8.3 /10
A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
Average Episode Run Time: 39` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2013 - 2018
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 98
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt , Hanelle M. Culpepper , Lance Anderson
Producer:
Stars: Joseph Morgan , Daniel Gillies , Charles Michael Davis , Riley Voelkel , Yusuf Gatewood , Danielle Rose Russell
8.3 /10
The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Average Episode Run Time: 43` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2010 - 2015
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 103
Director: Patrick R. Norris , Ken Whittingham , Thomas Schlamme
Producer: Debra James
Stars: Peter Krause , Monica Potter , Lauren Graham , Erika Christensen , Craig T. Nelson , Bonnie Bedelia
8.3 /10
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: TV-MA . 2010 - 2013
Total Seasons: 5 . Total Episodes: 43
Director: Anthony Hemingway , Roxann Dawson , Jim McKay
Producer: Joe Incaprera , Eric Overmyer , Carolyn Strauss
Stars: Khandi Alexander , Rob Brown , Chris Coy , Kim Dickens , India Ennenga , Michiel Huisman
8.3 /10
Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. The plot lines follow many of the topical issues of the day, including race relations, corporate politics, and business ethics. The auto company of the novel is a little-disguised Ford Motor Company and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders.
Average Episode Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: . 1978
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 5
Director: Jerry London
Producer: Roy Huggins , Gary B. Witney , Robert F. O'Neill
Stars: Rock Hudson , Lee Remick , Blair Brown , John Beck , Ralph Bellamy , Scott Brady
8.3 /10
Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1991 - 1996
Total Seasons: 6 . Total Episodes: 127
Director: James A. Contner , Kevin Inch , Steven Robman
Producer:
Stars: Swoosie Kurtz , Sela Ward , Patricia Kalember , Sheila Kelley , Elizabeth Hoffman , Heather McAdam
8.2 /10
Her Story is about two trans women in Los Angeles who have given up on love, when suddenly chance encounters give them hope. Violet is drawn to Allie, a reporter who approaches her for an interview, while career-driven Paige meets James, the first man she’s considered opening up to in years. Will they risk letting what they are stand in the way of being loved for who they are? Trans women in the media have long been punchlines, killers, indications of urban grit, pathetic tragedies, and dangerous sirens. Rarely have they been complex characters who laugh, struggle, and grow, who share strength in sisterhood, who seek and find love. Her Story depicts the unique, complicated, and very human women we see in queer communities, and explores how these women navigate the intersections of label identity and love.
Average Episode Run Time: 50` . MMPA: . 2016
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 6
Director: Sydney Freeland
Producer: Katherine Fisher , Eve Ensler
Stars: Angelica Ross , Jen Richards , Laura Zak , Kat Purgal , Elizabeth Frances , Josh Wingate
8.2 /10
An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
Average Episode Run Time: 27` . MMPA: TV-MA . 2018 - 2021
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 22
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller , Andy Tennant , Donald Petrie
Producer:
Stars: Michael Douglas , Sarah Baker , Nancy Travis , Kathleen Turner , Jenna Lyng Adams , Cedric Begley
8.2 /10
Strange Luck is an American television series, starring D. B. Sweeney in the role of Chance Harper, a freelance photographer afflicted with a bizarre tendency to always be in the wrong place at the right time. As Chance himself says, "If I go to a restaurant, somebody chokes. If I walk into a bank, it gets robbed." Harper's strange luck began when, as a small child, he was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed everyone else aboard, including both of his parents.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1995 - 1996
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 17
Director: Martha Mitchell , Brad Turner , John McPherson
Producer: Michael Cassutt
Stars: D.B. Sweeney , Pamela Gidley , Cynthia Martells , Frances Fisher , David Kaye , Wayne Robson
8.2 /10
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Average Episode Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: . 1951 - 2011
Total Seasons: 61 . Total Episodes: 364
Director: Douglas Hickox , Buzz Kulik , Dick Lowry
Producer: Andrew Susskind , David Susskind , Bill Podmore
Stars: Crahan Denton , Lauren Hewitt , Maxine Audley , Gene Roth , Lesley-Anne Down , Mary Wickes
8.2 /10
Key West was a short-lived 1993 hour long comedy-drama television series set in Key West, Florida. Thirteen episodes aired on Fox between January and June 1993. It was created by David Beaird and Allan Marcil. The show was produced by Viacom Productions. The main character is Seamus O'Neill, played by Fisher Stevens, a factory worker from New Jersey who dreams of being a writer. When he wins the lottery, he uses his newfound wealth to move to Key West to pursue his writing career, Where his idol, Hemingway, had lived. Seamus finds the island inhabited by eccentrics. He takes a job as a reporter for The Meteor," a local newspaper. In addition to Stevens: Jennifer Tilly, Denise Crosby, and Brian Thompson led the large ensemble cast as the town's high-class prostitute, conservative mayor and eccentric sheriff, respectively.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1993
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: John Nicolella , Chuck Bowman , Nancy Malone
Producer:
Stars: Fisher Stevens , Jennifer Tilly , Kim Myers , Denise Crosby , Brian Thompson , Terrence 'T.C.' Carson
8.2 /10
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway.
Average Episode Run Time: 32` . MMPA: TV-MA . 2015 - 2021
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 25
Director: Eric Wareheim , Melina Matsoukas , Lynn Shelton
Producer: Dave Becky , Eric Wareheim , James Ponsoldt
Stars: Lena Waithe , Naomi Ackie , Doug Trapp , Fatima Ansari , Brian Corrigan , Barak Hardley
8.2 /10
Leg Work is an American detective drama television series created by Frank Abatemarco that premiered on CBS on October 3, 1987. The show was short-lived and only 10 episodes were produced, of which only six were aired prior to the show's cancellation. The final episode aired on November 7, 1987. The cable network TV Land later aired the remaining four episodes.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1987
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 10
Director: Ray Danton , Michael Zinberg , Peter H. Hunt
Producer:
Stars: Frances McDormand , Margaret Colin , Marisa Tomei , Mary Vreeland , Dan Butler
8.2 /10
A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
Average Episode Run Time: 42` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2011
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 22
Director: Jamie Brittain , Bryan Elsley
Producer: Laszlo Barna , Derek Harvie , Bryan Elsley
Stars: Danny Flaherty , Ron Mustafaa , James Newman , Jesse Carere , Rachel Thevenard , Camille Cresencia-Mills
8.2 /10
Maximum Bob is a short-lived television series that debuted in 1998 on ABC TV. Starring Beau Bridges, the show was based on Elmore Leonard's 1991 novel with the same title.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1998
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 7
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld , Félix Enríquez Alcalá , Todd Holland
Producer: Barry Josephson , Barry Sonnenfeld
Stars: Beau Bridges , Liz Vassey , Sam Robards , Kiersten Warren , Leslie Jordan , Paul Vogt
8.2 /10
The Bold Ones: The Senator is an American political television drama series that aired on NBC from 1970 through 1971, lasting for nine episodes. The series stars Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe. The Senator was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The New Doctors, The Lawyers, and The Protectors. As a group of dramas, The Bold Ones was nominated for nine Emmy Awards and won five awards. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe for best Drama TV Show. The series was based on an earlier television movie, A Clear and Present Danger.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1970 - 1971
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 9
Director: Ernest Kinoy , Jerrold Freedman , John Badham
Producer: David Levinson
Stars: Hal Holbrook , Sharon Acker , Cindy Eilbacher , Michael Tolan , Ed Haskett
8.2 /10
David Haller, AKA Legion, is a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. But after a strange encounter with a fellow patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.
Average Episode Run Time: 50` . MMPA: TV-MA . 2017 - 2019
Total Seasons: 3 . Total Episodes: 27
Director: Jeremy Webb , Hiro Murai , Ana Lily Amirpour
Producer: Steve Blackman , Alan Fine , Jeph Loeb
Stars: Dan Stevens , Rachel Keller , Aubrey Plaza , Jeremie Harris , Amber Midthunder , Bill Irwin
8.2 /10
Cliffhangers is an American drama series that debuted on February 27, 1979 on NBC. Each hour-long episode was divided into three 20-minute segments : Stop Susan Williams, The Secret Empire, and The Curse of Dracula. To add to the "in-progress" feeling of the proceedings, all three series were started with different chapter numbers (although this was the first broadcast for all of them): "Stop Susan Williams" began at Chapter II, "The Secret Empire" started with Chapter III, and "The Curse of Dracula" with Chapter VI.
Average Episode Run Time: 1hr . MMPA: . 1979
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 12
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Producer: Kenneth Johnson
Stars:
8.2 /10
From The Creators Of The Best-Selling Documentary Series "Up From Slavery"... A 7-Part Compelling Journey Through America's Greatest Saga. In 1860, the nation founded upon an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness had as many as four hundred thousand slave-owners and almost four million slaves. By denying these rights to more than twelve percent of its population, America would soon pay with the blood of a generation. The story of African Slavery in America started with the first permanent English Colony in the 17th century... and ended with the Civil War. But those two hundred and fifty years of struggle were just the beginning. The beginning of a journey down the long Emancipation Road...
Average Episode Run Time: 50` . MMPA: TV-14 . 2014
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 7
Director: Kevin R. Hershberger , Heather Bischoff
Producer:
Stars: Coby Batty , Kevin R. Hershberger , Barack Obama , Martin Luther King Jr.
8.2 /10
EZ Streets is an American television drama series created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1996 with a two hour pilot telefilm. The series stars Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, and Jason Gedrick.
Average Episode Run Time: 46` . MMPA: . 1996 - 1997
Total Seasons: 1 . Total Episodes: 13
Director: Randall Zisk , Anita W. Addison , Ken Olin
Producer:
Stars: Ken Olin , Joe Pantoliano , Jason Gedrick , Debrah Farentino , R. D. Call , Richard Portnow
8.1 /10
Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.
Average Episode Run Time: 45` . MMPA: TV-PG . 1995 - 1998
Total Seasons: 2 . Total Episodes: 22
Director: Peter O'Fallon , Elodie Keene , Lou Antonio
Producer: David Eick , Robert Tapert , Judi Ann Mason
Stars: Gary Cole , Lucas Black , Paige Turco , Brenda Bakke , Sarah Paulson , Nick Searcy
