ABC, a list by Ryan Keast

80

/6353/

85

/2885/

64

/12/

age 14+

Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.

80

IMDb 33

7.6

/42095/

75

/2503/

80

/388/

98

/31/

78

73

/22/

age 14+

Morgan is a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective.

75

IMDb 48

7.6

/369488/

78

/16683/

82

/10733/

84

/209/

71

64

/51/

age 14+

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

73

IMDb 80

8.0

/126841/

77

/8510/

84

/12689/

53

/17/

age 14+

Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.

77

IMDb 88

7.9

/61379/

79

/4170/

82

/2698/

86

/152/

76

60

/27/

age 14+

Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.

NEW

73

IMDb 95

7.7

/27349/

74

/1464/

73

/155/

71

/13/

age 14+

Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.

83

IMDb 96

8.3

/662810/

80

/37297/

79

/4831/

86

/176/

89

84

/73/

age 14+

Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.

84

8.5

/532241/

82

/28487/

78

/3169/

85

/108/

90

87

/30/

age 13+

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

84

8.7

/241483/

84

/8828/

83

/2419/

78

/95/

92

83

/45/

age 14+

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.

77

8.1

/184897/

81

/11919/

79

/2018/

82

/77/

88

56

/46/

age 14+

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

84

8.2

/49953/

79

/2859/

74

/251/

99

/90/

89

83

/39/

age 5+

In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

74

7.7

/246378/

75

/15199/

73

/2414/

78

/92/

78

66

/31/

RogerEbert

3.0

age 12+

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.

NEW

81

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8.3

/46864/

81

/1688/

81

/786/

age 12+

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

77

7.6

/151784/

76

/6373/

79

/2006/

72

/122/

88

71

/69/

age 14+

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

75

7.7

/58873/

78

/3595/

75

/714/

71

/28/

age 12+

The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.

76

7.7

/83617/

79

/5115/

71

/587/

94

/157/

71

66

/33/

age 14+

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their game when it comes to getting the job done for their clients, but it becomes apparent that these "gladiators in suits," who specialize in fixing the lives of other people, have trouble fixing those closest at hand -- their own.

80

8.1

/177041/

80

/11512/

78

/1715/

88

/196/

85

68

/31/

age 14+

A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.

71

6.8

/151683/

70

/5202/

69

/3241/

Letterboxd

3.2

/277003/

79

/9/

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

81

7.5

/233857/

77

/21172/

75

/3694/

95

/205/

91

74

/38/

age 14+

Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.

66

48

5.3

/2434/

68

/149/

77

/28/

68

/4/

Follow heroic first responders, as well as their family saga of power and glamour, in one of America's most diverse and dynamic cities: Nashville, Tennessee.

58

57

6.3

/6658/

63

/479/

63

/59/

47

/15/

61

51

/13/

age 13+

Matt is a stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt's estranged daughter Riley and her teenage kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.

74

7.8

/128799/

77

/7109/

75

/814/

69

/63/

82

67

/28/

age 14+

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

68

7.4

/114034/

73

/7225/

71

/1070/

71

/82/

53

71

/39/

age 14+

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

71

7.3

/52698/

73

/2214/

74

/682/

66

/25/

age 7+

The daily trials and tribulations of handyman Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and unseen neighbor.

82

8.5

/53017/

84

/2373/

79

/357/

86

/45/

90

69

/22/

age 14+

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice.

77

7.7

/29028/

75

/1565/

66

/246/

91

/92/

73

84

/40/

age 14+

Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business.

76

7.6

/26664/

75

/767/

78

/712/

age 7+

Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.

70

57

7.6

/10357/

67

/154/

68

/80/

age 6+

Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

79

7.6

/57313/

79

/3954/

67

/681/

86

/71/

93

75

/30/

age 14+

Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.

86

8.4

/61821/

82

/3911/

78

/443/

96

/46/

95

85

/44/

age 14+

A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.

73

7.5

/39976/

74

/2374/

73

/341/

age 13+

A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.

61

6.8

/66523/

72

/2527/

75

/1087/

31

/7/

age 7+

After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

58

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6.9

/616/

47

/11/

59

/7/

Anything But Love is an American television sitcom, which aired on ABC from March 7, 1989 to June 3, 1992, spanning four seasons and 56 episodes. The show starred Richard Lewis as Marty Gold and Jamie Lee Curtis as Hannah Miller, coworkers at a Chicago magazine with a mutual romantic attraction to each other, who struggled to keep their relationship strictly professional. The series, from creator Wendy Kout and developers Dennis Koenig and Peter Noah, was produced by Adam Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

70

7.4

/13554/

70

/761/

77

/173/

60

/25/

age 13+

A family comedy narrated by Katie, a strong-willed mother, raising her flawed family in a wealthy town filled with perfect wives and their perfect offspring.

74

8.1

/49387/

81

/1546/

82

/538/

52

/16/

age 10+

The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man.

82

8.4

/43347/

79

/1270/

83

/1058/

82

/9/

age 12+

The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult Kevin, Kevin faces the difficulties of maintaining relationships and friendships on his enthralling journey into adulthood.

72

7.1

/48907/

71

/1500/

67

/372/

76

/124/

78

73

/45/

age 13+

A working-class family struggles to get by on a limited income in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois.

67

66

6.9

/21022/

70

/475/

65

/168/

64

/15/

age 14+

Drew is an assistant director of personnel in a Cleveland department store and he has been stuck there for ten years. Other than fighting with co-worker Mimi, his hobbies include drinking beer and not being able to get dates. To make a few extra bucks he has a micro-brewery going in his garage with his buddies.

70

7.1

/25285/

75

/1737/

82

/1525/

55

/10/

age 14+

A group of heroic firefighters at Seattle Fire Station 19—from captain to newest recruit—risk their lives and hearts both in the line of duty and off the clock. These brave men and women are like family, literally and figuratively, and together they put their own lives in jeopardy as first responders to save the lives of others.

78

7.7

/31717/

74

/2232/

71

/283/

94

/81/

80

75

/28/

age 12+

A '90s-set single-camera comedy about a hip-hop-loving Asian kid growing up in suburban Orlando, being raised by an immigrant father obsessed with all things American and an immigrant mother often bewildered by white culture.

74

7.5

/28731/

71

/787/

72

/580/

72

/38/

80

age 9+

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.

74

7.4

/22773/

72

/518/

76

/288/

age 7+

In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.

72

7.5

/26745/

76

/898/

70

/191/

79

/59/

83

51

/55/

age 14+

The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.

66

7.2

/13309/

70

/1148/

63

/94/

59

/61/

77

57

/24/

age 14+

After being the subject of an embarrassing viral video, a self-involved 20-something enlists the help of a marketing expert to revamp her image in the real world.

70

6.7

/46360/

71

/1896/

77

/1189/

66

/17/

age 8+

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.

75

74

7.7

/11393/

76

/374/

76

/108/

74

/30/

age 14+

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

65

6.8

/27466/

68

/1163/

72

/286/

54

/18/

age 14+

Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before another woman is taken.

86

79

/730/

76

/147/

94

/52/

92