Title: Ranking The Most Popular '90s TV Shows From Best To Worst
Headings: The Greatest Shows of the 1990s, Ranked
Entertainment
The Greatest Shows of the 1990s, Ranked
The Simpsons
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Friends
Home Improvement
Full House
The Golden Girls
Saved by the Bell
The Wonder Years
Cheers
Boy Meets World
The X-Files
Seinfeld
That '70s Show
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Animaniacs
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Unsolved Mysteries
Roseanne
Everybody Loves Raymond
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tiny Toon Adventures
Married... with Children
The King of Queens
The Nanny
Frasier

Content: Ranking The Most Popular '90s TV Shows From Best To Worst
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The Greatest Shows of the 1990s, Ranked
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List Rules Vote up the best TV series based on the episodes that aired between 1990 and 1999. In the 1990s, television was one of the fastest growing mediums. More TV shows were popping up than ever before, and ratings were at all-time highs. Viewers tended to be interested in laugh-out-loud moments, which is why sitcoms like Friends, Roseanne, and Seinfeld were the biggest hit TV shows of the decade. While comedies were extremely popular in the '90s, procedural dramas also reigned, with shows like The Practice, JAG, and NYPD Blue becoming popular with large audiences. The decade also spawned quite a few ambitious shows that were too ahead of their time to catch on with mainstream audiences, but have since gained major cult followings. Other shows tried hard but never gained the audience they were hoping for. Many of the most popular shows of the '90s were long-running shows. ER, for instance, ran 15 seasons, starting in 1994, while shows like Will & Grace, which began in 1998, lasted 8 years. The reality show genre was just popping up in the '90s, especially after the massive ratings and critical success of MTV's The Real World.