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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: medinabuckeye1 on May 23, 2025, 03:18:07 PM
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Somehow we got into a discussion of TV shows in the Obits thread so I thought I'd post a list of top-5 TV shows here, the information is from wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_television_programs_by_season).
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Some notes:
I Love Lucy is amazing. It ran six seasons and was #3 in the first then #1 in four of the remaining five only dropping to second below the $64k Question once.
After I Love Lucy, Westerns REALLY dominated the airwaves for quite a while. Look at 58/59:
- Gunsmoke
- Wagon Train
- Have Gun - Will Travel
- The Rifleman
In addition to those:
- #6 Maverick
- #7 Tales of Wells Fargo
- #8 Real McCoys
- #10 Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- #15 The Texan
That is nine of the top-15.
One show that I found it interesting is absent from the list I provided above is Gilligan's Island. It only ran three seasons:
- #18 (tied with the Munsters) in 64/5
- #22 in 65/6
- Outside the top-30 in 66/7
Gilligan's Island was wildly successful in syndication and, IMHO, is MUCH better remembered than a lot of the shows that crushed it in the ratings race during it's original run.
There is a reference to the show "I've Got a Secret". One of the more fascinating TV clips I've ever seen involved an appearance on that show on February 8, 1956 (https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+samuel+seymour+on+i've+got+a+secret&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS899US899&oq=youtube+samuel+seymour+on+i've+got+a+secret&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRirAjIHCAQQIRirAjIHCAUQIRiPAtIBCjEzNzA2ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBQXGytNXqxwC&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:304c2a70,vid:UtF4sYya-0c,st:0) by a 94 year old man named Samuel James Seymour who claimed to have witnessed the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he was just a little boy in 1865.
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It appears that my list didn't copy/paste so let me try breaking it up:
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One show that I found it interesting is absent from the list I provided above is Gilligan's Island. It only ran three seasons:
- #18 (tied with the Munsters) in 64/5
- #22 in 65/6
- Outside the top-30 in 66/7
Gilligan's Island was wildly successful in syndication and, IMHO, is MUCH better remembered than a lot of the shows that crushed it in the ratings race during it's original run.
This is a great example of what happens with top athletes. On the one hand, you have some that barely make their HOF when they're no better or worse than those who barely miss their HOF. Most HOFers stay famous while the ones who don't tend to gradually disappear to time.
But even within the HOF players, some are continually held above and get mentioned and others fall by the wayside.
In the NBA, any one of us could rattle off 20 all-time greats, even if we're not major basketball fans. Our 20 would include extra players from our sweet-spot, age-wise. But I bet our lists would have the same 16-17 players and would omit the same 5-6 players who had equal careers of those we all mentioned.
Guys like George Gervin, Moses Malone, etc.
You can do it for any sport.
Tris Speaker, Al Kaline, Tim Keefe, etc in baseball.
I think the NFL does the best avoiding this. But I think in 30-40 years, because of guys like LT, Reggie White, and Bruce Smith, players like Rickey Jackson or Chris Doleman will become anonymous.
The 25th-ranked player all-time in value is Carl Eller. Never heard of him before in my life. Don't recall any deep voice saying his name on NFL Films. So they exist, just fewer of them imo.
College football has it built-in with mid-major teams' players.