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TV Shows & Series: Popular TV Shows/Series of 1996

TV shows/series in chronological context: 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1996th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade. 1996 was designated as: International Year for the Eradication of Poverty ()

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Dragon Ball GT(1996-1997)

FSK: 12+ years
| 25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 916 votes)

Ten years have passed since Goku left his friends and family to hone his skills. But Goku soon finds himself helpless against the mystical power of the Dragon Balls and an accidental wish made by the devious Emperor Pilaf. The wish; that Goku once again become a child! Goku, together with Trunks, and his own granddaughter Pan, blast off into the outer reaches of space in search of the mysterious Black Star Dragon Balls. But these Dragon Balls have a fatal secret: if not collected within one year Earth will be destroyed.

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch(1996-2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 22min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 505 votes)

On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.

Hey Arnold!(1996-2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 12min per episode | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 417 votes)

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football.

Dexter's Laboratory(1996-2003)

3.8/5 (with 372 votes)

Dexter, a boy-genius with a secret laboratory, constantly battles his sister Dee Dee, who always gains access despite his best efforts to keep her out, as well as his arch-rival and neighbor, Mandark.

Rurouni Kenshin(1996-1998)

25min per episode | Action & Adventure, Animation, Comedy
4.3/5 (with 350 votes)

The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still live, lurking in the shadows and waiting for a chance to use their killing blades again. Only Kenshin Himura, formerly one of the most brutal of killers, hopes to keep his swordsman's honor and still live in the new era.

Case Closed(1996-)

FSK: 12+ years
| 25min per episode | Animation, Mystery, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 316 votes)

The son of a world famous mystery writer, Jimmy Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason.

Everybody Loves Raymond(1996-2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 259 votes)

Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. That's the good news. The bad news? Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, live directly across the street and embrace the motto "Su casa es mi casa," infiltrating their son's home to an extent unparalleled in television history.

The Daily Show(1996-)

30min per episode | News, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 233 votes)

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

3rd Rock from the Sun(1996-2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 30min per episode | Kids & Family, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 218 votes)

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 family in order to observe the behavior of human beings.

Kenan & Kel(1996-2000)

25min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Kids & Family
4.1/5 (with 176 votes)

Set in Chicago, the show follows the kid-friendly misadventures of two high-school friends who are always scheming and dreaming. Kenan, who works at a grocery store, constantly devises crazy plans to strike it rich, while orange-soda-loving buddy Kel is always dragged along for the ride despite his track record for messing things up.

Superman: The Animated Series(1996-2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 21min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 142 votes)

Superman, an incredibly powerful alien from the planet Krypton, defends Metropolis from supercriminals. Superman hides his identity behind the glasses of Clark Kent; a mild-mannered reporter for the newspaper the Daily Planet. At the Daily Planet Superman works with fellow reporter Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen.

Beast Wars: Transformers(1996-1999)

30min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 138 votes)

Two spaceships, one manned by benevolent Maximals, the other by evil Predacons, crash-land on a pre-humanoid planet while en route to Earth. Their crews assume indigenous animal forms to protect themselves from an overabundance of natural energy, transforming into robots to do battle. Thus, the Beast Wars have begun...

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Spin City(1996-2002)

FSK: 12+ years
| 22min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 135 votes)

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

Les Contes de la rue Broca(1996-1998)

13min per episode
4.2/5 (with 132 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Blue's Clues(1996-2006)

FSK: 6+ years
| 30min per episode | Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 114 votes)

Blue's Clues is an American children's television show that premiered on September 8, 1996 on the cable television network Nickelodeon, and ran for ten years, until August 6, 2006. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn. It was hosted originally by Steve Burns, who left in 2002 to pursue a music career, and later by Donovan Patton. Burns was a crucial reason for the show's success, and rumors that surrounded his departure were an indication of the show's emergence as a cultural phenomenon. Blue's Clues became the highest-rated show for preschoolers on American commercial television and was crucial to Nickelodeon's growth. It has been called "one of the most successful, critically acclaimed, and ground-breaking preschool television series of all time". A spin-off called Blue's Room premiered in 2004. The show's producers and creators presented material in narrative format instead of the more traditional magazine format, used repetition to reinforce its curriculum, and structured every episode the same way. They used research about child development and young children's viewing habits that had been conducted in the thirty years since the debut of Sesame Street in the U.S. They revolutionized the genre by inviting their viewers' involvement. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show, and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process. Blue's Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers, and resembled a storybook in its use of primary colors and its simple construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colors and textures. Its home-based setting was familiar to American children, but had a look unlike other children's TV shows. A live production of Blue's Clues, which used many of the production innovations developed by the show's creators, toured the U.S. starting in 1999. As of 2002, over 2 million people had attended over 1,000 performances.

Directed by Lucy Walker

Millennium(1996-1999)

3.9/5 (with 114 votes)

A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.

7th Heaven(1996-2007)

FSK: 18+ years
| 44min per episode | Kids & Family, Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 92 votes)

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.

The Pretender(1996-2000)

3.7/5 (with 87 votes)

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

The Vision of Escaflowne(1996)

FSK: 16+ years
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 71 votes)

High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest to unite the countries of Gaea against the ominous Zaibach empire. On the way, she discovers an hidden ability and strives to unravel layers of mystery surrounding Van, his past, and the giant machine known as Escaflowne.

Directed by Kazuki Akane

Arthur(1996-2022)

FSK: 6+ years
| 13min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 69 votes)

The show revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.

Early Edition(1996-2000)

45min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 67 votes)

Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?

Xica da Silva(1996-1997)

3.9/5 (with 66 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Sigo Te Amando(1996-1997)

44min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

Directed by Miguel Córcega - With Sergio Goyri

Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police(1996-)

FSK: 12+ years
| 45min per episode | Drama, Comedy, Action & Adventure
3.2/5 (with 50 votes)

A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm(1996)

3.5/5 (with 48 votes)

A group of warriors come together to defend Earthrealm from invaders who entered through portals from various other dimensions.

Ultraman Tiga(1996-1997)

4.0/5 (with 46 votes)

A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.

With Hiroshi Nagano

Nash Bridges(1996-2001)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.

Judge Judy(1996-2021)

22min per episode | Crime
2.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by retired Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small claims disputes within a simulated courtroom set. All parties involved must sign contracts, agreeing to arbitration under Sheindlin. The series is in first-run syndication and distributed by CBS Television Distribution. Judge Judy, which premiered on September 16, 1996, reportedly revitalized the court show genre. Only two other arbitration-based reality court shows preceded it, The People's Court and Jones and Jury. Sheindlin has been credited with introducing the "tough" adjudicating approach into the judicial genre, which has led to several imitators. The two court shows that outnumber Judge Judy's seasons, The People's Court and Divorce Court, have both lasted via multiple lives of production and shifting arbiters, making Sheindlin's span as a television arbiter the longest.

Jumanji(1996-1998)

30min per episode | Animation
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

Judy and Peter Shepherd are two kids that found a board game called "Jumanji". With each turn, the two of them are given a "game clue" and then sucked into a dangerous jungle until they solve their clue. There they meet Alan Parrish, who was trapped in the Jumanji jungle because he had never seen his clue.

Silent Witness(1996-)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h per episode | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 40 votes)

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

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