6) Ed. Worth owning just for the ever-escalating turf war waged between Dr. Burton and Dr. Jerome. Worth owning some more for the exploits of uberspazz Warren Cheswick.

7) Eyes. Right up there with “Rockford Files,” “Moonlighting” and “Veronica Mars” as one of the best private-eye series ever aired. Created by John McNamera, who earlier created “Profit” (alongside “Angel” creator David Greenwalt). Genuinely funny. Great characters. Nine episodes shot. Only five aired, earlier this year. Probably would have taken the 10th slot on my 2005 hourlong list had “Everwood” not improved so mightily.

8) Gideon’s Crossing. A reteaming of Andre Braugher and “Homicide” creator Paul Attanasio. Introduced many of us to both Rhona Mitra (“Boston Legal”) and Hamish Linklater (“Fantastic Four”). Better than “House,” better than “ER,” better than “Chicago Hope,” better than “Medical Center,” “Trapper John, M.D.,” “The Bold Ones” and “Grey’s Anatomy” put together.

9) Line of Fire. One of the best shows from last season that no one watched, from writer-director Rod Lurie, who went on to create a huge hit with “Commander-In-Chief.” Half of it was about a Virginia mob family, the other half about the FBI branch tasked with bringing that mob family down. It starred Leslie Hope (“24”), Leslie Bibb (“ER”), David Paymer (“Payback”), Julie Ann Emery (“Taken”) and Sarah Thompson (“Angel”).

10) Maverick. Before James Garner and writer Roy Huggins teamed for “The Rockford Files,” they collaborated on “Maverick,” an urbane Western about a gambler who survived the Old West on his wit and wits. The first two seasons, produced before Huggins bolted (James Garner would leave the next year, replaced during the fourth season by – Roger Moore!), cry out for issue.

11) My So-Called Life. The teen adventures of Angela Chase, Brian Krakow and Rayanne Graff have already been issued on DVD, but the show cries out for a reissue. Used DVD copies (the ones containing all 19 episodes) are going for hundreds of dollars.

12) Now and Again. The brilliant, witty sci-fi show Glenn Gordon Caron created between “Moonlighting” and “Medium,” it was about a fat, middle-aged insurance exec who died violently, then had his brain secretly transplanted into a superhuman body by the government. Just before he jumped aboard “24” as presidential candidate David Palmer, Dennis Haysbert played the disdainful government operative who oversaw the project.

13) Pasadena. In 2001, after Mike White wrote on “Freaks and Geeks” - but before he wrote the screenplays for “Orange County,” “The Good Girl” and “School of Rock” - he created a darkly comedic primetime soap about a publishing dynasty that liked to bone children and murder enemies. It was easily 100 times smarter and funnier than “Desperate Housewives.” Thirteen hours were shot; Fox only aired four, two of them less than a month after 9/11. It starred Alison Lohman (“Matchstick Men,” “Big Fish”), Natasha Gregson Wagner (“High Fidelity,” “The 4400”), Balthazar Getty (“Lost Highway”), Mark Valley (“Keen Eddie,” “Boston Legal”), Martin Donovan (“The Opposite of Sex”), Dana Delany (“China Beach”), Chris Marquette (“Joan of Arcadia”), Nicole Paggi (“Hope & Faith”) and Philip Baker Hall (“In Good Company,” “The Amityville Horror”).

14) Relativity. The series the great Jason Katims created between his writing stint on “My So-Called Life” and his creation of “Roswell,” it was about two L.A. families – one blue-collar and Jewish, the other not – that intersect when their twentysomething kids meet and connect in Italy. It starred Kimberly Williams (“According to Jim”), David Conrad (“Miss Match”), Jane Adams (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Poppy Montgomery (“Without A Trace”), Lisa Edelstein (“House”), Devon Gummersall (“My So-Called Life,” “Roswell,” “The L Word”) and Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”). Seventeen episodes aired in 1996 and 1997.

15) St. Elsewhere. The first series created by “Northern Exposure” masterminds Joshua Brand and John Falsey. Forget about that incredible chemistry between Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley Jr.) and Mark Craig (Williams Daniels). For the first time ever, Howie Mandel was rendered tolerable! (You’d think somebody would issue this just for the Denzel Washington factor.)

16) Tenspeed and Brown Shoe. Insanely inventive con-man Early LeRoy Turner (Ben Vereen) teams with mystery-loving accountant Lionel Whitney (Jeff Goldblum) to form a detective agency. Another show from Stephen Cannell (“The Rockford Files,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “Wiseguy”), and one which barely lasted 14 hours in 1980. All I can remember is the accountant had a black belt and was good with guns, and that I loved this thing to pieces.

17) The Tick. Long before he created the peepee demon on “Angel,” Ben Edlund created a comic book, a Saturday-morning cartoon series and a live action sitcom, all about a strange, slow-witted superman. There were supervillains and sidekicks and other superheroes, and it’s all very entertaining. The entire live-action series has been on DVD for a spell, but none of the 36 animated half hours that ran on Fox between 1994 and 1996.

18) The Wild Wild West. Genius from the Beatles era. Somebody thought to marry the long-entrenched TV Western with the James Bond craze of the early 1960s. Secret service agent Jim West (Robert Conrad) teamed with master-of-disguise Artemis Gordon (Ross Martin) to combat sci-fi madness at the behest of President U.S. Grant. The best TV theme music this side of “Hawaii Five-O.”