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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)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

★ 7.2
3K 3 1996–1996
Period piece · Strong female lead

Jesus

★ 6.1
3K 2 1999–1999
Faith & religion · Period piece

Forever Knight

★ 7.6
3K 70 1992–1996
Supernatural · Redemption

The Tribe

★ 7.5
3K 260 1999–2003
Post-apocalyptic · Young adult

New York Undercover

★ 7.9
3K 95 1994–2024
Action · Crime · Drama

Return to Lonesome Dove

★ 7.2
3K 4 1993–1993
Drama · Western

Neverwhere

★ 7.1
3K 6 1996–1996
Adventure · Comedy · Drama

Once and Again

★ 7.8
3K 63 1999–2002
Drama · Family · Romance

Kindred: The Embraced

★ 7.5
3K 8 1996–1996
Drama · Fantasy · Horror

North & South: Book 3, Heaven & Hell

★ 6.1
3K 3 1994–1994
Drama · History · Romance

Middlemarch

★ 7.4
3K 7 1994–1994
Drama · Romance

Kurtulus

★ 9.2
3K 6 1994–1994
Drama · History · War

To Catch a Killer

★ 7.3
3K 2 1992–1992
Biography · Crime · Drama

The Last Don

★ 7.1
3K 3 1997–1997
Crime · Drama

Holby City

★ 5.8
3K 1103 1999–2022
Drama

Our Mutual Friend

★ 8.0
3K 4 1998–1998
Drama

La usurpadora

★ 7.7
3K 102 1998–1998
Drama · Romance

Chanakya

★ 9.3
3K 48 1990–1992
Drama · History

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven

★ 6.4
3K 22 1998–1999
Action · Crime · Drama

Hamish Macbeth

★ 7.8
3K 20 1995–1997
Comedy · Crime · Drama

This Life

★ 8.5
3K 32 1996–1997
Drama · Romance

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

★ 6.5
3K 88 1993–1997
Action · Crime · Drama

The Commish

★ 7.1
3K 93 1991–1996
Comedy · Crime · Drama

The Buccaneers

★ 7.1
3K 5 1995–1995
Adventure · Drama · Romance
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