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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)

Saans

★ 4.2
554 179 1999–present
Comedy · Drama · Family

Killer Net

★ 6.6
548 4 1998–1998
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

★ 8.0
548 45 1997–1997
Action · Drama · History

Scarlet and Black

★ 6.9
544 3 1993–1993
Drama · Romance

Love Boat: The Next Wave

★ 4.6
542 25 1998–1999
Comedy · Drama · Romance

A Viagem

★ 8.5
539 318 1994–1994
Drama · Fantasy · Romance

Portrait of a Marriage

★ 7.6
538 4 1990–1990
Biography · Drama · Romance

The Untouchables

★ 7.7
532 42 1993–1994
Action · Crime · Drama

A Year in Provence

★ 7.7
529 12 1993–1993
Biography · Comedy · Drama

How Do You Want Me?

★ 7.6
526 12 1998–1999
Comedy · Drama

Reasonable Doubts

★ 7.4
522 44 1991–1993
Crime · Drama

Crime Traveller

★ 7.2
521 8 1997–1997
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Kara Melek

★ 6.5
521 208 1997–2000
Drama

Chancer

★ 7.4
520 20 1990–1991
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Xica da Silva

★ 8.3
518 230 1996–1998
Drama · Romance

The Tide of Life

★ 7.3
514 3 1996–1996
Drama · Romance

Burke's Law

★ 6.6
512 27 1994–1995
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden

★ 8.3
506 52 1998–2000
Action · Animation · Drama

The Seventh Scroll

★ 5.7
505 3 1999–present
Action · Adventure · Drama

The Visitor

★ 7.0
502 13 1997–1998
Drama · Sci-Fi

Cracker: Mind Over Murder

★ 6.2
502 16 1997–1998
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Remember WENN

★ 8.7
501 56 1996–1998
Comedy · Drama

The Dwelling Place

★ 7.1
496 3 1994–1994
Drama

El privilegio de amar

★ 7.9
496 155 1998–1999
Drama · Romance
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