Adventures of Superman
Faster than a speeding bullet — George Reeves in the cape that defined TV heroes.
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Syndication
Syndication is a broadcast home for television that still shapes what America (and the world) watches.
Catalog
Shows on Syndication
At the Movies
Two thumbs up — newspaper rivals turn film criticism into appointment TV.
Baywatch
Slow-mo lifeguards, red swimsuits, and Hasselhoff's second global export.
Death Valley Days
True western tales hosted by a string of future governors and old pros.
DuckTales
Woo-oo — Disney Afternoon gold with Scrooge, nephews, and globetrotting greed-as-adventure.
Entertainment Tonight
Hollywood as nightly news — red carpets before social media existed.
Firing Line
Buckley's polysyllabic sparring — long-form political talk as blood sport and ballet.
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Knowing is half the battle — military toy cartoon with PSA endings.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
By the power of Grayskull — toy commercial as epic fantasy serial.
Hee Haw
Cornfield vaudeville — country music, cornball sketches, and rural syndication power.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Kevin Sorbo’s demigod road trip — syndicated myth with buddy-comedy heart.
Highway Patrol
Broderick Crawford's bark and a dispatch radio — 'Ten-four' as national grammar.
Hopalong Cassidy
William Boyd's white-hat Hoppy — the lunchbox that taught Hollywood TV merchandising.
In Search of...
Leonard Nimoy narrates Bigfoot, Atlantis, and every late-night rabbit hole.
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Consumer angst as serial — waxy yellow buildup and mass-murder next door.
Pokémon
Gotta catch ’em all — late-’90s kids’ globalization in pocket-monster form.
Punky Brewster
Orphan optimism, neon fashion, and earworm theme energy.
Science Fiction Theatre
Trumpeter host, 'plausible' science wonders — sci-fi for grown-ups in a lab coat.
SCTV
Second City Television — Melonville media satire for comedy nerds who quote deep cuts.
Sea Hunt
Lloyd Bridges in scuba gear — underwater action that made divers of a generation.
Soul Train
The hippest trip in America — line dances, guest stars, and Black music TV power.
Space: 1999
Moonbase Alpha torn from Earth — British design porn in deep space.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Trek stays put — serialized war, religion, and politics on a space station.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Picard's bald authority and a new Enterprise proved Trek could boldly go without Kirk.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cowabunga pizza mutants who made sewer heroes a toy aisle religion.
The Arsenio Hall Show
Whoof whoof whoof — late night's fist-pump dog pound and hip-hop doorway.
The Cisco Kid
O. Henry's robin-hood caballero in early color — 'Oh, Pancho!' 'Oh, Cisco!'
The Lawrence Welk Show
A-one and a-two — champagne music for America in a bubble of pure polka polish.
The Muppet Show
Vaudeville chaos with felt — and guest stars who risked being upstaged by a frog.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Daytime talk became empire, book club, and cultural weather system.
The Transformers
Robots in disguise — toy line mythology that outlived every Saturday morning rival.
Xena: Warrior Princess
Warrior princess, sidekick bard, and subtext heard ’round the world.