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Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ)

Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ) is a 1972 super robot manga and anime by Go Nagai: 92 Toei TV episodes on Fuji TV (1972–1974), pilot Koji Kabuto, Dr. Hell, 30%+ ratings, 1974 Chogokin toy, 2018 film Infinity.

McCartney 3,2,1

McCartney 3,2,1 is a 2021 six-episode Hulu/Disney+ documentary miniseries in which Paul McCartney discusses the Beatles, Wings, and his solo career with producer Rick Rubin, directed by Zachary Heinzerling.

McCloud (TV series)

McCloud is an American police drama television series broadcast on NBC from 1970 to 1977, starring Dennis Weaver as a New Mexico marshal in New York City.

McDonald & Dodds

McDonald & Dodds is an ITV Bath-set detective drama (2020–2024) created by Robert Murphy, starring Tala Gouveia as DCI McDonald and Jason Watkins as DS Dodds, produced by Mammoth Screen in four series.

McHale's Navy

McHale's Navy, ABC sitcom 1962-1966, 138 black-and-white episodes starring Ernest Borgnine as PT-73 commander Quinton McHale, with Joe Flynn and Tim Conway; adapted from the drama Seven Against the Sea.

McKenzie Westmore

McKenzie Westmore (born 1977) is an American actress, singer, and host, known as Sheridan Crane on NBC's Passions (1999–2008), host of Syfy's Face Off (2011–2018), and founder of Westmore Beauty, daughter of makeup artist Michael Westmore.

McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters, Australian Nine Network drama (2001–2009), 224 episodes in eight seasons, based on a 1996 telemovie; half-sisters Claire and Tess McLeod run the Drover's Run cattle station in South Australia with an all-female workforce.

McMafia

McMafia: Misha Glenny's 2008 nonfiction study of post-Cold War global organized crime, and the 2018 BBC One/AMC eight-part drama starring James Norton as Alex Godman, which won the 2019 International Emmy for Best Drama.

McMillan & Wife

McMillan & Wife is an NBC police procedural (1971–1977), also known as McMillan in its final season, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a crime-solving San Francisco police commissioner and his wife on the NBC Mystery Movie wheel.

McMillions

McMillions (McMillion$) is a 2020 six-part HBO documentary series by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte about Jerome Jacobson's $24 million McDonald's Monopoly game fraud and the FBI's Operation Final Answer.

Me and Thee (มีสติหน่อยคุณธีร์)

Me and Thee (มีสติหน่อยคุณธีร์) is a 2025 GMMTV Thai BL romantic comedy series, 10 episodes on GMM25 and iQIYI, starring Pond Naravit as mafia-heir-turned-perfumer Thee and Phuwin Tangsakyuen as photographer Peach, his reluctant love coach.

Me atrevo a amarte

Me atrevo a amarte is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía for TelevisaUnivision, starring Kimberly Dos Ramos and Rodrigo Guirao, which premiered on Las Estrellas in 2025.

Me, Myself & I (TV series)

Me, Myself & I is a 2017–2018 CBS single-camera sitcom created by Dan Kopelman, starring Bobby Moynihan, Jack Dylan Grazer, and John Larroquette as one inventor, Alex Riley, at ages 14, 40, and 65; cancelled after 13 episodes.

Meadow Soprano

Meadow Mariangela Soprano is Tony and Carmela's daughter on HBO's The Sopranos, played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler from 1999 to 2007; her arc runs from sheltered teenager to Columbia graduate and her father's defender.

Meanwhile (Futurama)

"Meanwhile" is the 2013 Futurama episode (7ACV26) written by Ken Keeler as the Comedy Central series finale, in which Fry breaks the Professor's time button, freezing the universe so he and Leela live a lifetime together before the timeline resets.

Mech Cadets

Mech Cadets, originally Mech Cadet Yu, is a BOOM! Studios comic by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa about janitor's kid Stanford Yu bonding with a space robot at Sky Corps Academy against the Sharg, adapted into a 2023 ten-episode Netflix animated series by Polygon Pictures.

Mecha

Mecha (メカ) is a sci-fi genre of giant piloted robots in anime and manga, split into super robot (Mazinger Z, 1972) and real robot (Mobile Suit Gundam, 1979) traditions.

Mecha anime and manga

Mecha (メカ), from "mechanical", is the anime and manga genre of giant piloted robots, known in Japan as robot anime. Founded by Astro Boy and Tetsujin 28-go (1963), defined by Mazinger Z (1972), and split into super robot and real robot by Gundam (1979).

Mechanical Marie (機械じかけのマリー)

Mechanical Marie (機械じかけのマリー) is a Hana to Yume romantic comedy manga by Akimoto Aki (6 volumes plus the Marie+ sequel) about Marie, a fighter posing as a robot maid for misanthropic heir Arthur; a 12-episode TV anime by Zero-G × Lieber aired from October 2025.

MechWest

MechWest is an independent 3D-animated steampunk western TV series (also called a cattle-punk or dieselpunk western) created by Dave and Noah Gallagher and produced by AnimSchool Studios. It premiered on YouTube February 14, 2024, follows Pearl West and the mech Six, and later streamed on Angel Studios with Toonz handling worldwide distribution.

Medaka Box (めだかボックス)

Medaka Box (めだかボックス) is a Japanese shōnen manga by Nisio Isin and Akira Akatsuki, following student council president Medaka Kurokami's efforts to solve every student problem at Hakoniwa Academy.

Medal of Honor (2018 TV series)

Medal of Honor (2018) is a Netflix docudrama anthology series, also called the Medal of Honor docuseries, profiling eight recipients of the U.S. military's highest valor award across WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, executive produced by James Moll and Robert Zemeckis.

Medcezir

Medcezir (Tide) is a Turkish teen drama (2013–2015, Star TV, 77 episodes), an adaptation of The O.C. set in Istanbul, starring Çağatay Ulusoy as Yaman Koper and Serenay Sarıkaya as Mira Beylice, produced by Ay Yapım.

Media franchise

Media franchise (multimedia franchise): a collection of media sharing a storyworld, with derivative works and licensed IP from an original fiction. Covers transmedia management, Hollywood franchise-era shifts, and franchise economics.

Medical drama

Medical drama: a TV genre set in hospitals, clinics, or ambulances, running from City Hospital (1951) and Dr. Kildare through ER, Grey's Anatomy, and The Pitt, known for hero-doctors, soap elements, and measurable effects on public expectations of medicine.

Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (法医秦明)

Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (法医秦明) is a Chinese crime franchise by real forensic pathologist Qin Ming of Anhui's Public Security Department, from the 2012 novel Corpse Whisperer to the 2016 Zhang Ruoyun Sohu web drama with 1.2 billion views and many later adaptations.

Medical Police

Medical Police is a 2020 Netflix action-comedy series, a spin-off of Childrens Hospital, created by Rob Corddry, David Wain, Krister Johnson, and Jonathan Stern. Doctors Owen Maestro and Lola Spratt join a secret CDC division to fight a global virus; canceled after one 10-episode season.

Medici (TV series)

Medici (2016–2019) is an Anglo-Italian historical drama, also called Masters of Florence and The Magnificent, created by Frank Spotnitz and Nicholas Meyer, starring Richard Madden, Dustin Hoffman, and Daniel Sharman, broadcast on Rai Uno and Netflix in three seasons and 24 episodes about the Medici banking dynasty of Renaissance Florence.

Medium (TV series)

Medium (2005–2011) is a supernatural crime drama created by Glenn Gordon Caron, starring Patricia Arquette as psychic consultant Allison DuBois. Ran five seasons on NBC, two on CBS; 130 episodes; Emmy-winning lead performance.

Meem Se Mohabbat (میم سے محبت)

Meem Se Mohabbat (میم سے محبت) is a Pakistani Urdu-language Hum TV romantic drama that premiered 5 December 2024, written by Farhat Ishtiaq, directed by Ali Hassan, starring Ahad Raza Mir and Dananeer Mobeen in 33 episodes.