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List of Best Soap Operas Ever + TV Series A-E
All the best Soap Operas on TV at one glance. Who had the idea, who was the director, who where actors or actresses and how many episodes were there? This sortable list of best Soap Operas makes it easy to find out.
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| Best Soap Operas & Sitcoms | Genre/s | Episodes | First aired | Country | Synopsis | A=Actor (selection), AU = Author, D=Director, P=Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Addams Family | Comedy horror sitcom | 64 | 1964-1966 | USA | Family of supernatural misfits doing their best to blend in fails every time with hilarious results. | Idea: Charles Addams. P: David Levy. A: Morticia (Carolyn Jones), Gomez (John Astin), Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), Wednesday (Lisa Loring), Itt (Felix Silla), “Thing” (the hand) (Ted Cassidy) |
| Alf | Sitcom | 102 | 1986-1990 | USA | ALF (acronym for Alien Life Form) crash lands in the garage of the Tanner family in California who take him in. | Idea: Paul Fusco, Tom Patchett. A: Alien Gordon Shumway (ALF), Willie Tanner (Max Wright), mother Kate (Anne Schedeen), Lynn (Andrea Elson), son Brian (Benji Gregory) |
| Ally McBeal | Legal drama | 112 | 1997-2002 | USA | Follows the career and life of Ally McBeal, a young lawyer in a Boston law firm. | P: David E. Kelley. A: Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart), Richard Fish (Greg Germann), John Cage (Peter MacNicol), Billy Alan Thomas (Gil Bellows), Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith) |
| The Avengers | Spy drama | 161 | 1961-1969 | UK | 60s spy drama mostly led by John Steed and a succesion of stylish, intelligent female collaborators. | Idea: Sydney Newman, Leonard White. A: John Steed (Patrick Macnee), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), Tara King (Linda Thorson), Purdey (Joanna Lumley), Mike Gambit (Gareth Hunt) |
| Baywatch | Action drama | 243 | 1989-2001 | USA | Beach lifestyle centered around the lives of Los Angeles County lifeguards. One of the most popular TV shows. | P: Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Gregory J. Bonann. A: Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff), CJ Parker (Pamela Anderson), Matt Brodie (David Charvet) |
| Beverly Hills, 90210 | Teen drama | 293 | 1990-2000 | USA | Soap opera stlye drama following the lives of fictitious rich kids in the 90210 zip code area of California through high school and university. | Idea: Darren Star. A: Brenda (Shannon Doherty), Brandon (Jason Priestley), Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth), Steve Sanders (Ian Ziering), Dylan McKay (Luke Perry), Donna Martin (Tori Spelling) |
| Big Bang Theory, The (TBBT) | Sitcom | 148 in 7 seasons | since 2007 | USA | Comedy revolving around nerdy physicist flatmates Leonard and Sheldon, their co-workers, and Penny – a waitress with common sense and social skills, set in Pasadena, California | Idea: Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady. A: Two young and highly talented physicists Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) live in an apartment across from their pretty neighbor Penny (Kaley Cuoco). Frequent guests in the apartment are two friends – engineer Howard (Simon Helberg) and the Indian astrophysicist Rajesh (Kunal Nayyar). |
| The Bill Cosby Show | Sitcom | 201 | 1984-1992 | USA | Bill Cosby plays Chet Kincaid, a cool bachelor PE teacher, at a Los Angeles high school who tries to help people. | Idea: Bill Cosby, Ed. Weinberger. A: “Cliff” Huxtable (Bill Cosby), Clair (Phylicia Rashad), Sandra (p. LeBeauf), Denise (L. Bonet), Theo (M. Jamal Warner), Vanessa (T. Bledsoe) |
| Bonanza | Western drama | 426 | 1959-1973 | USA | Follows the lives of Ben Cartwright and his three sons living on the fictional Ponderosa ranch on the shore of Lake Tahoe near Virginia City, Nevada. | Idea: David Dortort. A: Pa Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene), Adam (Pernell Roberts), Hoss (Dan Blocker), Little Joe (Michael Landon), Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung) on the Ponderosa Ranch |
| Catweazle | Fantasy comedy drama | 26 | 1969-1974 | UK | Adventures of Catweazle (an 11th century wizard who accidentally travelled through time to 1969) and, with the help of “Carrot” (a young boy) searches for a way to return to his time. | Idea: Richard Carpenter, D: Q. Lawrence. A: Catweazle (G. Bayldon), Harold Bennett (R. Davis) |
| Columbo | Cop mystery drama | 69 | 1968-2003 | USA | Follows the cases of Lt. Columbo, homicide detective, with the LA police department. The twist if the viewers know the bad guy/s up front. | Idea: Richard Levinson, William Link. A: Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) |
| Daktari | Childrens drama | 89 | 1966-1969 | USA | Follows the work of Dr Tracy, his daughter and staff as they protect animals in East Africa from bad guys with the help of Clarence, a cross-eyed lion and Judy, a chimpanzee. | Idea: Ivan Tors, Marshall Thompson. A: Dr. Tracy (Marshall Thompson), Paula (Cheryl Miller), Jack Dane (Yale Summers), Mike macula (Hari Rhodes), Leo Clarence, chimpanzee Judy |
| Dallas | Soap opera | 357 | 1978-1991 | USA | Classic larger than life drama revolving around the Texan Ewing oil family set at Southfork cattle ranch. | Idea: David Jacobs. A: Jock Ewing, head of Ewing Oil (Jim Davis), Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes), JR Ewing (Larry Hagmann † 2012), Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), Willard Barnes (David Wayne) |
| Desperate Housewives | Soap opera, mystery comedy | 180 in 8 seasons | 2004-2012 | USA | Follows the lives of surburban housewives set in the fictional suburban neighborhood of Wisteria Lane in Fairview, Eagle State. Seemingly perfect until you look beneath the surface. | Idea: Marc Cherry. A: Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) |
| Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Western drama | 150 | 1993-1998 | USA | Dr. Michaela Quinn sets up practice in wild west town of Colorado Springs in 1867. She adopts three children, finds love and sets out to prove herself as a women doctor. | Idea: Beth Sullivan, A: Michaela “Mike” Quinn (Jane Seymour), Byron Sully (Joe Lando), Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores, later Jessica Bowman), Brian Cooper (Shawn Toovey) |
| Dynasty | Soap opera | 220 | 1981-1989 | USA | Centered around the lives of oil magnate Blake Carrington and his wife Krystle set in Denver, Colorado | Idea: Richard and Esther Shapiro. A: Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), Krystle Jennings (Linda Evans), Fallon Carrington (Pamela Sue Martin, later Emma Samms), Alexis Colby (Joan Collins) |
| ER (Emergency Room) | Medical drama | 331 | 1994-2009 | USA | Revolves around the critical events that take place to the staff and patients in the fictional Emergency Room in County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. | AU: Michael Crichton. A: Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards), Dr. Douglas Ross (George Clooney), Dr. Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle), Dr. Benton (Eriq LaSalle) |
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