Best TV Shows of 2002
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Best TV Shows of 2002
TOP TV Shows: Taken (2002), American Dreams (2002), Still Standing (2002), The Forsyte Saga (2002), Boomtown (2002), The Dead Zone (2002), Clone High (2002), The Wire (2002), Firefly (2002), Kath & Kim (2002), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Kim Possible (2002), The Shield (2002), Monk (2002), Brigada (2002), Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002), What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002), Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter (2002), Look Around You (2002), Naruto (2002).
List of Best TV Shows
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
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Story:
Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes. World War II veteran Russell Keys is plagued by nightmares of his abduction by aliens during the war; the Roswell incident transforms Owen ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, alien encounter, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, flying saucer, abduction, alien, supernatural, kidnapping, space and aliens, officer ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 90s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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American Dreams is an American television drama program broadcast on the NBC television network, produced by Once A Frog and Dick Clark Productions in association with Universal Network Television and NBC Studios. The series was created by Jonathan ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, coming of age, friendship, parents and children, dysfunctional family, follow your dream, hopes, love and romance, siblings relations, teenage life, racism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
After 18 years of marriage, high school sweethearts Bill and Judy Miller still make each other laugh and try to keep their marriage intact, even when their family pulls them in different directions. Since Bill has a far more immature approach to ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, lifestyle, eccentric family, parents and children, family life, single parent, family problems, youth, high school, working class, family affairs, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, family saga, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, high society, forbidden love, love and romance, victorian england, couple relations, parents and children, society, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1920s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama ...
Plot:
police investigation, murder, law enforcement, workplace, partners against crime, dishonesty, media, district attorney, infidelity, black, relationships, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
psychic, psychic power, stephen king, twists and turns, supernatural power, acceptance, friendship, small town life, supernatural ability, supernatural, time travel, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Clone High is a Canadian-American adult animated television series that aired for one season on MTV and Teletoon.
The series had run in its entirety in Canada on Teletoon before premiering in the United States on MTV. The last five episodes were ...
Style:
adult animation, semi serious, humorous, parody, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
high school, cloning, clone, fandom, joan of arc, napoleon bonaparte, leader, teenage life, historical figure, satire, experiment, society ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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425K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style:
clever, tense, detective, cynical, dramatic ...
Plot:
corruption, organized crime, police detective, working undercover, urban ghetto life, gang, drug dealing, police, fighting crime, police investigation, urban decay, shooting ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows Jimmy Neutron, his faithful robotic dog, Goddard, and his eclectic friends and family as they experience life in Retroville. Jimmy is a typical kid, who just happens to be a genius. He creates gadgets to improve his everyday life, but his ...
Style:
not serious, feel good, humorous, exciting, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teens
Plot:
mad scientist, boy, male protagonist, hi-tech, inventions and discoveries, mischievous children, everyday life, experimenting, experiment, gadget, friends, buddies ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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299K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Style:
exciting, witty, captivating, futuristic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space adventure, danger, escapades, survival, captain, space and aliens, friendship, smuggling ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
space western
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Kath & Kim is a character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sitcom ...
Plot:
everyday life, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, estrangement, women, satire, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, performer's life, sexual relations, sex scene, cross dressing, gays and lesbians, sex, lgbt, hot and sexy ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1890s, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Kim Possible is an American animated action-adventure comedy television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, family friendly
Plot:
high school, young heroes, teenage life, good versus evil, heroic mission, heroes, teenager, spy, girl, youth, save the day, high school life ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Style:
tense, rough, crime drama, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, law enforcement, police detective, cruelty, cop, dirty cop, police brutality, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, police protagonist, murder, corrupt cop ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california
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101K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he ...
Style:
detective, witty, humorous, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, private detective, mental illness, prodigy, talented, police investigation, riddles and clues, unconventional method, mastermind, obsessive compulsive disorder, mental disorder ...
Time:
2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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13K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Brigada, also known as Law of the Lawless, is a Russian 15-episode crime mini-series that debuted in 2002. It became very popular, but received mixed reviews due to accusations in aestheticization of violence. The miniseries follows the story of ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot:
russian mafia, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, criminal heroes, gang, mafia, murder, cocaine, buddies, friendship, criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, Gundam SEED takes place in a parallel timeline, in this case the Cosmic Era, the first to do so. In this ...
Style:
anime, mecha, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
female warrior, redemption, heroic mission, good versus evil, chaos, battles, heroes, escapades, master villain, danger, mobile suit gundam, androids and robots ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, detective, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
scooby doo, ghost, friendship, friends, amateur detective, heroes, problem solving, escapades, disorder, mischievous children, supernatural, pets ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
After the 12 Gold Saints sacrifice their lives to destroy the Wailing Wall, the Bronze Saints enter the deepest realm of the Underworld, Elysion, where they face off against Hades's two most powerful servants, The Twin Gods, Hypnos and ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, captivating, tense, shounen ...
Plot:
female warrior, saint seiya, friendship, warrior, epic battle, magical power, save the world, fantasy world, protection, mythology, twists and turns, fight for justice ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work ...
Style:
parody, surreal, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, experiment, education, science, absurd humor, humour, sketch, silly humor, absurdism, psychedelia, stoner, science and technology ...
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163K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Many years ago, in the hidden village of Konoha, lived a great demon fox. When it swung one of it's nine tails, a tsunami occurred. The fourth hokage sealed this demon fox inside a boy in exchange for his own life. Naruto was that boy, and he ...
Style:
anime, exciting, manga, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, manly, teen fantasy
Plot:
friends, determination, danger, rivalry, master warrior, ninja, friendship, training, good versus evil, teenage life, youth, heroic mission ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez. The show originally aired on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007.
Style:
sitcom, witty, not serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
factory worker, stand up comedian, best friend, factory, workplace, society, single parent, optimism, friends, promotion, disorder, unsupportive coworkers ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Azumanga Daioh is a Japanese comedy manga by Kiyohiko Azuma. It was serialized by MediaWorks in the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh from 1999 to 2002 and collected in four bound volumes. In May 2009, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of ...
Style:
anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious, shounen ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
high school, stupidity, friendship, coming of age, teachers and students, slice of life, teenage life, youth, shyness, precocious child, child, insanity ...
Place:
asia, japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
John Doe is an American science fiction drama television series that aired on Fox during the 2002–2003 TV season.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, detective, mind bending, enigmatic
Plot:
prodigy, genius, hidden identity, amateur detective, supernatural ability, mysterious character, memory loss, amnesia, danger, police, superhero, super powers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, washington d.c.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003. On August 14, 2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series. After finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
police detective, working undercover, partner, undercover, drug dealing, police investigation, hidden identity, law enforcement, master criminal, tough law enforcer, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Claude Casey moved up in the secretarial world of television news, from temp to the anchor's desk. After her boss hires her full time, Claude realizes she may be in over her head in this world of assistants fighting to get ahead. But Claude is ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
colleague, journalism, friendship, workplace situations, best friend, power relations, workplace intrigue, workplace, media, love and romance, women, butler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is an American television series that premiered in 2002 on the PAX Network. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
deaf, agent, deafness, fbi, special agent, police investigation, fighting crime, handicapped, disability, law enforcement, misfit, mute or deaf ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is an American animated television series. Developed for television by Michael Halperin, who created the original series, it was animated by Mike Young Productions. It served as an update of the 1980s series of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, cult classic, dark fantasy
Audience:
kids, pre-teens
Plot:
sword and sorcery, heroes, good versus evil, sorceress, castle, magic, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, master warrior, escapades, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, adult animation, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, hacker, cyborgs, cyberspace, distopia, mind game, investigation, androids, ghost in the shell, science runs amok ...
Time:
near future, future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal half-sisters in their twenties who were estranged throughout their childhood, and are finally developing ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, apartment building, dating, father daughter relationship, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, male female friendship, pretty woman, half sister, family relations, black, lifestyle, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
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