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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)

Zoom

★ 7.7
389 10 1972–1978
Comedy · Drama · Family

Get Christie Love!

★ 6.5
388 22 1974–1975
Crime · Drama

The Age of the Medici

★ 7.1
387 3 1972–1973
Biography · Drama · History

Lone Wolf and Cub

★ 8.2
386 80 1973–1976
Action · Adventure · Drama

Salas u Malom Ritu

★ 8.4
380 13 1975–1976
Drama · War

Ike: The War Years

★ 7.0
379 3 1979–1979
Biography · Drama · History

Coffin Island

★ 7.7
369 6 1979–1979
Crime · Drama · Mystery

A Dog of Flanders

★ 7.9
363 52 1975–1975
Animation · Drama · Family

Vechnyy zov

★ 7.8
357 19 1973–1983
Drama

Anna Karenina

★ 7.8
357 10 1977–1977
Drama · History · Romance

Lalka

★ 8.0
352 9 1978–1981
Drama · Romance

Beasts

★ 7.2
346 6 1976–1976
Drama · Horror · Mystery

Budgie

★ 7.6
344 26 1971–1972
Drama

Ill-Fated Love

★ 7.3
343 6 1978–1978
Drama · Romance

Mathias Sandorf

★ 7.9
342 6 1979–1980
Adventure · Drama · Romance

Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman

★ 8.0
340 101 1974–1979
Action · Adventure · Drama

The Quest

★ 7.1
339 15 1976–1976
Drama · Western

Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva

★ 7.9
337 5 1970–1970
Adventure · Drama · Romance

U registraturi

★ 8.4
334 9 1974–1974
Drama

La maison des bois

★ 8.2
332 7 1971–1971
Comedy · Drama · History

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law

★ 6.9
330 70 1971–1974
Drama

Out

★ 7.7
326 6 1978–1978
Crime · Drama

Little Women

★ 6.8
325 2 1978–1978
Drama · Family · Romance

Kapelski kresovi

★ 8.1
312 13 1974–1976
Action · Drama · War
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