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Best Action and Adventure TV Shows

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193. Hawaii Five-0

Sep 20, 2010  •  Rated TV-14
When Steve McGarrett's father is murdered, he decided to return home to Oahu in order to catch the killer. The governor offers him the opportunity to run a new task force where he is able to call the shots. Detective Steve McGarrett brings together his own team, beginning with Chin Ho Kelly; an ex-Honolulu Police Detective and former protégé of McGarrett's father. Kelly has been assigned to a federal security patrol after being suspected of corruption. Detective Danny "Danno" Williams is a New Jersey cop who recently moved to the island and is raising his 8-year-old daughter. Kono Kalakaua is Kelly's cousin and a rookie officer, fresh from the academy. McGarrett's team is giving full backing from the governor and plays only by their own rules.
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194. Night Sky

May 20, 2022  •  Rated TV-14
Years ago, Irene (Sissy Spacek) and Franklin York (J.K. Simmons), found a buried chamber in their backyard that led to a deserted planet and kept it secret. The arrival of a young man (Chai Hansen) changes everything in this sci-fi drama from written by Holden Miller.
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195. Covert Affairs

Jul 13, 2010  •  Rated TV-14
Piper Perabo stars in the drama as Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who winds up being mysteriously promoted to the field as an operative.
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196. Star Trek: Voyager

Jan 16, 1995  •  Rated TV-PG
Star Trek: Voyager follows the adventures of the Federation starship Voyager, which is under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway.Voyager is in pursuit of a rebel Maquis ship in a dangerous part of the Alpha Quadrant when it is suddenly thrown 70,000 light years away to the Delta Quadrant. With much of her crew dead, Captain Janeway is forced to join forces with the Maquis to find a way back home.
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197. Banshee

Jan 11, 2013  •  Rated TV-MA
Ex-con Lucas Hood (Antony Starr) may be the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, but he's not reformed even as he's hiding from the gangsters he and his old partner, Carrie Hopewell (Ivana Milicevic), betrayed.
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198. Eureka

Jul 18, 2006  •  Rated TV-14
Small town. Big secret. A car accident leads U.S. Marshal Jack Carter into the top-secret Pacific Northwest town of Eureka. For decades, the United States government has relocated the world's geniuses to Eureka, a town where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. Eureka is produced by NBC Universal Cable Studio and filmed in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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199. Teen Wolf

Jun 5, 2011  •  Rated TV-14
MTV is slated to turn the classic 1980s cult movie Teen Wolf.
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200. Person of Interest

Sep 22, 2011  •  Rated TV-14
Reese (Jim Caviezel) is a former CIA agent presumed dead who is recruited by Finch (Michael Emerson), a mysterious billionaire, to help stop crime before it happens with the help of Finch's software.
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201. Rabbit Hole

Mar 26, 2023  •  Rated TV-MA
Corporate spy John Weir (Kiefer Sutherland) is framed for murder in this espionage thriller from writer-directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.
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202. Lost Girl

Sep 12, 2010  •  Rated TV-MA
Bo (Anna Silk) learns she is not human but Fae-kind, specifically a succubus. With the knowledge, she is given a choice to join the light or the dark factions of the Fae.
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203. Hawkeye (2021)

Nov 24, 2021  •  Rated TV-14
Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) mentors 22-year-old archer Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld).
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204. The Mysterious Benedict Society

Jun 25, 2021  •  Rated TV-PG
The mysterious and eccentric Mr. Benedict (Tony Hale) enlists a group of orphans to go undercover at a boarding school to stop a scheme that threatens the world in this series based on the Trenton Lee Stewart book of the same name.
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205. Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Aug 31, 2018  •  Rated TV-MA
John Krasinski takes over the mantle as young CIA analyst Jack Ryan for the Amazon series.
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206. Condor

Jun 6, 2018  •  Rated TV-MA
Based on James Grady's novel Six Days of the Condor and the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, CIA analyst Joe Turner (Max Irons) must go on the run when his discovery of a plan that could jeopardize millions of lives causes the death of his colleagues.
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207. Star Trek: Enterprise

Sep 26, 2001  •  Rated TV-PG
"It's Good to be Home."Star Trek: Enterprise is the latest entry in the Star Trek saga and takes place during the mid-22nd century. Under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer, the crew of the first warp five starship (the Enterprise NX-01) begin to explore the galaxy. As their mission progresses, the crew encounter familiar races like the Klingons and Andorians as well as some new ones.Starting in the first episode, the Enterprise crew discover their time has become a front in the mysterious Temporal Cold War. They sometimes find themselves up against the Suliban, an aggressive race that is apart of a faction of the war and given orders by an unknown being from the future. In the second season finale, things take a deadly turn when an alien race named the Xindi attack Earth. With the Xindi preparing another attack and humanity facing destruction, the Enterprise crew have only one option. The third season sees the crew searching the mysterious Delphic Expanse for the Xindi and trying to stop them before their next attack. The fourth season has the crew back home and opening up brand new adventures, one with special guest Brent Spiner. As of season four, T'Pol has officially left the Vulcan High Command and joined Starfleet Command, she has been promoted to Commander.The theme tune for Enterprise is titled "Faith of the Heart", performed by Russell Watson and written by Diane Warren.
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208. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Oct 3, 2008  •  Rated TV-PG
Star Wars: The Clone Wars is the latest animated series in the Star Wars franchise to hit the small screen. The series takes place in between the films Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, Yoda, Chancellor Palpatine and General Grievous are all back in this new series. The introduction to the series is a feature length film released in theaters August 15th, 2008 in the US. This will be the first Star Wars film in 3-D animation to be in theaters. Twenty-two episodes have been ordered for the first and second seasons. Broadcast History: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiered with two back-to-back episodes on October 3, 2008 at 9:00pm (ET) on Cartoon Network. Repeat episodes aired at 8:30pm (ET), directly before new episodes premiere at 9:00pm. Episodes continued to premiere at 9:00pm (ET) until the end of season. The second season premiered with two back-to-back episodes on October 2, 2009 at 8:00pm (ET) on Cartoon Network. This season is also known as "Rise of the Bounty Hunters." On November 13, 2009 new episodes began premiering at 9:00pm (ET). New episodes currently air Fridays at 9:00pm (ET).
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209. Kung Fu (2021)

Apr 7, 2021  •  Rated TV-14
Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang) drops out of college to go to a Shaolin monastery in China. When she returns home to San Francisco, she finds crime running rampant and begins using her skills to help her community in this reimagining of the 1970s series of the same name.
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210. Dead Boy Detectives

Apr 25, 2024  •  Rated TV-MA
Ghosts and best friends Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) solve supernatural cases with the help of clairvoyant Crystal (Kassius Nelson) and her friend Niko (Yuyu Kitamura) in this series based on characters created for DC by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.
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211. The River

Feb 7, 2012  •  Rated TV-14
"Paranormal" writer-director Oren Peli and "Paranormal 2" screenwriter Michael R. Perry are coming together to create a series that involves a search for someone who went missing on the Amazon river uses the footage format used by "Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity."
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212. Agent Elvis

Mar 17, 2023  •  Rated TV-MA
Elvis (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) joins a secret spy program in this animated series co-created by Priscilla Presley and John Eddie.
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213. Blindspot

Sep 21, 2015  •  Rated TV-14
A woman (Jaimie Alexander) covered in tattoos, including the name of a FBI agent (Sullivan Stapleton) is found naked in Times Square with no memories.
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214. The Widow

Mar 1, 2019  •  Rated TV-MA
Georgia Wells (Kate Beckinsale) was told her husband had died in a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but three years later when she sees news footage of her "dead" husband, she begins to question his disappearance and her past in this thriller co-produced by Amazon and ITV.
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215. Berlin Station

Oct 16, 2016  •  Rated TV-MA
CIA analyst-turned-field-agent Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage) arrives in Berlin and is assigned to discover the identity of a whistleblower going by the name Thomas Shaw with the help of his old friend and veteran agent Hector DeJean (Rhys Ifans).
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216. The Sarah Jane Adventures

Apr 11, 2008  •  Rated TV-PG
"I saw amazing things, out there in space. But there is strangeness to be found wherever you turn. Life on Earth can be an adventure too... you just need to know where to look!" The Sarah Jane Adventures features the previous companion of the Third and Fourth incarnation of the Doctor from the original series of Doctor Who, Ms. Sarah Jane Smith! Elisabeth Sladen reprises her role once again and is back in action, discovering alien plots to take over the world, or simply helping a lost one get home... Sarah Jane and her new friend Maria Jackson, and her newly (and genetically grown) adopted son Luke Smith have no problem taking on any challenge!
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