ThePatchedVest Selection: Television & Animation

Below is a curated selection of my favorite live-action television shows from across genres, decades, and networks, including guilty pleasures(*), titles in bold text are my absolute/essential favorites.

• 21 Jump Street (1987)*
• 120 Minutes (1986)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (2013, S1-4)*
  
•     Agent Carter (2015)
• Alternative Nation (1992)
• Andor (2022)
• Ash vs. Evil Dead (2015)
• Band of Brothers (2001)
•     The Pacific (2010)
• The Bear (2022)
• Beef (2022)
• Being Human (2011)*
• The Ben Stiller Show (1990)
• Black Books (2000)
• Black Mirror (2011)
• Boardwalk Empire (2010)
• The Boys (2019, S1-3)
• Breaking Bad (2008)
•     Better Call Saul (2015)
• Broadchurch (2013)
• Chernobyl (2019)
• The Colbert Report (2005)
• The Crow: Stairway to Heaven (1998)*
• The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn (1996, S1-3)
  
•     The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (1999, S4-20)
• Daredevil (2015)
•     Jessica Jones (2015, S1)
•     Luke Cage (2016)
  
•     The Punisher (2017, S1)
•     Daredevil: Born Again (2025)*
• Dark (2017)
• Dead Set (2008)*
• Deadwood (2003)
• Doctor Who (1963)*
•     Doctor Who (2005, S1-10)*
•     Torchwood (2006)
•     The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)*
• The Drew Carey Show (1995)
• Eerie, Indiana (1993)*
•     The Secret World of Alex Mack (1993)*
• These Friends of Mine/Ellen (1994)
• The Eric Andre Show (2012)
• Fargo (2014)
• Firefly (2002)
• Freaks & Geeks (1999)
• Friends (1994)*
• Game of Thrones (2011, S1-4)
• Generation Kill (2008)
• The George Carlin Show (1994)
• Headbanger's Ball (1987)
• The Henry Rollins Show (2006)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)
• How I Met Your Mother (2005, S1-4)*
• I Know This Much is True (2020)
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005, S1-11)
• The Jon Stewart Show (1993)
• Justified (2010)
• The Killing (2011)
• La Femme Nikita (1997)*
• The Last of Us (2023, S1)
• Legion (2017)
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1999)*
• The Mandalorian (2019, S1-2)
• Mare of Easttown (2021)
• Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
• Midnight Mass (2021)
• Mindhunter (2017)
• Mr. Robot (2015)
• My So-Called Life (1994)*
• Narcos (2015)
• Oz (1997)
• Ozark (2017)
• Parker Lewis Can't Loose (1990)*
• Party of Five (1994)*
• Peacemaker (2022)
• Peaky Blinders (2013)
• Prehistoric Planet (2022)
• Primeval (2007, S1-3)
• The Punisher (2017, S1)
• The Queen's Gambit (2020)
• The Real World (1992, S1-5)*
• Scream (2016, S1-2)
• Shameless (2011)
• Sherlock (2011, S1-3)
• The Shield (2002)
• Skins (2007)
• Sons of Anarchy (2008)
• The Sopranos (1999)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987, S3-7)
•     Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
• The State (1994)
• Stranger Things (2016, S1-4)
• Supernatural (2005, S1-5)*
• That '70s Show (1998, S1-5)
• The Thick of It (2005)
• Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010)*
• Trailer Park Boys (2001)
• Treme (2010)
• True Blood (2008, S1-3)*
• True Detective (2014, S1)
•     True Detective (2014, S2-3)
• Twin Peaks (1990)
• Unbelievable (2019)
• Undeclared (2001)
• The Walking Dead (2010, S1)
• Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
• When They See Us (2019)
• The Whitest Kids U Know (2007)
• Whose Line is it Anyway? (1998)
• The Wire (2002)
• The X-Files (1993, S1-)
•     Millennium (1996)
  
•     The Lone Gunmen (2001)

And below this line, my favorite animated television shows, including anime, cartoons and adult animation of both the 2D and 3D variety, like above, guilty pleasures are (*) and favorites are bolded.

• 6teen (2004)
•     Stoked (2009)*
• Æon Flux (1991)
• All Grown Up (2003)*
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000)
• Arcane (2021)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005)
•     The Legend of Korra (2012)
• Batman: The Animated Series (1992)
• Beavis & Butthead (1993)
•     Daria (1997)
• Black Lagoon (2006)
• Bleach (2004)
•     Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War (2022)
• Blood+ (2005)
• Blue Eye Samurai (2023)
• Bojack Horseman (2014)
• The Boondocks (2005)
• Bromwell High (2005)
• Carl² (2005)*
• Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)
• Clone High (2002, S1)
• Cowboy Bebop (1998)
• Cybersix (1999)
• Darker Than Black (2008)
•     Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (2009)
• Death Note (2006)
• Downtown (1999)
• Ergo Proxy (2006)
• FLCL (2000, S1)
• Full Metal Alchemist (2003)
•     Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2010)
• Golden Kamuy (2018)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (2003)
• Gungrave (2003)
• Gurren Lagann (2007)
• Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (2001)
• Home Movies (1999)
• Invader Zim (2001)
• Invincible (2021)
• Johnny Bravo (1997)*
• Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous (2020, S1-3)
•     Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024)
• Kappa Mikey (2006)*
• King of the Hill (1997)
• Kurau Phantom Memory (2004)
• Last Exile (2003)
• Made In Abyss (2017)
• Martin Mystery (2003)*
• Metalocalypse (2006)
• Mission Hill (1999)
• Monster (2003)
• Moral Orel (2005)*
• Nana (2006)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
• Noir (2001)
• Phantom: Requiem For The Phantom (2009)
• Recess (1997)
• Red vs. Blue (2003, S1-10)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)
• Rick and Morty (2013)
• Scooby-Doo! Where Are You! (196)*
  
•     What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002)*
•     Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)* 
• Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
• The Simpsons (1989, S3-8)
• South Park (1997)
• Space Ghost: Coast to Coast (2001)
• The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008) 
• Spider-Man (1994)
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008, S3-7)
•     Star Wars: Rebels (2014, S3-4)
• The Strangerhood (2004, S1)
• Suzuka (2005)
• Teen Titans (2003)
• Texhnolyze (2003)
• Total Drama Island (2007, S1-3)
•     Disventure Camp (2022)
• Trigun (1998)
• Undergrads (2001)
• The Venture Bros. (2003)
• Vinland Saga (2019)
• W.I.T.C.H. (2004)*
• Wolf's Rain (2003)
• Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)
• The Wrong Coast (2003)
• X-Men (1992)
•     X-Men '97 (2024)
• X-Men: Evolution (2000)
• Your Lie in April (2014)