Aaron Spelling passed away on June 23, 2006 after a long and prolific career that saw six decades and over 200 producer credits. With his creativity and countless ideas, Aaron Spelling provided thousands of hours of free entertainment to viewers of all ages and different generations. Before departing from this world, he earned a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most prolific television producer of all time. Here are ten of his most memorable series.

10. Starsky And Hutch
A gritty, violent and somehow touching detective series starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul as two polar opposite Californian policemen. The Starsky And Hutch characters were affectionate with each other emphasizing friendship even in the midst of violence--TV violence that was possibly ahead of its time and toned down by the network.

9.Hart To Hart
Another detective series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as a wealthy suburban couple who spent their free time as detectives. The series touched on espionage, international crime, murder and of course marital bliss between Mr. and Mrs. Hart.

8.Fantasy Island
The popular and long running series starring Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize charmed viewers and taught Fantasy Island "guests" a lesson about their own lives. Supernatural overtones were also felt in the series, making Spelling's creation a predecessor of other surreal and quirky works to come.

7.The Love Boat
Remember the song? Maybe just the famous three words? This romantic comedy series earned a lot of attention by using well-known actors in guest-starring roles. It was also one of the few sitcoms to be an hour long and to still use a laugh track. A very creative and innovative show for its time.

6.Charlie's Angels
While not an innovative series per say, it did launch a lot of careers and became a staple in American television. It put Farrah Fawcett on the map, pioneered "T&A TV" and naturally, led to a contemporary re-imagining of the classic starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu. Sex never goes out of style.

5.Beverly Hills 90210
A legendary Hollywood success story. Spelling's youth soap opera started small, barely surviving with lackluster ratings on the FOX network. Whether due to faith or desperation, the network waited...and the show soon became a worldwide ratings bonanza that showed networks the value of young demographics.

4.The MOD Squad
A counterculture craze. The MOD Squad featured unusually edgy characters for a traditional "cop show" (How can criminals stop bad guys?) and dealt with controversial subjects like racial politics. Tige Andrews, Michael Cole, Peggy Lipto and Clarence Williams III starred in the series. Not surprisingly, the 1999 remake, dated and out of touch with the racial overtones the original series dealt with, fizzled.

3.Dynasty
Dynasty was a landmark television soap opera that captured the aura of the 80s decade and fed familial feuds and the wealth of oil money to hungry viewers. The distinctively campy style of the show has influenced many primetime soap operas of the present day, while the cliffhanger season endings always gave America something to talk about.

2.Melrose Place
While Darren Star created the series, Aaron Spelling served as an executive producer of Melrose Place, a spin off of Beverly Hills 90210 that achieved its own notoriety and arguably eclipsed its predecessor. Melrose Place, a black-humored, oversexed melodrama, launched the careers of many new stars, exhausted the talent of its lead actors, and created a prototype for the new age of slightly overdone, water cooler television that continues to inspire all of the network dramas currently on TV. (At least the ones not related to forensic work).

1.7th Heaven
Amazingly, the most audacious entry of Spelling's career was one of his last and most conservative. Who could possibly imagine a series about a protestant minister, his cute white bread family, and people keeping biblical values in a changing world, actually working in this day and age of post-T&A television? Somehow it worked and became the WB's longest running series during its ten year run. Love it or hate it, the ultra-PC, unapologetically Christian soap opera 7th Heaven was truly an original product and rumored to be Spelling's favorite series out of so many hits. He called it the "little series that could." Those words are also a fitting symbolism for the man himself. While he started out as just a modest man from Dallas, Texas, eventually Aaron Spelling became a prolific producer, an innovator in television, and set a world record creating over 200 shows.