1980s

An inner city precinct, overlapping storylines, handheld cameras, and roll call every dawn. Bochco serialized drama against networ...

Jim Hacker MP met Sir Humphrey Appleby, permanent secretary, and the bureaucracy won, politely, forever. Jay and Lynn wrote from g...

Del Boy, market trader of Peckham, forever promising that this time next year they would be millionaires. David Jason as Derek Tro...

Evelyn Waugh novel with Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte, teddy bear Aloysius in tow, Castle H...

Where everybody knows your name: a Boston bar, Sam and Diane verbal combat, Coach then Woody, and Frasier Crane incubated here bef...

Four eras of Edmund Blackadder, with Rowan Atkinson scheming downward through history. The first season was medieval spectacle, th...

MTV cops: pastel suits, needle drops, Art Deco architecture, a Ferrari, and a pet alligator. Michael Mann executive polish made th...

Albert Square, Walford: the Cockney soap with a Christmas death tradition. The 1986 Den and Angie divorce episode drew over 30 mil...

Four retired women sharing a Miami house: Dorothy the sage, Rose the naive, Blanche the man eater, and Sophia with the sharpest to...

A Yorkshire detective investigates the murder of his activist daughter and falls into a nuclear industrial conspiracy. Bob Peck pl...

Philip Marlow, a psoriasis ridden crime writer, hallucinates 1950s musical numbers and noir plots from his hospital bed. Potter wr...

Oxford, a Jaguar, real ale, crosswords, opera, and Colin Dexter cameos in nearly every film. John Thaw as Morse and Kevin Whately ...

Kevin Arnold, 1968 to 1973, narrated by his adult self: the 1960s seen through a suburban kid eyes. Fred Savage became the younges...

Dave Lister, the last human alive, three million years from earth, travels with a hologram of the man he hated, a cat evolved into...

The show about nothing: Manhattan minutiae, a soup nazi, a puffy shirt, shrinkage, and a show pitched within the show. Seinfeld an...

Springfield, a yellow family, and the slow decline of Homer into legend. Groening and James L. Brooks launched the first prime tim...

Thomas Magnum, private investigator, lives in Robin Masters guest house, borrows the Ferrari, and breaks the fourth wall. Tom Sell...

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist from Cabot Cove, Maine, the murder capital of the fictional world. Twelve ...

St Eligius, a decaying Boston teaching hospital, and the staff who fail more than they win. From the MTM school of ensemble realis...

The Conners of Lanford, Illinois: a working class family that argued about money and won. Roseanne Barr and John Goodman as the mo...

The sequel that conquered the world: Goku grows up, Saiyans arrive, and battles stretch across entire seasons of powering up. Akir...