The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
Based on Poor, Poor Ophelia by Carolyn Weston
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Little House on the Prairie (1974)
Based on the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Avonlea (1990)
Based on the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery -
Mystery!: Cadfael (1994)
Based on the Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries by Edith Pargeter AKA Ellis Peters -
Sex and the City (1998)
and the prequel, The Carrie Diaries (2013)Based on Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
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Roswell (1999)
Based on the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz -
Bones (2005)
Based on the Temperance Brennan books by Kathy Reichs -
Gossip Girl (2007)
Based on the Gossip Girl books by Cecily von Ziegesar -
True Blood (2008)
Based on the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris -
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Based on the Pretty Little Liars books by Sara Shepard -
Rizzoli & Isles (2010)
Based on the Maura Isles/Jane Rizzoli series by Tess Gerritsen -
Call the Midwife (2012)
Based on the Midwife Trilogy by Jennifer Worth -
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Based on the Phryne Fisher historical mysteries by Kerry Greenwood -
Orange Is the New Black (2013)
Based on Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman -
Bitten (2014)
Based on the Otherworld novels by Kelley Armstrong -
Mozart in the Jungle (2014)
Based on Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by Blair Tindall -
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Outlander (2014)
Based on the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon -
The Royals (2015)
Based on The Royals by Michelle Ray -
Shadowhunters (2016)
Based on The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare -
Queen Sugar (2016)
Based on Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile -
Anne with an E (2017)
Based on the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery -
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Based on The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
