Browse our list of classic tv series titles that start with the letter D.
| Dallas This night time soap followed the drama and backstabbing of oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, his family, and their enemies. | |
| Dan August Burt Reynolds portrays Lt. Dan August, a homicide detective in his hometown of Santa Luisa, California. | |
| Daniel Boone Set before and during the Revolutionary War, this adventure series follows Daniel Boone’s surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough. | |
| The Danny Thomas Show Successful nightclub singer Danny Williams encounters difficult and amusing situations while trying to balance his career and family life. | |
| Dark Shadows Strange and supernatural things happen to the Collins family in this gothic soap opera. | |
| Dear John Based on the UK show of the same title, this sitcom follows the life of a man who loses everything to his ex-wife in divorce. | |
| Death Valley Days This anthology series, which started as a radio program, features tales, based on true accounts, of the old west, particularly the Death Valley area. | |
| Dennis the Menace This television series is based on the Hank Ketchum comic strip of the same name. It follows the adventures of Dennis Mitchell, a young boy prone to getting into mischief and trouble. | |
| Designing Women This series follows the lives of the four women and one man working at Sugarbaker & Associates, an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| The Dick Van Dyke Show The Dick Van Dyke show follows the misadventures of TV writer Rob Petrie, his family, and friends, both at work and at home. | |
| Diff’rent Strokes This comedy series follows the lives of two orphaned African-American boys from Harlem and the rich widower and his daughter who took them in. | |
| Doctor Who A long-lived alien from the planet Gallifrey, who calls himself a time lord and goes only by the name “The Doctor”, has adventures through time and space with companions from Earth. He battles various villains and monsters, including a nemesis, The Master, from his own race to keep Earth and the universe safe. | |
| The Donna Reed Show The show follows the daily lives of middle-class housewife Donna Stone and her family. | |
| Dragnet (1951) Based on the radio show of the same name, Dragnet follows the career of LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday and dramatizes stories based on true crimes. | |
| Dragnet (1967) Based on the radio show of the same name, this second Dragnet series follows the further stories of Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon. | |
| The Dukes of Hazzard Bo and Luke Duke fight the system, or at least the local corrupt officials. | |
| Dynasty Dynasty follows the lives of two feuding rich families, the Colbys and the Carringtons. |
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