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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Stewart Head
Created By: Joss Whedon
Original Run: 7 Seasons from 1997 - 2003 (144 episodes)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Action
Description:
Buffy Summers seems like a typical teenager dealing with the run-of-the-mill adolescent frustrations ... except she's also a vampire slayer, the latest in a line of young women chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness. Aided by her misfit friends and her "watcher," Buffy sets out to save the world from the monsters that swarm Sunnydale, CA.
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Battlestar Galactica
Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber
Created By: Ronald D. Moore
Original Run: 4 Seasons from 2004 - 2009 (75 episodes)
Genre: Science Fiction
Description:
In a distant part of the universe, a civilization of humans live on a series of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies have been at war with a cybernetic race known as the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human named Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden ambush on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. The handful of human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander William "Bill" Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.
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Lost
Starring: Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Terry O'Quinn
Created By: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
Original Run: 6 Seasons from 2004 - 2010 (121 episodes)
Genre: Science Fiction
Description:
Stranded on a tropical island after their plane crashes 1,000 miles off-course, a group of castaways must learn to survive in their new home (as well as avoid the gigantic something crashing through the trees) and determine whether they really are alone.
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Twin Peaks
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn
Created By: David Lynch, Mark Frost
Original Run: 2 Seasons from 1990 - 1991 (30 episodes)
Genre: Mystery
Description:
The bizarre, ingenious, hysterical, terrifying stories set in the Pacific Northwest logging town of Twin Peaks follows quirky FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper as he tries to solve the murder of high school student Laura Palmer. As Cooper settles in, the town's facade of extreme normality begins to crack, revealing a barrage of schemes, fronts, and more.
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Alias
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Michael Vartan, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin
Created By: J.J. Abrams
Original Run: 5 Seasons from 2001 - 2006 (105 episodes)
Genre: Action
Description:
Sydney Bristow is a grad student who's also a double agent for the CIA and one of its adversaries, SD-6. Alias explores Sydney's obligation to conceal her true career from her friends and family, even as she assumes multiple aliases to carry out her missions.
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Veronica Mars
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Percy Daggs III
Created By: Rob Thomas
Original Run: 3 Seasons from 2004 - 2007 (64 episodes)
Genre: Detective
Description:
Veronica Mars may only be a teenager, but she's tough and smart enough to learn the ropes from her father, an ex-cop turned private investigator in their resort town of Neptune. No case is too daunting for Veronica (from figuring out who stole the school mascot to solving the murder of her best friend), but when it comes to navigating high school and all its perils Veronica must stumble through it all like her peers.
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Robotech
Starring: Tony Oliver, Michele Lituac, Rebecca Forstadt, Cam Clarke
Created By: Carl Macek
Original Run: 1 Seasons from 1985 - 1985 (85 episodes)
Genre: Animated Science Fiction
Description:
When a mysterious battleship crashes into Macross Island in the South Pacific, the future of mankind is changed forever. As the multi-generational Robotech saga opens, the people of Earth struggle to master the science of robotechnology and rebuild the SDF-1 -- a massive space battle fortress that could be their best hope of defense against the vengeful Zentraedi armada ... which is getting closer every minute!
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Remington Steele
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Doris Roberts, James Read
Created By: Robert Butler, Michael Gleason
Original Run: 5 Seasons from 1982 - 1987 (94 episodes)
Genre: Detective
Description:
In this '80s series, gumshoe-for-hire Laura Holt accepts a new partner -- against her better judgment -- when a mystery man assumes the identity of her titular, fictitious boss. Together, the duo takes on all comers … as well as their growing romantic feelings for each other.
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The X-Files
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi,
Robert Patrick
Created By: Chris Carter
Original Run: 9 Seasons from 1993 - 2002 (202 episodes)
Genre: Science Fiction
Description:
FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the investigators of X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder is a "believer" in the existence of aliens and the paranormal, while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned by powerful forces to debunk and control Mulder's unorthodox work.
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The Shield
Starring: Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins, Benito Martinez, CCH Pounder
Created By: Shawn Ryan
Original Run: 7 Seasons from 2002 - 2008 (88 episodes)
Genre: Crime Drama
Description:
The Shield follows an experimental division of the Los Angeles Police Department set up in the Farmington district of Los Angeles, using a converted church ("the Barn") as their police station, and featuring a group of detectives called the Strike Team who uses a variety of illegal and unethical methods to maintain peace on the streets, while making a profit through illegal drug protection schemes and robbery.
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The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Billy Drago
Created By: Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse
Original Run: 1 Seasons from 1993 - 1994 (27 episodes)
Genre: Western, Science Fiction
Description:
Set in the 1890s, this genre-bending, cult favorite featured a Harvard-educated lawyer turned bounty hunter, Brisco -- aided by nervous-Nellie attorney Socrates Poole and occasionally by rival Lord Bowler -- stalking the John Bly gang, who murdered Brisco's father. Along the way, the trio encounters spooks, time-traveling desperados and some peculiar golden orbs.
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The Sopranos
Starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli
Created By: David Chase
Original Run: 6 Seasons from 1999 - 2007 (86 episodes)
Genre: Drama
Description:
Set in New Jersey, where it also was produced, the series revolves around mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads.
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Beverly Hills, 90210
Starring: Jason Priestley, Shannon Doherty, Luke Perry, Jennie Garth
Created By: Darren Star
Original Run: 10 Seasons from 1990 - 2000 (296 episodes)
Genre: Teen Drama
Description:
Way back in 1990, a pair of naïve teenage twins and their parents moved from snowy Minnesota to sunny California -- and TV would never be the same. Watch as Brandon and Brenda Walsh find their way at West Beverly High with the help of pretty Kelly, goofball Steve, wide-eyed Donna, earnest Andrea and, of course, brooding Dylan. The show followed the lives of these teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills and attending the fictitious West Beverly High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.
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