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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)

McMillan & Wife

★ 7.2
3K 40 1971–1977
Detective mystery · Procedural

Emil i Lönneberga

★ 7.7
3K 13 1974–1976
Comedy · Drama · Family

Baretta

★ 6.8
3K 82 1975–1978
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Minder

★ 7.8
3K 110 1979–1994
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Roots: The Next Generations

★ 7.8
3K 7 1979–1979
Biography · Drama · History

The Sweeney

★ 8.1
3K 53 1975–1978
Action · Crime · Drama

Tales of the Unexpected

★ 7.6
3K 112 1979–1988
Comedy · Drama · Horror

How the West Was Won

★ 8.2
3K 29 1976–1979
Drama · Western

Tomorrow's Joe

★ 8.8
3K 126 1970–1981
Action · Animation · Drama

Lady Oscar: The Rose of Versailles

★ 8.3
3K 41 1979–1980
Action · Animation · Drama

Police Woman

★ 6.6
3K 90 1974–1978
Action · Crime · Drama

Lou Grant

★ 7.3
3K 114 1977–1982
Crime · Drama

The Sacketts

★ 7.6
3K 2 1979–1979
Drama · Western

Banacek

★ 7.6
3K 17 1972–1974
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Vega$

★ 6.9
3K 69 1978–1981
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Prisoner

★ 8.2
3K 692 1979–1986
Crime · Drama

Trapper John, M.D.

★ 6.6
2K 151 1979–1986
Drama

Anne of Green Gables

★ 7.7
2K 50 1979–1979
Animation · Drama · Family

S.W.A.T.

★ 6.8
2K 37 1975–1976
Action · Crime · Drama

Family

★ 7.7
2K 86 1976–1980
Drama · Family

Candy Candy

★ 8.0
2K 115 1976–1979
Animation · Drama · Family

Elizabeth R

★ 8.6
2K 6 1971–1971
Biography · Drama · History

Derrick

★ 6.7
2K 281 1974–1998
Crime · Drama

Rumpole of the Bailey

★ 8.4
2K 43 1978–1992
Crime · Drama · Mystery
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