The New Breed

The New Breed ran from 1961–1962 and built the kind of audience that still talks about it — an 8/10 TMDB score is the lasting evidence. Streaming catalogues shift constantly, so use TV Butler below to find out exactly where it is available in your region right now. Every episode of its run is worth tracking down. With 3 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is no cult obscurity — it is a mainstream audience that found something genuinely good. The drama format has produced a lot of memorable television, but The New Breed sits at the top end of it. Search TV Butler by title and it will find you the fastest route to watching in your country, regardless of which platform has it.

The show you recommend to people who say they do not really watch TV. The New Breed tends to convert them. The complete run is available and worth treating as a single long film if your schedule allows. The quality of the character writing is the reason it holds up on rewatch, when you can see the groundwork being laid in early episodes for things that only pay off much later. One of the more rewarding dramas of its era, and one that rewards the patience it asks of you. Leslie Nielsen is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record.