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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)

Time of Your Life

★ 6.2
496 20 1999–2001
Drama

Traders

★ 7.8
491 83 1996–2000
Drama

Na dobre i na zle

★ 3.7
491 986 1999–present
Drama · Romance

Boys Over Flowers

★ 7.3
487 51 1996–1997
Animation · Comedy · Drama

Vampire Princess Miyu

★ 7.0
486 26 1997–1998
Action · Animation · Drama

High Incident

★ 7.7
486 32 1996–1997
Crime · Drama

Adventures from the Book of Virtues

★ 7.1
485 40 1996–2009
Adventure · Animation · Drama

Sleepers

★ 8.4
484 4 1991–1991
Comedy · Drama

Our Charly

★ 4.5
482 221 1995–2012
Comedy · Drama · Family

Jenny Jones

★ 3.8
482 2784 1991–2003
Drama · Talk-Show

Sinatra

★ 7.2
480 2 1992–1992
Biography · Drama · Music

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

★ 7.2
476 4 1997–1999
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Zaboravljeni

★ 8.5
474 11 1992–1992
Crime · Drama · Romance

Simba: The King Lion

★ 6.6
474 52 1995–2004
Action · Animation · Drama

Metsolat

★ 8.3
472 40 1993–1995
Drama

Perversions of Science

★ 6.3
471 10 1997–1997
Action · Comedy · Drama

Josephine, Guardian Angel

★ 4.0
469 106 1997–present
Comedy · Drama · Fantasy

Familie

★ 3.8
469 7912 1991–present
Drama · Family

Dead by Sunset

★ 6.8
465 2 1995–1995
Drama · Thriller

Devilman Lady

★ 6.4
463 26 1998–1999
Animation · Drama · Fantasy
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