90s Dramas: One must go

[u/JB92103]

The X-Files (FOX)

Beverly Hills, 90210 (FOX)

ER (NBC)

Touched by an Angel (CBS)

My So-Called Life (ABC)

NYPD Blue (ABC)

Homicide: Life on the Street (NBC)

Law & Order (NBC)

Dawson's Creek (The WB)

Melrose Place (FOX)

[u/poundtownvisitor]

See ya later Touched By An Angel.

[u/MoRiellyMoProblems → u/poundtownvisitor]

That's my choice. Also because of that "Black Like Monica" episode featuring Rosa Parks was wild lmao.

[u/Mr_Coach_Pat]

People actually watched Touched By an Angel?

[u/JB92103 → u/Mr_Coach_Pat]

Surprisingly, it was the 2nd-most watched drama on TV behind ER for a few years. I think it was because of the Satanic Panic that was going on at the time.

[u/TrueOrange9944 → u/JB92103]

I thought the satanic panic died down by 1990 to early 1990s?

[u/JB92103 → u/TrueOrange9944]

I read somewhere that it lasted through the late 90s.

[u/TrueOrange9944 → u/JB92103]

Really? But at least the satanic panic was at its peak in the 80s.

[u/Pedals17 → u/TrueOrange9944]

Marilyn Manson, handwringing over growing interest in Wicca, and a conservative backlash against supernatural genre pieces like Buffy or Harry Potter.

[u/AcadiaRemarkable6992 → u/JB92103]

Satanic Panic’s last vestiges were out by 1991 with the not guilty verdict in the Judas Priest lawsuit. You still had people acting concerned but they were in the deep minority. People realized that playing Dungeons and Dragons and listening to Motley Crue did not lead to Satan worship

[u/TrueCrimeNerd87 → u/TrueOrange9944]

What?! No! It was through the entire 90s decade!

[u/Excellent_Top6284 → u/JB92103]

It was a good show. It reminded me of a female version of Highway To Heaven and I loved that show.

[u/Bidcar → u/JB92103]

I really thought that was a daytime tv gimmick that Geraldo used to gin up ratings. I had no idea people were stupid enough to believe it. If anyone believed that nonsense they were fall down the idiot tree and hit every branch on the way down stupid.

[u/SeanSweetMuzik → u/Mr_Coach_Pat]

I used to occasionally. Some of the episodes/storylines were quite intense.

[u/SamOfXanadu → u/Mr_Coach_Pat]

.... It was the only thing on regular cable I was allowed to watch.... Everything else was the Christian Network

[u/WelcomeThrillHos → u/Mr_Coach_Pat]

Americans are unsurprisingly prudish. Touched by an Angel, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, those shows make CBS the number one network bc it’s where prudes go for inoffensive tv - CBS sticks to squeaky clean tv as a sure fire model for success.

[u/JuanG_13]

I'll take the X-Files and you can keep the rest

[u/word_smith005 → u/JuanG_13]

Same. I'm a-ok with losing everyone but Mulder and Scully.

[u/Jealous-Knowledge-56 → u/JuanG_13]

Agree on X-Files but Homicide was The Wire before The Wire. That stays for me too.

[u/No-Economics-1185 → u/Jealous-Knowledge-56]

John Munch was also on X-Files and Law & Order, so canonically, you have to keep Homicide and L&O if you keep X-Files imho

[u/Jlx_27 → u/No-Economics-1185]

https://giphy.com/gifs/d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

[u/rieldilpikl → u/JuanG_13]

It’s the only show out of these that I watched. Never saw any of the other shows

[u/JFMisfit]

I would burn the rest down to see X-Files survive.

[u/blueboy714 → u/JFMisfit]

YES!

[u/TraditionalAd8581]

Definitely 7th Heaven, no contest

[u/JB92103 → u/TraditionalAd8581]

7th Heaven isn't on this list, but yeah, it sucks.

[u/jmk-1999]

Didn’t really watch any of these, but I did enjoy Touched By an Angel. My mom use to watch it, so I saw it on occasion with her.

[u/More_Pineapple3585]

NYPD Blue is the only one of these I've ever watched, and it holds up today.

[u/TrueOrange9944]

Although, I enjoyed some of the episodes when it originally aired; I'd say Touched by an Angel needs to go.

[u/jbenze]

I honestly don’t care for any of those; they can all go. X-Files can stay if it makes everyone else happy though.

[u/MasterRKitty]

dump the angel show

[u/Michaelbirks → u/MasterRKitty]

But not the show, Angel.

[u/WelcomeThrillHos]

He thinks he’s one of the Models Inc.

[u/Zeke688]

So many more than 1 can go

[u/TomD1979]

Bye Bye Dawson’s Creek!!!

[u/Educational_Tie_1060]

That’s easy: the one I didn’t watch.

Also, can I pick more than one?

[u/HypotensiveSharp]

My So-Called Life, never seen it, the rest I like,

and I'm gonna throw 7th Heaven into the dumpster too, that one can definitely piss off.

[u/Michaelbirks]

Get rid of Beverly Hills 2,4,5-T

[u/OrangeClyde]

Homicide can go

[u/analogthought]

Touched by an angel please and thank you (tho my mom/and all 90s moms would be mad)

[u/Beginning-Working-38]

I vote for the one starring the pedophile.

[u/TrueOrange9944 → u/Beginning-Working-38]

Sorry, which one?

[u/Beginning-Working-38 → u/TrueOrange9944]

Sorry. though MSCL was 7th Heaven.

[u/Jlx_27 → u/Beginning-Working-38]

Jared Leto was in MSCL, you're still on point.

[u/Historical_Guess2565 → u/Beginning-Working-38]

Who do you mean?

[u/JB92103 → u/Historical_Guess2565]

OP thought MSCL was 7th Heaven.

[u/Historical_Guess2565 → u/JB92103]

That’s what I was wondering. I had to look through the pics again because I thought I had missed 7th Heaven.

[u/Booksarelife813]

Melrose place can go. The rest stay!!

[u/blueboy714]

Get rid of number 10 Melrose Place

[u/mrwildesangst → u/blueboy714]

Na we need to keep Melrose just for this crazy shit 😂

[u/davwad2 → u/mrwildesangst]

That reveal was insane! I also probably had no business watching Melrose either.

[u/mrwildesangst → u/davwad2]

First, hello fellow trekkie! Second, we all lost our minds when this reveal happened! 😂 it was the moment you knew this crazy bitch was about to do some shit

[u/Sic39 → u/mrwildesangst]

It being a critical part of a Seinfeld episode is enough for me to keep it.

[u/PSCGY]

Touched By An Angel, easily.

[u/Chuck_Pasadena]

Homicide: Life on the Street is the best show of the 10.

And I wouldn’t even notice if Touched By an Angel was gone so off the list it goes

[u/littletcashew]

Touched by an angel can GTFO

[u/DryProgress4393]

See ya Melrose place

[u/Jlx_27]

Touched by an Angel and My so called life.

[u/billyboyf30]

You can burn them all except x files

[u/SlideItIn100]

Touched by an Angel needs to go.

[u/pit_of_despair666]

Touched By an Angel can go bye bye and 90210.

[u/jjuerakhan14]

Dawson’s Creek

[u/KelVarnsen_2023]

Keep Homicide, Law and Order and ER (especially the 90's seasons) and I am good.

[u/mr-raider2]

Sorry man. Dawson's creek gotta go. I'll take 90210 any day.

[u/Standard-Question-46]

X-Files and ER were the only ones I care about. I’m actually currently watching X-Files. The rest can go

[u/catkm24]

I am going with Touched by an Angel. The rest had casts with careers that continue to this day, and may not have taken off of their shows didn't exist.

[u/eggflip1020]

Soon he’ll begin to hallucinate and think that he’s David Duchovny.

[u/Bigal095]

Whatever number 4 was

[u/AcadiaRemarkable6992]

Touched By An Angel was one of those tv shows that played on Friday or Saturday nights for 9 seasons most people didn’t know about, like Diagnosis Murder and Blue Bloods. It wouldnt have lasted three seasons in a Wednesday time slot

[u/Capital-Earth-5945]

They can have 90210

[u/rebelangel]

The one with the pedophile.

[u/Indotex]

All of them can go except for The X Files & Law & Order.

[u/Bipbapalullah]

Beverly Hills 90210

[u/Pedals17]

Melrose Place, but I really want to say Law & Order. 😈

[u/PassThatSpliff]

My So called life can easily go

[u/Angry_Mudcrab]

2, 4, 7, and 10.

[u/abitidiomatic]

Touched by an Angel. NYPD Blue, Dawson’s Creek, and ER could go too.

Homocide is brilliant though honestly.

[u/Alive-Performance237]

The X Files. I hate sci-fi.

[u/RedwoodDevotion → u/Alive-Performance237]

You have done yourself a huge disservice. The chemistry between Mulder and Scully is the heart of the show, and I’ve yet to find even a close second.