Ah, the action genre in the ‘90s, the time when one man could defeat an army of 25 bad guys, the guns were bigger, and the bravado was even bigger. While the genre had a renaissance in the ‘80s, it was the ‘90s where action became all the rage, not just in movie theaters, but on television screens as well.

Yes, an argument can be made that action TV wasn’t necessarily in the same league as its movie counterparts, but that doesn’t mean that there were no great action shows in the ‘90s. You just had to search a little harder to find them—and luckily, that work’s already been done with this list of the best action shows from the '90s that are absolutely worth streaming ASAP.

10 'Stargate SG-1' (1997–2007)

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Action movies were a huge hit in the ‘90s, from straight-up affairs

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