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Best Drama TV Series of the 1960s

Top 500 most popular Drama series that started in the 1960s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Doctor Who

★ 8.4
41K 695 1963–1989
Time travel · Long-runner

Sesame Street

★ 8.1
17K 3435 1969–present
Long-runner · Wholesome

The Prisoner

★ 8.4
16K 17 1967–1968
Puzzle plot · Dystopia

The Outer Limits

★ 8.1
10K 49 1963–1965
Anthology · Episodic · Unsettling

Hawaii Five-O

★ 7.4
9K 281 1968–1980
Long-runner · Procedural

Days of Our Lives

★ 5.3
8K 15431 1965–present
Soap & telenovela · Long-runner

The Saint

★ 7.6
7K 118 1962–1969
Episodic · British TV

Night Gallery

★ 7.9
7K 48 1969–1973
Anthology · Episodic · Unsettling

Coronation Street

★ 5.6
7K 11150 1960–present
Long-runner · Soap & telenovela

General Hospital

★ 6.7
6K 14034 1963–present
Soap & telenovela · Long-runner

Dark Shadows

★ 8.1
6K 1233 1966–1971
Supernatural · Lo-fi charm

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

★ 8.5
6K 93 1962–1965
Anthology · Episodic · Tense

Adam-12

★ 7.7
6K 174 1968–1975
Procedural · Episodic

The Fugitive

★ 8.1
5K 120 1963–1967
Outsider lead · Episodic · Tense

Pippi Longstocking

★ 7.4
5K 13 1969–1969
Kids & family

Mannix

★ 7.4
5K 194 1967–1975
Procedural · Detective mystery

Ironside

★ 6.9
5K 195 1967–1975
Procedural · Detective mystery

Dragnet 1967

★ 7.7
4K 98 1967–1970
Procedural · Episodic

That Girl

★ 7.3
4K 137 1966–1971
Sitcom · Episodic · Wholesome

Combat!

★ 8.4
4K 152 1962–1967
War & military · Gritty

One Life to Live

★ 6.9
3K 4991 1968–2013
Drama · Romance

The Mod Squad

★ 7.0
3K 123 1968–1973
Action · Crime · Drama

I Spy

★ 7.2
3K 82 1965–1968
Action · Adventure · Drama

The Rat Patrol

★ 7.4
2K 58 1966–1968
Action · Adventure · Drama
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