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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)

The Long, Hot Summer

★ 8.0
134 27 1965–1966
Drama

The New People

★ 7.0
132 17 1969–1970
Drama

Przygody pana Michala

★ 7.7
132 13 1969–1969
Adventure · Drama · History

The Trials of O'Brien

★ 7.8
131 22 1965–1966
Drama

ABC Stage 67

★ 7.3
130 26 1966–1967
Comedy · Drama · Musical

Division 4

★ 8.1
129 301 1969–1975
Crime · Drama

Going My Way

★ 7.6
129 30 1962–1963
Drama · Family

Four Feather Falls

★ 6.7
126 39 1960–1960
Action · Drama · Family

Slattery's People

★ 8.0
125 36 1964–1965
Drama

Michael Shayne

★ 7.4
124 32 1960–1961
Crime · Drama

The Nurses

★ 7.3
123 98 1962–1965
Drama

Wuthering Heights

★ 6.5
123 4 1967–1967
Drama · History · Romance

Cain's Hundred

★ 7.6
122 30 1961–1962
Crime · Drama

The New Breed

★ 7.5
122 36 1961–1962
Drama

The Legend of Jesse James

★ 7.0
121 34 1965–1966
Drama · Western

Bus Stop

★ 6.9
120 26 1961–1962
Drama

Blue Light

★ 6.9
120 17 1966–1966
Drama · War

Look and Read

★ 8.1
118 208 1967–2004
Drama · Family · Fantasy

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

★ 5.8
118 199 1969–1974
Drama

The Richard Boone Show

★ 8.4
118 25 1963–1964
Drama

Salto mortale

★ 6.9
117 18 1969–1971
Drama · Family · Thriller

First Night

★ 7.8
116 33 1963–1964
Drama

The Outsider

★ 7.8
115 26 1968–1969
Crime · Drama

Wide Country

★ 8.0
113 28 1962–1963
Drama · Sport · Western
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