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Best Drama TV Series of the 1970s

Top 500 most popular Drama series that started in the 1970s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Rock Follies

★ 7.7
178 6 1976–1976
Drama · Music

Banyon

★ 7.7
177 16 1971–1973
Crime · Drama

Cop Shop

★ 7.1
177 588 1977–1984
Action · Crime · Drama

How Green Was My Valley

★ 7.9
177 6 1975–1976
Drama

Dreams of the Flying Boy

★ 7.2
176 14 1978–1978
Drama · Thriller

Testament of Youth

★ 8.5
176 5 1979–1979
Drama · Romance · War

Lucas Tanner

★ 6.9
176 23 1974–1975
Drama · Sport

Matt Helm

★ 6.0
176 14 1975–1976
Action · Crime · Drama

Number 96

★ 7.2
176 1218 1972–1977
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Thomas and Sarah

★ 6.5
175 13 1979–1979
Drama

Dirty Sally

★ 7.7
175 14 1974–1974
Drama · Western

Black Beauty

★ 6.4
172 5 1978–1978
Drama

Malice Aforethought

★ 8.1
171 4 1979–present
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Flying High

★ 6.6
171 19 1978–1979
Adventure · Comedy · Drama

Hard Times

★ 7.5
170 4 1977–1977
Drama

The Word

★ 6.2
170 4 1978–1978
Drama

Nicholas Nickleby

★ 7.3
169 6 1977–1977
Drama

Bronk

★ 6.8
167 25 1975–1976
Crime · Drama

Buddenbrooks

★ 7.7
166 11 1979–present
Drama

Angels

★ 6.6
165 220 1975–1983
Drama

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

★ 8.4
164 6 1973–1973
Drama

Days of Hope

★ 8.0
162 4 1975–present
Drama · History · War

Battle Fever J

★ 6.4
162 52 1979–1980
Action · Adventure · Drama

The Lost Islands

★ 7.9
162 26 1976–1976
Adventure · Drama · Family
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