The Best Action Shows from 1996


Below is our top ten list of the best Action Shows which first started broadcasting in 1996.

10. Titanic


TitanicFirst Aired: 17 November, 1996

Titanic is a TV mini-series starring Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The story of the 1912 sinking of the largest luxury liner ever built, the tragedy that befell over two thousand of the rich and famous…


9. Dragon Ball GT: Doragon bôru jîtî


Dragon%20Ball%20GT%3A%20Doragon%20b%C3%B4ru%20j%C3%AEt%C3%AEFirst Aired: 07 February, 1996

Dragon Ball GT: Doragon bôru jîtî is a TV series starring Elise Baughman, Andrew Chandler, and Masako Nozawa. After Goku is made a kid again by the Black Star Dragon Balls, he goes on a journey to get back to his old self.


8. Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei


Alarm%20f%C3%BCr%20Cobra%2011%20-%20Die%20AutobahnpolizeiFirst Aired: 12 March, 1996

Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei is a TV series starring Erdogan Atalay, Gottfried Vollmer, and Niels Kurvin. Two police inspectors and their team from a Bonn-Koeln precinct fight all sorts of criminals they encounter daily…


7. Nash Bridges


Nash%20BridgesFirst Aired: 29 March, 1996

Nash Bridges is a TV series starring Don Johnson, Cheech Marin, and Jodi Lyn O’Keefe. A smart alecky San Francisco, California cop and his get rich quick scheme of a partner keep tabs on crime and take down the bad guys in the Bay…


6. Dragon Ball Z


Dragon%20Ball%20ZFirst Aired: 13 September, 1996

Dragon Ball Z is a TV series starring Doc Harris, Christopher Sabat, and Scott McNeil. After learning that he is from another planet, a warrior named Goku and his friends are prompted to defend it from an onslaught of…


5. Lexx


LexxFirst Aired: 18 April, 1997

Lexx is a TV series starring Brian Downey, Michael McManus, and Jeffrey Hirschfield. A group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.



4. Superman


SupermanFirst Aired: 06 September, 1996

Superman is a TV series starring Tim Daly, Joseph Bologna, and Dana Delany. The last son of the planet Krypton protects his adoptive home of Earth as the greatest of the superheroes.


3. Beast Wars: Transformers


Beast%20Wars%3A%20TransformersFirst Aired: 06 August, 1996

Beast Wars: Transformers is a TV series starring Scott McNeil, Garry Chalk, and Ian James Corlett. The Transformers’ war continues in an older time, through a new generation. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil…


2. Rurôni Kenshin – Meiji kenkaku romantan


Rur%C3%B4ni%20Kenshin%20-%20Meiji%20kenkaku%20romantanFirst Aired: 10 January, 1996

Rurôni Kenshin – Meiji kenkaku romantan is a TV series starring Mayo Suzukaze, Richard Cansino, and Dorothy Elias-Fahn. The adventures of a young wandering swordsman who stumbles upon a struggling martial arts school in Meiji era…


1. Meitantei Conan


Meitantei%20ConanFirst Aired: 08 January, 1996

Meitantei Conan is a TV series starring Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, and Hoang Khuyet. The cases of a detective whose physical age was chemically reversed to that of a prepubescent boy but must hide his true mental development.