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High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Feig |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (270) |
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterpris
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Gene Roddenberry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (449) |
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Aaron Sorkin |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (169) |
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Greg Daniels |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (526) |
Hilarious ensemble comedy that follows Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, and her tireless efforts to make her quintessentially American town just a little bit more fun.
Publisher: | 3 Arts Entertainment, Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Greg Daniels, Michael Schur |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (388) |
The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | NBC, Audience |
Created By: | Brian Grazer, Peter Berg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (86) |
Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way
Genres: | Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (203) |
This high-concept action comedy follows Chuck Bartowski as the Buy More computer geek turned secret agent. When Chuck unwittingly downloads a database of government information and deadly fighting skills into his head, he becomes the CIA's most vital secr
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Josh Schwartz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (305) |
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Angell, Peter Casey |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (240) |
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | NBC, FOX |
Created By: | Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (500) |
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady as
Genres: | Crime, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell, Roy Huggins |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (35) |
Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC and created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charle
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Les Charles, Glen Charles, James Burrows |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (202) |
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 20 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (167) |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Benny Medina, Andy Borowitz, Jeff Pollack, Susan Borowitz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (297) |
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Stan Daniels, Ed. Weinberger, James L. Brooks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (64) |
Sanford and Son is an American sitcom
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Created By: | Norman Lear, Bud Yorkin, Alan K. Simpson, Ray Galton |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (34) |
The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home
Publisher: | Touchstone Television, Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Susan Harris |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (101) |
30 Rock is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013, and was created by Tina Fey. The series, which is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tina Fey |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (264) |
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (265) |
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so rewarding and ex
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Derek Haas, Michael Brandt |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (197) |
The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series, running from 1983 to 1987, about a fictional group of ex United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war c
Genre: | Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (191) |
In this reality competition, craft makers from all walks of life take on a series of projects. Over the course of each episode, the contestants must tackle a different theme, hand-making items in different disciplines — the difficulty of which increases w
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (5) |
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tim Kring |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (644) |
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the be
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (194) |
A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with a terran family after crashing into their garage.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Paul Fusco |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (184) |
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Greenwalt, Jim Kouf, Stephen Carpenter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (576) |
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in the pulse-pou
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (107) |
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Bill Cosby, Michael J. Leeson, Ed. Weinberger |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (121) |
Welcome to a place where being normal is really quite strange. In a remote Texas town no one is who they seem. From vampires and witches to psychics and hit men, Midnight is a mysterious safe haven for those who are different. As the town members fight of
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Monica Breen |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (88) |
Dr. Max Goodwin, the hospital's newest medical director, sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | David Schulner |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (10) |
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Martin Gero |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (553) |
Saved by the Bell is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from 1989 to 1993. The series was a retool of the Disney Channel series Good Morning, Miss Bliss. The show follows the exploits of a group of friends and their principal, and although th
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Family |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | NBC, Channel 4 |
Created By: | Sam Bobrick |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (82) |
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on E
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Norman Lear, Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (24) |
A loving (but immature) father is committed to co-parenting his two kids with his very-together ex-wife. While his misguided fatherly advice, unstoppable larger-than-life personality and unpredictable Internet superstardom might get in the way sometimes,
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Marlon Wayans, Christopher Moynihan |
Status: | Returning Series, Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (21) |
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show was canceled after its first season on NBC, but survived and later became one
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, Gregory J. Bonann |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (133) |
A Different World is an American television sitcom which aired for six seasons on NBC. It is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Bill Cosby |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.2 / 10 (13) |
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to kno
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Aseem Batra |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5 / 10 (5) |
The ultimate sixteen-week job interview where eighteen Americans compete in a series of rigorous business tasks, many of which include prominent Fortune 500 companies and require street smarts and intelligence to conquer, in order to show the boss that th
Genre: | Reality |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Mark Burnett |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.5 / 10 (19) |
When former Princeton music professor Arthur Cochran unexpectedly stumbles into choir practice at a small-town church, he finds a group of singers that are out of tune in more ways than one.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Lesley Wake Webster |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |