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- CreatorAlyse RosenbergStarsLaura BertramLani BillardGerry MendicinoTwo teenage friends come of age while going through life's struggles together.
- CreatorEarl Hamner Jr.StarsJane WymanLorenzo LamasChao Li ChiSet in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera presented the conflict in the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
- CreatorPaul MonashIrna PhillipsStarsEd NelsonBarbara ParkinsWarner AndersonPeople married and divorced, loved and lost. Murder, illicit passion, insanity, and secrets were the staples of Peyton Place.
- CreatorBruce PaltrowStarsKen HowardKevin HooksByron StewartA white former NBA professional retires from the pro game and gets a job as a basketball coach in a predominantly Black inner-city high school.
- CreatorJames Lee BarrettStarsWilford BrimleyDeidre HallShannen DohertyFollowing the death of his son, Gus Witherspoon takes in his daughter-in-law and his three grandchildren to live with him. Adjustment to the new arrangement is not easy on any of them.
- CreatorLawrence GordonStarsLee HorsleyPamela HensleyLincoln KilpatrickMatt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonStarsLee MajorsDouglas BarrHeather ThomasThe adventures of a film stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow.
- StarsJessica WalterSamantha MathisBelinda MontgomeryAaron Miller finds out that his oldest son Noah was killed in a surfing accident in California, where he was living at a winery with his pregnant girlfriend Susannah Lo Verde. Aaron attends his funeral, and when he finds out about the baby, he decides to move his Amish family from Pennsylvania to California to help Susannah with the winery and the baby. This means much adjusting for both families after the Millers move in with Susannah. Her mother Connie and brother Mickey live next door to her. The baby is born and named Clarissa.
- CreatorKarl SchaeferStarsSam RobardsAndrew CasseseStacey DashKevin Keegan is a recently divorced news photographer who quits his job and returns to Roosevelt High School to teach kids how to make a TV show.
- CreatorBernie KukoffStarsJoseph BolognaTisha CampbellBlanca De GarrA wealthy widowed businessman adopts five daughters to live with him at his mansion.
- CreatorDavid JacobsStarsMichele LeeTed ShackelfordJoan Van ArkThe residents of Knots Landing, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles, deal with various issues such as infidelity, health scares, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue and criminal investigations.
- CreatorWilliam BlinnStarsDick Van PattenLani O'GradyConnie NeedhamThis comedy drama focused on a family with eight very independent children.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStu KriegerStarsRichard KileyTrey AmesAdam ArkinJoe Gardner, a child of the Depression, is a successful plastics manufacturer in Seattle, Washington. After his wife dies, his four adult children move back in.
- StarsChuck ConnorsJohnny CrawfordPaul FixThe adventures of a Wild West rancher, wielding a customized rapid-fire Winchester rifle, and his son.
- CreatorRoy HugginsStarsEfrem Zimbalist Jr.Edd ByrnesRoger SmithStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
- StarsWilliam ShatnerDavid TeschendorfDick WarlockWilliam Shatner hosts this television show, featuring dramatic reenactments of situations leading to emergency calls to 9-1-1.
- StarsVic MorrowRick JasonPierre JalbertCombat!, a one-hour World War II drama series, followed a front line American infantry squad as they battled their way across Europe
- CreatorJames L. BrooksStarsLloyd HaynesDenise NicholasMichael ConstantineTeacher Pete Dixon tries to teach the students at Walt Whitman High to be tolerant. He's assisted by girlfriend and school counselor, Liz and student teacher (later teacher) Alice. The students love him.
- CreatorMarshall HerskovitzEdward ZwickStarsTimothy BusfieldPolly DraperMel HarrisSeven tricenarians living in Philadelphia struggle with everyday adult angst.
- CreatorEdward HumeStarsKarl MaldenMichael DouglasReuben CollinsA veteran cop with more than twenty years of experience is teamed with a young Inspector to solve crimes in San Francisco, California.
- CreatorGlenn Gordon CaronStarsCybill ShepherdBruce WillisAllyce BeasleyThe quirky cases of a former model and a smart aleck detective who manage a private detective agency.
- CreatorMichael BravermanStarsKellie MartinChris BurkePatti LuPoneA modern All-American family deals with the struggles of life and love in mid-western suburbia.
- CreatorGreg BerlantiStarsTreat WilliamsGregory SmithEmily VanCampA widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.
- CreatorDale McRavenStarsBronson PinchotMark Linn-BakerMelanie WilsonA high-strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.
- CreatorGary David GoldbergStarsMichael J. FoxMichael GrossMeredith BaxterChronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
- CreatorWilliam BickleyRobert L. BoyettThomas L. MillerStarsReginald VelJohnsonJaleel WhiteDarius McCraryThe Winslow family deals with various misadventures, many of them caused by their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel.
- CreatorWilliam BickleyRobert L. BoyettThomas L. MillerStarsPatrick DuffySuzanne SomersBrandon CallDivorced contractor Frank Lambert and widowed beautician Carol Foster meet, fall in love and quickly get married. Both have three children and when the families all move in together the kids and parents have a lot of learning to do.
- CreatorRita LakinStarsJohn BeckWoody BrownHoward DuffThe lives and trials of the residents of Truro, Florida.
- CreatorLeah MarkusJennifer MillerStarsLloyd BridgesDack RamboMimi RogersThe cut-throat worlds of modeling and cosmetic. Storylines centered around acid-tongued modeling executive Racine, who held fief over the careers of young models Laurie Caswell and Taryn Blake, and cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper.
- CreatorDick ClairJenna McMahonStu SilverStarsGail EdwardsBarrie YoungfellowPaul KreppelThis series featured a group of waitresses (and a pianist, Sonny) who work at a fancy restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
- CreatorBrian CookeEarl BarretArne SultanStarsTed KnightNancy DussaultJim J. BullockIn liberal San Francisco a conservative cartoonist tries to keep his two daughters, who rent an apartment below him, safe. In season 6 the cartoonist buys a small-town newspaper in Tiburon.
- CreatorDon NichollMichael RossBernard WestStarsJohn RitterJoyce DeWittSuzanne SomersThe misadventures of two women and one man living in one apartment and their neighbors.
- CreatorJohn FuriaBarry OringerStarsJames BrolinConnie SelleccaNathan CookThe misadventures of the staff and guests of the St. Gregory Hotel.
- CreatorMort LachmanSy RosenStarsNell CarterLara Jill MillerKari MichaelsenNell agrees to look after the Kanisky's home, as a special favor to her dying friend, and takes on the role of housekeeper to widowed police chief Carl and a parental figure to his three teenage daughters, and eventually a foster son.
- CreatorCarol BlackNeal MarlensStarsFred SavageDan LauriaAlley MillsKevin Arnold recalls growing up during the late 60s and early 70s; the turbulent social times make the transition from child to adult unusually interesting.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsKathy BakerTom SkerrittLauren HollyAn aging Sheriff tries to keep the peace in Rome, Wisconsin, a small town plagued by bizarre and violent crimes.
- CreatorSteven BochcoWilliam M. FinkelsteinStarsAnne BobbyBarbara BossonDavid GianopoulosThe musical adventures of a police force.
- CreatorDan WakefieldStarsLance KerwinLinden ChilesLynn CarlinJames, a daydreamer and photographer, must learn to cope with life as his father moves the family from Oregon to Boston, Massachusetts.
- CreatorAnthony YerkovichStarsMichael WoodsWilliam SadlerJosh Brolin1950s Hollywood detective Jack Cleary loses his cop badge exposing corruption, becomes a PI after his brother's murder, aided by Johnny Betts.
- CreatorJay Presson AllenStarsSada ThompsonJames BroderickGary FrankThe joys and heartaches of the Lawrence family of Pasadena, California.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsMandy PatinkinAdam ArkinHector ElizondoThe lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.
- CreatorDonald P. BellisarioStarsScott BakulaDean StockwellDeborah PrattDuring an experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the lives of different people, sorting out their problems and changing history in hopes of getting back to his own life in the present.
- CreatorCharles Marquis WarrenClyde WareStarsJames ArnessMilburn StoneAmanda BlakeMarshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.
- CreatorDavid CraneMarta KauffmanStarsBrian BenbenDenny DillonWendie MalickMartin Tupper is a book editor in Manhattan, recently divorced from Judith, a psychologist. Martin's life is filled with fantasies and sexual thoughts, many times coming in the form of black-and-white shots from old TV shows and movies.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStarsRob MorrowJanine TurnerBarry CorbinA city doctor is forced to work in the remote Alaskan town of Cicely, where he encounters peculiar locals, including a former astronaut, as he adjusts to small-town life.
- CreatorJohn Sacret YoungWilliam Broyles Jr.StarsDana DelanyMarg HelgenbergerBrian WimmerThe trials of a weary nurse, her friends and colleagues in a Vietnam War field hospital.
- CreatorRon CowenDaniel LipmanStarsSwoosie KurtzPatricia KalemberSela WardFollows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.
- CreatorWinnie HolzmanStarsBess ArmstrongWilson CruzClaire DanesA 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents, and school.
- CreatorJason KatimsStarsKimberly Williams-PaisleyDavid ConradJane AdamsRomantic and family serio-comic drama series about two American strangers in their twenties who meet and fall in love in Italy, and return home, get to know each other's families and take on new challenges in their lives...as do their friends and families. Of all the other Herskowitz and Zwick television series, this is the one closest in spirit and appeal to Once and Again, their next major television project.
- CreatorMarshall HerskovitzEdward ZwickStarsSela WardBilly CampbellJeffrey NordlingA divorced father and a soon-to-be divorced mother meet and begin a romantic courtship which is always complicated by their respective children and their own life problems.
- CreatorPaul FeigStarsLinda CardelliniJohn Francis DaleyJames FrancoA high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.
- CreatorChristopher KeyserAmy LippmanStarsMatthew FoxScott WolfNeve CampbellFive siblings raise each other following their parents' untimely deaths.
- CreatorKevin WilliamsonStarsJames Van Der BeekKatie HolmesMichelle WilliamsTwo childhood best friends, Dawson and Joey, go through different stages of adolescence together. Their friendship is later tested when they both start a relationship with different people.
- CreatorJoss WhedonStarsSarah Michelle GellarNicholas BrendonAlyson HanniganA young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
- CreatorDavid GreenwaltJoss WhedonStarsDavid BoreanazCharisma CarpenterAlexis DenisofThe vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption.
- CreatorMary HanesJason MilliganStarsCameron DaddoSuki KaiserDuncan FraserReverend Daniel Cooper has come to Hope Island to reopen the Community Church, hoping the assignment will help him through the grief of a terrible loss. Distrusted by the local inhabitants and with the church in a terrible state of disrepair and neglect, he feels alone and rejected. He is befriended by a lonely boy named Dylan who will help him do the repairs to the church. Daniel makes him an acolyte, much to the disapproval of his single mother, Alex Stone, who runs the local inn. She is the town's cynic who has turned her back on the church long ago. In time Daniel earns the trust and respect of her and many of Hope Island's colorful and eccentric characters. In turn the beauty and tranquility of Hope Island and the warmth of its community will help him heal, renewing and strengthening his faith. He finds love again as he comes to care deeply for Alex.
- CreatorJeff JudahGabe SachsStarsSean FarisJon FosterChristopher LowellSee life through the eyes of Dino, Ben, and Jonathan -- three teens experiencing the joys and pains of growing up. Although different in many ways, these guys have one main thing in common -- women.
- CreatorJosh SchwartzStarsMischa BartonAdam BrodyPeter GallagherA troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy, upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach, Orange County, California.
- CreatorJohn J. McLaughlinMarti NoxonStarsElisabeth HarnoisGrant ShowSam PageA series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.
- CreatorAndy BorowitzGary David GoldbergStarsDoug SheehanLinda KelseyChristopher Daniel BarnesA married couple gives up their high-powered careers to run a daycare center in their home.
- CreatorMark SchwahnStarsChad Michael MurrayJames LaffertyHilarie Burton MorganHalf-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade between kinship and rivalry both on the basketball court and in the hearts of their friends in the small, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
- CreatorDavid W. DuclonStarsSoleil Moon FryeGeorge GaynesCherie JohnsonYoung Punky Brewster is abandoned with her dog, Brandon, in a supermarket. When she befriends Henry Warnimont, her new family life begins.
- CreatorTom PatchettPaul FuscoStarsMihaly 'Michu' MeszarosPaul FuscoMax WrightWhen an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.
- CreatorJonathan PrinceJosh GoldsteinStarsGail O'GradyTom VericaBrittany SnowIn the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period.
- CreatorJon Harmon FeldmanSara GoodmanStarsDave AnnableAlexa DavalosWill EstesSix friends come together for their 20th high school reunion in which one of them is murdered and all of them become suspects. A detective traces their turbulent and secretive lives back spanning 20 years to find which one had the motive.
- CreatorEdmund L. HartmannJoan O'BrienStarsJohn ForsytheJoyce MengesSusan NeherMichael Endicott accepts a teaching position at a school in Rome.
- StarsStuart MargolinBarbara MinkusWilliam CallawayAn anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
- CreatorWilliam BastPaul HusonEileen PollockStarsCharlton HestonJohn JamesKatharine RossThis spin-off of Dynasty (1981) featured the adventures of Jeff and Fallon Colby and Jeff's other wealthy relatives in California.
- CreatorChristopher KeyserAmy LippmanStarsScott BairstowEion BaileyMichael WeatherlyThree twenty-something best friends living in Los Angeles and are having the best - and worst - times of their lives but through it all, they know that no matter what they will always have each other's friendship to carry them through.
- StarsSerah D'LaineScott Hamm DuenasGina MayAnthology series examines the diverse sexual relationships involving the different genders, races, sexual orientations, and fetishes of high schoolers, college students, and post-college roommates.
- CreatorChristopher KeyserAmy LippmanStarsJennifer Love HewittJennifer GarnerPauley PerretteIn a spin off from "Party of Five," Sarah leaves the Salingers behind to search for her birth-father in New York.
- CreatorWilliam M. FinkelsteinStarsMariel HemingwayPeter OnoratiDebi MazarEli and Sydney are top divorce attorneys in New York City. The dynamic changes when Charlie is hired and Eli takes a lower profile. Sydney and Charlie develop a flirtatious arrangement while concentrating on their clients' problems.
- CreatorLynn Marie LathamBernard LechowickStarsKyle ChandlerSammi DavisKen JenkinsWorld War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyStarsSam WaterstonRegina TaylorJeremy LondonForrest Bedford is a Southern lawyer in the late 1950s, generally content with his privileged life.
- CreatorFrank LupoStarsFred DryerStepfanie KramerCharles HallahanRick Hunter is a renegade cop who bends the rules and takes justice into his own hands. Partnered with the equally stunning and rebellious Sgt. McCall, he sets out to crack down on L.A.'s slimiest criminals.
- CreatorAlan SpencerStarsDavid RascheAnne-Marie MartinHarrison PageThe adventures of a deranged and dumb police detective who always looks for the most violent solution to any problem.
- CreatorPeter ElkoffStarsKristoffer PolahaBrooke BurnsCorey SevierIntrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, the perfect place for an exclusive Hawaiian getaway for the rich, powerful and beautiful.
- CreatorSherry CobenStarsSusan Saint JamesJane CurtinFrederick KoehlerTwo divorced mothers and their children share an apartment.
- CreatorRichard LevinsonWilliam LinkStarsPeter FalkMike LallyJohn FinneganLos Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes.
- CreatorSteven BochcoMichael KozollStarsDaniel J. TravantiMichael WarrenBruce WeitzThe lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.
- CreatorJoshua BrandJohn FalseyJohn MasiusStarsEd Begley Jr.Howie MandelDavid MorseThe lives and work of the staff of St. Eligius Hospital, an old and disrespected Boston teaching hospital.
- CreatorLon DiamondClyde PhillipsStarsCorin NemecBilly JayneTroy W. SlatenFor a cool high-school kid and his friends, thwarting authority figures and other enemies is never a problem.
- CreatorSteven BochcoDavid MilchStarsDennis FranzJimmy SmitsGordon ClappDetectives from NYPD's 15th Precinct investigate homicides within their precinct.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsCalista FlockhartGreg GermannJane KrakowskiFollows the personal and professional life of lawyer Ally.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsDylan McDermottKelli WilliamsLara Flynn BoyleWe follow the exploits and cases of defense attorneys of a Boston law firm. Bobby Donnell is the senior defense attorney and founder of the firm.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsJames SpaderWilliam ShatnerCandice BergenBoston Legal is a spin-off of the long-running David E. Kelley series The Practice (1997), following the exploits of former Practice character Alan Shore (James Spader) at the legal firm of Crane, Poole, and Schmidt.
- CreatorDarren StarStarsMädchen AmickJohn BarrowmanMelissa ErricoAmbitious New Yorkers maneuver against each other as they pursue their passion for money, sex, and power.
- CreatorBarbara AvedonBarbara CordayStarsTyne DalySharon GlessAl WaxmanTwo female police detectives cooperate with each other both in their professions and in their personal lives.
- CreatorJames L. ConwayDavid JacobsStarsLee HorsleyGeorge ClooneyKate McNeilA team of homicide detectives, led by the veteran head of the department Lt. Ben Carroll, work cases in an unnamed big city.
- CreatorJoyce BurdittStarsDick Van DykeBarry Van DykeVictoria RowellDr. Mark Sloan has a knack for getting into trouble, negotiating the twists and turns of mysteries and solving crimes with the help of his son, Steve, a homicide detective.
- CreatorDouglas Stefen BorghiDean HargroveJoel SteigerStarsWilliam ConradJoe PennyAlan CampbellVeteran district attorney "Fatman" McCabe solves cases with the help of his easygoing private investigator partner Jake Styles.
- CreatorKerry LenhartJohn J. SakmarStarsTimothy OmundsonDonal LogueVincent VentrescaMedical drama set at a hospital in Seattle where a group of young doctors are about to begin their residencies under the supervision of Dr. Douglas McGill.
- StarsEmma Taylor-IsherwoodShadia SimmonsMichael SeaterWhen Josie Trent is sent to the private prep school, she comes face-to-face with paranormal things that cannot be explained. But with the help of her friends and one science teacher, maybe surviving school won't be that hard.
- CreatorD.J. MacHaleNed KandelStarsRoss HullDaniel DeSantoRaine Pare-CoullA group of teenagers meet in the woods, and tell scary stories.
- CreatorGlen A. LarsonLou ShawStarsJack KlugmanJohn S. RaginRobert ItoThe cases of a brilliant, if Irascible, coroner who investigates suspicious deaths which usually suggest murder.
- CreatorGretchen J. BergAaron HarbertsStarsRebecca RomijnJosh HopkinsBrooke BurnsPepper Dennis is an ambitious reporter with her sights set on anchoring Chicago's top-rated evening news broadcast. Complicating her daily life is the fact that her spoiled, needy, recently-separated sister Kathy has moved in with her. Worst of all, the hot guy Pepper woke up with one morning, Charlie Babcock, just showed up in the newsroom, grabbed her dream job, and is now practically her boss. She's trying to despise him, but Charlie is smart, handsome, funny, available, and interested. She gets much-needed support from her close friends, the TV station's makeup artist Kimmy and cameraman Chick, who has a secret crush on Pepper.
- CreatorBrenda HamptonStarsStephen CollinsCatherine HicksJessica BielEric Camden, a minister, and his wife Annie deal with the drama of having seven children, ranging from toddlers to adults with families of their own.
- CreatorAndrew NichollsDarrell VickersStarsDabney ColemanDakin MatthewsDamian CagnolattiOtis Drexell is a corporate raider who is known for getting the deal done. After he is caught red-handed for dodging taxes, he's given a suspended sentence on the condition that he teaches at an elementary school until the back-taxes are paid. Every week, Otis would do his best at adjusting from going to boardroom to classroom, with help from his two daughters.
- CreatorBeth SullivanStarsJane SeymourJoe LandoShawn TooveyThe trials and adventures of a female doctor in a small Wild West town.