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Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998. It lasted nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 9 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (593) |
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 misadventures of a group of friends as they navigate the pitfalls of work, life and love in Manhattan.
Publisher: | Warner Bros. Television, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions |
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Marta Kauffman, David Crane |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (1397) |
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Networks: | NBC, Yahoo! Screen |
Created By: | Dan Harmon |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (435) |
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday -
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox Television, Rhode Island Ave. Productions |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Dan Fogelman |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (300) |
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) |
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a hi
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Bryan Fuller |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (583) |
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) |
A comedy-variety series showcasing young musicians, singers, dancers and every form of wunderkind in the country. Harvey goes toe-to-toe with them in conversations and interviews, with hilarious results.
Number Of Seasons: | 3 |
Network: | NBC |
Genre: | Reality |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (9) |
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to differentiate the tw
Genres: | Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 1 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Kyle Killen |
Status: | Canceled |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (81) |
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) |
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critica
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 7 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Steven Bochco |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (41) |
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) |
Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Jason Katims |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (55) |
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human famil
Genres: | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (166) |
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) |
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades
Genres: | Drama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Jon Bokenkamp |
Status: | Returning Series |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (836) |
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma.
Genre: | Comedy |
Number Of Seasons: | 4 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Greg Garcia |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (248) |
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) |
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Genres: | Western, Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 10 |
Created By: | Ed Friendly |
Network: | NBC |
Status: | Ended |
Origin Country: | US |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (105) |
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) |
Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Genre: | Drama |
Number Of Seasons: | 6 |
Network: | NBC |
Created By: | Tim Kring |
Status: | Ended |
User Score (votes): | 6.9 / 10 (42) |