This is a list of off-the-air dramas and comedies and a few others from the 1940s to today, and where they are airing. (No, I'm not listing WHEN they air; that would probably break the Internet!) I originally created this list last year for another discussion group, and have updated it for 2015. Yes, I created this myself, partially manually. I know I may have skipped some shows because I've never heard of them. I'm sorry if your favorite isn't listed! You are welcome to borrow it, but I would like to be credited for it if you do. You may have some additions and I'd like to know about them.
Oh, and if you put all the L&I's and CSI's and NCIS's together, you could watch nothing but procedurals 24/7/365, although then your brain would probably explode.
Mary
12 O’Clock High H&I
21 Jump Street H&I
30 Rock WGN-A
Abbott and Costello Show, The MeTV
Adam-12 Cozi
Addams Family, The Cozi ThisTV
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Retro
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Antenna
Adventures of Superman (1952) MeTV
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (1962) MeTV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) Antenna
All in the Family Antenna
America’s Funniest Home Videos TBS WGN-A
American Dad TBS
Andy Griffith Show, The MeTV
Antiques Roadshow PBS
Archie’s Funhouse (1970) Retro
Arthur PBS
Avengers, The Cozi
Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Retro
Barney Miller Antenna
Batman (1966) MeTV
Baywatch Cozi
Bernie Mac Show, The Bounce Laff
Beverly Hillbillies, The Decades MeTV Retro
Beverly Hills 90210 (1990) Pop
Bewitched Antenna
Big Bang Theory, The TBS
Big Valley, The INSP
Billy Graham Crusades, The TBN
Bionic Woman, The Cozi
Black Sheep Squadron MeTV
Blue Bloods Ion WGN-A
Bold and the Beautiful Pop
Bonanza INSP MeTV Retro TV Land
Bones MNT TNT WGN-A
Border, The Cozi Retro
Boy Meets World ABC Family
Brady Bunch, The Decades MeTV
Branded H&I
BraveStarr Retro
Bronco Cozi
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer ABC Family FXX
Burn Notice Esquire USA
Burns & Allen Show, The Antenna
Caillou PBS
Campbells, The Retro
Car 54, Where Are You? MeTV
Carol Burnett and Friends MeTV
Castle TNT
Cat in the Hat Knows About That, The PBS
Charmed TNT
Cheers Hallmark
Charlie’s Angels Cozi
Cheyenne H&I
CHiPs MeTV
Cisco Kid, The Cozi
Cleveland Show, The TBS
Clifford, the Big Red Dog PBS
Cold Squad Retro
Columbo Hallmark Movies MeTV
Combat! H&I
Commish, The H&I
Cougar Town TBS
Courage, the Cowardly Dog Boomerang
Criminal Minds A&E Ion
CSI Cloo USA
CSI: Miami A&E AMC WE
CSI: NY TNT
Curious George PBS
Cyberchase PBS
Daniel Boone INSP MeTV
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood PBS
Davey & Goliath TBN
Dawson’s Creek ABC Family
Dennis the Menace Antenna
Diagnosis: Murder Hallmark Movies
Dick Van Dyke Show, The Cozi
Different World, A Bounce TV One
Dinosaur Street PBS
Doctors, The Retro
Donna Reed Show, The MeTV
Doogie Howser, M.D. Antenna
Dora the Explorer Nick Jr.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman INSP
Dr. Who (1963) Retro
Dr. Who (2005) BBC America
Dragnet (1951) Retro
Drew Carey Show, The Laff
Dynasty Pop
Ellen FXX Laff
Emergency! MeTV
Empty Nest Laff
Evening Shade Antenna
Everybody Hates Chris TV One
Everybody Loves Raymond Nickelodeon TV Land
F Troop MeTV
Family Ties Up
Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, The (1964) Retro
Fantasy Island Cloo Cozi
Father Knows Best Antenna
Flashpoint Ion
Flip Wilson Show, The Aspire
Flintstones, The Boomerang
Flipper Antenna
Frasier Hallmark Lifetime
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The BET Nickelodeon
Friends Nickelodeon TBS TV Land
Full House Nickelodeon
Futurama Comedy Central
Flying Nun, The Antenna
Garfield Show, The Boomerang
George Lopez Nickelodeon
Get Smart MeTV
Ghost Busters, The Retro
Ghost Whisperer Cloo Ion Oxygen
Gidget (1965) Antenna
Gilligan’s Island MeTV TV Land
Gilmore Girls, The ABC Family
Gimme a Break TV One
Girlfriends TV One
Golden Girls, The Hallmark TV Land
Gomer Pyle, USMC MeTV
Good Times Antenna TV One
Grace Under Fire Laff
Green Acres Antenna
Grimm TNT
Groovie Ghoulies, The Retro
Growing Pains UP
Guns of Will Sonnett, The H&I
Gunsmoke INSP TV Land MeTV
Happy Days MeTV
Hart to Hart Cozi Hallmark Movies
Have Gun, Will Travel H&I
Hawaii Five-Oh (1968) MeTV Decades
Hawaii Five-Oh (2010) TNT
Hazel Antenna
Hee Haw ABC Family WHT
He-Man & the Masters of the Universe Retro
High Chaparral, The INSP H&I
Highway Patrol ThisTV
Highway to Heaven Cozi Retro
Hill Street Blues H&I
Hopalong Cassidy Cozi
House Cloo Oxygen
How I Met Your Mother FX Lifetime WGN-A
Hughleys, The Bounce
Hunter H&I
I Dream of Jeannie Antenna
I Love Lucy (1951) Decades Hallmark MeTV
In Living Color FXX
In the Heat of the Night ThisTV WGN-A
It Takes a Thief Retro
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Comedy Central
Jack Benny Program, The Antenna
JAG INSP
Jamie Foxx Show, The BET
Jeffersons, The Antenna TV One
Jem and the Holograms DFC
Jericho Pop
Jerry Lewis Show, The Retro
Joey Bishop Show, The Retro
Judging Amy UP
Julia Aspire
King of Queens, The TBS TV Land
Knight Rider Cozi
Kung Fu H&I
Lassie Cozi TBN
Last Tango in Halifax PBS
Laverne & Shirley MeTV
Law & Order TNT WE WGN-A
Law & Order: CI, also WE Ion MNT USA WGN-A
Law & Order: SVU MNT USA
Lawrence Welk Show, The PBS
Leave it to Beaver Antenna
Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Cozi
Lilias Yoga PBS
Listener, The Ion
Little House on the Prairie Hallmark INSP
Living Single TV One
Lone Ranger, The Cozi WHT
Looney Tunes Boomerang Cartoon
Lost in Space MeTV
Love Boat, The MeTV Pop
Lucy Show, The (1962) Decades Retro
M*A*S*H MeTV
MacGuyver Cloo Esquire
Mad About You FXX
Magnum, P.I. Cozi
Make Room for Daddy Cozi MeTV
Man from UNCLE, The MeTV
Mannix H&I
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The MeTV
Married, with Children TBS
Martin TV One
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Decades
Matlock Hallmark Movies
Maude Antenna
Maverick Cozi
Max and Ruby Nick Jr.
McHale’s Navy Antenna
Melrose Place Pop
Mentalist, The MNT
Miami Vice MNT
Middle, The ABC Family Hallmark
Midsomer Murders PBS
Mike and Molly FX
Mission: Impossible Decades MeTV
Mister Peepers Retro
Mod Squad, The MeTV
Modern Family USA
Moesha UP
Monkees, The Antenna
Movin’ On Retro
Mr. Belvedere Antenna
Mr. Ed Antenna
Mr. Lucky MeTV
Murder in the First TNT
Murder, She Wrote Hallmark Movies Cozi
My Favorite Martian Cozi
My Wife & Kids Oxygen
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Retro
Naked City Retro
Name of the Game Cozi
NCIS Cloo USA
NCIS: Los Angeles Cloo Esquire
New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Boomerang
Newhart (1982) Antenna
Night Gallery MeTV
Numb3rs Ion
NYPD Blue H&I
Office, The TBS
One Day at a Time Antenna
Outer Limits, The (1963) ThisTV
Parent Hood, The (1995) Bounce
Parenthood (2010) Nick Jr.
Parkers, The TV One UP
Parks & Recreation Esquire FX WGN-A
Partridge Family, The Antenna
Patty Duke Show, The Antenna
Peg + Cat PBS
Perry Mason Hallmark Movies MeTV
Peter Gunn Decades MeTV
Petticoat Junction Decades Retro MeTV
Pokemon: Series XY (2013) Cartoon
Quantum Leap Cozi
Quincy, M.E. MeTV
Raising Hope CMT FXX WGN-A
Rat Patrol H&I
Rawhide MeTV
Real McCoys, The Cozi
Reba ABC Family CMT TV Land
Remington Steele MeTV
Rifleman, The AMC MeTV
Ripley’s Believe It or Not Cloo
Roc Bounce
Rockford Files, The MeTV
Ropers, The Antenna
Roseanne WE
Route 66 MeTV Retro
Roy Rogers Show, The Cozi WHT
Rules of Engagement TBS WGN-A
Run for Your Life Cozi
Saint, The Decades H&I MeTV
Sanford & Son Antenna TV One
Saved by the Bell MeTV
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (1969) Boomerang
Sea Hunt ThisTV
Seinfeld TBS
Sesame Street PBS
Sex and the City Oxygen
She-Ra: Princess of Power Retro
Sherlock Holmes (1954) Retro
Simpsons, The FXX
Sister, Sister UP
Small Wonder Antenna
Smallville TNT
Smurfs, The Boomerang
South Park Comedy Central
Spin City Laff
SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon
Star Trek MeTV Decades
Star Trek: The Next Generation BBC America
Stargate SG-1 ThisTV
Starsky & Hutch Cozi
Streets of San Francisco, The MeTV
Super Nanny UP
Supernatural TNT
Tarzan (1966) Retro
Teen Titans Go! Boomerang Cartoon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon
That Girl Decades
That 70s Show ABC Family Nick Jr.
Three Stooges, The AMC Antenna
Three’s a Crowd Antenna
Three’s Company Antenna TV Land
Thriller MeTV
Tia & Tamera Oxygen
Tom & Jerry Boomerang Cartoon
Too Close for Comfort Antenna
Touched by an Angel Up
Two and a Half Men FX
Veggie Tales TBN
Vicar of Dibley, The PBS
Virginian, The INSP
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea MeTV
Wagon Train H&I
Walker, Texas Ranger INSP WGN-A
Walking Dead, The AMC MNT
Waltons, The Hallmark INSP
Wanted: Dead or Alive MeTV
Wayans Brothers, The BET
Welcome Back, Kotter MeTV
What’s New, Scooby Dew? (2002) Boomerang
White Collar Cloo
White Shadow, The H&I
Wild Kratts PBS
Wild, Wild West, The Decades H&I
Will & Grace WE
Wonder Woman MeTV
Word Girl PBS
Young & the Restless, The Pop
Zorro (1957) Cozi Retro
Oh, and if you put all the L&I's and CSI's and NCIS's together, you could watch nothing but procedurals 24/7/365, although then your brain would probably explode.
Mary
12 O’Clock High H&I
21 Jump Street H&I
30 Rock WGN-A
Abbott and Costello Show, The MeTV
Adam-12 Cozi
Addams Family, The Cozi ThisTV
Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, The Retro
Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Antenna
Adventures of Superman (1952) MeTV
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (1962) MeTV
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) Antenna
All in the Family Antenna
America’s Funniest Home Videos TBS WGN-A
American Dad TBS
Andy Griffith Show, The MeTV
Antiques Roadshow PBS
Archie’s Funhouse (1970) Retro
Arthur PBS
Avengers, The Cozi
Barbara Stanwyck Show, The Retro
Barney Miller Antenna
Batman (1966) MeTV
Baywatch Cozi
Bernie Mac Show, The Bounce Laff
Beverly Hillbillies, The Decades MeTV Retro
Beverly Hills 90210 (1990) Pop
Bewitched Antenna
Big Bang Theory, The TBS
Big Valley, The INSP
Billy Graham Crusades, The TBN
Bionic Woman, The Cozi
Black Sheep Squadron MeTV
Blue Bloods Ion WGN-A
Bold and the Beautiful Pop
Bonanza INSP MeTV Retro TV Land
Bones MNT TNT WGN-A
Border, The Cozi Retro
Boy Meets World ABC Family
Brady Bunch, The Decades MeTV
Branded H&I
BraveStarr Retro
Bronco Cozi
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer ABC Family FXX
Burn Notice Esquire USA
Burns & Allen Show, The Antenna
Caillou PBS
Campbells, The Retro
Car 54, Where Are You? MeTV
Carol Burnett and Friends MeTV
Castle TNT
Cat in the Hat Knows About That, The PBS
Charmed TNT
Cheers Hallmark
Charlie’s Angels Cozi
Cheyenne H&I
CHiPs MeTV
Cisco Kid, The Cozi
Cleveland Show, The TBS
Clifford, the Big Red Dog PBS
Cold Squad Retro
Columbo Hallmark Movies MeTV
Combat! H&I
Commish, The H&I
Cougar Town TBS
Courage, the Cowardly Dog Boomerang
Criminal Minds A&E Ion
CSI Cloo USA
CSI: Miami A&E AMC WE
CSI: NY TNT
Curious George PBS
Cyberchase PBS
Daniel Boone INSP MeTV
Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood PBS
Davey & Goliath TBN
Dawson’s Creek ABC Family
Dennis the Menace Antenna
Diagnosis: Murder Hallmark Movies
Dick Van Dyke Show, The Cozi
Different World, A Bounce TV One
Dinosaur Street PBS
Doctors, The Retro
Donna Reed Show, The MeTV
Doogie Howser, M.D. Antenna
Dora the Explorer Nick Jr.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman INSP
Dr. Who (1963) Retro
Dr. Who (2005) BBC America
Dragnet (1951) Retro
Drew Carey Show, The Laff
Dynasty Pop
Ellen FXX Laff
Emergency! MeTV
Empty Nest Laff
Evening Shade Antenna
Everybody Hates Chris TV One
Everybody Loves Raymond Nickelodeon TV Land
F Troop MeTV
Family Ties Up
Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, The (1964) Retro
Fantasy Island Cloo Cozi
Father Knows Best Antenna
Flashpoint Ion
Flip Wilson Show, The Aspire
Flintstones, The Boomerang
Flipper Antenna
Frasier Hallmark Lifetime
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The BET Nickelodeon
Friends Nickelodeon TBS TV Land
Full House Nickelodeon
Futurama Comedy Central
Flying Nun, The Antenna
Garfield Show, The Boomerang
George Lopez Nickelodeon
Get Smart MeTV
Ghost Busters, The Retro
Ghost Whisperer Cloo Ion Oxygen
Gidget (1965) Antenna
Gilligan’s Island MeTV TV Land
Gilmore Girls, The ABC Family
Gimme a Break TV One
Girlfriends TV One
Golden Girls, The Hallmark TV Land
Gomer Pyle, USMC MeTV
Good Times Antenna TV One
Grace Under Fire Laff
Green Acres Antenna
Grimm TNT
Groovie Ghoulies, The Retro
Growing Pains UP
Guns of Will Sonnett, The H&I
Gunsmoke INSP TV Land MeTV
Happy Days MeTV
Hart to Hart Cozi Hallmark Movies
Have Gun, Will Travel H&I
Hawaii Five-Oh (1968) MeTV Decades
Hawaii Five-Oh (2010) TNT
Hazel Antenna
Hee Haw ABC Family WHT
He-Man & the Masters of the Universe Retro
High Chaparral, The INSP H&I
Highway Patrol ThisTV
Highway to Heaven Cozi Retro
Hill Street Blues H&I
Hopalong Cassidy Cozi
House Cloo Oxygen
How I Met Your Mother FX Lifetime WGN-A
Hughleys, The Bounce
Hunter H&I
I Dream of Jeannie Antenna
I Love Lucy (1951) Decades Hallmark MeTV
In Living Color FXX
In the Heat of the Night ThisTV WGN-A
It Takes a Thief Retro
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Comedy Central
Jack Benny Program, The Antenna
JAG INSP
Jamie Foxx Show, The BET
Jeffersons, The Antenna TV One
Jem and the Holograms DFC
Jericho Pop
Jerry Lewis Show, The Retro
Joey Bishop Show, The Retro
Judging Amy UP
Julia Aspire
King of Queens, The TBS TV Land
Knight Rider Cozi
Kung Fu H&I
Lassie Cozi TBN
Last Tango in Halifax PBS
Laverne & Shirley MeTV
Law & Order TNT WE WGN-A
Law & Order: CI, also WE Ion MNT USA WGN-A
Law & Order: SVU MNT USA
Lawrence Welk Show, The PBS
Leave it to Beaver Antenna
Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Cozi
Lilias Yoga PBS
Listener, The Ion
Little House on the Prairie Hallmark INSP
Living Single TV One
Lone Ranger, The Cozi WHT
Looney Tunes Boomerang Cartoon
Lost in Space MeTV
Love Boat, The MeTV Pop
Lucy Show, The (1962) Decades Retro
M*A*S*H MeTV
MacGuyver Cloo Esquire
Mad About You FXX
Magnum, P.I. Cozi
Make Room for Daddy Cozi MeTV
Man from UNCLE, The MeTV
Mannix H&I
Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The MeTV
Married, with Children TBS
Martin TV One
Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Decades
Matlock Hallmark Movies
Maude Antenna
Maverick Cozi
Max and Ruby Nick Jr.
McHale’s Navy Antenna
Melrose Place Pop
Mentalist, The MNT
Miami Vice MNT
Middle, The ABC Family Hallmark
Midsomer Murders PBS
Mike and Molly FX
Mission: Impossible Decades MeTV
Mister Peepers Retro
Mod Squad, The MeTV
Modern Family USA
Moesha UP
Monkees, The Antenna
Movin’ On Retro
Mr. Belvedere Antenna
Mr. Ed Antenna
Mr. Lucky MeTV
Murder in the First TNT
Murder, She Wrote Hallmark Movies Cozi
My Favorite Martian Cozi
My Wife & Kids Oxygen
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Retro
Naked City Retro
Name of the Game Cozi
NCIS Cloo USA
NCIS: Los Angeles Cloo Esquire
New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) Boomerang
Newhart (1982) Antenna
Night Gallery MeTV
Numb3rs Ion
NYPD Blue H&I
Office, The TBS
One Day at a Time Antenna
Outer Limits, The (1963) ThisTV
Parent Hood, The (1995) Bounce
Parenthood (2010) Nick Jr.
Parkers, The TV One UP
Parks & Recreation Esquire FX WGN-A
Partridge Family, The Antenna
Patty Duke Show, The Antenna
Peg + Cat PBS
Perry Mason Hallmark Movies MeTV
Peter Gunn Decades MeTV
Petticoat Junction Decades Retro MeTV
Pokemon: Series XY (2013) Cartoon
Quantum Leap Cozi
Quincy, M.E. MeTV
Raising Hope CMT FXX WGN-A
Rat Patrol H&I
Rawhide MeTV
Real McCoys, The Cozi
Reba ABC Family CMT TV Land
Remington Steele MeTV
Rifleman, The AMC MeTV
Ripley’s Believe It or Not Cloo
Roc Bounce
Rockford Files, The MeTV
Ropers, The Antenna
Roseanne WE
Route 66 MeTV Retro
Roy Rogers Show, The Cozi WHT
Rules of Engagement TBS WGN-A
Run for Your Life Cozi
Saint, The Decades H&I MeTV
Sanford & Son Antenna TV One
Saved by the Bell MeTV
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (1969) Boomerang
Sea Hunt ThisTV
Seinfeld TBS
Sesame Street PBS
Sex and the City Oxygen
She-Ra: Princess of Power Retro
Sherlock Holmes (1954) Retro
Simpsons, The FXX
Sister, Sister UP
Small Wonder Antenna
Smallville TNT
Smurfs, The Boomerang
South Park Comedy Central
Spin City Laff
SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon
Star Trek MeTV Decades
Star Trek: The Next Generation BBC America
Stargate SG-1 ThisTV
Starsky & Hutch Cozi
Streets of San Francisco, The MeTV
Super Nanny UP
Supernatural TNT
Tarzan (1966) Retro
Teen Titans Go! Boomerang Cartoon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nickelodeon
That Girl Decades
That 70s Show ABC Family Nick Jr.
Three Stooges, The AMC Antenna
Three’s a Crowd Antenna
Three’s Company Antenna TV Land
Thriller MeTV
Tia & Tamera Oxygen
Tom & Jerry Boomerang Cartoon
Too Close for Comfort Antenna
Touched by an Angel Up
Two and a Half Men FX
Veggie Tales TBN
Vicar of Dibley, The PBS
Virginian, The INSP
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea MeTV
Wagon Train H&I
Walker, Texas Ranger INSP WGN-A
Walking Dead, The AMC MNT
Waltons, The Hallmark INSP
Wanted: Dead or Alive MeTV
Wayans Brothers, The BET
Welcome Back, Kotter MeTV
What’s New, Scooby Dew? (2002) Boomerang
White Collar Cloo
White Shadow, The H&I
Wild Kratts PBS
Wild, Wild West, The Decades H&I
Will & Grace WE
Wonder Woman MeTV
Word Girl PBS
Young & the Restless, The Pop
Zorro (1957) Cozi Retro
