Best TV Series of the 90s

What are the best TV Series of the 90s? Please list and rank them.

"The Larry Sanders Show"

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Oz
The Sopranos
The X-Files
MacGyver
Twin Peaks
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Seinfeld
Frasier
The Simpsons
Keeping Up Appearances
'Allo 'Allo!
Everybody Loves Raymond
Spin City
Home Improvement
Cheers
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friends
Growing Pains
Unhappily Ever After
Blossom

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I asked "best"

Damn, I totally forgot about Spin City. I loved that show.

But when you make a list like this poll there’s no doubt: Cowboy Bebop.

yw Troya..

I know it is mostly Nth Americans on here, but how is it that noone has mentioned The West Wing?


A few other notables missing...

Absolutely Fabulous
Blue Heelers
Bottom
ER
Father Ted
Frasier
Friends
Frontline
Larry Sanders Show
Mad About You
Men Behaving Badly
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools and Horses
Red Dwarf

Nice to see some love for Oz and Keeping Up Appearances

Batman: The Animated Series

Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Star Trek Voyager

That's my list of 90s favorite TV shows

Buffy The Vampire Slayer is one of them.

The only show listed in the poll that I watched was "The X-Files", (and the first few seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), but there were better TV shows in the 1990s.


"Stark Raving Mad" (1999 - 2000) is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, but it only ran for one season, and only about half of that was in the 1990s, so I don't know if it's eligible.

"Quantum Leap" (1989 - 1993) is another favorite 1990s TV show, but it started in 1989, so I'm not sure if it's eligible either.

"Early Edition" (1996 - 2000) is another of my favorite 1990s TV shows, and most of it aired in the 1990s, but it ended in 2000.

"Mad About You" (1992 - 1999) is my favorite 1990s TV show that started and ended in the 1990s.

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No one mentioned South Park? Idiots. Part of my education, I guess you can tell.

I'm extremely technical, so I only count shows that started in the 90's (with the exception of Seinfeld and The Simpsons since only the pilot episode is from the 80's)

Seinfeld
The Simpsons (Older episodes)
Law & Order
Mr. Bean
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Absolutely Fabulous
The X-Files
Father Ted
Timon & Pumbaa
South Park
Oz
The Sopranos
Family Guy
SpongeBob SquarePants
Futurama
Parlamentet

But I get into new TV shows all the time. You bet this list will be expanded.

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The first TV series I've ever watched for the sake of being critic were The Sopranos.
By the end, I though: Not that good, I don't understand all the attention, even glorification.
Now, ever single series I watch is only a reminder of how good The Sopranos really were.

Evangelion is in my opinion the single greatest TV show ever made. This opinion is based on several elements:

1) Evangelion was a TV show that reinvented TV animation and influenced a huge amount of Japanese (and East Asian in general) cultural products in the decades since. It is the single most influential animation ever made (even more than any Miyazaki or Disney movies) given its direct influence on thousands of TV shows made after it as well as novels and other forms of fiction.

2) It is a very rare case of an auteur TV show: Hideaki Anno's directional style is a huge part of the show's success and the whole show is his own creature: the main character is his avatar and the show is an expression of Anno's deep feeling of self-hatred. This show is a work of art in the strict sense as it was not purely a commercial product.

3) But, it was commercially hugely successful. It is kinda like a TV show version of Star Wars meets Tarkovsky: it is deeply personal art that takes itself almost too seriously but at the same time it is pulp science fiction with giant monster and teenagers. It set the template for this "dark anime" genre that is still popular.

It is true it is more flawed than most great TV shows. Later anime shows made in the same style were superior to EVA in terms of the quality of execution (shows like Lain, Texhnolyze, RahXephon, and Madoka to name a few) but EVA has a certain raw and visceral emotional power that is lacking in any other show I have ever watched (from Brazilian soup operas, to American sci fi shows to tons of similar dark anime shows). That is because it was a personal expression of uncompromising self-hatred by the director.

It is not my favorite TV show, but it would be the TV show that I would choose to "preserve" as an example of the power of 20th century TV to someone in the future.

I think that The Sopranos are a gold standard in terms of the typical American episodic drama series. However, the kinds of series I enjoy the most tend to be more on the edge like Breaking Bad or Babylon 5 (in their own different ways) and I personally do not find this mafia/gangster activity particularly entertaining.

This Series somehow blow me away too.

I also find it interesting that most people here only mention English-Language (Mainstream) TV.

Because this is an English language forum and since the forum name is "Movie Forums" it is not expected that people here should be specialists in TV shows, specially non-English language TV shows.

I personally know mostly US, Brazilian (since I am Brazilian), and Japanese TV shows, and 95% of the Japanese TV shows I know are animated. But that's because I consider myself a fan of manga and its associated cultural products, if I wasn't I would only know Brazilian and American shows.