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Top 20 Action-Adventure Television Shows

1
La Femme Nikita

1997
USA Network
  • Peta Wilson - Nikita
  • Roy Dupuis - Michael
  • Eugene Robert Glazer - Operations
  • Alberta Watson - Madeline
  • Matthew Ferguson - Seymour Birkoff/Jason Crawford
  • Don Francks - Walter
  • Cindy Dolenc - Quinn
  • Andy Whitfield / Liam McIntyre - Spartacus
  • John Hannah - Quintus Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Batiatus
  • Lucy Lawless - Lucretia
  • Peter Mensah - Oenomaus
  • Manu Bennett - Crixus
  • Nick E. Tarabay - Ashur
  • Lesley-Ann Brandt / Cynthia Addai-Robinson - Naevia
  • Katrina Law - Mira
  • Craig Parker - Gaius Claudius Glaber
  • Viva Bianca - Ilithyia
  • Dan Feuerriegel - Agron
  • Dustin Clare - Gannicus

3
Marco Polo

2014
Netflix
  • Lorenzo Richelmy - Marco Polo
  • Benedict Wong - Kublai Khan
  • Joan Chen - Empress Chabi
  • Remy Hii - Prince Jingim
  • Zhu Zhu - Kokachin
  • Mahesh Jadu - Ahmad
  • Uli Latukefu - Byamba
  • Olivia Cheng - Mei Lin
  • Tom Wu - Hundred Eyes
  • Claudia Kim - Khutulun
  • Rick Yune - Kaidu
  • Chin Han - Jia Sidao

4
The Avengers

1961
ABC
  • Patrick Macnee - John Steed
  • Diana Rigg - Emma Peel
  • Honor Blackman - Catherine Gale

5
Kung Fu

Year
Network
  • David Carradine - Kwai Chang Caine
  • Radames Pera - Young Caine
  • Keye Luke - Master Po
  • Peter Graves - James Phelps
  • Leonard Nimoy - Paris
  • Lesley Ann Warren - Dana Lambert
  • Martin Landau - Rollin Hand
  • Barbara Bain - Cinnamon Carter
  • Greg Morris - Barney Collier
  • Peter Lupus - Willy Armitage

7
24

2001
FOX
  • Kiefer Sutherland - Jack Bauer

8
Highlander

1992
Rysher Entertainment
  • Adrian Paul - Duncan MacLeod

9
Alias

2001
ABC
  • Jennifer Garner - Sydney Bristow

10
Dollhouse

2009
FOX
  • Eliza Dushku - Echo

11
Charlie's Angels

1976
ABC
  • Jaclyn Smith - Kelly Garrett
  • Farrah Fawcett - Jill Munroe
  • Kate Jackson - Sabrina Duncan
  • Cheryl Ladd - Kris Munroe
  • Shelley Hack - Tiffany Welles
  • Tanya Roberts - Julie Rogers
  • David Doyle - John Bosley

12
Nikita

2010
The CW
  • Maggie Q - Nikita

13
Route 66

1960
CBS
  • Martin Milner - Tod Stiles
  • George Maharis - Buz Murdock
  • Tom Wopat - Luke Duke
  • John Schneider - Bo Duke
  • Catherine Bach - Daisy Duke
  • Ben Jones - Cooter
  • Robert Vaughn - Napoleon Solo
  • David McCallum - Illya Kuryakin
  • Leo G. Carroll - Alexander Waverly
  • Robert Conrad - James T. West
  • Ross Martin - Artemus Gordon

17
Heroes

2006
NBC
  • Jack Coleman - Noah Bennet
  • Hayden Panettiere - Claire Bennet
  • Ali Larter - Niki Sanders / Tracy Strauss
  • Milo Ventimiglia - Peter Petrelli
  • Adrian Pasdar - Nathan Petrelli
  • Cristine Rose - Angela Petrelli
  • Masi Oka - Hiro Nakamura
  • Sendhil Ramamurthy - Mohinder Suresh
  • Noah Gray-Cabey - Micah Sanders
  • Greg Grunberg - Matt Parkman
  • James Kyson Lee - Ando Masahashi
  • Zachary Quinto - Gabriel "Sylar" Gray
  • Lee Majors - Col. Steve Austin
  • Richard Anderson - Oscar Goldman

19
MacGyver

1985
ABC
  • Richard Dean Anderson - MacGyver

20
Bionic Woman

1976
ABC
  • Lindsay Wagner - Jaime Sommers