1990s

Who killed Laura Palmer: Lynch brought dream logic to prime time. The Red Room, the dwarf, the giant, and Cooper with his damn fin...

Ripped from the headlines: the first half police, the second half prosecutors, joined by the iconic chung chung scene change. The ...

Edina and Patsy, PR agent and magazine editor, drank, smoked, and dieted through London fashions for two decades. Saunders wrote a...

DCI Jane Tennison, played by Helen Mirren, fought institutional sexism and killers across seven series. La Plante wrote research h...

The truth is out there: Mulder believes, Scully doubts, and the government lies. Carter balanced mythology arcs with monster of th...

Dennis Franz as Sipowicz, a drunk detective finding redemption across twelve seasons, the longest character arc on television at t...

Frasier Crane moved from Cheers to Seattle radio, opera, and Eddie the dog. Kelsey Grammer played the character twenty years acros...

Michael Crichton wrote the pilot from his own medical school experience: County General, Chicago, tracking shots down corridors. G...

Six friends around a coffee house and two Manhattan apartments: Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe. Ten seasons, 52 ...

Jane Austen 1813 novel with Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Darcy, six episodes of the BBC at full sail. The lake sc...

Three priests exiled to Craggy Island: Ted the schemer, Dougal the innocent, Jack the feral, and Mrs Doyle the tea tyrant. Linehan...

High school is literally hell: Sunnydale sits on a mouth of hell and Buffy is the chosen one. Whedon dialogue plus the musical epi...

Emerald City, an experimental unit inside Oswald prison, and the first HBO hour drama. Fontana wrote most of it, with theatrical m...

Four Colorado boys, construction paper origins, and a six day production cycle that keeps the satire topical. Parker and Stone hit...

Four New York women, a sex column, cosmos, and friendship as the real romance. Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie, from the Candace Bu...

Tony Soprano, waste management boss, panic attacks, and a therapist: the mob boss in midlife crisis. James Gandolfini delivered th...

Walk and talk: the Bartlet White House with Sorkin dialogue at full sprint. Martin Sheen as the president, Bradley Whitford, Allis...

A delivery boy frozen to the year 3000 wakes to a one eyed pilot, a bending robot, and a lobster doctor. Groening and David X Cohe...

Bounty hunters in 2071 with a jazz score: Watanabe blended noir, western, and kung fu under the Yoko Kanno soundtrack. Twenty six ...

Anno wrote his depression into mecha deconstruction: teenagers pilot against Angels while the show dissects their minds. Twenty si...

A man child in a tweed jacket solves everyday problems with physical mayhem and almost no dialogue. Rowan Atkinson built Bean at O...

Will Smith, a West Philadelphia kid, sent to live with rich relatives in Bel Air. The sitcom that let rap be the texture, not the ...

Usagi Tsukino, a clumsy 14 year old, discovers she is Sailor Moon, guardian of love and justice, and assembles a team of Sailor So...

Ash and Pikachu travel the world catching creatures and learning friendship, based on Satoshi Tajiris Game Boy games about bug col...