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Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately during the 2360s and features a ne
Publisher: | Paramount Television |
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Networks: | CBS, Broadcast Syndication |
Created By: | Gene Roddenberry |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (531) |
When a Cincinnati radio station switches from sedate music to top-40 rock 'n' roll, its staff of oddball characters is forced to switch gears quickly. New programming director Andy Travis brings in a new DJ named Venus Flytrap to work with the station's b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Created By: | Hugh Wilson |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (28) |
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administra
Genres: | War & Politics, Drama, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Larry Gelbart, H. Richard Hornberger |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (229) |
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most influential situation comedy television series in American history.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 11 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Jackie Gleason |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (33) |
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series' primary executive producer. Good Time
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Created By: | Eric Monte, Mike Evans |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (27) |
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, bu
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Sheldon Leonard, Aaron Ruben |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.6 / 10 (50) |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Genre: | Comedy |
Created By: | Carter Bays, Craig Thomas |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (978) |
Patrick Jane, a former celebrity psychic medium, uses his razor sharp skills of observation and expertise at "reading" people to solve serious crimes with the California Bureau of Investigation.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Bruno Heller |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (393) |
The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michelle King, Robert King |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (176) |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. The pilot was shown during the week of December 14, 1987 in syndication as a five-part miniseries and began its official run on October 1, 1988. The
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Fred Wolf, Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (134) |
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Can
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Created By: | Abby Mann |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (35) |
Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network. According to the Nielsen r
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Glen A. Larson, Donald P. Bellisario |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (86) |
Tiny Toon Adventures, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation and was broadcast from September 14, 1990 through May 28, 1995. It follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon charac
Genres: | Animation, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Networks: | CBS, Fox Kids |
Created By: | Tom Ruegger, Steven Spielberg |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (53) |
An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to hel
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 14 |
Networks: | CBS, ION Television |
Created By: | Jeff Davis |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (531) |
Skeptical female clinical psychologist Kristen Benoist joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Created By: | Robert King, Michelle King |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Returning Series |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (6) |
The series follows Las Vegas criminalists working for the Las Vegas Police Department as they use physical evidence to solve grisly murders in this unusually graphic drama, which has inspired a host of other cop-show "procedurals". The series mixes deduct
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 15 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Anthony Zuiker, Ann Donahue |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (282) |
The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Created By: | Earl Hamner, Jr. |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (30) |
A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nig
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robert Doherty |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (573) |
Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the most.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michael Seitzman |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (62) |
A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his fa
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (205) |
Out of Practice is an American situation comedy that was produced by Paramount Network Television and originally broadcast on sister company CBS from September 19, 2005 to March 29, 2006. With producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd at the helm, the sh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Joe Keenan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (3) |
Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a gifted author, university professor and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by tenacious top NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham. Though Dylan and Lizzie initially clash, when it comes to catching killers, they make an ideal
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Michael Rauch |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (20) |
NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 16 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Don McGill, Donald P. Bellisario |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (678) |
The relationship between Arthur, the gruff owner of a small donut shop, his enterprising new young employee, Franco, and their loyal patrons in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighborhood.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Bob Daily |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (18) |
Silk Stalkings is a crime drama television series. The series premiered on CBS on November 7, 1991 as part of the network's late-night Crimetime After Primetime programming package. It originally aired on CBS for two seasons until June 1993 when CBS ended
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 8 |
Networks: | CBS, USA Network |
Created By: | Stephen J. Cannell |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (7) |
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 12 |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (12) |
A drama about the local field office that investigates criminal cases affecting military personnel in The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment and decadence.
Genres: | Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Gary Glasberg |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.4 / 10 (143) |
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams
Genres: | Reality, Action & Adventure |
Number Of Seasons: | 30 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Elise Doganieri, Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 6.6 / 10 (58) |
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is l
Genres: | Western, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 20 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | John Meston |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (46) |
Murphy Brown is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS from November 14, 1988, to May 18, 1998, for a total of 247 episodes. The program starred Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for F
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Diane English |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.5 / 10 (25) |
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Matt JL Wheeler, Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 6.3 / 10 (161) |
Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of the world. W
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Brian K. Vaughan |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.2 / 10 (420) |
Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Created By: | Robert Getchell |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.9 / 10 (19) |
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over. The s
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | John Gray |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (139) |
Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Networks: | CBS, The CW |
Created By: | Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Ali Adler |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 5.8 / 10 (823) |
Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rh
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 5 |
Created By: | Allan Burns, James L. Brooks |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 5.7 / 10 (8) |
Gary Unmarried is an American sitcom created by Ed Yeager, which ran on CBS from September 24, 2008 to March 17, 2010. The series focuses on a recently divorced couple sharing custody of their kids while starting new relationships. The show was produced b
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 5.3 / 10 (12) |
A newly retired police officer looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 2 |
Network: | CBS |
Created By: | Barton Dean |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 5.1 / 10 (69) |
Bull is a short-lived American drama series created by Michael S. Chernuchin, who had worked on Law & Order and Brooklyn South in 2000. It was TNT's first original series, and was cancelled in the middle of Season 1. The show's name is in reference to the
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Networks: | CBS, TNT |
Created By: | Paul Attanasio, Phil McGraw |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (0) |