Top ~Ten TV - Fractions Count!

OK, need a lighter post or two after yesterday's!

So, last night when trying to fall asleep, I was thinking of my top ten list of favorite television shows. The complicating factor is, there are certain shows that would only make my list for part of their runs, due to significant mid-run changes in the cast and/or concept of the show. But since I've always been a math person anyway, I decided that the simple (?) solution is for partial runs of a show to count fractionally. With this approach, my list adds up to just about 10 - well to be exact, 10-2/11!

So here goes - Elie's top ~10 list of TV shows. These are not in order, except that I left the fractional ones for the end:

• 1) Star Trek - Original
• 2) Star Trek - Deep Space Nine
• 3) The Twilight Zone
• 4) The Odd Couple
• 5) Taxi
• 6) The Honeymooners
• 7) Get Smart
• 8) The Bob Newhart Show
• 9) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• 9-5/11) Cheers - Seasons 1-5 out of 11
• 10) M*A*S*H - Seasons 2-7 out of 11
• 10-2/11) Happy Days - Seasons 3-4 out of 11

Notes on last three items:

• Cheers: The Diane years
• M*A*S*H: Past the initial rough edges, pre Radar departure and overdoing preachiness
• Happy Days: First two live audience seasons, pre (literal and figurative) shark jump