.....What makes this great film making, like great music and literature, is that you can view it multiple times and get something different out of it each time.

Couldn't say for sure, but guessing there are not all that many other shows, beside something like The Sopranos, for instance, where the fans view each episode as many times as the Maddicts claim to have viewed the Mad Men epis.

Well, there's "Seinfeld" and "Lucy" and possibly "Mash." Ah, comedies. I would happily watch "Cheers" again and again if it was available. But I don't know of any other drama series that bears rewatching.

Hi 60's chick -- I, too, had to take a break from here. It created way too much longing and sadness! I'm happy to be back and am really looking forward to S3. Just think, it was a year ago today that S2 started!

I rewatched S1 throughout S2 and got so much more from those episodes. The same is happening now while watching the S2 DVDs. The more I know about how a story line is going to play out, the more clues I pick up on.

Other dramatic series that have withstood the test of time for me are Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere and West Wing. I am still madly in love with Frank Furillo!!!!

Hi 60's chick -- I, too, had to take a break from here. It created way too much longing and sadness! I'm happy to be back and am really looking forward to S3. Just think, it was a year ago today that S2 started!

I rewatched S1 throughout S2 and got so much more from those episodes. The same is happening now while watching the S2 DVDs. The more I know about how a story line is going to play out, the more clues I pick up on.

Other dramatic series that have withstood the test of time for me are Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere and West Wing. I am still madly in love with Frank Furillo!!!!

Hi 60's chick -- I, too, had to take a break from here. It created way too much longing and sadness! I'm happy to be back and am really looking forward to S3. Just think, it was a year ago today that S2 started!

I rewatched S1 throughout S2 and got so much more from those episodes. The same is happening now while watching the S2 DVDs. The more I know about how a story line is going to play out, the more clues I pick up on.

Other dramatic series that have withstood the test of time for me are Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere and West Wing. I am still madly in love with Frank Furillo!!!!

Great movies are the same way. I can recite dialogue along with the actors in The Lion in Winter, Some Like It Hot, Barefoot in the Park (maybe not great but great fun - and period, too - those swing coats in the 60s!) and others. My husband never understood why I re-read favorite books when I know what's coming, but of couse, that's WHY.

NancyinOhio,
Oh yes, wasn't Frank Furillo yummy? Loved Sargent Phil, Mick Belker, the whole lot of 'em. St. Elsewhere and the West Wing do hold up beautifully. Another series I loved, that I've watched occasionally on my old videotapes, is China Beach. It had a great cast, including Dana Delany and Marg Helgenberger. Everyone probably associates Delany with Desperate Housewives these days, but she was terrific as Colleen McMurphy.

Anyone remember the "dramedy" The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd? It came out in the late 1980s and lasted for about four seasons. Blair Brown was enchanting - so quirky and beautiful. She was sort of a post-modern "That Girl."