Ugly Betty

A sturdy legal drama about a widowed defense attorney in Southern California. The series was cocreated by David Victor, who used occasional crossover stories with another of his shows, 'Marcus Welby, M.D.'

Fact-based crime drama about a heroin dealer who rises to the top with help from a high-placed Australian police officer and his corrupt underlings.

An elite team of three criminologists tries to crack puzzling murder cases in this short-lived whodunit series from producer Aaron Spelling.

A young farmer in the 1820s flees to the wilderness to escape his overbearing stepfather. This six-part adaptation of Stewart Edward White's novel originally aired on ABC's 'Disneyland.'

The ad copy for the ABC medical drama MDs promised "doctors who'll bend any rule and take on the system." The series looked and sounded a lot like M*A*S*H, the difference being that it took place in peacetime, and in contemporary San Francisco. William Fichter and John Hannah essayed the Hawkeye and Trapper John counterparts, here named Dr. Bruce Kellerman and Dr. Robert Dalgety. Though chronically irreverent and taking special delight in bucking bureaucracy and red tape at every opportunity, the two protagonists also happened to be brilliant and dedicated surgeons, investing an emotional interest in virtually all their patients ("Come on, you're not gonna die on me today!"). In its efforts to sustain a staunchly anti-HMO stance, the series admittedly stacked the deck a bit by drawing virtually all of its authority figures in broad, almost caricatured strokes: For example, Kellerman and Dalgety's chief nemesis was Mission General Hospital's bean-counting new administrator Pangborn (Leslie Stefanson), who had previously managed a theme park and who fainted at the sight of blood. MDs premiered September 25, 2002.

A live dramatic anthology that alternated with 'The U.S. Steel Hour' on Tuesdays. Among those who appeared: Boris Karloff, Joanne Woodward, Robert Preston and E.G. Marshall.