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Best TV Series of the 1990s

Top 500 most popular series that started in the 1990s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

The Big Breakfast

★ 6.9
3K 510 1992–2002
Comedy · Game-Show · News

Medabots

★ 6.8
3K 91 1999–2004
Action · Adventure · Animation

BeastMaster

★ 6.2
3K 66 1999–2002
Action · Adventure · Fantasy

Tekken: The Motion Picture

★ 5.3
3K 2 1998–1998
Action · Adventure · Animation

Warriors

★ 8.2
3K 2 1999–1999
Drama · War

Ready or Not

★ 6.9
3K 65 1993–1997
Drama · Family

Thunder in Paradise

★ 5.4
3K 22 1994–1994
Action · Adventure · Comedy

Our Friends in the North

★ 8.6
3K 9 1996–1996
Drama · History

Murder One

★ 8.2
3K 41 1995–1997
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Shinchan

★ 8.4
3K 405 1992–present
Animation · Comedy · Family

Streets of Laredo

★ 7.2
3K 3 1995–1995
Drama · Western

Upright Citizens Brigade

★ 8.1
3K 30 1998–2000
Comedy

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

★ 7.7
3K 13 1993–2002
Action · Adventure · Animation

The Big O

★ 7.5
3K 28 1999–2003
Action · Adventure · Animation

Fox and Friends

★ 3.0
3K 5059 1998–present
News · Talk-Show

Happy Tree Friends

★ 7.3
3K 101 1999–present
Animation · Comedy · Horror

Sisters

★ 7.5
3K 127 1991–1996
Drama

Spellbinder

★ 8.1
3K 26 1995–1997
Adventure · Family · Fantasy

The Julekalender

★ 8.3
3K 24 1991–1991
Comedy · Music

The Slayers

★ 7.5
3K 104 1995–2009
Action · Adventure · Animation
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