Our 5 Favorite '90s TV Shows (That Still Hold Up)

The '90s were television's sweet spot: budgets got ambitious, writers' rooms got sharp, and syndication meant everything aired forever. Thirty years on, the best of it still holds up without a nostalgia discount. Here are the five we keep going back to.

1. Frasier (1993–2004)

Eleven seasons of farce executed like chamber music. The tossed salads, the sherry, Eddie's unblinking stare — Frasier made highbrow silly and silly highbrow, and its door-slamming misunderstandings remain the gold standard of sitcom construction. We ranked our favorite episodes here.

2. Star Trek: The Next Generation (and its '90s siblings)

The decade was Trek's golden age: TNG at full stride, Deep Space Nine going serialized and dark before TV knew it wanted that, Voyager pushing into the unknown. The franchise's optimism — problems solved with ethics and engineering — feels more radical now than it did then.

3. Animaniacs (1993–1998)

A cartoon that did double duty: slapstick for the kids, media satire for the adults, songs that smuggled actual geography lessons into your memory permanently. The Warner siblings were anarchy with perfect comic timing.

'90s TV trusted its audience — that's the whole secret of why it lasts.

4. Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000)

The teen drama that invented the template: the zip code, the sideburns, the Peach Pit. 90210 is a time capsule that somehow still runs — every teen soap since is standing on its shoulders.

5. The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2005)

Sugar, spice, and perfect design. Craig McCracken's trio closed the decade with Cartoon Network's sharpest art direction and a theme — tiny heroes, giant monsters, bedtime by eight — that never stopped being funny.

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