TV Shows of 1996
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- CreatorPaul DowlingStarsPeter ThomasTom BevelSkip PalenikA series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
- StarsSimon KingJonathan ScottSaba Douglas-HamiltonCome along on an adventure with Jonathan Scott, Simon King, and other professionals and camera crews as they journey through the Masai Mara game park in Kenya, Africa. In their travels they follow many different families and prides of animals, mainly focusing on a few different lion prides, leopards, and cheetahs, stunning males, aggressive yet loving females, and cute cubs too!
- StarsChristopher EcclestonMark StrongGina McKeeDrama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.
- CreatorDavid GreenwaltJohn McNamaraStarsAdrian PasdarLisa DarrLisa BlountJim Profit works for a multinational company and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, which includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Everyone at the company, including the president, Charles Gracen, are oblivious to his dark side. As a matter of fact, Gracen thinks of him as a golden boy. But when Joanne Meltzer, the company's security chief, looks into his eyes, she sees something sinister. And when her boss, Jack Walters, is looking into some irregularities at the company, he asks Joanne to investigate, and initially the person she cornered said it was Profit who was behind it. But when Profit learned of this, he convinced this person to change the story she told Joanne. But Joanne knows that Profit is evil and so she tries to get the goods on him. At the same time, Profit tries to find a way to neutralize her and anyone else who might believe her.
- CreatorGôshô AoyamaStarsMinami TakayamaWakana YamazakiHoang KhuyetThe cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.
- StarsMayo SuzukazeDorothy Elias-FahnRichard CansinoThe adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era Japan.
- CreatorAmy JenkinsStarsJack DavenportAmita DhiriAndrew LincolnA series following the lives of Miles, Milly, Warren, Egg and Anna, five young legal professionals.
- StarsPeter CoyoteN. Scott MomadayMurphy GuyerStephen Ives' "The West" is a PBS 4-Video Series co-produced by Ken Burns: - "Death Runs Riot" 85 min. - "Fight No More Forever" 85 min. - "Ghost Dance" 58 min. - "The People" 82 min.
- StarsMitsuko HorieShinobu AdachiFubito YamanoRemi, Nobody's Girl tells the story of Remi, a cheerful and tender-hearted girl, who is an excellent singer and lives in the French country town of Chavanon with her mother. One day her father returns to the town after a long period working in a city. She discovers that she was a "foundling" or an abandoned child and was adopted by Mother Barberin. Her stepfather Jerome leaves to work in Paris and expects Mother Barberin to send Remi to the workhouse. He returns 10 years later, finds that Remi is still there, and becomes furious and Remi is almost sold to an evil slave trader
- StarsTom Clarke HillEric MeyersCodyLive action and animation are combined to present examples of animals with similar traits.
- CreatorJoe ShusterJerry SiegelBob KaneStarsTim DalyJoseph BolognaDana DelanyThe last son of the planet Krypton protects his adoptive home of Earth as the greatest of the superheroes.
- StarsScott McNeilGarry ChalkIan James CorlettThe Transformers' war continues in an older time, through a new generation. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil Predacons battle for survival against each other and against a violent planet.
- StarsJoe McFaddenBill PatersonPeter CapaldiAn adaption of Iain Banks' dark novel, whose central character is a young Scots history student.
- CreatorLeo EatonChris KrattMartin KrattStarsChris KrattMartin KrattShannon DuffChris and Martin Kratt explore a variety of different animals' habitats and lifestyles each week, with help from Allison and her computer, and Ttark, an animated dinosaur.
- CreatorChris CarterStarsLance HenriksenMegan GallagherTerry O'QuinnA former FBI profiler with the ability to look inside the mind of a killer begins working for the mysterious Millennium Group which investigates serial killers, conspiracies, the occult, and those obsessed with the end of the millennium.
- CreatorKen FinklemanStarsKen FinklemanPeter KeleghanKaren HinesResuscitation of the acclaimed 1996-97 series that picks up nearly a decade later. We again follow the exploits of George Findlay in this biting satire of the day-to-day operations of the mainstream news media.
- StarsHiroshi NaganoTakami YoshimotoAkitoshi OhtakiA high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.
- StarsEmilia FoxDavid CavesWilliam GaminaraA team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
- CreatorGenndy TartakovskyStarsKath SoucieJeff BennettChristine CavanaughThe misadventures of a boy genius and his annoying sister.
- CreatorWill McRobbBob MittenthalStephen HolmanStarsNoah SeganJulia McIlvaineBert PenceAn animated anthology show hosted by two kids who live in a comic book.
- StarsSteve StaleySteve KramerDebra RogersDuring a one-year war, a young lieutenant leads a mobile suit team against a secret Zeon weapon, meeting its pilot who questions the morality of the war.
- CreatorBonnie TurnerTerry TurnerStarsJohn LithgowJane CurtinKristen JohnstonA group of aliens is sent to Earth, disguised as a human family, to experience and report life on the third planet from the sun.
- CreatorKim BassStarsKenan ThompsonKel MitchellKen ForeeKenan and Kel: two best friends who live in Chicago are always dragged down by Kenan's get rich quick schemes while orange soda-loving buddy Kel is dragged along but tends to mess things up.
- CreatorShôji KawamoriStarsKirby MorrowKelly SheridanBrian DrummondHitomi is a girl with psychic abilities who gets transported to the magical world of Gaea. She and her friends find themselves under attack from the evil Zaibach empire, and the Guymelf Escaflowne provides the key to it all.
- StarsFrank WelkerQuinton FlynnJ.D. RothA teenager and his extended family investigate the supernatural and other mysteries around the world.
- CreatorKevin SullivanStarsShirley DouglasKathryn GreenwoodDylan ProvencherA recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression.
- CreatorHart HansonStarsSonja SmitsBruce GrayPatrick McKennaSet in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.
- CreatorDominic MinghellaStarsJames BowersAlex KingstonDaniel CraigStory of a woman who merely wished to be a loving wife, but always had to live the life of crime.
- StarsDave GoelzKevin ClashBill BarrettaKermit the Frog, Clifford and friends struggle to put on a weekly TV variety show.
- StarsKappei YamaguchiChika SakamotoMitsuru MiyamotoAfter his mother's death, 11-year-old Takuya is forced to undertake the enormous task of raising his baby brother Minoru while their father toils away at work to provide for them.
- CreatorCraig BartlettSteve VikstenJoe AnsolabehereStarsFrancesca Marie SmithJamil Walker SmithDan CastellanetaThe everyday life of Arnold, a fourth-grader in a nameless city that resembles Brooklyn, New York, who lives in a multi-racial boarding house with his grandparents and a motley assortment of friends and neighbors.
- CreatorIan AbramsBob BrushPatrick Q. PageStarsKyle ChandlerShanesia DavisFisher StevensHis name is Gary Hobson. He gets tomorrow's newspaper today. He doesn't know how. He doesn't know why. All he knows is when the early edition hits his doorstep, he has twenty-four hours to set things right.
- CreatorJohn BowenDavid CookStarsPatricia RoutledgeDominic MonaghanDerek BenfieldHetty wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. With assistance from a teenager called Geoffrey and her husband Robert, combined with her own common sense, Hetty is confident she can solve any case.
- StarsSteve IrwinTerri IrwinWes MannionSteve and wife Terri educate and entertain on the subject of Australia's all too often dangerous wildlife.
- StarsAlbert FinneyCiarán HindsFrances de la TourWriter Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter's "Karaoke," returns three centuries later as a disembodied head.
- CreatorSteven Long MitchellCraig W. Van SickleStarsMichael T. WeissAndrea ParkerPatrick BauchauA specially gifted man, with the ability to instantly master any skill, escapes from a secret testing facility and travels the country taking on different jobs and helping strangers while hiding from his kidnappers.
- CreatorKieran PrendivilleStarsFrankie McCaffertyJoe SavinoDeirdre DonnellyAn English priest is transferred to a small Irish village.
- CreatorBrent V. FriedmanBryce ZabelStarsEric CloseJ.T. WalshLackosIn 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.
- CreatorJohn LeekleyStarsStacy HaidukErik KingPatrick BauchauJulian Luna, the undead Prince of the City, leads the Vampire Clans as he falls in love with Caitlin, a human reporter.
- StarsKira Vincent-DavisCynthia MartinezSpike SpencerSome unknown presence is attacking Earth with dangerous robots and the only thing that can save the day is the crew of the Nadesico: a powerful spaceship.
- CreatorReginald HillStarsWarren ClarkeColin BuchananDavid RoyleSuperintendent Dalziel and partner DI Pascoe investigate murder, and find a bond forming between them despite their blatantly different personalities.
- StarsDaniel BrochuJ.T. TurnerJodie RestherBased on the books by Marc Brown, these are the adventures of Arthur, an 8-year-old aardvark, and his family and friends as they grow up and learn how to be good neighbors to one another.
- StarsMaki MochidaNaoki MiyashitaMichael AdamthwaiteA hard-working middle-class student at a prestigious school finds herself involved in the lives of four infamous bullies.
- CreatorPhil RosenthalStarsRay RomanoPatricia HeatonBrad GarrettThe comical everyday life of sports columnist Ray Barone and his dysfunctional family.
- CreatorGary David GoldbergBill LawrenceStarsMichael J. FoxCharlie SheenHeather LocklearMike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York City, and his team of half-wits must constantly save the Mayor from embarrassment and the media. Mike is later succeeded by Charlie Crawford.
- StarsToby StephensTara FitzgeraldRupert GravesAn adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.
- StarsPaul Andre GibbonsJarrod EmickFrederic ForrestThe story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.
- CreatorConstance M. BurgeJames StanleyDiane Messina StanleyStarsRobyn LivelyJamie LunerShannon SturgesFollows the lives of three best friends: Reese, Peyton and Lane. The three women grew up together in Savannah, Georgia.
- StarsGary BakewellLaura FraserHywel BennettA man in London encounters an injured young woman, and instantly exists only to those in London Below. As he helps the woman escape from assassins, he must try to find his way back to London Above.
- CreatorCynthia SaundersStarsAlly WalkerJulian McMahonA MartinezDr. Sam Waters is a detective with the Violent Crimes Task Force, a federal agency which often works with the FBI, ATF, and other crime-solving agencies.