Earlier:

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

Later on:

• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Invader Zim
• Futurama

Animaniacs

Gargoyles

Doctor Who (Classic)

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.

• 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).

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.

• Monty Python
• Doctor Who (reboot)
• Firefly

Batman the animated series

Captain Future

Home Improvement

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

Three’s Company

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

Beavis and Butt-head

• X-Men
• Alf
• the Simpsons

Cheers

Doug

X-Men

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.

Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy

Spongebob

Power Rangers

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