOCTOR FOSTER
some english town
made 2015 by Mike Bartlett
58
M*A*S*H [Mobile Army Surgical Hospital]
Americans in Korea
made 1972 by Larry Gelbart
59
BAND OF BROTHERS
Normandie and more on WW 2 front
made 2002 by Spielberg & Hanks
60
BONANZA (CARTWRIGHT BROTHERS)
Nevada
made 1959 by David Dortort & Fred Hamilton
61
ENTOURAGE
Los Angeles
made 2004 by Doug Ellin
62
TRE KÄRLEKAR = "THREE LOVINGS"
Outside of Stockholm
made 1989 by Lars Molin
63
TRUE DETECTIVE
Louisiana, California, Arkansas
made 2014 by Nic Pizzolatto
64
SNOKEN
Stockholm
made 1993 by Kjell Sundvall, Leif Krantz, Harald Hamrell
65
BLACKADDER
Old England
made 1983 by Rowan Atkinson & Richard Curtis
66
THE ADDAMS FAMILY
some fairytale museum
made 1964 by David Levy
67
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (with David Cassidy)
bus through USA
made 1970 by Bernard Slade
68
THE WONDER YEARS
some American town
made 1988 by Carol Black and Neal Marlens
69
DET VAR DÅ...
Sweden
made 1989 by Lars Björkman & Ola Olsson
70
CHATEAUVALLON
in France
made 1985 by Paul Planchon
71
'ALLO 'ALLO!!
Nouvion in France
made 1982 by David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd
72 A)
LACKALÄNGA (FOLKHÖGSKOLA)
Nässjö(?)
made 1987 by Rune Formare based on Max Lundgren
72 B)
ÅSHÖJDENS BK
Skåne
made 1985 by Rune Formare based on Max Lundgren
73
SUPER GRAN
fictional Chiselton
made 1985 by Forrest Wilson
74
RENA RAMA ROLF
Gothenburg
made 1994 by Joachim Bergenstråhle
75
HEMMA VÄRST = THE YOUNG ONES
London
made 1982 by Rik Mayall and more
intermezzo : PAT & MAT
dolls in Czechoslowakia
made 1976 by aiF STudio incl. Lubomir Benes
76
LEIF & BILLY
Sörbäcken i Norrland
made 2017 by Eriksson, Svensson, Wiman
77
BRÖDRENE DAL & PROFESSOR DRÖVELS SECRET
Norway
made 1978 by Eivind Aaeng
78
STARZINGER
Animated Space
made 1978 by Leiji Matsumoto and Yugo Serikawa
79
THE FLINTSTONES
Animated Stone Age
made 1960 by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
80
THE LUCY SHOW
Danfield, N.Y.
made 1962 by Lucille Ball and others
81
SALLY
somewhere i Sweden
made 1999 by Ulf Malmros
82
THE MENTALIST
Sacramento
made 2008 by Bruno Heller
83
STRANGER THINGS
Indiana
made 2016 by Duffy Brothers
84 A)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Later Version)
colonies further out in Milky Way
made 2004 by Ronald D. Moore and more
84 B)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Original Version)
colonies further out in Milky Way
made 1978 by Glen A. Larson
85
HOMELAND
USA versus Iraq and more
made 2011 by Gordon & Gansa
based on an israelic series
HEM TILL BYN = "HOME TO THE VILLAGE"
swedish farm (filmed outside Alingsås)
made 1971 by Bengt Bratt
87
HIGH CHAPARRAL
Arizona
made 1967 by David Dortort
88
DANGER BAY ["ÄVENTYR I BUKTEN"]
Vancouver
made 1985 by Saltzman & Dixon
89
MIAMI VICE Florida
made 1984 by Michael Mann and Anthony Yerkovich
90
OZ
Oswald State Correctional Facility, a Maximum Security Prison
made 1997 by Tom Fontana
91
HOUSE, M.D.
New Jersey
made 2004 by David Shore
92
THE OFFICE (Original version)
Berkshire
made 2001 by Stephen Merchant & Ricky Gervais
93
FREDRIKSSONS FABRIK
Norwegian place
made 1990 by Bo Hermansson
based on The Rag Trade
94
UGLY BETTY
Los Angeles
made 2006 by Salma Hayek
95
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
New York
made 1987 by Ron Koslow
96
"THE FABLES NEWSPAPER" [DE FABELTJESKRANT]
Dutch animation
made 1968 by Leen Valkenier
97
THE MAGICIANS
Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy
made 2015 by Gamble & McNamara
based on Lev Grossman
98
TORCHWOOD
same fictive universe as Doctor Who
made 2006 by Russel T. Davies
99
LAGENS ÄNGLAR = L.A. LAW
Los Angeles
made 1986 by Steven Bochco
100
REDERIET = HIGH SEAS or THE SHIPPING COMPANY
traffic between Stockholm and Turku
made 1992 by Boije af Gennäs & Falck
epilogue, has been on top as well as bottom :
PROFESSOR BALTHAZAR
Animated in Zagreb
made 1967 by Zlatko Grgic
ZYZ
