The Golden Age of television is understood to have been kicked off by HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999, but it was the television of the 1990s that really made us fall in love with American (and to some extent, British) television and pop culture. Here are some of the popular old 90s’ popular British and American TV shows that we enjoyed in India and that you would definitely like to revisit. For us 90s’ kids in India, they were not just sources of entertainment, they were our windows to the Western world, giving us glimpses of life in the high rises of New York and London.
With satellite TV expanding into Indian homes during the decade after the economic liberalisation of 1991, various TV channels brought such shows to our screens. This enabled us to experience new cultures, lifestyles, and even styles of humour and perspectives like never before. The ensemble sitcoms: Best 90s TV shows The 90s saw the rise of several TV genres, the ensemble sitcoms, which, like Friends and Seinfeld , redefined what a “friend group” was on screen, to the darker, more mysterious worlds of shows like The X-Files .
It wasn’t just entertainment; it was a reflection of the social and cultural shifts happening at the time. In front of televisions, we watched for laughs, thrills, romance, and vivid characters — some of them larger than life, others relatable. The vampire TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer was unlike anything else in television history, brought together teen drama and supern.