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Best TV Series of the 1970s

Top 500 most popular series that started in the 1970s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

CPO Sharkey

★ 7.0
553 37 1976–1978
Comedy

Once an Eagle

★ 8.0
551 9 1976–1977
Drama · War

Jane Eyre

★ 7.5
544 5 1973–1973
Drama · Romance

Shoestring

★ 7.5
544 21 1979–1980
Drama

Fish

★ 6.4
542 35 1977–1978
Comedy

Tadas Blinda

★ 8.9
539 4 1972–present
Action · Adventure · Biography

Switch

★ 7.1
538 71 1975–1978
Action · Crime · Drama

Shaft

★ 6.5
538 7 1973–1974
Action · Crime · Drama

The Snoop Sisters

★ 7.8
537 5 1972–1974
Comedy · Crime · Drama

The Awakening Land

★ 8.3
535 3 1978–1978
Drama · History · Western

The White Stone

★ 7.2
534 13 1973–1973
Adventure · Drama · Family

Trolltider

★ 7.5
533 24 1979–1979
Family

Donny and Marie

★ 6.2
533 70 1975–1979
Music · Talk-Show

38 Parrots

★ 7.1
531 10 1976–1991
Animation

The Ghost Busters

★ 7.0
530 15 1975–1975
Comedy · Family · Fantasy

Project U.F.O.

★ 7.1
524 26 1978–1979
Sci-Fi

The Richard Pryor Show

★ 7.6
524 4 1977–1977
Comedy

Cartesius

★ 6.8
523 2 1974–present
Biography · Drama · History

Backstairs at the White House

★ 8.3
522 4 1979–1979
Drama · History

Flambards

★ 8.4
521 13 1979–1979
Drama

Blindpassasjer

★ 7.0
518 3 1978–1978
Horror · Mystery · Sci-Fi

Salvage 1

★ 7.4
515 19 1979–1979
Adventure · Comedy · Sci-Fi

Kaynanalar

★ 6.9
512 315 1974–2005
Comedy

The Adventures of Black Beauty

★ 6.6
511 52 1972–1974
Adventure · Family
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