The War of 18-49, Pre-2001 Dramas: Charmed, NYPD Blue, The West Wing and more!

Continuing our massive data dump of War of 18-49 tables for broadcast series that don't have their own posts... here are the incomplete records for a slew of notable dramas that premiered before the 2001-02 season (the start of the A18-49+ era). In case you missed it, here's the comedy version of this post.

Pre-2001 Dramas

A handful of shows that aired prior to the start of the era already have standalone posts (CSI, Law and Order and Law and Order: SVU). For convenience, these posts are linked in the list below, but they're also listed on the main index. There are also a few shows listed that had complete 4+ year runs within the era but don't have their own posts (Crossing Jordan, Enterprise and Las Vegas). It's possible they'll get posts in the future, but they didn't make the cut this summer and I didn't want to withhold them.

For the pre-2001 posts, in order to make these pages load a bit faster I'm just doing the purple (A18-49+) table for each series. If you really want the raw numbers you can always reverse-engineer them using that season's league average. (Raw A18-49 = A18-49+ * League Average / 100)

Jump to a show: 7th Heaven | Angel | Boston Public | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Charmed | Crossing Jordan | CSI | Dawson's Creek | Ed | Enterprise | Gilmore Girls | JAG | Judging Amy | Las Vegas | Law & Order | Law & Order: SVU | NYPD Blue | The Practice | Third Watch | The West Wing | The X-Files

7th Heaven (WB, 1996-07)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
6	2001-02	71	hit(CW)	1.19		60	81	72	77
7	2002-03	71	hit(CW)	1.19	-0%	59	81	79	75
8	2003-04	59	hit(CW)	0.99	-17%	47	81	81	59
9	2004-05	55	hit(CW)	0.92	-6%	39	74	61	47
10	2005-06	52	hit(CW)	0.87	-6%	44	74	49	74
11	2006-07	33	marginal(CW)	0.55	-36%	21	45	40	32
AVERAGE (2001-07):		57	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-07):		340

Angel (WB, 1999-04)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
3	2001-02	51	hit(CW)	0.86		42	58	56	51
4	2002-03	45	hit(CW)	0.76	-12%	38	54	54	50
5	2003-04	52	hit(CW)	0.87	+15%	42	72	59	72
AVERAGE (2001-04):		49	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-04):		148

Boston Public (Fox, 2000-04)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
2	2001-02	111	solid	1.87		86	146	146	98
3	2002-03	86	marginal	1.45	-22%	66	108	90	77
4	2003-04	44	flop	0.73	-49%	35	54	54	42
AVERAGE (2001-04):		81	marginal
CAREER (2001-04):		242

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (WB/UPN, 1997-03)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
6	2001-02	61	hit(CW)	1.03		51	88	88	60
7	2002-03	49	hit(CW)	0.83	-19%	38	59	52	57
AVERAGE (2001-03):		55	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-03):		110

Charmed (WB, 1998-06)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
4	2001-02	50	hit(CW)	0.84		37	63	60	53
5	2002-03	52	hit(CW)	0.88	+5%	43	63	63	52
6	2003-04	54	hit(CW)	0.91	+4%	35	72	72	54
7	2004-05	44	solid(CW)	0.74	-19%	32	61	59	39
8	2005-06	42	solid(CW)	0.70	-5%	34	49	49	49
AVERAGE (2001-06):		49	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-06):		243

Crossing Jordan (NBC, 2001-07)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
1	2001-02	119	solid	2.00		98	142	142	139
2	2002-03	95	marginal	1.60	-20%	79	118	97	88
3	2003-04	108	solid	1.81	+14%	79	131	121	118
4	2004-05	104	solid	1.75	-3%	78	130	115	88
5	2005-06	86	marginal	1.44	-17%	69	99	91	79
6	2006-07	55	flop	0.92	-36%	40	72	58	45
AVERAGE:		94	marginal
CAREER:		566	staple

Dawson's Creek (WB, 1998-03)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
5	2001-02	48	hit(CW)	0.81		37	58	49	49
6	2002-03	51	hit(CW)	0.87	+7%	34	95	63	95
AVERAGE (2001-03):		50	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-03):		100

Ed (NBC, 2000-04)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
2	2001-02	86	marginal	1.45		56	107	107	77
3	2002-03	81	marginal	1.36	-6%	63	102	79	88
4	2003-04	70	marginal	1.18	-13%	59	101	101	64
AVERAGE (2001-04):		79	marginal
CAREER (2001-04):		237

Enterprise (UPN, 2001-05)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
1	2001-02	79	hit(CW)	1.32		51	146	146	63
2	2002-03	47	hit(CW)	0.79	-40%	36	70	47	41
3	2003-04	39	solid(CW)	0.66	-17%	30	52	39	42
4	2004-05	32	hit(CWFri)	0.53	-19%	25	42	32	42
AVERAGE:		49	hit(CW)
CAREER:		197

Gilmore Girls (WB, 2000-07)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
2	2001-02	55	hit(CW)	0.92		44	65	60	65
3	2002-03	58	hit(CW)	0.97	+5%	43	66	59	59
4	2003-04	50	hit(CW)	0.83	-14%	42	59	44	59
5	2004-05	60	hit(CW)	1.02	+22%	54	69	59	61
6	2005-06	59	hit(CW)	1.00	-2%	42	69	69	59
7	2006-07	52	hit(CW)	0.87	-12%	45	61	53	61
AVERAGE (2001-07):		56	hit(CW)
CAREER (2001-07):		333

JAG (NBC/CBS, 1995-05)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
7	2001-02	91	marginal	1.53		65	116	116	72
8	2002-03	70	marginal	1.18	-23%	52	88	88	59
9	2003-04	60	solid(Fri)	1.02	-14%	44	81	81	62
10	2004-05	49	flop	0.83	-18%	42	71	49	71
AVERAGE (2001-05):		68	solid(Fri)
CAREER (2001-05):		271

Judging Amy (CBS, 1999-05)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
3	2001-02	100	solid	1.69		84	123	109	88
4	2002-03	89	marginal	1.50	-11%	75	104	104	81
5	2003-04	72	marginal	1.21	-19%	62	84	74	79
6	2004-05	73	marginal	1.23	+2%	61	81	61	74
AVERAGE (2001-05):		84	marginal
CAREER (2001-05):		334

Las Vegas (NBC, 2003-08)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
1	2003-04	124	solid	2.08		104	146	123	128
2	2004-05	113	solid	1.90	-9%	96	142	115	98
3	2005-06	90	marginal	1.52	-20%	62	118	113	79
4	2006-07	74	solid(Fri)	1.24	-18%	66	85	82	72
5	2007-08	64	solid(Fri)	1.08	-13%	54	75	75	69
AVERAGE:		93	marginal
CAREER:		465	utility

NYPD Blue (ABC, 1993-05)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
9	2001-02	110	solid	1.84		84	144	144	111
10	2002-03	106	solid	1.78	-4%	84	133	120	113
11	2003-04	90	marginal	1.52	-15%	79	106	94	84
12	2004-05	84	marginal	1.40	-7%	69	128	81	128
AVERAGE (2001-05):		97	marginal
CAREER (2001-05):		389

The Practice (ABC, 1996-04)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
6	2001-02	125	hit	2.10		79	167	158	118
7	2002-03	89	marginal	1.49	-29%	54	129	120	77
8	2003-04	86	marginal	1.44	-3%	72	109	99	86
AVERAGE (2001-04):		100	solid
CAREER (2001-04):		300

Third Watch (NBC, 1999-05)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
3	2001-02	101	solid	1.71		77	163	84	121
4	2002-03	105	solid	1.77	+4%	86	120	106	113
5	2003-04	84	hit(Fri)	1.42	-20%	69	101	101	84
6	2004-05	72	solid(Fri)	1.21	-15%	64	83	83	66
AVERAGE (2001-05):		91	marginal
CAREER (2001-05):		363

The West Wing (NBC, 1999-06)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	y2y	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
3	2001-02	159	big hit	2.68		123	228	228	144
4	2002-03	111	solid	1.87	-30%	86	151	151	106
5	2003-04	97	marginal	1.63	-13%	76	153	153	76
6	2004-05	84	marginal	1.41	-14%	64	110	98	86
7	2005-06	54	flop	0.91	-36%	39	71	59	71
AVERAGE (2001-06):		101	solid
CAREER (2001-06):		505

The X-Files (Fox, 1993-02)

Seas	Year	A18-49+	Label	Now15	Lo	Hi	Premiere	Finale
9	2001-02	107	solid	1.79	86	146	128	146
AVERAGE (2001-02):		107	solid
CAREER (2001-02):		107

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