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The WB's gentlest family drama: Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie raising seven kids in fictional Glen Oak, California. Every episode was a moral crossroads—dating, drugs, peer pressure, faith—and families watched it together. For a decade it was the show your parents approved of, and it made Jessica Biel a star.
The WB teen drama where impossibly articulate teenagers agonized over love and life in the seaside town of Capeside — and where the Dawson-versus-Pacey fight for Joey became one of the defining "who will she choose" debates of the era. Set to Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait."
The church-family daughter from 7th Heaven who shed her wholesome image and fought her way into 2000s movie stardom. Cast at fourteen as Mary Camden, she became one of The WB's defining faces—and by her early twenties she was headlining studio films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Blade: Trinity.
Alien teens hiding in plain sight in a New Mexico high school — sci-fi wrapped in teen romance, set around a kitschy diner where everything came doused in Tabasco. It only ran three seasons, but its fans mounted one of TV's most famous save-our-show campaigns, mailing bottles of hot sauce to the network.
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Ten seasons of Clark Kent before the cape — a teenager learning to hide superpowers in small-town Kansas, one kryptonite freak-of-the-week at a time. It was The WB's biggest series debut ever, and its real long game was watching Clark and Lex Luthor's friendship curdle into destiny.