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Best Drama TV Series of the 1990s

Top 500 most popular Drama series that started in the 1990s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Get Real

★ 7.4
738 22 1999–2000
Comedy · Drama · Romance

Cold Squad

★ 6.9
738 98 1998–2005
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Murder in the Heartland

★ 6.5
737 2 1993–1993
Crime · Drama · Thriller

Cop Rock

★ 4.6
737 11 1990–1990
Comedy · Drama · Musical

North of 60

★ 8.4
733 90 1992–1998
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Heat of the Sun

★ 8.0
732 3 1998–1998
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Wanees's Diaries

★ 7.7
727 302 1994–2013
Comedy · Drama · Family

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

★ 6.6
721 3 1990–1990
Crime · Drama

Ninja Resurrection

★ 5.1
716 2 1997–1998
Action · Animation · Drama

Karaoke

★ 7.9
716 4 1996–1996
Drama

Between the Lines

★ 8.1
712 35 1992–1994
Crime · Drama

Love, Lies and Murder

★ 7.0
709 2 1991–1991
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Where the Heart Is

★ 6.9
700 110 1997–2006
Drama

Ebba och Didrik

★ 7.5
700 9 1990–1990
Drama · Family

Baby & I

★ 7.8
694 35 1996–1997
Animation · Comedy · Drama

Medicopter 117 - Jedes Leben zählt

★ 5.2
693 82 1998–2007
Drama

Mama Flora's Family

★ 7.8
692 2 1998–1998
Drama

McCallum

★ 7.6
692 9 1995–1998
Drama

The Condor Heroes 95

★ 8.1
691 32 1995–1995
Action · Adventure · Drama

School

★ 8.0
691 154 1999–2002
Drama · Mystery

Les jumeaux du bout du monde

★ 7.1
687 52 1991–present
Adventure · Animation · Drama

Nokkhotrer Raat

★ 9.3
682 3 1994–1995
Comedy · Drama · Family

Stingers

★ 7.2
681 192 1998–2004
Action · Crime · Drama

Rapport till himlen

★ 7.1
679 4 1994–1994
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