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The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
#2. The X-Files (1993–)
★ 8.4/103,698 votes
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
#3. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–)
★ 8.1/10148 votes
An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
#4. The New Batman Adventures (1997–)
★ 8.1/10407 votes
After a long hiatus -- The Caped Crusader is back and cooler then ever, in the animated action-packed series -- The New Batman Adventures. Picking up years after Batman: The Animated Series, the series highlights Batman and his crimefighting cadre of Nightwing, Robin and Batgirl, as they join forces to battle Gotham City's classic super-villains.
#5. Oz (1997–)
★ 8.0/10873 votes
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
#6. Detective Conan (1996–)
★ 8.0/10784 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.
#7. Spawn (1997–)
★ 8.0/10303 votes
After being betrayed and murdered by his employer, a government assassin is resurrected as a Hell spawn and is forced to act as the reluctant leader of Hell's army.
#8. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–)
★ 8.0/104,329 votes
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
#9. Third Watch (1999–)
★ 7.9/10237 votes
The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
#10. Prime Suspect (1991–)
★ 7.8/10102 votes
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
#11. Millennium (1996–)
★ 7.7/10282 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.
#12. Silent Witness (1996–)
★ 7.6/10112 votes
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
#13. Get Smart (1995–)
★ 7.5/10133 votes
Get Smart is a short-lived American comedy television series that aired in 1995 on FOX. The series was a sequel to the original Get Smart television series that ran from 1965 to 1970. The series premiered on January 8, 1995 and ended its original run on February 19, 1995.
#14. Midsomer Murders (1997–)
★ 7.5/10372 votes
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
#15. The Count of Monte Cristo (1998–)
★ 7.3/10175 votes
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
