Earlier:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Simpsons
• ReBoot

Later on:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Invader Zim
• Futurama

Animaniacs

Gargoyles

Doctor Who (Classic)

Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we'll never really stop pollution because super heros aren't real lol

1. Thundercats
2. Voltron
3. Transformers

This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn't think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.

I narrowed it down to these three:

• MAS*H
• Hogan's Heroes
• Dinosaurs

Not because I'm so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny's place a lot of afternoons.

Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn't really there when she got very old and then died.

Looking back it's really sad that I wasn't there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.

As a kid.

• Saved by the Bell.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• Ducktales.

As a teenager.

• The Wonder Years.
• Friends.
• Party of Five.

I didn't include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that's a given.

Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver

Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc

What a time to be a kid

Sliders

The Tomorrow People

Family Ties

Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.

Three's Company

Pee-Wee's Playhouse

Beavis and Butt-head

Cheers

Doug

X-Men

Batman the animated series

Captain Future

Home Improvement

Tales from the Crypt

Monsters

Tales from the Darkside

Avatar the Last Airbender

Power rangers

Scooby doo

All from different eras of my childhood I think, some existing in more than one but I obsessed over all of them

• Monty Python
• Doctor Who (reboot)
• Firefly

• The Simpsons: From seeing Season 2 episodes someone had recorded from Sky TV on VHS before it was on terrestrial TV, through to Season 9 when it stopped being good many years later. It was on all the time and we never got bored of it.
• Red Dwarf: The first TV show I was allowed to stay up “late” for, when it broadcast at 9pm. Felt like I’d entered a new stage in my life watching a late-night comedy show.
• The X Files: Similar to the above, this was the first serious, “grown-up” TV show I watched, and I was hooked. I thought anything with a paranormal tinge was awesome at that younger age (I guess I still do, although through an admittedly far more sceptical scientific lens these days).

• Dragonball Z
• Mythbusters
• The Simpsons

• X-Men
• Alf
• the Simpsons

Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard

Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team

Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth... My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the "Boob Tube". Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.

So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend's house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.

I'm no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.

Buffy

Stargate SG1

Rugrats

• Star Trek The Next Generation
• The Simpsons
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien

star trek TOS. original twilight zone. doctor who.

Ed, Edd, n' Eddy

Spongebob

Power Rangers

Man. Daria was so good! I still watch it occasionally.

• The Fresh Prince
• Saved by the Bell
• Dragon Ball

Star Trek

The Waltons

Happy Days

Yes, I’m old!

Star Trek: TNG

Batman: The Animated Series

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

• How It's Made (with the witty British voice over)

• Myth Busters

• Big Bigger Biggest

I would lay in front of the Discovery Channel for hours while playing with Lego. Wouldn't you know it, I grew up to be an engineer!

• Simpsons
• Pokémon
• Power Rangers

Dragon ball z Ren n stimpy Beavis and butthead

• Out of this world
• Gargoyles
• The Simpsons

• Daria
• TNG
• South Park

The Simpsons

Power Rangers

Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

These are from young child up to late teens/20s

Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, the Lone Ranger.

I'm not THAT old, but New Zealand didn't have television until late in the day, so we got cheap, years-old US kids' shows. I was ten before our region got TV and it was a few years after that when we got our own set. The first TV I ever watched was coverage of what must have been one of the early Saturn rocket launches. We went to my older sister's boyfriend's house to watch it. Very exciting!

I liked Lone Ranger best. "Hi ho Silver, and awaaaay!"

Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends

Thomas and Friends Spongebob Ed Edd n' Eddy

In chronological order from kid to teen:

Scooby Doo
Duck Tails
The Wonder Years

The Simpsons

The Magic School Bus

Friends

Honorable mention to Sailor Moon

The first three that come to mind are:

• Daria
• Hey Arnold
• Round the Twist (Australian kids show)

Hey Arnold

My So-Called Life

Captain Planet

Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible

Scooby Doo Courage the Cowardly Dog Invader Zim

SpongeBob trumps all of these, but that's like a free bingo spot for 90s kids

Only three is hard, probably:

• Scooby Doo
• SpongeBob
• One of those local sitcoms that have raised about 3 generations on reruns and "would never be produced now" yet are still played on TV

Spongebob

DragonBall Z

Ed, Edd, n Eddy

Rocko's Modern Life

Ren and Stimpy

Spider-man: The Animated Series