Hello! Roseanne, anyone??
I specified drama.
Roseanne was a comedy--at least, I always understood it to be a sitcom. I never watched it.
The last one that comes to mind.....Cannon, with William Conrad, which I think debuted in 1971.
Tru,
Cannon was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that last post. It ran 1971-1976. I could not determine from IMDb if William Conrad had a hunky sidekick in that show, and even though we watched it at my house, it was too long ago for me to remember.
However, William Conrad had two series after
Cannon. Nero Wolfe ran for only six episodes in 1981--but Cannon had the hunky Lee Horsley for a sidekick.
Jake and the Fatman ran 1987-1992, and in that show Conrad had the hunky Joe Penney for a sidekick.