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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)

Warship

★ 7.8
144 45 1973–1977
Action · Drama

Madame Bovary

★ 7.2
144 4 1975–1975
Drama

Future Cop

★ 5.8
143 7 1976–1977
Action · Crime · Drama

The Young Doctors

★ 6.2
142 1397 1976–1983
Drama · Romance

Justice

★ 7.6
142 39 1971–1974
Drama

Kaz

★ 7.5
142 23 1978–1979
Crime · Drama

Aspen

★ 7.2
141 3 1977–1977
Drama · Thriller

The Zoo Gang

★ 7.2
141 6 1974–1974
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Clifton House Mystery

★ 7.1
140 6 1978–1978
Drama · Family · Fantasy

Testimony of Two Men

★ 8.1
139 3 1977–1977
Drama

The New Perry Mason

★ 5.2
139 15 1973–1974
Crime · Drama · Mystery

I eto vsyo o nyom

★ 6.9
139 6 1978–1978
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Diario di un maestro

★ 8.5
139 4 1973–present
Drama · Reality-TV

Stormskerry Maja

★ 7.7
138 6 1975–1976
Drama

The Brontës of Haworth

★ 7.2
138 5 1973–present
Biography · Drama · Romance

Mejasi

★ 7.8
137 6 1970–1970
Comedy · Drama

Richie Brockelman, Private Eye

★ 7.1
137 5 1978–1978
Crime · Drama

To Create a Man

★ 8.5
135 1978–1978
Drama

The Lost Boys

★ 8.0
135 3 1978–1978
Biography · Drama

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

★ 7.5
134 7 1977–1977
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Gangsters

★ 8.1
134 12 1976–1978
Crime · Drama

Sunset Song

★ 8.2
133 6 1971–1971
Drama

Anne of Green Gables

★ 6.4
132 5 1972–1972
Drama · Family

The French Atlantic Affair

★ 6.5
132 3 1979–1979
Adventure · Drama
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