I’m doing something that I’ve never done before on the blog. I’m sporadically counting my picks for all-time greatest shows that I’ve watched throughout my life. I’ve watched TV almost all of my life but after College, I started to watch the shows that so many people love. I’ve had the opportunity to watch shows on Netflix or Hulu that I never got to watch as a child. Some of these are very old shows that anybody who lived during that time will absolutely remember.
Here’s how it will all work, I will post my picks as separate blog posts whenever and each post will be a mini-review and will explain why it’s one of my favorites.
Keep in mind, I am not ranking them down to my absolute favorite because they are all equal in my eyes. I will sometimes boast on certain shows if they are considered by me to be excellent so in a way, I am not ranking my favorites, but I am willing to point out the ones that are timeless to me. Enjoy my list and see if you can guess which ones will be my timeless picks. Timeless picks will be marked by this symbol, 💖.
#16. ER (Seasons 1-9)
My parents would always watch this show whenever it came on Primetime NBC. I never understood what it was about but would come to watch it years later and would come to appreciate it as one of the best 90’s medical dramas.
ER has some of the best written ensembles that you will ever watch and launched/continued the careers of George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle, Sherry Stringfield, Eriq La Salle and a few others. Each episode covers a day in a Chicago County Hospital and follows some of the main characters throughout their residency. ER showed its viewers on what could possibly happen if anybody is sent to the E.R. in real life and shows how there are people who care about the health of their patients, some of them willing to break the rules in order to save lives.
Throughout each season, you follow most of these characters and see a character arc from beginning to end and most of the time, they would have to overcome huge barriers that could potentially end their career. Almost all of the main characters would leave the show at some point due to career change or even death and a new character would take over that position. Change is inevitable and most actors will not stay on a show for more than ten seasons.
It’s on my list, but it’s not timeless, most episodes can be easily forgotten but there’s always one episode that will showcase the very best of a show and that episode would be Hell and High Water from Season 2. That episode shows everything that ER had to offer and was my favorite episode in the series because of its heart-pounding tension and excellently written teleplay. To summarize it follows George Clooney’s character, Doug Ross as he finds a boy that became stuck in a storm drain and could potentially die due to certain conditions. All throughout the episode we follow Dr. Ross as he rescues the boy and stays with him for almost all of the episode. 
I watched up from Season 1 to the beginning of Season 9 as over time, the show’s quality degraded due to all of the original actors leaving the show and in my opinion, the legacy could not be carried on by the replacement characters, but it still is a very good show in it’s early seasons and is the reason that most of today’s medical dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and House exist. I highly recommend checking this show out as it’s still one of my favorite shows and is one of the best examples of good medical dramas.
I watched all but 1-2 seasons. I always enjoyed it.