Best TV Shows from 1993
1993 saw a range of new TV premieres. This page ranks them by current popularity.
This 1993 TV shows page highlights 50 titles, led by Quarks, I Love My Family, and Slam Dunk.
1993 sits within the 1990s — seen here alongside other premieres from the decade.
- Shows
- 50
- Average
- 7.3
- Years
- 1993
- Updated
- 2026-07-13
Context
Breakout premieres
Shows from this year with especially strong audience ratings.


The first Mandarin-language sitcom.

Sakuragi Hanamichi is a junior high punk used to getting into fights and being rejected by girls but upon entering high school he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko Akagi. He will do anything in order to win her heart including joining the school basketball team that is aiming to conquer the nation lead by Haruko's brother. The problem is that Sakuragi has never played basketball before and a freshman sensation is stealing the spotlight and Haruko's affection from him.

Saudi Arabia's most iconic comedy series, running 19 seasons from 1993 to 2023. Starring beloved duo Nasser Al-Qasabi and Abdullah Al-Sadhan, each episode delivers a self-contained satirical sketch skewering a different facet of Saudi society — from bureaucracy and extremism to marriage, gender relations, and corruption. A Ramadan institution and a landmark of Arab television.

Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show stars Jin Chao-chun as the Chinese official Bao Zheng in the Song Dynasty. It was hugely popular in Greater China as well as many other countries in the Far East. The series was originally scheduled for just 15 episodes. However, the show garnered high ratings when the initial episodes aired. Due to its popularity, CTS expanded the show to 236 episodes. The TVB and ATV Home networks in Hong Kong both bought the series in an attempt to gain viewers. Competition between the two networks during the showing of the series was so severe that identical episodes were shown on both channels on the same night. It was also one of the first dramas that used NICAM technology.

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868.

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.

Live performances, more live performances. Every episode features a lineup of French and international artists, cult classics, unexpected duets, and original covers... A truly prestigious music stage, graced by both the biggest names and those on their way to stardom.

A regularly scheduled, live, year-round program featuring some of the biggest WWE Superstars.

Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
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50 visible shows

Raw

The X-Files

Late Show with David Letterman

The Nanny

Frasier

Ninja Boy Rantaro

Diagnosis: Murder

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

NYPD Blue

Justice Pao

Arena

GMTV

Lady Chatterley

Animaniacs

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Devil's Kiss

Mind Our Own Business

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Power Rangers

Homicide: Life on the Street

Walker, Texas Ranger

Intimate Portrait

Slam Dunk

seaQuest DSV

Beavis and Butt-Head

Peak Practice

Boy Meets World

Mobile Suit Victory Gundam

Blue Heelers

Tash ma Tash

Wittekerke

Modern Marvels

Eurotrash

I Love My Family

Kung Fu: The Legend Continues

Grace Under Fire

Living Single

Taratata

Shooting Stars

Quarks

Shri Krishna

Gosei Sentai Dairanger

Marsupilami

Fallen Angels

Cracker

Sharpe

ECW Hardcore TV

Rocko's Modern Life

Black Jack
