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Ja'mie King, the self-promoting "queen bee" of Summer Heights High, returns from an exchange semester at that public school for her last three months at Hillford Girls Grammar, where she's the unchallenged diva among the school's most popular girls, as we
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | ABC, HBO |
Created By: | Chris Lilley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (10) |
Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy M
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Garry Marshall |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (45) |
Sam Swift, the former star of a hit cop series whose epic breakdown is broadcast to the public and sends her to rehab. Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing lone-wolf private investigator Eddie Valetik as research for a potenti
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Andrew W. Marlowe, Terri Edda Miller |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (17) |
The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (20) |
Doug is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and co-produced by his studio, Jumbo Pictures. The show's plotline centers around the surreal and imaginative exploits of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predica
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Kids |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Networks: | ABC, Nickelodeon |
Created By: | Jim Jinkins |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (67) |
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Kenya Barris |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (98) |
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While p
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (15) |
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milw
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz, Garry Marshall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (22) |
A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Nahnatchka Khan |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (89) |
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (1200) |
Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their cli
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Shonda Rhimes |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (222) |
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama-mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It aired Sundays at 9 P.M. Eastern/8 P.M. Central, on ABC from October 3, 2004, until May 13, 2012. Execu
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Marc Cherry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (229) |
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birt
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (7) |
Fourteen year old breakdancer and mischievous delinquent, Jonah Takalua, returns from Tonga to start a new life at Holy Cross High School. Dominating the playground with his gang Fobba-licious, amusing himself with endless filfthy jokes and a schoolyard
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Chris Lilley |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (9) |
A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Created By: | Louise Fox, Tony Ayres |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (64) |
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and
Genres: | Western, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | George W. Trendle, Fran Striker |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (6) |
Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car driver
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (12) |
Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Created By: | Sarah Scheller, Alison Bell |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | AU |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (2) |
Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992. Produced by Embassy Television, in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions, and Columbia Pictures Television, t
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Blake Hunter |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (36) |
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has bee
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (739) |
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24, 1977, until May 24, 1986. The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain. It was part of ABC's popular Saturday night l
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Aaron Spelling |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (47) |
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is an American sitcom based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The show premiered on September 27, 1996 on ABC to over 17 million viewers in its "T.G.I.F." line-up. The show stars Melissa Joan Hart as Sabrina Spe
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | ABC, The WB |
Created By: | Nell Scovell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (101) |
Pepper Ann is an American animated series created by Sue Rose and aired on first run syndication. It debuted on September 1, 1997, and ended on November 24, 2000. Pepper Ann stars adolescents and charts their ups and downs at Hazelnut Middle School. It a
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Networks: | ABC, UPN |
Created By: | Sue Rose |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (4) |
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Shonda Rhimes |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (837) |
What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on Manhattan's Upper
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | David Wilcox |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (45) |
A group of single parents lean on each other to help raise their 7-year-old kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Elizabeth Meriwether, J. J. Philbin |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.5 / 10 (5) |
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 198
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Neal Marlens |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (39) |
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | J.J. Abrams |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.1 / 10 (264) |
A diverse group of recruits has arrived at the FBI Quantico Base for training. They are the best, the brightest and the most vetted, so it seems impossible that one of them is suspected of masterminding the biggest attack on New York City since 9/11.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Joshua Safran |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (292) |
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | ABC, CMT |
Created By: | Callie Khouri, Max Axall |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6 / 10 (122) |
A single bachelor dates multiple women over several weeks, narrowing them down to hopefully find his true love.
Genres: | Reality, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 24 |
Created By: | Mike Fleiss |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (29) |
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | D.J. Nash |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (4) |
Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with any ob
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Fernando Gaitán, Silvio Horta |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (78) |
In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys. There are 10 people, three bedrooms, one bathroom and everyone in it for themselves.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Tim Doyle |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 10 / 10 (2) |
Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from September 17, 1969 until January 11, 1974. The show was broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 9:00 for its first two
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | James L. Brooks |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.4 / 10 (10) |
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Genres: | Drama, Soap |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | ABC |
Created By: | Doris Hursley, Frank Hursley |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 4.8 / 10 (132) |
Webster is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 16, 1983 until May 8, 1987, and in first-run syndication from September 21, 1987 until March 10, 1989. The series was created by Stu Silver. The show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the tit
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 4.9 / 10 (11) |
After dropping everything to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, Rio and Mike soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they planned.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Lake Bell, Elizabeth Meriwether |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 4.2 / 10 (5) |
Following an emotional breakup, tough but tender FBI super-agent Will Chase (codename: “Whiskey Cavalier”) is assigned to work with badass CIA operative Frankie Trowbridge (codename: “Fiery Tribune”). Together, they lead an inter-agency team of flawed, fu
Genres: | Drama, Comedy, Crime |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Dave Hemingson |
Network: | ABC |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 0 / 10 (0) |