Show Perry Mason Perry Mason is the longest running lawyer show in American television history. Its original run lasted nine years and its success in both syndication and made-for-television movies confirm its impressive stamina. Mason's fans include lawyers and judges who were influenced by this series to enter...
Show Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote , starring Angela Lansbury as amateur sleuth and mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, has been the only significant dramatic series on American television to feature an older woman in the sole leading role. Lansbury, who received Oscar nominations and Tony awards over her long film...
Show Dragnet From the distinctive four-note opening of its theme music to the raft of catch phrases it produced, no other television cop show has left such an indelible mark on American culture as Dragnet . It was the first successful television crime drama to be shot on film and one of the few prime time...
Show Happy Days Happy Days originated in 1974 as a nostalgic teen-populated situation comedy centered on the life of Richie Cunningham ( Ron Howard ) and his best friend Potsie (Anson Williams), both students at Jefferson High School in 1950's Milwaukee Wisconsin. The character, of Arthur Fonzarelli, Fonzie, with...
Show Mork & Mindy From Wikipedia: Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom broadcast from 1978 to 1982 on ABC. It stars Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-stars as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate...
Show Laverne & Shirley Originally introduced as characters on Happy Days , Laverne De Fazio ( Penny Marshall ) and Shirley Feeney ( Cindy Williams ) "schlemiel-schlamazeled" their way into the Tuesday night ABC prime time line up and into the hearts of television viewers in 1976. The show, set in the late 1950s, centered...
Show Shogun From Wikipedia: Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell . It is the first novel (chronologically speaking) in the author's Asian Saga . It is set in feudal Japan in the year 1600 some months before the critical battle of Sekigahara , and gives an account of the rise of the daimyo "Toranaga" (...
Show Thorn Birds, The The miniseries The Thorn Birds , based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 best selling novel, was broadcast on ABC for 10 hours between 27 and 30 March 1983. Set primarily on Drogheda, a fictional sheep station in the Australian outback, the melodrama focused on the multi-generational Cleary family, and...