The 40 most popular 1990s hong kong TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


锵锵三人行
1998
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


Detective Investigation Files
1995
country: Hong Kong
"Detective Investigation Files" revolves around the professional and meticulous investigations carried out by a group of dedicated police officers. As they delve into mysterious deaths with unclear causes, they tirelessly work towards maintaining peace and security for the people. However, their demanding job often comes at the expense of personal happiness. Cheung Dai Yong, a brilliant and astute police officer, has a track record of solving crucial cases. His trusted colleague, Lee Chung Yee, stands by his side, and together they tackle challenging and complex cases. Amidst their work, Dai Yong encounters Ko Jit, a tenacious journalist. Despite their initial conflicts, a deepening connection blossoms between them. However, Ko Jit already has a romantic partner.


Family Squad
1991
country: Hong Kong
The Huang family has served in the police force for generations. The patriarch, Huang Jiajing, is modest and talkative, but lacking in confidence and self-esteem. After making mistakes in his job as a police officer, he was transferred and then resigned. His wife, Liao Zhonghao, is a contented housewife devoted to her children. Their eldest daughter, Huang Di, is a senior police inspector who is authoritative and diligent. Their second daughter, Huang Fei is impulsive, lazy, and gluttonous, but unexpectedly clever. Their son, Huang Fa, is a university student who is playful and vain, but spoiled by his family. Jiajing's godson, Liao Tong-tai, is Huang family's mischievous relative who loves to prank, and Huang family's sworn enemy...


Armed Reaction
1998
country: Hong Kong
Armed Reaction is a 1998 Hong Kong modern cop drama produced by TVB. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung and Esther Kwan as the main leads with Joyce Tang, Marco Ngai, Mimi Chu and Joe Ma in main supporting roles. The drama takes place before 1997 Handover of Hong Kong and Royal Hong Kong Police revolves around the lives of two police woman, one who works leisurely behind desk duty but has to take her job more seriously once her husband leaves her and a new rookie cop who is deemed too ambitious and rash by her superior.


The File Of Justice
1992
country: Hong Kong
The Files of Justice is a series of Hong Kong legal drama produced by TVB. There were 5 seasons produced, the first was aired in 1992 spanning 13 episodes. The series revolves around a group of lawyers and legal personnel with stories interwoven between their personal lives and the court cases in which they’re engaged. This drama is Bobby Au Yeung's TV debut.


Burning Flame
1998
country: Hong Kong
Burning Flame is a TVB modern action drama that focuses on the duties and challenges of Hong Kong firefighters. It is the first installment in the Burning Flame series. The series was specifically filmed to celebrate TVB's 31st Anniversary and was supported by Hong Kong Fire Services Department.


At the Threshold of an Era
1999
country: Hong Kong
Spanning 20 years, from 1990 to 2010, the series tells of three entrepreneurs who founded a company together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free town in Hong Kong. Through the years, they face many struggles, but most particularly, the family vendetta between two of the company founders.


State of Divinity
1996
country: Hong Kong
Ling-wu Chung, a senior student of the Wah Mount Sect, was not at all brilliant when he joined the Sect, but was soon taught to master the sword by a legendary swordsman Yeung. Chung’s master, Kwan, resented this and drove Chung away. In order to get hold of “Kwai Fa Bo Din”, the book on the most powerful martial art, Kwan diverts attention by secretly creating troubles everywhere. Chung, on the other hand, becomes the leader of the Hang Mount Sect by chance and falls in love with Kwan's daughter. When she betrays him, he turns to the daughter of the Devil Sect leader, and thus causes a love triangle between them.


Dark Tales
1996
country: Hong Kong
Play depicts the world of love, promises not withstand the test of "green Feixianguan"; Fox tells ghost battle of wits, difficult to distinguish between good and evil "Phantom fox spirit"; vigilance ordinary people is a blessing of "land adventures sentence"; describes people, Saints love, never betray "Red flower drunk"; export intentioned rewarded "accidentally"; description Cizi Xiao mother, ethical affection "ghost mother loves her child"; Jiaobingbibai meaning of "demon Excalibur "; and savor the romance of" Kate chasing love "and so on.


Untraceable Evidence
1997
country: Hong Kong
Untraceable Evidence is a Police Procedural in Hong Kong, produced by TVB. The series had two seasons.


My Date with a Vampire
1998
country: Hong Kong
My Date with a Vampire is a 1998 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV. The story is based on the future events of the plot of Vampire Expert, a similar two-season television drama aired on ATV in 1995 and 1996. It blends aspects of the jiangshi with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends. The series is a tribute to Lam Ching-ying, the lead actor of Vampire Expert and a prominent cast member in the Mr. Vampire franchise, who died of liver cancer in 1997. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire II (2000) and My Date with a Vampire III (2004).


Healing Hands
1998
country: Hong Kong
Medical drama that focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at the fictional Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong.


Journey to the West
1996
country: Hong Kong
Journey to the West is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. Starring Dicky Cheung, Kwong Wah, Wayne Lai and Evergreen Mak, the series was produced by TVB and was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1996. A sequel, Journey to the West II, was broadcast in 1998, but the role of the Monkey King was played by Benny Chan instead, due to contract problems between Dicky Cheung and TVB. Cheung later reprised the role in another television series The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra, which was broadcast on TVB but not produced by the station.


ICAC Investigators
1992
country: Hong Kong
ICAC Investigators is a long running family of Hong Kong television miniseries about the work of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The series are public awareness films produced by Radio Television Hong Kong, an independent department of the government, with the full co-operation of the ICAC itself. Each series dramatises real cases of the Commission and serves both to educate the populace against corrupt practises and as a public relations tool for the ICAC.


Top Cop
1993
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


Justice Pao
1995
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


New Golden Lotus
1996
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


The Greed of Man
1992
country: Hong Kong
Told in reverse chronological order, the story starts in the present (June 7, 1994), when the stock market rebounded after the market became volatile and crashed for the weekend. After the stock market stopped trading for the weekend, the Ting's make the wrong bet and their entire fortune is wiped out, compounded by ending up in billions of dollars in debt. Ting Hai forces his sons to commit suicide by jumping off from the top of the stock exchange building before following after them.


The Condor Heroes 95
1995
country: Hong Kong
The Condor Heroes 95 is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Return of the Condor Heroes. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in 1995. Many of the cast from The Legend of the Condor Heroes reprised their roles in this series, such as Lau Dan and Wayne Lai. In addition, Jason Pai reprised his breakthrough role as Kwok Ching, whom he previously portrayed in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes.


A Recipe for the Heart
1997
country: Hong Kong
A heartwarming drama about two chefs competing for the coveted title of “Master of All Chefs”, “A Recipe for the Heart” is a delightful combination of gracefully concocted food and great comedy. Shek (Chun Pui) was the chef as well as the owner of the restaurant Delicious Garden. He disappeared after defeating by his good friend Shan (Bobby Au-Yeung) in a cooking contest, leaving behind his wife Yuen (Lydia Shum) and his daughter So So (Esther Kwan). Shan then disguised as Kut to help the two women and inspired So to be a good chef. The two became an odd couple but admired each other. Their relationships got complicated when Song (Jessica Hester Hsuan) claimed to be Kut’s fiancee... .


Vampire Expert
1995
country: Hong Kong
Zhang Tian-shi's 18th generation disciple, Mao Xiao-fang, heads south to Hong Kong to track down the zombie king. Along the way, he meets Yang Fei-yun, a master of numerology and fortune-telling. Mao gains recognition for his exceptional Taoist abilities, which attracts jealousy from the head of the Seven Sisters Hall, Chung Kwan. Chung is bitter enemies with Mao, but her younger brother Chung Pong, a prodigious student, takes Mao as his teacher. Mao is unaware that Yang is a cunning and treacherous scoundrel. Yang tricks him into a trap, and eventually becomes the Great Demon King. Chung Pong sacrifices his relationship with his lover, Yuh Pak-sum, to become a great Taoist and help Mao defeat Yang.


Secret Battle of the Majesty
1994
country: Hong Kong
This is a Qing Dynasty costume drama based on the background of the nine sons fighting for the throne in the last years of Kangxi. The nine sons of Kangxi wanted to have power. In order to seize the throne, they used all means to kill each other. The bloody palace struggle. Interspersed with martial arts battles, foreign rebellions, frontier battles, battlefield killings, etc., are magnificent. TV dramas that can combine literary and martial arts, delicate court battles and atmospheric battles on the battlefield, I am afraid that it will be difficult to go out of the right. The costumes of the whole play are all designed by special personnel, and they traveled farther to China for shooting in Yangchun. The scene of the war is majestic, which shows the full force of the Qing Dynasty. It is a hugely powerful drama, and the story goes round and round, and the audience must not miss it.


Secret of the Heart
1998
country: Hong Kong
Secret of the Heart is a 1998 TVB production that was first aired from February 16,1998 to May 10, 1998. The drama had a powerful roster that is made up of Gallen Lo, Felix Wong, Amy Kwok, Kathy Chow, Sunny Chan, Ada Choi, Jessica Hsuan and Nick Cheung. It won three TVB Anniversary Awards, including Best Actor for Gallen Lo, Best Actress for Ada Choi and Best On-Screen Improvement Award for Nick Cheung. The drama also received a late night hour rerun during 2003 and 2010. It was digitally remastered for the 2010 rerun.


Mystery of the Twin Swords
1991
country: Hong Kong
Brother Ah Yat and Ah Yuet are destined to face each other in the next battle of the century between the immortals and devils, and only only one is expected to survive.


The Good Old Days
1996
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


The Duke of Mount Deer
1998
country: Hong Kong
Wai Siu Bo is the son of a prostitute who works in a brothel in Yangzhou. After joining the Heaven and Earth society, he heads to the Capital and gets enrolled into the service of the Grand Eunuchs. There he becomes friends with the young emperor Hong Hei (Wai mistakes the emperor as another young eunuch) and falls in love with the emperor's younger sister, Princess Kin Ning. His adventures in the Forbidden City leads him into discovering the empress dowager as an impostor; finding several volumes of the prized 42 Chapters which contains the location of a treasure cave; helps the emperor kill the baddie courtier, Lord Obai; and see his position rise from humble eunuch to a grand courtier and confidante of the emperor.


Witness to a Prosecution
1999
country: Hong Kong
Witness to a Prosecution is a Hong Kong television series produced by TVB. The original broadcast was on the TVB Jade network with 45-minute episodes airing five days a week from 20 December 1999 to 16 January 2000. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung as the famous historical forensic medical expert Song Ci. Set during the Southern Song Dynasty of Mid-Imperial China, Witness to a Prosecution tells a fictionalised account of Chee's modest beginnings and the events leading to the creation of his book Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, the world's earliest documentation of forensic science.


Outburst
1996
country: Hong Kong
Hoi (Deric Wan) was once a cop, but his hot temper cost him his job. He then joined a security company as the head investigator. Ching (Ng Kai Wah), Hoi’s partner in the police force, on the other hand, was always cool-minded. Though Hoi had left the force, he still worked closely with Ching and they solved many tough cases like “Killing with Arrows”, “Vanishing Art Director”, “Corpse in the Sack” and “Homicide in a Sealed Room”. Then, the two friends fell for the charming Sai (Jessica Hester Hsuan) together. Sai chose Ching after she broke up with Hoi. Hoi went back to his ex-girlfriend Man (Mok Ho Yan), but he was immediately caught up in the case “Poisonous Wedding”. Man was murdered at the wedding and Sai and Hoi were suspects…


Justice Pao
1995
country: Hong Kong
Justice Bao (新包青天), a 1995–1996 series produced by ATV and starring Jin Chao-chun as Bao Zheng, with 25 cases totaling 160 episodes.


The Snow is Red
1997
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
1997
country: Hong Kong
The story deals with several separate yet intertwining story lines, revolving around the protagonists Kiu Fung, Duen Yu and Hui Juk.


Justice Sung
1997
country: Hong Kong
Money-minded lawyer Sung Sai Kit (Cheung Tat Ming) was extremely clever and his eloquent speech has won him thousands of cases in court. However, he had a bad reputation since he worked for whoever paid him well. Then his wife Ling Lung (Amy Kwok) got pregnant. Kit wanted to do good in his son’s name and started to be more charitable. He spared others in court and even represented orphan Sing (Fan Siu Wong) in a case. Sing’s father was misjudged as a murderer and Kit successfully proved him innocent. Not long afterwards, Ling Lung gave birth to a boy and Kit decided to retire. However, it wasn’t long when Kit was forced to go back into business. Justice Sung II is the sequel in 1999.


Cold Blood Warm Heart
1996
country: Hong Kong
Bong (Adam Cheng) blamed Sing (Kwan Hoi San) for abandoning his mother and refused to acknowledge him as his father even he was one of the richest men in town. He loved and admired his foster father Kin (Bow Fong), who was a retired cop. He and his brother Lap (Gallen Lo) followed Kin’s footsteps and joined the force. Bong’s half-brother Kei (Poon Chi Man) was involved in a murder case and Bong in turn got suspended since his superior Kin (Julian Cheung) suspected he was Kei’s conspirator. Fortunately, he was proved innocent by Hang (Eddie Cheung)......


Blood of Good and Evil
1990
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


The Criminal Investigator
1995
country: Hong Kong
The Criminal Investigator is a 1995 Hong Kong police procedural television drama. Produced by Jonathan Chik and edited by Chow Yuk-ming, the drama is a TVB production. The story follows a team of investigators from the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.


Legend of Yung Ching
1997
country: Hong Kong
No overview available


Fist of Fury
1995
country: Hong Kong
Fist of Fury is a 1995 Hong Kong television series adapted from the 1972 film of the same title. Produced by ATV and STAR TV, the series starred Donnie Yen as Chen Zhen, a role previously played by Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury and Jet Li in Fist of Legend. The series is also related to the 2010 film Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen, in which Yen reprises his role. This series was edited into a 225 minute movie titled Sworn Revenge for the US market in 2002.


Taming Of The Princess
1997
country: Hong Kong
To escape from an unwanted marriage, Princess Sing Ping flees from the Palace and wanders into the squalid "Cheung Lok Fong" where she meets Kwok Oi. Kwok Oi is humourous and knowledgeable. Princess Sing Ping and Kwok Oi go through a lot of difficulties and eventually fall for each other. They get married and move back to the palace. However, Kwok Oi is framed by villains in the palace and is wronged by the Princess. He is sent away and the Princess is to remarry a foreign prince. Will Kwok Oi and the Princess reconcile?


The Flying Fox Of The Snowy Mountain
1999
country: Hong Kong
The Flying Fox of the Snowy Mountain 1999 is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novels Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain and The Young Flying Fox.


The Edge of Righteousness
1993
country: Hong Kong
LUI MAN FUNG (MAN TSE LEUNG) is a top neurological surgeon, a very earnest and resolute type who will try to achieve his goals by hook or by crook. Because of his character defects, he has been on bad terms with his family. Even his girlfriend YIP MAN (HSUAN JESSICA HESTER) is worried about his raging temper. The relationship between the pair therefore involves frequent quarrels and arguments. Eight-year-old NG SIU TUNG (CHENG PAK LAM) has been suffering from brain cancer. Wishing for a medical cure, he follows his uncle LUK AH CHOI (CHEUNG WAI KIN) to the United States to seek consultation treatment.....
1990s television was the last era of true mass audiences, when a network sitcom or a season finale could be a shared national event.
Hong Kong television built a durable house style in crime and workplace serials, produced fast and in volume, that shaped popular TV across the Chinese-speaking world.