| 12 O'Clock High The missions and adventures of the fictitious 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force are chronicled in this show based on the book and 1949 movie. | |
| 77 Sunset Strip Two former government secret agents set up shop as private detectives in a stylish office on the Sunset strip. | |
| Adam-12 A spin-off from Dragnet!, Adam-12 chronicles the situations veteran cop Pete Malloy, his new partner, rookie Jim Reed face daily on the job. | |
| All in the Family Adapted from the British tv series Till Death Do Us Part by Norman Lear, All In The Family changed the face of sitcoms. It was not afraid to tackle controversial, difficult, and downright taboo issues head on. The show followed the lives of the blue-collar Bunker family, which consisted of bigoted, but lovable Archie, his sweet wife Edith, their daughter Gloria, and son-in-law Michael “Meathead” Stivic. | |
| Cagney & Lacey One's blonde. One's brunette. One's strong. One's sensitive. They're both women. They're both cops. They're partners. | |
| Centennial A miniseries following the lives of the citizens of Centennial, Colorado, the poor treatment of the Native Americans by colonists, and a murder mystery that took over 100 years to solve. | |
| CHiPs CHiPs follows the adventures of members of the California Highway Patrol on the job. | |
| Climax! This anthology series featured a different case and different dramatic story each week. One such episode was Casino Royale, the James Bond story that later became a movie of the same title. | |
| Columbo Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo may be rumpled and a bit eccentric, but he uses that to his advantage to throw murderers off guard and bring them to justice. | |
| Combat! This show follows the missions of an American infantry squad at the front of the battle lines of Europe in World War II. | |
| 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. | |
| Dark Shadows Strange and supernatural things happen to the Collins family in this gothic soap opera. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Dynasty Dynasty follows the lives of two feuding rich families, the Colbys and the Carringtons. | |
| Eerie, Indiana | |
| Eight Is Enough | |
| The Equalizer | |
| ER | |
| Family Matters A spin-off of Perfect Strangers, Family Matters follows the lives of the Winslows, a suburban Chicago family headed by Carl, a Chicago police sergeant. The show really took off when the nerdy next door neighbor Steve Urkel was introduced. | |
| Forever Knight | |
| Frank's Place | |
| Freaks and Geeks | |
| The Fugitive | |
| Full House | |
| The Golden Girls | |
| Hardcastle & McCormick | |
| Harry O | |
| Hawaii Five-O | |
| Highway To Heaven | |
| Hill Street Blues | |
| Honey West | |
| It Takes A Thief | |
| Johnny Staccato | |
| Knight Rider Millionaire Wilton Knight finds Michael Long, a policeman who was shot and left for dead, and saves him. He gives him a new face and an amazing car, KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), that is virtually indestructible and autonomous. Together, Michael and KITT wage war against criminals who operate above the law. | |
| Knots Landing | |
| Kojak | |
| Kraft Television Theatre | |
| Kung Fu | |
| L.A. Law | |
| Lassie | |
| Little House on the Prairie | |
| Lou Grant | |
| The Love Boat | |
| M*A*S*H | |
| Macgruder & Loud | |
| Mancuso, FBI | |
| Manimal | |
| Mannix | |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | |
| Matt Houston | |
| McCloud | |
| McMillan & Wife | |
| Miami Vice | |
| Mike Hammer (1958) | |
| The Mod Squad | |
| Naked City | |
| The New Mike Hammer (1984) | |
| Night Gallery | |
| Northern Exposure | |
| NYPD Blue | |
| Perry Mason | |
| Peter Gunn | |
| Petrocelli | |
| Picket Fences | |
| Police Story | |
| Police Woman | |
| Quantum Leap Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the quantum leap accelerator and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home. | |
| Quincy, M.E. | |
| The Ray Bradbury Theater | |
| The Rockford Files | |
| The Rookies | |
| Room 222 | |
| Roseanne | |
| The Saint | |
| Simon & Simon | |
| The Sixth Sense | |
| Space: 1999 | |
| Spenser: For Hire | |
| St. Elsewhere | |
| Starsky & Hutch | |
| The Streets of San Francisco | |
| SurfSide 6 | |
| The Waltons | |
| Wings | |
| The Wonder Years | |
| The X-Files Two FBI agents, one a skeptic and one a believer, investigate unexplained and paranormal events. | |
| Xena: Warrior Princess | |
| Your Show Time This show presented dramas based on famous literary short stories. |
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